Professor Tom Stafford

School of Psychology

Professor of Cognitive Science

Postgraduate Taught Programmes (PGT) Director

t.stafford@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Tom Stafford
School of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
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  • Adinugroho I, Stafford T & Bentall RP (2024) Different social events moderate the correlation between conspiracy mentality and vaccine intentions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 59 (pp 472-472) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Copeland A, Stafford T & Field M (2023) A diffusion model decomposition of value-based decision-making in regular drinkers following experimental manipulation of alcohol demand. ALCOHOL-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, Vol. 47 (pp 75-75) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Karadzhov G, Stafford T & Vlachos A (2022) What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations. 23RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE, SIGDIAL 2022 (pp 552-563) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma Z, VanDerPloeg B, Bara C-P, Huang Y, Kim E-I, Gervits F, Marge M & Chai J (2022) DOROTHIE: Spoken Dialogue for Handling Unexpected Situations in Interactive Autonomous Driving Agents. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (pp 4800-4822), December 2022 - December 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Kock C & Vlachos A (2022) How to disagree well: Investigating the dispute tactics used on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 3824-3837), December 2022 - December 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Karadzhov G, Stafford T & Vlachos A (2022) What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp 552-563), September 2022 - September 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farag Y, Brand C, Amidei J, Piwek P, Stafford T, Stoyanchev S & Vlachos A (2022) Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (pp 4569-4582), December 2022 - December 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dhir N, Edman M, Sanchez Ferro Á, Stafford T & Bannard C (2020) 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 (pp 578-595), November 2020 - November 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Raleva G, Stafford T, Thirkettle M & Gao J (2018) No contribution of object category information in perceptual thresholds : evidence from Candy Crush. Perception, Vol. 47(5) (pp 571-571). London, UK, 18 December 2017 - 18 December 2017. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T, Sifa R, Devlin S & Drachen A (2017) Exploration and Skill Acquisition in a Major Online Game. Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp 3249-3254) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pirrone A & Stafford T (2017) A computational decomposition of task-irrelevant perceptual learning. Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp 955-960) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gray WD, Perez R, Butz MV, Reeves S, Sangster MD, Stafford T & Gobet F (2017) Game-XP: Action Games as Cognitive Science Paradigms. Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition (pp 25-26) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T (2016) No stereotype threat effect in international chess. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2016 (pp 384-389) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kerdegari H, Kim Y, Stafford T & Prescott TJ (2014) Centralizing Bias and the Vibrotactile Funneling Illusion on the Forehead. HAPTICS: NEUROSCIENCE, DEVICES, MODELING, AND APPLICATIONS, PT II, Vol. 8619(8619) (pp 55-62). Versailles View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bertram C, Evans MH, Javaid M, Stafford T & Prescott T (2013) 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) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T & Dewar M (2013) Testing theories of skill learning using a very large sample of online game players. Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013 (pp 1378-1383) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fox C & Stafford T (2012) Maximum utility unitary coherent perception vs. the Bayesian brain. Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2012 (pp 336-341) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bednark JG, Reynolds JNJ, Stafford T, Redgrave P & Franz EA (2011) ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF IDEOMOTOR LEARNING. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, Vol. 48 (pp S39-S39) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T (2011) How do we use computational models of cognitive processes?. Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior: From Theory to Applications (pp 326-342). London, UK, 8 April 2010 - 8 April 2010. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Thirkettle M, Walton T, Gurney K, Redgrave P & Stafford T (2011) Learning the long way round: Action learning based on visual signals unavailable to the superior colliculus is impaired. PERCEPTION, Vol. 40 (pp 33-33) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yates DJ & Stafford T (2011) 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) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T (2009) WHAT USE ARE COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES?. CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITION II, Vol. 18 (pp 265-274) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T (2004) What good are positive emotions?. Psychologist, Vol. 17(6) (pp 331) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T (2004) Science for art's sake. Psychologist, Vol. 17(5) (pp 246) RIS download Bibtex download

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