Professor Oliver Turnbull

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Contact info

Roles: Pro Vice Chancellor (Teaching & Learning)

Professor of Neuropsychology

Telephone: 01248 383670

Email: o.turnbull@bangor.ac.uk

Office: Professors Corridor, Main Arts Building

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver_Turnbull2

Prof Turnbull is a neuropsychologist, with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. He is also a clinician, whose work is with patients with neurological lesions, especially those who have suffered cerebro-vascular accident (stroke) and traumatic brain injury.

His scientific  interests include:

(i) emotion-based learning, including the experience that we describe as 'intuition'

(ii) the role of emotion in delusional beliefs, especially in neurological patients

(iii) the neuroscience of psychotherapy

(iv) the management and control of emotion, often called emotion regulation

(v) emotional memory, and its preservation even in profound amnesia.

He is the author of roughly 150 publications on these topics, and (together with Mark Solms) is the co-author of the popular science book 'The Brain and the Inner World' (now translated into 11 languages). For many years, he was the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

  1. 2007
  2. Published

    Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 1083-1090

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Big issues, little issues... and non-issues.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 116-1121

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Hemispheric Asymmetry and the Diversity of Emotional Experience in Anosognosia.

    Tondowski, M., Kovacs, Z., Morin, C. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Nov 2007, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 9, 1, p. 67-81

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. 2008
  6. Published

    La asimetría hemisférica y la diversidad de la experiencia emocional en la anosognosia.

    Tondowski, M., Kovacs, Z., Morin, C. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2008, In: Revista Subjetividad y Procesos Cognitivos. 11, p. 169-192

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    La symmetria hemispherica y la diversidad de la experiencia emocional en la anosognosia.

    Tondowski, M., Kovacs, Z., Morin, C. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2008, In: Subjetividad y Procesos Cognitivos. 11, p. 169-192

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Shooting the messenger won't change the news.

    Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O. H. & Tredoux, C., 1 Dec 2008, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 17, 4, p. 1297-1301

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Threat in dreams: An adaption?

    Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O. H. & Tredoux, C., 1 Dec 2008, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 17, 4, p. 1281-1291

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 2009
  11. Published

    Dopamine, and the pleasures of creativity

    Turnbull, O. & Bowman, C. H., 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, p. 39-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Schizotypy and flexible learning: A pre-requisite of creativity

    Bowman, C. & Turnbull, O., 2009, In: Philoctetes. p. 5-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Dopamine and the pleasure of creativity.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 39-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Schizotypy and flexible learning: A prerequisite of creativity?

    Bowman, C. H. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 5-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    The effect of education and gender on emotion-based decision-making.

    Fry, J., Greenop, K., Turnbull, O. H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Mar 2009, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 39, 1, p. 122-132

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    To lose the frame of action: A selective deficit in avoiding unpleasant objects following a unilateral temporal lobe lesion

    Bamford, S., Turnbull, O., Coetzer, R. & Ward, R. A., 1 Aug 2009, In: Neurocase. 15, 4, p. 261-270

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. 2010
  18. Published

    Putts that get missed on the right: Investigating lateralized attentional biases and the nature of putting errors in golf.

    Roberts, R. J., Roberts, R. & Turnbull, O. H., 12 Feb 2010, In: Journal of Sports Sciences. 28, 4, p. 369-374

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    The contingency-shifting variant Iowa Gambling Task: An investigation with young adults.

    Dymond, S., Cella, M., Cooper, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Mar 2010, In: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 32, 3, p. 239-248

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. 2011
  21. Published

    Remembering relationships: preserved emotion-based learning in Alzheimer's disease.

    Evans-Roberts, C. E. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2011, In: Experimental Aging Research. 37, 1, p. 1-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Affective bias in complex decision making: Modulating sensitivity to aversive feedback

    Davies, J. L., Davies, J. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jun 2011, In: Motivation and Emotion. 35, 2, p. 235-248

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    What is neuropsychoanalysis?

    Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jun 2011, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 13, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Assessing the Dream-Lag Effect for REM and NREM Stage 2 Dreams

    Blagrove, M., Fouquet, N. C., Henley-Einion, J. A., Pace-Schott, E. F., Davies, A. C., Neuschaffer, J. L. & Turnbull, O. H., 26 Oct 2011, In: PLoS ONE. 6, 10, p. 1-7

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. 2012
  26. Published

    Quick as a BLINK: An ultrarapid analogue of Iowa Gambling Task decision making

    Intriligator, J. M., Parkinson, J. A., Peatfield, N., Turnbull, O. H., Parkinson, J. & Intriligator, J., 1 Mar 2012, In: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 34, 3, p. 243-255

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Cognitive decision modelling of emotion-based learning impairment in schizophrenia: The role of awareness

    Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 30 Mar 2012, In: Psychiatry Research. 196, 1, p. 15-19

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Emotion and Delusion: Seeking common ground between neuroscience and psychotherapies

    Turnbull, O. & Lovett, V., 17 May 2012, From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Fotopoulou, A., Pfaff, D. & Conway, M. A. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 186-208

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  29. Published

    Inside-out: Comparing internally generated and externally generated basic emotions.

    Salas, C. E., Radovic, D. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jun 2012, In: Emotion. 12, 3, p. 568-578

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Association of salivary-assessed oxytocin and cortisol levels with time of night and sleep stage

    Blagrove, M., Fouquet, N. C., Baird, A. L., Pace-Schott, E. F., Davies, A. C., Neuschaffer, J. L., Henley-Einion, J. A., Weidemann, C. T., Thome, J., McNamara, P. & Turnbull, O. H., 15 Aug 2012, In: Journal of Neural Transmission. 119, 10, p. 1223-1232

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Symptom-specific self-referential cognitive processes in bipolar disorder: a longitudinal analysis

    Pavlickova, H., Varese, F., Turnbull, O. H., Scott, J., Morriss, R., Kinderman, P., Paykel, E. & Bentall, R. P., 30 Nov 2012, In: Psychological Medicine. 43, 9

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review