Dr Phil Barnard

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Email: philip.barnard@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
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Current Research: I am currently working on a series of projects aimed at extending the ICS approach. In each area, we typically work with external collaborators:

Central Executive functioning and dysfunction:

• Bipolar Affective Disorder (with Anne Palmer at the Hellesden Hospital in Norwich);
• Number processing (with Elizabeth Churchill at the Psychology Department, University of Nottingham and Jon May at the Psychology Department University of Sheffield);
• Dynamic control of sustained attention in continuous tasks.

Cognitive Modelling of Sleep Onset and Insomnia (with Fraser Watts of the University of Cambridge). Multimodal Perception and the Interpretation of Dynamic Visual Displays (with Jon May at the Psychology Department University of Sheffield and Tessa Eysink from Nijmegen).

The Specification of Syndetic models - which formalise human information processing models, the "behaviour of other agents" in the environment and their mutual interactions (with David Duke and Michael Harrison at the Department of Computer Science, University of York and Prof. David Duce at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford.