Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My work explores the mechanisms underpinning our ability to perceive and attend to the sounds in our environment, including speech, music, and environmental sounds.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Psychology, University of Manchester
2014 → 2017
Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc, University of York
2013 → 2014
Psychology, BA, University of California, Davis
2011 → 2013
Keywords
- Experimental psychology
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Psychology of perception
- Psychology of communication
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Tone language experience enhances dimension-selective attention and subcortical encoding but not cortical entrainment to pitch
Kachlicka, M., Symons, A. E., Saito, K., Dick, F. & Tierney, A. T., 6 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Imaging Neuroscience. 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Informational masking influences segmental and suprasegmental speech categorization
Symons, A. E., Holt, L. & Tierney, A. T., 1 Sept 2023, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Salient sounds distort time perception and production
Symons, A., Dick, F. & Tierney, A., 10 Jul 2023, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Musical Experience Is Linked to Enhanced Dimension-Selective Attention to Pitch and Increased Primary Weighting During Suprasegmental Categorization
Symons, A. E. & Tierney, A. T., 8 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dimension-selective attention and dimensional salience modulate cortical tracking of acoustic dimensions
Symons, A. E., Dick, F. & Tierney, A. T., 1 Dec 2021, In: NeuroImage. 244, 118544.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Investigating the development of musical cue weighting
Symons, A. (PI)
Sempre: Society for Education and Music Psychology Research
1/02/24 → 31/07/25
Project: Research