Eamonn Walsh

eamonn.walsh@kcl.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Analyzing assessment data to uncover educationally significant patterns. Exploring innovative methods – an ‘experimental education’. Developing strategies for personalized learning in educational settings. Studying the impact of language and sound on upper limb movement in humans.

Most significant discovery

Tactile sensory suppression occurs when a movement is prepared but then inhibited prior to execution e.g., if you prepare to pick up a coffee cup, but then suddenly decide not to move, for an instant there is a temporary reduction in touch sensitivity in your hand.

Educational Interests

1. Implementing innovative teaching strategies to foster student
engagement and comprehension.
2. Exploring the use of data analytics to inform and improve
educational practices and policies.
3. Creating educational tools that improve student learning and
can ease staff workload.
4. Developing a comprehensive King’s MSc Assessment Corpus

Top 4 Publications

Walsh, E., & Haggard, P. (2007). The internal structure of stopping as revealed by a sensory detection task. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 405-410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-1128-4
Walsh, E., Oakley, D. A., Halligan, P. W., Mehta, M. A., & Deeley, Q. (2017). Brain mechanisms for loss of awareness of thought and movement. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(5), 793-801. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw185
Walsh, E., Oakley, D. A., Halligan, P. W., Mehta, M. A., & Deeley, Q. (2015). The functional anatomy and connectivity of thought insertion and alien control of movement. Cortex, 64, 380-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.012
Moretto, G., Walsh, E., & Haggard, P. (2011). Experience of agency and sense of responsibility. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1847-1854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.014

Methods / Expertise

• Experimental Psychology
• Psychophysics
• Some EEG/fMRI
• Corpus linguistics