Dr Tom Beesley | Brain Sciences UNSW

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Visiting Fellow

My research focusses on understanding how humans process and learn about the relationships between aspects of their surrounding environment, and how such learning shapes behavior. In particular I am interested in the processes involved in associative learning and in the development of testable computational models of human learning. I am also interested in comparisons between learning under conditions of effortful reflection versus conditions which rely on the rapid processing of stimuli, the importance of intentionality in learning and the related question of whether conscious awareness is necessary for learning.

Research

Field of Research (FOR) Tag:

Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags:

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

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http://tombeesley.wordpress.com/

Publications related to this Person

Book Chapters

Le Pelley M; Griffiths O; Beesley T, 2017, 'Associative accounts of causal cognition', in Waldmann MR (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 13 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399550.013.2

Le Pelley M; Beesley T; Griffiths O, 2015, 'Associative Learning and Derived Attention in Humans', in The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, pp. 114 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118650813.ch6

Journal articles

Beesley T; Vadillo MA; Pearson D; Shanks DR, 2016, 'Configural learning in contextual cuing of visual search', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, pp. 1173 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000185

Le Pelley ME; Mitchell CJ; Beesley T; George DN; Wills AJ, 2016, 'Attention and associative learning in humans: An integrative review', Psychological Bulletin, vol. 142, pp. 1111 - 1140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000064

Mifsud NG; Beesley T; Watson TL; Whitford TJ, 2016, 'Attenuation of auditory evoked potentials for hand and eye-initiated sounds', Biological Psychology, vol. 120, pp. 61 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.08.011

Vadillo MA; Street CNH; Beesley T; Shanks DR, 2015, 'A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 47, pp. 1365 - 1376, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0544-1

Beesley T; Pearson D; Le Pelley M, 2015, 'Implicit learning of gaze-contingent events', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 22, pp. 800 - 807, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0720-4

Beesley T; Nguyen KP; Pearson D; Le Pelley ME, 2015, 'Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues during human associative learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, pp. 2175 - 2199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1009919

Le Pelley ME; Pearson D; Griffiths O; Beesley T, 2015, 'When goals conflict with values: Counterproductive attentional and oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 144, pp. 158 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000037

Beesley T; Vadillo MA; Pearson D; Shanks DR, 2015, 'Pre-exposure of repeated search configurations facilitates subsequent contextual cuing of visual search', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 41, pp. 348 - 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000033

Le Pelley ME, 2014, 'Relative salience versus relative validity: cue salience influences blocking in human associative learning', Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, vol. 40, pp. 116 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000006

Freeman TP; Morgan CJA; Beesley T; Curran HV, 2012, 'Drug cue induced overshadowing: Selective disruption of natural reward processing by cigarette cues amongst abstinent but not satiated smokers', Psychological Medicine, vol. 42, pp. 161 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291711001139

Beesley T; Jones FW; Shanks DR, 2012, 'Out of control: An associative account of congruency effects in sequence learning', Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 21, pp. 413 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.09.020

Beesley T; Shanks DR, 2012, 'Investigating cue competition in contextual cuing of visual search', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 38, pp. 709 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024885

Beesley T; Le Pelley ME, 2011, 'The Influence of Blocking on Overt Attention and Associability in Human Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 37, pp. 114 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019526

Le Pelley ME; Beesley T; Griffiths O, 2011, 'Overt Attention and Predictiveness in Human Contingency Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 37, pp. 220 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021384

Le Pelley ME; Suret MB; Beesley T, 2010, 'Learned predictiveness effects in humans: A function of learning, performance, or both? (vol 35, pg 312, 2009)', JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES, vol. 36, pp. 22 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018657

Beesley T; Le Pelley ME, 2010, 'The effect of predictive history on the learning of sub-sequence contingencies', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 63, pp. 108 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210902831767

Le Pelley ME; Reimers SJ; Calvini G; Spears R; Beesley T; Murphy RA, 2010, 'Stereotype Formation: Biased by Association', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 139, pp. 138 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018210

Beesley T; Wills AJ; le Pelley ME, 2010, 'Syntactic transfer in artificial grammar learning', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 17, pp. 122 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.1.122

Le Pelley ME; Suret MB; Beesley T, 2009, 'Learned Predictiveness Effects in Humans: A Function of Learning, Performance, or Both?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 35, pp. 312 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014315

Le Pelley ME; Beesley T; Suret MB, 2007, 'Blocking of human causal learning involves learned changes in stimulus processing', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 60, pp. 1468 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210701515645

Haslam C; Gilroy D; Black S; Beesley T, 2006, 'How successful is errorless learning in supporting memory for high and low-level knowledge in dementia?', Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, vol. 16, pp. 505 - 536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09602010500231867

Le Pelley ME; Suret MB; Beesley T, 2006, 'The locus of learned predictiveness effects in human learning', Proceedings of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, vol. 1, pp. 66 - 73

Conference Papers

Beesley T; Easdale L; Le Pelley M, 2016, 'The role of uncertainty in human associative learning and attention', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, pp. 825 - 825, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000413720406011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Beesley T; Moul C, 2016, 'Attentional processing stimulus-response-outcome chains as a function of psychopathic traits', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, pp. 824 - 824, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000413720406003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Conference Abstracts

Mifsud N; Beesley T; Whitford T, 2016, 'Differential attenuation of auditory and visual evoked potentials for sensations generated by hand and eye movements', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 45, pp. 264 - 264, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000390215900543&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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