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. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    The Erogenous Mirror: Intersubjective and Multisensory Maps of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women

    Maister, L., Fotopoulou, A., Turnbull, O. & Tsakiris, M., Nov 2020, In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 49, 8, p. 2919-2933 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The Role of Inner Speech in Emotion Dysregulation and Emotion Regulation Strategy Use

    Salas, C., Castro, O., Radovic, D., Gross, J. J. & Turnbull, O., 2018, In: Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología. 50, 2, p. 79-88

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. The Translation of the Luria Neuropsychological Investigation into Zulu: Its Relationship to the Work of A.R. Luria and L.S. Vygotsky

    Turnbull, O. & Bagus, R., 1991, In: South African Journal of Psychology. 21, 1, p. 61-63

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    The developing transference in amnesia: Changes in inter-personal relationships despite profound episodic memory

    Turnbull, O. H., Turnbull, O., Zois, E., Kaplan-Solms, K. & Solms, M., 1 Jan 2006, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 8, p. 199-204

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Published

    The inter-relationship between mood, self-esteem and response style in adolescent offspring of bipolar patients: An experience sampling study

    Pavlickova, H., Turnbull, O. H., Myin-Germeys, I. & Bentall, R. P., 4 Dec 2015, In: Psychiatry Research. 225, 3, p. 563-570

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The leftward cradling bias and audition: Cross-modal confusion?

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Sept 2002, In: Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. 7, 4, p. 355-357

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    The leftward cradling bias and hemispheric asymmetry for speech prosody

    Turnbull, O. H. & Bryson, H. E., 1 Jan 2001, In: Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition. 6, 1, p. 21-28

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    The leftward cradling bias and prosody: an investigation of cradling preferences in the deaf community.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Journal of Genetic Psychology. 162, 2, p. 178-186

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review