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.
- 2011
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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. 235-248Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What is neuropsychoanalysis?
Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jun 2011, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 13, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1-16Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2010
- 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. 239-248Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 369-374Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2009
- 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. 261-270Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 122-132Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dopamine and the pleasure of creativity.
Turnbull, O. H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 39-42Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Schizotypy and flexible learning: A prerequisite of creativity?
Bowman, C. H. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 5-30Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dopamine, and the pleasures of creativity
Turnbull, O. & Bowman, C. H., 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, p. 39-42Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Schizotypy and flexible learning: A pre-requisite of creativity
Bowman, C. & Turnbull, O., 2009, In: Philoctetes. p. 5-30Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2008
- 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. 1297-1301Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1281-1291Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 169-192Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 169-192Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2007
- 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. 1083-1090Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Big issues, little issues... and non-issues.
Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 116-1121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 67-81Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Attention and emotion in anosognosia: Evidence of implicit awareness and repression?
Ward, R. A., Nardone, I., Ward, R., Fotopoulou, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Oct 2007, In: Neurocase. 13, 5-6, p. 438-445Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of decision-phase time constraints on emotion-based learning in the Iowa Gambling Task.
Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jul 2007, In: Brain and Cognition. 64, 2, p. 164-169Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Emotion and intuition: Does schadenfreude make interns poor learners?
Turnbull, O. H., Turnbull, O., Worsey, R. B. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Jan 2007, In: Philoctetes. 1, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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To sleep, perchance to REM? The rediscovered role of emotion and meaning in dreams.
Solms, M., Turnbull, O. H. & Della Sala, S. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Tall Tales About the Mind and Brain. 2007 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 478-500Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 2006
- Published
A novel 'set-shifting' modification of the Iowa Gambling Task: Flexible emotion-based learning in schizophrenia.
Roberts, C. E., Turnbull, O. H., Evans, C. E., Kemish, K., Park, S. & Bowman, C. H., 1 May 2006, In: Neuropsychology. 20, 3, p. 290-298Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Preserved complex emotion-based learning in amnesia.
Roberts, C. E., Turnbull, O. H. & Evans, C. E., 1 Jan 2006, In: Neuropsychologia. 44, 2, p. 300-306Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 199-204Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review