Professor Peter Mitchell

Contact Details

Membership Status

Associate Member

Institute Research Section

Cognitive, Systems & Developmental Neurosciences

Research Interests

• Gradual development in understanding the mind

• Visual cognition in autism

• Cognitive aspects of the development of communication abilities

• Cognitive aspects of social functioning in autism

• Perspective in mental models

Research Techniques

Mainly experimental psychology

Recent Publications

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Parons S, Mitchell P & Leonard A (2004) The use and understanding of virtual environments by adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 34(4), 449-466

Hulme S, Mitchell P & Wood D (2003) Six-year-olds= difficulties handling intensional contexts. Cognition 87, 73-99

Burton S & Mitchell P (2003) Judging who knows best about yourself: Developmental change in citing the self across middle childhood. Child Development 74, 426-444

Parsons S & Mitchell P (2002) The potential of virtual reality in social skills training for people with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 46, 430-443

Teaching Responsibilities

• Lectures for the second-year course on 'Human Development' (Resources)

• Second-year practical classes (Resources)

• Lectures on various first and third-year courses

Funding

Students Supervised

Internal & External Responsibilities

• Associate Editor of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, BJDP

• Member of the ESRC Collegiate

• School of Psychology Director of Research

• RAE coordinator