Derrick Watson is a Professor and since January 2020 has been Head of the Psychology Department. As Head of Department, Derrick’s priorities include improving student experience, ensuring a diverse and inclusive environment for staff and students and maintaining the Department’s reputation for internationally recognised research. Interests: Mechanisms of visual selection and attentional prioritisation in particular, visual search, visual marking, subitization, motion processing, inhibition of return and attentional capture by abrupt onsets. Road safety, driver performance and driving simulation. Personal Homepage Contact Details Tel: (024) 765 22763 Room No: H140 Email: D.G.Watson@warwick.ac.uk PA support for appointments: Hannah Austin (PA to HoD) hannah dot o dot austin at warwick dot ac dot uk (024) 765573910 Research Group: Behavioural Science Research facilities: Driving Simulator Psychology Driving Simulator is a collaborative facility with WMG. Impact: Improving Road Safety Education and Driver Training Raising awareness of the need to pay attention on the road

Representative Publications:

• Allcoat, Devon, Hatchard, Tim, Azmat, Freeha, Stansfield, Kim, Watson, Derrick G. and von Mühlenen, Adrian (2021) Education in the digital age : learning experience in virtual and mixed realities. Journal of Educational Computing Research . doi:10.1177/0735633120985120 (In Press)
• Hodson, Luke, MacCallum, Fiona, Watson, Derrick G. and Blagrove, Elisabeth (2021) Dear diary : evaluating a goal-oriented intervention linked with increased hope and cognitive flexibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 168 . 110383. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110383
• Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G. and Taylor-Phillips, Sian (2020) Double reading reduces miss errors in low prevalence search. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied . doi:10.1037/xap0000335 (In Press)
• Norman, Danielle, Gunnell, Daniel, Mrowiec, Aleksandra and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Seen this scene? Scene recognition in the reaction-time concealed information test. Memory and Cognition . doi:10.3758/s13421-020-01063-z (In Press)
• O'Shea, Brian A., Watson, Derrick G. , Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Fincher, Corey L. (2020) Infectious disease prevalence, not race exposure, predicts implicit and explicit racial prejudice across the USA. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11 (3). pp. 345-355. doi:10.1177/1948550619862319.
• Norman, Danielle, Wade, Kimberley A., Williams, Mark A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Caught virtually lying – crime scenes in virtual reality help to expose suspects' concealed recognition. Journal of Applied Memory and Cognition, 9 (1). pp. 118-127. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.12.008
• Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Dewe, Hayley (2020) The Body-Threat Assessment Battery (BTAB) : a new instrument for the quantification of threat-related autonomic affective responses induced via dynamic movie clips. International Journal of Psychophysiology . doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.018 (In Press)
• Zupan, Zorana and Watson, Derrick G. (2020) Perceptual grouping constrains inhibition in time-based visual selection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics . doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01892-4
• Suma, Rossella, Debattista, Kurt, Watson, Derrick G., Blagrove, Elisabeth and Chalmers, Alan (2019) Subjective evaluation of high dynamic range imaging for face matching. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing . doi:10.1109/TETC.2019.2958738 (In Press)
• Nightingale, Sophie J., Wade, Kimberley A., Farid, Hany and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Can people detect errors in shadows and reflections? Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 81 . pp. 2917-2943. doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01773-w
• Ritchie, Owain T., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Misyak, Jennifer B., Chater, Nick, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2019) How should autonomous vehicles overtake other drivers? Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 66 . pp. 406-418. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2019.09.016
• Schmidtke, Kelly, Watson, Derrick G. , Roberts, Pendaran and Vlaev , Ivo (2019) Menu positions influence soft drink selection at touchscreen kiosks. Psychology & Marketing, 36 (10). pp. 964-970. doi:10.1002/mar.21248
• Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Having a phone conversation delays but does not disrupt cognitive mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 26 (2). pp. 199-217. doi:10.1037/xap0000239
• Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A., Norman, Danielle and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) The hazards of perception : evaluating a change blindness demonstration within a real-world driver education course. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4 . 15. doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4
• Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer, Ritchie, Owain, Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alex (2019) Sensorimotor communication beyond the body: The case of driving. Comment on “The body talks: sensorimotor communication and its brain and kinematic signatures” by G. Pezzulo et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 28 . pp. 31-33. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2019.01.013
• Roberts, Katherine L., Doherty, Nicola J., Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Can auditory objects be subitized? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (1). pp. 1-15. doi:10.1037/xhp0000578
• Zupan, Zorana, Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2018) Learning to ignore : the development of time-based visual attention in children. Developmental Psychology, 54 (12). pp. 2248-2264. doi:10.1037/dev0000582
• Watson, Derrick G.(2017)Where the item still rules supreme : time-based selection, enumeration, pre-attentive processing and the target template?Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . e160.doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000297

• Kunar, M.A. & Watson, D.G. (2014). When are abrupt onsets found efficiently in complex visual search? Evidence from MAD search. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, Volume 40 (Number 1). pp. 232-252. doi:10.1037/a0033544

• Wright, D.S., Wade, K.A., & Watson, D.G. (2013). Delay and Déjà Vu: Timing and Repetition Increase the Power of False Evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , Volume 20 (Number 4). pp. 812-818. doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0398-z
• von Mühlenen, A., Watson, D.G., & Gunnell, D. (2013). Blink and you won’t miss it: The preview benefit in visual marking survives internally generated eye blinks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 39 (Number 5). pp. 1279-1290. doi:10.1037/a0031537
• Watson, D.G., & Blagrove, E. (2012). Tagging multiple emotional stimuli: Negative valence has little benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 785-803.
• Watson, D.G., & Kunar, M.A. (2012). Determining the capacity of time-based selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 350-366.
• Watson, D.G., Compton, S., & Bailey, H. (2011). Visual Marking: The influence of temporary changes on time-based visual selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37, 1729-1738.
• Maylor, E.A., Watson, D.G., & Hartley, E.L. (2011). Effects of distraction on visual enumeration in children and adults. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1440-1447.
• Watson, D.G., Blagrove, E., & Selwood, S. (2011). Emotional triangles: A test of emotion-based attentional capture by simple geometric shapes. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1149-1164.Blagrove, E. & Watson, D.G. (2010). Visual marking and facial affect: Can an emotional face be ignored? Emotion, 10, 147-168. 

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