Dr Paul Bretherton
About
Overview
Dr. Bretherton received an undergraduate degree in Behavioural Science (2001) and an Honours degree in Psychology (2003) from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Before emigrating to the UK, he trained in Cognitive Neuroscience and Electroencephalography (EEG) at the Centre for Magnetic Resonance at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia while studying the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and Ischemic Stroke with EEG, and cognitive and neuropsychological assessments.
Dr. Bretherton was awarded the Award for Excellence for achieving the highest grade in the Master’s degree in Applied Psychological Research in 2010 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2016 for his work studying visual attention and the impact of threatening information on attentional deployment using EEG and behaviour.
Before taking up a permanent position at City St George's, University of London in 2021, Dr. Bretherton was in the Psychology Department at the University of Roehampton, London, UK.
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Journal articles (2)
- Ganse-Dumrath, A., Chohan, A., Samuel, S., Bretherton, P., Haenschel, C. and Fett, A.-.K. (2025). Systematic review and meta-analysis of early visual processing, social cognition, and functional outcomes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 40, pp. 100351-100351. doi:10.1016/j.scog.2025.100351
- Bretherton, P.M., Eysenck, M.W., Richards, A. and Holmes, A. (2020). Target and distractor processing and the influence of load on the allocation of attention to task-irrelevant threat. Neuropsychologia, 145, pp. 106491-106491. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.009