Gijsbert Stoet
I am Director of the MSc programme Psychological Studies, which is provided jointly by the School of Education and the School of Psychology at the University of Glasgow; this programme is a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited conversion course. Apart from this, I am carrying out research.
I develop software for use in the cognitive psychological laboratory: psytoolkit.gla.ac.uk. This software is free of use and supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It comes with an online system, which allows you to programme and run psychological experiments in a browser. It comes with lessons and is ideally suited for use in psychology teaching as well (even for the A Levels).
My research interests are quite broad, and are strongly influenced by my education in Cognitive Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research and subsequent neurobiological research at the Medical School of Washington University in St.Louis. I have used a large variety of different measurement techniques, in particular single neuron recording, neuropharmacology, MRI, and behavioral measurements. My list of publications below illustrates this variety of research methods.
Currently, I combine basic cognitive research with more applied work, with a strong focus on understanding and improving educational achievement.
Most of my past and present research has been funded with grants from the ESRC, NIH, German Science Foundation (DFG), Max-Planck-Society, James S. McDonnell Foundation, British Academy, and Nuffield Foundation, and I would like to thank the funding organisations and collaborators for their support.
Examples of the topics and questions we explore are:
- Gender differences in educational achievement. For example: Do boys and girls perform differently in mathematics or reading? To what extent are gender differences in educational achievement related to socio-economic factors?
- Multi-tasking: How difficult is it to rapidly switch your attention between multiple tasks? How do people manage to multi-task, and why are some people better at it than others? Are women better multi-taskers than men? When and how do children develop the skill of multi-tasking? Do children with specific developmental disorders have a difficulty with multi-tasking?
- Health psychology: How does people's capacity to control themselves (e.g., impulses) help them to live more healthily?
Stoet, G., and Geary, D.C. (2013) Sex differences in mathematics and reading achievement are inversely related: within- and across-nation assessment of 10 years of PISA data. PLoS ONE, 8 (3). e57988. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057988)
Rustichini, A., Mushtaq, F., Stoet, G., Bland, A.R., and Schaefer, A. (2013) Relative Changes from Prior Reward Contingencies Can Constrain Brain Correlates of Outcome Monitoring. PLoS ONE, 8 (6). e66350. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066350)
Stoet, G., and Snyder, L.H. (2012) The role of executive control in tool use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (04). pp. 240-241. ISSN 0140-525X (doi:10.1017/S0140525X1100210X)
Stoet, G., and Geary, D.C. (2012) Can stereotype threat explain the gender gap in mathematics performance and achievement? Review of General Psychology, 16 (1). pp. 93-102. ISSN 1089-2680 (doi:10.1037/a0026617)
Stoet, G. (2011) Sex differences in search and gathering skills. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32 (6). pp. 416-422. ISSN 1090-5138 (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.03.001)
Stoet, G., and López, B. (2011) Task-switching abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8 (2). pp. 244-260. ISSN 1740-5629 (doi:10.1080/17405629.2010.492000)
Stoet, G. (2010) PsyToolkit: a software package for programming psychological experiments using Linux. Behavior Research Methods, 42 (4). pp. 1096-1104. ISSN 1554-351X (doi:10.3758/BRM.42.4.1096)
Stoet, G. (2010) Sex differences in the processing of flankers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63 (4). pp. 633-638. ISSN 1747-0218 (doi:10.1080/17470210903464253)
Books
Stoet, G., and López, B. (2013) Task-switching skills in children between 9 and 16 years old. In: Kar, B.R. (ed.) Cognition and Brain Development: Converging Evidence From Various Methodologies. American Psychological Association., Washington, D.C., USA. ISBN 9781433812712
Stoet, G., and Snyder, L.H. (2007) Task-switching in human and non-human primates: understanding rule encoding and control from behavior to single neurons. In: Bunge, S.A. and Wallis, J.D. (eds.) Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 227-254. ISBN 9780195314274
Stoet, G., and Hommel, B. (2002) Feature integration between perception and action. In: Prinz, W. and Hommel, B. (eds.) Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action Attention and Performance. Series: Attention and performance, XIX . Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 538-552. ISBN 9780198510697
Strohner, H., and Stoet, G. (1999) Cognitive compositionality: an activation and evaluation hypothesis. In: Hiraga, M.K., Sinha, C. and Wilcox, S. (eds.) Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 195-2029. ISBN 9789027236562
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