Professor

Bio

https://zayed.academia.edu/TimothyJordan

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Joined Zayed University in 2013
Lecturer in Cognition and Perception, University of St Andrews, UK
Professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Leicester, UK
ERF Professorial Research Fellow

Office

Dubai Academic City, A-L2-035

Phone:

+971-4 -402 1572

Email:

Teaching Areas

Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Perception and Vision

Research and Professional Activities

Recipient of the Zayed University Provost’s Fellowship 2015-2016

Cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and perception across the lifespan, with a special focus on written and spoken language, facial communication, and the enhancement of linguistic abilities through technology.

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Jordan, T.R., McGowan, V.A., Kurtev, S., & Paterson, K.B. (2016). Fast and slow readers and the effectiveness of the spatial frequency content of text: Evidence from reading times and eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press

Jordan, T.R., McGowan, V.A., Kurtev, S., & Paterson, K.B. (2016). A further look at postview effects in reading: An eye-movements study of influences from the left of fixation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 296-307.

Sheen, M., AlJassmi, M., & Jordan, T. R. (2016). Teaching about Psychological Disorders: A Case for Using Discussion Boards in the Classroom. Teaching of Psychology. 34, 5-8

Sheen, M. & Jordan, T. R. (2016). Believing is Seeing: The Role of Psychological Processes in Perceiving Objects in the Shroud of Turin. Archive for the Psychology of Religion. 38 (2) 232-251.

Jordan, T. R. & Sheen, M. (2015). Seeing Inscriptions on the Shroud of Turin: The Role of Psychological Influences. PLoS ONE, 44 (8), 251-288.

Jordan, T.R., Sheen, M., Abedipour, L., Paterson, K.B. (2015). Seeing inscriptions on the Shroud of Turin: The role of psychological influences in the perception of writing. PLoS ONE, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136860

Sheen, M. & Jordan, T. R. (2015). Effects of Contextual Information on Seeing Pareidolic Religious Inscriptions on an Artifact: Implications for the Shroud of Turin. Perception, 1, doi: 0301006615607156.

Paterson, K.B., Almabruk, A.A.A., McGowan, V.A., White, S.J., & Jordan, T.R. (2015). Effects of word length on eye movement control: The evidence from Arabic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1443-1450.

Paterson, K.B., Read J., McGowan, V.A., & Jordan, T.R. (2015). Children and adults both see “pirates” in “parties”: Letter-position effects for developing readers and skilled adult readers. Developmental Science, 18, 335-343.

Sheen, M. & Jordan, T.R. (2015). Effects of contextual information on seeing pareidolic religious inscriptions on an artefact: Implications for the Shroud of Turin. Perception, 44, 35-42.

Jordan, T. R., Sheen, M., Abedipour, L., & Patterson, K. B. (2014). Visual Speech Perception in Foveal and Extra Foveal Vision: Further Implications for Divisions in Hemispheric Projections. PLoS ONE, 9 (7), e98273.

Jordan, T. R., Sheen, M., & Al Jassmi, M. (2014). A New Demonstration of the Illusory Letters Phenomenon: Graphemic Restoration in Arabic Word Perception. Perception, 44, 215-218.

Jordan, T.R., Almabruk, A.A.A., Gadalla, E.A., McGowan, V.A., White, S.J., Abedipour, L., & Paterson, K.B. (2014). Reading direction and the central perceptual span: Evidence from Arabic and English. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 505-511.