D R Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 2039030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D R Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | D R |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind
New Strategies for Reading Vergil
Most students, to a varying degree, experience a sense of unease and frustration when they first meet Vergil. Those students who have worked primarily on prose texts are particularly vulnerable. This paper will examine the problems that a typical student might have and suggest a strategy to guide them through Vergil or any other poetic text.1 I. The Problem Let us first examine the problems that a typical student can encounter when translating Ve…
The Effects of Noise and Incentives Upon Attention in Short‐term Memory
Recent work concerned with task performance under conditions of high arousal has emphasized the changes that appear to occur in the allocation of attention to different components of the task. Hockey (1970 a , b ), for example, has shown that loud noise, which may be considered to raise arousal level (Broadbent, 1971; Davies, 1968; Hockey, 1969), biases attention towards high‐priority task components and away from low‐priority ones. This result a…
The Effects of Music and Task Difficulty on Performance at a Visual Vigilance Task
Forty subjects performed a visual vigilance task in music or noise and when the task was difficult or easy. Response measures taken were: correct detections, commission errors, detection latencies and d' values. For the difficult version of the task a significant increase in detection latencies was found which music prevented. Broadly similar findings were obtained for correct detections. The results are compared with other studies of detection l…
Varied Auditory Stimulation, Temperament Differences and Vigilance Performance
Three experiments are described which investigate the effects of varied auditory stimulation (VAS) on the visual vigilance performance of relatively introverted and relatively extraverted subjects and the preferences of these two groups for such stimulation. In Expt. I, 80 db VAS was found to be associated with a significantly lower commission error rate than was 50 db steady noise, but only in the case of the more extraverted subjects. VAS had n…
The Effects of Noise and Doubling the Signal Frequency on Individual Differences in Visual Vigilance Performance
Four groups of 6 extraverts and 4 groups of 6 introverts, selected by the Maudsley Personality Inventory, performed a 32 min visual cancellation task under one of two conditions of signal frequency, high and low, and in either noise (95 db) or quiet (70 db). In quiet, at both levels of signal frequency, extraverts showed a steady decline in the number of signals detected correctly but introverts did not. Neither group showed a decrement under noi…
Varied Auditory Stimulation, Temperament Differences and Vigilance Performance
Three experiments are described which investigate the effects of varied auditory stimulation (VAS) on the visual vigilance performance of relatively introverted and relatively extraverted subjects and the preferences of these two groups for such stimulation. In Expt. I, 80 db VAS was found to be associated with a significantly lower commission error rate than was 50 db steady noise, but only in the case of the more extraverted subjects. VAS had n…
The Effects of Music and Task Difficulty on Performance at a Visual Vigilance Task
Forty subjects performed a visual vigilance task in music or noise and when the task was difficult or easy. Response measures taken were: correct detections, commission errors, detection latencies and d' values. For the difficult version of the task a significant increase in detection latencies was found which music prevented. Broadly similar findings were obtained for correct detections. The results are compared with other studies of detection l…
The Effects of Noise and Doubling the Signal Frequency on Individual Differences in Visual Vigilance Performance
Four groups of 6 extraverts and 4 groups of 6 introverts, selected by the Maudsley Personality Inventory, performed a 32 min visual cancellation task under one of two conditions of signal frequency, high and low, and in either noise (95 db) or quiet (70 db). In quiet, at both levels of signal frequency, extraverts showed a steady decline in the number of signals detected correctly but introverts did not. Neither group showed a decrement under noi…
Varied Auditory Stimulation, Temperament Differences and Vigilance Performance
Three experiments are described which investigate the effects of varied auditory stimulation (VAS) on the visual vigilance performance of relatively introverted and relatively extraverted subjects and the preferences of these two groups for such stimulation. In Expt. I, 80 db VAS was found to be associated with a significantly lower commission error rate than was 50 db steady noise, but only in the case of the more extraverted subjects. VAS had n…
The Effects of Music and Task Difficulty on Performance at a Visual Vigilance Task
Forty subjects performed a visual vigilance task in music or noise and when the task was difficult or easy. Response measures taken were: correct detections, commission errors, detection latencies and d' values. For the difficult version of the task a significant increase in detection latencies was found which music prevented. Broadly similar findings were obtained for correct detections. The results are compared with other studies of detection l…
The Effects of Noise and Incentives Upon Attention in Short‐term Memory
Recent work concerned with task performance under conditions of high arousal has emphasized the changes that appear to occur in the allocation of attention to different components of the task. Hockey (1970 a , b ), for example, has shown that loud noise, which may be considered to raise arousal level (Broadbent, 1971; Davies, 1968; Hockey, 1969), biases attention towards high‐priority task components and away from low‐priority ones. This result a…
New Strategies for Reading Vergil
Most students, to a varying degree, experience a sense of unease and frustration when they first meet Vergil. Those students who have worked primarily on prose texts are particularly vulnerable. This paper will examine the problems that a typical student might have and suggest a strategy to guide them through Vergil or any other poetic text.1 I. The Problem Let us first examine the problems that a typical student can encounter when translating Ve…
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind
Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Vigilance (psychology) (3 works) · Arousal (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (2 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (2 works)