April, 2016

A New Glimpse Into Working Memory

When you hold in mind a sentence you have just read or a phone number you’re about to dial, you’re engaging a critical brain system known as working memory. For the past several…

Send Me Your Blog

PsychLiverpool has become a powerful peer-to-peer learning tool, which encourages academic reflection.  In PsychLiverpool, reflection is not a supplementary activity to the academic assessment process.  Reflection is enabled because blogging is, for our students,…

Inside Expertise

Inside Expertise: Science-based insights on the psychology of expert performance from Fernand Gobet, UoL and Morgan H. Ereku, Brunel University. Everybody knows what an expert is: it’s somebody like Tiger Woods and Michael…

Choosing The Topic

South Africa with LiverpoolOnline In my experience, to find a dissertation topic that was novel and original, of interest and relevant was not without challenges and frustrations. My first attempt was grandiose…

My First Conference

I attended the EHBEA Conference in London with a few other girls to present our research projects. We arrived on the Tuesday, stayed at a hostel, which was a laugh and a new…

Dr Ferguson: Liverpool Hope University

Politically motivated violence in Northern Ireland was discussed by Psychology Professor Neil Ferguson at an invited talk at the University of Plymouth. The presentation ‘Leaving violence behind: Disengaging from terrorism…