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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: | Systems neuroscience; sensory coding, multi-sensory integration, electrophysiology, psychophysics |
| Keywords: | 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 |
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. |
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| Keywords: | Post-traumatic stress disorder, Anxiety, Trauma, Dissociation, Hypnosis |
Professor Mark Dadds
| Position: | Professor and NHMRC Senior Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | m.dadds@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Clinical psychology, Aggression |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Combined psychological and drug treatments for anxiety disorders |
| Keywords: | Child psychopathology, Aggression, Conduct disorder |
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: | Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | julie.henry@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Assessment of executive dysfunction, Prospective memory, and emotional functioning in relation to neurological and psychiatric disorders (Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Schizophrenia, Traumatic brain injury, Focal cortical lesions, Multiple sclerosis, Depression, Frontotemporal dementia, Obsessive-compulsive disorder). Age-related changes in cognition and emotion. Assessment of depression, anxiety and positive/negative affectivity. |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Meta-analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis, Neuropsychological assessment |
| Keywords: | Neuropsychology, Meta-analysis, Cognitive ageing, Emotion, Prospective memory, Executive functioning |
Professor Jim Kehoe
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychology |
| Email: | j.kehoe@unsw.edu.au |
| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Eye blink conditioning, Conditioned reflexes, Timing, Selective attention, Extinction, Savings |
| Technologies, Expertise: | LabView (graphical programming), Motor reflex measurement, Statistical analyses of behavioural data, Conditional reflex methods |
| Keywords: | Learning, Conditioning, Pavlovian, Nictitating membrane, Eye blink, Neurocomputing, Behaviour, Rabbit |
Professor Peter Lovibond
| Position: | Head, School of Psychology |
| 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 |
Dr Gavan McNally
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| 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 |
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: | Understanding the role of silhouette information in human object recognition, The determinants of attentional capture, Surround effects on temporal contrast sensitivity, Face perception: The processing of facial emotional expressions, Aesthetic preferences in natural and synthetic images |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Psychophysics |
| Keywords: | Vision, Emotional expressions, Images |
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 |
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| Keywords: | Emotional learning (especially fear and disgust) and its neural substrate |
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