Dr Daniel Poole
Department of Psychology
Research Fellow


Full contact details
Department of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Profile
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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 current
work, I am investigating how and why autistic people might fail to inhibit distracting
information. This will involve using cognitive science methods (eye tracking,
computational models of cognition) and qualitative approaches.I am a member of the Sheffield Autism Research Lab (SHARL)
- Qualifications
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Psychology (PhD), University of Manchester,
Psychology with Sociology (BSc), University of Leicester
- Research interests
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- Autism
- Perception
- Attention
- Time Perception
- Multisensory processing
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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)