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Prof Robert Snowden  -  BSc York PhD Cantab


Professor Robert Snowden
Position:Professor

Telephone:+44(0)29 208 74937
Fax:+44(0)29 208 74858
Extension:74937

Visual Perception: Motion perception, contrast sensitivity, adaptation.

Attention and its application to Alzheimer’s Disease and normal aging.

Forensic Psychology: Risk assessment of violence and sexual violence.

Selected Publications

Snowden, R. J.  (2002) Visual attention to colour: parvocellular guidance of attentional resources.  Psychological Science, 13, 180-184.

 

Tales A., Muir J., Bayer, A., Jones, R. & Snowden R. J. (2004) The effects of saliency and task difficulty on visual search performance in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.  Neuropsychologia, 42, 335-345.

 

Snowden, R. J.  & Freeman, T. C. A. (2004) The visual perception of motion. Current Biology, 14, R828-R831

 

Gray N. S., Snowden R. J., MacCulloch S., Phillips H, Taylor J.& MacCulloch M. J. (2004) Relative efficacy of criminological, clinical and personality measures of future risk of offending in mentally disordered offenders: A comparative study of HCR-20, PCL-R and OGRS. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 523-530.

 

Research Projects

Command hallucinations and risk of violence and self-harm: what distinguishes compliers from non-compliers?  NHS National R&D Programme on Forensic Mental Health

(Dr  Liz Andrew,  Dr Nicola Gray, Dr Paul Rogers (Bristol University) 

Outcome of discharge of mentally disordered offenders from Medium Secure Units. Partnerships in Care (Dr Nicola Gray)

Research Students

Sonja Copestake jointly supervised by Dr Nicola Gray

Liz Andrew jointly supervised by Dr Nicola Gray