Paul C Fletcher

Datos Biográficos

ID1738757
NOMBREPaul C Fletcher
NOMBRESPaul C
APELLIDOFletcher
FIRMAFLETCHER P C
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0001-8257-1517
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAS46
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1965
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Social Workers and Gambling Harms? Evaluating an Initiative in Three English Local Authorities

    Open AccessCaroline Norrie, Cat Forward et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work2026

    We report on the evaluation phase of a study which developed questions to identify people who were affected by gambling harms for use in adult social care services and piloted them in three English local authorities. The questions were designed to identify those affected by gambling harms, including family or friends of those who gamble. The evaluation involved interviews with staff and service users ( n = 28) assessing the acceptability, feasibi…

  • How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use

    Open AccessPauline Frizelle, Ana BUCKLEY et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2024

    This study reports on the feasibility of using the Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E), as a self-directed app, to measure sentence comprehension in children aged 4 to 5 1⁄2 years old; how testing apps might be adapted for effective independent use; and agreement levels between face-to-face supported computerized and independent computerized testing with this cohort. A pilot phase was completed with 4 to 4;06-year-old children, to determi…

  • Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care

    Open AccessCat Forward, Caroline Norrie et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2023Referencias: 32

    Gambling harms are disproportionately experienced among disadvantaged groups and as such, adult social care (ASC) practitioners are well-placed to identify and support affected individuals. There exists no evidence-based ‘introductory’ question for practitioners to identify those at risk of gambling harms, which includes family and friends (‘affected others’). To develop an ‘introductory’ question for use in English ASC, we conducted a scoping re…

  • National Urban Policy – Liberal Party of Australia Statement

    Paul Fletcher, Paul C FletcherARTICLEUrban Policy and Research2022

  • Effect of health warning labels on motivation towards energy-dense snack foods

    Open AccessMinna Ventsel, Emily Pechey et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 38

    Health warning labels (HWLs) show promise in reducing motivation towards energy-dense snack foods. Understanding the underlying mechanisms could optimise their effectiveness. In two experimental studies in general population samples (Study 1 n = 90; Study 2 n = 1382), we compared the effects of HWLs and irrelevant aversive labels (IALs) on implicit (approach) motivation towards unhealthy snacks, using an approach-avoidance task (Study 1), and a m…

  • Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers

    Open AccessRuoyu Huang, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022

    The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and their caregivers, whose education ranged from third grade (elementary school) or below to postgraduate w…

  • Straight-sided beer and cider glasses to reduce alcohol sales for on-site consumption

    Open AccessLaura A Brocklebank, Anna K M Blackwell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Referencias: 14

    BACKGROUND: Straight-sided glasses can slow the rate of lager consumption in a laboratory setting compared with curved glasses. Slower drinking rates may lower overall alcohol consumption. Glass shape is therefore a potential target for intervention. The aim of this randomised crossover trial was to estimate the impact of serving draught beer and cider in straight-sided glasses, compared with usual, predominantly curved glasses, on alcohol sales …

  • The impact on selection of non-alcoholic vs alcoholic drink availability

    Open AccessAnna K M Blackwell, Katie De-Loyde et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Greater availability of non-alcoholic drinks, compared to alcoholic drinks, increased their online selection, an effect that may be larger when changing their relative availability, i.e., increasing the proportion of non-alcoholic drinks. Naturalistic studies are needed to determine the impact of availability interventions on reducing alcohol purchasing and consumption

  • The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

    Open AccessPhilipp Sterzer, Rick A Adams et al.ARTICLEBiological Psychiatry2018

    Fueled by developments in computational neuroscience, there has been increasing interest in the underlying neurocomputational mechanisms of psychosis. One successful approach involves predictive coding and Bayesian inference. Here, inferences regarding the current state of the world are made by combining prior beliefs with incoming sensory signals. Mismatches between prior beliefs and incoming signals constitute prediction errors that drive new l…

  • Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking preschool children

    Open AccessAsifa Sultana, Stephanie Stokes et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2016

    This study examines the morphosyntactic development, specifically verb morphology, of typically-developing Bangla-speaking children between the ages of two and four. Three verb forms were studied: the Present Simple, the Present Progressive and the Past Progressive. The study was motivated by the observations that reliable language-specific developmental information is not available in Bangla and that properties of these verb forms render them su…

  • Data and beyond

    Open AccessPaul Fletcher, Paul C FletcherARTICLEJournal of Child Language2014

    Perusing early issues of this Journal from nearly forty years ago, we find many topics on the contents lists that could appear in a current issue. But the resources available to contributors for addressing questions of interest have changed dramatically, not least in the public availability of data. Here we look briefly at two assets which have accrued to the field in the intervening decades, and at the contributions they make. CHILDES provides a…

  • Brain Structural Signatures of Negative Symptoms in Depression and Schizophrenia

    Open AccessJie-Yu Chuang, Graham K Murray et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2014

    Negative symptoms occur in several major mental health disorders with undetermined mechanisms and unsatisfactory treatments; identification of their neural correlates might unveil the underlying pathophysiological basis and pinpoint the therapeutic targets. In this study, participants with major depressive disorder (n = 24), schizophrenia (n = 22), and healthy controls (n = 20) were assessed with 10 frequently used negative symptom scales followe…

  • The skinny on cocaine

    Open AccessKaren D Ersche, Jan Štochl et al.ARTICLEAppetite2013Citada por: 1Referencias: 30

    There is a general assumption that weight loss associated with cocaine use reflects its appetite suppressing properties. We sought to determine whether this was justified by characterizing, in detail, alterations in dietary food intake and body composition in actively using cocaine-dependent individuals. We conducted a cross-sectional case-control comparison of 65 male volunteers from the local community, half of whom satisfied the DSM-IV-TR crit…

  • Changing Human Behavior to Prevent Disease

    Open AccessTheresa M Marteau, Gareth J Hollands et al.ARTICLEScience2012

    Much of the global burden of disease is associated with behaviors—overeating, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity—that people recognize as health-harming and yet continue to engage in, even when undesired consequences emerge. To date, interventions aimed at changing such behaviors have largely encouraged people to reflect on their behaviors. These approaches are often ineffectual, which is in keeping with the observati…

  • Exploring implicit and explicit aspects of sense of agency

    Open AccessJames W Moore, D Middleton et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2012

    Sense of agency refers to the sense of initiating and controlling actions in order to influence events in the outside world. Recently, a distinction between implicit and explicit aspects of sense of agency has been proposed, analogous to distinctions found in other areas of cognition, notably learning. However, there is yet no strong evidence supporting separable implicit and explicit components of sense of agency. The so-called 'Perruchet paradi…

  • Sense of agency in health and disease

    Open AccessJames W Moore, Paul C FletcherARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2012

    Sense of agency (SoA) is a compelling but fragile experience that is augmented or attenuated by internal signals and by external cues. A disruption in SoA may characterise individual symptoms of mental illness such as delusions of control. Indeed, it has been argued that generic SoA disturbances may lie at the heart of delusions and hallucinations that characterise schizophrenia. A clearer understanding of how sensorimotor, perceptual and environ…

  • Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish

    Open AccessCiara O’Toole, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    Investigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and semantically rich prepositions. This study used a parent report adapted for Irish, to measure vocabulary dev…

  • Effect of the dopamine D3 receptor antagonist GSK598809 on brain responses to rewarding food images in overweight and obese binge eaters

    Open AccessChris Dodds, Chris M Dodds et al.ARTICLEAppetite2012Citada por: 1Referencias: 61

  • Sense of agency, associative learning, and schizotypy

    Open AccessJames W Moore, A Dickinson et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2011

    Despite the fact that the role of learning is recognised in empirical and theoretical work on sense of agency (SoA), the nature of this learning has, rather surprisingly, received little attention. In the present study we consider the contribution of associative mechanisms to SoA. SoA can be measured quantitatively as a temporal linkage between voluntary actions and their external effects. Using an outcome blocking procedure, it was shown that tr…

  • Can Neuroimaging Help Us to Understand and Classify Somatoform Disorders? A Systematic and Critical Review

    Michael Browning, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2011

    Objective: Debate about the nature of somatoform disorders and their current diagnostic classification has been stimulated by the anticipation of new editions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems diagnostic classifications. In the current paper, we review systematically the literature on the neuroimaging of somatoform disorders and related con…

  • The effect of devaluation on food related motivation

    Open AccessHisham Ziauddeen, Sarah Hopkins et al.ARTICLEAppetite2011

  • Validity of a Parent Report Instrument for Irish-speaking Toddlers

    Open AccessCiara O' Toole, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2010

    Previous research has demonstrated the validity of parent report as an assessment of early vocabulary and grammatical development across a range of languages.This study adapted a well-known tool, the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI), to Irish (ICDI), in order to measure vocabulary and grammatical development longitudinally across a sample of 21 children. Results from the parent checklists were validated against spontan…

  • Perceiving is believing

    Open AccessPaul C Fletcher, Chris Frith et al.ARTICLENature Reviews Neuroscience2009

  • Early vocabulary development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese

    Open AccessTwila Tardif, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2009

    Parent report instruments adapted from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) examined vocabulary development in children aged 0 ; 8 to 2 ; 6 for two Chinese languages, Mandarin ( n =1694) and Cantonese ( n =1625). Parental reports suggested higher overall scores for Mandarin- than for Cantonese-speaking children from approximately 1 ; 4 onward. Factors relevant to the difference were only-child status, monolingual househ…

  • Cognitive NeurologyA clinical textbook

    Stefano F Cappa, Stefano Cappa et al.BOOKCognitive neurology2008

    The study of patients affected by disorders of the central nervous system is one of the crucial research methods for investigating the organization of cognitive functions in the brain. However, many clinicians remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology. …