| Dr Stuart McGregor |
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BA (Hons) Hertfordshire; MSc Birmingham; PhD CardiffResearch InterestsMy main research areas are the psychology of knowledge-formation and reasoning. I am interested in how knowledge structures are formed in memory, particularly through the experience of solving tasks, and how such knowledge may facilitate subsequent high levels of performance (such as that shown by Grandmaster chess players or medical experts). I am also interested in how theories of expertise and learning can be used to support more efficient training and practice at a task. I am also involved in researching the specific issues that surround reasoning about causality, and the related reasoning processes involved in applied domains such as gambling and paranormal belief. Selected PublicationsBuehner, M. J., & McGregor, S. J. (2009). Contingency and contiguity trade-offs in causal induction. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22(1), 19-42.
Buehner M. J. & McGregor, S. (2006). Temporal Delays can facilitate Causal Attribution: Towards a General Timeframe Bias in Causal Induction. Thinking and Reasoning, 12(4), 353-378.
Buehner, M. J. & McGregor, S. (2005). Probability and Contiguity Trade-Offs in Human Causal Induction. In: L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 360-365). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
McGregor, S. J. & Howes, A. (2002). The role of attack and defence semantics in skilled players’ memory for chess positions. Memory and Cognition, 30, 707-717. |