Our People
Irina Harris Head of the Visual Cognition Lab Qualifications
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Nicolas Robitaille Post-doctoral Research Associate (coming soon) |
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My research interests are related to visual short-term memory (VSTM), spatial attention and the central bottleneck of attention. My projects to date have investigated the assumed independence between these different constructs using several neuroimaging methods (ERP, MEG, fMRI). I'm also interested in the mnemonic code used in VSTM and in the relation between the spatial attention and the object-advantage effect in VSTM. I did my PhD at Université de Montreal under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Jolicœur, and have decided to move to Sydney to enjoy some warm weather and expand my repetertoire by learning how to do TMS. |
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Claire Benito PhD Student
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| When we attend to an object or event, there is a diverse set of mechanisms and processes in operation. My current research involves the study of the multi-faceted nature of attention, with a specific focus on the interactions between different attentional "types" (e.g. Spatial vs Temporal attention) and comparing the role of attention across different attentional paradigms (e.g. Cueing/Visual Search vs Attentional Blink). My Bachelors degree was in Psychology (B.Psych(Hons)), also at the University of Sydney. | |
Michael Little MSc Student |
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| My MSc reserch project investigates semantic priming during the attentional blink, using both words and pictures selected on the basis of their semantic distance from the primed target. Prior to enrolling in my current degree I completed an Honours degree in History, with a double major in History and Psychology, at the University of Sydney. | |
Zoë Terpening DCN / MSc Student |
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| I am enrolled in a combined Doctorate of Clinical Neuropsychology / Master of Science program. My primary research focus, and the topic of my MSc thesis, has been exploring how the human visual system processes information about objects, in particular knowledge about an object's identity and orientation and how these two interrelate. My most recent work has investigated these processes in a series of patients with focal right parietal lesions and the neurodegenerative syndrome Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) who struggle to name objects seen from unusual viewpoints. |
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Matthew Cobby Research Assistant |
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| I am a research assistant for Dr Irina Harris and Prof Sally Andrews, currently working on a study of repetition blindness for objects and words. Last year, I completed a BSc and at the moment I am taking some time off study before starting my Honours year. When I am not working in the Visual Cognition Lab, I work as a project manager for the Commonwealth Bank. | |
Alexandra Murray Research Assistant |
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After finishing honours in psychology in 2007, I decided that I wanted to research various attentional mechanisms. For the first half of this year I have been working as a research assistant on experiments relating to the differences in repetition blindness for manipulable and non-manipulable objects. In October 2008, I will begin a D.Phil with Kia Nobre at the University of Oxford. |
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Claire O'Callaghan Honours Student |
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| For my honours thesis I am focusing on distractor processing in RSVP streams. | |
Aleksandra Klimova Honours Student |
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| My honours project looks at how structural changes of faces due to aging affect face processing. | |
