CogNovo offers a choice of 14 focussed research projects. Each project is supervised by a multidisciplinary team of experts and offers opportunities for secondments to international academic and commercial partners.
#1 
Investigate the role of value based decision making in creative cognition. (more)
Compare the roles of creativity and visual imagery in honest and deceptive communication, using behavioural and cognitive neuroscience methods and paradigms. (more)
#3 
Investigate aesthetic pleasantness in the visual domain, in an inter-disciplinary manner. (more)
#4 
Explore the neurophysiological basis of generative creative processes, using realistic neural models of cortical function and simulating the role of body imagery in language semantics. (more)
#5 
Investigate the relationships between switching rates in multistable perception, executive functions, creativity and personality, and determine the neural correlates multistable perception. (more)
#6 
Investigate how creative products emerge through interactions in collaborative teams, and how inter-individual and social abilities influence social creativity in adults and children. (more)
#7 
Exploring the basis of shared creativity and the role of flow experience in dance improvisation practice. (more)
#8 
Designing technologies and aesthetic experiences to support embodied cognition. (more)
#9 
Investigate the nature of play through (systems) theory and practice. (more)
#10 
Investigate the experience of early cinema in relation to the cognitive impact of analogue and digital film projection technology. (more)
#11 
I aim to build robots capable of insight using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. (more)
#12 
Investigates the cognitive-behavioural correlates of the subjective experience of 'alarm fatigue'. (more)
#13 
The core of this project is to develop new technological tools to encourage healthier behaviour. (more)
Investigate rationality of human decision making under time constraints; evaluate theoretical predictions of a new model of constrained decision making within a medical context. (more)