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).
- 2004
The nature of reward, and the modification of reward contingencies, in emotion-based learning
Bowman, C. H. (Author), Turnbull, O. (Supervisor), Sept 2004Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
An investigation into prospective memory performance in normal ageing and dementia
Wilson, J. (Author), Woods, B. (Supervisor) & Turnbull, O. (Supervisor), 2004Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
- 2003
The central executive and object recognition
Baragwanath, B. A. (Author), Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Leek, C. (Supervisor), Sept 2003Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy
- 2002
Visual cognition of complex object stimuli : the role of global and local processing
Bedson, E. (Author), Turnbull, O. (Supervisor) & Raymond, J. (Supervisor), Apr 2002Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy