Ben Parris

Professor Ben Parris

  • Deputy Head Of Department and Professor In Psychology
  • Poole House P113, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

After completing his DPhil (PhD) on the control of attention (selecting to what and where we focus our attention) at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2005, Dr Parris went on to complete postdoctoral positions at the Universities' of Exeter and Oxford. He joined Bournemouth University as a Senior Lecturer in 2008 and is now a Professor in the Department of Psychology and head of the Cognition and Brain Sciences research group.

Research

My research interests focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of the control of attention and behaviour. To better understand these processes I employ behavioural, eye tracking, pupillometry and brain-based methods such as fMRI, MRI and TMS. I am also interested in investigating individual differences in the control of attention and behaviour in non-neurotypical populations such as in ADHD, and control over phenomenological experiences such as conscious awareness and pain.

Favourites

  • Parris, B.A., 2014. Task conflict in the Stroop task: Stroop interference decreases whilst Stroop facilitation increases in a low task conflict context. Frontiers in Psychology.
  • Parris, B.A., Dienes, Z., Bate, S. and Gothard, S., 2014. Oxytocin impedes the effect of the word blindness post-hypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 9 (7), 895-899.
  • Parris, B.A., Dienes, Z., Bate, S. and Gothard, S., 2013. Oxytocin impedes the effect of the word blindness posthypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
  • Parris, B.A., Dienes, Z. and Hodgson, T.L., 2012. Temporal constraints of the word blindness posthypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38 (4), 833-837.
  • Parris, B.A., Dienes, Z. and Hodgson, T.L., 2012. Temporal constraints of the post-hypnotic word blindness suggestion on Stroop task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38 (4), 833-837.
  • Parris, B.A., Bate, S., Brown, S.D. and Hodgson, T.L., 2012. Facilitating goal-oriented behaviour in the Stroop task: when executive control is influenced by automatic processing. PLoS One, 7 (10), e46994.
  • Rolls, E.T., Grabenhorst, F. and Parris, B., 2010. Neural systems underlying decisions about affective odors. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (5), 1069-1082.
  • Grabenhorst, F., De Souza, A., Parris, B., Rolls, E.T. and Passingham, R., 2010. A common neural scale for the subjective pleasantness of different primary rewards. NeuroImage, 51, 1265-1274.
  • Grabenhorst, F., Rolls, E.T., Parris, B.A. and De Souza, A., 2009. How the brain represents the reward value of fat in the mouth. Cerebral Cortex.
  • Parris, B., Kuhn, G., Mizon, G.A., Benattayallah, A. and Hodgson, T.L., 2009. Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks. NeuroImage, 45, 1033-1039.
  • Grabenhorst, F., Rolls, E.T. and Parris, B., 2008. From Affective Value to Decision-Making in the Prefrontal Cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 1930-1939.
  • Hodgson, T.L., Chamberlain, M., Parris, B., James, M., Gutowski, N., Husain, M. and Kennard, C., 2007. The Role of the Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex in Inhibitory Oculomotor Control. Brain, 130, 1525-1537.
  • Parris, B., Thai, N., Benattayallah, A., Summers, I. and Hodgson, T.L., 2007. The Role of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate in Stimulus- Response Association Reversals. Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 13-24.
  • Parris, B., Sharma, D. and Weekes, B.S., 2007. An Optimal Viewing Position Effect in the Stroop Task When Only One Letter Is the Color Carrier. Experimental Psychology, 54, 273-280.
  • Parris, B. and Weekes, B.S., 2001. Action Naming in Dementia. Neurocase, 7, 459-471.