Dr Sarah Bayless 

Lecturer in Psychology 

Humanities and Social Sciences 

Sarah.Bayless@winchester.ac.uk 

+44 (0)1962 827534 

+44 (0)1962 827437 

The University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4NR

Biography

  • 1997 - 2000    BSc Psychology (Hons), University College London
  • 2000 - 2001    MSc Neuroscience, University College London
  • 2001 - 2004    PhD Psychology, University of Southampton
  • 2005 - 2007    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Publications

Journal articles

Bayless, S. J., Glover, M., Taylor, M. J. & Itier, R. J. (2011). Is it in the eyes? Dissociating the role of emotion and perceptual features of emotionally expressive faces in modulating orienting to eye-gaze. Visual Cognition 19, 483-510.

Taylor, M. J., Bayless, S. J., Mills, T. & Pang, E. W. (2011). Recognising upright and inverted faces: MEG source localisation. Brain Research 1381, 167-74.

Arsalidou, M., Barbeau, E. J., Bayless, S. J., & Taylor, M. J. (2010). Brain responses differ to faces of mothers and fathers. Brain and Cognition 74, 47-51.

Bayless, S., & Schlottmann, A. (2010). Skill-related uncertainty and expected value in 5- and 7-year olds. Psicologica 31, 677-87.

Taylor, M. J., Arsalidou, M., Bayless, S. J., Morris, D., Evans, J. W., Barbeau, E. J. (2009) Neural correlates of personally familiar faces: parents, partner and own faces. Human Brain Mapping 30, 2008-20.

Bayless, S., Pit-ten Cate, I., & Stevenson, J. (2008). Behaviour difficulties and cognitive function in children born very prematurely. International Journal of Behavioral Development 32(3), 111-18.

Bayless, S., & Stevenson, J. (2007). Executive functions in school-age children born very prematurely. Early Human Development 83, 247-54.

Bayless, S. J., Gaetz, W. C., Cheyne, D. O., & Taylor, M. J. (2006). Spatiotemporal analysis of feedback processing during a card sorting task using spatially filtered MEG. Neuroscience Letters 410(1), 31-36.

Conferences

Bayless, S. J. & Schlottmann, A. (2009) Intuitive probability understanding and Expected Value judgments in 5- to 7-Year-Olds. (Paper presentation at the British Psychological Society’s Developmental Section Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK).

Bayless, S. J. & Collins, J. A. (2009) Children who couldn’t care more: Exploring the psychosocial impact of young caregiving. (Paper presentation at the British Psychological Society’s Developmental Section Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK).

Bayless, S. J., Itier, R. J. & Taylor, M. J. (2007) Happiness is not in the eyes: effects of eye-gaze and emotion on visual attention (Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, USA).

Bayless, S. J., Goltz, H.C., Arsalidou, M., Bells, S. & Taylor, M.J. (2006) Spatial and object working memory for face stimuli: an fMRI investigation. (Poster presented at the 12th Annual meeting for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy).

Bayless, S., Cheyne, D. & Taylor, M.J. (2006) Neuro-imaging Executive Function development using MEG: an adult pilot study of a modified card sorting task. (Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA).

Bayless S. & Stevenson J. (2004) Executive functions and behaviour in school-age children born prematurely. (Presented at the British Psychological Society, Developmental Section, Annual Conference, Leeds, UK).

Bayless S. & Stevenson J. (2004) Executive function, attention and the role of neonatal oxygen therapy in school-age children born prematurely. (Presented at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Conference, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK).

Bayless S. & Stevenson J. (2004) Premature birth: impact on executive functions during school age. (Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Ghent, Belgium).

Research Interests

My main research focus is in the area of face processing using behavioural and neuro-imaging methods. The most recent project examined the interaction between facial emotion and eye-gaze on spatial attention. Using neuro-imaging methods such as MEG and fMRI, my colleagues in Toronto and I have investigated the neural underpinnings of different aspects of face and eye-gaze processing.

My research in developmental research has addressed aspects of cognitive development such as the intuitive understanding of probability and the impact of premature birth on executive function development.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Awards

2011
L&T Fast track (Principal  Investigator: Dr Merce Prat-Sala), University of Winchester. Project: “Does PBL enhance critical thinking, team working and deep learning in psychology undergraduate students?”

2008-2010
RKE Promising Researcher Grant, University of Winchester. Project: “Attentional Bias to Threat”.

2009
Conference Grant, University of Winchester.

2008
Continuing Professional Development Grant, University of Winchester.

2007
Conference Grant, University of Winchester.

2001 - 2003
PhD Studentship, University of Southampton.

2000
MSc Studentship, University College London.

Membership

  • Member of the British Psychological Society
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy