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Maria Flynn

maria flynnTel: 020 7911 5000 ext: 2181
Email: flynnm@wmin.ac.uk

Maria completed her BSc at the University of Westminster and then did an MSc in Organisational Psychology, Level A (Psychometric Testing) and Level B (Personality Testing) at City University. Maria currently works as the psychology research technician within the department, supporting members of staff in their research. At the University of Westminster and in collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital, Maria is currently doing a part-time PhD investigating aspects of pre-attentive visual discrimination.

Publications/Presentations

Gronholm, P., Flynn, M., Edmonds, C., & Gardner, M. (in press). Empathic and non-empathic routes to visuospatial perspective taking. Consciousness and Cognition

John F. Golding, Olena Prosyanikova,  Maria Flynn, Michael A Gresty. (2011). The effect of Smoking Nicotine Tobacco versus Smoking Deprivation on Motion Sickness.  Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical  2011; 160: 53–58

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M. & Towell, T. (2009) Can illusory deviant stimuli be used as attentional distractors to record vMMN in a passive three stimulus oddball paradigm? Experimental Brain Research, 197(2), 153-161

Borrill, J, Fox, P, Flynn, M, Roger D (2009) Students who self-harm: coping style, rumination & alexithymia. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 22(4), 361-372

Esgate, A. & Flynn, M. (2005). The brain-sex theory of occupational choice: a counterexample. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 100, 25- 37

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M., Paci, L. & Towell, T. (2011) Visual event-related potential recordings of stimuli presented below and at the threshold of subjective perception. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, in press.  Annual Conference, May 4-6, GLA265, p.49

Flynn, M., Gresty, M., Towell, T. & Golding, J.F. (2011) EEG effects of motion sickness induced in a visual off-vertical axis (OVAR) environment. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, in press. Annual Conference, May 4-6, GLA212, p.49

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M. & Towell, T. (2010) An examination of hemispheric specialization in an albino population. Poster presented at the Department of Psychology Research Forum May 2010

Flynn, M., Gresty, MA, Towell, T., Golding, G. (2010) EEG effects of motion sickness induced in a visual off-vertical axis (OVAR) environment. Poster presented at the Department of Psychology Research Forum May 2010

Borrill, J., Flynn, M., Fox, P., Roger, D. (2008). Self-harm, Rumination, and Coping Style. Poster presented at 29th Stress and Anxiety Research Society Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 16 -18 July

Golding, J.F., Prosyanikova, O., Flynn, M., Gresty, M.A. (2008). The effects of Smoking Nicotine Tobacco versus Smoking Deprivation on Motion Sickness. Aerospace Medical Association Meeting, Boston, USA, May, Aviat Space Environ Med, 79, 262 

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M. & Towell, T. (2007) A pre-attentive visual discrimination response to a change in orientation in a behaviourally silent paradigm. British Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, ICH, London, June

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M. & Towell, T. (2007) Intracranial evidence for separation of visual detection and discrimination responses to a change in stimulus orientation in a behaviourally silent paradigm. Invasive intracranial electrophysiology of the human brain:“non-clinical” studies in epilepsy patients, Kings College London, June

Flynn, M., Liasis, A., Gardner, M. & Towell, T. (2006). Identification of a pre-attentive visual discrimination response. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117 Supplement 1, P36.42, S314

Flynn, M., Thompson, D. & Liasis, A. (2006). Towards subliminal visual stimulation in paediatric eletrodiagnostics. Poster presented ISCEV, Fontevraud Abbey, France, 11-15 June

Flynn, M., Gardner, M. Liasis, A. & Towell, T. (2006). The identification of a macular pre-attentive visual discrimination response. Presentation at the Psychology Cluster Research Forum, King's Fund, London, May 9

Flynn, M., Gardner, M. Liasis, A. & Towell, T. (2005). Pre-attentive visual discrimination. Presentation at the Psychology Cluster Research Forum, King's Fund, London, April 7

Gardner, M., & Flynn, M. (2005).  Effector-independent automatic imitation. St-Andrews international conference on animal social learning, St-Andrews, June