Dr Daniel Poole
Department of Psychology
Lecturer
Full contact details
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Profile
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I joined the department in 2021 to take up an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) New Investigator Award. Before this I worked at the University of Manchester: I complete an Medical Research Council funded PhD investigating multisensory processing in autistic adults in 2015 (PI Dr Ellen Poliakoff), then worked in a teaching focused role for two years before taking up a Research Associate position on an ESRC-funded project investigating timing processes in autism (PI Dr Luke Jones).
I began working as a lecturer in April 2023.
- Qualifications
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Psychology (PhD), University of Manchester,
Psychology with Sociology (BSc), University of Leicester
- Research interests
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I am an autism researcher with interests across several areas:
- Autism, distraction and focus
My major research focus is on the sensory and perceptual differences experienced by most autistic people. Our brains have a limited capacity to process the huge amount of sensory activity in our everyday environments. We inhibit distracting, irrelevant information so that we can focus on whatever we are doing. In my fellowship, I have been investigating distraction, focus and autism using cognitive science methods (eye tracking, computational models of cognition) and qualitative approaches. I am interested in identifying whether there are types of stimuli and contexts which cause problems for autistic people.
I am also interested in better characterising neurodiverse experiences of distraction and focus.
- Do autistic people understand and/or perceive time differently to non-autistic people?
In contrast with previous work, my research has found that both duration and event timing is not different between autistic and non-autistic adults. I am hoping to better understand temporal cognition in autism (i.e., understanding concepts related to time and thinking about the past and future) and whether any differences are relevant in an educational context.
- Meta autism research
How is autism research conducted and what could be improved to benefit autistic people? I am interested in how the experience of research participation can be improved for autistic people and the adoption of open research practices in autism research.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2498-2509.
- ‘No idea of time’: Parents report differences in autistic children’s behaviour relating to time in a mixed-methods study. Autism, 25(6), 1797-1808.
- Guidelines for conducting research studies with the autism community. Autism Policy and Practice, 2(1), 29-45.
- Investigating Visual–Tactile Interactions over Time and Space in Adults with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3316-3326.
- Visual-tactile selective attention in autism spectrum condition: An increased influence of visual distractors.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1309-1324.
All publications
Journal articles
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2498-2509.
- ‘No idea of time’: Parents report differences in autistic children’s behaviour relating to time in a mixed-methods study. Autism, 25(6), 1797-1808.
- Click Trains do not Alter Auditory Temporal Order Judgements. Timing & Time Perception, 8(3-4), 239-253.
- Guidelines for conducting research studies with the autism community. Autism Policy and Practice, 2(1), 29-45.
- Brief Report: Which Came First? Exploring Crossmodal Temporal Order Judgements and Their Relationship with Sensory Reactivity in Autism and Neurotypicals. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(1), 215-223.
- Similarities in Autistic and Neurotypical Visual–Haptic Perception When Making Judgements About Conflicting Sensory Stimuli. Multisensory Research, 30(6), 509-536.
- Investigating Visual–Tactile Interactions over Time and Space in Adults with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3316-3326.
- Adapting the Crossmodal Congruency Task for Measuring the Limits of Visual–Tactile Interactions Within and Between Groups. Multisensory Research, 28(3-4), 227-244.
- EXPRESS: When 2 become 1: autistic simultaneity judgements about asynchronous audiovisual speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
- Time perception in autistic adults: Interval and event timing judgments do not differ from nonautistics.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
- Time perception in autistic adults: Duration and relative timing judgements do not differ from non-autistics.
- Spatio-Temporal Structure, Path Characteristics, and Perceptual Grouping in Immediate Serial Spatial Recall. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
- Visual-tactile selective attention in autism spectrum condition: An increased influence of visual distractors.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1309-1324.
Preprints
- Putting the spotlight back onto the flanker task in autism: autistic adults show increased interference from foils compared with non-autistic adults., Center for Open Science.
- Understanding the Post-Diagnostic Support Priorities of Autistic Adults in the UK: A Modified Delphi Study, Center for Open Science.
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2498-2509.
- Research group
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Sheffield Autism Research Lab (SHARL)
- Grants
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2021 ‘What you can’t ignore: Examining distraction in autism’ – Economic and Social
Research Council New Investigator Award (£213,637)