Role
Lecturer in Psychology -
Office hours:
Tuesday 4-5pm;
Thursday 10-11am
Qualifications & background
MA in Psychology, University of Salzburg
PhD in Psychology, University of Stirling (2008)
Professional membership
Society for Research in Child Development
Teaching interests
Term 1: PSY 154 Tutorial -
Term 2: PSY 147, PSY 154 Lecture, PSY 154 Tutorial, PSY 254, PSY C388
Research interests
Cognitive Development:
- False memories
- Understanding and perception of ambiguous figures
- Ambiguous visual perception in autism
- Understanding pictures as representations
- Mental imagery
Grants & contracts
2011-2012 British Academy small grant, about £7400: Getting the picture: How an understanding of
pictures develops.
2010-2011 ESRC small grant, about £98000: The development of mental imagery.
MC Wimmer, EJ Robinson, MJ Doherty
2010-2011 British Academy small grant, £7150: Do young children understand pictures as
representational?
Named Researcher with MJ Doherty & EJ Robinson
2009 British Academy overseas conference grant
2006 British Psychological Society conference grant
2005 Experimental Psychology Society conference grant
2004 University of Stirling 3-year PhD studenship
2003 Alumni Projects Fund, University of Stirling
2002 Salzburg University, 1-month research project fund
Publications
Wimmer, M. C., & Doherty, M. J. (2011). The development of ambiguous figure perception. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76 (1), 1-130.
Knott, L. M., Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2011). The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 91-108.
Wimmer, M. C., & Doherty, M. J. (2010). Children with autism's perception and understanding of ambiguous figures: Evidence for pictorial metarepresentation, a research note. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 627-641.
Wimmer, M. C., & Howe, M. L. (2010). Are children's memory illusions created differently than adults'? Evidence from levels-of-processing and divided attention paradigms. Journal of Experiment Child Psychology, 107, 31-49.
Howe, M. L., Candel, I., Otgaar, H., Malone, C., & Wimmer, M. C. (2010). Valence and the development of immediate and long-term false memory illusions. Memory, 18, 58-75.
Wimmer, M. C., & Howe, M. L. (2009). The development of automatic associative processes and children's false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 447-465.
Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., Gagnon, N., & Plumpton, S. (2009). An associative-activation theory of children's and adults' memory illusions. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 229-251.
Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., & Blease, K. (2009). The role of associative strength in children's false memory illusions. Memory, 17, 8-16.
Wimmer, M. C., & Doherty, M. J. (2007). Investigating children's eye-movements: Cause or effect of reversing ambiguous figures? In D. S. Namara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1659-1664). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Doherty, M. J., & Wimmer, M. C. (2005). Children's understanding of ambiguous figures: Which cognitive developments are necessary to experience reversal? Cognitive Development, 20, 407, 421.
