Our new study on the impact of biofeedback training on performance anxiety and HRV in musicians is now online.
This study was driven by 2011 Honours student and musician, Ruth Wells, and is published in PLoS ONE. Well done Ruth!
Advice to young scientists
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionally strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical examination. (Medawar, 1979, p. 39)”
Medawar, P.B. (1979). Advice to a young scientist. New York: Harper & Row.
Well done Tim!
Tim Outhred’s first-author imaging genetics epistasis manuscript has been accepted for publication in Brain and Behavior, a new open access journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
Tims ongoing “Journey from DICOMs to Doctor” is available here.
Well done Tim – your hard work is paying off :–)
Congratulations to Daniel Quintana
We are delighted to report that Daniel Quintana’s experimental manuscript on the relationship between HRV and emotion recognition has been accepted for publication. This manuscript represents Dan’s second publication to be included in his PhD thesis due to be submitted in March 2013.
Well done Dan!
International recognition for study by Kemp & Guastella
Alan Kraut – Executive Director, Association for Psychological Science (APS) – identified a recent study published in Current Directions in Psychological Science in 2011 as an “example of good solid psychological science that is having an impact.” The video – recorded at the opening ceremony of the 24th APS Annual Convention on May 24th 2012 in Chicago – is available here:
and the acknowledgement is featured from 3mins 23 seconds to 3 mins 30 seconds in.
Recommended reading for lovers of affective neuroscience
Richard Davidson – a pioneer of affective neuroscience – has published a popular science book. He passionately argues for the importance of the prefrontal cortex in emotion (which was rather heretical not long ago), and has also been central to the building interest in research on meditation. Highly recommended reading!
Meta-analysis & commentaries from PhD students, Daniel Quintana and Tim Outhred, now published on Pubmed
PhD student, Daniel Quintana’s meta-analysis on the impact of alcohol dependence on cardiac function has been published. The abstract is available here. Hearty congratulations to Dan!
Dan and another PhD student, Tim Outhred, have also published commentaries in the European Journal of Applied Physiology and Genes, Brain and Behavior on previous studies published in these journals. Commenting on previously published work demonstrates that our students are actively engaged in scientific discussion! Well done guys!
New study accepted for publication in PLoS ONE
Our study titled:
Oxytocin increases heart rate variability in humans at rest: Implications for social approach-related motivation and capacity for social engagement
by Andrew Kemp, Daniel Quintana, Rebecca-Lee Kuhnert, Kristi Griffiths, Ian Hickie and Adam Guastella has been accepted for publication in PLoS ONE. This study is a collaborative work between the School of Psychology and the Brain and Mind Research Institute.
Well done!
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