Qualifications

• BA, PhD Sydney
• MAPS
• ALAA

Contact Details

• Office: Rm 466 Griffith Taylor
• Ph: +61-2-9351 3347
• Fax: +61-2-9036 5223
• Mobile: 0407-998737
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Research Interests

• Cognitive Science
• Visual Pattern Recognition
• Computer Simulation
• Connectionist Modeling of Cognition
• Eye Movement Indices of Attention
• Symmetry Detection
• Local versus Global Processing
• Philosophy of Psychology

Editorial Positions

• Associate Editor: Noetica: A Cognitive Science Forum

Membership of Societies

• Behavioral and Brain Science Associate
• Australian Psychological Society
• Australasian Society for Psychophysiology
• Australasian Cognitive Science Society

Consultancies and Contracts

• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW
• NSW Crown Solicitor's Office
• NSW State Rail Authority
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Fuji Xerox

Recent Publications

• Joung, W., & Latimer, C. (2003). Tilt aftereffects generated by symmetrical dot patterns with two or four axes of symmetry. Spatial Vision. 16(2), 155-182.
• Latimer, C., Palethorpe, J., Mezey, L., Ellwood, S., & Raju S. (2002). Forget the highlighter: The role of colour in recognition memory for images and text. Australian Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 57 (Abstract).
• Latimer, C., Smith, S., Buckingham, R., McKenzie, D., & Gerstner, E. (2002). Physical and psychophysical measures of the distinctiveness of Australian banknotes. Australian Journal of Psychology, 54(3) 150-156.
• Joung W, van der Zwan R, and Latimer C (2000). Axes of symmetry produce tilt aftereffects Spatial Vision. 13(1), 107-128.
• Latimer, C.R., Irish, M., Stevens, C.J., & Webber, L. (2000). Attentional biases in geometric form perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 53A (3), 765-791.
• Manor, BR, Gordon, E., Williams, L.M., Rennie, C.J., Bahramali, H., Latimer, C.R., Barry, R.J., Meares, R.A. (1999). Eye movements reflect impaired face processing in patients with schizophrenia. Biological. Psychiatry, 46, 963-969.
• Latimer, C.R. (1999). Abstract ideas, schemata and hyperstructures: Plus sa change... Commentary on Richardson on Hyperstructure. Psycoloquy: 10(040).
• Latimer, C.R., & Stevens, C.J. (1999). Intrinsic representations: Simultaneity of local and global processing? Reply to Opie on part-whole-perception. Psycoloquy: 10(041).
• Latimer, C.R.Joung, W., van der Zwan, R., & Beh, H. (1999). Modelling experiential and task effects on attentional proceses in symmetry detection. In W. Becker., & T. Mergner (Eds.) Current oculomotor research: Physiological and psychological aspects New York: Plenum. pp. 309-312.
• Latimer, C.R. (1999). Binary oppositions and what focuses in focal attention. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (3), 383-384.
• Latimer, C.R. (1999). Is there more to visual attention than meets the eye? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(4), 690-691.
• Latimer, C.R. (1998). New features for old: Creation or derivation? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, 31-32.
• Latimer, C.R. (1998). The Chorus scheme: representation or isomorphism, holistic or analytic? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 476-477.
• Latimer, C.R., & Stevens, C.J. (1998). Wholes and parts: Topology, mereology and mechanism. Replies to Hoffman, Mortensen and Rakover Psycoloquy, 9. No 31.
• Latimer, C.R., & Gazzard, S. (1998). Modelling attentional biases in the perception of geometric forms. In T. Downs, M. Frean & M. Gallaher (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, ACNN'98. Brisbane: University of Queensland, Electrical and Computer Engineering pp.89?93.
• Schenkel, M., Latimer, C., & Jabri, M. (1998). Comparison of human and machine word recognition. In M.I Jordan, M.J. Kearns & S.A. Solla (Eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10. pp. 94-100. MIT Press.
• van der Zwan, R., Leo, E., Joung, W., Latimer, C., & Wenderoth, P. (1998). Evidence that both area V1 and extrastriate visual cortex contribute to symmetry perception. Current Biology, 8, 889-892.
• Beh, H.C., & Latimer, C.R. (1997). Symmetry detection and orientation perception: Electrocortical responses to stimuli with real and implicit axes of orientation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 49 (3), 128-133.
• Latimer, C.R., & Stevens, C.J. (1997). Some remarks on wholes, parts and their perception, Psycoloquy, 8, No 13.
• Stevens, C.J., & Latimer, C.R. (1997) Music recognition An illustrative application of a connectionist model. Psychology of Music 25, 161-185.
• Latimer, C.R., & Michell, J. (1996). At once scientific and philosophic: A festschrift in honour of John Philip Sutcliffe. Brisbane: Boombana Publications
• Beh, H.C., & Latimer, C.R. (1995). Electrocortical activity to real and subjective orientation of visual stimuli. Fifth Conference of the Australasian Society for Psychophysiology, Wollongong. (Abstract)