Professor Oliver Turnbull
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Contact info
Roles: Deputy Vice Chancellor
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) emotion memory, and its preservation even in profound amnesia.
He is the author of roughly 200 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 12 languages), and 'Mistakes in Clinical Neuropsychology' (with Christian Salas and Rudi Coetzer).
- Doctor of Philosophy
An investigation into prospective memory performance in normal ageing and dementia
Author: Wilson, J., 2004Supervisor: Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Cross-cultural Affective Neuroscience: An Integrative Approach to Personality: Cross-cultural Affective Neuroscience
Author: Özkarar Gradwohl, G., 1 Jun 2023Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Emotion and prejudice in complex decision-making
Author: Davies, J. L., 2008Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Emotion regulation after acquired brain injury
Author: Salas, C., 14 Jun 2013Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Emotional memory for basic emotions in amnesia
Author: Stanciu, M., 25 May 2015Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Facial cues to mental health symptoms
Author: Scott, N., Jan 2015Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Focus on Feelings: Emotion Regulation and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation after Acquired Brain Injury
Author: Rowlands, L., 22 Sept 2020Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
How language, culture and emotions shape the mind
Author: Ellis, C., Jan 2016Supervisor: Jones, M. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
In the heat of the moment: An emotion regulation approach for managing anger after brain injury
Author: Witten, J., 4 Sept 2023Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Coetzer, B. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Neuropsychology of Motivated Forgetting
Author: Shanker, S., Jan 2016Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Bracewell, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
The central executive and object recognition
Author: Baragwanath, B. A., Sept 2003Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Leek, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
The nature of reward, and the modification of reward contingencies, in emotion-based learning
Author: Bowman, C. H., Sept 2004Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
The role of visuo-spatial resources in object recognition
Author: Whittaker, A., Jun 2008Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor), Leek, C. (Supervisor) & Downing, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
Visual cognition of complex object stimuli : the role of global and local processing
Author: Bedson, E., Apr 2002Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Raymond, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy