Professor Philip Beaman
School Exams Officer
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Philip Beaman is currently working as a School Exams Officer in the Department of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities School Exams Officer Areas of Interest I am interested in short-term and working memory and the role of memory in decision-making and higher-level cognition, studied using a combination of experimental and cognitive modelling techniques. Other interests include the cognitive neuroscience of auditory distraction and both theoretical and applied issues concerning how automatic - often non-conscious - processes interact with conscious, intentional cognition and meta-cognition to produce behaviour. Recent theoretical work has been funded by the ESRC and Leverhulme Trust, and recent applied work by EPSRC and industry. I am also known for my work on musical imagery and earworms: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05stkrt Research groups / Centres Perception, Cognition & Nutrition
Research Interest
Areas of Interest I am interested in short-term and working memory and the role of memory in decision-making and higher-level cognition, studied using a combination of experimental and cognitive modelling techniques. Other interests include the cognitive neuroscience of auditory distraction and both theoretical and applied issues concerning how automatic - often non-conscious - processes interact with conscious, intentional cognition and meta-cognition to produce behaviour. Recent theoretical work has been funded by the ESRC and Leverhulme Trust, and recent applied work by EPSRC and industry.
Publications
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Beaman CP. The irrelevant sound phenomenon revisited: What role for working memory capacity?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2004 Sep;30(5):1106.
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Beaman CP, Williams TI. Earworms (stuck song syndrome): Towards a natural history of intrusive thoughts. British Journal of Psychology. 2010 Nov 1;101(4):637-53.
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Beaman CP. Auditory distraction from lowâ€intensity noise: a review of the consequences for learning and workplace environments. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2005 Dec 1;19(8):1041-64.
