BA(Hons) PhD Tas

Senior Lecturer & Deputy Head of School

My teaching and research are concerned with cognitive processes. They include the investigation of behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of brain and behaviour and the investigation of word recognition and reading processes in both normal readers and developmentally dyslexic readers.

Research Interests

I investigate the effects of sex, alcohol, minor tranquillisers and other drugs on the processes thought to be involved in driving and on other cognitive and behavioural processes such as memory, reaction time, and resource allocation. I also investigate, using event-related potentials and behavioural measures, pre-attentive processing, odour processing, and word recognition processes. I also investigate the strategic use of orthographic and phonological processes when recognising words, the differences in word recognition between dyslexic children, poor adult decoders, bilingual and multi-lingual readers, and normal adult and child readers.

Research Areas:

• Cognitive Neuroscience Lab  Read More

Teaching

I teach in the areas of cognition and memory. Courses I conduct look at memory functions and processes, at cognitive processes including attention, reading, and word recognition across different populations and at the electrophysiological and behavioural indices of these processes.

Units

• KHA101 - Psychology 1A
  
• KHA306 - Cognition and Memory
  

Selected Publications:

• Martin, F., Pratt, C., Claydon, E., Morton, A., & Binns, S, 2003, 'The development of orthographic and phonological strategies for the decoding of words in children.', Journal of Research in Reading, 26, , pgs. 191-204
• Martin, F.H. & Siddle, D.A.T, 2003, 'The interactive effects of alcohol and temazepam on P300 and reaction time', Brain and Cognition, in press
• Martin, J., Matthews, A., Martin, F., Kirkby, K.C., Alexander, J., & Daniels, B. , 2002, 'The effects of lorazepam and oxazepam on perceptual and procedural memory functions', Psychopharmacology, 164, pgs. 262-267.
• Alexander, J.R.M. & Martin, F. , 2001, 'Norming tests of basic reading skills.', Australian Journal of Psychology, number 52 (3), pgs. 139-148
• Martin, F., & Pratt, C. , 2001, 'The Martin and Pratt Nonword Reading Test.', ACER
• Sim, T. W.T., Martin, F & Ball, P , 1999, 'Application of the Orthographic Depth Hypothesis to Chinese-English Bilingual Word Recognition. ', South Pacific Journal of Psychology, number 10, pgs. 76-84
• Martin, F., Pratt, C., & Fraser, J. , 2000, 'The use of orthographic and phonological strategies for the decoding of words in children with developmental dyslexia and average readers. ', Dyslexia, number 6, pgs. 231-24

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• The development of phonological and orthographic processing strategies in normally achieving readers and readers with a specific reading disability.
• Cognitive correlates of anxiety
• The relationship between visual magnocellular functioning, attentional modulation, and event-related potentials in developmental dyslexia.
• Resource allocation differences between males and females.
• The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Impulsive Aggression.
• An event-related potential investigation of semantic, orthographic, and phonological processing in monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual word recognition.
• An investigation of the physiological and psychological effects of essential oils.
• Individual differences in children’s reading.
• An investigation of the development of phonological processing.
• The impact of sex differences on the component processes of reading.
• The effectiveness of reading programs and teacher professional development on children
• The effect of alcohol and benzodiazepines on memory and event-related potentials.
• Knowledge and beliefs of healthcare professionals regarding chronic nonmalignant pain - the place of opioid therapy.
• Neural correlates of performance trade-offs and interference in dual tasks
• An Investigation of the Effects of Ecstasy (MDMA) on Executive Functions and Memory using a Stage of Memory Framework