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Dr Mehdi Adibi
Research Areas: Population coding, neural coding, somatosensory system, sensory adaptation
Ola Ahmed
Research Areas: Classical conditioning, generalization of conditioned fear
Dr. Selen Atasoy
I did my Ph.D. in medical imaging jointly at Technical University of Munich with Nassir Navab and at Imperial College London with Guang-Zhong Yang (2008-2012). My doctoral thesis focused on scene recognition in medical images using pattern recognition and machine learning methods.
Dr Kathryn Baker
Learning and memory, fear, extinction, adolescence, d-cycloserine, retrieval-extinction, calcium.
My research examines how fear is inhibited in the adolescent brain. Adolescence is a period of increased vulnerability to anxiety disorders and the brain undergoes substantial maturation during adolescence, particularly in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), a region critical for inhibiting fear in adults. I am interested in how adolescents may be less efficient in utilising prefrontal regions to inhibit fear.
Dr Peter Baldwin
I research Hoarding Disorder, a poorly understood psychiatric syndrome. I examine how psychological and neurological processes might explain hoarding behaviour, and how we can better address these in clinical theory and practice.
Dr Johanna Bergmann
Visual imagery and working memory, conscious visual perception, early visual cortex, brain imaging methods (fMRI, DTI, MR spectroscopy)
Dr J Bertran-Gonzalez
My current research at the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory (UNSW) focuses on the involvement of basal ganglia circuits in the selection and refinement of action in both physiological and pathological conditions. The approach taken is to use well-defined behavioural procedures drawn from the associative learning literature as well as to design novel behavioural paradigms to allow the systematic investigation of the role played by different basal ganglia components in the control of voluntary action.
Miriam Den
Research Areas: From rats to humans: The effects of stress on fear conditioning and extinction during adolescence.
Dr James Dunn
Research Areas: My research focuses on cognitive processes involved in face recognition. Previous research projects include: examining the relationship between image and identity level representations, using visual search to identify individual differences in the acquisition of familiarity and improving search performance.
