Anomalistic psychology is a relatively new field of research that is involved in exploring the psychological and in some case physiological reasons why people believe in, and report personal experiences of the paranormal

Clinical Neuropsychology

The Cognitive Neuropsychology lab is based on the Launceston campus. Our avenues of research involve, at a broad level, an applied examination of neuropsychological and cognitive processes. Read More....

1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, children & adults) Measurement issues (see below); theoretical models (state regulation deficit)
2. Measurement (psychometrics) in clinical psychology: Applications of structural equation models (SEM; including structural circumplex models) and item response theory (IRT) in clinical psychology: evaluation of psychometric properties of clinical measures, especially DSM-IV based measures; scale development and revision; invariance issues acro Read More....

This research area is concerned with the effects of sex and drugs on cognitive and behavioural processes such as memory, reaction time, and resource allocation. Using event-related potentials and behavioural measures, pre-attentive processing, odour processing and word recognition processes, including the strategic use of orthographic and phonological processes, the differences in word recognition between normal readers and dyslexic children and adults, and bilingual readers are investigated.