Students

Name	Thesis Title	Student Type	Institution	Graduation Year
Dr Rebekah Ahmed	Eating, autonomic and sexual dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2017
Dr Nobu Akagi	Questions and disjunction in child language.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Shahd Al-Janabi	Constraints on attentional orienting by symbolic and abrupt onset cues as revealed through masking.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Joanna Alexi	Serial dependence, body perception and disordered eating.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Dr Shasha An	The acquisition of constraints in child Mandarin.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Deborah Arguedas	Olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A neuropsychological investigation	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Bhuvanesh Awasthi	An investigation into visually guided reaching to low spatial frequency faces.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Samantha Baggott	The upside of anger: Attention and the processing of emotional facial expressions.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Noga Balaban	Learning about contrastive conjunctives from individuals with brain damage.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Erin Banales	The causal relationship between poor verbal memory and poor word reading.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Fabrice Bardy	Cortical auditory evoked responses to rapidly occurring acoustic stimuli using least-squares deconvolution.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Polly Barr	The representation of homophones in monolingual and bilingual speakers.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Elisabeth (Lisi) Beyersmann	Morphological processing in visual word recognition by children and adults.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Cory Bill	Children take only some sentences literally: Investigating children’s variable performance with scalar inferences.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Benjamin Börschinger	Exploring issues in lexical acquisition using bayesian modeling.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Laura Bos	The brain, verbs, and the past: Neurolinguistic studies on time reference.	PhD	University of Groningen, The Netherlands	2015
Maira Braga	The association between social anxiety, shyness and face recognition ability in children.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Olivia Brancatisano	Understanding the therapeutic capacities of music for individuals with dementia.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Catherine Browning	Collaboration and prospective memory: Costs, benefits and helpful processes for strangers and intimate couples.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Nichola Burton	The structure of expression-space: How do we visually represent facial expressions?	PhD	The University of Western Australia	2016
Dr Marissa Calleja	Interactions between working memory and attention: An investigation of category-level effects and task demands.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Ann Carrigan	Expertise in visual search of medical and non-medical images.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Nathan Caruana	The cognitive and neural mechanisms of joint attention: A second person approach.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Leidy Castro-Meneses	Applying the stop signal task to speech: Neural and behavioural investigations of proactive and reactive inhibition.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Lisa Ceccherini	The effects of a concomitant distractor on word reading aloud and picture naming tasks.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Leone Chare	Clinical predictors for underlying pathology in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2016
Dr Hui Chen	Exploring the perception of phonemic vowel length contrasts: Evidence from infants and adults.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Hui-Ching Chen	The acquisition of the information structure.	PhD	Macquarie University
Yu (Sherry) Chen	Physiology of emotional memory in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Dr Rocco Chiou	An investigation into the role of conceptual knowledge in cross-modality interactions	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Danielle Colenbrander	Understanding the role of oral vocabulary in reading comprehension difficulties.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Lincoln Colling	Predicting the action of other agents.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Jemma Collova	First impressions of children’s faces.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Dr Michael Connors	Modelling the mirrored-self misidentification delusion with hypnosis.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Aline Cordonnier	Autobiographical thinking: Process of thinking about personal past and future events.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Ella Creet	Exploring the mechanisms underlying improvements in word retrieval for individuals with aphasia.	PhD	Newcastle University, UK
Dr Marshall Dalton	Characterisation of episodic memory deficits in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2014
Dr Benjamin Davies	Children’s gradual acquisition of singular and plural.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Amy Dawel	Face processing in children with callous unemotional traits.	PhD	The Australian National University	2015
Robina Day	The role of visual imagery in the elicitation of emotions through music.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Vania Marisa Correia de Aguiar	Non-fluent aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic perspective and the role of tDCS.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Peter de Lissa	Using fixation-related potentials to investigate cognitive processes	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Bianca de Wit	A fresh look on semantic priming effects.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Emma Devenney	Clinical features of the C9ORF72 expansion in frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2017
Dr Anastasiia Dockhorn-Romanova	Word class effects on representation and processing in non-brain-damaged speakers and people with aphasia.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Laura Dondzilo	An investigation into the role of selective attention and rumination in eating disorder symptomatology.	PhD	The University of Western Australia	2018
Dror Dotan	Syntactic and quantity processing of multi-digit numbers.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Sithembinkosi Dube	Neurophysiological processing of subject-verb agreement in L1 and L2 speakers of English.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Laura McLaughlin Engfors	Factors that contribute to individual differences in face recognition ability.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Dr Andy Etchell	Neuromagnetic beta band abnormalities in stuttering during the perception and production of rhythm.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Mirko Farina	Plasticity, learning and cognition: An integrative approach to sensory substitution devices and embodied, enculturated skills.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Nora Fieder	The representation of nouns in the mental lexicon: Evidence from brain-impaired and normal speakers.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Anna Fiveash	The nature of syntactic processing in music and language.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Yong Zhi Foo	Do facial sexual dimorphism and skin colour signal good health in humans?	PhD	The University of Western Australia	2017
Deanna Francis	The relationship between children’s reading ability and emotional health.	PhD	Macquarie University
Amanda Fullerton	Brain changes following cochlear implantation in older adults.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Na Gao	The interpretation of sentences with disjunction by child and adult speakers of mandarin.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Vasfiye Geçkin	The interpretation of logical connectors by monolingual and bilingual children.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Rebecca Gelding	Auditory-sensorimotor brain function during mental imagery of musical pitch and rhythm.	PhD	Macquarie University
Rakshita Gokula	Hearing, listening and reading: A new model to understand how what we hear affects how we learn to read.	PhD	Macquarie University
Irene Graafsma	Differences and overlap in cognitive processes in programming and natural language learning: Evidence from neurotypical and autism-spectrum disorder populations.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Katrina Grasby	A behaviour-genetic study of NAPLAN results.	PhD	The University of New England	2016
Dr Rimke Groenewold	Direct and indirect speech in aphasia: Studies of spoken discourse production and comprehension.	PhD	University of Groningen, The Netherlands	2015
Dr Tijl Grootswagers	Beyond brain decoding: Methodological and empirical contributions to brain decoding methods and their link to behaviour.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Revital Guggenheim	The effect of phonological output buffer impairment on reading, writing and syntax.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Sana-e-Zehra Haidry	Assessment of Dyslexia in the Urdu Language.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Solène Hameau	Neighbourhood density effects in spoken word production.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Inga Hameister	Conceptualisation in stroke-induced and primary progressive aphasia.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Kate Hardwick	Is ‘sexual’ a sub-type of disgust, or is it a separate basic emotion?	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Wei He	Development of face processing in the human brain.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Richard (Jan) Heersmink	The varieties of situated cognitive systems: Embodied agents, cognitive artifacts, and scientific practice.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Heivet Hernandez Perez	Disentangling the influence of attention in the auditory efferent system during speech processing.	PhD	Macquarie University
Chris Hewitson	Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying Bayesian sensorimotor learning.	PhD	Macquarie University
Rebecca Holt	Factors affecting sentence processing among children with and without hearing impairment.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Sharpley Hsieh	Memories and feelings of music in the dementias.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2012
Dr Aijun Huang	Acquisition of polarity-sensitive items in Mandarin Chinese.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Haiquan (David) Huang	Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of entailments and inferences.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Aandeel Hussain	Phonetic characterisation of a complex coronal system: Insights from Punjabi.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Rosalind Hutchings	Face processing in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of Sydney	2018
Dr Jade Jackson	The role of frontoparietal cortices in feature-selection attention.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Anne Jaeger	Delusional ideation associated with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Emma Johnson	Investigating motivational changes in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Samantha-Kaye Johnston	The relationship between the attention network, phonological processing and reading development in typically developing and disordered reading populations.	PhD	Curtin University
Dr Nenad Jovanovic	The effect of rhythmic auditory priming on SLI children’s processing of syntax.	PhD	University of Potsdam, Germany	2018
Antonios Kaldas	Attention, consciousness and working memory.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Vishnu Kaleeckal Krishnankutty Nair	Effect of bilingualism on cognitive-linguistic abilities.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Briana Kennedy	Modulating emotional bias in attentional competition.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2016
Dr Yvette Kezilas	Letter position processing in developing and skilled readers.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Lilach Khentov-Kraus	The distribution of developmental dyslexias.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Neha Khetrapal	Grammatical knowledge in children with autism.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Haleh Khoshkhouy Delshad	Using fMRI to study the underlying neural network of the implicit visual episodic memory.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Loes Koelewijn	Balancing stimulus and goal-driven attentional demands: Investigating the role of gamma oscillations in human early visual cortex using magnetoencephalography.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Trudy (Janna) Krajenbrink	The nature of acquired dysgraphia: patterns of impairment and rehabilitation.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Fiona Kumfor	Emotion processing and its effects on cognition in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2013
Dr Yair Lakretz	Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in reading: A computational study.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel	2017
Leonie Lampe	Understanding language processing in aphasia.	PhD	Macquarie University
Jo Lane	Age-related macular degeneration and face recognition.	PhD	Australian National University
Dr Linda Larsen	Grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge in typical and atypical reading development.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Samantha Leivers	Sperm competition in humans.	PhD	The University of Western Australia	2015
Dr Yu Li	Early neural dynamics of visual word recognition.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Luan Li	Lexical consolidation in learning to read in Chinese.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Min (Maggie) Liao	Children’s acquisition of “shenme” in Chinese.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Chi Yhun Lo	Benefits of music training for children with hearing loss.	PhD	Macquarie University
Zhe (Jill) Long	Clinicopathological correlation in frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Dr Xuejing Lu	An investigation of spatial representations of pitch in individuals with congenital amusia.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Oksana Lyalka	Mechanisms underpinning semantic inhibition and facilitation in spoken word retrieval.	PhD	Newcastle University, UK
Georgina Macken	The stranger effect: In search of an accurate intelligence score for children with autism.	PhD	The New School for Social Research, USA
Dr Yatin Mahajan	Maturation of event-related potentials across adolescence.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Pragati Rao Mandikal Vasuki	Statistical learning and auditory processing in adults and children with music training: A behavioural and ERP study.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Lars Marstaller	Co-speech gestures and cognition.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Tina Marusch	Language production of verbal inflectional morphology in healthy and impaired adult speakers of German and English.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Christopher McCarroll	Point of view in personal memory: A philosophical investigation.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Jonathan McGuire	Moral primacy, actions and omissions.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Kiri Mealings	An investigation into how the acoustics of open plan and enclosed classrooms affect speech perception for kindergarten children.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Qingqing (David) Meng	Neuromagnetic approaches to measuring auditory brain function in cochlear implant recipients: MEG markers of speech processing and evaluation of a prototype MEG system.	PhD	Macquarie University
Bethanie Menzies	Memory consolidation in sleep for children with obstructive sleep apnea.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Paige Mewton	Identifying the mechanisms of impaired face processing in schizophrenia.	PhD	Australian National University
Julien Millasseau	The acquisition of acoustic cues to English voicing contrasts.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Amanda Miller Amberber	Language switching, language selection and intervention in bilingual aphasia.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Luke Mills	Is the task of reading modulated by attentional control.	PhD	Macquarie University
Claire Murphy	Profiling children with language and literacy needs: Defining skill-sets and evaluating responses to vocabulary/context-based strategy intervention.	PhD	University College London, UK
Ana Murteira	Effect of gesture observation on action-verb naming.	PhD	Macquarie University
Andi Musrah	Computational architecture of emotion coherence in frontotemporal dementia (FTD).	PhD	The University of Sydney
Annabelle Nankoo	Timing deficits, inattention and emotional dysregulation in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Dr Manjunath Narra	The time course of the conflict effect in bilinguals and monolinguals.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Tommy Ng	Neuromagnetic brain activity associated with the coordination of movement and anticipatory postural adjustments in bimanual load lifting.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Hanh Nguyen	Prior knowledge in text comprehension in healthy readers and readers with aphasia.	PhD	Newcastle University, UK
Dr Anna Notley	The scope of logical expressions in child language.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Katya Numbers	The role of stereotypes in perceptions of memory in old age.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Elena Pagliarini	The temporal organisation of language: Reading, writing and comprehending in typically developing dyslexic children.	PhD	University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy	2016
Samantha Parker	Investigating the relationship between attention and eye movements during decision making.	PhD	Macquarie University
Joshua Penney	Production and perception of glottalisation in Australian English.	PhD	Macquarie University
Gemma Perry	Can chanting alter DNA expression related to stress and social connection.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Varghese Peter	Neural processing of stress and phrase boundaries in speech and music.	PhD	Macquarie University	2011
Selene Petit	Discovering preserved linguistic abilities in non-verbal children with autism.	PhD	Macquarie University
Sarah Pini	Dancing bodies, shaped minds: An ecological approach to kinesthetic intelligence.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Vince Polito	Sense of agency and hypnosis.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Dr Stephen Pritchard	Incorporating learning mechanisms into the dual-route cascaded (DRC) model of reading aloud and word recognition.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Valerie (Yi) Pu	Human hippocampal theta and high-gamma oscillations in spatial encoding and consolidation in a virtual Morris water maze task.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Siddharth Ramanan	Developing novel tests of non-verbal memory in neurodegenerative disorders.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Laura Ramos	Design to support memory function in older adults for everyday living.	PhD	University of Technology Sydney
Hannah Rapaport	The development of predictive brain function in preschool children.	PhD	Macquarie University
Louise Ratko	Articulatory characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Monica Ricci	Learning and forgetting in patients with focal epilepsy.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Matthew Robson	Investigation into the perceptual capabilities of congenital prosopagnosics.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Dr Adria Rofes Sanchez	Neural correlates of verb production and their relevance in awake surgery.	PhD	University of Trento, Italy
Dr Kelly Rombough	Investigation of syntactic knowledge in question structures in children with specific language impairment.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Melanie Rosen	Philosophy of dreams.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Robert Ross	Cognitive and evolutionary foundations of culture and belief.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Marguerite Rowe	Synaesthesia and associate learning.	PhD	Macquarie University
Cathleen Rubin	Enhancing communicative effectiveness and satisfaction between people with primary progressive aphasia and their communication partner.	PhD	Macquarie University
Leanne Ruggero	Quality of life and speech pathology intervention in primary progressive aphasia.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dana Rusou	The role of the cerebellum in language functions: A study of language and reading in individuals with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA-3).	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Margaret Ryan	Moved nouns in experiencer-verb sentences: Syntactic and semantic stages in sentence comprehension.	PhD	Macquarie University
Prerana Sabnis	The neural underpinnings of the comprehension of semantically reversible relations: An investigation using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).	PhD	University of Trento, Italy
Andrea Salins	Orthographic facilitation of word learning, word retention and speech perception in noise in children with hearing loss.	PhD	Macquarie University
Neta Salner	The role of attention in letter position encoding and in letter position dyslexia.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Narayan Sankaran	Predictive processes in music.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Dr Sharon Savage	Cognitive retraining in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and related disorders.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2015
Dr Stephane Savanah	The threshold of self-consciousness.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Tamara Schembri	Online acquisition of Cairene Arabic word stress patterns over time.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Xenia Schmalz	Methodological and theoretical issues in cross-linguistic reading research.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Amanda Selwood	Collaborative and autobiographical memory in strangers, friends, siblings and twins.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Robert Seymour	MEG studies of atypical cortical activity in autism spectrum disorder.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Usha Sivaranjani Sista	A behavioural examination of the properties of the action observation system.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Aimy Slade	Investigating the potential positive and negative effects of violent music on its fans.	PhD	Macquarie University
Felice Smith	Elucidating the neural mechanisms responsible for the recognition of objects.	PhD	Macquarie University
Cherie Strikwerda-Brown	Changes to sense of self in dementia: Cognitive and neurobiological underpinnings.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Dr Yi (Esther) Su	Disjunction and downward entailment in child mandarin: An experimental investigation into the acquisition of semantic universals.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Yanan Sun	Shared cognitive resources for music and language: Evidence from congenital amusia.	PhD	Macquarie University	2017
Derek Swe	Facial first impressions and behavioural traits.	PhD	The University of Western Australia
Tünde Szalay	Phonological characterisation of lateral-final rimes in Australian English.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Ronit Szteroni	The syntactic impairment in children with hearing loss and its connection to children’s ability to read and comprehend reading.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel	2017
Dr Niina Tamura	Orthographic and semantic learning via reading.	PhD	University of Oxford, UK	2017
Dr Huizhen (Joann) Tang	Dual representation of temporal modulations in human auditory cortex.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Ping Tang	Children’s acquisition of Mandarin tones in context.	PhD	Macquarie University
Lina Teichmann	Investigating the time-course of magnitude representation.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Misia Temler	Autobiographical memory variability: Individual and social factors.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Ekaterina Tomas	Learning morphophonological alternations across languages and populations.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Marina Trakas	Personal memories.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Sicong Tu	Brain connectivity biomarkers predict specific memory consolidation deficits across dementia subtypes.	PhD	The University of New South Wales	2017
Dr Francesco-Alessio Ursini	The acquisition of directional PPs in Italian and English.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Leslie van der Leer	The causes and consequences of systematic deviations from rational belief formation.	PhD	Royal Holloway, University of London, UK	2015
Dr Mark Vida	The development of sensitivity to the direction of gaze.	PhD	McMaster University, Canada	2014
Dr Alexa von Hagen	Developmental dyslexia and second language learning.	PhD	University of Potsdam, Germany
Dr Jennifer Walsh	Examining face processing mechanisms in autism spectrum disorder.	PhD	McMaster University, Canada	2014
Lulu Wan	The other-race effect in face recognition.	PhD	Australian National University
Dr Hua-Chen Wang	How children learn to read: Dissecting the process of orthographic learning.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Vana Webster	Collaborative memory: The role of closeness, cognitive need and strategies.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Signy Wegener	Oral vocabulary and reading acquisition: From orthographic skeletons to consolidated orthographic representations.	PhD	Macquarie University
Jordan Wehrman	Investigations into the sequential dynamics of response inhibition.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Kimberly Weldon	The role of foveal cortex in extra-foveal perception.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Nikolas Williams	The role of executive control in collaborative recall.	PhD	Macquarie University	2018
Dr Alex Wilson	Cognitive rehabilitation of attention deficits in people with traumatic brain injuries.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Nikki-Anne Wilson	Examining neurocognitive mechanisms of social dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia.	PhD	The University of Sydney
Dr Neralie Wise	The Capgras delusion: An integrated approach.	PhD	Macquarie University	2013
Maya Yachini	Developmental dysgraphias.	PhD	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Shu Hui Yau	Cognitive and brain mechanisms of autism.	PhD	Macquarie University	2015
Xiaohe Yuan	Experimental studies of Chinese “numeral classifier noun” constructions.	PhD	Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Dr Astrid Zeman	Computational modelling of visual illusions.	PhD	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Likan Zhan	The interpretation of conditionals in natural language.	PhD	Macquarie University	2014
Di (Judy) Zhu	Neural mechanisms of language control in bilingual speech production in bilingual speech production.	PhD	Macquarie University
Dr Regine Zopf	Body representations and cues for body ownership: Neural processing and influences on perception and action.	PhD	Macquarie University	2012
Dr Georgina Avery	Autobiographical memory and emotion in patients with frontal lobe lesions.	Combined	The University of Sydney	2013
Dr Sophie Barkl	Social cognition in early-onset and first-episode psychosis.	Combined	The University of Sydney	2016
Dr Adam Bentvelzen	Effects of task and material on hemispheric lateralisation of nonverbal memory	Combined	Macquarie University	2017
Ellen Bothe	Autistic-like traits and face processing.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Dr Rachel Briggs	Post-traumatic amnesia: Sequence of recovery and prediction of outcome.	Combined	The University of Sydney	2016
Dr Emily Connaughton	The Capgras delusion: A cognitive neuropsychiatric approach.	Combined	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Erika Contini	The temporal dynamics of visual object processing.	Combined	Macquarie University
Dr Louise Ewing	The trouble with faces: Mechanisms underlying face processing atypicalities in autism.	Combined	The University of Western Australia	2012
Dr Sally Finnie	The diagnostic potential of the olfactory stress test in Alzheimer’s disease.	Combined	Macquarie University	2015
Dr Michael Gascoigne	Long term memory in children with epilepsy.	Combined	The University of Sydney	2014
Chloe Giffard	The relationship between face identity and expression recognition in autistic traits.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Dielle Horne	Attentional biases in people with anorexic eating symptomatology.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Hanaa Idris	Examining representational momentum in the processing of dynamic facial expressions.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Samantha Joplin	Accelerated long-term forgetting in children with genetic generalised epilepsy: An investigation of the temporal trajectory and contribution of executive skills.	Combined	The University of Sydney
Cecilia (Yu Sze) Law	Accelerated long-term forgetting: The lived-in experience, independence in daily living and social functioning.	Combined	The University of Sydney
Dr Tania Malouf	Lack of insight after traumatic brain injury.	Combined	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Michelle Marneweck	Emotion perception in Parkinson’s disease.	Combined	The University of Western Australia	2014
Benjamin McLean	The nature of the relationship between cognitive biases and delusions in psychosis.	Combined	Flinders University
Cecilia Minogue	Cognitive decline in elder Aboriginal Australians: Is education protective?	Combined	The University of Sydney
Colleen Murphy	Poor social functioning in schizophrenia: Understanding the role of automatic facets of social cognition.	Combined	Macquarie University
Rachael Neville	Cerebrovascular biomarkers of dementia risk.	Combined	Macquarie University
Tamara Paulin	Imagination in the real-world.	Combined	Macquarie University
Natalie Phillips	Computerised cognitive rehabilitation of working memory for children who have sustained traumatic brain injury.	Combined	The University of Sydney	2017
Belinda Poole	Investigation of working memory and mathematical difficulties in children with epilepsy.	Combined	The University of Sydney
Dr Genevieve Quek	The role of attention in nonconscious processing: Comparing faces and non-faces.	Combined	Macquarie University	2015
Gideon Sacks	Time perception deficits in ADHD.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Daniell Steinberg	Using a neurocognitive model of Alzheimer’s Disease to facilitate early detection: The role of the hippocampus in relational learning and associative inference.	Combined	Macquarie University
Elizabeth Stewart	Theory of mind and executive functions in children with idiopathic generalised epilepsy.	Combined	The University of Sydney
Ben Tappin	Biases in social belief formation.	Combined	Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Bianca Thorup	Neural plasticity and other-race face recognition: Is there a critical period for developing perceptual expertise?	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Alice Tobin	tDCS modulation of working memory using ERPs	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Kaitlyn Turbett	Individual differences in serial dependence for facial identity.	Combined	The University of Western Australia
Dr Jasmina Vrankovic	New perspectives on iconic memory.	Combined	Macquarie University	2018
Sarah Watts	Understanding cross-cultural caregiving practices and testing the efficacy of an innovative evidence-based psychological intervention to improve children’s development.	Combined	The University of Sydney
Dr Tracey Williams	Social processing in fragile X syndrome.	Combined	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Stephanie Wong	The prefrontal cortex and episodic memory in dementia syndromes.	Combined	Macquarie University	2017
Dr Deepa Bapat	Whole figure rotations in the Rey Complex Figure.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Jamie Campbell	Age and sex effects of typographical memory.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Frances Caulfield	Judging trustworthiness from faces: The contribution of emotional cues for typically developing children and children with ASD.	DPsych	The University of Western Australia	2014
Dr Karen Croot	Word retrieval in progressive aphasia.	DPsych	The University of Sydney
Dr Cliff Deyo	Formal thought disorder in homeless young adults with elevated schizotypal traits: Dimensional structure and cognitive correlates.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2016
Dr Zoe Fitzgerald	The pathophysiology of accelerated long-term forgetting in epilepsy.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2012
Katie Leach	Does attention modulate face aftereffects in children with autism?	DPsych	The University of Western Australia	2012
Meryn Lechowicz	Remembering the past and constructing the future in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.	DPsych	The University of Sydney	2014
Dr Donna McCade	Social cognition and mild cognitive impairment.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Vince Oxenham	Eye movement abnormalities and dementia in Motor Neuron disease.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Robyn Petersen	Social cognition in borderline personality disorder	DPsych	Macquarie University	2013
Dr Shelley Simpson	A comparative neuropsychological evaluation of individuals aged >65 years who present with very-late-onset schizophrenia-like-psychosis, chronic schizophrenia and very late onset psychotic depression.	DPsych	Macquarie University	2015
David Foxe	Visuospatial short-term memory in primary progressive aphasia.	MPhil	The University of Sydney
Marion Aitchison	Should I stay or should I go? Human studies of foraging for reward.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Thushara Anandakumar	Belief bias reasoning in the maintenance of delusional beliefs.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
Aydin Anic	Measuring creativity in an improvised jazz context: A preliminary tDCS study.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Jillian Attewell	Predictors of behavioural symptoms in Huntington’s disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2013
Suzanna Azevedo	Psychosocial outcomes of children considered for epilepsy surgery: A pilot study.	Masters	The University of Sydney
Lydia Barnes	Distinguishing confounds from true meditation effects: Insights from auditory ERPs.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Sarah Barrett Jones	The relationship between episodic and semantic memory in adults with temporal lobe epilepsy.	Masters	The University of Sydney
Amelia Ceslis	Memory retrieval and amyloid in healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Peter Clutton	Delusion and belief: A cognitive phenomenological defence of doxasticism.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Caitlin Dawes	Maximising memory: A tailored approach to addressing subjective memory impairment.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Shifali Diesen	Situation models: A framework to study reading comprehension.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Michelle Edwards	Facial emotion identification in children with epilepsy: A systematic review with meta-analysis.	Masters	The University of Sydney
Nicola Filardi	The neural crowding of verbal and non-verbal information processing.	Masters	Macquarie University
Iuliia Fokina	Does poor attention cause poor reading?	Masters	Macquarie University
David Foxe	The neural correlates of verbal and visuospatial span in logopenic progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Deanna Francis	The relationship between emotional health and children’s reading ability.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Luke Freeman	Cognitive reserve and MCI.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Amanda Fullerton	Brain changes after cochlear implantation.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Neta Haluts	Language impairments in deaf signers of Israeli sign language.	Masters	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Kate Hardwick	The neural correlates of moral aversion and physical disgust using biographical memory.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Chris Hewitson	Investigating interlimb generalisation of Bayesian sensorimotor learning.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Rebecca Holt	Neural responses to morphosyntactic violations in foreign-accented speech.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Tatiana Izmaylova	Prosodic processing in people who do and do not stutter: Evidence from pause perception.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Andrew Jones	Memory profiling in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2012
Antonios Kaldas	Consciousness.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Yuval Katz	Production and comprehension of causative verbs by people with various language impairments.	Masters	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Robert Keys	Multisensory temporal processing in own-body contexts: Do bodily-self cues affect visual-tactile temporal perception?	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Louis Klein	Retrieval-induced belief revision: memories, beliefs, and echo chambers.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Fleur Le Marne	The diagnostic utility and prognostic value of semantic memory measures in prodromal Alzheimer’s Dementia.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
Vanessa Leung	Masked priming of associate-recognition.	Masters	Macquarie University	2013
Luan Li	Phonological decoding in orthographic learning: Evidence from Chinese.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Liora Lopes Murcian	Distinguishing different sources of letter migration between words: Attentional dyslexia or phonological output buffer.	Masters	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Alexi Lutherborrough	Physiological measures of changes in self-agency during hypnosis.	Masters	Macquarie University
Lois MacCullagh	Learning experiences of university students with dyslexia.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
Julien Millasseau	Investigating the representation of voicing contrasts in children with hearing loss.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Luke Mills	Does neutral proportion modulate attentional control of task conflict in the stroop task.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Annu Mothakunnel	Examining the relationship between memory performance and self-reported memory abilities in epilepsy patients.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Lyndall Murray	Oral vocabulary and reading new words: Examining the mispronunciation correction process.	Masters	Macquarie University
Ana Murteira	Taking action in hand: Effects of gesture observation on action-verb naming.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Hadas Nahmias	Differentiation between consonants and vowels in reading among readers with letter position dyslexia (LPD), attentional dyslexia and experienced readers in Hebrew.	Masters	Tel Aviv University, Israel	2016
Pei (Amanda) Niu	Longitudinal changes in cortical brain volume measures and their relationship with beta-amyloid burden and cognition.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Katherine O’Lone	Understanding scrupulosity.	Masters	Royal Holloway, The University of London, UK	2014
Amelia Paterson	Practice effects in longitudinal cognitive assessment: Implications for predicting risk of dementia.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Sujal Pokharel	Comparison of infant directed speech vs adult directed speech.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Alena Rahmanovic	Memory training for older adults with subjective memory complaints – a pilot study.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
Karishma Rajan Menon	Memory rehabilitation in children with epilepsy.	Masters	The University of Sydney
Hannah Rapaport	The influence of the laboratory environment on the measurement of language lateralisation.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Louise Ratko	Articulatory characterisation of length of contrasts in Australian English vowels.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Hans Receveur	The role of semantic function in the transition from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
David Rodwell	Memory in temporal lobe epilepsy – the impact of aetiology.	Masters	Macquarie University	2014
Leanne Ruggero	Quality of life in primary progressive aphasia: Characteristics, influences and implications.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Andrea Salins	Orthographic facilitation of vocabulary learning in children with hearing loss.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Nay San	A quantitative analysis of vowel variation in Kaytetye.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Aimy Slade	An investigation of empathy among fans and non-fans of violent-music.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Sophie Smit	Do visual body-ownership cues modulate visuo-tactile temporal order judgements? An investigation in non-synaesthetes and mirror-touch synaesthetes.	Masters	Macquarie University
Matthew So	Validation and normative studies of the ACE-III.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Daniell Steinberg	Modulating the effects of visual masking by TMS to the occipital pole with top-down biasing by working memory.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Zachary Stevens	The clinical utility of recognition memory measures in predicting transition to Alzheimer’s disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Artemis Synn	Theory of mind in frontotemporal dementia.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Tünde Szalay	The disambiguation of Australian English vowels in lateral-final syllables.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Jordan Taylor	Imagination, imagery, perception and the self.	Masters	Macquarie University	2013
Lina Teichmann	The temporal dynamics of serial recall in digit-colour synaesthetes.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Signy Wegener	Oral vocabulary knowledge and orthographic learning.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Jordan Wehrman	Sequential effects on proactive inhibitory set points.	Masters	Macquarie University	2016
Emma Williams	Mindfulness and organisational citizenship.	Masters	Macquarie University	2018
Kellie Williamson	Naturalising the group mind: The cognitive life of small groups and teams.	Masters	Macquarie University	2012
Beverley Witherington	Bimanual coordination and its role in social cognition.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Damith Woods	Intellectual functioning and memory performance: Its correlation with beta-amyloid deposition in dementia.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Vanessa Zeleny	The “Fluency Flip”: Verbal fluency as a predictor of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease.	Masters	Macquarie University	2015
Di (Judy) Zhu	Inhibitory control in bilingual lexical selection.	Masters	Macquarie University	2017
Zoë Akindele-Obe	Attractiveness judgements for own-race versus other-race faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Samantha Bank	Do body recognition skills develop earlier than face recognition skills?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2013
Jack Bonner	The time course of expression aftereffects.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Ellen Bothe	The source of age-related improvements in face recognition tasks.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Maira Braga	Are anxiety and shyness associated with face recognition ability in children?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Jessamy Burton	Do individuals with higher levels of autistic-like traits show weakened use of previous visual information?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Jemma Collova	A race-of-face effect for eye gaze perception.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Caitlin de Souza	The underlying mechanisms of object bias in gaze processing: A comparison of typical individuals across the autism spectrum.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Hannah Derrig	Risk factors for mild cognitive impairment in urban indigenous Australian populations.	Honours	The University of New South Wales	2018
Liz Dietrich	Is AU6 a marker of genuine happiness or genuine emotion?	Honours	Australian National University	2018
Bronte Donatti-Liddlelow	An association study between genuineness of facial expressions and alexithymia traits.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Hayley Donohue	The testing effect: Developmental trends and mechanisms.	Honours	The University of Sydney	2016
Lauren Dragon	How effortless are facial first impressions?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Alyssa Dyball	Acoustic change complex as a measure of cross-linguistic speech perception.	Honours	Macquarie University	2014
Brett Easton	Dynamic markers affecting the perception of genuineness of emotional expressions.	Honours	Australian National University	2018
Rachel Emiechel	Individual differences in ensemble coding of facial identity.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Nadine Eyre	Loss of the future – neural mechanisms driving future thinking impairments in neurodegenerative disorders.	Honours	The University of New South Wales	2015
Justin Freeman	The role of volitional movement in human spatial navigation.	Honours	Macquarie University	2015
Chloe Giffard	The association between autistic-traits and face perception abilities in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Judith Gildenhuys	Own-race bias on computer generated faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Ella Gorman	Reward value of race of faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Jayden Greenwell-Barnden	Trust and face processing in schizotypy.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Robin Hare	The use of pheromones by humans in assessing mate faithfulness.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Thripura Hariharan	Music and its effects on memory.	Honours	Macquarie University	2016
Mitchell Harris	Adaptation after-effects and their decay: Famous and unfamiliar faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Lindsay Hogg	Face processing and autism-like traits.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2013
Jasmine Hooper	The perception of trustworthiness in faces in relation to autistic traits.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Dielle Horne	Races and faces: The own-race effect in coding identity for groups.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Blake Hunt	Rapid learning using portable EEG technology.	Honours	Macquarie University	2018
Natalie Kaiko	Autistic traits and face processing in typically developing children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Amber King	Individual differences in face recognition.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Isabella Le Roux	Testing the automaticity of facial first impressions.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Jessica Lewandowsky	The contribution of holistic coding and adaptive coding to individual differences in expression recognition ability.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2013
Cheng Tao Liang	Longitudinal changes in episodic memory in semantic dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.	Honours	The University of New South Wales	2017
Sarah Lin	The relationship between face identity recognition and social anxiety in cognition.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Antonina Loncarevic	Accuracy in sexual faithfulness judgements from faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Ellen Maclaine	Are attentional biases to facial expressions associated with trait hypomania?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2013
Sara Maisey	Using adaption to test whether judgement of facial trustworthiness and expression are based on a common perceptual representation.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Laura Martin	Is there an own-race advantage in judging impressions of unfaithfulness from unfamiliar faces?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Jamie-Lee Mazlin	Facial expression recognition in simulated prosthetic vision.	Honours	Australian National University	2014
Markus Michalowski	A transcranial doppler ultrasonography study of auditory lateralisation in a dichotic listening task.	Honours	Macquarie University	2018
Kelly Miles	The licencing of codas in early speech: Evidence for the emergence of minimal words.	Honours	Macquarie University	2014
Luke Mills	Does attentional control moderate task conflict? RT distribution analysis of the stroop task.	Honours	Macquarie University	2015
Martina Nesussi	Know your Wiggles! Investigating children’s ability to recognise familiar faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Rui Xiang (Ryan) Ng	Influencing factors of ensemble coding for faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Rosa Nolan	Episodic future thinking: Likelihood and valence.	Honours	The University of Sydney	2015
Julia Pagnozzi	Age and gender categorization in unfamiliar faces.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Julianne Pascoe	Preparatory cueing in the assessment of language lateralisation: Is non-verbal better?	Honours	Macquarie University	2015
Tamara Paulin	The role of sleep in the learning and consolidation of novel written words.	Honours	Macquarie University	2014
Samantha Petrovski	Are identity aftereffects present following adaption to dynamic faces?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Gabrielle Picard	Temporal attention and reading.	Honours	Macquarie University	2018
Stephen Pond	Is face gender coded with reference to a norm?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2012
Charlotte Pugh	Decay of eyegaze aftereffects.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Meg Purton	Processing emotions in crowds: Investigating ensemble representation in sets of same and mixed identity.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Hannah Rapaport	The lateralisation of language processing in dyslexia.	Honours	Macquarie University	2016
Jillian Richards	Facial expression and the other-race effect.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Kathleen Rippon	Face identity processing in computer generated and real faces: An EEG study.	Honours	Australian National University	2018
Andrew Roberts	Normalisation and functional transcranial doppler ultrasound.	Honours	Macquarie University	2015
Jessica Sailah	Reading ability and perceptual anchoring.	Honours	Macquarie University	2013
Emily Salanitro-Chafei	The effect of content on emotion recognition – comparing younger and older individuals.	Honours	The University of Sydney	2017
Susannah Shields	Under what conditions does the cross race effect disappear? The influence of multi-stimuli presentation paradigm on social categorisation and attention.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2013
Saba Siddique	Contribution of cognitive development to children’s face recognition ability.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Aimy Slade	Personality, aggression and emotional experience: An investigation of violent music.	Honours	Macquarie University	2016
Anita Smith	Face identification ability and psychosocial function in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Derek Swe	The contribution of low-level tilt adaptation to expression aftereffects.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Vanessa Tan	Correlation between performance on expression recognition task and social anxiety in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Hai Truong	Cognitive preparation and video game experience.	Honours	Macquarie University	2015
Kaitlyn Turbett	Are holistic processing, adaptive norm-based coding, and general cognitive abilities associated with face recognition abilities in children?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2015
Maree Tyson	Reading efficiency and the attentional blink.	Honours	Macquarie University	2013
Charlie Viska	Individual differences in distraction by faces and objects: Behaviour and neural evidence.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Dana Walker	The association between shyness and face recognition ability in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Xujia Wang	Is face recognition ability in 8-year-old children associated with individual variation in face-coding mechanisms or general cognitive abilities?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2014
Prue Watson	Holistic processing predicts face recognition in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2016
Cody Witham	Tough guys look angry! Can we manipulate judgements of facial strength by biasing perception towards anger using adaptation?	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2018
Jeong In Yook	Does the brain individuate computer-generated faces and real faces of the same person(s)? An EEG study.	Honours	Australian National University	2018
Alice Zhen	Neural correlates of disinhibition and apathy in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia.	Honours	The University of New South Wales	2015
Natasha Zint	Individual differences in adaptive norm-based coding and holistic coding for facial recognition in children.	Honours	The University of Western Australia	2017
Maia Zucco	Adult spelling training study.	Honours	Macquarie University	2015