Dr Kate Roberts BA PhD

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Contact details

Telephone 0121 4143526

Email k.l.roberts.1@bham.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

BA (Nottingham)

PhD (Nottingham)

Research

My research focuses on the influence of attention on perception and action. I have a range of interests, including auditory attention, the influence of object affordances on perception and attention, and top-down guidance of visual search. I use behavioural, EEG, and fMRI methods.

Publications

Roberts, K.L., & Humphreys, G.W. (2011). Action-related objects influence the distribution of visuospatial attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 669-688.

Roberts, K.L., & Humphreys, G.W. (2011). Action relations facilitate the identification of briefly-presented objects. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73, 597-612.

Roberts, K.L., & Humphreys, G.W. (2010). Action relationships concatenate represenations of separate objects in the ventral visual system. NeuroImage, 52, 1541-1548.

Roberts, K.L., & Humphreys, G.W. (2010). The one that does leads: Action relations influence the perceived temporal order of graspable objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 776-780.

Humphreys, G.W., Yoon, E.Y., Kumar, S., Lestou, V., Kitadono, K., Roberts, K.L., & Riddoch, J. (2010). The interaction of attention and action: From seeing action to acting on perception. British Journal of Psychology, 101, 185-206.

Groom, M.J., Scerif, G., Liddle, P.F., Batty, M.J., Liddle, E.B., Roberts. K.L., Cahill, J.D., Liotti, M., & Hollis, C.P. (2010). Effects of motivation and medication on electrophysiological markers of response inhibition in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Biological Psychiatry, 67, 624-631.

Roberts, K.L., Summerfield, A.Q., & Hall, D.A. (2009). Covert auditory spatial orienting: An evaluation of the spatial relevance hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1178-1191.

Roberts, K.L. & Hall, D.A. (2008). Examining a supramodal network for conflict processing: A systematic review and novel fMRI data for matched visual and auditory Stroop tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1063-1078.

Roberts, K.L., Summerfield, A.Q., & Hall, D.A. (2006). Presentation modality influences behavioural measures of alerting, orienting, and executive control. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 485-492.

Summerfield, A.Q., Cirstea, S.E., Roberts, K.L., Barton, G.R., Graham, J.M., & O'Donoghue, G.M. (2005). Incidence of meningitis and of death from all causes among users of cochlear implants in the United Kingdom. Journal of Public Health, 27, 55-61.

Underwood, G., Jebbett, L., & Roberts, K. (2004). Inspecting pictures for information to verify a sentence: Eye movements in general encoding and in focused search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 57A(1), 165-182.

Chapman, P., Underwood, G., & Roberts, K. (2002). Visual search patterns in trained and untrained novice drivers. Transportation Research Part F, 5, 157-167.

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