Simon Cropper

A study of ambient sensing as a strategy against monotony and boredom in space

R Tchakerian, R Morais, SV Patel, SJ Cropper

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Space Safety Engineering

Psychological health is seriously impacted when humans are in isolated environments for long periods of time; monotony and boredom..

Comparing constellations across cultures

Charles Kemp, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE ASTRONOMY

Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures

Charles Kemp, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2022  |  PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Cultures around the world organize stars into constellations, or asterisms, and these groupings are often considered to be arbitra..

Dynamic face processing impairments are associated with cognitive and positive psychotic symptoms across psychiatric disorders

Hayley Darke, Suresh Sundram, Simon J Cropper, Olivia Carter

Journal article  |  2021  |  NPJ SCHIZOPHRENIA

Impairments in social cognition-including recognition of facial expressions-are increasingly recognised as a core deficit in schiz..

Naming unrelated words predicts creativity

Jay A Olson, Johnny Nahas, Denis Chmoulevitch, Simon J Cropper, Margaret E Webb

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Several theories posit that creative people are able to generate more divergent ideas. If this is correct, simply naming unrelated..

Unusual uses and experiences are good for feeling insightful, but not for problem solving: contributions of schizotypy, divergent thinking, and fluid reasoning, to insight moments

Margaret E Webb, Daniel R Little, Simon J Cropper

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The current paper investigates the individual differences underlying the ability to solve classic and contemporary insight problem..

Flowers in the Attic: Lateralization of the detection of meaning in visual noise

Simon J Cropper, Ashlan McCauley, O Scott Gwinn, Megan Bartlett, Michael ER Nicholls

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF VISION

The brain is a slave to sense; we see and hear things that are not there and engage in ongoing correction of these illusory experi..

Investigating aesthetics to afford more 'felt' knowledge and 'meaningful' navigation interface designs

F Carroll, Simon Cropper, Maggie Webb

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)

Aesthetically manipulating the visual variables of a navigation interface design has the potential for substantial improvements in..

Trauma and the content of hallucinations and post-traumatic intrusions in first-episode psychosis

Natalie Peach, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Simon J Cropper, Pamela Sun, Emma Halpin, Jessica O'Connell, Sarah Bendall

Journal article  |  2020  |  PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY-THEORY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

OBJECTIVE: Increasing evidence suggests experiences of childhood trauma may be causally related to the development of hallucinatio..

Ambient sensing and elicitation of human affective states to combat monotony and boredom in space

R Tchakerian, R Morais, SV Patel, SJ Cropper

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC