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Dr. ANTHONY RUSSELL DICKINSON Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society. Chartered Scientist British Science Council. PhD, Dip. Neurosci., University of Edinburgh. BsC (Hons) Neuroethology. University of Sussex. Visiting Professor, Institute of Neuroscience (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai, China. Academic Research Director of Worldwide Psychometric Solutions. 2004… Read moreDr. ANTHONY RUSSELL DICKINSON
Chartered Psychologist,
British Psychological Society.
Chartered Scientist
British Science Council.
PhD, Dip. Neurosci.,
University of Edinburgh.
BsC (Hons) Neuroethology.
University of Sussex.
Visiting Professor, Institute of Neuroscience (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai, China.
Academic Research Director of Worldwide Psychometric Solutions.
2004-2009: Designer of the People Impact and Baby Impact Programs, and e@Leader edutainment systems for Eduventure Technologies.
1999-2006: Visiting research fellow to the Snyder Lab of the McDonnell Centre for Higher Brain Function at Washington University School of Medicine. Principle researches include investigating electrophysiological correlates of hand-eye coordination behaviour in posterior parietal regions of the brain.
As Professor in Psychology and Medicine, courses taught include those concerned with Comparative Animal Cognition and the Biological Basis of Behaviour.
1991-1999: Faculty professor in Comparative Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Master (Warden) of Salisbury Green Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh.
Teaching duties included Comparative Animal Cognition, Neuropsychology, Psychopathology, Experimental Psychology & Methods, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Science.
Concurrent research conducted within the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Intelligent Systems and included cognitive aspects of comparative intellectual development with Cebus apella monkeys, birds, human children and clinical outpatients. Other research under Tony's supervision has involved the study of a wide variety of naturalistic behaviours of exotic animal species, both in captivity (largely involving the extensive collection of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland) and wild populations of various primate species in Kenya, Gabon, Bolivia and Costa Rica. Other supervised student projects have recruited both human and non-human primates, cetaceae, ungulates, birds and insects covering a broad range of comparative topics including sexual behaviour, social dynamics and organisation, feeding and communication behaviours.
AWARDS:
McDonnell-Pew CNS Investigator-Initiated Grant (PI) 2000-2003.
British Psychological Society: Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol.), 2000.
ASAB Research Grant Award (PI) 1997,1998.
UFAW Research Grants (PI x4) 1997, 1998.
R(D)SVS Visiting Research Fellowship 1990.
MRC Advanced Studentship 1987-88.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
British Psychological Society
British Brain Research Association
International Brain Research Organisation
International Primatological Society
New York Academy of Sciences
Primate Society of Great Britain
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Psychological Science
Scottish Primate Group
Vision Sciences Society.
ACADEMIC CONSULTANCIES:
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Brighton Dolphinarium and Aquaria
Paraphysics Laboratories, Downton, Wilts.
International Social Sciences Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Reviewer/editor for var. Intl. Journals/Publishers.
INTERESTS:
When not in the lab, Tony is usually to be found either wandering urban neighbourhoods in search of wildlife, or out in the Mountains, Lakes & other Wilderness areas of the World with anyone who may wish to come along, two rucksacks and a towel. Often hiking or cycling long distances for charity, he will walk more than 1-2000 miles over a 12 month period (to make a donation in aid of Epilepsy sufferers Click here to donate to Epilepsy Foundation of Saint Louis).
Tony is still very pleased to be able to say that he neither owns, nor drives, a motor car.
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Aimed principally at the student and researcher working in cognitive neuroscience, this book reports the findings of the "Visual attention and cortical circuits" workshop held on Catalina Island, USA, in 1999. Its primary focus was to bring together a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to inform a better understanding of visual attention processing in the cerebral cortex. Some fourteen contributions are collected here, addessing the long standing implications of dorsal versus ventral stream visual processing, and, of more recent interest, the functional significance of the (often reciprocal) connections now known to exist between temporal, parietal and frontal cortical… Read more
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Whether the reader is a newcomer or season ticket holder with regards the comparative sex behaviour literature, this volume will surely prove itself to be both tremendously entertaining and educational. Judson?s novel ?agony aunt? Q & A style of presentation makes for a clearly accessible text for a wide audience of all ages and levels of understanding. This is a great way to impart much of the bewildering array of comparative morphology and associated knowledge concerning the rich diversity of sexual behaviour across a broad swathe of species. This book will surely attract many from the younger generation to the study of evolutionary and comparative biology/psychology. Many of us will wish… Read more
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Championing the ascent of reptiles as much as the descent of man, this thoughtful volume on the evolution of intelligence by Skoyles and Sagan is a welcome addition to the nature/nurture neurophilosophy shelf. The authors take us well beyond the 'usual suspects' listing of gross anatomical brain structure and function of the familiar phyla, traveling a welcome breadth of comparative data to include a wide variety of species (including our earlier selves). Rather than merely outline the familiar shopping list(s) of evolving structures culminating in the development of the modern human cerebral cortex, Skoyles & Sagan do not end with the discussion of its distinctive "associative" or "silent"… Read more
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