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Alison M. Bacon
Researcher at University of Plymouth
Publications - 44
Citations - 705
Alison M. Bacon is an academic researcher from University of Plymouth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Reinforcement sensitivity theory. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 41 publications receiving 577 citations.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United Kingdom: A personality-based perspective on concerns and intention to self-isolate.
Alison M. Bacon,Philip J. Corr +1 more
TL;DR: Reward reactivity (RR) is associated with concern about impact of coronavirus on the NHS and other social infrastructures, indicating the motivation to take positive approach action despite prevailing worry/anxiety.
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Reasoning under time pressure: a study of causal conditional inference
TL;DR: It is suggested that the belief bias in conditional inference is less open to volitional control than that associated with syllogistic reasoning.
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Spatial prepositions and vague quantifiers: implementing the functional geometric framework
Kenny R. Coventry,Angelo Cangelosi,Rohanna Rajapakse,Alison M. Bacon,Stephen E. Newstead,Dan Joyce,Lynn V. Richards +6 more
TL;DR: The model is both able to predict what will happen to objects in a scene, and use these judgements to influence the appropriateness of over/under/above/below to describe where objects are located in the scene.
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Visuospatial memory in dyslexia: evidence for strategic deficits.
TL;DR: The data suggest that, without instruction, people with dyslexia are unable to adopt an effective CB strategy and this is consistent with a deficit in executive function.
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Individual differences in strategies for syllogistic reasoning
TL;DR: The authors found that some people adopted predominantly spatial and some verbal strategies in a syllogistic reasoning task, while others adopted spatial and verbal strategies with little difference in reasoning performance between the two groups in terms of accuracy or type of conclusion generated.