About
Dr Tina Seabrooke is a cognitive and experimental psychologist at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on episodic memory and associative learning in humans. Within these areas, she is interested in research into both basic mechanisms and applications.
Aside from research, she teaches several modules on the Psychology undergraduate programme, including Learning to Learn (1st year), Research Methods (1st year), and Developmental Psychology (2nd year). She also gives guest lectures to the medical students on learning, memory, and cognitive decline. She supervises final year undergraduate project students, MSc students, research assistants, and doctoral students. Finally, she is a member of the Psychology undergraduate student support team and serves as a Psychology ethics reviewer.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Episodic memory
- Associative learning
Current research
Episodic memory: One strand of my research focuses on identifying study techniques that boost long-term memory, and understanding why they are effective. It is well-established that tests are not only useful for establishing what students have learnt at the end of a module -- tests are also potent learning events. In recent years, I have focused particularly on the effects on unsuccessful tests (errors) on different types of episodic memory (e.g., item recognition, cued recall, source memory).
Associative learning: Another strand of my research focuses on understanding the ways in which reward-associated cues can bias behaviour, with a focus on Pavlovian-instrumental interactions. Most of my research in this area has sought to test whether such interactions are driven by a goal-directed or a comparatively automatic mechanism.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
I am currently part of the teaching team for the following modules:
- PSYC1019: Research Methods and Empirical Studies II (and Data Analysis)
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- Module Lead (2021-current; co-convenor from 2019-2021)
- 2019 - current
- ~ 230 students per year
- Psychology Year 1 Undergraduate Core/Compulsory Module
- PSYC1022: Learning to Learn
- Co-convenor
- 2022-current
- ~ 230 students per year
- Psychology Year 1 Undergraduate Core/Compulsory Module
- PSYC2007: Developmental Psychology
- Co-convenor
- 2019-current
- 280 - 350 students per year
- Psychology Year 2 Core/Compulsory Module
- PSYC3084: Current Topics in Cognitive Psychology
- Co-convenor
- 2024-current
- ~ 30 students per year
- Psychology Year 3 Optional Module
- PSYC3003: Literature Review and PSYC3005: Research Paper
- Empirical Project Supervisor
- 2019-current
- Typically supervise 1-4 students throughout the academic year
- Psychology Year 3 Core/Compulsory Module
- Personal Academic Tutor
- 2019-current
- 7-10 Year 1 Psychology undergraduate students per year
- 7-10 Year 2 Psychology undergraduate students per year
- Psychology MSc Project Supervisor
- Supervise Psychology MSc Student Dissertation Projects as requested
I have previously taught the following modules:
- PSYC1005: Thinking Psychologically
- Co-convenor
- 2019-2021
- ~ 10 students per year
- Psychology Year 1 Undergraduate Core/Compulsory Module
- BM4: Medicine and BM5: Medicine
- Guest Lecturer
- 2019-2023
- Expert guest lectures on Learning and Memory
Biography
Dr Tina Seabrooke is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Southampton. She completed an BSc in Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2013, where she received a 1st class honours degree and the British Psychological Society award for best overall degree performance. She then moved to University of Plymouth, where she completed a PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 2017. After two years of postdoctoral studies at the University of Plymouth, she moved to the University of Southampton as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology in 2019.
Prizes
- Honourable Mention Award at the TAS Symposium 2024: A Survey of Lay People's Willingness to Generate Legal Advice using Large Language Models (LLMs) (2024)
- Honourable Mention Award at the TAS Symposium 2023: TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from speech and audio for the empowerment of patients (2023)
- Early Career Best Paper Award for: Extinguishing cue-controlled reward choice: Effects of Pavlovian extinction on Outcome-selective Pavlovian-instrumental transfer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, 280-292 (2019)
- British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award for Best Overall Degree Performance (2013)