Dr Paul Skarratt

Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology

+44 (0)1482 466038 | P.Skarratt@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Psychology and Social Work

Biography Teaching Outputs Research/PhD

Summary

Dr Skarratt joined the department in 2007, having previously held postdoctoral research positions in Durham and Hull. His principal research interests concern aspects of human and non-human vision, focusing on the processes underlying selective attention and visual search. He is also interested in how these processes operate during joint action between two or more people.

Level 4 Cognition and Development 1

Level 6 Understanding Animal Minds

Level 6 Research Projects

Levels 4-6 Personal Supervision

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects

Dobbinson, K. E., Morrell, L. J., & Skarratt, P. A. (2020). Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects. Behavioral ecology, 31(1), 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz174

Lesley Morrell

Medium versus difficult visual search: How a quantitative change in the functional visual field leads to a qualitative difference in performance

Hulleman, J., Lund, K., & Skarratt, P. A. (2020). Medium versus difficult visual search: How a quantitative change in the functional visual field leads to a qualitative difference in performance. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82(1), 118-139. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01787-4

The role of transients in action observation

Cole, G. G., Welsh, T. N., & Skarratt, P. A. (in press). The role of transients in action observation. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01740-5

Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation?

Cole, G. G., Atkinson, M. A., D'Souza, A. D. C., Welsh, T. N., & Skarratt, P. A. (2018). Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000429

Real person interaction in visual attention research

Cole, G. G., Skarratt, P. A., & Kuhn, G. (2016). Real person interaction in visual attention research. European psychologist, 21(2), 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000243

Research interests

Visual and auditory selective attention; visual search; social cognition and joint action; decision-making.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Skarratt welcomes applications to study any aspect of visual and auditory attention, as well as how these processes mediate social cognition, and executive functions such as decision-making.

Current PhD supervision:

Tom Peney: The effect of virtual immersion on human educational development (commencing September 2021).

Completed PhDs:

Khia Dobbinson: The oddity effect: Applying principles of human psychology to an ecological question. (2019).

Alex Spence: Investigating the modulation of cognition and event-related potentials relating to visual attention, working memory, and executive control in habitual videogame players. (2016).