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Professor Adrian Burgess

Prof A Burgess

Professor of Psychology

School of Life & Health Sciences 
Aston University 
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET, England

Room: SW 612B
Tel: +44 (0)121 204 4054
Fax: +44 (0)121 204 4090
E-mail: a.p.burgess@aston.ac.uk

Teaching Group

  • Psychology: Undergraduate and Postgraduate 

  Students may book time to see me at: https://wass.aston.ac.uk/wass/pages/login.page.php

Research Group

Research interests

Hans Berger is often quoted as saying that he hoped EEG would become a ‘window on the mind’. We’re still waiting for that dream to come true but my main research interest is in trying to make it happen. A recent account of my research interests is available on You Tube From rhythms in the brain to the music of the mind

Specialist Subjects:

  • Changes in the EEG coincident with spontaneous (i.e. emergent) changes in perceptual state
  • Functional Connectivity, particularly the development and adaptation of measures sensitive to non-linear connectivity
  • Neural Correlates of Consciousness, especially Tononi & Edelman’s Dynamic Core Hypothesis
  • Application of the above ideas to clinical conditions that affect conscious states such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder
  • The effects of mobile telephones on the brain

Selected Recent publications

  • Burgess AP (2012) Towards a Unified Understanding of Event-Related Changes in the EEG: The Firefly Model of Synchronization through Cross-Frequency Phase Modulation, PLOS One,  7, e45630                                                  

  • Perkins AM, Inchley-Mort SL, Pickering AD, Corr AJ, Burgess AP (2012). A facial expression for anxiety, Journal of personality and social psychology 102 (5) , 910-24

  • Burgess AP, Venables L, Jones H, Edwards R, Parrott AC (2011). Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for selective impairment of verbal recollection in abstinent recreational methylenedioxymethamphetamine("Ecstasy")/polydrug users. Psychopharmacology 216, 545-556

  • Medkour T, Walden AT, Burgess AP, Strelets VB (2010). Brain connectivity in positive and negative syndrome schizophrenia, Neuroscience 169 (4), 1779-1788

  • Medkour T, Walden AT, Burgess AP (2009)
    Graphical modelling for brain connectivity via partial coherence
    J Neurosci Methods. 180, 374-83

  • Burgess AP (2007) On the contribution of neurophysiology to hypnosis research: current state and future directions. In “Hypnosis and Conscious States: the cognitive neuroscience perspective” G.A. Jamieson (Ed), (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

 Full list of publications and associated bibliometric indices are available on Google Scholar

 Research funding

  • Shapiro, L., Burgess, A., Rochelle, K., Talcott, J. & Witton, C, Tracking changes in the influence of broad auditory and specific phonological skills on beginning and intermediate reading performance, £606,369.00, ESRC

  • Walden AP & Burgess AP (2006). Multivariate time series graphical modelling for analysis of brain connectivity in schizophrenia sufferers, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, from January 2007 for 3 years, total value £227,451

  • Elliott P, Little M, Neasham D, Burgess AP. (2003). “Airwave Health Monitoring Study”, Home Office, May 2003 for 15 years, total value £4,766,906. www.police-health.org.uk 

  • Burgess AP (Principal Investigator), Kennard C, Elliott P, Little M, Neasham D (2003). “The effect of Terrestial Trunked Radio (Tetra) on Cognitive and Neurophysiological functioning in Police Officers”. Home Office, Commenced Spring 2005 for two years, total value  £290,352 

  Teaching activity

  • Module Organiser of Approaches to Psychology (PY1134)

  • Introduction to Psychology (PY1129)

  • Abnormal Psychology (PY1133)

  • Individual Differences and Psychometrics (PY2231)

  • Personality & Intelligence (PY3354)

  • Psychosis (PY3129)

  • Quantitative Methods and Advanced Statistics (M702)

Career history 

  • BA(Hons) in Experimental Psychology, St Catherine's College, Oxford, President of the Junior Common Room
  • MSc in Clinical Psychology, University of Surrey
  • PhD in Psychology, London University
  • Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist, Adult and Neuropsychology Services, Charing Cross Hospital (1987-1989) 
  • Research Officer, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School (1989-1991) 
  • Lecturer in Psychology as Applied to Medicine, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School Honorary 
  • Senior Clinical Psychologist, Riverside Mental Health Trust (1991-1998) 
  • Senior Lecturer in Psychology as Applied to Medicine, Imperial College London (1998-2005)
  • Professor of Psychology, Swansea University (2005-2008) and Head of Department of Psychology & Deputy Head of School of Human Sciences (2007-2008)
  • Head of Psychology Aston University (2008-2012) 
  • Professor Psychology, Aston University (2008-present)

Membership of professional bodies 

  • British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (Formerly British Psychophysiological Society) -1995 to present

    • President (2002-2007)

    • Treasurer and Membership Secretary (1995-2002)

  • British Psychological Society

    • Associate Fellow

    • Chartered Clinical Psychologist Member of the Division of Clinical Psychology

    • Practitioner Member of the Division of Neuropsychology

    • Member of the Mathematical, Statistical and Computing Special Interest Group

  • British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

Prof Adrian Burgess/Aston University/updated November 2012