- A204, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- +44 1752 587866
- peter.m.jones@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Peter Jones
Associate Professor
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Psychology
Programme Lead for Psychology undergraduate programmes
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons.) Psychology, 2001, Cardiff University
- PhD Psychology, 2005, Cardiff University
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
My teaching interests are quite varied! I am module leader for the following modules:
- PSYC108PP: Psychobiological and cognitive aspects of health behaviour
- PSYC204: Applied Topics in Health and Cognition
I give lectures as part of:
- PSY155: Contemporary Topics in Social and Developmental Psychology
- I also take personal tutorials and supervise final year projects in Psychology.
Research
Research
Research interests
My research is concerned with basic psychological mechanisms, especially those related to learning. I am particularly interested in causal learning, and how well existing computational models of learning can account for behaviour. I am also interested in everyday phenomena that are governed by these fundamental processes, and I have published work on topics ranging from navigation to the acquisition of food preferences.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Completed PhDs as Director of Studies:
- Tara Zaksaite (2017)
- Stuart Spicer (2020)
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'Similarities and differences: Comment on Chan et al' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Absence of cross-modality analogical transfer in perceptual categorization' Open Journal of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Theory protection in associative learning: humans maintain certain beliefs in a manner that violates prediction error' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition , DOI Open access
(2019) 'The redundancy effect is related to a lack of conditioned inhibition: Evidence from a task in which excitation and inhibition are symmetrical' Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Uncertainty and blocking in human causal learning' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 45, (1) , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Creativity and Blocking: No Evidence for an Association' AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard VIII, (Special) 135-146 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'The redundancy effect in human causal learning: no evidence for changes in selective attention' Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Familiarity-Based Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Suppression' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Evidence for concrete but not abstract representation of length during spatial learning in rats' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition 1, (41) 91-104 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'The fate of redundant cues: Further analysis of the redundancy effect' Learning & Behavior (Online first publication) , DOI Open access
(2013) 'Asymmetry in the discrimination of length during spatial learning' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 4, (39) 342-356 , DOI
(2013) 'Blocking and associability change' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 3, (39) 249-258 , DOI
(2013) 'Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 4, (39) 311-322 , DOI
(2013) 'Overshadowing and associability change: examining the contribution of differential stimulus exposure' Learning and Behavior (41) 107-117 , DOI
(2012) 'Excitotoxic perirhinal cortex lesions leave stimulus-specific habituation of suppression to lights intact' Behavioural Brain Research (229) 365-371 , DOI
(2011) 'Overshadowing and associability change' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (37) 287-299 , DOI
(2011) 'Cue interactions in flavor preference learning: a configural analysis' J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 37, (1) 41-57 , DOI
(2010) 'Two kinds of attention in Pavlovian conditioning: evidence for a hybrid model of learning' J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 36, (4) 456-470 , DOI
(2010) 'Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression in rats is dependent on the perirhinal cortex' Behavioral Neuroscience (124) 587-599 , DOI
(2007) 'Impaired processing of local geometric features during navigation in a watermaze following hippocampal lesions in rats' Behavioural Neuroscience (12) 1258-1271 , DOI
(2006) 'Further evidence that rats rely on local rather than global spatial information to locate a hidden goal: Reply to Cheng and Gallistel' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (32) 314-321 , DOI
(2006) 'Potentiation, overshadowing, and blocking of spatial learning based on the shape of the environment' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (32) 201-214 , DOI
(2004) 'Transfer of spatial behavior between different environments: Implications for theories of spatial learning and for the role of the hippocampus in spatial learning' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (30) 135-147 , DOI
Posters
'Using immersive virtual environments to explore the blocking of geometric information during spatial learning'