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Research Interests

My current research aims:

1. To reveal the functional organisation of visual remembering and visual knowledge, and their links with verbal processes, especially object naming.

2. To reveal the nature and origins (environmental and psychological) of synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences, and the functional significance of these correspondences for visual cognition, visual aesthetics, and language (e.g., sound symbolism and language acquisition).

Publications

	Walker, P., Francis, B. J. & Walker, L. (in press). The brightness-weight illusion: Darker objects look heavier but feel lighter Experimental Psychology , , .
	Walker, P, Bremner, J. G., Mason, U., Spring, J., Mattock, K., Slater, A., & Johnson, S. (2010). Preverbal infants' sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences Psychological Science, 21(1), 21-25.
	Walker, P, Blake, H. & Bremner, J. G. (2008). Object naming induces viewpoint-independence in longer-term visual remembering: Evidence from a simple object drawing task European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20, 632-648.
	Walker, P. (2008). Font tuning: A review and new experimental evidence. Visual Cognition, 16, 1022-1058.
	Walker, P., Bremner, J.G., Smart, L., Pitt, T., Apsey, D. (2008). Object categorisation, object naming, and viewpoint-independence in visual remembering: Evidence from young children's drawings of a novel object. Memory , 16, 626-636.
	Walker, P., Bremner, J. G., Merrick, K., Coates, S., Cooper, E., Lawley, R., Sageman, R., & Simm, R. (2006). Visual mental representations supporting object drawing: How naming a novel object with a novel count noun impacts on young children's object drawing. Visual Cognition, 13, 733-788.
	Walker, P. & Hinkley, L. (2003). Visual memory for shape-colour conjunctions utilises structural descriptions of letter shape. Visual Cognition, 10, 987-1000.
	Walker, P. & Davies, S. J. (2003). Perceptual completion and object-based representations in short-term visual memory. Memory & Cognition, 31, 746-760.
	Mann, T. & Walker, P. (2003). Autism and a deficit in broadening the spread of visual attention. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 274-284.
	Walker, P., Dixon, S. & Smith, D. (2000). Associating object names with descriptions of shape that distinguish possible from impossible objects. Visual Cognition, 7, 597-627.
	Walker, P. & Miles, R. (1999). The object-based representation of partially occluded surfaces in short-term visual memory: Evidence from image combination. Memory & Cognition, 27, 553-560.
	Walker, P. & Cuthbert, L. (1998). Remembering visual feature conjunctions: Visual memory for shape-colour associations is object-based. Visual Cognition, 5, 409-455.
	Brandimonte, M. A., Hitch, G. J., Walker, P., Del Bello, R., Pelizzone, L. & Favretto, A. (1998). Effetti di congruenza della grandezza sul riconoscimento di parti immaginate. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 383-406.
	Walker, P., Hitch, G.J., Dewhurst, S., Whiteley, H.E. & Brandimonte, M.A. (1997). The representation of non-structural information in visual memory: Evidence from image combination. Memory & Cognition, 25, 484-491.
	Whiteley, H.E. & Walker, P. (1997). Multiletter units in visual word recognition: Direct activation by supraletter visual features. Visual Cognition, 4, 69-110.
	Hitch, G.J., Brandimonte, M.A., & Walker, P. (1995). Two types of representation in visual memory: Evidence from the effects of stimulus contrast on image combination. Memory & Cognition, 23, 147-154.
	Walker, P. & Moylan, K. (1995). The enhanced representation of surface texture consequent on the loss of sight. Neuropsychologia, 32, 289-297.
	Lewis, C., Hitch, G.J., & Walker, P. (1994). The prevalence of specific arithmetic difficulties and specific reading difficulties in 9- to 10-year-old boys and girls. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 35, 283-292.
	Walker, P., Hitch, G.J., Doyle, A., & Porter, T. (1994). The development of short-term visual memory in young children. The International Journal of Behavioral Development, 17, 73-89.
	Heathcote, D., Walker, P., & Hitch, G.J. (1994). Feature independence and the recovery of feature conjunctions Journal of General Psychology, 121, 253-266.
	Whiteley, H.E. & Walker, P. (1994). The activation of multiletter units in visual word recognition. Visual Cognition, 1, 433-473.
	Walker, P., Hitch, G.J., & Duroe, S. (1993). The effect of visual similarity on short-term memory for spatial location: Implications for the capacity of visual short-term memory. Acta Psychologica, 83, 203-224.
	Whiteley, H.E. & Walker, P. (1991). The role of articulation in the parsing and retention of letter strings in tachistoscopic free recall. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 45, 75-82.
	Houston, J.E., Crozier, W.R. & Walker, P. (1990). The assessment of ethnic sensitivity among Northern Ireland school children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 419-422.
	Lewis, C. & Walker, P. (1989). Typographic influences in reading. British Journal of Psychology, 80, 241-257.
	Marshall, E.L. & Walker, P. (1987). Visual memory for pictorial stimuli in a serial choice reaction time task. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 213-231.
	Walker, P. (1987). Word shape as a cue to the identity of a word: An analysis of the Kucera and Francis (1967) word list. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 39A, 675-700.
	Walker, P. & Smith, S. (1986). The basis of Stroop interference involving the multimodal correlates of auditory pitch. Perception, 15, 491-496.
	Walker, P. & Smith, S. (1985). Stroop interference based on the multimodal correlates of haptic size and auditory pitch. Perception, 14, 729-736.
	Walker, P., Smith. S., & Livingston, A. (1985). Predicting the appropriateness of a typeface on the basis of its multimodal features. Information Design Journal, 5, 29-42.
	Walker, P. & Smith, S. (1984). Stroop interference based on the synaesthetic qualities of auditory pitch. Perception, 13, 75-81.
	Walker, P. & Marshall, E.L. (1982). Visual memory and stimulus repetition effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 111, 348-368.
	Walker, P. & Powell, D.J. (1979). The sensitivity of binocular rivalry to changes in the nondominant stimulus. Vision Research, 19, 247-249.
	Walker, P. (1978). Binocular rivalry: Central or peripheral selective processes? Psychological Bulletin, 85, 376-389.
	Walker, P. (1978). Orientation-selective inhibition and binocular rivalry. Perception, 7, 207-214.
	Walker, P. (1978). Short-term visual memory: The importance of the spatial and temporal separation of successive stimuli. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 30, 665-679.
	Walker, P. (1978). Some comments on Thomas' 1977 reciprocal inhibitory model for monocular rivalry. Perception & Psychophysics, , .
	Walker, P. & Meyer, R.R. (1978). The subliminal perception of movement and the course of autokinesis. British Journal of Psychology, 69, 225-231.
	Walker, P. & Toates, F.M. (1977). Perception as the output of a proportional feedback controller: Evidence from the stabilised image. Perception, 6, 355-356.
	Walker, P. (1976). The perceptual fragmentation of unstabilised images. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 35-45.
	Walker, P. (1975). The subliminal perception of movement and the 'suppression' in binocular rivalry. British Journal of Psychology, 66, 347-356.
	Walker, P. (1975). Stochastic properties of binocular rivalry alternations. Perception & Psychophysics, 18, 467-473.
	Walker, P. & Powell, D.J. (1974). Lateral interaction between neural channels sensitive to velocity in the human visual system. Nature, 252, 732-733.