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Current trends in experimental and applied psychology, (2012)
Psychology is a discipline with a rich and proud history of research, both pure and...
Current trends in technology and society, (2012)
The effects of technologies on societies in which they are developed define cultures. With that...
Emotional expression in speech, dance, and instrumental music: implications for singers (with J Orlando), Current trends in experimental and applied psychology (2012)
'I like the way you move': how hormonal changes across the menstrual cycle affect female perceptions of gait (with Natasha Herbert), BioMed Central Research Notes (2012)
Background
Variations in hormone concentrations across the menstrual cycle affect human female mate preferences. It...
Olfactory perception, human chemosignals, and social behaviours (with Graeme Hacker), Current trends in experimental and applied psychology (2012)
Perceiving other people on the basis of categorical multisensory data: towards a unified theory of person perception (with Justin M. Gaetano and Anna Brooks), Current trends in experimental and applied psychology (2012)
Perceiving others as distinct agents is a skill crucial to human social interaction, yet no...
The 1-2-3 Magic Program: implementation outcomes of an Australian pilot evaluation with school-aged children (with Erin L. Bailey, Thomas W. Phelan, and Anna Brooks), Child and Family Behaviour (2012)
This study served as a pilot evaluation of the efficacy of the 1-2-3 Magic Program...
Aggression and violence in the ED: issues associated with the implementation of restraint and seclusion (with Lynn Davies, Doug Andrews, and Anna Brooks), Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2011)
A number of surveys have reported that those who work in emergency departments (EDs) experience...
Are hand-raised flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) better learners than wild-raised ones in an operant conditioning situation? (with Brigitta Flick and Hugh Spencer), The biology and conservation of Australasian bats (2011)
This study was undertaken to gain some knowledge of Flying-fox (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) learning ability, using...
Increasing impact of mental health presentations on New South Wales public hospital emergency departments 1999-2006 (with Alan S. Tankel, Matthew J. Di Palma, and Kathy M. Kramer), Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA) (2011)
Objective: The percentage of mental health (MH) presentations to New South Wales (NSW) EDs in...
Snap! Recognising implicit actions in static point-light displays (with Russell J. Reid, Anna Brooks, and Duncan Blair), Perception (2009)
Johansson (1973 Perception & Psychophysics 14 201 ^ 211) suggested that point-light displays that are...
Auditory biological motion processing: the eyes alone don't have it! (with Lauren Bartsch, David Cottrell, and Anna Brooks), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Auditory motion affects visual biological motion processing (with Anna Brooks, 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...
Concern about the use of the new ecological paradigm scale on Australian populations (with Hannah Whittle and Anna Brooks), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Interhemispheric differences in processing biological motion cues (with Anna Brooks, Elena Clara, Alira Capararo, and Coralia MacHatch), 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, Anna Brooks, and Olaf Blanke), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 25-29 September. (2007)
Seclusion – Demographics and beyond (with Lynn Davies and Doug Andrews), 42nd Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference (2007)
Low-level luminance mechanisms and the twostage perception of biological motion (with V Smith), Proceedings of Psychology bridging the Tasman: science, culture and practice: Joint Conference of the Australian Psychological Society and the New Zealand Psychological Society (2006)
The visual system has robust sensitivity to biological motion defined by point-light displays. However, specific...
Physiological change induced through mode and tempo variations in classical music: a reaction time study (with E Melbourne), Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society (2006)
A distinction must be made between the emotional content of a piece of music and...
Spatial neglect: a new technique for examining the neural correlates of visual processes involved in neglect (with R Daini, S Smith, Anna Brooks, 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...
An illusion of coherent global motion arising from single brief presentations of a stationary stimulus (with Anna Brooks and John Holden), Vision Research (2003)
We describe a new illusion in which a single stationary stimulus appears to undergo coherent...
Correlational model for joint development of refined retinotopic map and ocular dominance columns (with Greg A. Woodbury and William G. Gibson), Vision Research (2002)
We describe a modification to a standard correlation model for the development of the geniculocortical...
Figure-ground segregation and brightness perception at illusory contours: a newronal model (with E Peterhans, B Heider, and F Heitger), Models of neural networks IV: early vision and attention (2002)
With no effort we scan a scene by directing our gaze at specific objects, discerning...
The role of ON- and OFF-channel processing in the detection of bilateral symmetry (with Anna Brooks), Perception (2002)
We present evidence that grouping for luminance does not take precedence over the detection of...
Orientation processing mechanisms revealed by the plaid tilt illusions (with S Smith and Peter Wenderoth), Vision Research (2001)
The tilt after-effect (TAE) and tilt illusion (TI) have revealed a great deal about the...
Perceptual strategies to improve skin cancer discriminations in naïve observers (with Anna Brooks and J Predebon), Public Health (2001)
The aim of these experiments was to assess the effect of an educational brochure on...
Tilt aftereffects generated by bilaterally symmetrical patterns (with W R. Joung and C Latimer), Spatial Vision (2000)
Tilt aftereffects were generated by bilaterally symmetrical dot patterns. Both expansion and contraction effects, similar...
Global form perception: interactions between luminance and texture information (with David R. Badcock and Brent Parkin), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology (1999)
Purpose: This experiment reports the independence of first- and second-order processing mechanisms in form perception.
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Modelling experiential and task effects on attentional process in symmetry direction (with C Latimer, W R. Joung, and H Beh), Current oculomotor research: physiological and psychological aspects (1999)
Evidence that both area V1 and extrastriate visual cortex contribute to symmetry perception (with E Leo, W R. Joung, C Latimer, and P Wenderoth), Evidence that both area V1 and extrastriate visual cortex contribute to symmetry perception (1998)
Bilateral symmetry is common in nature and most animals seem able to perceive it. Many...
Figure-ground segregation at contours: A neural mechanism in the visual cortex of the alert monkey (with R Baumann and E Peterhans), European Journal of Neuroscience (1998)
An important task of vision is the segregation of figure and ground in situations of...
Possible neural correlates of symmetry perception, Proceedings of Progress in connectionist-based information systems: 1997 International Conference on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems (1998)
Mechanisms of purely subjective contour tilt aftereffects (with Peter Wenderoth), Vision Research (1995)
Neurones tuned for second-order stimuli—those which have edges defined by properties other than luminance and...
Psychophysical evidence for area V2 involvement in the reduction of subjective contour tilt aftereffects by binocular rivalry (with Peter Wenderoth), Visual Neuroscience (1994)
Previous research suggests binocular rivalry disrupts extrastriate, but not striate processes, although the locus along...
The role of the blobs in determining the perception of drifting plaids and their motion aftereffects (with Peter Wenderoth, David Alais, and Darren Burke), Perception (1994)
Motion aftereffects (MAEs) can be induced by adaptations to a pair of differently oriented drifting...
Direct evidence for competition between local and global mechanisms of two-dimensional orientation illusions (with Peter Wenderoth and Martin Williams), Perception (1993)
Orientation illusions induced by two-dimensional stimuli, such as square outline frames or plaids, have been...
Reduction of a pattern-induced motion aftereffect by binocular rivalry suggests the involvement of extrastriate mechanisms (with Peter Wenderoth and David Alais), Visual Neuroscience (1993)
Local and global mechanisms of one and two dimensional orientation illusions (with Peter Wenderoth), Perception and Psychophysics (1991)
One-dimensional (1-D) orientation illusions induced on a test grating by a tilted and-surrounding 1-D inducing...
Determinants of subjective contour Bourdon illusions and "unbending" effects (with Peter Wenderoth and Gerard Criss), Perception and Psychophysics (1990)
Wenderoth and O’Connor (1987b) reported that, although matches to the straight edge of two triangles...
Mechanisms of orientation illusions (with Peter Wenderoth and Syren Johnstone), Proceedings of Human information processing: measures, mechanisms and models: (1989)
Orientation illusions induced by briefly flashed plaids (with Peter Wenderoth and Syren Johnstone), Perception (1989)
Orientation illusions which occur when a vertical grating is surrounded by a plaid can be...
The effects of exposure duration and surrounding frames on direct and indirect tilt aftereffects and illusions (with Peter Wenderoth), Perception and Psychophysics (1989)
Direct and indirect tilt illusions (TIs) have been shown to have different mechanisms, because spatial...
Two dimensional tilt illusion induced by orthogonal plaid patterns: effects of plaid motion, orientation, spatial separation, and spatial frequency (with Peter Wenderoth and Syren Johnstone), Perception (1989)
Tilt illusions occur when a drifting vertical test grating is surrounded by a drifting plaid...