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staff list  BackDr Ian Hocking

  • Job title: Lecturer
  • Dept: Applied Social Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3277
  • Campus: Canterbury
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Teaching responsibilities
  • MPSMD1PSY Introduction to Psychology
  • MPSMD1PCB Perspectives on Cognition & Behaviour
  • MPSMD2ACN Animal Cognition
  • MPSMD2CPY Cognitive Psychology (Co-convenor)
  • MPSMD2LDE Language Development (Convenor)
  • MPSMD2QRM Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Co-convenor)
  • MPSMD3PRP Psychology Research Project
Research interests

These include modality processing in sentence comprehension, alpha entrainment to optimise performance, comparative cognition of problem solving abilities, behaviour in fire, and attitudes towards sustainability.

Academic History
  • BA Psychology (Exon)
  • MSc Psychological Research Methods (Exon)
  • PhD Psycolinguistics (Exon)
Membership of professional associations
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Peer-review publications
  • Whitt, E., Douglas, M., Osthaus, B. & Hocking, I. M. (2009). Domestic cats (Felis catus) do not show causal understanding in a string-pulling task. Animal Cognition, 12, pp. 1-5.
Under review
  • Osthaus, B., Burden, F., Hocking, I & Proops, L. (under review). Spatial perseveration by horses, donkeys and mules in a simple detour task
Conference presentations
  • Hald, L., Hocking, I., Marshall, J. A., Vernon, D. & Garnham, A. (2011). Modality switching and negation: ERP evidence for modality-specific simulations during negation processing. Paper presented at Embodied and Situated Language Processing, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany, 23-25 August 2011.
  • Hocking, I. M. (2007). The Science in Science Fiction. Concatenation.
  • Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (2001). High span readers' use of Gricean (distributional) information predicts individual differences in RC attachment. Poster presented at 'Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-2001', Saarbrücken, Germany, 20-22 September 2001.
  • Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (2000). Individual differences in RC attachment: The role of reading-span. Poster presented at 'Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-2000', Leiden, The Netherlands, 20-23 September 2000.
  • Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (1999). Processing state in a single-mechanism connectionist network accounts for comprehension and production biases in a three-site ambiguity. Poster presented at 'Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-1999', Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-25 September 1999.
Invited talks and knowledge transfer
  • Hocking, I. M. (2007). Web 2.0: A User's Guide. Presented at the Computer Science Department of Kingston University to computing undergraduates. 22 November 2007.
  • Hocking, I. M. (1999). Verbal working memory and syntax. Presented at the University of Exeter's School of Psychology Research Day. June 1999.
Books
  • Hocking, I. M. (2000). Studying Psychology: A Question and Answers Degree Subject Guide. Richmond, Surrey: Trotman and Company Ltd.
Chapters
  • Johnson, S. P., Slater, A., & Hocking, I. (2011). Theoretical Issues in Child Development, 1–38. In A. M. Slater and J. G. Bremner (Eds.) An Introduction to Developmental Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Hocking, I. M. (2003). Artificial Minds. In The Brain and the Mind. London: Brown Partworks.
  • Hocking, I. M. (2003). The Human Computer. In Thinking and Knowing. London: Brown Partworks.
  • Slater, A., Hocking, I. M. & Loose, J. (2003). Theories of Child Development. In A. Slater and G. Bremner (Eds.) Introduction to developmental psychology. Oxford and Massachusetts: Blackwell.