Staff
| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Byrne, Ruth Mary Josephine | |
| College Address | Psychology, Aras An Phiarsaigh |
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| Main Department | Psychology | |
| College Title | Professor of Cognitive Science | |
| ruth.byrne@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 4054 | |
| Biography | |
| Ruth Byrne is the Professor of Cognitive Science at Trinity College Dublin in the School of Psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience, a Chair created for her by the University in 2005. Her research expertise is in the cognitive science of human thinking, including experimental and computational investigations of reasoning and imaginative thought. She has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters - available at 'http://reasoningandimagination.wordpress.com/' Her books include 'The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality' published in 2005 by MIT press. Further information is available at the mental models website at 'http://www.mentalmodelsblog.wordpress.com' **************************************************************************************** She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, prior to that Head of the School of Psychology, and currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Neuroscience. Her BA degree was awarded by the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin and her PhD by the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Prior to her appointment in Trinity College, she held lectureships in the computer science department at University College Dublin and in the psychology department at the University of Wales at Cardiff, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. | |
| Publications and Other Research Outputs |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J., It is not the case that if you understand a conditional you know how to negate it, Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 24, (3), 2012, p329 - 334 | |
| Johnson-Laird, P.N., Lotstein, M., & Byrne, R.M.J., The consistency of disjunctive assertions, Memory & Cognition, 40, 2012, p769 - 778 | |
| 'Counterfactual and causal thoughts about exceptional events' in, Hoerl, C., McCormack, T., & Beck, S.R. , Understanding counterfactuals and causality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp208 - 229, [Byrne, R.M.J. ] | |
| Pighin, S, Byrne, R.M.J., Ferrante, D., Gonzalez, M. & Girotto, V. , Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events., Thinking and reasoning , 17, (2), 2011, p197 - 211 | |
| Dixon, J. & Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactual thinking about exceptional actions, Memory & Cognition, 39, (7), 2011, p1317 - 1331 | |
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