Psychology

Dr Jayden van Horik

Dr Jayden van Horik

TIMES Programme Manager / Research Fellow

 J.Van-Horik@exeter.ac.uk

 4998

 South Cloisters Clinical Trials Unit

 

South Cloisters, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK

Overview

Jayden joined the University of Exeter in 2014 as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology. He then joined the College of Medicine and Health as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health (REACH) in 2020, and joined the Exeter Clinical Trials Unit in 2021. Before moving to Exeter, Jayden was a postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Jayden’s research in cognition and experimental psychology has resulted in over 40 publications, which have provided him with a strong understanding of experimental design, research methodology and statistical techniques. 

Jayden is currently the Programme Manager for TIMES: TaIlored ManagEment of Sleep for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the community who experience sleep difficulties.

Qualifications

  • PhD: Cognitive Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, UK  
  • MSc: Ecology and Biodiversity, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • BSc: Biology & Psychology Double Major, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Research

Research interests

Much of Jayden’s research has focused on using animal models to illuminate the processes that underlie individual differences in cognition, particularly those related to human neurodegenerative and pathological disorders.  

Jayden has worked on numerous clinical trials, particularly those involving RCTs of complex psycho-social interventions. 

Research projects

  • HemiSPAIRE (IRAS: 258327): The effects of a modified muscle sparing posterior technique (SPAIRE) in hip hemiarthroplasty for displaced intracapsular fractures on post-operative function compared to a standard lateral approach; a randomised controlled trial.
  • SHAPE (IRAS: 258388): Online Self-management and HeAlth Promotion in early-stage dementia with E-learning for carers. A multicentre, randomised, controlled trial.
  • ECoWeB: Eemotional Competence for WellBeing in young adults. A cohort multiple randomised trial.
  • TIMES (IRAS: 313504): TaIlored ManagEment of Sleep (TIMES) for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the community who experience sleep difficulties.

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Publications

Journal articles

Madden JR, Van Horik JO (In Press). A problem with problem solving: motivational traits, but not cognition, predict success on novel operant foraging tasks. Animal Behaviour
Van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (In Press). A single factor explanation for associative learning performance on colour discrimination problems in Common Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus). Intelligence
Ball S, McAndrew A, Aylward A, Cockcroft E, Gordon E, Kerridge A, Morgan-Trimmer S, Powell R, Price A, Rhodes S, et al (In Press). Detailed statistical analysis plan for a randomised controlled trial of the effects of a modified muscle sparing posterior technique (SPAIRE) in hip hemiarthroplasty for displaced intracapsular fractures on post-operative function compared to a standard. lateral approach: HemiSPAIRE. Trials Abstract.
Van Horik JO, Lea SEG (In Press). Disentangling learning from knowing: does associative learning ability underlie performances on cognitive test batteries?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Laker PR, Madden JR (In Press). Intra-individual variation in performance on novel variants of similar tasks influences single factor explanations of general cognitive processes. Royal Society Open Science
Van Horik JO, Langley E, Whiteside M, Beardsworth C, Madden J (In Press). Pheasants learn five different binomial colour discriminations and retain these associations for at least 27 days. Animal Behaviour and Cognition
Van Horik JO (In Press). The repeatability of cognitive performance: a meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
Van Horik JO, Emery NJ (In Press). Transfer of physical understanding in a non-tool-using parrot. Animal Cognition
Hilton A, Megson M, Aryankhesal A, Blake J, Rook G, Irvine A, Um J, Killett A, Maidment I, Loke Y, et al (2024). What really is nontokenistic fully inclusive patient and public involvement/engagement in research?. Health Expect, 27(2). Abstract.  Author URL.
Rippon I, Victor CR, Martyr A, Matthews FE, Quinn C, Rusted JM, Jones RW, Collins R, van Horik J, Pentecost C, et al (2023). Dyadic perspectives on loneliness and social isolation among people with dementia and spousal carers: findings from the IDEAL programme. Aging Ment Health, 1-9. Abstract.  Author URL.
Aryankhesal A, Blake J, Wong G, Megson M, Briscoe S, Allan L, Broomfield NM, Eastwood Z, Greene L, Hilton A, et al (2023). Sleep disturbance in dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review of general practice. British Journal of General Practice, 74(741).
Heathcote RJP, Whiteside MA, Beardsworth CE, Van Horik JO, Laker PR, Toledo S, Orchan Y, Nathan R, Madden JR (2023). Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(3), 461-471.
Blake J, Aryankhesal A, Allan L, Ballard C, Briscoe S, Broomfield N, Green L, Hilton A, van Horik J, Khondoker M, et al (2023). Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 73 Abstract.
van Horik JO, Collins R, Martyr A, Henderson C, Jones RW, Knapp M, Quinn C, Thom JM, Victor C, Clare L, et al (2022). Limited receipt of support services among people with mild‐to‐moderate dementia: Findings from the IDEAL cohort. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37(3). Abstract.
Greene L, Aryankhesal A, Megson M, Blake J, Wong G, Briscoe S, Hilton A, Killett A, Reeve J, Allan L, et al (2022). Understanding primary care diagnosis and management of sleep disturbance for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review protocol. BMJ Open, 12(11). Abstract.  Author URL.
Beardsworth CE, Whiteside MA, Laker PR, Nathan R, Orchan Y, Toledo S, van Horik JO, Madden JR (2021). Is habitat selection in the wild shaped by individual‐level cognitive biases in orientation strategy?. Ecology Letters, 24(4), 751-760. Abstract.
Beardsworth CE, Whiteside MA, Capstick LA, Laker PR, Langley EJG, Nathan R, Orchan Y, Toledo S, van Horik JO, Madden JR, et al (2021). Spatial cognitive ability is associated with transitory movement speed but not straightness during the early stages of exploration. Royal Society Open Science, 8(3). Abstract.
Langley EJG, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Beardsworth CE, Weiss MN, Madden JR (2020). Early-life learning ability predicts adult social structure, with potential implications for fitness outcomes in the wild. J Anim Ecol, 89(6), 1340-1349. Abstract.  Author URL.
Langley EJG, Adams G, Beardsworth CE, Dawson DA, Laker PR, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Wilson AJ, Madden JR (2020). Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits. Behavioral Ecology, 31(3), 798-806. Abstract.
Whiteside MA, Bess MM, Frasnelli E, Beardsworth CE, Langley EJG, van Horik JO, Madden JR (2020). No evidence that footedness in pheasants influences cognitive performance in tasks assessing colour discrimination and spatial ability. Learning and Behavior, 48(1), 84-95. Abstract.
van Horik JO, Beardsworth CE, Laker PR, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2020). Response learning confounds assays of inhibitory control on detour tasks. Anim Cogn, 23(1), 215-225. Abstract.  Author URL.
Griffin KR, Beardsworth CE, Laker PR, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2020). The inhibitory control of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) weakens when previously learned environmental information becomes unpredictable. Animal Cognition, 23(1), 189-202. Abstract.
Morales Picard A, Mundry R, Auersperg AM, Boeving ER, Boucherie PH, Bugnyar T, Dufour V, Emery NJ, Federspiel IG, Gajdon GK, et al (2020). Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes. ETHOLOGY, 126(2), 207-228.  Author URL.
Whiteside MA, van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Beardsworth CE, Capstick LA, Madden JR (2019). Patterns of association at feeder stations for Common Pheasants released into the wild: sexual segregation by space and time. Ibis, 161(2), 325-336. Abstract.
van Horik JO, Beardsworth CE, Laker PR, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2019). Unpredictable environments enhance inhibitory control in pheasants. Anim Cogn, 22(6), 1105-1114. Abstract.  Author URL.
Van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Laker PR, Beardsworth CE, Madden JR (2018). Do detour tasks provide accurate assays of inhibitory control?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1875). Abstract.
Langley EJG, Van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2018). Group social rank is associated with performance on a spatial learning task. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2). Abstract.
Langley EJG, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2018). Individuals in larger groups are more successful on spatial discrimination tasks. Animal Behaviour, 142, 87-93. Abstract.
van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Laker PR, Madden JR (2018). Intra-individual variation in performance on novel variants of similar tasks influences single factor explanations of general cognitive processes. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, 5(7).  Author URL.
Whiteside MA, Bess MM, Frasnelli E, Beardsworth CE, Langley EJG, van Horik JO, Madden JR (2018). Low survival of strongly footed pheasants may explain constraints on lateralization. Sci Rep, 8(1). Abstract.  Author URL.
Van Horik JO, Emery N (2018). Serial reversal learning and cognitive flexibility in two species of Neotropical parrots (Diopsittaca nobilis and Pionites melanocephala). Behavioural Processes
Whiteside MA, Van Horik J, Langley E, Beardsworth C, Madden J (2018). Size dimorphism and sexual segregation in pheasants: tests of three competing hypotheses. PeerJ
Madden JR, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Beardsworth CE, van Horik JO (2018). The quick are the dead: pheasants that are slow to reverse a learned association survive for longer in the wild. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 373(1756). Abstract.  Author URL.
Langley EJG, van Horik JO, Whiteside MA, Beardsworth CE, Madden JR (2018). The relationship between social rank and spatial learning in pheasants, Phasianus colchicus: cause or consequence?. PeerJ, 6 Abstract.  Author URL.
Whiteside MA, van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Beardsworth CE, Laker PR, Madden JR (2017). Differences in social preference between the sexes during ontogeny drive segregation in a precocial species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71
van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Whiteside MA, Madden JR (2017). Differential participation in cognitive tests is driven by personality, sex, body condition and experience. Behavioural Processes, 134, 22-30.
Whiteside MA, van Horik JO, Langley EJG, Beardsworth CE, Laker PR, Madden JR (2017). Erratum to: Differences in social preference between the sexes during ontogeny drive segregation in a precocial species (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 10.1007/s00265-017-2332-2). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(8). Abstract.
Auersperg AMI, Van Horik JO, Bugnyar T, Kacelnik A, Emery NJ, Von Bayern AMP (2015). Combinatory Actions During Object Play in Psittaciformes (<i>Diopsittaca nobilis</i>, <i>Pionites melanocephala</i>, <i>Cacatua goffini</i>) and Corvids (<i>Corvus corax</i>, <i>C</i>. <i>monedula</i>, <i>C</i>. <i>moneduloides</i>) (vol 129, pg 62, 2015). JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, 129(1), 61-61.  Author URL.
Auersperg AMI, van Horik JO, Bugnyar T, Kacelnik A, Emery NJ, von Bayern AMP (2015). Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides). J Comp Psychol, 129(1), 62-71. Abstract.  Author URL.
van Horik J, Emery NJ (2011). Evolution of cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(6), 621-633. Abstract.
Van Horik J (2011). Productivity of North Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) on Kapiti Island in the 2003-2004 breeding season. Notornis, 58(1), 53-55.
Van Horik J, Burns KC (2007). Cache spacing patterns and reciprocal cache theft in New Zealand robins. Animal Behaviour, 73(6), 1043-1049. Abstract.
Burns KC, Van Horik J (2007). Sexual differences in food re-caching by New Zealand robins Petroica australis. Journal of Avian Biology, 38(3), 394-398. Abstract.
Van Horik J, Bell B, Burns KC (2007). Vocal ethology of the North Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34(4), 337-345. Abstract.
Steer J, Van Horik J (2006). North Island robin (Petroica australis longipes) food caches are stolen by stitchbirds (Notiomystis cincta) and bellbirds (Anthornis melanura). Notornis, 53(3), 315-316.
Alexander L, Duthie C, Fyfe J, Haws Z, Hunt S, Montoya I, Ochoa C, Siva A, Stringer L, Van Horik J, et al (2005). An experimental evaluation of food hoarding by North Island robins (Petroica australis longipes). Notornis, 52(3), 138-142. Abstract.

Chapters

Van Horik JO, Clayton NS, Emery NJ (2012). Convergent Evolution of Cognition in Corvids, Apes and Other Animals. In  (Ed) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. Abstract.

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External Engagement and Impact

Editorial responsibilities

  • Editorial Board: Animal Behaviour & Cognition; Animals
  •    Reviewer: Advanced Science; Animal Cognition; Current Zoology; Animal Behaviour; PLoS ONE; Animal Behavior & Cognition; Biology Letters; Proceedings of the Royal Society B.; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.; Developmental Psychobiology; Learning and Behaviour; Behavioural Processes; Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology; Behavioural Ecology; Ethology; Royal Society Open Science; Scientific Reports; PeerJ; The American Naturalist; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; The Wilson Journal of Ornithology; Animals; Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Birds; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Journal of Comparative Psychology

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