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The following projects are undertaken in the research area of Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

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Assessing Cognitive Function after Head Injury (Controls needed) (Staff)

Right-handed males over 30 years of age who have never sustained a head injury or concussion are invited to participate in this study on the Hobart campus which aims to contribute to the development of electrophysiological means of assessing the severity of head injury. Read More....

An event-related potential investigation of semantic, orthographic, and phonological processing in monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual word recognition. (Doctorate)

Supervisors: Frances Martin
Using event-related potentials, this project investigates semantic, orthographic (lexical), and phonological (sub-lexical) differences between English monolinguals, Chinese-English and Malay-English bilinguals, and Chinese-Malay-English trilinguals, during processing of English words and nonwords. Read More....

An investigation of the physiological and psychological effects of essential oils. (Doctorate)

Supervisors: Frances Martin
A cognitive psychophysiological, psychological and physiological investigation aimed at scientifically verifying aromatherapy's claims regarding the sedative and stimulant effects of certain essential oils. Read More....

Cognitive correlates of anxiety (Doctorate)

Supervisors: Frances Martin
This research investigates the cognitive correlates of various anxiety and phobic states. The efficacy of computer aided vicarious exposure for phobic states and anxiety disorders is also being investigated.

Knowledge and beliefs of healthcare professionals regarding chronic nonmalignant pain - the place of opioid therapy. (Doctorate)

Supervisors: Frances Martin
This project concerns knowledge and beliefs of healthcare professionals regarding chronic nonmalignant pain and also satisfaction with and use of the healthcare system including use and misuse of medications by chronic non-malignant pain sufferers.

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