Dr Anna Brooks, BPsych(Hons)(Sydney), PhD(JCU) Dr Anna Brooks is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Co-director of the Laboratory of Perceptual Processing at Southern Cross University. Her primary research interests fall within the broad field of cognitive neuroscience and closing the perception/action loop. Current research projects in which she is involved include visual, auditory and multisensory processing of biological motion, empirical analyses of parenting programs and patient management techniques in the mental health sector.
Journal articles
Snap! Recognising implicit actions in static point-light displays (with Russell J. Reid, Duncan Blair, and Rick van der Zwan), Perception (2009)
Johansson (1973 Perception & Psychophysics 14 201 ^ 211) suggested that point-light displays that are...
Auditory motion affects visual biological motion processing (with Rick van der Zwan, A Billard, B Petreska, S Clarke, and Olaf Blanke), Neuropsychologia (2007)
The processing of biological motion is a critical, everyday task performed with remarkable efficiency by...
Distinct mechanisms of form-from-motion perception in human extrastriate cortex (with Olaf Blanke, M Mercier, M Spinelle, L Lavanchy, A B. Safran, and T Landis), Neuropsychologia (2007)
The exquisite sensitivity of the human visual system to form-from-motion (FfM) cues is well documented....
An illusion of coherent global motion arising from single brief presentations of a stationary stimulus (with Rick van der Zwan and John Holden), Vision Research (2003)
We describe a new illusion in which a single stationary stimulus appears to undergo coherent...
The role of ON- and OFF-channel processing in the detection of bilateral symmetry (with Rick van der Zwan), Perception (2002)
We present evidence that grouping for luminance does not take precedence over the detection of...
Book chapters
Brain damage-induced dog phobia (with Rick van der Zwan and Olaf Blanke), Cases in psychology (2006)
Conference publications
Auditory biological motion processing: the eyes alone don't have it! (with Lauren Bartsch, Rick van der Zwan, and David Cottrell), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Concern about the use of the new ecological paradigm scale on Australian populations (with Whittle Hannah and Rick van der Zwan), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Interhemispheric differences in processing biological motion cues (with Elena Clara, Alira Capararo, Coralia MacHatch, and Rick van der Zwan), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Local and global cues are incorporated into perceptions of biological motion (with Russell J. Reid, Olaf Blanke, and Rick van der Zwan), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Spatial neglect: a new technique for examining the neural correlates of visual processes involved in neglect (with Rick van der Zwan, R Daini, S Smith, Russell J. Reid, and C Quinn), Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society (2005)
Spatial neglect is a complex neurological syndrome in which patients appear to experience a variety...