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Eoin Travers, Postgraduate Research Student

Contact Details

Email: etravers01@qub.ac.uk

Office: 04.405

Phone: 6500

PhD Details

First Supervisor: Dr Aidan Feeney

Second Supervisor: Dr Jonathon Rolison

PhD Title: Processes underlying category-based induction

Summary of Project: This project investigates the idea that category-based induction, or using category knowledge to predict the world around us, is achieved by a combination of implicit and explicit processes, which depend on context and the nature of the prediction to be made. It focuses particularly on induction with categories that are uncertain, and how different kinds of processing can produce different results here.

Research Cluster: Cognition, Development and Education

Research Interests

I am interested in inductive inference, and decision making under uncertainty: how people use their limited knowledge of the world around them to try and build a more complete picture of it, and to make decisions.
I am also interested in dual process models of thinking, and specifically how these relate to inductive inference.

Finally, I am interested in adapting new kinds of everyday technology for use by psychologists.  As part of this, myself and others are developing a set of tools to allow researchers to design and package their own experiments as apps for Android phones (see http://cogsci.nl/blog/34-news/219-the-smartphone-revolution-in-psychological-science-opensesame-mobile for more).

Conferences

Past:

Travers, E. (2012, March). Semantic inhibitory control and the consideration of multiple categories in inductive inference. Oral presentation at the Congress of Psychology Students in Ireland, Belfast.

Forthcoming:

Travers, E. & Feeney, A. (2013) Diverse Evidence for Dissociable Processes in Inductive Reasoning.  Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin.