Dr. Richard Wilton

Senior Teaching Fellow

Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384619
Email: Richard Wilton

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

Biography

I am working on conceptual and empirical aspects of representation in perception, imagination and memory. I am particularly interested in formulating accounts of how properties of objects and relations between objects may be represented, consistent with the data on the recall of these in experiments on memory. In addition, I am interested in the body/mind problem. It is recognised generally by the academic community that no satisfactory account of consciousness has yet been given by any theory that may account for our behaviour. The possibility is being considered that there is some fundamental assumption, common to all these topics, which is in error.

Research Grouping

Language, Cognition and Perception

Selected Publications


Links	Publications
	Wilton, R. N. (1989). The Structure of memory: Evidence concerning the recall of surface and background colour of shapes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 579-598
	Wilton, R. N. & Mathieson, P. (1996). The supposed effect of interactive imagery in paired associate learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 888-900.
	Wilton, R. (2000). Consciousness, free will, and the explanation of human behavior. Edwin Mellen Press: Lampeter.
	Wilton, R.N. (2006). Interactive imagery and colour in paired-associate learning. Acta Psychologica, 121, 21-40.
	Wilton, R.N. (2006). The effect of relations in paired-associate learning. Memory, 14, 214-231.