Dr Tom Stafford
Department of Psychology
Senior Lecturer
t.stafford@sheffield.ac.uk
Cathedral Court
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Dr Tom Stafford
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Reduced habit-driven errors in Parkinson’s Disease. Nature Scientific Reports, 9. View this article in WRRO
- A diffusion model decomposition of orientation discrimination in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- Female Chess Players Outperform Expectations When Playing Men. Psychological Science, 29(3), 429-436. View this article in WRRO
- The relationship between ADHD traits and sensory sensitivity in the general population. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 80, 179-185. View this article in WRRO
- What is implicit bias?. Philosophy Compass, 12(10). View this article in WRRO
- A Drift Diffusion Model account of the semantic congruity effect in a classification paradigm. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 3(1), 77-96. View this article in WRRO
- Increased microsaccade rate in individuals with ADHD traits. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 10(1). View this article in WRRO
- Evidence for the Speed-Value Trade-Off: Human and Monkey Decision Making Is Magnitude Sensitive. Decision. View this article in WRRO
- Testing Sleep Consolidation in Skill Learning: A Field Study Using an Online Game. Topics in Cognitive Science. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding Perceptual Judgment in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the Drift Diffusion Model.. Neuropsychology. View this article in WRRO
- Improving training for sensory augmentation using the science of expertise. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 68, 234-244. View this article in WRRO
- Tracing the trajectory of skill learning with a very large sample of online game players.. Psychol Sci, 25(2), 511-518. View this article in WRRO
- Performance breakdown effects dissociate from error detection effects in typing.. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 67(3), 508-524. View this article in WRRO
- When natural selection should optimize speed-accuracy trade-offs.. Front Neurosci, 8, 73. View this article in WRRO
- The path to learning: action acquisition is impaired when visual reinforcement signals must first access cortex.. Behav Brain Res, 243, 267-272. View this article in WRRO
- No learning where to go without first knowing where you're coming from: action discovery is trajectory, not endpoint based.. Front Psychol, 4, 638. View this article in WRRO
- The discovery of novel actions is affected by very brief reinforcement delays and reinforcement modality.. J Mot Behav, 45(4), 351-360. View this article in WRRO
- A novel task for the investigation of action acquisition.. PLoS One, 7(6), e37749. View this article in WRRO
- Piéron's Law holds during stroop conflict: insights into the architecture of decision making.. Cogn Sci, 35(8), 1553-1566.
- Insights into the Function and Mechanism of Saccadic Decision Making From Targets Scaled By an Estimate of the Cortical Magnification Factor. Cognitive Computation, 3(1), 89-93.
- Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a model of the Stroop task.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 362(1485), 1671-1684.
- The role of response mechanisms in determining reaction time performance: Piéron's law revisited.. Psychon Bull Rev, 11(6), 975-987. View this article in WRRO
- The perspectival shift: how experiments on unconscious processing don't justify the claims made for them. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Creating a movement heuristic for voluntary action: Electrophysiological correlates of movement-outcome learning. Cortex.
All publications
Journal articles
- Behavioral economic and value-based decision-making constructs that discriminate current heavy drinkers versus people who reduced their drinking without treatment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
- Methodological issues with value-based decision-making (VBDM) tasks: The effect of trial wording on evidence accumulation outputs from the EZ drift-diffusion model. Cogent Psychology, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Maximizing the potential of digital games for understanding skill acquisition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(1), 49-55.
- Magnitude-sensitivity: rethinking decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(1), 66-80.
- Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. View this article in WRRO
- The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder traits: a spectrum approach. Psychiatry Research. View this article in WRRO
- To blame? The effects of moralized feedback on implicit racial bias. Collabra: Psychology, 6(1). View this article in WRRO
- Evidence for the rationalisation phenomenon is exaggerated. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43. View this article in WRRO
- Quantifying the benefits of using decision models with response time and accuracy data. Behavior Research Methods. View this article in WRRO
- Slowed luminance reaction times in cervical dystonia : disordered superior colliculus processing. Movement Disorders. View this article in WRRO
- Recovery from addiction: Behavioral economics and value-based decision making.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. View this article in WRRO
- Cognitive control across adolescence : dynamic adjustments and mind-wandering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. View this article in WRRO
- Can microsaccade rate predict drug response?. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12(6). View this article in WRRO
- The choice engine. New Scientist, 242(3224), 34-35. View this article in WRRO
- Reduced habit-driven errors in Parkinson’s Disease. Nature Scientific Reports, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Internet-based measurement of visual assessment skill of trainee radiologists: developing a sensitive tool. The British Journal of Radiology. View this article in WRRO
- A diffusion model decomposition of orientation discrimination in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- Corrigendum: Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 580-580.
- Many analysts, one dataset: making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 337-356. View this article in WRRO
- Female Chess Players Outperform Expectations When Playing Men. Psychological Science, 29(3), 429-436. View this article in WRRO
- The relationship between ADHD traits and sensory sensitivity in the general population. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 80, 179-185. View this article in WRRO
- Frontal theta band oscillations predict error correction and posterror slowing in typing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(1), 69-88. View this article in WRRO
- Multisensory integration and ADHD-like traits: Evidence for an abnormal temporal integration window in ADHD. Acta Psychologica, 181, 10-17. View this article in WRRO
- What is implicit bias?. Philosophy Compass, 12(10). View this article in WRRO
- Co-occurrence of ASD and ADHD traits in an adult population. Journal of Attention Disorders. View this article in WRRO
- A Drift Diffusion Model account of the semantic congruity effect in a classification paradigm. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 3(1), 77-96. View this article in WRRO
- Increased microsaccade rate in individuals with ADHD traits. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 10(1). View this article in WRRO
- Responsibility for implicit bias. Philosophy Compass, 12(3). View this article in WRRO
- Evidence for the Speed-Value Trade-Off: Human and Monkey Decision Making Is Magnitude Sensitive. Decision. View this article in WRRO
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-like traits and distractibility in the visual periphery. Perception. View this article in WRRO
- Testing Sleep Consolidation in Skill Learning: A Field Study Using an Online Game. Topics in Cognitive Science. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding Perceptual Judgment in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the Drift Diffusion Model.. Neuropsychology. View this article in WRRO
- Improving training for sensory augmentation using the science of expertise. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 68, 234-244. View this article in WRRO
- Action experience and action discovery in medicated individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. View this article in WRRO
- Maximum saliency bias in binocular fusion. Connection Science, 28(3), 258-269. View this article in WRRO
- Bridging the gap. PSYCHOLOGIST, 28(10), 810-810.
- Getting to grips with implicit bias. PSYCHOLOGIST, 27(6), 397-397.
- Tracing the trajectory of skill learning with a very large sample of online game players.. Psychol Sci, 25(2), 511-518. View this article in WRRO
- Interpretive conundrums when practice doesn't always make perfect.. Mov Disord, 29(1), 7-10.
- Performance breakdown effects dissociate from error detection effects in typing.. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 67(3), 508-524. View this article in WRRO
- When natural selection should optimize speed-accuracy trade-offs.. Front Neurosci, 8, 73. View this article in WRRO
- The path to learning: action acquisition is impaired when visual reinforcement signals must first access cortex.. Behav Brain Res, 243, 267-272. View this article in WRRO
- No learning where to go without first knowing where you're coming from: action discovery is trajectory, not endpoint based.. Front Psychol, 4, 638. View this article in WRRO
- The discovery of novel actions is affected by very brief reinforcement delays and reinforcement modality.. J Mot Behav, 45(4), 351-360. View this article in WRRO
- Memory Enhances the Mere Exposure Effect. Psychology and Marketing, 29(12), 995-1003.
- Cortical masking and action learning. PERCEPTION, 41, 100-100.
- Brain network: social media and the cognitive scientist. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
- Brain network: Social media and the cognitive scientist. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(10), 489-490.
- A novel task for the investigation of action acquisition.. PLoS One, 7(6), e37749. View this article in WRRO
- Piéron's Law holds during stroop conflict: insights into the architecture of decision making.. Cogn Sci, 35(8), 1553-1566.
- Additive factors do not imply discrete processing stages: a worked example using models of the stroop task.. Front Psychol, 2, 287. View this article in WRRO
- Insights into the Function and Mechanism of Saccadic Decision Making From Targets Scaled By an Estimate of the Cortical Magnification Factor. Cognitive Computation, 3(1), 89-93.
- Prejudiced learning: a connectionist account.. Br J Psychol, 100(Pt 2), 399-413.
- "Trust me, I'm a scientist (not a developer)": perceived expertise and motives as predictors of trust in assessment of risk from contaminated land.. Risk Anal, 29(2), 288-297.
- Lessons from the campaign against Elsevier "We won, but how did we win?". ACME, 8(3), 494-504.
- Expectancy confirmation in attitude learning: A connectionist account. EUR J SOC PSYCHOL, 38(6), 1023-1032.
- Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a model of the Stroop task.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 362(1485), 1671-1684.
- Self-organisation can generate the discontinuities in the somatosensory map. NEUROCOMPUTING, 70(10-12), 1932-1937.
- Isn't it all just obvious?. PSYCHOLOGIST, 20(2), 94-95.
- Risk perception and trust in the context of urban brownfields. Environmental Hazards, 7(2), 150-156.
- Reed Elsevier and the international arms trade. LANCET, 366(9489), 889-889.
- Bystander agony. Psychologist, 18(2), 96.
- White-hot route. Psychologist, 18(2), 97.
- Reed Elsevier and the international arms trade [1] (multiple letters). Lancet, 366(9489), 889-890.
- The role of response mechanisms in determining reaction time performance: Piéron's law revisited.. Psychon Bull Rev, 11(6), 975-987. View this article in WRRO
- The price of language. Psychologist, 17(11), 650.
- An artful brain. PSYCHOLOGIST, 17(11), 636-637.
- Tired findings?. Psychologist, 17(2), 88.
- Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations.. Pers Soc Psychol Bull, 29(10), 1221-1235. View this article in WRRO
- Psychology in the coffee shop. PSYCHOLOGIST, 16(7), 358-359.
- Stroop interference: Methodological problems and contrary data. Psycoloquy, 11.
- The perspectival shift: how experiments on unconscious processing don't justify the claims made for them. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Students’ engagement with a collaborative wiki tool predicts enhanced written exam performance. Research in Learning Technology, 22.
- Intrinsic motivations and open-ended development in animals, humans, and robots: an overview. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Creating a movement heuristic for voluntary action: Electrophysiological correlates of movement-outcome learning. Cortex.
Chapters
- Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modeling, The Handbook of Alcohol Use (pp. 563-579). Elsevier
- The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Discovering Novel Actions, Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems (pp. 129-150). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- A Novel Behavioural Task for Researching Intrinsic Motivations, Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems (pp. 395-410). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Democracy, Trust and Risk Related to Contaminated Sites in the UK, Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Liveable Places from Problem Spaces (pp. 33-66).
- Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a model of the Stroop task, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 363-389). Cambridge University Press
Conference proceedings papers
- Identifying robust markers of Parkinson’s disease in typing behaviour using a CNN-LSTM network. Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, November 2020 - November 2020.
- No Contribution of Object Category Information in Perceptual Thresholds: Evidence From Candy Crush. PERCEPTION, Vol. 47(5) (pp 571-571)
- Centralizing Bias and the Vibrotactile Funneling Illusion on the Forehead (pp 55-62) View this article in WRRO
- Sensory augmentation with distal touch: The tactile helmet project. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 24-35) View this article in WRRO
- ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF IDEOMOTOR LEARNING. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, Vol. 48 (pp S39-S39)
- How do we use computational models of cognitive processes?. Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior, 8 April 2010 - 10 April 2010. View this article in WRRO
- Learning the long way round: Action learning based on visual signals unavailable to the superior colliculus is impaired. PERCEPTION, Vol. 40 (pp 33-33)
- Visual search performance can be enhanced by instructions that alter eye movements. AISB 2011 Convention - Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium on Architectures for Active Vision (pp 55-58)
- WHAT USE ARE COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES?. CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITION II, Vol. 18 (pp 265-274) View this article in WRRO
- What good are positive emotions?. Psychologist, Vol. 17(6) (pp 331)
- Science for art's sake. Psychologist, Vol. 17(5) (pp 246)
Software / Code
Datasets
Presentations
- Reduced habit-driven errors in Parkinson’s Disease. Nature Scientific Reports, 9. View this article in WRRO