Associate Professor Mike Nicholls
Complete reference list (December 2008)
Journal articles
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (in press). Somatosensory prior entry. Perception & Psychophysics.
Johnston, D., Nicholls, M.E.R., Shaw, M & Shields, M. (In press). Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development. Demography.
Loftus, A., Nicholls, M.E.R, Mattingley, J.B., Chapman, H.L. & Bradshaw, J.L. (In press). Pseudoneglect for the bisection of mental number lines. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Loftus, A.M., Vijayakumar, N. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (In press) Prism adaptation overcomes pseudoneglect for the greyscales task. Cortex.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Loftus, A.M., Orr, C.A. & Barre, N. (2008). Rightward collisions and their association with pseudoneglect. Brain & Cognition 68, 166-170.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Kamer, A. & Loftus, A.M. (2008). Pseudoneglect for mental alphabet lines is affected by prismatic adaptation. Experimental Brain Research 191, 109-115.
Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2008). Numerical processing overcomes left neglect. Neuroreport 19, 835-838.
Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2008). Left to right: Representational biases for numbers and the effect of visuomotor adaptation. Cognition 107, 1048-1058
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2008). Hemispheric asymmetries for temporal information processing: Transient detection versus sustained monitoring. Brain & Cognition 66, 168-175.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Loftus, A. & Gevers, W. (2008). Look, no hands: A perceptual task shows that number magnitude induces shifts of attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15, 413-418.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Orr, C.A., Yates, M.J. & Loftus, A. (2008). A new means of measuring index/ring (2D;4D) finger ratio and its association with gender and hand preference. Laterality. 13, 71-91.
Nicholls M.E.R. & Loftus, A. (2007). Pseudoneglect and neglect for mental alphabet lines. Brain Research. 1152, 130-138
Nicholls, M.E.R., Loftus, A., Meyer, K. & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Things that go bump in the right: The effect of unimanual activity on rightward collisions. Neuropsychologia 45, 1122-1126.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Orr, C.A., Okubo, M. & Loftus, A. (2006). Satisfaction guaranteed: The effect of spatial biases on responses to Likert scales. Psychological Science 17, 1027-1028.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls M.E.R. (2006). A stimulus-dependent dissociation between the cerebral hemispheres under free-viewing conditions. Experimental Brain Research 172, 49-56.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Smith, A., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2006). The effect of body and environment-centred coordinates on free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli. Cortex 42, 336-346.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Searle, D.A. (2006). Asymmetries for the visual expression and perception of speech. Brain & Language. 97, 322-331.
Lim V.K., Bradshaw J.L., Nicholls M.E.R. & Altenmuller, E. (2005). Enhanced P1-N1 auditory evoked potential in patients with musicians' cramp. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1060, 349-359.
Okubo, M., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2005). Flexible contrast gain control in the right hemisphere, Brain and Cognition, 59, 269-276.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2005). Hemispheric asymmetry in temporal resolution: Contribution of the magnocellular pathway. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 12, 755-759.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Orr, C.A. & Lindell, A.K. (2005). Magical ideation and its relation to lateral preference. Laterality 10, 503-515.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2005). The effect of strategy on pseudoneglect for luminance judgements. Cognitive Brain Research 25, 71-77.
Orr, C.A. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2005). The Nature and Contribution of Space- and Object-Based Attentional Biases to Free-Viewing Perceptual Asymmetries. Experimental Brain Research.162, 384-393
Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R., Kwantes, P.J., & Castles, A. (2005). Sequential processing in hemispheric word recognition: The impact of initial letter discriminability on the OUP naming effect. Brain & Language 93, 160-172.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Ellis, B.E., Clement, J. & Yoshino, M. (2004). Detecting hemifacial asymmetries in emotional expression with 3D computerised image analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society 271, 663-668.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B., Berberovic, N., Smith, A. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). An investigation of the relationship between free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli. Cognitive Brain Research 19, 289-301.
Mattingley, J.B., Berberovic, N., Corben, L., Slavin, M.J., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). The greyscales task: a perceptual measure of attentional bias following right hemisphere damage. Neuropsychologia 42, 387-394
Nicholls, M.E.R., Hughes, G., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). Are object and space-based attentional biases both important to free-viewing perceptual asymmetries? Experimental Brain Research. 154, 513-520.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Searle, D & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). Read my lips: Asymmetries in the visual expression and perception of speech revealed through the McGurk effect. Psychological Science 15, 138-141.
Lim, V.K., Bradshaw, J.L., Nicholls, M.E.R., Kirk, I.J., Hamm, J.P. Grossbach, M. & Altenmüller, E. (2003). Aberrant sensorimotor integration in patients with musicians’ cramp. Journal of Psychophysiology 17, 195-202.
Lim, V.K., Bradshaw, J.L., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Altenmüller, E. (2003). Perceptual differences in sequential stimuli across patients with musicians and writers’ cramp. Movement Disorders 18, 1286-1293.
Lindell, A.K., & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2003). Attentional deployment in visual half-field tasks: The effect of cue position on word naming latency. Brain and Cognition 53, 273-277
Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B., Bradshaw, J.L. & Krins, P. (2003).Trunk- and head-centred spatial coordinates do not affect free-viewing perceptual asymmetries. Brain & Cognition 53, 247-252.
Lindell, A.K. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2003). Cortical representation of the fovea: implications for visual half-filed research. Cortex 39, 111-117
Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Castles, A.E. (2003). The effect of orthographic uniqueness and deviation points on lexical decisions: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral redundant presentations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 56, 287-307
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Roberts, G.R. (2002). Pseudoneglect: a scanning, pre-motor or attentional bias? Cortex 38, 113-136.
Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Castles, A.E. (2002). The effect of word length on hemispheric word recognition: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral-redundant presentations. Brain & Cognition 48, 447-452
Nicholls, M.E.R., Clode, D., Lindell, A.K. & Wood, A.G. (2002). Which cheek to turn? The effect of gender and emotional expressivity on posing behaviour. Brain & Cognition 48, 480-484
Nicholls. M.E.R., Wolfgang, B.J., Clode, D. & Lindell, A.K. (2002). The effect of left and right poses on the expression of facial emotion. Neuropsychologia 40, 1662-1665
Nicholls, M.E.R., Gora, J. & Stough C.K.K. (2002). Hemispheric asymmetries for visual and auditory temporal processing: An evoked potential study. International Journal of Psychophysiology 44, 37-55
Nicholls, M.E.R., Bradshaw, J.L. & Mattingley, J.B. (2001). Unilateral hemispheric activation does not affect free-viewing perceptual asymmetries. Brain & Cognition 46, 219-223
Spence, C.J., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Driver, J. (2001). The cost of expecting events in the wrong sensory modality. Perception & Psychophysics 63, 330-336.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Wood, A. and Hayes, L. (2001). Cerebral asymmetries in the level of attention required for word recognition. Laterality 6, 97-110.
Spence, C.J., Lloyd, D., McGlone, F., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Driver, J. (2000). Inhibition of return is supramodal: a demonstration between all possible pairings of vision, touch, and audition. Experimental Brain Research 134, 42-48
Kelso, W.M., Nicholls, M.E.R., Warne, G.L. & Zacharin, M. (2000). Cerebral lateralisation and cognitive function in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Neuropsychology 14, 370-378.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Lindell, A. (2000). A left hemisphere, but not right hemispace, advantage for tactual simultaneity judgements. Perception & Psychophysics 62, 717-725.
Phillips, J.G., Schiffter, T., Nicholls, M.E.R., Bradshaw, J.L., Iansek, R. & Saling, L.L. (1999). Does old age or Parkinson’s disease cause bradyphrenia? Journal of Gerontology 54a, 404-409.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Clode, D., Wood, S.J. and Wood, A, G. (1999). Laterality of expression in portraiture: Putting your best cheek forward. Proceedings of the Royal Society (section B) 266, 1517-1522.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Whelan, R.E. & Brown, S (1999). A left hemisphere temporal processing advantage for auditory and tactile stimuli. Brain & Cognition 40, 202-206.
Kelso, W.M., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Warne, G.L. (1999). Effects of prenatal androgen exposure on cerebral lateralisation in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Brain & Cognition 40, 153-156.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Schier, M., Stough, C.K.K. & Box, A. (1999). Psychophysical and electrophysiological support for a left hemisphere temporal processing advantage. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurology 12, 11-16.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Bradshaw, J.L. & Mattingley, J.B. (1999). Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for the judgement of shade, numerosity and size. Neuropsychologia 37, 307-314.
Elkadi, S., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Clode, D. (1999). Handedness in opposite and same-sex dizygotic twins: testing the testosterone hypothesis. Neuroreport 10, 333-336.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Whelan, R.E. (1998). Hemispheric asymmetries for the temporal resolution of brief tactual stimuli. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 20, 445-456.
Bradshaw, J.L., Nicholls, M.E.R & Rogers, M.A. (1998). An intermanual advantage for tactual matching. Cortex 34, 763-770.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Wood, A.G. (1998). The contribution of attention to the right visual field advantage for word recognition. Brain & Cognition 38, 339-357.
Spence, C., Nicholls, M.E.R., Gillespie, N. & Driver, J. (1998). Cross-modal links in exogenous covert spatial orienting between touch, audition and vision. Perception and Psychophysics 60, 544-557.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1998). Seasonal trends in the birth of sinistrals. Laterality 3, 241-254.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1998). Support for a structural model of aural asymmetry. Cortex 34, 99-110
Ferry, K & Nicholls, M.E.R. (1997). No evidence of hemispheric facilitation following the induction of negative and positive affect. Neuropsychologia 35, 1509-1512.
Brown, S. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (1997). Hemispheric asymmetries for the temporal resolution of brief auditory stimuli. Perception and Psychophysics 59, 442-447.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Forbes, S. (1996) Handedness and its association with gender-related psychological and physiological characteristics. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 18, 905-910.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1996). Evidence and implications of a temporal processing dichotomy between the hemispheres. Laterality 1, 97-137.
Nicholls, M.E.R. and Clode, D. (1996). A failure to produce a left hemisphere advantage through verbal priming. Neuropsychologia 34, 893-904.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1994). Hemispheric asymmetries for temporal resolution: A signal detection analysis of threshold and bias. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 47a, 291-310
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1994). The non-contribution of attentional biases to visual field asymmetries for temporal discrimination. Neuropsychologia 32, 209-220.
Nicholls, M.E.R. and Atkinson, J. (1993). Hemispheric asymmetries for an inspection time task: A general left hemisphere temporal advantage? Neuropsychologia 31, 1181-1190.
Nicholls, M.E.R. and Cooper, C.J. (1991). Hemispheric differences in the rates of information processing for simple non-verbal stimuli. Neuropsychologia 29, 677-684.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Nicholls, M.E.R (In press). Likert scales and response biases. Corsini’s Encyclopaedia of Psychology. 4th Ed. Wiley: New York.
Lim, V.K., Bradshaw, J.L., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Altenmüller, E. (2003). Abnormal sensory processing in pianists with focal dystonia. In: Fahn, S., Hallet, M. & DeLong, M.R. (Eds). Advances in Neurology, Vol 94, Dystonia 4.Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins: Philadelphia.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (2000) Asymmetries in portraits: Insights from neuropsychology. In: M.K. Mandal, M.B. Bulman-Fleming & G. Tiwari (Eds). Side-bias: A neuropsychological perspective. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Amsterdam.
Vickers, D., Foreman, E.A., Nicholls, M.E.R., Innes, N.J. and Gott, R.E. (1989). Some experimental tests of the application of an interval of uncertainty model to a time limited expanded judgement task. In: D. Vickers & P.L. Smith (Eds.). Human Information Processing: Measures Mechanisms and Models. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
BOOK REVIEWS
Nicholls, M.E.R. (2003). Laterality, the universe and everything. A review of: Right Hand, Left Hand by I.C. McManus. Laterality 8, 95-98
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1998). Seeing both sides of the brain. A review of: The Two Sides of Perception, by Ivry & Robertson. Laterality 3, 373-377.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1997). Review of: Axonal Conduction Time and Human Cerebral Laterality by R. Miller. Neuropsychologia 35, 1317-1318.
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Okubo, M. (2006). A material-specific dissociation between the cerebral hemispheres under free-viewing conditions. Australian Journal of Psychology 58, 86.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Smith, A., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2006). Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli: The effect of body and environment-centred coordinates. Brain & Cognition 60, 315
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2006). Effects of luminance contrast on hemispheric processing of spatial frequency. Brain & Cognition 60, 316.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Searle, D. (2005). Asymmetries for the visual expression and perception of speech. Australian Journal of Psychology 57, 65.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2005). Role of the magnocellular pathways in hemispheric differences in temporal resolution. Australian Journal of Psychology 57, 65.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Smith, A., Mattingley, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). Body- and environment-centred coordinates affect free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli. Australian Journal of Psychology 56, 129.
Orr, C.A. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2004). The nature of space- and object-based attentional biases in free-viewing perceptual asymmetries. Australian Journal of Psychology 56, 130.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Hughes, G., Mattinlgey, J.B. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2004). An investigation of the importance of object- and space-based attentional biases to pseudoneglect. Brain Impairment 5, 118s.
Nicholls, M.E.R., Searle, D & Bradshaw, J.L. (2003). Asymmetries in lip-reading revealed through the McGurk effect. Australian Journal of Psychology 55S, 87.
Lindell, A., Ellis, B., Clement, J & Nicholls M. E.R. (2003). Asymmetries for the expression and perception of negative and positive affect in left and right poses. Australian Journal of Psychology 55S, 84.
Lim, V. K., Bradshaw, J.L., Nicholls, M.E.R., & Altenmüller, E. (2002). Differences in judging time: musicians with focal dystonia. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 487-490.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (2002). Brain lateralisation in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH): Support for the testosterone hypothesis? Brain & Cognition 48, 241.
Nicholls, M.E.R. & Hughes, G. (2001). Free viewing perceptual asymmetries: an object or space-centred bias of attention? Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 6, 84.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (2000). Experimental psychology goes arty: why portraits reveal their left cheek. Australian Journal of Psychology 52, 44.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1999). The role of unilateral activation on free-viewing perceptual asymmetries. Australian Journal of Psychology 51, 38
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1998). Attentional biases play no role in perceptual asymmetries. International Journal of Neuroscience 94, 137.
Spence, C., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Gillespie, N. (1998). Crossmodal links in attention and inhibition of return between audition, vision and touch. International J. of Neuroscience 94, 137.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1998). A left hemisphere advantage for the judgement of fusion/non-fusion of tactile stimuli. Australian Journal of Psychology 50, 60
Nicholls, M.E.R. and Forbes, S. (1996). Hand preference and its association with masculine/feminine personality characteristics, breast size, age at menarche and menstrual regularity. Australian Journal of Psychology 48, 45.
Spence, C.J. and Nicholls, M.E.R. (1996). Allocating attention to the auditory and tactile modalities. Australian Journal of Psychology 48, 48.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1995). Hemispheric superiority for the detection of flicker fusion: a general left hemisphere temporal advantage? Brain and Cognition 28, 93.
Nicholls, M.E.R. (1995). The non-effect of priming on performance in the left and right visual fields. Australian Journal of Psychology 47, 18.