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Is there a role for neuroscience in career counselling? (2024)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P., Garden, C., & Carmichael, D. (2024). Is there a role for neuroscience in career counselling?. [Blog post]

This blog post provides a critical perspective on neuroscience informed career counselling.

Music in Colour (2023)
Book Chapter
Carmichael, D. (2023). Music in Colour. In R. Sholl (Ed.), Messiaen in Context (240-247). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768290

This chapter provides a neuropsychological account of Messiaen’s well-known sound-to-colour synaesthesia. It offers an overview of the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological mechanisms underlying the condition, with reference to Messiaen’s own exper... Read More about Music in Colour.

What Factors Influence Children's Creative Artistic Orientation? The Novel Children's Creative Orientation Test: Artistic (2022)
Journal Article
Simner, J., Smees, R., Rinaldi, L. J., Carmichael, D. A., & McDonald, T. J. (2022). What Factors Influence Children's Creative Artistic Orientation? The Novel Children's Creative Orientation Test: Artistic. Journal of Creative Behavior, 56(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.555

Creative orientation is the extent to which different individuals are drawn toward creative activities (e.g., art, music). We know relatively little about child-level creative orientation given certain testing limitations. Adult tools often measure t... Read More about What Factors Influence Children's Creative Artistic Orientation? The Novel Children's Creative Orientation Test: Artistic.

Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation (2020)
Journal Article
Simner, J., Smees, R., Rinaldi, L. J., & Carmichael, D. A. (2021). Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation. Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite, 13(1), 195-215. https://doi.org/10.2741/878

Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental trait that causes unusual sensory experiences (e.g., perceiving colours when reading letters and numbers). Our paper represents the first evidence that synaesthesia can impact negatively on children’s well-being,... Read More about Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation.

Personality profile of child synaesthetes (2020)
Journal Article
Rinaldi, L., Smees, R., Carmichael, D., & Simner, J. (2020). Personality profile of child synaesthetes. Frontiers in Bioscience, 12, 162-182

Previous research into personality and synaesthesia has focused on adult populations and yielded mixed results. One particular challenge has been to distinguish traits associated with synaesthesia, from traits associated with the ways in which synaes... Read More about Personality profile of child synaesthetes.

Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: Evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia (2020)
Journal Article
Rinaldi, L. J., Smees, R., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2020). Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: Evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Cortex, 126, 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.007

Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is a neurological trait that causes lifelong colour associations for letter and numbers. Synaesthesia studies have demonstrated differences between synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes in ways that extend beyond synaesthesia... Read More about Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: Evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia.

Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits (2019)
Journal Article
Tilot, A. K., Vino, A., Kucera, K. S., Carmichael, D. A., van den Heuvel, L., den Hoed, J., Sidoroff-Dorso, A. V., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., St Pourcain, B., van Leeuwen, T. M., Ward, J., Rouw, R., Simner, J., & Fisher, S. E. (2019). Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787), Article 20190026. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0026

Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon affecting perception, where triggering stimuli (e.g. letters and numbers) elicit unusual secondary sensory experiences (e.g. colours). Family-based studies point to a role for genetic factors in the developme... Read More about Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits.

Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading (2019)
Journal Article
Smees, R., Hughes, J., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2019). Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787), Article 20180348. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0348

Cognitive benefits associated with grapheme-colour synaesthesia in adults are well documented, but far less is known about whether such benefits might arise in synaesthetes as children. One previous study on a very small group of randomly sampled chi... Read More about Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading.

The biggest extension of rights in Europe? Needs, rights and children with additional support needs in Scotland (2019)
Journal Article
Riddell, S., & Carmichael, D. (2019). The biggest extension of rights in Europe? Needs, rights and children with additional support needs in Scotland. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(5), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1580925

The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 boosted the rights of parents of children with additional support needs (ASN) by improving access to information, instituting a Code of Practice and establishing new redress mechanis... Read More about The biggest extension of rights in Europe? Needs, rights and children with additional support needs in Scotland.

Is there a burden attached to synaesthesia? Health screening of synaesthetes in the general population (2018)
Journal Article
Carmichael, D. A., Smees, R., Shillcock, R. C., & Simner, J. (2019). Is there a burden attached to synaesthesia? Health screening of synaesthetes in the general population. British Journal of Psychology, 110(3), 530-548. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12354

Synaesthesia has long been considered a benign alternative form of perception most often associated with positive rather than negative outcomes. The condition has been associated with a variety of cognitive and perceptual advantages, including benefi... Read More about Is there a burden attached to synaesthesia? Health screening of synaesthetes in the general population.