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.
- 2002
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
- 2003
The central executive and object recognition
Author: Baragwanath, B. A., Sept 2003Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Leek, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
- 2004
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
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
- 2008
Emotion and prejudice in complex decision-making
Author: Davies, J. L., 2008Supervisor: 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
- 2013
Emotion regulation after acquired brain injury
Author: Salas, C., 14 Jun 2013Supervisor: Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
- 2015
Facial cues to mental health symptoms
Author: Scott, N., Jan 2015Supervisor: Ward, R. (Supervisor) & 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
- 2016
How language, culture and emotions shape the mind
Author: Ellis, C., Jan 2016Supervisor: Jones, M. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy