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Derrick Watson is a Professor and since January 2020 has been Head of the Psychology Department. As Head of Department, Derrick鈥檚 priorities include improving student experience, ensuring a diverse and inclusive environment for staff and students and maintaining the Department鈥檚 reputation for internationally recognised research. Interests: Mechanisms of visual selection and attentional prioritisation in particular, visual search, visual marking, subitization, motion processing, inhibition of return and attentional capture by abrupt onsets. Road safety, driver performance and driving simulation. Personal Homepage Tel: (024) 765 22763 Room No: H140 Email: D.G.Watson@warwick.ac.uk Research Group: Behavioural Science Research facilities: Driving Simulator Psychology Driving Simulator is a collaborative facility with WMG. Impact: Improving Road Safety Education and Driver Training Raising awareness of the need to pay attention on the road

Representative Publications:

• Allcoat, Devon, Hatchard, Tim, Azmat, Freeha, Stansfield, Kim, Watson, Derrick G. and von M眉hlenen, Adrian (2021)  Journal of Educational Computing Research . doi: (In Press)
• Hodson, Luke, MacCallum, Fiona, Watson, Derrick G. and Blagrove, Elisabeth (2021)  Personality and Individual Differences, 168 . 110383. doi:
• Kunar, Melina A., Watson, Derrick G. and Taylor-Phillips, Sian (2020)  Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied . doi: (In Press)
• Norman, Danielle, Gunnell, Daniel, Mrowiec, Aleksandra and Watson, Derrick G. (2020)  Memory and Cognition . doi: (In Press)
• O'Shea, Brian A., Watson, Derrick G. , Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Fincher, Corey L. (2020) Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11 (3). pp. 345-355. doi:.
• Norman, Danielle, Wade, Kimberley A., Williams, Mark A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2020)  Journal of Applied Memory and Cognition, 9 (1). pp. 118-127. doi:
• Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Dewe, Hayley (2020)  International Journal of Psychophysiology . doi: (In Press)
• Zupan, Zorana and Watson, Derrick G. (2020)  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics . doi:
• Suma, Rossella, Debattista, Kurt, Watson, Derrick G., Blagrove, Elisabeth and Chalmers, Alan (2019)  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing . doi: (In Press)
• Nightingale, Sophie J., Wade, Kimberley A., Farid, Hany and Watson, Derrick G. (2019)  Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 81 . pp. 2917-2943. doi:
• Ritchie, Owain T., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Misyak, Jennifer B., Chater, Nick, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2019)  Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 66 . pp. 406-418. doi:
• Schmidtke, Kelly, Watson, Derrick G. , Roberts, Pendaran and Vlaev , Ivo (2019) Psychology & Marketing, 36 (10). pp. 964-970. doi:
• Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019)  Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 26 (2). pp. 199-217. doi:
• Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A., Norman, Danielle and Watson, Derrick G. (2019)  Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4 . 15. doi:
• Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer, Ritchie, Owain, Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alex (2019)  Physics of Life Reviews, 28 . pp. 31-33. doi:
• Roberts, Katherine L., Doherty, Nicola J., Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45 (1). pp. 1-15. doi:
• Zupan, Zorana, Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2018)  Developmental Psychology, 54 (12). pp. 2248-2264. doi:
• Watson, Derrick G.(2017)Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 . e160.doi:

• Kunar, M.A. & Watson, D.G. (2014). When are abrupt onsets found efficiently in complex visual search? Evidence from MAD search. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, Volume 40 (Number 1). pp. 232-252. doi:

• Wright, D.S., Wade, K.A., & Watson, D.G. (2013). Delay and D茅j脿 Vu: Timing and Repetition Increase the Power of False Evidence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , Volume 20 (Number 4). pp. 812-818. doi:
• von M眉hlenen, A., Watson, D.G., & Gunnell, D. (2013). Blink and you won鈥檛 miss it: The preview benefit in visual marking survives internally generated eye blinks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Volume 39 (Number 5). pp. 1279-1290. doi:
• Watson, D.G., & Blagrove, E. (2012). Tagging multiple emotional stimuli: Negative valence has little benefit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 785-803.
• Watson, D.G., & Kunar, M.A. (2012). Determining the capacity of time-based selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 350-366.
• Watson, D.G., Compton, S., & Bailey, H. (2011). Visual Marking: The influence of temporary changes on time-based visual selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 37, 1729-1738.
• Maylor, E.A., Watson, D.G., & Hartley, E.L. (2011). Effects of distraction on visual enumeration in children and adults. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1440-1447.
• Watson, D.G., Blagrove, E., & Selwood, S. (2011). Emotional triangles: A test of emotion-based attentional capture by simple geometric shapes. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 1149-1164.Blagrove, E. & Watson, D.G. (2010). Visual marking and facial affect: Can an emotional face be ignored? Emotion, 10, 147-168. 

Supervisor to:

Emily Peters