Tag: project

Client:   School of Psychology, Cardiff University, with funding from the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and Alzheimer’s Research UK. We are currently involved in a collaborative project with Kim Graham and her research team on developing tasks that are behavioural indicators of the later development of Alzheimer’s and semantic dementia in people with known…

Client:  Medical Research Council, with funding from the NewLife Foundation for Disabled Children This cross-disciplinary project combines expertise in the genetic basis of intellectual disability and characterizing cognition and behaviour in childhood.  The aim is to use standard behavioural measurements and computerised testing methods to assess underlying cognitive mechanisms in children with intellectual disability of…

Client:  School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) The aim of this project was to build a web application that will help researchers learn about changes in thinking skills, decision making and health behaviour during adulthood.  We built an application that can be installed on both Android…

Client:University of Oxford, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research This project is part of a programme of research that examines how changes in thinking style relate to symptoms of depression and anxiety. We built two components to support this research: the first is an installable web application that can be run off-line…

Client:  MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit This project investigates whether training people on particular short-term memory tasks will lead to more general improvements in short-term memory. We built two applications to support this research — both are installable web applications optimised for the iPad. The first application, which is run in the lab, runs through eight…

Client:  MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, with funding from the MRC Development Gap Fund The aim of this project was to build a web application to provide a rapid screen of cognitive function.  The tests included in the screen cover a wide variety of cognitive functions and are based on a wealth of psychological research.…