Department of cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes including how people perceive, remember, think, and learn. Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including neuropsychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, and applied psychology. Moreover, as a part of the larger field of cognitive science, this branch of psychology is related to other disciplines including behavioral neuroscience, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and linguistics.
Our research is focused on selected topics in cognitive psychology (see below). In addition to our research activity, we also translated Eysenck and Keane’s Cognitive Psychology, annually organize Winter School of Cognitive Psychology and, in the years of 2006 and 2011, the interdisciplinary conference Cognition.
Members
| Mgr. Radovan Šikl, Ph.D. (head of the department) | www |
| Mgr. Jiří Lukavský, Ph.D. | www |
| Doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D. | www |
| Mgr. Michal Šimeček, Ph.D. | www |
| PhDr. Dalibor Vobořil, Ph.D. | www |
| Ph.D. students | |
| Mgr. Veronika Bláhová | www |
| Mgr. Filip Děchtěrenko | www |
Research areas
- Visual attention and eye movements
- Sensory deprivation and changes in perception
- Visual space perception
- Spatial ability testing
- Language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics, processing of grammatical structure
- Historical experimental instruments in psychology
Projects
Ongoing
- Filip Smolík: On-line processing of grammar and semantics in Czech children, RIV
- Jiří Lukavský: Visual scene memory: the effect of correlation of visual input in space and time on memory fidelity, RIV
Past
- Michal Šimeček: Visual space perception in photographs, RIV
- Filip Smolík: The acquisition of Czech grammar: rules, context, and the theory of mind, RIV
- Jiří Lukavský: Personality and spontaneous brain activity during rest and movie watching: relation and structural determinants, RIV
- Radovan Šikl: Longitudinal study of visual perception of sight-recovery patients after a long-term sensory deprivation, RIV
- Dalibor Vobořil: Traditional and computer-based methods in testing of spatial reasoning, RIV
- Jiří Lukavský: Attention shifts and eye movements in Multiple Object Tracking in healthy adults, RIV
- Filip Smolík: Comprehension of grammar and lexicon in toddlers: agreement, word order, information structure and their relationships with lexicon, RIV
- Radovan Šikl: Perception and memory changes during long-term isolation, RIV
- Michal Šimeček: Relationship between physical and visual space in different experimental settings, RIV
