Ruth Byrne
Professor
Psychology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Ruth Byrne is the Professor of Cognitive Science at Trinity College Dublin in the School of Psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience, a Chair created for her by the University in 2005. Her research expertise is in the cognitive science of human thinking, including experimental and computational investigations of reasoning and imaginative thought. Her books include 'The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality' published in 2005 by MIT press and she has published over 100 articles in journals such as Annual Review of Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Review, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Cognitive Psychology. More information is available at http://reasoningandimagination.wordpress.com/. She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, prior to that Head of the School of Psychology, and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Neuroscience. She is currently Director of Research in the School of Psychology and an Associate Editor for Memory and Cognition, journal of the Psychonomic Society. She has served as Chair of the European Research Council's advanced grants panel on the Human Mind and its Complexity. Her BA degree was awarded by the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin and her PhD by the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Prior to her appointment in Trinity College, she held lectureships in the computer science department at University College Dublin and in the psychology department at the University of Wales at Cardiff, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, the Association for Psychological Science, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Research Interest
Psychology
Publications
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Pereda, A., Garavan, H., & Byrne, R.M.J., Switching attention incurs a cost for counterfactual conditional inferences, Irish Journal of Psychology, 33, (2-3), 2012, p72 - 77
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Irish Journal of Psychology Special Issue: Celebrating fifty years of psychology at Trinity College Dublin, 33, 2-3, (2012), 1 - 156p, Byrne, R.M.J., Carson, R., & Hannigan, B., [eds.]
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Egan, S. & Byrne, R.M.J., Inferences from counterfactual inducements, Experimental Psychology, 59, (4), 2012, 227 - 235
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Johnson-Laird, P.N., Lotstein, M., & Byrne, R.M.J., The consistency of disjunctive assertions, Memory & Cognition, 40, 2012, p769 - 778
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Murray, M.A. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Cognitive Change in Insight Problem-Solving: Initial Model Errors and Counterexamples., Journal of Cognitive Psychology. , 25, (2 ), 2013, p210 - 219
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Counterfactual reasoning in, editor(s)D.S. Dunn , Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, pponline - [Byrne, R.M.J. ]
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The development of the rational imagination. in, editor(s)Barouillet, P. & Gauffroy, C. , The Development of Thinking., Hove UK, Psychology Press, 2013, pp34 - 48, [Meehan, J. & Byrne, R.M.J. ]
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Intentionality and choice. in, editor(s)M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth , Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., Austin TX, Cognitive Science Society., 2013, pp1970 - 1975, [Ndubuisi, B. & Byrne, R.M.J.]
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Espino, O., & Byrne, R. M. J., The compatibility heuristic in non-categorical hypothetical reasoning: Inferences between conditionals and disjunctions. , Cognitive Psychology., 67, (3), 2013, p98 - 129
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Gubbins, E., & Byrne, R. M.J., Dual processes of emotion and reason in judgments about moral dilemmas. , Thinking & Reasoning., 20, (2), 2014, p245 - 268
