Dr Deiniol Skillicorn

Module Leader

• Brain and Cognition (level 4)
• Contemporary issues in Psychology (level 5)

• Research Methods (level 4)
• Research and Statistics (level 5)
• Brain and Cognition
• Research and Statistics

• BSc Psychology: executive processes, associative learning, emotion and cognition, schizotypy/schizophrenia.

Published articles

• Skillicorn, D., & Watt, A. (2016). Novel use of the Stoop task to examining executive cognitive deficits in schizotypy. BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference

• Skillicorn, D., & Watt, A. (2009). Negative schizotypy and sensitivity to changes in US valence following conditional discrimination training. 13th Associative learning Symposium.
• Skillicorn, D., & Watt, A. (2008). Negative schizotypy, executive functioning and emotion cue processing. Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference

Dr Deiniol Skillicorn graduated from the University of Wales in 2004 with a BSc in Psychology. He was awarded a PhD from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2010 titled ‘Cognitive processes and emotion cue processing in introvertive anhedonia’.

Deiniol is a module leader on the BSc Psychology programme and contributes to a number of undergraduate psychology courses and is a level 4 year tutor .

Deiniols current research interests include executive cognitive processes, the role of emotion in conditional learning and how these factors interact in the aetiology of schizophrenia