Dr Mark J Yates
Ph.D. Psychology/M.Psych (Clinical Neuropsychology), BA (Honours in Psychology)
Research Fellow
Contact details:
| email:mjyates@unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 4303 |
I am a research fellow in the Department of Psychological Sciences. I am interested in many aspects of cognition and perception with a particular interest in understanding the mechanisms that underlie attention and awareness and also how quantities such as distances, durations and numbers are represented in the brain. A number of major clinical disorders involve abnormalities in these various domains. Some of the questions I am seeking to answer with my research are: What brain states promote the entry of a stimulus into awareness? How might we restore normal awareness and attentional functioning to patients with hemispatial neglect (a disorder involving the failure to attend to, and orient towards, the left side of space)? What is the relationship between attention and awareness? Does the brain have a single system for representing magnitude information across different dimensions (such as spatial, temporal and numerical magnitudes)? I am also interested in embodied cognition, and illusions of agency and bodily ownership.
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
Australian Postrgraduate Award to undertake PhD research.
O’Neill prize (shared) for top honours thesis, University of Sydney.
Reviewing Activities
I am a reviewer for the following journals:
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Laterality
Selected Publications: |
Journal Articles
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2011). Somatosensory prior entry assessed with temporal order judgments and simultaneity judgments. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1586-1603.
Nicholls, M.E.R.; Forte, J.D.; Loetscher, T.; Orr, C.A.; Yates, M.J. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2011). Near, yet so far: The effect of pictorial cues on spatial attention. Brain and Cognition, 76(3), 349-352.
Nicholls, M.E.R.; Liu, M.; Loetscher, T. & Yates, M.J. (2011). The importance of response-type to the relationship between temporal order and numerical magnitude. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1604-1613.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2009). Somatosensory prior entry. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71(4), 847-859.
Nicholls, M.E.R.; Orr, C.A.; Yates, M.J. & Loftus, A. M. (2008). A new means of measuring index/ring finger (2D:4D) ratio and its association with gender and hand preference. Laterality, 13(1), 71-91.
Conference Presentations
Yates, M.J.; Loetscher, T. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2011). A generalized magnitude system for space, time and quantity? A cautionary note. Paper presented at the 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2010) Somatosensory prior entry demonstrated using a simultaneity judgement task. Poster presentation at the 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: University of Melbourne
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2009) Visual prior entry demonstrated using a simultaneity judgment task. Poster presentation at the 36th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Wollongong, NSW, Australia: University of Wollongong.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2008). Somatosensory prior entry. Paper presented at the 35th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Fremantle, W.A., Australia: University of Western Australia.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2007). Somatosensory prior entry. Paper presented at the 8th International Multisensory Research Forum, Sydney, NSW, Australia: University of Sydney.