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Professor
Sylvia
Gustin
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
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Professor Sylvia Gustin is the Rebecca L. Cooper Senior Research Fellow, Director of the NeuroRecovery Research Hub at the UNSW, Director of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience RTesearch Australia (NEURA), and leads the Pain Research, Education and Management Program at UNSW. She is Chair of the ENIGMA chronic pain working group and Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA.Sylvia completed her Ph.D. at the University of Tuebingen, Germany in 2006 in Psychology and immigrated to Australia in 2007. Since then Sylvia has been using brain imaging techniques and psychological assessment to investigate the central and psychological circuits underlying chronic pain and spinal cord injury.Sylvia has 25 years of experience in the use of brain imaging techniques including functional, structural and biochemical magnetic resonance imaging. In addition, she has practiced as a psychologist focusing on the management of chronic pain and spinal cord injury. Her aim is to increase our understanding of the development and maintenance of chronic pain and spinal cord injury, in particular psychological and central components and their association with each other. And, most importantly, to develop and evaluate novel interventions that can provide pain relief and touch restoration via the primary source of pain and sensation: the brain.Sylvia’s research is supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Wings for Life, US Department of Defence (DoD), NSW Defence Innovation Network and NSW Health.
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Associate Professor
Matthew
Baker
Faculty/Unit:
Biotech & Biomolecular Science
Research areas:
Biophysics Bacterial Motility Bacterial Evolution Microscopy Single Molecule Medical Microbiology Antibiotic Microbial Resistance
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Dr
Asheeta
Prasad
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Research areas:
Parkinsons Diseasehttp://www.psy.unsw.edu.au/Non-Motor-Symptoms-of-Parkinson%27s-Disease-Dr-Asheeta-PrasadDrug addictionhttp://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/brain-mechanisms-drug-addiction-%E2%80%93-new-brain-pathways-revealed
Keywords:
addiction, dopamine, neurodegenerative
Professor
Eddie
Harmon-Jones
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Research areas:
Effects of emotions on attention and other cognitive processes; the role of emotion and motivation in aggressive and pro-social behaviour; and the antecedents and consequences of discrepancies between cognition (cognitive dissonance theory).
Dr
Erik
Van Sebille
Faculty/Unit:
Climate Change Research Centre
Research areas:
Oceanography, investigating the time scales and pathways of the global ocean circulation. How currents and eddies in the ocean transport heat and nutrients as well as marine organisms and plastics between different regions of the ocean.
Associate Professor
David
Harvey
Faculty/Unit:
Sch of Mathematics & Statistic
Research areas:
Algebra and Number Theory.
Dr
Kathryn
Baker
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
Research areas:
Neuroscience, the adolescent brain, learning, memory, and fear extinction.
Associate Professor
David
White
Faculty/Unit:
School of Psychology
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I am a lead investigator in the Face Research Lab at UNSW. We study face perception with a focus on individual differences in people's ability to perform face processing tasks. Although we all look at many faces each day, we do not all share the same abilities to process the important social information that they contain. These individual differences have implications for theoretical understanding of perceptual processing and social cognition, as well as for people's everyday lives. They are also of substantial applied interest in settings where accurate face identification decisions are critical to identity management processes, for example in government, police, private industry and courts. Errors in these decisions can have profound social consequences, such as identity theft, acts of terrorism or wrongful convictions. Our work in this area encompasses performance testing of humans and technology. Interest in facial recognition technology is both applied and theoretical. From an applied perspective, we are interested in how people use and collaborate with facial recognition technology when making face identity judgments – for example in criminal investigations and forensic science evidence reports. From a theoretical perspective, we are interested in the potential for modern facial recognition technology – Deep Neural Networks – to model aspects of the face processing system in humans.
Keywords:
cognitive ability, contextual visual cues, face recognition, facial attractiveness, facial expression, individual behaviour
Dr
John
Porter
Faculty/Unit:
Biological, Earth & Env Sci
Research areas:
Wetlands; macrophytes; seed banks; arid rivers; floodplains; waterbirds; aerial survey; water plants; charophytes
Dr
Mike
Hirschhorn
Faculty/Unit:
Sch of Mathematics & Statistic
Research areas:
mathematics; probability; number theory