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Prof Peter Mitchell

Cognitive Development and Learning
School of Psychology
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
phone: +44 115 95 15286
fax: +44 115 9515324
email: peter.mitchell@nottingham.ac.uk

PA: Mrs Viv Kirk (contact details)

Research Interests

  • gradual development in understanding the mind

  • visual cognition in autism

  • cognitive aspects of the development of communication abilities

  • social function in autism

Current Research Projects

  • self-knowledge in children (with Mark Bennett, University of Dundee, Haruo Kikuno, Osaka Shoin University, Japan and Fenja Ziegler)

  • modularity and automaticity of belief understanding (with Daniel Acquah and Fenja Ziegler)

  • cognitive and neural processes underlying perspective taking (with Fenja Ziegler, Dana Samson, and Gregory Currie, Dept. of Philosophy)

  • perspective taking in narrative and spatial layouts (with Fenja Ziegler and Gregory Currie, Dept. of Philosophy)

  • visual cognition in autism (with Danielle Ropar and Peter Chapman)

 

 

School of Psychology, University of Nottingham,
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
Tel: +44 [0]115-951-5361, Fax: +44 [0]115-951-5324

Last updated 05-Apr-2007