Postgraduate Dissertations Completed in the School of Psychology
PhD - by Research (by date in ascending order)
2005/2006
Kelly, Clare: Flexible Cognitive Control: Task, Individual Difference and Practice
Determinants of Functional Neuroanatomy (PhD 2006) Garavan
Fahey, Briana: Elucidating the Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Cognitive and
Psychiatric Effects of the Widely Used Anti-Viral Treatment, Interferon-alpha (PhD 2006)
O’Mara
Downes, James: Preference in the Visual Arts (PhD 2006) Smith
Boran, Lorraine: Prismatic Adaptation effects on Non-Spatial and Spatial Processes in the
Healthy Adult (PhD 2006) Robertson
Meehan, Julie: Counterfactual Thinking in Children (PhD 2006) Byrne
Cowley, Michelle: The Role of Falsification in Hypothesis Testing (PhD 2006) Byrne
Cowley, Thelma: A Characterisation of Cyclooxygenase Activity in Synaptic Transmission and
Plasticity in the Hippocampus (PhD 2006) O’Mara
Casey, Sarah Jane: Crossmodal Face Recognition (PhD 2006) Newell
Mullally, Sinéad Louise: Exploring the Mnemonic Functions of the Human Hippocampal
Formation using a Novel Disruption Technique (PhD 2006) O’Mara
Ward, Anne Marie: Contributions to human factors from three case studies in aircraft
maintenance (PhD 2006) McDonald
Liston, Paul: Human factors competence in aircraft maintenance (PhD 2006) Timulak
McAvinue, Laura: The use of imagery in rehabilitation (PhD 2006) Robertson
O’Keeffe, Fiadhnait: Impaired awareness of deficits and neuropsychological functioning
following traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal degeneration and
progressive supranuclear palsy (PhD 2006) Robertson
2006/2007
Pasqualotto, Achille: The Role of Vision in Haptic Spatial Cognition (PhD 2007) Newell
Frosch, Caren: Cognitive Processes in Casual and Counterfactual Thinking (PhD 2007) Byrne
Allman, Justin: An Investigation of Visual, Spatial and Visual-Spatial Working Memory,
Attention and Learning in Dyslexic Children (PhD 2007) Fuller
Delany, David: A computational study of the mammalian subiculum (PhD 2007) O’Mara
Smith, Elaine: Alternative Therapies in the Treatment of Developmental Dyslexia in
Preliterate Children: an Evaluation of Retained Reflex Replication, Vestibular System
Stimulation and Related Claims Regarding Early Indicators (PhD 2006) Fuller
O’Connell, Redmond G: Characterisation of executive Deficits in Attention-Deficit Disorder
and Avenues or their Remediation (PhD 2006) Robertson
2007/2008
Nixon, Elizabeth: Children's & mothers' experiences of parenting & parent-child relationships in
lone-mother households (PhD 2008) Greene
Brotons, Jorge: The role of subicular place cells in spatial information processing: effects of
variations in visual information, arena size and open field compartmentalisation (PhD 2008) O’Mara
Murphy, Tara Maria: Parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders: Information, education
and family empowerment (PhD 2008) Tierney
O’Hanlon, Erik: Methodological considerations and functional correlates in structural MR image
analysis of the brain (PhD 2008) Garavan
Bargary, Gary: Elucidating multisensory interactions in Synaesthesia (PhD 2008) Newell
Pereda Banos, Alexandre: Attention and reasoning: A task-switching investigation of the mental
model theory. (PhD 2008) Byrne
Moriarty, Patricia: Increasing emotional intelligence (PhD 2008) Smith
Irish, Muireann: The development and validation of the EAMI as an assessment of episodic
autobiographical recall. Charting the phenomenon of autonoesis across the lifespan, into mild
cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (PhD 2008) O’Mara
Gregg, Justin: Joint attention and echoic eavesdropping in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops
aduncus) (PhD 2008) Smith
Doyle, Erika: Evaluation of movement programmes in the treatment of dyslexia (PhD 2008) Fuller
McElvaney, Rosaleen Antoinette: How children tell: containing the secret of child sexual abuse
(PhD 2008) Greene
2008/2009
Ronan, Lisa: Surface area and gyrification measures in the human brain: A magnetic resonance
imaging study (PhD 2009) Garavan
Nestor, Liam: The role of cognitive and reward processes in substance use: A cognitive neuroscience
approach to understanding drugs of addiction (PhD 2009) Garavan
Karnezi, Haris: A novel intervention devised to address the needs of high-functioning children with
autism, based on the principles of drama in education cognitive and behavioural theories (PhD 2008)
Tierney
Hoerold, Doreen: Neuropsychological and electrophysiological correlates of self- and errorawareness in focal lesion patients and young adults (PhD 2009) Robertson
Ní Mháille, Gráinne: Body, self and world: The embodied experience of chronic illness and medical
technology (PhD 2009) Quigley
McNally, Sinéad: Against theoretical eclecticism and in support of a unified conceptual framework
for autism intervention research (PhD 2009) Quigley
Baranzini, Daniele: Aircraft maintenance teams (PhD 2009) McDonald
Dixon, James: The mental representation of If Only thoughts: Undoing the exceptionality effect
(PhD 2009) Byrne
Barlow, Sally: Interferon-alpha (IFN-α) –induced cognitive and affective impairments: Contributions
of prefrontal cortex and hippocampal formation (PhD 2009) O’Mara
2009/2010
Roberts, Gloria: Executive functioning of cognition and emotion in chronic MDMA (ecstasy) users
(PhD 2009) Garavan
Connolly, Caroline: An evolutionary description of cross-sex friendship (PhD 2010) Smith
Cooke, Gillian: Exploring the bases of hippocampal- and prefrontal-based memory: The effect of age
and disease (PhD 2010) O’Mara
O Ciardha, Caoilte: The use of implicit cognitive measures in the assessment of sexual offenders
(PhD 2010) Gormley
Smith, Kimberley: Investigating the IFN-alpha-induced neurobehavioural syndrome in Hepatitis C
patients: A qualitative and quantitative comparative study (PhD 2010) O’Mara
Meehan, Trudy: Discourse and difference: 'New Irish' in the media (PhD 2010) MacLachlan
Tumwebaze, Callist: An exploratory study into secondary school teacher motivation, occupational
attitudes and job performance in Uganda in the context of HIV/AIDS (PhD 2010) MacLachlan
Jacobson, Sarah: Exploring the neural substrates contributing to the risk for psychosis: an MRI
investigation (PhD 2010) Garavan
Whitaker, Teresa (Aisling): Naturalness perception of materials: A sensory, affective or cognitive
evaluation? (PhD 2010) Newell
Daly, Michael: Plotting the intertwining psychological and biological pathways linking stress and
health (PhD 2010) MacLachlan
2010/2011
O’Flynn, Marian: Compassion, countertransference and coping. An investigation of the impact on
therapists of working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse (PhD 2010) Caffrey
Cahill, Joan: Flight crew task performance and the requirements for a new tool supporting the preflight, flight planning and briefing task (PhD 2010) McDonald
McCann, Jennifer: Furthering inclusive practices for students with an autism spectrum disorder in
Irish primary schools (PhD 2010) Tierney
Feeney, Joanne: Neurocognitive changes in associative- and working memory with ageing (PhD
2010) O’Mara
McHugh, Joanna: The multisensory perception of social cues in virtual crowds (PhD 2010) Newell
Richards, Derek: Online treatments for depression: A randomised controlled trial on an adult
student population (PhD 2010) Timulak
MSc - by Research
2006/2007
Blighe, Alan: A spatial memory test of cognitive memory theory (MSc 2007) O’Mara
2008/2009
Pertl, Maria: Donating DNA: An investigation of the public's willingness to participate in
population biobanking (MSc 2009) Hevey
Copely, Antoinette: How selfhood in a person with Alzheimer’s Disease can be damaged
when informal caregivers position them incorrectly (MSc 2009) Guilfoyle
2009/2010
Vadovicova, Karin: Interpretation of the anterior insula and dorsal ACC role in the NoGo
task, found by high pass temporal filtering (MSc 2010) Smith