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. Published

    Memory, amnesia and intuition.

    Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Green, V. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis: Attachment Theory and Neuroscience. 2003 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 55-85

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  2. Published

    Loss of stored knowledge of object structure: Implications for 'category-specific' deficits.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Laws, K. R., 1 Jun 2000, In: Cognitive Neuropsychology. 17, 4, p. 365-389

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Like a rolling stone: Psychotherapy without (episodic) memory

    Moore, P. A. & Turnbull, O. H., 2 Nov 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 17 p., 958194.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Left-sided cradling

    Turnbull, O. & Matheson, E. A., 7 Sept 1996, In: The Lancet. 348, 9028, p. 691-692

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Laterality of Cradling in Relation to Perception and Expression of Facial Affect

    Lucas, M. D., Turnbull, O. & Kaplan-Solms, K., 1993, In: The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 154, 3, p. 347-352

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Lateral preferences in adult embracing: A test of the 'hemispheric asymmetry' theory of infant cradling

    Turnbull, O., Stein, L. & Lucas, M. D., 1994, In: The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 156, 1, p. 17-21

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Lateral cradling preference in males: The relationship to infant experience

    Turnbull, O. & Lucas, M. D., 1991, In: The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 152, 3, p. 375-376

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Lateral bumping: A normal-subject analog of the behaviour of patients with hemi-spatial neglect?

    Turnbull, O. & McGeorge, P., 1998, In: Brain and Cognition. 37, 1, p. 31-33

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Language and Culture modulate online Semantic Processing

    Ellis, C. A., Kuipers, J. R., Thierry, G., Lovett, V., Turnbull, O. H. & Jones, M. W., Oct 2015, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 10, 10, p. 1392-1396

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Is the leftward cradling preference related to lateral asymmetries in attention?

    Turnbull, O. & Lucas, M. D., 1996, In: The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 157, 2, p. 161-167

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Internally and externally generated emotions in people with acquired brain injury: preservation of emotional experience after right hemisphere lesions

    Salas, C. E., Radovic, D., Castro, O. & Turnbull, O. H., 16 Feb 2015, In: Frontiers in Psychology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. 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

  15. Published

    In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis by Casey Schwartz

    Turnbull, O., 21 Oct 2016, In: British Journal of Psychotherapy. 32, 4, p. 557-559

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  16. Published

    Implicit awareness of deficit in anosognosia? An emotion-based account of denial of deficit

    Turnbull, O. H., Jones, K. & Reed-Screen, J., 1 Jan 2002, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 4, p. 69-86

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Hemispheric asymmetry in an artificial grammar task

    McGeorge, P., Massie, A. & Turnbull, O., Nov 1996, In: Brain and Cognition. 32, 2, p. 124-125

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. 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

  19. Hatred of the hemiparetic limbs (misoplegia) in a 10 year old child

    Mose, AD. & Turnbull, OH., Aug 1996, In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 61, 2, p. 210-211

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Good things better? Reappraisal and discrete emotions in Acquired Brain Injury

    Rowlands, L., Coetzer, B. & Turnbull, O., 25 Nov 2020, In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 30, 10, p. 1947-1975

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Glossar

    Turnbull, O., 2003, Neuro-Psychoanalys: Eine Einführung mit Fallstudien. 2 ed. p. 285-296

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  22. Published

    Gender effects in personality: A Cross-cultural affective neuroscience perspective

    Özkarar-Gradwohl, F. G. & Turnbull, O. H., Dec 2021, In: Culture and Brain. 9, p. 79–96

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Failure to discriminate between mirror-image objects: A case of viewpoint-independent object recognition?

    Turnbull, OH. & McCarthy, RA., 1996, In: Neurocase. 2, 1, p. 63-71

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Emotion-based learning: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task

    Turnbull, O. H., Bowman, C. H., Shanker, S. & Davies, J. L., 21 Mar 2014, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Emotion-based learning on a simplified card game: The Iowa & Bangor gambling tasks.

    Bowman, C. H. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jul 2004, In: Brain and Cognition. 55, 2, p. 277-282

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review