Dr Emma Threadgold
Emma is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in The School of Psychology and Humanities. She is Course Director for the MSc Psychology Conversion, Chair of the Science Ethics Board, and a Research Degree Tutor. She contributes to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervision, assessment, and course design.
Emma is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA). Emma holds a BSc Psychology (First), an MSc Psychological Research Methods (Distinction) and a PhD in Psychology, all from Lancaster University. Following her PhD, she undertook a series of post-doctoral roles, including Research Assistant and Lecturer at Edge Hill University, and Senior Research Fellow on a three-year ESRC research grant based at Lancaster University and later, City University London. She has over 15 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education and conducting research in Cognitive Psychology. Emma also has experience of conference organisation, delivering outreach activities with local schools and colleges and engaging with the media through radio and television interviews.
Her research interests are centred around Cognitive Psychology, with a specific focus on insight problem solving, creativity, distraction and false memories. Emma has published articles across a range of peer-reviewed journals and presented at numerous National and International conferences.
- PhD Cognitive & Developmental Psychology, Lancaster University, 2012
- MSc Psychological Research Methods (Distinction), Lancaster University, 2007
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (1st Class), Lancaster University, 2004
- Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Distraction
- Memory
- Decision Making in Sustainable Behaviours
- Face Processing
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- Attention and Distraction
- Environmental Psychology
- Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group
- The impact of to-be-ignored background music on creativity
- Exploring the fate of unattended speech: Semantic priming of false memories
- The impact of distraction on the solving of remote associate problems: An analysis of the role of semantic networks
- Individual differences in biased estimates of environmental impact in the negative footprint illusion
- The role of external facial features and focus of attention in the construction of holistic facial composites
- Incubation when problem solving: The role of mystery in nature.
- British Academy Leverhulme, Research Grant, £8,000, 2017
- Brain and Behaviour Centre, University of Central Lancashire, £480, 2020.
- Threadgold, E., Marsh, J. E., & Ball, L. J. (2019). Normative data for 84 English UK Rebus Puzzles. Poster presented at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference, Preston, UK.
- Threadgold, E., Batey, M., Crick, L., & Hughes, D. (2018). Designing creative spaces: The impact of a nature poster on divergent thinking. Paper presented at the UK Creativity Researchers Conference, Canterbury, UK.
- Threadgold, E., Marsh, J. E, & Ball, L. J. (2016). Does background music stint creativity? Evidence from the compound remote associate task. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 56th Annual Convention, Boston, USA.
- Threadgold, E., Marsh, J. E., & Ball, L. J. (2016). Can ambient noise make us more creative? Paper presented at the BPS Annual Convention,Barcelona, Spain.
- Ball, L. J., Threadgold, E., Solowiej, A., & Marsh, J. E. (2016). The impact of two types of task engagement on problem solving performance with and without distraction. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Convention,Barcelona, Spain.
- Threadgold, E., Ball, L. J, Marsh, J. E.. & Litchfield, D. (2015) Does a hint to search for contraries facilitate insight problem solving? Paper presented at Meeting of Contrast in Perception, Cognition and Language, Verona, Italy.
- Threadgold, E., Howe, M. L., & Garner, S. R. (2015). A comparison of true and false memory priming in analogical reasoning. Paper Presented at The European Society for Cognitive Psychology Annual Convention, Paphos, Cyprus.
- Threadgold, E., Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., & Ball, L. J. (2014). Priming children’s analogical reasoning with true and false memories: a comparison of relation and solution priming. Poster Presented at The Psychonomic Society 55th Annual Meeting, California, USA.
- Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Threadgold, E., & Ball, L. J. (2014). Using false memories to prime analogical reasoning. Symposia Contribution at The Psychonomic Society 55th Annual Meeting, California, USA.
- Howe, M. L., & Threadgold, E., (2013). Adaptive memory; it’s not just ancestral anymore. Symposia contribution at the SARMAC Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Threadgold, E., Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Ball, L. J., & Bland. C. E. (2013). Priming analogical problem solutions with false memories. Poster presented at the SARMAC Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Threadgold, E. & Towse, J. N. (2011). Integration of processing and memory enhances working memory performance. Poster presented at the Working Memory and Education Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
- Threadgold, E. & Towse, J. N. (2010). Integration of processing and memory enhances working memory performance. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Convention for the Association of Psychological Science, Boston, USA.
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