Eleanor Hyde
PhD Student and Research Coordinator
The University of Sheffield
My research explores how playing First Person Shooter (FPS) games impacts cognition. I am particularly interested in the popular FPS game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), and how differing levels of expertise in CS: GO may impact cognitive performance.
I am also a Research Coordinator on an international cognitive training project titled 'Cognitive Training Effects Across the Adult Lifespan: A Diffusion Modelling Approach.'
CV
Employment
Research Coordinator
The University of Sheffield
July 2022 - Present
In a project titled "Cognitive Training Effects Across the Adult Lifespan: A Diffusion Modelling Approach", funded by the ESRC Open Research Area VI Call. The project explores how attentional training might improve speed of processing, and how its benefits might change across the lifespan.
This project is in collaboration with Prof Tilo Strobach (Medical School Hamburg, Germany) and Prof Sylvie Belleville (Université de Montréal, Canada).
Research Assistant
The University of Sheffield
31 May 2022 - 31 July 2022
Tatool Web is a free, open-source research software package for implementing and conducting online and offline behavioural experiments (von Bastian et al., 2013). However, feedback suggests that new users struggle to get started using Tatool.
In this role, I created video tutorials which helped make Tatool Web more accessible to novice users. Tutorials covered how to install Tatool Web, combine a Tatool Web experiment with a Qualtrics Survey, and how to run a Tatool Web experiment with Prolific.
Supervisor
The University of Sheffield
Supervised and marked the research projects of two MSc students in the Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Neuroimaging program.
2021 - Present
Education
PhD Psychology
The University of Sheffield
2021 - Present
Research Project: investigation of how FPS play impacts cognitive performance and learning. Supervised by Dr Claudia von Bastian, Dr Dan Carroll and Dr Robert Schmidt.
Additional Roles:
Member of the Cognitive Ability and Plasticity Lab.
Academic Representative 2021-2023
Inclusion Officer for Postgraduate Psychology Society 2021/2022
Member of the Research Culture Steering Board
MSc Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Neuroimaging
The University of Sheffield
2019-2021
Modules: Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Cognition, Neuroimaging 1 & 2, Neuro-Anatomy, Systems Neuroscience, Data Analysis and Visualisation.
Research Project: Action video gamers’ task switching and processing speed abilities: a mixed method investigation. Supervised by Dr Claudia von Bastian. Read more about this project here.
BSc Psychology
The University of Hull
2016-2019
Modules: Research Skills 1-4, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Techniques, Cognition and Development 1&2, Brain and Behaviour 1&2, Social Psychology and Individual Differences 1&2, Global Challenge, Psychological Wellbeing and Distress, The Social Brain and Autism, Psychology and Health.
Research Project: An investigation into attentional bias towards academic threat words among high and low test anxious university students. Supervised by Dr Henning Holle.