Dr Peter Moseley

Assistant Professor

School: Psychology

I joined the Psychology Department at Northumbria University in 2019 as a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, where I conduct research into psychosis and psychotic-like experiences. Specifically, I aim to understand the cognitive and neural basis of auditory hallucinations, in clinical and non-clinical groups.

I studied for my BSc Psychology (2010), MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (2011), and PhD in Psychology (2014) at Durham University. I then took up a lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire in January 2015, where I taught on both Psychology and Neuroscience undergraduate courses, on research methods, techniques in cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychological disorders, as well as being an active member of the recently developed Brain Imaging Laboratory. I then worked on a secondment to Durham University (2016-2019), where I worked on research projects investigating the phenomenology of hallucinations, as well as their cognitive and neural basis.

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Key Publications

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Challenges and priorities in researching and managing altered perceptual experiences: Shared academic and lived experience perspectives, Richards, S., Davis, A., Blake, C., Errington, H., Singh, J., Fernyhough, C., Moseley, P., Ramachandran, P., Thomas, N., Rossell, S., Toh, W. 1 Jun 2026, In: Schizophrenia Research
The Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Control Mechanisms Associated With Hallucinatory Experiences, Punton, G., Ellis, J., Jensen, E., Malby, C., Sharif, F., Smailes, D., Turnbull, M., Moseley, P. 1 Jun 2026, In: Journal of Sleep Research
Associations between sleep health, cognitive control, and hallucinations, Punton, G., Smailes, D., McCarty, K., Ellis, J., Moseley, P. 1 Dec 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science
Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis, Alderson Day, B., Moseley, P., Woods, A., Dodgson, G., Common, S., Fernyhough, C. 26 Nov 2025, In: Schizophrenia
Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions, Toh, W., Richards, S., Fernyhough, C., Longden, E., Moseley, P., Ramachandran, P., Thomas, N., Rossell, S. 29 Sep 2025, In: Schizophrenia
Towards an Integrative Account of Potential Mechanisms Mediating the Path From Sleep Dysfunction to Hallucinations, Sheaves, B., Cropley, V., Moseley, P., Woodruff, P., Punton, G., Speth, C., Speth, J., Meerlo, P., Brederoo, S. Oct 2025, In: Schizophrenia Bulletin
Examining the relationships between cognition and auditory hallucinations: A systematic review, Bell, A., Toh, W., Allen, P., Cella, M., Jardri, R., Larøi, F., Moseley, P., Rossell, S. 1 Jun 2024, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Humiliation and state anxiety as predictors of attenuated psychosis in a community sample, Toh, W., Lee, S., Rancie, T., Penita, P., Moseley, P., Rossell, S. 1 Jan 2024, In: Current Psychology
Non-clinical hallucinations and mental imagery across sensory modalities, Rogers, L., Yeebo, M., Collerton, D., Moseley, P., Dudley, R. 3 Mar 2024, In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”, Moseley, P., Powell, A. 2 Jan 2023, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior