Cognitive Neuroscience

Mission

The missions of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Cluster are:

• to understand the fundamental principles of brain functions mediating self-awareness and awareness of others in healthy and in diseased and injured brains
• to develop and to apply theoretical, experimental, and technological strategies to describe the cortical mechanisms mediating self-awareness and awareness of others.

Facilities

Space for the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Cluster currently consists of five laboratories of about 150 sq m in total. These include: a large motion-capture, virtual-reality (MC-VR) laboratory; an EEG laboratory; an eye-tracker laboratory; and two general laboratories comprising control rooms and cubicles. In 2012, the members of the CNRC will move into a specially constructed, $3.5M building containing nine laboratories of about 300 sq m in total. This will include the same specialist laboratories along with a large perception laboratory with light lock, and five general laboratories.

Equipment in the various laboratories includes: a motion-capture rig, a virtual-reality rig, a low-end eye-movement-capture rig, a treadmill, and Parkinson testing rigs; a BrainAmp 64-channel EEG system, a computer-controlled haploscope, and a 120-Hz, high-resolution LCD monitor; an EyeLink-1000 eye tracker; a BioPack 16-channel psychophysiology (including EEG) rig, two WACOM Intuos graphics tablets for fine-motor tasks and PLATO Visual Occlusion Spectacles.

Reports

Cognitive Neuroscience Report for 2010

Researcher Profiles

Professor Robert O'Shea		Associate Professor Rick van der Zwan
Staff Directory ePublications	Professor of Psychology Visual consciousness, binocular vision, visual perception, and perception in the real world EEG studies of visual consciousness and free will	Staff Directory ePublications	Associate Professor Psychology Biological Motion Parkinson's disease and Telehealth Comparative behaviour Parenting programs Huntington's disease Population mental health
Dr. Anna Brooks		Dr Mitchell Longstaff
Staff Directory ePublications	Senior Lecturer Psychology Behaviours of native aquatic animal species including marine mammals, cephalopods, and fish Biological motion perception	Staff Directory	Associate Lecturer, Psychology Cognitive psychology Motor control Mathematical models, time series analysis and nonlinear dynamic analysis techniques
Dr Alison Bowling		Dr Heather Winskel
Staff Directory ePublications	Lecturer, Psychology Memory guided saccadic eye-movements and dual-task paradigms Effects of nicotine on working memory	Staff Directory Dr Winskel's CV	Senior Lecturer Psychology Language acquisition and reading research Eye movements and reading in S/SE Asian scripts

Updated: 29 October 2012