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School of Psychology
Dr Ehsan Arabzadeh
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
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| Web: | Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Systems Neuroscience: sensory coding; information transmission in neural systems; electrophysiology; rat barrel cortex. Perception: psychophysics of touch, vision and multi-sensory integration |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neurophysiology: extracellular single electrode recordings from cortex and deep brain structures in anaesthetized or awake behaving animals; multi channel recordings using micro-electrode arrays. Psychophysics of touch and vision in human subjects |
| Keywords: | Systems neuroscience; sensory coding, multi-sensory integration, electrophysiology, psychophysics |
Scientia Professor Richard Bryant
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | r.bryant@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, cognitive processes, treatment. Experimental and clinical investigation of dissociative processes: memory, trauma, dissociation. Clinical and experimental hypnosis. Autobiographical memory in clinical disorders. |
| Technologies, Expertise: | |
| Keywords: | Post-traumatic stress disorder, Anxiety, Trauma, Dissociation, Hypnosis |
Professor Mark Dadds
| Position: | Professor and Principle NHMRC Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | m.dadds@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Clinical psychology, Aggression |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Behavioural assessment and treatment of child and family processes |
| Keywords: | Child psychopathology, Aggression, Conduct disorder |
Dr Tom Denson
| Position: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | t.denson@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Social neuroscience, fMRI, Anger, Aggression, Angry rumination, Aggressive personality, Alcohol and aggression |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Experimental social psychology, fMRI, Alcohol experimentation |
| Keywords: | Social neuroscience, fMRI, Anger, Aggression, Angry rumination, Aggressive personality, Alcohol and aggression |
Scientia Professor Barbara Gillam
| Position: | Professor and ARC Professorial Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | b.gillam@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Visual system, Psychophysicist, Binocular vision, Stereoscopic vision |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Psychophysical techniques, Behavioural measurements of visual system |
| Keywords: | Visual perception, Binocular vision |
Dr Julie Henry
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | julie.henry@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Emotion, Memory, Neuropsychology, Normal and abnormal adult ageing |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Meta-analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis, Neuropsychological assessment, Psychophysiology |
| Keywords: | Emotion, Memory, Neuropsychology, Ageing |
Professor Simon Killcross
Professor Peter Lovibond
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | p.lovibond@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Associative learning/conditioning (animal and human), Cognition, emotion (anxiety), Assessment (depression, anxiety, stress) |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Behavioural research design and analysis, Psychophysiology |
| Keywords: | Conditioning, Expectancy, Anxiety, Depression |
Professor Skye McDonald
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | s.mcdonald@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neuropsychology, Emotion, Communication disorders, Social skills in brain impairment |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Clinical neuropsychological assessment |
| Keywords: | Neuropsychology, Emotion, Communication disorders, Social skills in brain impairment |
Associate Professor Gavan McNally
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | g.mcnally@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Neuroscience of learning and memory, Neuroscience of drug addiction, Stress and vulnerability to psychopathology |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Behavioural testing, Immunohistochemistry, In situ hybridisation, Intracranial surgery |
| Keywords: | Learning, Memory, Motivation, Stress |
Dr Michelle Moulds
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | m.moulds@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Understanding the role of cognitive processes (such as rumination, memory disturbances) in the maintenance of depression |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Use of cognitive-experimental paradigms |
| Keywords: | Rumination, Memory, Depression |
Dr Joel Pearson
| Position: | CJ Martin Fellow, Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | jpearson@psy.unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Visual memory, Mental imagery, Ambiguous vision, Visual feature binding, Object perception, Consciousness, Visual awareness |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Behavioural research, Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
| Keywords: | Vision, Cognitive neuroscience, Visual neuroscience, Visual memory, Mental imagery, Ambiguous vision |
Professor Rick Richardson
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | r.richardson@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Development of learning, memory and emotion (in rats, primarily). Study of the process of extinction, both neurally and behaviourally (in rats and humans). Study of ostracism (in humans), particularly in the socially anxious |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Rat and human startle reflex |
| Keywords: | Startle reflex, Learned fear, Memory, Developing rats |
Dr Branka Spehar
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | b.spehar@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Colour vision, Perceptual organization, Attention, Aesthetic preferences in natural and synthetic images |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Psychophysics, Behavioural measurements of visual system |
| Keywords: | Visual perception, Attention |
Scientia Professor R Fred Westbrook
| Position: | Scientia Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | f.westbrook@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Behavioural neuroscience |
| Technologies, Expertise: | |
| Keywords: | Emotional learning (especially fear and disgust) and its neural substrate |
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