Research in the Department of Psychology
Clinical and clinical neuropsychology
Human cognition and behavioural neuroscience
Social behaviour and human development
Clinical and clinical neuropsychology
- Adolescent development and psychopathology group
- Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
- Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies
- Emotional dysfunction following brain injury
- First episode psychosis group
- Experimental psychopathology laboratory
- Improving neurobehavioural development in pre-term infants
- Modelling psychopathology in neuropsychological populations
- Neurocognitive disorders group
- Service-based clinical research group
(with ORYGEN Research Centre)
Adolescent development and the emergence of emotional and behavioural problems
| Laboratories | ORYGEN health |
| People | Nick Allen |
Understanding the biological bases of emotional and social processes in humans
| Laboratories | Affective Neuroscience Lab |
| People | Nick Allen |
(with Royal Children’s Hospital)
Cognitive, educational, behavioural, emotional and social impact of childhood brain disorders
| People | Peter Anderson |
| Vicki Anderson | |
| Elisabeth Northam | |
| Margot Prior |
Modelling emotional responses, clinical issues associated with rehabilitation of brain damaged patients, problem-solving and Frontal lobe Dysfunction
| People | David Andrewes |
Social cognition within personality disorders and schizophrenia/early psychosis fields within and across phases of the disorders
| People | Simon Cropper |
| John Gleeson | |
| Carol Hulbert | |
| Henry Jackson | |
| Lisa Phillips | |
| David Rawlings |
(with ORYGEN Research Centre)
Designs and tests interventions for young people with FEP to assist their return to full functioning
| Laboratories | ORYGEN health & “first episode studies” |
| People | John Gleeson |
| Carol Hulbert | |
| Eoin Killackey | |
| Lisa Phillips |
Integrating neuropsychological assessment with psychological measurement theory, modelling neuropsychological features of traumatic brain injury, temporal lobe epilepsy, and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
| Laboratory | Neuropsychology Lab |
| People | Steve Bowden |
Cerebral representation of complex cognitive systems, and neuropsychological and psychosocial outcomes of brain disease and neurosurgical intervention
| People | Jay Anderson |
| Michael Saling |
Borderline personality disorders, general anxiety disorders, anorexia nervosa and obesity
| People | Carol Hulbert |
| Lisa Phillips | |
| Nola Rushford |
Human cognition and behavioural neuroscience
- Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
- Auditory cognition and music research unit
- Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies
- Complex decision research group
- Language and cognition laboratory
- Laterality laboratory
- Mathematical and cognitive development laboratory
- Neurocognitive disorders group
- Sleep laboratory
- Vision and attention laboratory
| Laboratory | Affective Neuroscience Lab |
| People | Nick Allen |
Neural mechanisms underlying auditory cognition and music and computational models of perception/cognition based on neuroimaging, cognitive and behavioural data
| Laboratory | Music research lab |
| People | Neil McLachlan |
| Sarah Wilson |
(with Royal Children’s Hospital)
Cognitive, educational, behavioural, emotional and social impact of childhood brain disorders
| People | Peter Anderson |
| Vicki Anderson | |
| Elisabeth Northam | |
| Margot Prior |
(with La Trobe University)
Human factors aspects of decision making in complex systems, where decisions typically involve: sequences of interdependent choices and time-pressured environments
| Laboratory | Complex decision research group |
| People | Alex Wearing |
Language skills in reading and spelling and the relationship between language and mathematical skills
| Laboratory | Language and cognition lab |
| People | Virginia Holmes |
| Meredith McKague |
Laterality in the human brain and behaviour, including asymmetries in attention, face processing, space and number representation and hand preference
| Laboratory | Laterality lab |
| People | Mike Nicholls |
Cognitive, neurological, socio-cultural and educational bases of children's mathematical reasoning and the ways these change over time.
| Laboratory | Mathematical Cognitive Development Lab |
| People | Brain Butterworth |
| Bob Reeve |
Cerebral representation of complex cognitive systems, and neuropsychological and psychosocial outcomes of brain disease and neurosurgical intervention
| Laboratory | Neuropsychology Lab |
| People | Jay Anderson |
| Michael Saling |
Cardio-respiratory mechanisms associated with sleep and sleep disorders, including neuro-cognitive effects on sleep disordered children
| Laboratory | Sleep |
| People | John Trinder |
Neural and computational mechanisms of attention, perception and cognition through behavioural measurement, theoretical analysis, mathematical modelling and psychopharmacology
| Laboratory | Vision |
| People | Simon Cropper |
| Jason Forte | |
| Philip Smith |
Social behaviour and human development
- Environmental psychology
- Learning and development
- Life-course developmental
- Mathematical and cognitive development
- Negotiation and interactive behaviour
- Social networks
- Social psychology
Interrelationships between human experiences & behavior and the physical (natural & built) environment
| Laboratory | Environmental Psychology Lab |
| People | Bernd Rohrmann |
Interplay between development, educational engagement and motivation
| Laboratory | Learning and Development Lab |
| People | Mary Ainley |
Development in social interactions between persons and social contexts including intergenerational interactions, life as a young adult and child protection
| Laboratories | African Lab |
| Intergenerational Lab | |
| Procedural Justice Lab | |
| People | Jeanette Lawrence |
Cognitive, neurological, socio-cultural and educational bases of children's mathematical reasoning and the ways these change over time.
| Laboratory | Mathematical Cognitive Development Lab |
| People | Brian Butterworth |
| Bob Reeve |
(in conjunction with the Melbourne Business School)
| Laboratories | Negotiation and Interactive Behaviour Lab |
| People | Mara Olekalns |
| Philip Smith |
Statistical models for social network data and on wide empirical applications including: disease spread, organizational systems, community networks, defence and criminal applications
| Laboratory | Social Networks Lab |
| People | Paul Dudgeon |
| Pip Pattison | |
| Garry Robins |
Cultural dynamics, concepts of human nature, social categories, inter-group relations and the nature of the self
| Laboratories | Experimental Social Psychology Lab |
| Repertory Grid Technique Lab | |
| Social Action Lab | |
| Social/Personality Lab | |
| People | Richard Bell |
| Jenny Boldero | |
| Nick Haslam | |
| Yoshi Kashima |