School of Psychology
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hertfordshire
AL10 9AB

Tel : 01707 285282
Fax : 01707 285073

Email :

a.marcel@herts.ac.uk

Telephone:

01707 286467

Location:

1H171. Yorkon Building

Subject Area :

neuropsychology and cognitive psychology

Personal Statement

I am a professor of psychology.
For my interests, see my Research Areas

Research

Member of Research Group: Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neuroscience

Research Areas Summary

Consciousness and Phenomenal Experience; Bodily representation and experience; Space and Spatial Frames of Reference; Neglect (including spatial attention and perceptual migration); Blindsight; Anosognosia (unawareness of deficit); Touch; Perceptual Modalities; Emotion Experience; Awareness of Action; Delusional states (especially in unawareness/denial of deficit); Effects of and Attitudes to the Built Environment.
Approaches: Human neuropsychology, pathology and normal states; Clinical and experimental approaches; Conceptual analysis.
Collaborations with Cambridge, London, Sweden, Italy.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in these and related areas, but especially in my main areas below.

Main areas of current work:
(a) Susceptibility to perceptual migration in healthy individuals and neurological patients, its relation to neglect, extinction and allochiria, and its genetics.
(b) Anosognosia for hemiplegia: different kinds of unawareness; rehabilitation.
(c) Spatial frames of reference in touch and other modalities and the interaction of modalities.

Teaching

Neuropsychology

Publications

Lambie, J.A. & Marcel, A.J. (2002). Consciousness and Emotion Experience: a Theoretical Framework.Psychological Review, 109, 219-259.

Marcel, A.J. & Lambie J. A. (2004). How many selves in emotion experience?Psychological Review, 111, 820-826.

Marcel, A.J., Tegnér, R & Nimmo-Smith, I.. (2004). Anosognosia for plegia: specificity, extension, partiality, and disunity of bodily unawarenes.Cortex, 40, 19-40.

Marcel, A., Postma, P., Gillmeister, H., Cox, S., Rorden, C., Nimmo-Smith, I., Mackintosh, B. (2004). Tactile Migration and Fusion in Healthy People – Premorbid Susceptibility to Allochiria, Neglect and Extinction?Neuropsychologia, 42, 1749-1767

Marcel, A.J., Mackintosh, B., Postma, P., Cusack, R., Vuckovich, J., Nimmo-Smith, I., and Cox, S.M.L. (2006). Is Susceptibility to Perceptual Migration and Fusion Modality-Specific or Multimodal?Neuropsychologia, 44, 693-710.

Marcel, A.J. & Dobel, C. (2005). Structured Perceptual Input Imposes an Egocentric Frame of Reference – Pointing, Imagery and Spatial Self-Consciousness.Perception, 34, 429-451.

Muggleton, N., Postma, P., Nimmo-Smith, I., Moutsopoulou, K., Marcel, A.J. and Walsh, V. (2006). TMS over right posterior parietal cortex induces neglect in a scene-based frame of reference. Neuropsychologia, 44,1222-1229.

Marcel, A.J. (2003). Introspective Report: Trust, Self Knowledge and Science.Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10 (9), 167-186.

Nimmo-Smith, I, Marcel, A.J., & Tegnér, R. (2005). A diagnostic test of unawareness of bilateral motor abilities in anosognosia for hemiplegia.Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 76, 1167-1169.

Marcel, A.J. (2003). The Sense of Agency: Awareness and Ownership of Actions and Intentions. In Roessler J. and Eilan N. (Eds.) Agency and Self Awareness,Oxford University Press.

Marcel, A.J. & Bisiach, E. (Eds.) (1988). Consciousness in ContemporaryScience, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bermúdez, J., Marcel, A. and Eilan, N. (Eds) (1995). The Body and the Self. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.