Amy Devine

Position/Status
Research Assistant

E-mail Address: ajd85@cam.ac.uk

Phone: 01223 767600

Qualifications
BA (Hons) Psychology
MA Psychology

Profile

Amy Devine is a Research Assistant for the ESRC funded project Primary School Children's Tacit and Explicit Understanding of Object Motion. Prior to joining the project, Amy worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Otago, New Zealand, investigating the attentional changes that occur with aging and neurological disease. Amy completed her BA (Hons) in 2004 and her MA in 2006.

Research Topics

Science Education
Neuroscience and Psychology in Education
Attention and distractibility

Current Research Projects

Primary School Children's Tacit and Explicit Understanding of Object Motion PI: Prof. Christine Howe

Recent Publications

Devine, A., Machado, L., Wyatt, N., and Knight, B. (2007). Action planning in the presence of distracting stimuli: An investigation into the time course of distractor effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33 (5) , 1045-1061.