Annual Report of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS

ARC CENTRE | 2017 ANNUAL REPORT OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS

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ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Annual Report 2017 Published by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Macquarie University | NSW 2109 Australia Designed and printed by Acrobat Corporate Print © ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders 2017 Further information relating to this report may be obtained from the Centre +61 2 9850 4127 | ccd.edu.au Image Credits: Robin Blumfield | Monica Brockmyre | Nichola Burton | Rosemary Eliott Muireann Irish | Eva Marinus | Lesley McKnight | Scott Needham/L’Oréal Katherine Revius | Chris Stacey | Julia Wylie/Brain and Mind Centre CONTENTS

 THE CENTRE 2 Chair’s Report 3 Director’s Report 4 Centre Overview | Governance | Management 6 Looking Forward

 RESEARCH 8 Belief Formation Program 12 Language Program 16 Memory Program 20 Person Perception Program 24 Reading Program 27 Cross Program 30 Neural Markers 32 Perception in Action

 CENTRE MEMBERS 34 Chief, Partner and Associate Investigators 43 Research Support Staff 44 Students

 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | TRAINING 54 Hosted Events 59 Sponsored Events 60 Hosted Seminars 62 Research Training Events 64 Graduates | Alumni 65 Student Awards 66 Centre Exchange Schemes

 PERFORMANCE 98 Performance Indicators 100 Income | Expenditure 101 Participating Organisations THE CENTRE CHAIR’S REPORT

On behalf of the members also increased their involvement in regional engagement of the Advisory Board, through new high school activities and research projects it is my pleasure to focusing on regional areas in the Northern Territory and congratulate the ARC Western Australia. Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders The Centre’s media and publicity activities was (CCD) on another another area of focus for Centre outreach in 2017. successful year. Centre To maximise the reach and impact of the Centre’s members have extended outreach, research articles and updates were posted their international on the CCD homepage, and tweets were sent during connections, disseminated targeted community engagement activities. Media their research findings in and outreach activities concentrated on particular high quality outputs, provided students with high quality themes throughout the year, with Centre members research training, and promoted their research to the targeting Alzheimer’s Awareness Month/Frontotemporal community. Dementia Awareness Week and National Science Week. In particular, the Centre’s participation in the This year the students, early career researchers and National Science Week enabled CCD researchers to academic staff benefited from the feedback and promote the Centre across the country. As part of guidance provided to them by the members of the the Centre’s science communication with the general Scientific Committee. During November, Emeritus public, 16 Centre members published 15 articles on The Professor Michael Kopelman and Professor Ovid Conversation. Tzeng visited and participated in the Student and ECR Development Workshop and CCD Annual Workshop. In reflection I would like to acknowledge the Advisory Board members for their support and their The CCD also continued to establish collaborative contributions to the Centre throughout the year. As research links with additional international partners. On Chair, I extend the Board’s congratulations to all the 14 December 2017 the CCD completed a Memorandum researchers, students and support staff at the ARC of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Reading, Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders for UK. This MoU was established following a series of another constructive year of research and engagement visits by Professor Doug Saddy to the Centre and with the community. We look forward with anticipation consolidated during an extended visit by Professor to yet another productive year in 2018. Jennie Hudson, Associate Investigator, to the University of Reading in October 2017. Professor Laurent Rivory

Educational engagement activities continued as a key focus for the Centre, with another successful year of the CCD Work Experience Program. The Work Experience Program ran three sessions in May, July/ August and November. During these three sessions, researchers from the CCD hosted more than 30 high school students, who were immersed in a hands-on program that informed students about the many facets of research in cognitive science undertaken at the host institution of the CCD, Macquarie University. These groups participated in an engaging program for the entire week, which included a mini research project and presention of their findings to Centre members.

A major outreach activity for the Centre was the Reading and Spelling Workshop held in September. This two- day event attracted over 150 attendees, with a large majority of external participants including speech pathologists, primary and secondary school teachers, learning support staff, psychologists and parents, along with Centre researchers. The first day of the workshop focused on research in the field of reading, spelling, dyslexia and dysgraphia and the second day focused on practice and policy, including resources for testing and current Australian educational policy and programs. By completing the workshop teachers were accredited with 8 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) professional development. CCD researchers

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On behalf of all Centre Scheme. We funded five research training projects members, I am proud to this year. These included a project that used eye- present the 2017 Annual tracking and multi-voxel pattern analysis, one that Report for the ARC used electromagnetic articulography, another that Centre of Excellence in used EMOTIV and Neuroscan EEG devices, a project Cognition and its Disorders that employed a visuospatial working memory task (CCD). This was clearly to characterise the dynamics of remembered object another very successful representations, and an investigation of neural response year for members of the to expectations about one’s own actions in healthy CCD, which includes 20 individuals and in individual with schizophrenia. Chief Investigators, 12 Partner Investigators, 205 The CCD continued to provide outstanding Associate Investigators, 21 centre-funded postdoctoral opportunities for academic engagement for Centre fellows and 174 honours and higher degree research members at various stages of their career. The students. Centre members have made major scientific Centre hosted 14 academic workshops, sponsored contributions to our five research programs: Belief three external conferences and hosted 50 seminars Formation, Language, Memory, Person Perception and throughout the year. One of the highlights was the Reading. Science of the Self research forum that focused on research findings related to agency and body The CCD offers several internal funding schemes that representation, sponsored by the Belief Formation are designed to promote innovative and collaborative Program and the Faculty of Human Sciences. Another research, and to support research training for highlight was the CCD-KIT MEG Workshop, which outstanding students and our postdoctoral fellows. brought together prominent international MEG This year, the Centre’s new Postdoctoral Exchange researchers from Japan, the United States, the United Scheme provided travel grants to Dr Amy Dawel (Person Kingdom and The Netherlands to showcase our national Perception Program, Australian National University) and international research collaborations on cognitive who visited the Institute of Research in Psychology, at processing using MEG. Included in the program was a the University of Louvain in Belgium, and to Dr Wei He tribute to the memory of Professor Hisashi Kado, the (Language Program, Macquarie University) who visited former Director of the Applied Electronics Laboratory VU University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. at KIT, who pioneered the 160 channel whole-head MEG In 2017, the CCD also held 9 well-attended training system which is now used internationally. Finally, we sessions for students and Early Career Researchers. held another highly successful CCD Annual Workshop at We continued the Student Exchange Scheme that the Mercure Resort Hunter Valley Gardens with over 110 provided support for Ben Tappin to visit Yale University, members participating in the three-day event. USA and for Lina Teichmann to visit the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, France. Each I take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks to all of year, our students publish fantastic research and we our Centre members for their significant contributions recognise these exceptional publications through our to research and for their enthusiastic support of the Excellence in Research Student Award – Publications. Centre throughout the year. This year the award winners published in the following journals: Experimental Psychology: Human Perception Professor Stephen Crain and Performance; Biological Reviews; NeuroImage; Schizophrenia Bulletin and Neuropsychology Review. For more information about these publications please see the Professional Development and Training section.

The Cross Program Support Scheme is another vehicle by which the Centre provides research support for Centre members. This scheme provides funding for projects that involve researchers from two or more research programs. This year we funded another five innovative research projects. These included an investigation of computational modelling of spoken word production, a study of cognitive factors associated with dementia patients with psychosis, an investigation of the link between children’s coding ability and their syntactic skills, a study of the appearance-based trust behaviour in patients with schizophrenia, and an exploration of lexical and semantic processing in minimally-verbal children with autism. The Centre also provided support for training in experimental techniques through the Neural Markers Training

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ARC Centres of Excellence are prestigious research hubs in which experts from across the nation work VISION in collaboration to extend Australia’s international standing in areas of national priority. The ARC Centre The ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) Disorders will be recognised as a world-leading cognitive offers unique opportunities for interdisciplinary and science centre, where scientists from across disciplines international collaborative research in the study of collaborate in order to link theoretical models and cognition and its disorders. The five CCD research basic research findings in the cognitive sciences with areas, belief formation, language, memory, person outcomes focused on people with cognitive disorders. perception and reading, were chosen because they are well understood from a theoretical point of view and because Australia has outstanding researchers in MISSION these areas. The five research programs will directly inform the assessment and interventions for a range of The mission of the Centre is to coordinate research cognitive disorders, including dyslexia, specific language in five areas of cognition: belief formation, language, impairment, autism, dementia and schizophrenia. memory, person perception, and reading.

The CCD brings together an extensive network of Australian and international research institutions. The central node of the CCD is Macquarie University, with additional nodes at The University of Sydney and at The University of Western Australia. There are two other Australian institutions, University of New England and The University of New South Wales, plus 10 international partner institutions associated with the CCD during 2017: INECO Foundation, Argentina; LWL Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Tel Aviv University, Israel; The University of Auckland, NZ; The University of Kansas, USA; The University of York, UK; University College London, UK; University of East Anglia, UK; and University of Oxford, UK.

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The Director, Professor Stephen Crain, is responsible for scientific leadership and strategic direction. The Chief Operations Officer, Dr Lisa Yen, is responsible for the operational management of the CCD. The Research Management Committee comprises the Director, the Chief Operations Officer, and the Program Leaders. This Committee is responsible for the Centre’s goals, policies and performance indicators. The progress, future directions and outreach activities of the CCD are reviewed by an international Scientific Committee composed of eminent scholars in cognitive science, and by an Advisory Board with representatives from academia and key community/advocacy organisations.

Professor Yukio Otsu ADVISORY BOARD Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies Professor Laurent Rivory Keio University, Japan Chair Professor Daniel Schacter Pro Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Collaborations and Department of Psychology Partnerships) Harvard University, USA The University of Sydney Professor Ovid Tzeng Dr Trevor Clark Institute of Linguistics National Director, Aspect Education Academia Sinica, Taiwan Autism Spectrum Australia Professor Peter Davies Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) RESEARCH The University of Western Australia MANAGEMENT Dr Lorraine Hammond President COMMITTEE Learning Difficulties Australia Professor Simon Handley Professor Amanda Barnier (September - October 2017) Executive Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences Acting Program Leader | Belief Formation Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Ms Susan McCarthy General Manager, Services Professor Stephen Crain Alzheimer’s Australia NSW Director Professor Philip Newall Program Leader | Language Renwick Centre Department of Linguistics Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children Macquarie University Associate Professor Jim Patrick Professor Anne Castles Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist Deputy Director Cochlear Limited Program Leader | Reading Department of Cognitive Science Mr Rob Ramjan AM Macquarie University Chief Executive Officer One Door Mental Health Associate Professor Robyn Langdon Program Leader | Belief Formation Professor Leanne Togher Department of Cognitive Science Communication and Speech Disorders Macquarie University The University of Sydney Associate Professor Romina Palermo Co-Program Leader | Person Perception School of Psychology SCIENTIFIC The University of Western Australia COMMITTEE Professor Olivier Piguet Emeritus Professor Noam Chomsky Program Leader | Memory Department of Linguistics and Philosophy School of Psychology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA The University of Sydney Emeritus Professor Michael Kopelman Professor Gillian Rhodes Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience Program Leader | Person Perception King’s College London, UK School of Psychology The University of Western Australia Professor Jason Mattingley Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology Dr Lisa Yen The University of Queensland Chief Operations Officer Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University

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The 2018 Activity Plan for the ARC Centre of Excellence in • Investigate individual variation in facial first impressions Cognition and its Disorders involves the following new and and their accuracy, including a twin study to assess the continuing research projects. genetic and environmental contributions to variation • Study the role of social goals in the development of BELIEF FORMATION PROGRAM facial impressions, to determine whether different • Validate a newly developed scale of self-representation dimensions underlie impressions of children’s faces and and examine relations between normal and abnormal adult’s faces experiences of agency, body ownership and sense of • Investigate the relationship between facial appearance, presence immune function and health • Finalise a clinical study of the cognitive processes of • Use Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation to examine how inhibition related to belief evaluation and revision in children process facial expressions delusional people with schizophrenia • Examine associations between trauma-related READING PROGRAM epigenetic modifications, brain functioning and • Investigate orthographic learning in typically developing symptoms among patients with schizophrenia and readers and in clinical groups related clinical disorders • Explore cross-linguistic differences in the acquisition of • Adapt the metacognitive training program for psychotic key reading processes delusions to treat distorted beliefs in other clinical • Study how early visual-orthographic information such conditions (e.g. eating disorders) as letter order and identity is acquired • Continue to study the basis of different types of LANGUAGE PROGRAM developmental and acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia • Investigate the role of the hippocampus in syntactic and • Develop and validate innovative technologies to semantic processing examine the neural bases of reading processes • Study brain structures that are recruited in both music • Study cognitive skills that enhance children’s success in and language computer programming • Study language difficulties in people with acquired • Develop and use computational models of reading to language disorders and factors influencing successful simulate effects observed in studies of reading and intervention spelling • Explore aspects of speech planning and production in children with normal hearing and in children with hearing impairments CROSS PROGRAM RESEARCH • Investigate hearing abilities and phonological awareness • Reasoning, memory and beliefs: Using hypnosis and in indigenous children transcranial magnetic stimulation to facilitate or inhibit • Investigate how contextual support aids language rational thought and belief bias understanding in children with Specific Language • Talking to read, reading to talk Impairment • Learning from our mistakes: What error patterns and their neural correlates tell us about word relearning in MEMORY PROGRAM semantic dementia • The effect of visual body size adaptation on multimodal • Characterise episodic, semantic and short-term representations of the self memory deficits in individuals with congenital or • Investigating the effect of musical priming on language acquired brain abnormalities to enhance models of processing in individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia human memory • Investigate interactions between social cognition and • When bilingualism meets biliteracy: The role of memory processes in healthy and clinical populations morphological knowledge of spoken language in learning • Determine changes over time in memory circuits in to read dementia and other neurological conditions • Executive control and error monitoring of pronunciation • Develop memory retraining interventions to help during reading aloud in stuttering compensate for memory deficits in children and adults with acquired brain injury NEURAL MARKERS RESEARCH • Identify early neuroimaging markers of dementia and • Decoding joint attention processes using interactive measure brain changes with disease progression eye-tracking and multivoxel pattern analysis • Study lexical representations using masked onset PERSON PERCEPTION PROGRAM priming and electromagnetic articulography • Investigate face processing difficulties in individuals • Investigate word recognition with Fast Periodic Visual with congenital prosopagnosia and develop improved Stimulation using Emotiv and Neuroscan EEG systems methods for diagnosis • Characterise the dynamics of remembered object • Study other-race effects in face perception to better representations in the posteriomedial cortex during a understand face expertise visuospatial working memory task • Test computational models of face-coding mechanisms • Explore neural responses to expectations about our • Examine the social and emotional consequences own actions, comparing healthy and schizophrenia of poor face processing in age-related macular populations degeneration

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BELIEF FORMATION PROGRAM The Belief Formation Program investigates the processes involved in perceiving reality, generating belief content, self-monitoring, and adopting and revising beliefs. When disrupted, these processes can cause various psychiatric symptoms including the psychotic symptoms (i.e., delusions and hallucinations) that characterise schizophrenia and manifest in a range of other disorders. We aim to develop neural and cognitive models of these symptoms across diagnostic categories, advance understanding of related non-clinical phenomena, develop and evaluate psychological treatments, and examine social influences and consequences. We thank all our collaborators, students and research associates and report on a sample of our work, under some major themes.

Conspiracy theories Belief biases in the moral and political Colin Klein, Peter Clutton, Vince Polito and spheres Adam Dunn (Macquarie University) Ryan McKay, Ben Tappin and Mariia Kaliuzhna

Conspiracy theorising has major negative societal This project focuses on strongly-held beliefs and biases impacts, and yet investigation of conspiracy theorising in the general community. is still in its infancy. Further, the internal logic of conspiracy theorising sometimes seems similar to McKay, Tappin and colleagues have been investigating the delusional thinking that is seen in clinical cases. the effects of belief biases in the moral and political An important facilitator of the spread of conspiracy spheres. They have documented a “moral prejudice theorising is online conspiracy forums. Klein has been against atheists” and have conducted several studies leading an interdisciplinary collaboration looking at investigating how anti-atheist prejudice may bias juridical similarities and differences between participants in the decisions. McKay has also used the ‘choice blindness’ conspiracy forums of ‘reddit.com’, using a complete paradigm to examine the malleability of people’s religious corpus of comments on the site throughout 2015. beliefs and attitudes. In other work examining biased Two projects revealed that individuals come to these beliefs, Kaliuzhna has continued her work on “just-world conspiracy forums through a variety of pathways, and beliefs”. Most people tend to believe that the world is a that once in the forum they form distinct but highly just place where one gets what one deserves, despite interactive subgroups. A small (but vocal) minority observing multiple instances to the contrary. Just-world of posters on these forums fit the classic model of beliefs may also bias people to believe that a person the ‘monological’ conspiracy theorist who connects who has experienced misfortune is being punished for everything to everything else. Many more posters, something bad they have done, thus promoting victim however, appear to combine a limited set of concerns blaming. Kaliuzhna has found several inconsistencies with a distrust of traditional sources of information, with these assumed symmetries in just-world beliefs. For leading to entertainment of, and engagement with, example, people are more reluctant to ascribe a current increasingly radical ideas. In conjunction with this misfortune to punishment for past bad behaviour than work, the Belief Formation Program and the Macquarie they are to ascribe current good fortune to a reward University Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics hosted for past good deeds. These findings may advance a 2-day workshop on “Conspiracy Theories, Delusions, understanding of how self-serving biases shape belief and other ‘Troublesome’ Beliefs” on 10-11 August 2017. formation and knowledge organisation. The workshop brought together local, national, and international scholars to share theories and methods for studying what seem to be aberrations from traditional rationality, as well as methods for engagement with members of such communities.

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Cognitive and neural mechanisms of to show that both goal and kinematic information about perceiving agency and intentions in ourselves another’s observed actions are processed in parallel to and others inform our expectations of another person’s actions. Vince Polito, Simmy Poonian, Nathan Caruana, Research by Caruana and colleagues focuses on the Jon Brock, Alex Woolgar, Kiley Seymour, Robyn neural processing of others’ intentions during social Langdon, Kate Hardwick, Genevieve McArthur and interaction. Social interactions demand that individuals Peter de Lissa understand the intentions of others, identify behaviors that are communicative and choose an appropriate This research stream investigates the processes involved response. Previous studies of social cognition have in understanding our own and others’ intentional actions typically employed non-interactive paradigms where (limb and eye movements) and the distortions to these participants interact with static social stimuli (e.g., processes that may explain the generation of delusional photographic faces). In contrast, this team has developed themes of ‘alien-control’, other conditions involving interactive eye-tracking paradigms where participants disturbed self-representations, and the difficulties with cooperate with an animated avatar to achieve joint tracking others’ intentions that are seen in many people attention and communicate information. They varied with schizophrenia. whether participants believed their virtual partner was controlled by a computer program or by another human Polito and colleagues manipulated feedback about (via live infrared eye-tracking). Across ERP, fMRI and eye- actions and created delays between sensory inputs tracking studies, they found that beliefs about the agency from different sense modalities to reveal how the of a social partner, and thus the partner’s capacity for healthy brain integrates sensory signals to create a intentional behaviour, significantly impacted how humans unified representation of self. They also examined processed and responded to social behaviours during the inter-relationships between various forms of self- interactions. Their work highlights the role of intention representation by investigating how our sense of agency processing during social perception and action, and thus relates to our sense of body ownership (the feeling of the importance of replicating ecologically-valid social knowing where our body is in space), and our sense contexts in the investigation of normal and abnormal of presence (the feeling of being immersed in the social-cognitive processes. environment). The project compared the experiences of individuals interacting with passive media (e.g., watching movies), active media (e.g., playing computer games), and immersive media (e.g., exploring virtual environments). The findings may inform the development of effective human-computer interfaces. The research team also continues to develop and validate a more sensitive measure of self-representation that can diagnose and monitor disturbances in self-monitoring across a range of contexts.

Research led by Poonian focuses on how expectations about actions and the world influence our ability to execute and maintain control over our actions and understand others’ intentions. In one task, MEG was used to measure the brain rhythms that reflect our ability to control our actions, while sensory outcomes were either predictable or not. Findings demonstrated that the neural correlates for movement planning are influenced by sensorimotor context. In other work, EEG was used

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Influence of childhood trauma on brain Treatment for delusions function in psychosis Ryan Balzan and Steffen Moritz Melissa Green and Yann Quidé (The University of New Metacognitive training (MCT) is a group-based treatment South Wales) program designed to reduce delusional severity in psychotic patients. It comprises a series of instructor- Exposure to childhood trauma is a significant risk factor led group intervention modules targeting attribution for the development of psychosis and is known to impact biases, jumping-to-conclusions, belief inflexibility, brain development. This project investigates the role overconfidence in errors, theory-of-mind deficits, and of childhood trauma in the development of functional depressive cognitive schemata, as well as considering brain abnormalities associated with psychosis. This stigma and low self-esteem. The program attempts work builds on earlier NHMRC-funded research that to raise (metacognitive) awareness of one’s own examined the associations between heterogeneity in thinking biases, thereby planting ‘seeds of doubt’ and brain function in psychosis and history of childhood encouraging critical reflection. Large randomised control trauma. In one study, the research team investigated trials and a recent meta-analysis indicate that MCT social-cognitive processes (e.g., theory of mind or is effective in reducing delusional severity, including mentalising) known to contribute to delusional belief at 3-yrs post-treatment. Recently, Balzan, Moritz formation and poor social functioning in schizophrenia. and colleagues have been evaluating an individually They found that childhood trauma exposure was administered version of MCT entitled ‘metacognitive associated with reduced activation of the temporo- therapy’ (MCT+). This approach combines the ‘cognitive parietal junction and greater activation of the parietal bias’ focus of the original MCT group-training with cingulate cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. individually tailored cognitive-behavioural therapy for These brain regions are well-established components of psychosis (CBTp). Discussing a patient’s symptoms key networks involved in social-cognitive function. The within the context of cognitive biases may be perceived findings suggest that childhood trauma exposure may by the patient as less threatening than the more direct at least partially contribute to functional alterations of CBTp approach. This individualised approach also brain regions essential for effective understanding of allows for a greater range of therapeutic strategies mental states in schizophrenia. In a related study, the (e.g., establishing specific therapy goals, behavioural team examined trauma-related differences in brain experiments, Socratic questioning). A randomised- activation and functional connectivity during a (non- control-trial comparing MCT+ to a cognitive remediation social) cognitive task involving response inhibition, a control group (targeting the cognitive symptoms of form of processing that may compromise normal belief schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, such as memory revision. They found increased activation in the left deficits) revealed a double dissociation, wherein inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and increased connectivity participants allocated to the MCT+ program showed between the left IFG and the cerebellum and calcarine greater improvements in delusional symptoms, and sulcus, both in people with psychosis and in healthy participants in the cognitive remediation control individuals who had been exposed to childhood trauma, condition demonstrated greater improvements in relative to participants with no such history. Further, they neuropsychological domains. The MCT program has found that trauma-related brain function was mediated also been adapted to treat non-psychotic disorders by symptom severity in the psychotic group, suggesting (e.g., depression, OCD, and borderline personality that the biological impact of childhood trauma may disorder), given that cognitive and social biases also operate via mechanisms associated with more severe feature in these conditions (e.g., catastrophic thinking, psychopathology among those exposed to early life interpretation biases), and is currently being adapted to maltreatment. target the unrealistic (sometimes delusional) beliefs that are characteristic of eating disorders (e.g., unrealistic beliefs regarding body image, weight and shape).

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Biases and conflict processing in belief formation and revision Ryan Balzan, Ryan McKay, Leslie van der Leer (Royal Holloway, UK), Mariia Kaliuzhna, Robyn Langdon and Emily Connaughton

This project investigates the biases and mental- processing difficulties that promote the adoption and persistence of delusional beliefs. Previous research has identified a ‘jumping-to-conclusions’ (JTC) bias, in which delusional people make decisions based on little evidence. Balzan and colleagues have developed new variants of the original JTC ‘beads’ task, which shows how quickly participants are prepared to make predictions about future bead selections, to improve its reliability and reduce misunderstanding of task instructions. McKay has run several studies on data gathering biases in different contexts. Together with van der Leer, they showed that delusion-prone individuals gather too little information even on tasks where data gathering is minimally effortful (suggesting an abnormality in the value assigned to evidence, rather than in the effort required to obtain it). Recently, McKay also showed the importance of task context, providing evidence that people generally tend to gather too much evidence before making a decision in mating/dating contexts. There is other research that is focussed on conflict processing and the effects of contradictory evidence. Kaliuzhna’s research in this area was motivated by the observation that people with schizophrenia often produce contradictory, ambivalent or inconsistent statements in spontaneous speech. Those with delusions also appear to hold beliefs that contradict their own prior knowledge and the beliefs of others. She tested whether people with schizophrenia have a general deficit in processing contradictory statements. The finding was that patients processed contradictory statements in much the same way as healthy controls, irrespective of whether the stimuli were neutral or emotionally-laden. The finding suggests that people with schizophrenia do not have a generalised deficit in processing contradictory statements, but rather may have contextual difficulties when the information they are confronted with is highly personally relevant, as is the case with delusional beliefs. In other work, Langdon, Connaughton and colleagues are testing the ‘doxastic inhibition’ account of delusional persistence. This is the proposal that delusional people have difficulty inhibiting the content of a current belief to reason about conflicting information in a “maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not” mental space. Building on their work with non- clinical delusion-prone individuals, they are testing this account using a ‘belief-bias’ reasoning task in people with schizophrenia with and without acute delusions.

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LANGUAGE PROGRAM Researchers in the Language Program investigate language development in typically developing children as well as language processing in adults. Researchers in the program also study children with specific language impairment and adults with aphasia. Research findings from the program inform our understanding of language at a theoretical level, and also provide the basis for more effective diagnosis and treatment of language impairment.

The acquisition of English grammar by Exploring children’s learning of grammar preschool second language learners of Ping Tang, Julien Millaseau, Rebecca Holt, Nan Xu English Rattanasone, Ivan Yuen, Carmen Kung, Laurence Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ben Davies, Tamara Schembri, Bruggeman, Ben Davies, Thembi Dube, Elaine Schmidt Fabia Andronos (Macquarie University) and and Katherine Demuth Katherine Demuth Acquiring some aspects of language continues until Around 20% of school-age children in Australia speak the early teens. Using a variety of methods, this project a language other than English at home, and 60% of investigates the nature of language development these children are not yet proficient in English, despite from 2- to 13-year-old children, exploring the phonetic having attended preschool. This presents a challenge contributions to the acquisition of phonemic contrasts, for both teachers and clinicians, making it difficult to morpho-syntax, and the prosodic organisation of language determine which children are merely still learning English, more generally, especially in preschool bilingual children, and which ones have specific language impairment and children with hearing impairments. The results (SLI) and language delays that will require speech and provide a much more comprehensive understanding of language therapy. It is therefore important to gain a language abilities of these preschool children, the factors better understanding of how children from different that influence development over time, and how this might language backgrounds become proficient in the target be enhanced for those at risk for language delay. It also language, and what is characteristic of typical second explores school-aged children’s sentence-processing language learning for children from different first language abilities, documenting protracted development of backgrounds. This project has collected data from a sentence processing abilities in teens with cochlear broad range of both preschool monolingual and bilingual implants. Critical to this endeavour is converging evidence children, examining their use of grammatical inflections from different ways of probing children’s comprehension, (e.g., plurals, tense/agreement). Results suggest that processing, and use of language. The results show that both monolingual and bilingual children improve in their Mandarin-speaking children are almost adult-like in their use of all grammatical morphemes with age. Bilingual knowledge of neutral tone and tone sandhi by the age of 5, children lag approximately 1 year behind monolingual but that early bilinguals do not have a good command of children, but more time at preschool results in improved English inflectional morphology before they enter school. English grammar skills, especially for bilingual children. Preliminary evidence suggests that Mandarin L1-English L2 This suggests that preschool may be a major source bilinguals have overcome these limitations by the age of of English input for many bilingual children, facilitating 10, if not before. their grammatical knowledge of English. This has major implications for parents, teachers, and clinicians, both for facilitating school readiness and for identifying children with underlying SLI/language delays, who may need early intervention.

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Understanding language processing and The hippocampus and online language acquired language impairment processing Lyndsey Nickels, Polly Barr, Wendy Best, Britta Yi (Valerie) Pu, Brian Cornwell (Swinburne University Biedermann, Ella Creet, Karen Croot, Nora Fieder, of Technology) and Blake Johnson Naama Friedmann, Solène Hameau, Inga Hameister, Saskia Kohnen, Janna (Trudy) Krajenbrink, Language and memory have traditionally been studied Leonie Lampe, Catherine Mason, Ana Murteira, as separate constructs that are supported by distinct Leanne Ruggero, Margaret Ryan, Teresa Schubert, networks of brain structures. However recent work by Wilasinee (Kaimook) Siriboonpipattana (University our group and others suggests that current models of Groningen, The Netherlands), of the language network may have to be expanded to Cathleen Taylor-Rubin and Suzan Tokaç (University include the hippocampus, an integral component of of Groningen, The Netherlands) the memory system. This project found that activity of the human hippocampus can be detected using Our research takes a cognitive neuropsychological magnetoencephalography (MEG). These studies approach to investigate how language is represented and required participants to play a video game in which processed in our minds and the factors that influence they navigated through space in a virtual maze. This the design and implementation of treatment for people is analogous to a spatial memory (maze) task that is with language impairments. We use the convergence known to strongly activate the hippocampi of rodents. of evidence from people with acquired language Our MEG results showed that the human hippocampus disorders, such as post-stroke aphasia and primary also activates, exhibiting slow rhythmic oscillations progressive aphasia, and from people without language termed hippocampal theta oscillations. The magnitude impairment. The project continued to study how words of the hippocampal theta oscillations was significantly are activated in the lexicon, to see if, when one wants correlated with how well humans performed on the to say a word (e.g., rabbit), other words that are related maze task. in meaning (e.g., mouse, hole) or related in sound (e.g., habit) are activated. Our research has just started to Other work revealed that hippocampal theta oscillations clarify the findings of previous research which used are also elicited when participants read sentences with different measures of relatedness (e.g., a word from the semantically incongruent endings. The results from same category - mouse, vs. a word with an associated non-invasive MEG recordings of heathy participants meaning from the language, hole). In other research, we are consistent with results from other investigators found that seeing a gesture of what we want to say can using invasive intracranial recordings and provide influence how easily we can produce a word, and that neurophysiological evidence for an emerging view some people with aphasia have problems at an even that the hippocampus is an integral component of the more fundamental level: planning what to say. Another language network. New studies are designed to extend strand of our research is to understand how the quality these results to spoken language, to characterise of life is affected in people with primary progressive and quantify the connectivity of the hippocampus aphasia. For treatment to be most effective for these with components of the classical language network individuals, we have demonstrated that continued, long in parasylvian regions of the cerebral cortex. We will term, practice is vital. Our research is focusing on ways examine the time course of hippocampal activation with to increase the effects of treatment on conversation. non-invasive MEG recordings and we will characterise the hemispheric lateralisation and directions and strength of connectivity between the hippocampus, and cortical components of the language network including the temporal lobe and inferior frontal lobe.

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Children’s knowledge of pragmatic Music, sound and language inferences and logical entailments William (Bill) Thompson, Genevieve McArthur, Stephen Crain, Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill and Anna Fiveash, Xuejing Lu and Yanan Sun Rosalind Thornton Recent studies have suggested that music and language, This project investigates young children’s pragmatic distinct in so many obvious ways, may be tethered inferences and how they generate logical entailments or together by a number of shared cognitive resources. consequences. An example of an entailment is shown in Recent work has focused on two skills associated with sentence (1). speech perception: phonological awareness - the ability to identify and manipulate the sounds that make up (1) Kung Fu panda did not drive the blue car or the red syllables and words - and syntactic processing - the car. ways in which words are put together to form larger units of meaning. Both of these skills may be important for This sentence entails that Kung Fu Panda did not drive a appreciating music, suggesting that music and language blue car and did not drive a red car. To assert that Kung draw upon a common set of perceptual and cognitive Fu Panda drove a blue car or a red car would contradict resources. One of our studies has focused on a rare (1). An example of a pragmatic inference is shown in musical disorder known as congenital amusia. Individuals sentence (2). with this disorder are characterised by an impaired ability to perceive and remember music, in spite of (2) Kung Fu Panda drove the blue car or the red car. normal cognitive abilities. We discovered that individuals with congenital amusia have reduced phonological From sentence (2) we infer that Kung Fu Panda either awareness, suggesting that their deficit is not restricted drove the blue car or drove the red car, but he did to music. A further analysis suggested that individuals not drive both cars. This is called an inference of with poor pitch discrimination ability tended to have the ‘exclusivity’, which is associated with disjunction (English worst phonological awareness, whereas individuals with ‘or’) in ordinary circumstances. We can tell that the ‘not poor timing and rhythm skills had relatively normal levels both’ interpretation is an inference by noting that the of phonological awareness. These findings suggest that inference is cancelled in certain linguistic environments. the ability to discriminate between pitches, essential for One of these environments is illustrated in sentence music perception, may be important for phonological (3), where ‘or’ appears in the antecedent clause of a awareness and, hence, for language comprehension. A conditional statement. second study examined interference effects between (3) If Kung Fu Panda drives the blue car or the red car, language and music processing in individuals with no then he will be happy. impairment of any kind. When participants listened to background music that had complex syntactic structure, The conditional statement (3) means that Kung Fu Panda they had difficulty understanding concurrent sentences will be happy if he drives the blue car and he will be with complex linguistic structure. happy if he drives the red car. The ‘exclusivity’ inference is no longer engaged.

These examples illustrate the kinds of pragmatic inferences and logical entailments that adults assign to sentences with disjunction. We have been conducting a series of experimental studies investigating young children’s inferences and entailments in sentences, including sentences with disjunction. The findings of these studies suggest that children have acquired knowledge of pragmatic inferences and logical entailments before they reach the age of 4, even in circumstances where there is little, if any, relevant linguistic input from their adult caretakers. The findings therefore lend support to current linguistic theory which anticipates early mastery of complex linguistic phenomena even in the absence of relevant experience.

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Enhancing language comprehension in children with specific language impairment Rosalind Thornton, Stephen Crain, Lyn Tieu, Nichola Shelton and Jasmine Martin

This project aims to demonstrate that basic changes in the way instructions are delivered to children with specific language impairment (SLI) yield marked improvements in their language comprehension. Standardised tests such as the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Preschool 2 (CELF-P2) are commonly used to assess children’s linguistic competence but, in some cases, these tests are likely to underestimate children’s linguistic knowledge because sentences are presented without the kind contextual support that is supplied in ordinary life.

This project investigated three kinds of sentences that are used in many standardised tests: sentences with temporal terms, like ‘before’ and ‘after’; sentences with phrases that contain complex noun modifiers, such as ‘second green ball’; and sentences with relative clauses, such as ‘… the woman who dropped the umbrella’.

Preliminary research findings suggest that the performance of children with SLI improves when the test sentences are presented in realistic contexts. For example, the experiment on children’s understanding of temporal terms invites the child participants to select one object to move ‘before’ or ‘after’ another. If the child expresses her intent to push a toy car for example, it is appropriate to ask her to ‘Hand me the truck before you push the car’. Another experiment investigates instructions, such as ‘Point to the second green ball’, presented in different contexts. In one context, the child handles the objects before the experimenter places them on a display. A third study will examine the presuppositions associated with relative clauses, something that is also frequently missing in standardised tests. These changes to the context have been found to significantly improve the language understanding of typically-developing children, and can be easily incorporated into treatment plans for children with SLI to enhance their language understanding in everyday class activities.

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MEMORY PROGRAM The Memory Program investigates the cognitive systems and brain structures underlying various forms of memory, including autobiographical, episodic, semantic, as well as imagination of future events. The Memory Program is also interested in understanding how other systems, such as social cognition, emotion, attention, and executive function modulate these memory functions. To understand these processes, we use experimental neuropsychological methods, structural and functional brain imaging, and post-mortem investigations from healthy individuals and from patients with progressive brain pathologies, such as dementia, or patients with static brain lesions due to congenital or acquired brain abnormality, or following brain surgery. The Memory Program aims to develop cognitive models of these memory systems and develop ways to measure these processes in humans.

The role of context in recognising emotions Psychophysiological assessment of emotion Fiona Kumfor, Agustin Ibáñez, Facundo Manes, recognition Muireann Irish and Olivier Piguet Fiona Kumfor, Jessica Hazelton and Olivier Piguet

When we see someone smiling or frowning, we can often The vast majority of clinical measures used to assess immediately and effortlessly recognise and understand emotion recognition rely on overt verbal responses. their emotional expression. Previously, it has been These measures are therefore susceptible to cognitive proposed that this complex ability requires us to draw on impairments of language like those observed in aphasia. our semantic memory to map specific components of We need a new approach to determine whether emotion the face and match them to our knowledge of different recognition deficits are due to a primary emotion facial emotional expressions, such as furrowed brow processing impairment or are due to secondary meaning anger or downturned lips meaning sad, based task demands. This project directly measures the on research using isolated facial expressions. Recent emotional response by individuals to social stimuli research, however, has demonstrated that the context using psychophysiological measures of autonomic of the situation, including body language and the arousal including heart rate and skin conductance as environmental scene, can alter how people interpret well as facial electromyography. We have uncovered the same facial cues. Our recent study demonstrated distinct profiles of these physiological responses in that patients with behavioural-variant frontotemporal healthy older adults and patients with dementia, which dementia are overly sensitive to contextual information, demonstrate that the experience of emotion differs in whereas patients with semantic dementia are unable to people with dementia. These results provide support decode emotional information from faces or contexts. for contemporary theories of emotion which emphasise This work has shed new light on the distinct behavioural the relationship between internal body state and our changes in these clinical syndromes. The results have emotional experience of situations. Future research also been integral in testing the Social Context Network will further develop these tests to improve their clinical Model of the neurobiological basis of context and applicability. emotion.

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Testing posterior parietal contributions to Multimodal neuroimaging biomarkers of episodic memory disease progression in dementia Muireann Irish, Siddharth Ramanan, John Hodges, Ramón Landin-Romero, Cheng Liang, Cristian Leyton, Lars Marstaller, Hańa Burianova and Olivier Piguet Fiona Kumfor, Muireann Irish, John Hodges and Olivier Piguet Episodic memory depends upon the coordinated activity of a distributed brain network which includes Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for a the medial temporal, prefrontal, and parietal cortices. collection of progressive neurodegenerative brain To date, the vast majority of studies have focused on disorders characterised by a wide range of behavioural, medial temporal contributions to episodic memory, cognitive and/or motor deficits. Prediction of disease overlooking the role of the posterior parietal cortices. progression in frontotemporal dementia is poorly Our research reveals the importance of midline understood, with high prognostic variability across posterior cortical structures in supporting the capacity patients and across syndromes. Understanding to remember personally relevant autobiographical the specific trajectories of neurodegeneration is memories, to mentally project forward in subjective necessary to establish benchmarks against which time to envisage the future, and for the construction future treatments can be evaluated. Analyses of brain of spatially coherent atemporal scenes in the mind’s imaging data have been unable to address this issue eye. Future work, in collaboration with researchers due to methodological challenges, including non- at Swansea University, UK, will explore the unique linear disease progression curves, high attrition rates contribution of subregions of the posterior parietal and heterogeneous patient cohorts. Our research has cortices to distinct aspects of memory. This work has started to overcome these limitations by developing already resulted in the Contextual Integration Model novel imaging analysis methods. This project will which proposes that there is a fundamental role for expand this line of research to identify specific the integration of contextually rich information in the trajectories of regional brain changes that contribute to angular gyrus of the parietal lobe. disease progression in different dementia syndromes. This project will draw upon validated multimodal neuroimaging techniques, such as volumetrics, tractography, functional activation, and further develop recent longitudinal imaging analysis techniques. These new methods have the potential to contribute to the validation of prognostic markers, establish imaging- based staging systems, define progression milestones, and identify triggers for clinical interventions. The project outcomes will improve differential diagnosis and prognosis of younger-onset dementia, facilitating the development of disease-specific treatments.

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Sleep in children with traumatic brain injury Social cognition and social outcomes in Suncica Lah, Stefan Bogdanov (The University of children with epilepsy Sydney), Naomi Brookes (The University of Sydney), Suncica Lah, Elizabeth, Stewart, Suzanna Azevedo Adrianne Epps (The University of Sydney), Sharon (The University of Sydney), Cathy Catroppa (Royal Naismith (The University of Sydney), Natalie Phillips, Children’s Hospital), Romina Palermo, Anna Mandalis Teleri Moore (The University of Sydney), Arthur Teng (Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick), John Lawson (The University of Sydney) (Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick), Belinda Barton (Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sleep is important for memory consolidation, Westmead), Deepak Gill (Sydney Children’s Hospital, behavioural regulation and brain development. In Westmead), Richard Webster (Sydney Children’s children who sustain traumatic brain injury, sleep is Hospital, Westmead), Samantha Meeth (Sydney purported to impact neurocognitive recovery and Children’s Hospital, Westmead), Kavitha Kotur response to rehabilitation. Yet research into sleep post (Sydney Children’s Hospital, Westmead), child traumatic brain injury is lacking. Our initial sleep Russell Dale (Sydney Children’s Hospital, Westmead), outcome study revealed that 62% of children with Mary Lou Smith and Linda Gonzalez (Royal Children’s traumatic brain injury admitted to Sydney Children’s Hospital) Hospital suffered from sleep disturbances. Not all aspects of sleep were equally affected. Difficulties Our research on social cognition examines facial initiating and maintaining sleep were particularly emotion recognition and theory of mind in children with common, followed by somnolence and sleep breathing. epilepsy. Our meta-analytical study revealed marked We found that sleep disturbances were related to poor global deficits of emotion perception in epilepsy, mental and cognitive health in children with traumatic albeit with differential emotion-specific impairment brain injury. We are undertaking a longitudinal study patterns in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and to examine whether sleep disturbances abate over genetic generalised epilepsy. Another of our meta- time in children with traumatic brain injury. In parallel, analytical studies showed deficits in theory of mind we are developing an intervention study to determine only in those patients with seizure focus in the frontal whether cognitive behavioural intervention is effective and temporal lobes. Having observed that research in reducing sleep difficulties, initiating and maintaining into social cognition of children with epilepsy has been sleep in children with traumatic brain injury, and whether neglected, our first empirical study examined theory of such treatment improves memory and behavioural mind in children with genetic generalised epilepsy. We outcomes of children with traumatic brain injury. found evidence of a selective impairment in affective theory of mind, but spared cognitive theory of mind. We Memory rehabilitation found that impaired theory of mind was associated with Laurie Miller, Zoe Thayer, Catherine Browning, reduced prosocial behaviour. We are now extending our Amanda Barnier, Celia Harris, Diana Huang, studies to children with different types of epilepsy and Armin Nikpour, Cara Wong, and Toh Wong (Royal developing a treatment that aims to ameliorate deficits Prince Alfred Hospital) in theory of mind, increase prosocial behaviour and social participation of children with epilepsy. This project continues our research into memory rehabilitation. One study used a challenging task called Post-traumatic amnesia in children with ‘virtual week’ to investigate prospective memory traumatic brain injury success when patients with an acquired brain injury Suncica Lah, Pamela David (The University of and their spouses worked together rather than working Sydney), Hayley Donohue, Adrienne Epps (The independently. Although patients benefitted in the University of Sydney), Robyn Tate (Sydney Children’s collaborative condition, overall memory performance Hospital, Randwick) and Naomi Brookes (The for the couple working together was worse than when the University of Sydney) neurologically healthy spouse performed the task alone. This was especially true for tasks that were undertaken Difficulties with long-term memory formation is a core at irregular intervals rather than ones routinely carried feature of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), during which out at the same time each day. A second study tested a patient is disoriented and unable to form new day-to- the usefulness of repeated rehearsal in alleviating day memories. The duration of PTA is a reliable indicator accelerated long term forgetting (ALF), a condition that of injury severity and a better predictor of outcomes affects some people with epilepsy - where memory is following traumatic brain injury (TBI) than some other maintained normally initially, but then is lost rapidly over clinical indicators of injury severity. In a series of studies, days or weeks. We found that having patients with ALF we examined recovery of memory skills during PTA either repeat a story or discuss a story a few times in the following child traumatic brain injury and developed first 30 min after the story was presented resulted in an instrument for assessment of PTA in young children normal memory retention for up to a week. Furthermore, (4- to 7-year-old children): the Sydney Post-Traumatic a recall at 2 weeks delay also boosted longer term Amnesia Scale (SYPTAS). The SYPTAS has been found retention at 4 weeks. Without these interventions, the to be developmentally appropriate and a valid clinical patients forgot the stories much more rapidly (and indicator of TBI severity. The SYPTAS fulfils a currently completely) than healthy control participants. Results unmet need for a validated scale specifically designed from both of these studies provide useful information for assessment of PTA in young children. As such, to guide future interventions. We are also working on a the SYPTAS provides a tool that can enhance clinical literature review to determine whether interventions care and rehabilitation planning in the acute stages of using navigational experiences might be useful as a form recovery post TBI in this paediatric patient population. of memory rehabilitation.

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Accelerated long-term forgetting Memory by design Laurie Miller, Zoe Thayer, Suncica Lah, Greg Savage, Laurie Miller, Elise van den Hoven and Gail Kenning Armin Nikpour, Annu Mothakunnel and (University of Technology, Sydney) Emma Flanagan (University of East Anglia, UK) In our continuing collaboration with students and Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is a condition colleagues in Design programs at University of that has most frequently been reported in adult Technology Sydney, this year we launched a special- patients with epilepsy. In this condition, there is normal interest short course called “Dementia Futures”. retention for at least the first 20-30 min, but significant Following a symposium on dementia and design loss over days or weeks. By comparing memory experience given by various experts, students decay in adults with focal epilepsy to control data, we brainstormed together with instructors and then worked established that although epilepsy patients are more in groups for a two-week period to create prototypes likely to have traditional memory deficits (i.e., evident of objects that might enhance quality of life in people at shorter intervals), about 18% show ALF. Presence of a with memory disorders. These were then presented hippocampal lesion was the main predictive factor, but and evaluated by the groups. This was meant to be an one of the 14 patients with an extratemporal epileptic introduction to this field to encourage design students focus also showed ALF. Furthermore, we found that ALF to think about ways of creating a world that is meaningful is not always consistent across materials (e.g., visual vs. to people with dementia. One of the projects created for verbal). the course (Interactive Music Box), won an award at the Student Prototype Exhibition. Face processing and face memory disturbances in dementia Searching for early signs of risk for Fiona Kumfor, Rosalind Hutchings, Romina Palermo, developing Alzheimer’s disease Gillian Rhodes, John Hodges and Olivier Piguet Greg Savage, Samantha Burnham (CSIRO), Ralph Martins (Macquarie University), Face processing is a vital aspect of social Hamid Sohrabi (Edith Cowan University) communication, where deficits can lead to major and David McAlpine (Macquarie University) disruptions in everyday living. Very little research has focused on the face processing difficulties that are seen The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) in frontotemporal dementia, a neurodegenerative brain Study of Ageing is a large-cohort longitudinal study condition affecting the frontal and temporal lobes. In with a prominent international profile in dementia this program of research, we are adapting tests from research. Its mission is to understand the causes experimental psychology to enable investigation of of Alzheimer’s disease. Savage and Burnham have the earliest aspects of face processing in dementia. established novel blood-based biomarker signatures These include holistic coding, visual attention, and the of elevated deposition of amyloid protein in the brain, composite face effect. Our results have demonstrated which indicates dramatically increased risk of dementia. a relative preservation of early face processing, with Savage has recently developed collaborations with disproportionate reduction of the ability to decode Martins, Sohrabi, and McAlpine at Macquarie University, emotion and identity information from faces in these extending the scope of a search for inexpensive and patients. These findings suggest that therapeutic accessible biomarkers of incipient neurodegeneration interventions which focus on enhancing meaning are to include retinal scans and specific kinds of hearing likely to be most beneficial for dementia patients. loss. These approaches could have a huge impact in the field because other tests for amyloid deposition require Sleep and memory invasive and expensive procedures, such as lumbar Zoe Thayer, Laurie Miller, Armin Nikpour, puncture and radioactive PET scanning. Michael Gascoigne, Diana Paardekooper (Australian College of Applied Psychology) and Therese Davies (Australian College of Applied Psychology)

Our previous investigations confirmed that sleep complaints are frequent in patients with epilepsy and tend to be correlated with complaints about memory. The next step was to investigate whether instruction in a group-based setting might correct some of these issues. In conjunction with students and colleagues from the Australian College of Applied Psychology, we created and piloted a four-week training program involving a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy intervention (CBT-i) for sleep enhancement. The CBT-i was tailor-made for patients with epilepsy who complained of poor sleep. So far, 11 patients with epilepsy have completed the training. Compared to 9 control participants, the CBT-i patient group reported improvements on measures of insomnia severity, sleep hygiene and excessive daytime sleepiness, but no improvements in sleep patterns as recorded in their sleep diaries. On an objective measure of verbal memory, there was a Group x Test-time interaction, with only the wait-list control participants showing a decline over the intervention interval.

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PERSON PERCEPTION PROGRAM The Person Perception Program investigates how we extract, process and use information about other people. These abilities are critical to guiding everyday social interactions. Subtle cues to identity, gender, ethnicity, age, attractiveness, emotional state and focus of attention are effortlessly read from the face, body and voice. The focus of our research is on understanding the perceptual, cognitive, neural and evolutionary mechanisms underlying this impressive expertise, how these mechanisms emerge through development, and how these mechanisms might develop and function differently in people with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Using adaptation to learn about facial Who may judge a book by its cover? expression perception Clare Sutherland, Gillian Rhodes, Romina Palermo, Nichola Burton, Gillian Rhodes, Linda Jeffery, Andrew Young, Nichola Burton, Jemma Collova and Andrew Skinner, Christopher Benton, Stephen Pond Yong Zhi Foo (The University of Western Australia) and Derek Swe Despite the common advice not to judge a book by its Facial expressions convey useful social information, and cover, when people encounter a stranger for the first the ability to distinguish and recognise expressions is an time, they readily form impressions of character and important social skill. This project aims to understand personality simply from their face. Importantly, these the perceptual mechanisms underlying this important impressions influence a wide variety of crucial decisions skill, using expression aftereffects: The shifts in the outside of the lab, whether choosing leaders, convicting perception of an expression that occur after viewing criminals or forming relationships. In fact, impressions and adapting to another expression. Aftereffects occur of facial competence predict real election results, because adaptation reduces the responsiveness of impressions of facial trustworthiness impact sentencing the neurons that code the adaptor, making subsequent outcomes, and impressions of attractiveness influence stimuli appear less like that adaptor. We can therefore romantic partner choices. Our current project aims to use aftereffects to explore the way that expressions are understand how and why different people vary in their neurally coded. impressions of others and in the potential accuracy of their impressions. To investigate these questions, Aftereffects occur in low-level vision (e.g., tilt of lines we will be conducting a large-scale twin study in order and edges) as well as further up the hierarchy of visual to understand the genetic basis of idiosyncratic facial processing (e.g., facial expression). It is important to impressions, as well as constructing a psychometric separate higher-level aftereffects from effects inherited test to measure facial impressions. We will investigate from lower in the hierarchy if we want to use them to whether individuals with clinical disorders, such as learn specifically about expression coding. We have schizophrenia, differ in their impressions or in how their identified a significant contribution of lower-level tilt impressions guide important social behaviour, including adaptation within expression aftereffects, which can be decisions to trust others. The project is expected to reduced by manipulating the orientation of adaptation lead to insights into the mechanisms underlying this key and test stimuli. We have found that expression is aspect of social perception, and to identify the sources neurally represented relative to a norm or prototype of atypical or inaccurate facial judgements. The research expression in both adults and children (9-year-olds). also has the potential for practical applications in health This kind of coding is efficient because we only code contexts (to identify social impairment), in security features that help to differentiate an expression. We contexts (for personnel selection) and for the general are currently working to identify which expression might public (for impression management). function as the norm for expression coding.

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Expertise for own-race faces Adaptive coding and face recognition Kate Crookes, Gillian Rhodes, Bianca Thorup, Gillian Rhodes, Linda Jeffery, Nichola Burton, Janet Hsiao, Nichola Burton, William Hayward, Stephen Pond (University of Western Australia), Elinor McKone, Nadine Kloth, Louise Ewing, Colin Clifford (The University of New South Wales), Jemma Collova, Lulu Wan, Paul Chang (Edith Cowan Elinor McKone, Michael Webster (University of University), Stephen Pond (University of Western Nevada Reno, USA) and Kara Emery (University of Australia), Tze Kwan Li (Hong Kong University) and Nevada Reno, USA) Cynthia Y H Chan (Hong Kong University) We have a remarkable ability to discriminate and People are generally better at recognising faces from recognise hundreds, or even thousands, of faces despite their own race than faces from other races. This “other- their perceptual similarity. This research program race effect” is a well-established finding and is of both investigates the perceptual foundations of our expertise practical and theoretical importance. Socially, failure in face recognition. Our work suggests that an important to recognise familiar other-race people can be socially component of this expertise is the adaptive calibration embarrassing and cause offence. In a legal setting of face-coding mechanisms by our diet of faces. Two eyewitness’ misidentification can be catastrophic. lines of evidence that support the proposed functional Theoretically, understanding why other-race face role for adaptive coding are that face adaptation is recognition is poor can help us understand what reduced in a variety of clinical populations with impaired underlies expert own-race recognition. However, despite face recognition; and that individual differences in face decades of research, the causes of the other-race adaptation are linked to face recognition ability in typical effect are still much debated. One important finding individuals. People, both adults and children, who adapt is that experts categorise their objects of expertise at more readily to new faces are better at recognising a finer level than non-expert observers, e.g., a non- faces. More generally, adaptive calibration serves to expert sees a bird, yet an ornithologist sees a Carnaby’s update face norms, which represent the typical or Black Cockatoo. We have recently demonstrated this average properties of the faces we experience. By using effect for face race for the first time using a task that these norms to code how faces differ from average, required participants to categorise faces by national the visual system can make explicit the distinctive origin. Caucasian American participants were more information needed to recognise faces. The adaptive accurate at categorising Caucasian faces as German, calibration of face norms also produces perceptual Danish or Italian than Asian faces as Chinese, Japanese aftereffects that we use to study how faces are visually or Korean. Asian participants raised in Asia showed the coded. We have found that visual dimensions related to complementary pattern, more accurately categorising face identity are coded by pairs of neural populations Asian faces by national origin than Caucasian faces. tuned to opposite (low, high) dimension values. This Interestingly, Asian-American participants who had architecture provides implicit coding of norm (average) large amounts of exposure to both Asian and Caucasian values, with the norm signalled by equal activation in faces displayed expertise for both races of face. These the two channels. Recent work has identified a third findings suggest that expertise for own-race faces channel that is tuned explicitly to the norm, supporting results not only in greater recognition accuracy but also a three-channel model with explicit, as well as implicit the ability to extract commonalities in facial features (2-channel), coding of norm values for each dimension. for groups within the own-race category. Future studies This highlights the potential importance of norm-based will use this task to explore how expertise develops and coding in allowing us to see beyond the shared features whether it can be trained. of faces to the variations that characterise different individuals. We are currently collaborating on more detailed modelling to identify which aftereffects designs can potentially discriminate competing neural coding models.

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The evolutionary basis of human facial Understanding behavioural and neural perception correlates of distraction by faces Yong Zhi Foo, Leigh Simmons, Shinichi Nakagawa (The Markus Neumann, Charles Viska, Sascha van Huis University of New South Wales) and Gillian Rhodes (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Romina Palermo Some individuals look more attractive to us than others. Evolutionary theories propose that our facial In everyday life, we constantly experience distractions. preferences represent evolved adaptations for the Distractions could potentially put us at great risk, purpose of identifying and acquiring high quality mates. for instance when they occur while we are driving. One important mate quality is health. We conducted a But some distractors might be more distracting than series of studies to examine whether facial appearance others. One type of distractor that might be particularly is a signal of health in humans and the mechanisms distracting is the human face, given that faces are very that might account for the relationship between efficient in attracting attention. This project explores appearance and health. One of the traits that has behavioural and neural correlates of distraction by faces been suggested to signal health in men is masculinity. as compared to non-face objects (cars). We employed Sexual selection theories suggest that male masculinity the recently developed ‘irrelevant-distractor’ paradigm, signals health because the male hormone testosterone which measures distraction by completely irrelevant suppresses immune function. Therefore, only healthy distractors and so has the advantage of resembling more males can afford to develop highly masculine features real-world distraction. without compromising their survival. We examined the assumption that testosterone suppresses immune Participants performed a letter classification task, function in males by quantitatively summarising the under conditions of either high- or low- cognitive load. results from over 30 years of experimental studies Under high load, target letters were difficult to detect that have been conducted across different species. among different non-target letters, whereas under low As predicted, we found that testosterone suppresses load they were easy to detect among non-target circles. immune function in males. The result suggests that Peripheral distractors (either faces or cars) infrequently masculine features in males may be a signal of health. To appeared to the left or right of the letters. Under examine this further, we investigated whether male facial low load conditions, faces and cars were equally as masculinity is related to a variety of health measures, distracting, as measured by slowed responses on trials including immune function, oxidative stress, and semen with distractors as compared to those without. However, quality. As predicted, male facial masculinity was under high load conditions, in which the primary task was positively related to semen quality. We also conducted more distracting, neither faces nor cars were distracting. an experimental study examining the effect of dietary In addition to behavioural measures we also recorded supplementation of the carotenoid beta-carotene on neural responses with event-related potentials (ERPs). appearance and health. Carotenoids are red and yellow Overall, ERPs indicated early face-specific processing pigments found in fruits and vegetables. It is suggested was present even under high load, consistent with our that skin colour derived from consuming carotenoids previous work, even though this was not reflected in are signals of health because carotenoids also serve the behavioural data. One explanation for why there protective functions as antioxidants. was not stronger behavioural distraction for faces than cars could be that faces also elicited stronger top- Participants were given a 12-week supplementation of down suppression processes, as indicated by a larger either beta-carotene or placebo. We found that beta- distractor effect in the ERP data for faces compared to carotene increased facial yellowness and redness. It cars. The absence of an effect of cognitive load on the also made the participants look more attractive. We distractor effect indicates that faces seem to trigger measured health using immune function, oxidative such top-down suppression processes even when a task stress, and semen quality. However, beta-carotene is already very demanding, suggesting that faces might supplementation did not enhance health. The results be particularly difficult to ignore. suggest carotenoid-based skin colour may not function as a signal of health. Together, our findings provide some support for the idea that attractive facial appearance is a signal of health in humans. Currently, using data from a large-scale longitudinal dataset from Perth, WA, we are extending our research program to examine the developmental relationship between health, diet, and appearance by studying whether health and diet during early development predict facial appearance in adulthood.

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Perception of emotional genuineness from Congenital prosopagnosia: Just a problem facial expressions recognising individual faces? Amy Dawel, Elinor McKone, Romina Palermo, Romina Palermo, Matthew Robson, Luke Wright (Australian National University), Markus Neumann and Linda Jeffery Rachael Dumbleton (Australian National University), Jessica Irons and Richard O’Kearney (Australian People with congenital (also known as developmental) National University) prosopagnosia have failed to develop adequate face identity recognition mechanisms. These individuals Traditionally, research on facial expressions has often report severe, recurring, everyday face recognition focused on how people categorise them as showing difficulties, such as being unable to recognise their different emotions, such as angry, happy or sad. An child at day care or having difficulty following the equally important skill in everyday life is being able to plot of movies because they cannot differentiate the tell if someone is genuinely feeling the emotion they actors. Most research investigating face recognition in are displaying like feeling disgusted when they smell a congenital prosopagnosia typically presents one face rotten egg, or if someone is pretending to show a sad at a time. However, in real-life, faces may not be seen expression to gain sympathy. Our program of research in isolation but in groups. Research with people who investigates this ability in adults and children, and have typical face recognition abilities suggests that examines how perceptions of emotional genuineness when viewing groups of faces an average or ‘ensemble’ influence affective and behavioural responses to representation is formed from the group of faces. faces. The first step for our program was to develop a Similar to previous findings, we found that individuals new set of facial expressions that showed authentic, with congenital prosopagnosia show ensemble coding genuine emotions, and a matched set that showed of identity. However, we also found that the strength of symbolic or posed emotions. This was an important first ensemble coding was weaker for people with congenital step because we found many of the pictures of facial prosopagnosia as compared to people with typical expressions commonly used in research were perceived face recognition skills. This suggests a more general as faking emotion. We are now using our new expression deficit to all processes that involve face identification sets to test theoretical questions about how mood and in congenital prosopagnosia. Further, we found that personality traits affect responses to others’ genuine the recognition of single faces was associated with and posed emotions. In psychopathic traits, we have the strength of ensemble coding, for both people with found there is reduced ability to discriminate whether congenital prosopagnosia and typical recognisers. people are feeling genuinely distressed or not, and These results do not suggest a dissociation between this poorer discrimination is associated with reduced the recognition of a single face and the coding of intent-to-help others. We also found support was much ensembles based on identity. However, it is not yet clear stronger for a popular theory of psychopathy when whether ensemble coding contributes directly to face genuine emotional expressions were used in research, recognition ability. In related studies, we are examining compared to posed expressions. Findings such as these whether people with congenital prosopagnosia have suggest that, to get a full picture of how people process difficulty processing non-identity information from the others’ emotions, we need to give more consideration to face, such as emotion expressions. whether facial expressions are interpreted as reflecting true emotion, rather than only symbolising emotion.

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READING PROGRAM The Reading Program uses theoretical models of reading to investigate how children learn to read, why some children have so much difficulty (developmental dyslexia), and how such difficulties may best be treated. These models are applied to the understanding of, and can inform development of treatment options for, different kinds of reading disorders that are seen in formerly skilled readers after brain damage (acquired dyslexia). The neural basis of both normal and impaired reading can be investigated using brain imaging techniques such as event-related potentials.

Emotional health in poor readers Improving spelling in primary progressive Genevieve McArthur, Deanna Francis aphasia and Nicholas Badcock Janna (Trudy) Krajenbrink, Lyndsey Nickels, Karen Croot and Cathy Taylor Rubin There is growing awareness that children who struggle to learn to read are more likely to develop emotional Individuals with primary progressive aphasia have a health problems, such as poor self-concept, anxiety, progressive loss of their ability to use spoken and written or depression. However, previous studies of emotional language as a result of neurodegenerative disease. In this health in poor readers have produced conflicting project, we worked with a man with the semantic variant findings, and there is currently no well-specified theory of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) where his explaining why poor reading and poor mental health knowledge of word meanings were particularly affected, might be associated. Over the last 3 years, we have led a resulting in impaired word comprehension and severe series of studies to reveal the nature of this association. difficulty finding the words he needed to communicate. To date, we have conducted three systematic reviews Despite the progressive nature of the condition, svPPA with meta-analyses to index the average strength of can be responsive to treatment to improve word retrieval, the association between poor reading and anxiety, and treated words have been found to be somewhat depression, and self-concept; and we have conducted protected from the decline associated with the disease. two correlational studies to better understand the However little research has looked at improving writing. associations between poor reading, comorbid problems This study aimed to see whether a home treatment of poor reading, self-concept, and anxiety. The program originally designed to improve spoken word outcomes suggest that there are moderately-strong retrieval could also improve written word retrieval for an and reliable associations between poor reading and individual with svPPA. We found that a simple task involving self-concept and between poor reading and anxiety looking at a picture while repeating its name, improved but not depression. Furthermore, these associations the participant’s ability to name the picture later and may exist because children with certain types of poor importantly it was not just spoken naming that improved, reading (e.g., poor sight word reading fluency) or with but also written naming. The improvement was even greater certain comorbid cognitive disorders (e.g., language when the treatment also required the word to be written. impairments or attention deficits) may develop certain As is usual for this kind of treatment, only treated items types of poor self-concept (e.g., academic or general improved, but there was improved naming of different self-concept) which can result in certain types of anxiety pictures of the treated items, and we also found improved (e.g., social anxiety). In the next 2 years, we plan to test comprehension of these items. This study underscores this causal chain of events directly via intervention the value of simple lexical retrieval treatment tasks that can studies that index the effects of improving different be delivered remotely and conducted at home. It adds types of poor reading on different types of self-concept to the current evidence that word retrieval in svPPA is responsive to treatment, but it also shows that challenges and anxiety. remain regarding maintenance effects and the generalisation of treatment effects to connected speech.

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How oral vocabulary assists reading A computational model of the way children acquisition teach themselves to read novel words Signy Wegener, Hua-Chen Wang, Peter de Lissa, Stephen Pritchard, Max Coltheart, Eva Marinus Serje Robidoux, Kate Nation and Anne Castles and Anne Castles

It is well established that children with bigger oral There is a long history of computational modelling vocabularies - who know the pronunciations and of cognitive processes within the Reading Program, meanings of lots of words - also tend to be better exploring adult reading and various types of acquired readers. Yet very little is known about the cognitive dyslexia. This project builds on our previous work by mechanism that supports this link. That is, how does developing a model of the acquisition of reading skill. knowing a spoken word help a child learn to read it? We Learning to read involves honing multiple cognitive have tested, for the first time, one possible cognitive sub-skills, from phonemic awareness, to letter-sound mechanism that could support this advantage – oral decoding, to comprehension. Our model, “The self- vocabulary knowledge might assist children to learn to teaching dual-route cascaded model of reading read even before written words are seen. When a child aloud and orthographic learning” (ST-DRC), focusses knows the pronunciation and meaning of a word, and specifically on how children who already have some they have some knowledge of how sounds in spoken decoding skill and who might be encountering novel words map onto written letters, they could put these printed words in the context of a text, could self-teach sources of information together to form an expectation these new items without direct instruction from a about the spelling of that word. We call these spelling teacher. This skill is important because learning to read expectations orthographic skeletons. To test this idea, the many thousands of words in the English vocabulary we taught Year 4 children some spoken words they had is too great a task for students to learn only via direct never heard before. We said they were inventions from instruction. ‘Professor Parsnip’s Invention Factory’. After training, we took the words the children had learned and some other In this work, we explored the interaction between words they had not learned and put them into some decoding skill and context in self-driven learning, and simple sentences. As they read, we used an eye-tracker how varying the quality of information from each source to see how long children looked at the invention names, would impact reading success. Context is typically too both those they had learned and those they hadn’t. ambiguous to be the sole source of information for self- We found that children’s reading was faster and more teaching, but nevertheless, we found that when context efficient if they had learned a word orally. Children’s is somewhat ambiguous, even beginner-level decoding reading was also affected by the spellings we showed skill is often sufficient for context and decoding to them. If children learned a word and it was spelled in a work together to drive self-teaching. This process even way they had expected to see, this helped their reading applies for highly irregular words that are not readily (e.g., they learned the spoken word “nesh” and we decoded - a partial decoding combined with limited showed them the printed word nesh). But if children contextual support is often sufficient even for words learned a word and it was spelled in a way they didn’t like these (e.g., “yacht”). We did find that contextual expect, then they were surprised and looked for longer support is much more important for such items (e.g., they learned the spoken word “coib” but we showed though. Our model is the starting point for us in using them the written word koyb). The findings suggest that computational approaches to explore the process of children do form expectations of the spellings of words learning to read. Next steps will focus more specifically they know in spoken form, and that these expectations on how printed-word representations are established, influence children’s reading the first time they and how associations between these representations, encounter an orally known word in print. printed letter representations, and spoken-word representations develop.

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The lateralised neural specialisations for Nonlinear writing as a window into the self-monitoring while reading cognitive processes of spelling Nicholas Badcock, Ivan Yuen, Nicola Filardi, Teresa Schubert, Ana Murteira, Katherine Demuth and Genevieve McArthur Janna (Trudy) Krajenbrink and Lyndsey Nickels

The left side of the brain is typically specialised for A new project in the Language and Reading Programs processing language, however, when this specialisation concerns understanding the processes which allow is assessed in people with dyslexia, there is a higher words we know to be spelled accurately. We know likelihood of observing this specialisation in the right that unicorn is spelt UNICORN, but what prevents the side of the brain (an atypical lateralisation for language letters from coming out in the wrong order, or with processing). Owing to limitations in the paradigms used some missing, as UCINORN or UNICON? Theories of to assess this specialisation, we are unable to determine spelling suggest that a cognitive component known as whether this difference reflects reversed neural the ‘graphemic output buffer’ (GOB) is responsible for specialisation or a qualitatively different approach to temporarily storing letter identities and their order as the task. One possibility is that individuals with dyslexia we write a word. In this project, we are exploring the engage more cognitive effort or greater executive functioning of the GOB by studying the phenomenon control to complete the tasks. This project tested a new of nonlinear writing. For example, UNICORN might be paradigm to assess lateralised neural specialisations written as ___C___ first, then adding the R and N, with during reading. Participants were required to read the rest of the letters filled in later. Sometimes the word words flashed on a computer screen and the rate of is correct in the end, and other times it contains one presentation was individually set to create easy and or more errors. Nonlinear writing has been observed hard conditions (i.e., more words were presented in the in some cases of developmental spelling difficulties, same period of time in the hard condition). In order to and also in some individuals after brain injury. In either control for executive processing, following the words, case, the individuals seem to have an impaired GOB. participants were asked whether a particular sound Thus, we can use nonlinear writing as a window into the was read. For example, if the word was ‘lock’, people functioning of the GOB. We are collaborating on this might be asked whether there was a ‘loh’ sound. The project with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, localisation of neural activity was monitored using USA. Following on from earlier work that looked at a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound which allows small data set, we are now exploring a much larger us to compare the speed of blood flow to each side of data set with hundreds of samples of nonlinear writing. the brain. The lateralisation of neural specialisation is These data were collected over many months from a inferred by relatively faster blood flow in one hemisphere single individual with an impairment to the GOB, and compared to the other. The results indicated right allows more sophisticated analyses than the previous hemisphere neural activation for self-monitoring during small data set. For example, we can consider the reading. Although there was no overall difference influence of doubled letters (like the LL in BALLOT), between the easy and hard conditions, there was complex graphemes (like the CK in TRUCK), and word greater variation between individuals in the harder task. frequency (contrasting common words like WINDOW This is indicative of greater engagement of the neural with uncommon words like STRAIT). These analyses will specialisations and our previous research suggests help us to determine what information about UNICORN that lateralisation in the harder condition will be more is relevant to spelling it accurately, and has the potential predictive of reading ability. One of our next projects will to inform treatments for developmental and acquired be to further examine this relationship. In a completely spelling impairments. novel combination of functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound and lingual ultrasound, the location of the tongue was also monitored during the task. This allowed us to determine the accuracy of articulation gestures during reading which is more sensitive to errors than purely listening to the productions. We will be able to examine the degree to which articulation errors engage lateralised brain specialisations during reading. In future work, we aim to apply this task to more accurately assess cerebral lateralisation of language processing in dyslexia. Results of this work may inform strategic instructions for improving reading fluency and comprehension.

26 2017 ANNUAL REPORT RESEARCH CROSS PROGRAM The CCD Cross Program Support Scheme provides funding to support collaborative research projects, by bringing together researchers from different programs within the Centre.

Should I trust you? Appearance-based trust Cognition of coding: The relation between behaviour in schizophrenia coding ability and syntactic skills in pre- Clare Sutherland, Romina Palermo, Nikolas Williams schoolers and Andy Young Eva Marinus, Zoe Powell, Rosalind Thornton, Genevieve McArthur and Stephen Crain In two studies, we examined how face trustworthiness judgements affect trusting behaviour using clinical In recent years, there has been a growing interest in and individual differences approaches. Our first study encouraging and teaching students to learn to code examined whether people with schizophrenia were in order to prepare them for the demands of our impaired in their use of facial impressions to make increasingly digital society. As a result, companies have trusting decisions. Our second study examined whether started to develop a variety of tools that can be used to individual differences (autism quotient) in typical adults teach children the basics of programming. In this study, affect the extent to which people use their impressions we focussed on coding ability in 3- to 6-year-old children when deciding to trust. We developed a new economic with the aid of a friendly wooden robot (Cubetto from trust game (Figure 1) that manipulated perceived Primo Toys - Figure 2). Our aims were to develop a tool facial trustworthiness (trustworthy-looking versus to assess coding ability (phase 1), and to determine if untrustworthy-looking) against a partner’s trustworthy there was a relation between coding ability and syntactic behaviour (frequent or rare reciprocation). Faces were processing in language (phase 2). The ultimate goal chosen based on pilot data and we also developed a of this line of research is to build a cognitive model novel test of facial impressions. of coding acquisition. So far, we have succeeded in building the coding assessment tool (phase 1). We have We have recently completed the data collection results from seventeen 3- and 4-year-old children and for our first study which will investigate how people have preregistered phase 2 of this project on the Open with schizophrenia use facial impressions to make Science Framework (https://osf.io/e3rku/). trust decisions. We collected data from 24 people with schizophrenia and 24 age-matched controls at Macquarie University. The data analysis for this study is currently in progress. A second study has been completed with 100 students tested at The University of Western Australia. We found that men transferred significantly more money in the trust game to trustworthy-looking ‘partners’ compared to untrustworthy-looking ‘partners’, in initial trials; and this appearance-based trust behaviour was lower in men with autistic traits. We also found that men transferred significantly more money to ‘partners’ who frequently reciprocated compared to ‘partners’ who rarely reciprocated, but this experienced-based trust did not correlate significantly with autistic traits.

Figure 1. Example partners from the trust game that Figure 2. Cubetto. varied trustworthiness (looks and behevious).

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Default mode network integrity in dementia Computational modelling of spoken word patients with psychosis: Examining production associations with cognitive factors Solène Hameau, Lyndsey Nickels, Max Coltheart, Ramón Landin-Romero, Fiona Kumfor, Muireann Irish, Stephen Pritchard and Nora Fieder Robyn Langdon, Emily Connaughton and Olivier Piguet This project focuses on why some words are easier The default mode network (DMN) is an interconnected for us to retrieve than others when we speak. We have set of brain regions, including the medial prefrontal and been examining one factor that has been found to have posterior cingulate cortex. The DMN is engaged during inconsistent effects, and the mechanisms are poorly self-directed thought and future planning. Evidence understood: ‘neighbourhood’ – the set of words that from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in are similar to the target in various properties. Semantic healthy subjects shows that the DMN is active at rest neighbours are words that are similar in meaning, such but deactivates during performance of cognitive tasks. as rabbit and hare, while phonological neighbours are Dysfunction is an established finding in psychosis similar in sound, such as rabbit and habit. We have spectrum disorders. However, it is unclear whether DMN focused on phonological neighbours because complex dysfunction reflects general cognitive impairment or the interactions between different factors (e.g., frequency psychotic symptoms themselves. Psychosis also occurs and neighbours) act together to influence retrieval. However, the implications of these interactions for to varying degrees in dementia, as does DMN dysfunction. current descriptive theories are unclear. Therefore, this However, the relationships between psychotic symptoms, project used computational modelling to specify exactly cognitive impairment and brain dysfunction in dementia the influence of neighbours under different conditions. are currently unknown. To date, we have recruited Computational modelling refers to the use of computer 7 patients with dementia and psychosis symptoms. We programs to simulate cognitive processes. Computational have completed preliminary Independent Component models of language enable precise simulation of language Analyses on resting state fMRI data across different processes: the same effects that can be studied in dementia syndromes, including semantic dementia humans can be studied in the models thereby enabling (SD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and also in healthy testing of predictions and understanding of mechanisms. controls. Our analyses have identified several large-scale We have been using an extended version of the Dual networks across participants, including the DMN. Group Route Cascaded model (DRC) of reading that implements level analyses showed large scale dysfunction driven by semantic processing (DRC-SEM) and enables us to patients with dementia, affecting the anterior cingulate simulate picture naming. We first examined the effects node of the DMN. Interestingly, preliminary analyses of different measures of phonological neighbourhood on at the individual level are showing syndrome-specific the picture naming of 40 typical speakers and that from a abnormalities in the DMN. Specifically, SD patients database of picture naming response times. Concurrently, showed failure of activation in the anterior cingulate a series of simulations were run on the same set of items node whereas AD patients showed reduced activation in using DRC-SEM: we manipulated the extent to which posterior regions, concurrent with the atrophy observed there was activation flowing not only from semantics, in these regions in this syndrome (Figure 3). via the lexicon to phonemes, but also feeding back from the phoneme level to the words stored in the lexicon. After functional characterisation of large scale networks These simulations showed that in order for phonological in all participants, pair-wise comparisons and regression neighbours to be activated there needs to be sufficient analyses will be performed to examine abnormal brain feedback from the phoneme level. Moreover, to simulate function in patients with psychotic symptoms and to the pattern of interaction between frequency and interrogate associations between aberrant connectivity neighbours, the activation of lexical items from semantics and symptoms of psychosis. Ultimately, we expect that could not occur too rapidly. The DRC View tool enabled us our results will contribute to the identification of the to visualise the patterns of activation of neighbours in the neurobiological basis of psychotic symptoms in dementia lexicon (Figure 4). and uncover the cognitive factors that contribute to their formation and maintenance.

Figure 3. Subject level-representation of the DMN in Figure 4. Here the DRC-SEM model is naming ‘sink’, the healthy controls, semantic dementia and Alzheimer’s purple bars show that as well as the target ‘sink’, the disease (L to R). neighbours ‘sick’, ‘link’, ‘sing’, and ‘sin’ are also activated in the lexicon.

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Hidden language: Using fast periodic stimulation despite the known language abilities of our sample, to reveal lexical and semantic processing in we were not able to detect a word-specific response. Therefore, our investigations suggest that this method of minimally-verbal children with autism testing receptive language ability is not likely to inform our Alex Woolgar, Nicholas Badcock, Wei He, Jon Brock, understanding of language processing in those with limited Anina Rich, Lydia Barnes, Selene Petit and expressive language. We are currently trialling a refined Lyndsey Nickels approach in which participants respond to visual stimuli by silently generating words. Mounting anecdotal evidence suggests that a subset of minimally-verbal (i.e., non-speaking) autistic children nevertheless have good reading and language skills. In this project, we aimed to find a brain measure of reading and language skills that will determine which of these children understand more than they demonstrate on conventional tests. We asked whether periodically presenting words in a rapid stream of pseudo-words produces a neural response that we can detect by measuring electrical signals at the scalp using electroencephalography (EEG). Previous tests of this word-specific neural response demonstrate statistically reliable effects after fewer than 5 minutes of testing. Crucial to our purpose, these two studies show high prevalence of a word-specific neural response in both adults and children, indicating its potential for detecting language ability in a single child. First, we sought to replicate the effect from the literature. We developed English language versions of the stimuli (original research was done in French) and tested the neural response to words in neurotypical adult English speakers. Stimuli were presented visually at a fixed rate of 10 per second. Every fifth stimulus was an ‘oddball’, that is, categorically different to the distractors. If the neural response in the EEG signal at the rate at which oddballs appear is greater than chance, this suggests that the oddball has been categorised as different to the distractors. We presented word oddballs among matched pseudo-word distractors to detect word-specific responses, and compared this to a control condition of face oddballs among scrambled faces distractors. The visual presentation of stimuli entrained “base rate” brain oscillations that were statistically significant and could be identified in every participant. Responses to the oddball stimulation rate for faces were also statistically significant and present in all individual participants. This validated our design and analysis. However, we could not find oddball responses to words in any of our 10 participants, at the individual or group level (Figure 5). A second test of the same word stimuli at a larger size replicated these findings:

Figure 5. Group-level responses to the different stimuli. We recorded strong oscillatory brain responses to the visual stimulus (base rate) and to face oddballs presented amongst scrambled faces. However, we did not detect word-specific oscillations in the brainwaves of typically developed adults (dark red and dark yellow bars).

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS 29 RESEARCH NEURAL MARKERS The Neural Markers Training Scheme provides training and support for researchers to develop new skills through collaborative research projects using magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), eye-tracking and other experimental techniques.

Investigating lexical representation using Investigating word recognition with Fast masked onset-priming and electromagnetic Periodic Visual Stimulation using EMOTIV articulography and Neuroscan EEG Max Coltheart, Michael Proctor, Felicity Cox, Bianca de Wit, Alex Woolgar, Teresa Schubert, Kenneth Forster and Louise Ratko Hua-Chen Wang, Nicholas Badcock, Wei He and Sachiko Kinoshita When a target letter string – a word or a pronounceable nonword – to be read aloud is preceded by a brief prime For fluent reading, it is crucial to distinguish words letter string of which the subject is unaware, reaction like smile from nonwords like smiel. This project time for reading aloud the target is shorter when prime investigated the neural marker underpinning this visual and target have the same initial phoneme as when they word recognition skill. The objective was to replicate a do not. This is known as the masked onset-priming recent study that was amongst the first to report such effect or MOPE. In all previous studies of the MOPE, a neural marker. While this finding holds great promise responses were detected by a microphone which for understanding the neural basis of visual word detected the onset of the acoustic energy generated by recognition, this unique result needs to be replicated to the subject’s spoken response. This was unsatisfactory, ensure reliability. The study closely matched previous because the subject’s speech articulators began research by combining Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation to move as much as 200 milliseconds before any (FPVS) and EEG. In addition, we aimed to build on this acoustic energy was generated. Therefore, microphone novel finding and use a portable neurogaming headset measurements provided large overestimates of reaction (EMOTIV EPOC+) to generalise the technique across times. We used electromagnetic articulography (EMA) otherwise difficult to test populations or situations, in a MOPE experiment to measure the movements of such as tasks with very young children and testing the participants’ articulators, such as the tongue and at schools. The first experiment used Neuroscan (a lips. A robust MOPE, as measured by acoustic-energy medical-grade EEG system), with 20 participants. The onset, has been obtained from seven participants, findings suggest that the neural contrast between words replicating previous work on the MOPE using microphone and nonwords as previously reported is not reliable. measurement. We are now analysing the articulatory While the results indicate a potential neural marker that data produced by the EMA measurements. This confirms distinguishes words from non-alphabetic symbols, no that articulatory movements begin long before any word vs. nonword distinction was found. In our second microphone-detectable acoustic energy is emitted by experiment, we will be using an improved experimental the subject. We will be able to determine what aspects of paradigm and are introducing concurrent recording with the subjects’ articulatory movements exhibit the MOPE Neuroscan and neurogaming (EMOTIV) EEG systems to effect. This will allow us to answer important theoretical validate the use of the EMOTIV EPOC+ for this paradigm. questions about the nature of speech production. For In addition, we are using Bayesian statistics to collect example, the MOPE effect shows that the prime, though evidence for the anticipated absence of this visual word present so briefly and though unconscious, is at least recognition neural marker. The presence or absence of partly translated from print to phonology; so the analysis a contrast in neural responses to words and nonwords of the articulatory data provided by EMA will allow us to is a theoretically significant question and is set to guide determine whether this translation occurs only at a pre- future studies into the neural basis of reading. articulatory abstract-phonological level, or whether it also influences motor planning.

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Decoding joint attention processes using Characterising the dynamics of interactive eye-tracking and multi-voxel remembered object representations in the pattern analysis posteromedial cortex during a visuospatial Nathan Caruana, Alex Woolgar, Kiley Seymour, working memory task Jon Brock, Genevieve McArthur and Kate Hardwick Erin Goddard, Muireann Irish, Erika Contini, Thomas Carlson and Olivier Piguet Joint attention - our ability to coordinate visual attention with others - involves three key social-cognitive Previous work suggests that the posteromedial cortex processes including the ability to initiate a joint attention is particularly involved in visuospatial working memory, bid (IJA); to respond to joint attention bids (RJA); and and its functioning is compromised in people with to evaluate the achievement of joint attention (EAJA). Alzheimer’s disease. We are investigating the functioning In a recent fMRI study using a novel virtual reality of posteromedial cortex during a visuospatial working paradigm, we found that a frontotemporoparietal memory task. Using a magnetoencephalography (MEG) network was more active during a cooperative virtual experiment, we are investigating how visual information reality task where participants engaged in both RJA and in the posteromedial cortex changes over time IJA processes, compared to when they performed a during the task, and how and when the posteromedial control task matched on non-social task demands. In cortex interacts with other brain regions. By better our paradigm, participants played a collaborative game understanding the function of posteromedial cortex with a virtual character or avatar who they believed in typical brain function, later work might better was being controlled by another person in a nearby characterise the change in its function during the eye-tracking laboratory. In reality, the avatar’s eye progression of Alzheimer’s disease. During 2017, we gaze was programmed to respond contingently to the finalised the experimental design, including collecting participants’ own eye movements which were recorded preliminary behavioural data in order to refine the task. online. The current study extended our previous fMRI Our task design is illustrated below in Figure 1. work to address two new aims using univariate methods and multivoxel pattern analysis. The first aim was to uncover the neural mechanisms of how we evaluate the achievement of joint attention. The second aim was to determine whether the neural mechanisms engaged during virtual social interactions are influenced by participants’ beliefs about whether they are interacting with a human- or computer-controlled virtual partner. The task was to initiate joint attention towards a target. The avatar was programmed to respond either congruently (to achieve joint attention) or incongruently (to avoid joint attention) with equal probability. Participants also completed a non-social control task in which a non-social arrow stimulus responded congruently or incongruently, in lieu of the avatar’s social response. We successfully scanned a total of 36 participants in this study who were randomly allocated to one of two conditions where they either believed they were interacting with a human- or computer- controlled virtual character. Preliminary analysis of the data indicates preferential activation in brain regions associated with social reward (ventral striatum, anterior cingulate cortex) when participants experience the achievement of joint attention with a social partner they believe to be human, compared to when joint attention is not achieved. The same pattern of activation is not observed when participants evaluate an arrow stimulus as being directed at a location that is congruent or incongruent with the participants’ previous focus of attention, or when participants did not believe they were achieving joint attention with another human partner. The findings promise to not only help identify the neural mechanisms of how we evaluate the achievement of joint attention, but also to highlight the importance of human agency beliefs in the assessment of social- interactive phenomena.

Figure 1. Task design for MEG study.

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS 31 RESEARCH PERCEPTION IN ACTION Research in Perception in Action is conducted by a team of cognitive scientists in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. Although the Perception in Action research team does not receive funding from the Centre, their research complements that of other Centre programs.

Why is monitoring for rare events so difficult Improving insight from brain imaging to study and what can we do about it? the neural basis of cognition Anina Rich, Alex Woolgar, Mark Wiggins (Macquarie Alex Woolgar, Anina Rich, Amanda Robinson University), Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School (Macquarie University), Lydia Barnes, John Duncan and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA) and (University of Cambridge, UK) and Erin Goddard William Helton (George Mason University, USA) Humans have a unique capacity for diverse, complex, People are very poor at monitoring for rare events: if a thought and behaviour. To achieve this, our brains need target is infrequent, we tend to miss it. This is a major to rapidly and flexibly reconfigure, directing attention to problem in automated systems for transport and other different aspects of the world moment-to-moment as we high-consequence domains: if a computer error occurs, think and act. This project aims to combine innovative the operator needs to intervene quickly. Inspired by analysis methods with state-of-the-art neuroimaging and urgent real-world challenges of rail and air traffic control, brain stimulation to understand how key brain regions this project aims to identify critical cognitive and neural drive this process. The outcomes will be new methods processes involved in sustaining attention to moving that link brain activation to behaviour, improving insights displays under monitoring conditions. It develops a new from brain imaging, and better understanding of the tool for studying monitoring, and determines patterns neural basis of cognition. This is designed to benefit of brain activity that predict a lapse of attention. The Australian cognitive neuroscience and support the results should contribute to theories of vigilance as well development of evidence based approaches to key areas as methods for improving performance in real-world of public concern such as health and education. monitoring situations. Sensorimotor learning and expertise in Perceptual body distortions in eating minimally invasive surgery disorders: Investigating factors and David Kaplan, Mark Williams, Paul Sowman, mechanisms Chris Hewitson, John Cartmill and Andrew Gilmore Regine Zopf, Mark Williams, Naresh Mondraty (Macquarie University Hospital) (Northside Hospital, Sydney), Catherine Dean (Macquarie University) and Vince Polito It is now common for surgery in virtually every specialty to use minimally invasive surgery (MIS) where possible Body size and shape distortion is a core feature rather than traditional open surgical methods. MIS of Anorexia Nervosa – patients experience their is better for patient outcomes and less costly, but body as being overweight while they are actually requires more training for surgeons to become experts. thin and sometimes very underweight. Mechanisms The complex sensorimotor transformations required and interventions for these distortions are not well to dexterously manipulate surgical instruments understood. The aim of this project is to investigate the through small incisions, guided only by visual input mechanisms and factors for perceptual body distortions provided via an endoscopic camera, makes MIS both and work towards developing perceptual and action- difficult to master and exceptionally interesting from based training paradigms. a neural plasticity perspective. Using behavioural and neuroimaging approaches, this project aims to identify The body in interaction: Investigating the what factors influence training time and competence interactions between body and visual object and how the brain changes to support this kind of processing surgical expertise with the goal of improving training. Regine Zopf, Anina Rich, Alex Woolgar, Marina Butko Dynamics of word recognition: New insight (Macquarie University), Mark Williams and from the ‘reach-to-touch’ paradigm Stefan Schweinberger Matthew Finkbeiner and Samantha Parker For efficient and safe interactions with the world our brain needs to constantly process the location and All theories of basic cognitive processes make structural posture of the body as well as the characteristics of proposals about the processing components of cognitive surrounding objects. In this project, we investigate systems, and temporal proposals about how these how human body information influences visual object components interact with each other over time as perception. Currently, we employ fMRI and multivoxel cognitive processing is being carried out. The structural pattern analyses to investigate the interaction between proposals enjoy empirical support and widespread spatial body information and object location encoding. agreement, but the temporal proposals do not. This Furthermore, we employ behavioural paradigms such is mainly due to the lack of continuous behavioural as the ‘continuous-flash-suppression’ paradigm to measures that can reveal cognitive processes as investigate the combined visual processing of body and they unfold in real time. To address this problem, the object information. present project introduces a new ‘reach-to-touch’ paradigm. Using the temporal resolution afforded by this paradigm, the outcomes of this project will enhance our understanding of the dynamics of cognitive processes.

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Chief Investigators Associate Professor Romina Palermo BSc UOW, PhD UWA Professor Amanda Barnier School of Psychological Science BA Macq, PhD UNSW, FASSA The University of Western Australia Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Professor Olivier Piguet BPsych Genève, MA Melb, PhD USyd Dr Jon Brock (until June 2017) Brain and Mind Centre BSc Bristol, PhD Warwick The University of Sydney Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Professor Gillian Rhodes BSc UC, MSc UOA, PhD Stanford, FASSA Emeritus Professor Brian Byrne School of Psychological Science BA USyd, PhD McMaster The University of Western Australia School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences University of New England Professor Greg Savage BSc Monash, PhD Monash, MSc ClinNeuro Melb Professor Anne Castles Department of Psychology BSc ANU, PhD Macq, FASSA Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Professor William (Bill) Thompson BSc McGill, MA Queen’s, PhD Queen’s Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart Department of Psychology BA USyd, MA USyd, PhD USyd, DSc Macq, FAA, FASSA, FBA Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton BA Massey, MIA Tsukuba, MA Yale, PhD UConn Professor Stephen Crain Department of Linguistics BA UCLA, PhD UCI, FASSA Macquarie University Department of Linguistics Macquarie University Partner Investigators Professor Katherine Demuth Professor Wendy Best BA New Mexico, MA Indiana, PhD Indiana, FASSA BSc UOL, PGrad Dip CUL, MSc BBK, PhD BBK Department of Linguistics Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Macquarie University University College London, UK Associate Professor Melissa Green Professor Dorothy Bishop BA UQ, MLitt UNE, PhD USyd BA Oxon, MPhil IoP, PhD Oxon School of Psychiatry Department of Experimental Psychology The University of New South Wales University of Oxford, UK Professor John Hodges Professor Martin Brüne MBBS Lond, MRCP, MD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRACP PhD UMG, Habilitation Brain and Mind Centre Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive The University of Sydney Medicine Associate Professor Blake Johnson LWL University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, BSc Alberta, MA SFU, PhD SFU Germany Department of Cognitive Science Professor Naama Friedmann Macquarie University MA Tel Aviv, PhD Tel Aviv Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah School of Education and Sagol School of Neuroscience BA Zagreb, MSc Macq, PhD Macq Tel Aviv University, Israel School of Psychology Professor William Hayward The University of Sydney BA UC, MA UC, MSc/MPhil Yale, PhD Yale Associate Professor Robyn Langdon School of Psychology BSc DipEd UQ, BA Macq, PhD Macq The University of Auckland, NZ Department of Cognitive Science Professor Michael Hornberger Macquarie University BA UOS, MSc UVienna, PhD UCL Professor Genevieve McArthur Norwich Medical School BA UWA, PhD UWA University of East Anglia, UK Department of Cognitive Science Professor Facundo Manes Macquarie University MPhil Cantab, PhD Cantab Associate Professor Laurie Miller Institute of Cognitive Neurology BSc Westminster, MSc McGill, PhD McGill Institute of Neuroscience, Favaloro University, Argentina Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Dr Ryan McKay The University of Sydney BSc UWA, MClinPsych/PhD Macq Professor Lyndsey Nickels Department of Psychology BA Reading, PhD Lond, FASSA Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University

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Professor Kate Nation Dr Weiyi Ma BSc York, PhD York BA CWNU, MA Sichuan, MA UDEL, MA UDEL, PhD UDEL Department of Experimental Psychology Department of Cognitive Science University of Oxford, UK Macquarie University Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Pellicano Dr Eva Marinus BSc UWA, PhD UWA, MPsych UWA MS ClinDevPsych UvA, PhD UvA Department of Psychology and Human Development Department of Cognitive Science UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK Macquarie University Professor Mabel Rice Dr Markus Neumann BA UNI, MA UNI, PhD Kansas DipPsych UHAM, PhD FSU Department of Speech, Language and Hearing School of Psychological Science The University of Kansas, USA The University of Western Australia Professor Andrew (Andy) Young Dr Vince Polito BSc Lond, PhD Warwick, DSc Lond BPsych Macq, PhD Macq Department of Psychology Department of Cognitive Science The University of York, UK Macquarie University Dr Simmy Poonian Centre Funded Associate Investigators BSc UoA, BSc UoA, MSc UCL, PhD UQ Dr Nicholas Badcock Department of Cognitive Science BSc UWA, MPsych AppDev/PhD UWA Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Dr Serje Robidoux Macquarie University BMath UOFW, MA UOFW, PhD UOFW Dr Nathan Caruana Department of Cognitive Science BPsych Macq, PhD Macq Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Dr Teresa Schubert Macquarie University BA UNC, MA JHU, PhD JHU Dr Emily Connaughton Department of Cognitive Science BBA Macq, BA Macq, PhD/MClinNeuropsych Macq Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Dr Clare Sutherland Macquarie University BSc UOG, MPsych York, PhD York Dr Kate Crookes School of Psychological Science BA/BSc Melb, BSc ANU, PhD ANU The University of Western Australia School of Psychological Science Dr Lyn Tieu The University of Western Australia BSc U of T, MA U of T, MA UConn, PhD UConn Dr Amy Dawel Department of Cognitive Science BA UTAS/ANU, PhD ANU Macquarie University Research School of Psychology Australian National University Associate Investigators Dr Yong Zhi Foo Professor Gerry Altmann BSocSc NUS, MSocSc NUS, PhD UWA BSc US, PhD UOE School of Psychological Science Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia University of Connecticut, USA Dr Wei He Dr Inés Antón-Méndez BMedSc Sichuan, MD ZJU, PhD Macq BS Madrid, MA Arizona, PhD Arizona Department of Cognitive Science School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences Macquarie University University of New England Dr Linda Jeffery Professor Ian Apperly BA UWA, PhD UWA BA Cantab, PhD UBir School of Psychological Science School of Psychology The University of Western Australia University of Birmingham, UK Dr Mariia Kaliuzhna Dr Amee Baird MA UPMF, BA KNLU, MA KNLU, MA UL2, PhD EPFL BA Melb, MPsychClinNeuro Melb, PhD Melb Department of Cognitive Science Department of Psychology Macquarie University Macquarie University Dr Loes Koring Professor Kirrie Ballard BA UU, MA UU, PhD UU BSpThy UQ, MA NWU, PhD NWU Department of Cognitive Science Discipline of Speech Pathology Macquarie University The University of Sydney Dr Ramón Landin-Romero Dr Ryan Balzan BSc UMAN, BSc York, MSc UB, PhD UB BPsych Adel, PhD Adel Brain and Mind Centre School of Psychology The University of Sydney Flinders University Dr Robin Litt Dr Erin Banales BA SCR, PhD/DPhil Oxon BBSc La Trobe, PGDipPsych La Trobe, PhD Macq Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie Cognition Clinic for Reading Macquarie University Macquarie University

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Associate Professor David Barner Dr James Burrell BA McGill, BSc McGill, MA Harvard, PhD Harvard BSc, MBBS UNSW, BA UNSW, PhD UNSW, FRACP Department of Psychology Brain and Mind Centre University of California, San Diego, USA The University of Sydney Dr Scott Barnes Professor Anthony (Mike) Burton BAppSc SpPath UNEW, PhD Macq BSc UNOT, PhD UNOT, CPsych Department of Linguistics Department of Psychology Macquarie University University of York, UK Dr Polly Barr Dr Nichola Burton BA Bangor, MA Bangor, PhD Macq BA UWA, PhD UWA Department of Cognitive Science School of Psychological Science Macquarie University The University of Western Australia Dr Jason Bell Dr Christopher Butler BA UWA, PhD UWA MA Cantab, MBChB UOE, MRCP UK, PhD UOE, MSc UOE School of Psychological Science Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences The University of Western Australia University of Oxford, UK Dr Titia Benders Associate Professor Ivano Caponigro BA UvA, MA UvA, PhD UvA BA Pavia, MA UCLA, PhD UCLA Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Macquarie University University of California, San Diego, USA Dr Nick Benikos Associate Professor Thomas Carlson PhD UoW BSc Psych/Mgmt UMN, PhD UMN Department of Cognitive Science School of Psychology Macquarie University The University of Sydney Dr Christopher Benton Dr Leidy Castro-Meneses BSc UMAN, MSc UMAN, PhD Lond BPsych USCO, PhD Macq Department of Experimental Psychology Department of Linguistics University of Bristol, UK Macquarie University Dr Elisabeth (Lisi) Beyersmann Dr Lisa Ceccherini MA Stuttgart, PhD Macq BSc UNIPD, MSc UNIPD, Phd Padova, PhD Macq Department of Cognitive Science Dr Trevor Chong Macquarie University BMedSc Monash, MB,BS Monash, PhD Melb, FRACP Dr Britta Biedermann School of Psychological Sciences MA UF, PhD Macq Monash University School of Psychology and Speech Pathology Dr Danielle Colenbrander Curtin University BLibStud USyd, MSLP Macq, PhD Macq Professor Emma Borg School of Experimental Psychology BA KCL, MPhil UCL, PhD UCL University of Bristol, UK Department of Philosophy Associate Professor Veronika Coltheart University of Reading, UK BA USyd, PhD Monash Dr Jon Brock (from June 2017) Department of Psychology BSc Bristol, PhD Warwick Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science Dr Adam Congleton Macquarie University BA BU, MA SBU, PhD SBU Associate Professor Kevin Brooks Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences BSc York, DPhil US Aarhus University, Denmark Department of Psychology Dr Michael Connors Macquarie University BA USyd, BSc USyd, PhD Macq Dr Laurence Bruggeman Dementia Collaborative Research Centre BA RU, MA RU, PhD WSU The University of New South Wales Department of Linguistics Dr Philip Corlett Macquarie University PhD Cantab Dr Jennifer Buckingham Department of Psychiatry BSc UNEW, PhD Macq Yale School of Medicine, USA The Centre for Independent Studies Dr Rochelle Cox Dr Nicolas Bullot BSc UNSW, PhD UNSW MA Polytechnique, MA EHESS, PhD EHESS NSW Department of Education Department of Law Education Business and Arts Associate Professor Felicity Cox Charles Darwin University BA DipEd Macq, PhD Macq Associate Professor Hana Burianová Department of Linguistics BSc U of T, PhD U of T, MA U of T Macquarie University Centre for Advanced Imaging Dr Karen Croot The University of Queensland PhD Cantab School of Psychology The University of Sydney

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Professor Linda Cupples BSc Monash and Melb, PhD Melb Department of Linguistics Macquarie University Dr Kim Curby BSc UOW, MA VANDY, PhD VANDY Department of Psychology Macquarie University Dr Kirsten Dalrymple BsC Queen’s, MA UBC, PhD UBC Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota, USA Dr Marshall Dalton BA UNSW, PhD UNSW Institute of Neurology University College London, UK Dr Peter de Lissa BSc Macq, MSc Maastricht, PhD Macq Department of Psychology University of Fribourg, Switzerland Dr Bianca de Wit BSc EUR, MSc EUR, PhD Macq Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University I joined the CCD in 2013, first as a student member while undertaking my PhD (Clinical Dr Antonio Di Ieva MD UNINA, PhD MUW Psychology) at the Australian National University, Department of Clinical Medicine and then as an Associate Investigator since Macquarie University graduating in 2015. Dr Kimberley Docking My research investigates how individual BSpPath UQ, PhD UQ differences in facial expression processing are Discipline of Speech Pathology influenced by perceptual and personality factors, The University of Sydney including psychopathic traits. When I started Associate Professor Bradley Duchaine this line of research, I was surprised to find the BA MU, PhD UCSB pictures of facial expressions used in research Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences were mostly posed in an artificial way. During Dartmouth College, USA my CCD-funded postdoc, I established people often perceive these posed expressions as faking Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss emotion, and found evidence research outcomes MA UoC, PhD HHU can be quite different when genuine emotional Department of Linguistics expressions are used instead. University of Cologne, Germany Dr Louise Ewing The CCD has opened up many opportunities BA UWA, MPsych AppDev/PhD UWA for me, including a postdoctoral exchange to Department of Psychological Science Belgium in 2017, where I trained in the Face Birkbeck, University of London, UK Categorization Lab, University of Louvain, of Professor Bruno Rossion on a specialised EEG Dr Nora Fieder PhD Macq, DipPathLing UNEW, PhD Macq technique he developed for studying face Berlin School of Mind and Brain processing. Since returning to Australia, I have Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany been able to share this technique with other Australian researchers, by running workshops Associate Professor Matthew Finkbeiner at The University of Western Australia and at BA Arizona State, MA TESL Arizona State, PhD Arizona Macquarie University. Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University The CCD has been instrumental in launching my Dr Chiara Fiorentini career, and I am very grateful to be part of this MA Vita-Salute San Raffaele, PhD Geneva wonderful, collaborative scientific community! Swiss Center for Affective Sciences University of Geneva, Switzerland Professor Ken Forster Dr Amy Dawel BA Melb, MA Melb, PhD Illinois Australian National University Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Dr Jason Friedman BSc Monash, MSc Weizmann, PhD Weizmann Department of Physical Therapy Tel Aviv University, Israel

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PhD Jemma Collova PhD, The University of Western Australia Dr Rebekah Ahmed Professor Gillian Rhodes and Dr Clare Sutherland PhD, The University of New South Wales First impressions of children’s faces. Professor Olivier Piguet, Professor Matthew Kiernan (The University of Sydney) and Professor John Hodges Ella Creet Eating, autonomic and sexual dysfunction in PhD, Newcastle University, UK frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease. Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Julie Morris (Newcastle University, UK) Noga Balaban Exploring the mechanisms underlying improvements in PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel word retrieval for individuals with aphasia. Professor Naama Friedmann and Dr Yoad Winter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Benjamin Davies Learning about contrastive conjunctives from individuals PhD, Macquarie University with brain damage. Professor Katherine Demuth and Dr Nan Xu Rattanasone The effect of allomorphy on the acquisition of English Lydia Barnes plural morphology. PhD, Macquarie University Dr Nicholas Badcock and Professor Genevieve McArthur Robina Day Control of everyday skilled actions. PhD, Macquarie University Professor William (Bill) Thompson and Dr Simon Boag Dr Polly Barr (Macquarie University) PhD, Macquarie University The role of visual imagery in the elicitation of emotions Professor Lyndsey Nickels, Dr Britta Biedermann and through music. Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier (Bangor University, UK) The representation of homophones in monolingual and Dr Vania Marisa Correia de Aguiar bilingual speakers. PhD, Macquarie University Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Cory Bill Associate Professor Paul Sowman PhD, Macquarie University Non-fluent aphasia rehabilitation from a linguistic Professor Stephen Crain and perspective and the role of tDCS. Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton What’s in an inference: Exploring the nature of scalar Dr Emma Devenney implicatures and presuppositions. PhD, The University of New South Wales Professor John Hodges and Professor Matthew Kiernan Olivia Brancatisano (The University of Sydney) PhD, Macquarie University Clinical features of the C9ORF72 expansion in Professor William (Bill) Thompson and frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease. Associate Professor Paul Sowman A model of music based treatments for fluency problems Laura Dondzilo in neurological disorders. PhD, The University of Western Australia Dr Jason Bell, Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Catherine Browning Associate Professor Sue Byrne (The University of Western PhD, Macquarie University Australia) Dr Celia Harris and Professor Amanda Barnier The relationship between attentional bias and The effect of collaboration on prospective memory motivational orientation towards female bodyshape. performance. Dror Dotan Dr Ann Carrigan PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel PhD, Macquarie University Professor Naama Friedmann Associate Professor Anina Rich and Dr Susan Wardle Syntactic and quantity processing of multi-digit numbers. Expertise in visual search of medical and non-medical images. Laura McLaughlin Engfors PhD, The University of Western Australia Hui-Ching Chen Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery PhD, Macquarie University Factors that contribute to individual differences in face Professor Barbara Höhle (University of Potsdam, recognition ability. Germany), Professor Stephen Crain and Professor Lyndsey Nickels Anna Fiveash The acquisition of the information structure. PhD, Macquarie University Professor William (Bill) Thompson and Yu Chen Professor Genevieve McArthur PhD, The University of Sydney The nature of syntactic processing in music and Professor Olivier Piguet and Dr Fiona Kumfor language. Physiology of emotional memory in frontotemporal dementia. Dr Yong Zhi Foo PhD, The University of Western Australia Peter Clutton Professor Gillian Rhodes and Professor Leigh Simmons PhD, Macquarie University Do facial sexual dimorphism and skin colour signal good Dr Colin Klein and Professor Amanda Barnier health in humans? Delusion and belief: A cognitive phenomenological defence of doxasticism.

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Deanna Francis Kate Hardwick PhD, Macquarie University PhD, Macquarie University Professor Genevieve McArthur and Professor Mark Williams and A Professor Jennifer Hudson ssociate Professor Anina Rich The relationship between children’s reading ability Exploring the neural correlates of disgust. and emotional health. Heivet Hernandez Perez Amanda Fullerton PhD, Macquarie University PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Catherine McMahon and Associate Professor Catherine McMahon, Professor Sumitrajit Dhar (Northwestern University, USA) Associate Professor Blake Johnson and Effects of auditory attention on the optoacoustic Professor Greg Savage emissions. Brain changes following cochlear implantation in older Chris Hewitson adults. PhD, Macquarie University Dr Na Gao Dr David Kaplan and Associate Professor Paul Sowman PhD, Macquarie University Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying Bayesian Professor Stephen Crain and sensorimotor learning. Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton Rebecca Holt The interpretation of sentences with disjunction by PhD, Macquarie University child and adult speakers of mandarin. Professor Katherine Demuth and Dr Laurence Bruggeman Rebecca Gelding Examining prediction in sentence processing among PhD, Macquarie University children with hearing loss. Associate Professor Blake Johnson and Haiquan (David) Huang Professor William (Bill) Thompson PhD, Macquarie University Mental imagery of musical pitch and rhythm. Professor Stephen Crain, Rakshita Gokula Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton and PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Peng Zhou Associate Professor Mridula Sharma (Macquarie Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of entailments University), Professor Linda Cupples, and inferences. Associate Professor Mary Rudner (Linköping University, Dr Qandeel Hussain Sweden) and Associate Professor Joanne Arciuli PhD, Macquarie University (The University of Sydney) Professor Katherine Demuth, Dr Michael Proctor Hearing, listening and reading: A new model to understand and Associate Professor Mark Harvey (The University how what we hear affects how we learn to read. of Newcastle) Dr Tijl Grootswagers Phonetic characterisation of a complex coronal system: PhD, Macquarie University Insights from Punjabi. Professor Mark Williams, Dr Susan Wardle and Rosalind Hutchings Associate Professor Thomas Carlson PhD, The University of Sydney Beyond brain decoding: Methodological and empirical Professor Olivier Piguet and Dr Fiona Kumfor contributions to brain decoding methods and their link Face processing in frontotemporal dementia. to behaviour. Dr Jade Jackson Revital Guggenheim PhD, Macquarie University PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr Alexandra Woolgar and Associate Professor Anina Rich Professor Naama Friedmann The role of frontoparietal cortices in feature-selection The effect of phonological output buffer impairment attention. on reading, writing and syntax. Emma Johnson Dr Sana-e-Zehra Haidry PhD, The University of Sydney PhD, Macquarie University Dr Fiona Kumfor and Professor Olivier Piguet Professor Anne Castles, Professor Lyndsey Nickels Investigating motivational changes in frontotemporal and Professor Ben Maassen (University of Groningen, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The Netherlands) Early assessment of developmental dyslexia in Urdu Nenad Jovanovic language. PhD, University of Potsdam, Germany Professor Lyndsey Nickels Dr Solène Hameau The effect of rhythmic auditory priming on SLI children’s PhD, Macquarie University processing of syntax. Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Britta Biedermann Neighbourhood density effects in spoken word Antonios Kaldas production. PhD, Macquarie University Dr Colin Klein and Associate Professor Alex Holcombe Inga Hameister (The University of Sydney) PhD, Macquarie University Attention, consciousness and working memory. Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Professor Roelien Bastiaanse (University of Groningen, Lilach Khentov-Kraus The Netherlands) PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel Conceptualisation in stroke-induced and primary Professor Naama Friedmann progressive aphasia. The distribution of developmental dyslexias.

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Haleh Khoshkhouy Delshad Georgina Macken PhD, Macquarie University PhD, The New School for Social Research, USA Professor Mark Williams and Professor William Hirst (The New School for Social Associate Professor Anina Rich Research, USA), Professor Wendy D’Andrea (The New Using fMRI to study the underlying neural network School for Social Research, USA) and of the implicit visual episodic memory. Associate Professor Anina Rich Yair Lakretz The stranger effect: In search of an accurate intelligence PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel score for children with autism. Professor Naama Friedmann Dr Pragati Rao Mandikal Vasuki Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in reading: A PhD, Macquarie University computational study. Dr Mridula Sharma (Macquarie University), Leonie Lampe Professor Katherine Demuth and PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Joanne Arciuli (The University of Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Nora Fielder Sydney) Understanding language processing in aphasia. Statistical learning and auditory processing in adults and children with music training: A behavioural and ERP study. Jo Lane PhD, Australian National University Tina Marusch Professor Elinor McKone, Professor Ted Maddess PhD, Macquarie University (Australian National University), Professor Jan Provis Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Frank Burchert (Australian National University) and (University of Potsdam, Germany) Associate Professor Nick Barnes (Australian National Language production of verbal inflectional morphology University) in healthy and impaired adult speakers of German and Age-related macular degeneration and face recognition. English. Yu Li Qingqing (David) Meng PhD, Macquarie University PhD, Macquarie University Professor Anne Castles and Associate Professor Blake Johnson and Associate Professor Sachiko Kinoshita Associate Professor Catherine McMahon The development of brain connections between ventral Objective measurement of listening effort with occipito-temporal cortex and the other language regions, magnetoencephalography (MEG): Effects of aging and and its dysfunction in dyslexic children. hearing loss. Luan Li Paige Mewton PhD, Macquarie University PhD, The Australian National University Dr Eva Marinus, Dr Hua-Chen Wang and Associate Professor Bruce Christensen (Australian Professor Anne Castles National University), Professor Michael Smithson Lexical consolidation in learning to read in Chinese. (Australian National University) and Dr Amy Dawel Identifying the mechanisms of impaired face processing Chi Yhun Lo in schizophrenia. PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Catherine McMahon, Julien Millasseau Professor William (Bill) Thompson and Dr Valerie Looi PhD, Macquarie University (Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre) Professor Katherine Demuth, Dr Laurence Bruggeman Music training for hearing impaired children and its and Dr Ivan Yuen effect on cognition and linguistic ability. The acquisition of acoustic cues to English voicing contrasts. Zhe (Jill) Long PhD, The University of Sydney Luke Mills Dr James Burrell, Professor Olivier Piguet and Professor PhD, Macquarie University Glenda Halliday (The University of New South Wales) Associate Professor Sachiko Kinoshita and Clinicopathological correlation in frontotemporal Dr Chris Donkin (The University of New South Wales) dementia and motor neuron disease. Is the task of reading modulated by attentional control. Dr Xuejing Lu Claire Murphy PhD, Macquarie University PhD, University College London, UK Professor William (Bill) Thompson and Professor Wendy Best and Professor Chris Donlan Associate Professor Blake Johnson (University College London, UK) An investigation of spatial representations of pitch Profiling children with language and literacy needs: in individuals with congential amusia. Defining skill-sets and evaluating responses to vocabulary/context-based strategy intervention. Dr Oksana Lyalka PhD, Newcastle University, UK Ana Murteira Professor David Howard (Newcastle University, UK) PhD, Macquarie University and Professor Lyndsey Nickels Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Mechanisms underpinning semantic inhibition and Associate Professor Paul Sowman facilitation in spoken word retrieval. Effect of gesture observation on action-verb naming. Andi Musrah PhD, The University of Sydney Professor Olivier Piguet and Dr Fiona Kumfor Computational architecture of emotion coherence in frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

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Marie Nankoo Siddharth Ramanan PhD, The University of Western Australia PhD, The University of Sydney Dr Jason Bell, Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Professor Olivier Piguet and Associate Professor Carmela Pestell (The University of Associate Professor Muireann Irish Western Australia) Developing novel tests of non-verbal memory Timing deficits, inattention and emotional dysregulation in neurodegenerative disorders. in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Laura Ramos Dr Manjunath Narra PhD, University of Technology Sydney PhD, Macquarie University Professor Elise van den Hoven Associate Professor Matthew Finkbeiner and Design to support memory function in older adults Professor Lyndsey Nickels for everyday living. The time course of the conflict effect in bilinguals Matthew Robson and monolinguals. PhD, The University of Western Australia Hanh Nguyen Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery PhD, Newcastle University, UK Investigation into the perceptual capabilities of Dr Julie Morris (Newcastle University, UK), congenital prosopagnosics. Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Janet Webster Dr Adria Rofes Sanchez (Newcastle University, UK) PhD, University of Trento, Italy Prior knowledge in text comprehension in healthy Professor Lyndsey Nickels, Professor Gabriele Miceli readers and readers with aphasia. (University of Trento, Italy) and Dr Katya Numbers Professor Roelien Bastiaanse (University of Groningen, PhD, Macquarie University The Netherlands) Professor Amanda Barnier, Dr Celia Harris and Neural correlates of verb production and their relevance Associate Professor Michelle Meade in awake surgery. The role of stereotypes in perceptions of memory Kelly Rombough in old age. PhD, Macquarie University Naomi Oliver Associate Professor Rosalind Thornton and PhD, Macquarie University Professor Stephen Crain Associate Professor Robyn Langdon, Investigation of syntactic knowledge in question Associate Professor Andrew Ballie (Macquarie University) structures in children with specific language impairment. and Dr Vince Polito Marguerite Rowe The effects of a meta-cognitive training program on PhD, Macquarie University delusion symptom outcomes and violent behaviour in Associate Professor Anina Rich and a forensic psychiatric setting. Professor Richard Stevenson (Macquarie University) Samantha Parker Synaesthesia and associate learning. PhD, Macquarie University Cathleen Rubin Associate Professor Matthew Finkbeiner and PhD, Macquarie University Professor Andrew Heathcote (University of Tasmania) Professor Lyndsey Nickels Investigating the relationship between attention and Enhancing communicative effectiveness and satisfaction eye movements during decision making. between people with primary progressive aphasia and Joshua Penney their communication partner. PhD, Macquarie University Dana Rusou Associate Professor Felicity Cox and Dr Anita Szakay PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel Production and perception of glottalisation in Australian Professor Naama Friedmann English. The role of the cerebellum in language functions: A Selene Petit study of language and reading in individuals with PhD, Macquarie University spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA-3). Dr Alexandra Woolgar and Dr Nicholas Badcock Margaret Ryan Discovering preserved linguistic abilities in non-verbal PhD, Macquarie University children with autism. Associate Professor Paul Sowman, Sarah Pini Professor Linda Cupples and Professor Lyndsey Nickels PhD, Macquarie University Moved nouns in experiencer-verb sentences: Syntactic Professor John Sutton, Professor Greg Downey and semantic stages in sentence comprehension. (Macquarie University) and Dr Julie-Anne Long (Macquarie Prerana Sabnis University) PhD, University of Trento, Italy Dancing bodies, shaped minds: An ecological Professor Gabriele Miceli (University of Trento, Italy) a approach to kinesthetic intelligence. nd Professor Lyndsey Nickels Valerie (Yi) Pu The neural underpinnings of the comprehension of PhD, Macquarie University semantically reversible relations: An investigation Associate Professor Blake Johnson and using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Professor Stephen Crain Neta Salner The function of theta oscillations in the hippocampus PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel and parahippocampus in a spatial navigation task. Professor Naama Friedmann The role of attention in letter position encoding and in letter position dyslexia.

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Narayan Sankaran PhD, The University of Sydney Associate Professor Simon Carlile (The University of Sydney) and Associate Professor Thomas Carlson Predictive processes in music. Dr Tamara Schembri PhD, Macquarie University Professor Katherine Demuth and Professor Mark Johnson Online acquisition of Cairene Arabic word stress patterns over time. Robert Seymour PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Paul Sowman and Associate Professor Blake Johnson MEG studies of atypical cortical activity in autism spectrum disorder. Felice Smith PhD, Macquarie University Professor Mark Williams and Associate Professor Thomas Carlson The neural representation of objects in cortex. Cherie Strikwerda-Brown PhD, The University of Sydney Associate Professor Muireann Irish and Receiving the CCD Student Exchange Travel Professor Olivier Piguet Grant allowed me to visit NeuroSpin, a world- Changes to sense of self in dementia: Cognitive leading neuroscience laboratory in Paris, directed and neurobiological underpinnings. by Professor Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de Dr Yanan Sun France). Professor Dehaene and his team are PhD, Macquarie University particularly well-known for their excellent work Professor William (Bill) Thompson and A on numerical cognition. During my stay, I was ssociate Professor Blake Johnson able to work on a very challenging project with Shared cognitive resources for music and language: the Numerical Cognition Research Group, Evidence from congenital amusia. investigating how the brain masters mental Tünde Szalay arithmetic. I benefitted from working on this PhD, Macquarie University project in many ways. For example, I started to Dr Michael Proctor, Associate Professor Felicity Cox learn a new programming language, learned new and Dr Titia Benders methods of data acquisition and gained a deeper Phonological characterisation of lateral-final rimes understanding of data analysis. Most importantly, in Australian English. I developed strong connections with colleagues who share my research interests. Through many Dr Ronit Szteroni stimulating discussions, I learnt a lot about PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel current issues in the field. Professor Naama Friedmann The syntactic impairment in children with hearing While on the exchange, I also had the opportunity loss and its connection to children’s ability to to present my work at local seminars and read and comprehend reading. two international conferences (International Dr Niina Tamura Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience and PhD, University of Oxford, UK European Conference on Visual Perception). Professor Kate Nation I received a lot of valuable feedback on my Orthographic and semantic learning via reading. work which will be beneficial for writing up my thesis. At the conferences, I was also able to Ping Tang connect with researchers from other European PhD, Macquarie University universities which led to new collaborations. Professor Katherine Demuth and Dr Nan Xu Rattanasone Children’s acquisition of Mandarin tones in context. I am very grateful to the CCD for this experience! Lina Teichmann PhD, Macquarie University Associate Professor Anina Rich and Associate Professor Thomas Carlson Lina Teichmann Investigating the time-course of magnitude Macquarie University representation. Dr Sicong Tu PhD, The University of New South Wales Professor Michael Hornberger and Professor Olivier Piguet Brain connectivity biomarkers predict specific memory consolidation deficits across dementia subtypes.

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Maira Vicente Braga Combined PhD, The University of Western Australia Joanna Alexi Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery PhD/MClinNeuro, The University of Western Australia The association between social anxiety, shyness and face Dr Jason Bell, Associate Professor Romina Palermo and recognition ability in children. Dr Sue Byrne (The University of Western Australia) Alexa von Hagen Attentional bias, body perception and disordered eating. PhD, University of Potsdam, Germany Dr Adam Bentvelzen Dr Saskia Kohnen and Dr Nicole Stadie (University PhD/MClinNeuro, Macquarie University of Potsdam, Germany) Professor Greg Savage Developmental dyslexia and second language learning. Effects of task and material on hemispheric lateralisation Lulu Wan of nonverbal memory. PhD, Australian National University Ellen Bothe Professor Elinor McKone, Dr Kate Crookes and MClinNeuroPsy/PhD, The University of Western Australia Professor Katherine Reynolds (Australian National Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery University) Autistic-like traits and face processing. The other-race effect in face recognition. Erika Contini Dr Vana Webster PhD/MClinNeuro, Macquarie University PhD, Macquarie University Professor Mark Williams and Professor Amanda Barnier and Dr Penny Van Bergen Associate Professor Thomas Carlson (Macquarie University) The temporal dynamics of visual object processing. Collective memory: The social context of remembering together. Dielle Horne PhD/MClinPsych, The University of Western Australia Signy Wegener Dr Jason Bell, Associate Professor Romina Palermo and PhD, Macquarie University Dr Markus Neumann Professor Anne Castles, Dr Hua-Chen Wang and Attentional biases in people with anorexic eating Professor Kate Nation symptomatology. The development of orthographic representations. Hanaa Idris Jordan Wehrman PhD/MClin, The University of Western Australia PhD, Macquarie University Professor Colin McLeod (The University of Western Associate Professor Paul Sowman and Dr David Kaplan Australia) and Associate Professor Romina Palermo Investigations into the sequential dynamics of response Examining representational momentum in the processing inhibition. of dynamic facial expressions. Nikolas Williams Samantha Joplin PhD, Macquarie University DCP/MSc, The University of Sydney Dr Celia Harris and Professor Amanda Barnier Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah Collaboration and executive attention. Accelerated long-term forgetting in children with genetic Nikki-Anne Wilson generalised epilepsy: An investigation of the temporal PhD, The University of Sydney trajectory and contribution of executive skills. Professor Olivier Piguet and Benjamin McLean Associate Professor Muireann Irish PhD/ClinPsych, Flinders University Examining neurocognitive mechanisms of social Dr Julie Mattiske (Flinders University) and Dr Ryan Balzan dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia. The nature of the relationship between cognitive biases Maya Yachini and delusions in psychosis. PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel Cecilia Minogue Professor Naama Friedmann DCP/MSc, The University of Sydney Developmental dysgraphias. Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah, Dr Kylie Radford Xiaohe Yuan and Professor Tony Broe (Neuroscience Research PhD, Beijing Language and Culture University, China Australia) Professor Ping Wu (Beijing Language and Culture Cognitive decline in elder Aboriginal Australians: Is University, China) and Professor Stephen Crain education protective? Experimental studies of Chinese “numeral classifier noun” Colleen Murphy constructions. PhD/MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Di (Judy) Zhu Associate Professor Robyn Langdon PhD, Macquarie University Poor social functioning in schizophrenia: Understanding Associate Professor Paul Sowman and Dr Ahmed Moustafa the role of automatic facets of social cognition. (Western Sydney University) Tamara Paulin Language control in bilingual speech production. MClinNeuro/PhD, Macquarie University Professor Greg Savage, Professor Amanda Barnier and Associate Professor Muireann Irish Imagination in the real-world. Natalie Phillips PhD/DClinPsych, The University of Sydney Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah and Dr Anna Mandalis (Sydney Children’s Hospital) Computerised cognitive rehabilitation of working memory for children who have sustained traumatic brain injury.

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Belinda Poole PhD/MClinPsych, The University of Sydney Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah and Associate Professor Irina Harris (The University of Sydney) Investigation of working memory and mathematical difficulties in children with epilepsy. Gideon Sacks PhD/MClinPsych, The University of Western Australia Dr Carmela Pestell (The University of Western Australia) and Associate Professor Romina Palermo Time perception deficits in ADHD. Elizabeth Stewart DCP/PhD, The University of Sydney Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah Theory of mind and executive functions in children with idiopathic generalised epilepsy. Ben Tappin PhD/MSc, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Dr Ryan McKay and Professor Dominic Abrams (University of Kent, UK) Biases in social belief formation. Bianca Thorup PhD/ClinNeuro, The University of Western Australia I was fortunate to be a recipient of the 2017 Professor Gillian Rhodes and Dr Kate Crookes CCD Student Exchange Scheme, and spent Neural plasticity and other-race face recognition: Is there three months (September – December) at Yale a critical period for developing perceptual expertise? University, USA working in Professor Paul Bloom’s Kaitlyn Turbett Mind and Development Lab. MClinNeuro/PhD, The University of Western Australia Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery Being at Yale was a fantastic experience. It is one Investigation into the role of assimilative biases in of the foremost research universities in the world children with autism and their relationship to perceptual and my time in the Department of Psychology atypicalities. reflected that fact. I attended numerous weekly lab meetings hosted by principal investigators Jasmina Vrankovic who are leaders in their respective fields of PhD/MClinNeuro, Macquarie University research; including in the focal area of my own Associate Professor Veronika Coltheart and PhD research (belief formation). I was therefore Dr Nicholas Badcock exposed to methods and theory that represent Selection by semantic category: Towards a model of the cutting edge in these research areas, and my iconic memory. own research has been (and continues to be) Sarah Watts profoundly benefitted by these experiences. PhD/DClincPsych, The University of Sydney As a concrete example, I am now collaborating Associate Professor Caroline Hunt (The University of with multiple scholars, including Professors Sydney), Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah and Paul Bloom and David Rand, on various projects Associate Professor Paul Rhodes (The University of directly relevant to my PhD thesis. It is highly Sydney) likely these projects will yield publishable articles Understanding cross-cultural caregiving practices in the not-too-distant future. and testing the efficacy of an innovative evidence- based psychological intervention to improve children’s From a social point of view, I was doubly development. fortunate to meet and form friendships with very Dr Stephanie Wong interesting and motivated individuals at Yale. I PhD/MClinNeuroPsych, Macquarie University even spent Thanksgiving at one of my new-found Professor Greg Savage, Professor Amanda Barnier, friend’s family home! This was my first visit to Professor Michael Hornberger and Professor Olivier Piguet the US, and I already have plans to go back for The prefrontal cortex and episodic memory in dementia professional as well as personal reasons. syndromes. I am extremely grateful to the CCD for this DPsych opportunity! Dr Karen Croot DClinPsych, The University of Sydney Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Melanie Porter Ben Tappin Word retrieval in progressive aphasia. Royal Holloway, University of London Kelly Jeng DClinNeuro, Macquarie University Professor Greg Savage Associative memory and the early detection of dementia.

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Masters Liora Lopes Murcian MA, Tel Aviv University, Israel Marion Aitchison Professor Naama Friedmann MRes, Macquarie University Distinguishing different sources of letter migration Professor Mark Williams and Dr Trevor Chong between words: Attentional dyslexia or phonological Should I stay or should I go? Human studies of foraging output buffer. for reward. Alexi Lutherborrough Aydin Anic MRes, Macquarie University MRes, Macquarie University Dr Vince Polito and Associate Professor Paul Sowman Professor William (Bill) Thompson Anticipatory postural adjustments and self illusions. Measuring creativity in an improvised jazz context: A preliminary tDCS study. Gretel Macdonald MRes, Macquarie University Lydia Barnes Professor Katherine Demuth MRes, Macquarie University Child speech in classroom interactions in an Australian Dr Nicholas Badcock and Professor Genevieve McArthur indigenous language. Distinguishing confounds from true meditation effects: Insights from auditory ERPs. Julien Millasseau MRes, Macquarie University Sarah Barrett Jones Professor Katherine Demuth and Dr Laurence Bruggeman MClinPsy, The University of Sydney Investigating the representation of voicing contrasts in Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah and children with hearing loss. Dr Laurie Miller The relationship between episodic and semantic memory Luke Mills in adults with temporal lobe epilepsy. MRes, Macquarie University Associate Professor Sachiko Kinoshita and Michelle Edwards Dr Nicholas Badcock MClinPsy, The University of Sydney Does neutral proportion modulate attentional control Associate Professor Suncica (Sunny) Lah and Associate of task conflict in the stroop task. Professor Romina Palermo Facial emotion identification in children with epilepsy: Rachael Neville A systematic review with meta-analysis. MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Professor Greg Savage Amanda Fullerton Cerebrovascular biomarkers of dementia risk. MRes, Macquarie University Associate Professor Catherine McMahon, Associate Pei (Amanda) Niu Professor Blake Johnson and Professor Greg Savage MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Brain changes after cochlear implantation. Professor Greg Savage Longitudinal changes in cortical brain volume measures Chris Hewitson and their relationship with beta-amyloid burden and MRes, Macquarie University cognition. Dr David Kaplan Investigating interlimb generalisation of Bayeisan Sujal Pokharel sensorimotor learning. MRes, Macquarie University Professor Katherine Demuth, Dr Elaine Schmidt and Rebecca Holt Dr Titia Benders MRes, Macquarie University Comparison of infant directed speech vs adult directed Professor Katherine Demuth, Ms Carmen Kung (Macquarie speech. University) and Dr Elaine Schmidt Neural responses to morphosyntactic violations in Mohammed Rafat foreign-accented speech. MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Professor Greg Savage Tatiana Izmaylova Diagnostic utility of subjective memory complaints MRes, Macquarie University in mild cognitive impairment. Associate Professor Paul Sowman Identification of hemispheric lateralization in persons Hannah Rapaport who do not stutter during exposure to stuttered speech. MRes, Macquarie University Dr Nicholas Badcock Robert Keys The influence of the lab environment on measures MRes, Macquarie University of hemispheric language dominance. Dr Regine Zopf and Associate Professor Anina Rich Multisensory temporal processing in own-body contexts: Louise Ratko Do bodily-self cues affect visual-tactile temporal MRes, Macquarie University perception? Dr Michael Proctor and Associate Professor Felicity Cox Articulatory characterisation of Australian English vowels. Louis Klein MRes, Macquarie University Leanne Ruggero Professor Amanda Barnier MRes, Macquarie University Can forgetting index your credences? Professor Lyndsey Nickels and Dr Karen Croot Quality of life in primary progressive aphasia: Luan Li Characteristics, influences and implications. MRes, Macquarie University Dr Eva Marinus, Dr Hua-Chen Wang and Andrea Salins Professor Anne Castles MRes, Macquarie University Phonological decoding in orthographic learning: Professor Anne Castles Evidence from Chinese. Orthographic facilitation in hearing impaired children.

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Nay San Honours MRes, Macquarie University Chloe Giffard Dr Michael Proctor BPsy, The University of Western Australia A quantitative analysis of vowel variation in Kaytetye. Associate Professor Romina Palermo and Dr Linda Jeffery Aimy Slade The association between autistic-traits and face MRes, Macquarie University perception abilities in children. Professor William (Bill) Thompson and Dr Kirk Olsen Jayden Greenwell-Barnden (Macquarie University) BPsy, The University of Western Australia Violent music and empathy. Dr Clare Sutherland and Professor Gillian Rhodes Matthew So Trust and face processing in schizotypy. MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Jasmine Hooper Professor Greg Savage and Professor Olivier Piguet BPsy, The University of Western Australia Validation and normative studies of the ACE-III. Dr Clare Sutherland and Professor Gillian Rhodes Daniell Steinberg The perception of trustworthiness in faces in relation MRes, Macquarie University to autistic traits. Associate Professor Paul Sowman Cheng Liang Modulating the effects of visual masking by TMS to the BSc, The University of New South Wales occipital pole with top-down biasing by working memory. Associate Professor Muireann Irish and Zachary Stevens Dr Ramon Landin-Romero MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Longitudinal changes in episodic memory in semantic Professor Greg Savage dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The clinical utility of recognition memory measures Antonina Loncarevic in predicting transition to Alzheimer’s disease. BSc, The University of Western Australia Artemis Synn Professor Gillian Rhodes and Dr Yong Zhi Foo MClinNeuro, Macquarie University Accuracy in sexual faithfulness judgements from faces. Professor Greg Savage and Emily Salanitro-Chafei Associate Professor Muireann Irish BA, The University of Sydney Theory of mind in frontotemporal dementia. Dr Fiona Kumfor Tünde Szalay The effect of content on emotion recognition: MRes, Macquarie University Comparing younger and older individuals. Dr Michael Proctor Derek Swe The disambiguation of Australian English vowels BPsy, The University of Western Australia in lateral-final syllables. Dr Nichola Burton and Professor Gillian Rhodes Emma Williams The contribution of low-level tilt adaptation to expression MOrgPsych, Macquarie University aftereffects. Dr Vince Polito Dana Walker Mindfulness and organisational citizenship. BPsy, The University of Western Australia Di (Judy) Zhu Dr Linda Jeffery and Associate Professor Romina Palermo MRes, Macquarie University The association between shyness and face recognition Associate Professor Paul Sowman and ability in children. Associate Professor Matthew Finkbeiner Natasha Zint Inhibitory control in bilingual lexical selection. BSc, The University of Western Australia Dr Linda Jeffery and Associate Professor Romina Palermo Individual differences in adaptive norm-based coding and holistic coding for facial recognition in children.

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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP The relationship of Beamformer source The developing lexicon: indigenous children’s ear reconstruction for Representation and health to phonological magnetoencephalography processing awareness in remote communities 26 - 27 April | Macquarie University 8 March | Macquarie University 17 March | Macquarie University Invited Speakers Invited Speakers Invited Speaker Professor Paul Boersma Professor Katherine Demuth Professor Douglas Cheyne University of Amsterdam, The Macquarie University Sick Children’s Hospital, Canada Netherlands Associate Professor Mridula Professor Paula Fikkert Sharma Professor Douglas Cheyne gave a Radboud University Nijmegen, The Macquarie University one-day workshop on beamformer Netherlands Professor Gillian Wigglesworth techniques for source analysis Professor Bob McMurray The University of Melbourne of magnetoencephalography University of Iowa, USA Dr Anna Stephen (MEG) data. This well-attended The University of Melbourne workshop provided a hands-on approach to MEG beamformer This two-day workshop brought together researchers working on This workshop outlined a program analysis using Professor Cheyne’s the lexicon in language acquisition of research aimed at exploring the Matlab toolbox BrainWave and development, using various relationship between children’s (Beamformer Reconstruction and methodologies and paradigms, to phonological awareness and hearing Interactive Waveform Visualization gain a better understanding of the status from communities in East Environment). The workshop architecture of the mental lexicon and West Arnhem Land and Central consisted of an introduction to and its development. Research Australia. Speakers described beamformer source reconstruction exploring this issue in monolingual 6-8-year-olds’ levels of hearing loss, and terminology in the morning and multilingual children and adults, auditory processing, phonological session and was followed by a and in both typically developing awareness and other risk factors hands-on BrainWave tutorial in the and special populations (such as (for language acquisition) across afternoon. those with hearing impairments communities. The findings will and language delays) was also provide evidence-based advice for discussed. The workshop included teachers and parents to enhance keynote addresses and invited talks the language and literacy skills of by experts in the fields of linguistics, Aboriginal children with conductive computational modelling, cognitive hearing loss. The results will also be science, and developmental used as a translational guide for the psychology. iHearing Program (NT Department of Health), facilitating the development of more appropriate resources and programs to enhance Aboriginal children’s learning of English as a second language.

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PAUL BOURKE PUBLIC LECTURE PUBLIC LECTURE WORKSHOP ‘The time-travelling brain’: Unconscious bias and Conspiracy theories, How we remember the past outdated stereotypes: How delusions and other and imagine thinking shortcuts lead to ‘troublesome beliefs’ bad outcomes

16 May | The University of Sydney 21 July | Macquarie University 10 - 11 August | Macquarie University Invited Speaker Invited Speaker Invited Speakers Associate Professor Muireann Irish Professor Jennifer L Martin Professor Mark Alfano The University of Sydney Griffith University Delft University of Technology, USA Professor Rob Brotherton In 2016 Associate Professor Muireann Women have made up more than University of Columbia, USA Irish, an Associate Investigator of the 50% of undergraduates at Australian Mr Peter Clutton Centre, was awarded the prestigious Universities since the 1980s. Thirty Macquarie University Academy of Social Sciences in years later, there has been little Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart Australia Paul Bourke Award. The change in the proportion of women Macquarie University public lecture is presented each at senior levels. This high attrition Professor Karen Douglas year by the recipient of the previous represents a loss of talent and University of Kent, UK year’s Paul Bourke Award for Early diversity, a waste of investment, and Dr Adam Dunn Career Research and presented at ultimately limits our productivity Macquarie University the lecturer’s home university. and innovation. It seems we are Professor Jolanda Jetten stuck with the stereotypes of the The University of Queensland At this public lecture, Associate past. To win the war on talent, we Dr Mariia Kaliuzhna Professor Irish presented an need to overhaul what we value, and Macquarie University overview of her work exploring rethink how we appoint and promote. Dr Colin Klein autobiographical memory and future We need smart initiatives, and Macquarie University thinking across various dementia new models of success. Professor Professor Neil Levy syndromes. She highlighted the Jennifer Martin addressed these Macquarie University cognitive mechanisms and neural issues as well as outlined some of the Professor Stephan Lewandowsky networks that need to be functional solutions that can be implemented University of Bristol, UK to support these sophisticated including the SAGE Athena SWAN Mr Ben Tappin cognitive processes and the pilot in Australia. This evidence- Royal Holloway, University of London, devastating effects of losing these based system requires a two-year UK uniquely human functions. self-assessment, consultation process and action plan development This two-day thought-provoking to address the attrition of women workshop brought together in science, technology, engineering, researchers from different maths and medicine. disciplines to consider a range of ‘sub-clinical’ but problematic beliefs, This public lecture was organised the psychological processes which and supported by the CCD Inclusive underlie those beliefs, and the Research Network. similarities and dissimilarities with delusional thinking processes. These included conspiracy theorising, anti-vaccination sentiments, extreme and radical political beliefs, climate change denial, belief in an intrinsically just world (and associated victim-blaming), and more. Speakers included cognitive scientists working on misinformation, delusions, and motivated beliefs; social psychologists working on conspiracy theories and related factors; philosophers working on evidence and social trust; and health informatics researchers interested in the effects of anti-vaccine beliefs.

The workshop was co-sponsored by the CCD Belief Formation Program and the Centre for Agency, Value and Ethics based at Macquarie University.

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WORKSHOP PUBLIC LECTURE WORKSHOP Reading and spelling Changing our minds: How Maximising the potential for modern environments are proficient reading in young impacting our brain activity people with hearing loss: What does the evidence tell us?

27 - 28 September | Macquarie 25 October | Macquarie 7 - 8 November | Macquarie University University University Invited Speakers Invited Speaker Invited Speakers Dr Jennifer Buckingham Dr Tara Thiagarajan Professor Amy R Lederberg Centre for Independent Studies Sapien Labs, USA Georgia State University, USA Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart Dr Fiona Kyle Macquarie University How does the technology we City University of London, UK Dr Saskia Kohnen use affect our brains? Does our Professor Greg Leigh Macquarie University income level have a relationship Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Dr Mandy Nayton to our brain waves? These were Children Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation of WA some of the important questions Dr Megan Gilliver Professor Rauno Parrila answered by Dr Tara Thiagarajan, a National Acoustic Laboratories Macquarie University scientist and entrepreneur with a Professor Rhona Stainthorp PhD in neuroscience from Stanford In this workshop, organised by University of Reading, UK University, USA. Dr Thiagarajan spoke the Macquarie University Centre about her work that focuses on of Language Sciences (CLaS) and Co-sponsored by the CCD and the new analytical approaches to brain sponsored by the CCD, two related Macquarie University Reading Clinic signals to drive understanding of issues were addressed concerning this highly successful workshop how environment influences human the development of reading skills brought together leading researchers brain diversity and, in turn, economic in children and adolescents with from around the world to discuss outcome. hearing loss - which cognitive reading and spelling development, and linguistic skills, and abilities disorders, remediation and related This public lecture was funded by are associated with good reading policy. The workshop was spread the Faculty of Human Sciences at outcomes in this population, and over two days, with day one focusing Macquarie University and hosted by what methods of reading instruction on research in the field of reading, the CCD. are most effective? spelling, dyslexia and dysgraphia and day two on practice and policy, To address these issues, the including resources for testing, the workshop brought together impacts of working memory and researchers who work in diverse emotional health on dyslexia, and settings, both nationally and current Australian educational policy internationally, to gain a better and programs. A showcase was run understanding of reading over the lunch break on both days development and instruction in which included demonstrations on children and adolescents with the eye tracking system and the hearing loss. EMOTIV system. Also showcased was the Macquarie University Reading Clinic, Neuronauts Brain Science Club, Speech Pathology Australia and Specific Learning Difficulties (SPELD) NSW. The broad audience included researchers, speech pathologists, learning support staff, parents and primary school teachers who received 8 hours of NESA Professional Development Accreditation.

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FORUM FORUM WORKSHOP Sports concussion Science of the self: Agency CCD-KIT and body representation magnetoencephalography research

10 November 2017 20 - 22 November | Coogee Bay Hotel 4 - 6 December | Macquarie University Invited Speakers Invited Speakers Invited Speakers Dr Adrian Cohen Dr Frédérique de Vignemont Professor Stephen Crain The University of Sydney Institut Jean-Nicod, France Macquarie University Dr Bianca de Wit Dr Melita Giummarra Dr Arjan Hillebrand Macquarie University Monash University VU University Medical Center Associate Professor Antonio Di Professor Jakob Hohwy Amsterdam, The Netherlands leva Monash University Professor Klaus Kessler Macquarie University Dr Colin Klein Aston University, UK Associate Professor Vicki Evans Macquarie University Professor Mitsuru Kikuchi Royal North Shore Hospital Professor Matthew Longo Kanazawa University, Japan Mr Daryl Fong Birkbeck, University of London, UK Assistant Professor Jonathon The University of Sydney Dr Devin Terhune Peelle Mr Joshua Hood Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Washington University of St Louis, USA Macquarie University Associate Professor Neeltje van Professor Liina Pylkkanen Dr Reidar Lystad Haren New York University, USA Macquarie University UMC Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Professor Gen Uehara Dr Nicole Sly The Netherlands Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Sydney Rays Japan Associate Professor Paul Sowman Science of the Self provided a forum Macquarie University for international researchers across a The CCD in conjunction with Dr David Thorpe range of disciplines to come together Kanazawa Institute of Technology University of Technology Sydney to discuss the latest research (KIT) hosted a three-day Mr Chris Wynne findings on both agency and body magnetoencephalography (MEG) MQ Health Physiotherapy representation. In addition to sharing workshop to showcase our recent discoveries, the workshop national and international research In Australia, rugby league, rugby focused on collaborative exploration collaborations on cognitive union and AFL as well as other of cutting edge methods and models processing using MEG. The first contact sports are currently re- for research in this area. two days of the workshop included examining the way in which head prominent international speakers, injuries are monitored and treated. Over the course of three days the research talks by both postdoctoral The research community has workshop included international researchers and students as well as an important role to play in this keynote presentations that provided a tribute to the memory of Professor and will be heavily involved in the insights into key theoretical and Hisashi Kado, the former Director of development and refinement empirical issues in the field, talks the Applied Electronics Laboratory, of objective methodologies for and poster presentations on recent KIT. The KIT-Macquarie Brain determining return to play protocols discoveries, models and new Research Laboratory is one of the and developing evidence-based methods, collaborative sessions world’s most advanced laboratories concussion management guidelines. and panels on methodologies and for brain research, due in large techniques such as neuroimaging, part to a long-standing research This workshop, sponsored by the behavioural paradigms, explicit and collaboration with KIT. The third day Faculty of Human Sciences and implicit measures, and experiment of the workshop provided attendees hosted by the CCD, brought together design as well as facilitated with an introduction to beamformer experts from sports medicine, opportunities to gather in small source reconstruction by Dr Arjan psychology, law and neuroscience groups to explore potential new Hillebrand. This was followed by as well as sports professionals in collaborations. This workshop was a practical session using Fieldtrip order to develop a strategic focus hosted by the CCD, in conjunction to analyse resting-state MEG data that will lead to the development of a with the Faculty of Human Sciences, collected at the lab. concussion research group. Macquarie University and Oculus.

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Fast periodic visual WORKSHOP stimulation in EEG CCD annual meeting

15 December | Macquarie University 15 - 17 November | The Mercure Resort Hunter Valley Gardens Presenter Dr Amy Dawel Keynote Speakers Australian National University Dr Ryan McKay Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Pellicano (FPVS) is a powerful method for Macquarie University studying implicit brain processes Professor Mabel Rice via EEG, including infants and young Kansas University, USA children, and other populations with limited cognitive and language The Annual Workshop was again held offsite after receiving very abilities. Relative to traditional EEG positive feedback about the 2016 Annual Workshop in the Blue approaches, FPVS requires much less Mountains. The location this year was the Mercure Resort Hunter testing time due to its high signal-to- Valley Gardens. The all-inclusive resort created a conducive and noise ratio, and can produce results productive environment for collaborative research discussions. that are reliable at the individual participant level. Additionally, FPVS Included in this year’s full program were keynotes by two Partner can provide a direct measure of neural Investigators (Belief Formation and Language Programs) and one discrimination between two stimulus Chief Investigator (Person Perception Program), over 12 research categories, without the need for talks by Associate Investigators across the five programs, seven difference scores. This workshop was speed talks by both postgraduate and PhD students, individual conducted by Dr Amy Dawel, following program discussion groups, and poster sessions for both students her CCD-funded Postdoctoral and Centre members. Exchange to the lab of Professor Bruno Rossion, who first developed “Great opportunity to meet other researchers and to hear about the FPVS technique for use with faces, research outside your immediate area. Also it’s a great opportunity at the University of Louvain, Belgium. to learn how to present for PhD/Masters students in a “safe” friendly environment.” The first half of the workshop provided an overview of the FPVS “It was an amazing conference … it always strikes me how special technique, experimental design the CCD is because of its inclusive, creative and intellectually and analysis. Participants were then stimulating atmosphere.” invited to stay on and participate in a practical data analysis exercise for the last hour of the workshop.

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12th Biennial Conference Science, Misinformation and The 7th Australasian of the Society for Applied Alternative Facts Workshop Cognitive Neuroscience Research in Memory and Conference (ACNC) Cognition (SARMAC)

3 - 6 January | The University of 1 June | Macquarie University 23 – 26 November | The University of Sydney South Australia

The Society for Applied Research in From climate change to vaccination Held over four days this annual Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) and alternative medicine, researchers conference focused on the scientific is dedicated to encouraging face problems when they seek to study of the biological or brain and promoting quality scientific turn evidence into actions. In this foundations of mental processes research in applied domains, and interdisciplinary workshop, experts and behaviour. Over 100 oral talks the purpose of the Society is to in climate and health sciences joined featured on the program covering enhance collaboration and co- professional science communicators the relationship between the brain, operation between basic and applied and researchers in psychology, mind and behaviour. Participating researchers in memory and cognition. cognitive science, linguistics and members came from disciplines SARMAC meets every two years to education to discuss the challenges such as psychology, neuroscience, showcase their most recent research of science communication and cognitive science, psychiatry, in a wide and varied program. potential strategies for closing the neurology, linguistics, computer This year SARMAC organised a gaps between evidence and public science and philosophy. The CCD scientific program of the highest opinion. provided sponsorship for the ACNC international quality with hundreds Student Travel Awards that supported of papers (three full days of five The workshop was organised by eleven students to participate in parallel sessions), 22 symposia, two CCD Chief Investigator Dr Jon Brock the meeting, including CCD student workshops, a poster session and five with Dr Adam Dunn and Dr Haidee Cherie Strikwerda-Brown from The exceptional keynote speakers. Kruger, as part of the Macquarie University of Sydney. Research Enrichment Program In addition to providing financial and co-sponsored by the Faculty support for SARMAC, three CCD of Human Sciences, the Faculty of members (Professors Amanda Medicine and Health Sciences, and Barnier and John Sutton, and Dr the Centre. Two CCD researchers Celia Harris) were on the conference presented at the workshop. Professor planning committee with other Amanda Barnier talked about the Centre members providing volunteer utility of cognitive science research support. in helping people to think outside their own ‘echo chamber’ and to evaluate news critically and Professor Genevieve McArthur discussed some of the challenges in communicating scientific findings and in translating these into treatments, in particular for treating those with poor reading skills.

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* Joint CCD-CLaS (Macquarie Characteristics and usefulness of Professor Bob McMurray University Centre for Language phonetic variability. * Department of Psychological and Sciences) Research Colloquia Professor Douglas H Whalen Brain Sciences CUNY Graduate Center and Haskins University of Iowa, USA Laboratories 28 April, Macquarie University How does initial test performance Yale University, USA influence the benefit of testing? 1 March, Macquarie University Towards a new understanding of Ms Sara Davis object perception. Department of Psychology Improving speech perception in noise Professor Mary Peterson Iowa State University, USA for people with hearing loss by using Department of Psychology 11 January, Macquarie University auditory-inspired machine learning. * University of Arizona, USA Mr Tobias Goehring 2 May, The University of Western Thinking outside the nose: Engineering and the Environment Australia Articulatory covariation in the University of Southampton, UK realisation of F1 of Southern French 20 March, Macquarie University The emergence of phonetic nasal vowels. * enhancement of phonological Dr Christopher Carignan Autobiographical memories in non- features. * The MARCS Institute for Brain, WEIRD populations. Professor Paul Boersma Behaviour and Development Associate Professor Annette Bohn Faculty of Humanities Western Sydney University Department of Psychology and University of Amsterdam, The 7 February, Macquarie University Behavioural Sciences Netherlands Aarhus University, Denmark 10 May, Macquarie University Flexibility of speech segmentation 22 March, Macquarie University strategies in Mandarin-English Simultaneous phonetic and bilinguals. * Second language speech learning: phonological processes: Dr Ann Burchfield Do cross-language phonetic Degemination in Dutch and German. * The MARCS Institute for Brain, relationships provide a full account? * Assistant Professor Silke Hamann Behaviour and Development Professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn Faculty of Humanities Western Sydney University School of Communication and University of Amsterdam, The 10 February, Macquarie University Culture Netherlands Aarhus University, Denmark 12 May, Macquarie University Belief bias in syllogistic reasoning: 29 March, Macquarie University A meta-analysis of ROC data. Tackling the limits of deep learning. * Dr Dries Trippas Umlaut in the history of West Dr Richard Socher Center for Adaptive Rationality Germanic with particular focus on Salesforce Max Planck Institute for Human Dutch. * 7 June, Macquarie University Development, Germany Professor Paula Fikkert 22 February, Macquarie University Department of Dutch Language and Lexical tone activation in bilingual Culture spoken word recognition. Our experiences with faces and Radboud University, The Netherlands Dr Xin Wang language shape face perception. 31 March, Macquarie University Department of Language, Literature Dr Edwin Burns and Theatre School of Humanities and Social Morphological instruction for University of Greenwich, UK Sciences children with reading and spelling 7 June, Macquarie University Nanyang Technological University, difficulties: A randomised controlled Singapore trial in progress. Body art as branded labour: At the 23 February, The University of Dr Danielle Colenbrander intersection of employee selected Western Australia School of Experimental Psychology and relationship marketing. University of Bristol, UK Associate Professor Andrew Perception of L2 morphophonology 12 April, Macquarie University Timming by Mandarin learners of English. * Management and Organisations Ms Valeria Peretokina Beginner’s guide to (UWA Business School) The MARCS Institute for Brain, magnetoencephalography (MEG). The University of Western Australia Behaviour and Development Mrs Elisabeth Stylianou 19 June, The University of Western Western Sydney University Department of Cognitive Science Australia 24 February, Macquarie University Macquarie University 19 April, Macquarie University Profiling linguistic deficits across Infant directed speech and developmental language disorders. * its implications for language Long-term adaptation to uncertainty Associate Professor Maria development: The case of Danish. in lexical processing by cochlear Kambanaros Professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn implant users: Beyond perceptual Department of Rehabilitation School of Communication and retuning. * Sciences Culture Cyprus University of Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark Cyprus 1 March, Macquarie University 26 June, Macquarie University

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The Locus Preservation Hypothesis Direct routes in reading and writing. Consent without memory. and variation in atypical cognitive Professor Naama Friedmann Professor Carl Craver phenotypes. * School of Education and Sagol School Department of Philosophy Professor Kleanthes K Grohmann of Neuroscience Washington University in St Louis, USA Department of English Studies Tel Aviv University, Israel 8 November, Macquarie University University of Cyprus, Cyprus 13 September, Macquarie University 27 June, Macquarie University Why is this song stuck in my head? Lumbar curvature: An evolved The psychology of the ear worm Researching cybersickness: Seeking standard of attractiveness. experience. causes and cures. Dr David Lewis Dr Kelly Jakubowski Professor Hyun Taek Kim School of Psychology and Exercise Department of Music Department of Psychology Science Durham University, UK Korea University, South Korea Murdoch University 22 November, Macquarie University 12 July, Macquarie University 2 October, The University of Western Australia Face recognition beyond the Advanced MEG: Digitisation mugshot. techniques. Social aspects of memory (and Dr Simone Favelle Mrs Elisabeth Stylianou decision-making). School of Psychology Department of Cognitive Science Assistant Professor Charles B University of Wollongong Macquarie University Stone 27 November, The University of 19 July, Macquarie University John Jay College of Criminal Justice Western Australia The City University of New York, USA Investigating phonetic variation and Advanced MEG: Troubleshooting. 4 October, Macquarie University language change in first and second Mrs Elisabeth Stylianou generation Italo-Australians’ speech Department of Cognitive Science Spelling and spelling development: through the Italian Roots (IRIAS) Macquarie University Beyond phonology. Corpus * 19 July, Macquarie University Professor Rebecca Treiman Dr Vincenzo Galatà Department of Psychological and The MARCS Institute for Brain, Facial morphology in autism. Brain Sciences Behaviour and Development Ms Diana Tan Washington University in St Louis, Western Sydney University School of Psychological Sciences USA 28 November, Macquarie University The University of Western Australia 18 October, Macquarie University 24 July, The University of Western Musical engagement and emotional Australia Variation in passing for a native regulation: Formal music training and speaker: Accentedness in non-native active music-making as influential Lexical competition and learning new English speakers in production and factors. words via reading. perception. * Ms Elizabeth Kinghorn Professor Kate Nation Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva Don Wright Faculty of Music Department of Experimental College of Arts and Social Sciences University of Western Ontario, USA Psychology The Australian National University 29 November, Macquarie University University of Oxford, UK 23 October, Macquarie University 24 August, Macquarie University Reward and error in sensorimotor From brain dynamics to cognition. adaptation. The fractal brain. Dr Tara Thiagarajan Associate Professor Timothy Associate Professor Antonio Di Ieva Sapien Labs, India Carroll Department of Clinical Medicine and 25 October, Macquarie University School of Human Movement and Health Sciences Nutrition Sciences Macquarie University The potential of pupillometry in child The University of Queensland 30 August, Macquarie University language research. * 30 November, Macquarie University Dr Katalin Tamasi Are popular posed “emotion” stimuli “A is for appel?” Improving written Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences good enough for research? word retrieval in semantic dementia Singapore University of Technology Dr Amy Dawel through word retraining. and Design, Singapore School of Psychology Dr Sharon Savage 27 October, Macquarie University Department of Psychology Australian National University University of Exeter, UK Using periodic stimulation to 4 December, The University of 30 August, Macquarie University examine the neural processes Western Australia underlying perception. Memory reorganisation and ageing: Poor, average and excellent: What Dr Scott Gwinn Same-old or different? individual variability can tell us about Department of Psychology Dr Alexa Morcom the mechanisms of face perception. University of Nevada, Reno, USA School of Philosophy, Psychology and Associate Professor Romina 30 October, The University of Language Sciences Palermo Western Australia The University of Edinburgh, UK School of Psychological Sciences 15 December, Macquarie University The University of Western Australia Cross-modal control across the 6 September, Macquarie University lifespan. Latent variables for neural machine Ms Rebecca Hirst translation. * School of Psychology Mr Philip Schulz University of Nottingham, UK Mathematics and Computer Science 1 November, Macquarie University University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 20 December, Macquarie University

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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP IDEALAB Winter School Risk assessment for Authorship etiquette researchers with participants

13 – 24 February | Macquarie 6, 9 March | Macquarie University 25 October | Macquarie University University Guest Speakers Guest Speakers Over 19 students from the 5 partner Ben Wilkes Dr Karolyn White universities of the IDEALAB program Campus Wellbeing, Macquarie Research Ethics and Integrity, (Macquarie University; University University Macquarie University of Potsdam, Germany; University Brian Meadows Shannon Smith of Groningen, The Netherlands; Risk and Assurance, Macquarie Research Ethics and Integrity, University of Trento, Italy and University Macquarie University Newcastle University, UK) attended the Winter School hosted by the CCD, In our efforts to continue to offer The Department of Cognitive at Macquarie University. Professor training that cover all areas working Science and the CCD continually Lyndsey Nickels, Director of IDEALAB within an academic environment, strive to offer workshops that will be at Macquarie University, coordinated we introduced a training session for of benefit to our members as their the two-week intensive program. researchers who conduct research careers progress and to introduce In the first week, CCD members’ sessions with participants, whether new workshops each year. The aim research was highlighted in a series that be with members of community of this workshop was to provide an of lectures and discussion groups. or staff and students from within opportunity for staff and students to The other directors of the IDEALAB a University. We had guest expert openly discuss authorship roles on program joined the second week of presenters from Campus Wellbeing, manuscripts. It began with a series of the Winter School where students and Health and Safety Risks at discussions on complex authorship gave individual presentations and Macquarie University. scenarios, such as etiquette in received feedback on their progress crediting authors when collaborating from the panel of directors. The aim of this workshop was to on a manuscript. This was followed provide an opportunity for all our by a panel discussion with our The students and visiting researchers to consider potential guest speakers plus Professor Anne directors also had the opportunity improvements to the current Castles, Emeritus Professor Max to participate in the half-day practices within their research Coltheart and Dr Celia Harris, on their Transferrable Skills Workshop that groups. The workshop covered topics shared authorship experiences at has previously been conducted that include how to end a session different stages of their publishing in December 2016. This workshop early if required, what to consider careers. The workshop provided staff was designed to help students and when testing offsite and how to make and students with the opportunity ECRs identify and articulate the a report if there is an incident. The to be more informed, gain insights transferrable skills acquired through second part of this training workshop and learn techniques for negotiating the process of completing a PhD, focused on the use of the Centre’s authorship roles and positions. combined with an interactive session research facilities where we provided where they responded to both an overview of our approach to using shared research facilities, along job advertisements and interview WORKSHOP questions with these skills in mind. with discussing ethics, research requirements, room bookings, The Winter School concluded with a IT support, consumables and Student and early career 3 Minute Thesis competition and a emergencies. These workshops are researcher development debate regarding the extent to which run to ensure that our researchers 14 November | Macquarie University neuroimaging can inform cognitive can be part of a safe working theories led by Professor Max environment for themselves and Guest Speaker Coltheart and Associate Professor their participants, and these skills Emeritus Professor Michael Greig de Zubicaray (QUT). provide invaluable training for taking Kopelman, CCD Scientific up future positions. Committee

Each year our student and ECR event seems to get bigger and better. This year, the workshop was held the day before the CCD Annual Workshop. This workshop is aimed at our junior colleagues, including MRes, PhD and postgrad candidates, as well as postdocs and mid-career researchers. The morning session of the workshop, presented by Drs Simmy Poonian, Serje Robidoux and Alex Woolgar, focussed on

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critical research issues in cognitive WORKSHOP RESEARCH TRAINING science research, and examining the assumptions and methodological Commencement, Reading and discussion issues of neuroimaging techniques progression and completion groups used across the different fields sessions of cognitive science. The session explored the promises and pitfalls of Ongoing | Macquarie University Ongoing | Macquarie University using fMRI and MEG/EEG in cognitive The University of Sydney The University of Sydney science research, the issues to look The University of Western The University of Western out for when reading and reviewing Australia Australia papers and also the current issues in statistical analysis. Across the participating Across the CCD, there are 23 active organisations of our Centre, there are reading and discussion groups that The afternoon sessions included a numerous workshops held to benefit meet from each of our Programs: panel session, chaired by Professor our undergraduate and postgraduate Anne Castles with Drs Yong Zhi candidates in the successful Belief Formation: Belief Formation Foo, Celia Harris, Saskia Kohnen commencement and completion Group Meeting. and Stephanie Wong, on “What is a of their degrees. The CCD provides postdoc” with insights from various additional support at Macquarie Language: Aphasia Research Group experiences and perspectives, and a University by offering sessions on Meeting, Child Language Lab Meeting, presentation by Dr David Kaplan on the successful commencement, Child Language Lab Reading and “Why teaching is a good thing”. The progression and final stages of Statistics Group, Music, Sound, attendees also heard from one of our completing a higher degree research and Performance Group, Language distinguished Scientific Committee program. Starting a PhD can be Acquisition Lab Meeting, Linguistics members on his unconventional just as stressful as completing and Writing Group and Phonetics Lab career which many of the students students are encouraged to attend Meeting. and ECRs found very inspiring. a commencement workshop to Memory: Memory Frontier Lab give them an understanding of the Meeting, and Frontier Journal Club. time pressures and demands at the RESEARCH TRAINING different stages of their candidature. Person Perception: Person Plus, they are given an overview of Perception Reading Group, Person Three Minute Thesis what research funding is available Perception Lab Meetings (with the competitions and what assistance is provided PEPLab), and Person Perception if they encounter difficulties. A Seminar Series. Macquarie University new mid-candidature workshop was conducted this year to ensure Reading: Macquarie University CCD Students at Macquarie students are progressing well through Reading Disorders Research University, The University of Sydney their PhD program. A completion Group (MURDR), MUPPET Meeting, and The University of Western workshop is run twice a year for Everything is FUNKED Meeting and Australia, take part each year in students in their last 6 months Macquarie University Reading Clinic the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) of their candidature to give them Meeting. competition which celebrates the some pointers about how to cope exciting research conducted by with the final stages of completion Neural Markers: MEG Laboratory PhD students around the world. and setting goals for post-PhD Research Meeting, Beginner MEG Developed by The University of submission. Sessions were also Session and Advanced MEG Sessions. Queensland, the competition held to support applications to cultivates students’ academic, internal grant schemes, focussing Perception in Action: Perception presentation and research on application forms, budgets and in Action Lab Meeting, Action communication skills. Presenting writing a 100-word summary in ‘plain Lab Group Meeting, and Object in a 3MT competition increases English’. These internal applications Recognition Reading Group. their capacity to effectively explain build their skills for future external their research in three minutes, competitive grant applications. in language appropriate to a non- specialist audience. Competitors are allowed one PowerPoint slide, but no other resources or props. Congratulations to Selene Petit (Macquarie University), Nikki-Anne Wilson (The University of Sydney) and Laura Dondzilo (The University of Western Australia) who all made it through to their University’s finals.

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We continue to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our graduates. In 2017 we had 45 graduations from our PhD, Doctoral, Masters and Honours students which was an exceptional accomplishment. This included the first cohort of students in the new three-year PhD program at Macquarie University. Congratulations to our research students and their supervisors on such an amazing achievement.

Our alumni have moved on to take up exciting positons at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Beijing Language and Culture University, China; Kings College London, UK; Macquarie University Hospital; North Caroline State University, USA; Starkey Hearing Research Centre, USA and The University of Sydney.

Congratulations to our PhD graduates: bilinguals and monolinguals; Dr Katya confounds from true meditation Numbers, The role of stereotypes effects: Insights from auditory Dr Rebekah Ahmed, Eating, in perceptions of memory in old ERPs; Chris Hewitson, Investigating autonomic and sexual dysfunction in age; Dr Tamara Schembri, Online interlimb generalisation of Bayesian frontotemporal dementia and motor acquisition of Cairene Arabic word sensorimotor learning; Rebecca Holt, neuron disease; Dr Polly Barr, The stress patterns over time; Dr Yanan Neural responses to morphosyntactic representation of homophones in Sun, Shared cognitive resources for violations in foreign-accented monolingual and bilingual speakers; music and language: Evidence from speech; Robert Keys, Multisensory Dr Emma Devenney, Clinical congenital amusia; Dr Ronit Szteroni, temporal processing in own-body features of the C9ORF72 expansion in The syntactic impairment in children contexts: Do bodily-self cues affect frontotemporal dementia and motor with hearing loss and its connection visual-tactile temporal perception?; neuron disease; Dr Yong Zhi Foo, Do to children’s ability to read and Luan Li, Phonological decoding in facial sexual dimorphism and skin comprehend reading; Dr Niina orthographic learning: Evidence from Chinese; , colour signal good health in humans?; Tamura, Orthographic and semantic Julien Millasseau Investigating the representation of Dr Na Gao, The interpretation of learning via reading; and Dr Sicong Tu, voicing contrasts in children with sentences with disjunction by child Brain connectivity biomarkers predict hearing loss; Luke Mills, Does neutral and adult speakers of Mandarin; specific memory consolidation proportion modulate attentional Dr Tijl Grootswagers, Beyond deficits across dementia subtypes. brain decoding: Methodological and control of task conflict in the Stroop task; , Quality of empirical contributions to brain Congratulations also to our Leanne Ruggero life in primary progressive aphasia: decoding methods and their link PhD|Masters graduates: Characteristics, influences and to behaviour; Dr Solène Hameau, implications; Nay San, A quantitative Neighbourhood density effects in Dr Adam Bentvelzen, Effects of analysis of vowel variation in Kaytetye; spoken word production; Dr Qandeel task and material on hemispheric lateralisation of nonverbal memory; Daniell Steinberg, Modulating the Hussain, Phonetic characterisation effects of visual masking by TMS to of a complex coronal system: Insights Dr Natalie Phillips, Computerised cognitive rehabilitation of working the occipital pole with top-down from Punjabi; Dr Jade Jackson, biasing by working memory; Tünde The role of frontoparietal cortices memory for children who have sustained traumatic brain injury; and Szalay, The disambiguation of in feature-selection attention; Dr Stephanie Wong, The prefrontal Australian English vowels in lateral- Dr Yair Lakretz, Grapheme-to- cortex and episodic memory in final syllables; and Di (Judy) Zhu, phoneme conversion in reading: A dementia syndromes. Inhibitory control in bilingual lexical computational study; Dr Xuejing selection. Lu, An investigation of spatial Congratulations to our Masters Finally, we are very proud of the representations of pitch in individuals graduates: with congenital amusia; Dr Pragati achievements by our Honours graduates: Rao Mandikal Vasuki, Statistical Marion Aitchison, Should I stay learning and auditory processing or should I go? Human studies of Chloe Giffard, Jayden Greenwell- in adults and children with music foraging for reward; Aydin Anic, Barnden, Jasmine Hooper, Cheng training: A behavioural and ERP Measuring creativity in an improvised Liang, Antonina Loncarevic, Emily study; Dr Manjunath Narra, The jazz context: A preliminary tDCS Salanitro-Chafei, Derek Swe, Dana time course of the conflict effect in study; Lydia Barnes, Distinguishing Walker and Natasha Zint.

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Each year we are pleased to recognise the significant contributions our students make to research projects undertaken within our Centre. Our Centre acknowledges outstanding contributions through two schemes: CCD Excellence in Research Student Award - Publications and CCD Excellence in Research Award - Poster. The quality, and the number of outstanding publications and poster presentations, make it an extremely difficult decision process for our Research Management Committee.

Excellence in Research - Ben McLean Best PhD Poster – joint winners Student Publication Awards Belief Formation Program Lina Teichmann Flinders University Perception in Action Congratulations to the five winners McLean, B.F., Mattiske, J.K., & Balzan, Macquarie University of the CCD Excellence in Research R.P. (2016). Association of the Seeing colour where there is none: Student Award for outstanding jumping to conclusions and evidence Decoding the implied colour of grey- publications in 2016. They each integration biases with delusions in scale objects using MEG. received a $1,000 prize and psychosis: A detailed meta-analysis. were invited to provide a speed Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 344-354. Jemma Collova presentation at the Annual Workshop. Person Perception Program Elizabeth Stewart The University of Western Australia Laura McLaughlin Engfors Memory Program First impressions of children’s faces: Person Perception Program The University of Sydney Not the same as for adults’ faces. The University of Western Australia Stewart, E., Catroppa, C., & Lah, S. Engfors, L.M., Jeffery, L., Gignac, G.E., & (2016). Theory of Mind in Patients Highly Commended Postgraduate Palermo, R. (2017) Individual differences with Epilepsy: A Systematic Review Poster in adaptive norm-based coding and and Meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Andrea Salins holistic coding are associated yet Review, 26, 3-24. Reading Program each contributes uniquely to unfamiliar Macquarie University face recognition ability. Experimental Orthographic facilitation for word Psychology: Human Perception and Excellence in Research - learning in deaf and hard of hearing Performance, Vol 43(2), 281-293. Student Poster Awards children. Dr Yong Zhi Foo During the student poster session Person Perception Program on day one of the Annual Workshop, Highly Commended PhD Posters The University of Western Australia the best PhD and Masters/Honours Foo, Y., Nakagawa, S., Rhodes, G., & Siddarth Ramanan posters are selected, with the Simmons, L.W. (2017). The effects of Memory Program winners receiving a $500 prize sex hormones on immune function: a The University of Sydney and an opportunity to give a speed meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 92, Exploring the contribution of lateral presentation on day two of the 551-571. parietal regions to episodic retrieval. Annual Workshop. Congratulations to Dr Xuejing Lu the following students: Olivia Brancatisano Language Program Language Program Macquarie University Macquarie University Best Postgraduate Poster Lu, X., Ho, H.T., Sun, Y., Johnson, Smiles are more frequent during B.W., & Thompson, W.F. (2016). The Cheng Liang autobiographical memories triggered influence of visual information on Memory Program by music than those triggered by auditory processing in individuals The University of Sydney photos. with congenital amusia: An ERP study. Longitudinal brain imaging correlates NeuroImage, 135, 142-151. of episodic memory impairments in dementia.

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Student Exchange Scheme Postdoc Exchange Scheme

For the third consecutive year the Following on from the success of Centre continued its successful the CCD Student Exchange Scheme, student exchange scheme to we introduced the first round enhance research training for our of an equivalent scheme for our students. The scheme promotes postdoctoral researchers. Through and rewards the significant this scheme, successful early career contributions that CCD students researchers received the opportunity make each year in their nominated to participate in a national or research fields. Furthermore, it international research exchange visit gave our higher degree research that provided them with additional candidates the opportunity to research training and mentoring in visit national and/or international their career. The enhanced research laboratories in order to provide training and increased collaboration them with additional experience benefited the successful applicants and research training. Together, this and strengthened our Centre. more extensive research training Congratulations to the two winners of and the increased collaboration the CCD Postdoc Exchange Scheme benefited the successful applicants for 2017. as well as enhanced our Centre. Congratulations to the two winners of Dr Amy Dawel (Person Perception the CCD Student Exchange Scheme Program, Australian National for 2017: University), visited Professor Bruno Rossion from the Institute of Ben Tappin (Belief Formation Research in Psychology, Catholic Program, Royal Holloway, University University of Louvain, Belgium. During of London, UK) visited Professor this visit, Amy learnt about how to Paul Bloom at the Department of use the technique of Fast Periodic Psychology, Yale University, USA. Visual Stimulation to examine face During his visit, Ben ran an empirical expression processing in children. study investigating the relationship between virtue signalling and moral Dr Wei He (Language Program, cognition. Macquarie University), visited Dr Arjan Hillebrand from Lina Teichmann (Perception in the Department of Clinical Action, Macquarie University), visited Neurophysiology, VU University Professor Stanislas Dehaene at the Medical Centre, The Netherlands. French National Institute for Health During the visit, she learnt about and Medical Research (INSERM), resting state connectivity in pre- France. During her visit, Lina looked school aged children using MEG. at how the brain represents numbers and mental arithmetic and was able to get feedback on data she had collected during her first two magnetoencephalography (MEG) projects.

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Educational outreach at the CCD encompasses a wide variety of activities connecting Centre researchers with a range of students and with members of the general public. Researchers engage with primary and secondary school classrooms (local and/or rural) via videoconference, online sessions, in-person visits and by hosting customised student group visits. Thirty-four students from Years 10 and 11 participated in the work experience program at the CCD and four students with autism gained work experience through a program run by CCD researcher Professor Elizabeth Pellicano. An additional 31 undergraduate students and 14 higher degree students were hosted by Centre members as merit scholars and interns, providing them with the opportunity to fully engage in cognitive science projects.

High school work experience run a large research centre. They For many students, the practical talked with CCD researchers about activities were the highlights of the The Centre continued to provide their latest research and learned week: “[The debate about free will] work experience opportunities for about delusions and disorders of was very fun and eye-opening” and high school students in 2017, hosting the mind through our online course. “[With the mini-research project, 34 students. The CCD worked with They also got hands-on experience we] really get to see data and learn students from 16 schools, including with various data collection attentional blink.” (Students – schools in New South Wales and South techniques used by cognitive November 2017) Australia. More than 45 CCD members science researchers including from across all five Programs (Belief ultrasound, transcranial magnetic Applications for the 2018 CCD Formation, Language, Memory, stimulation (TMS), eye-tracking and Work Experience weeks opened in Person Perception and Reading) magnetoencephalography (MEG). November 2017 and the program is volunteered their time to support Students also had the chance to rapidly filling. these students. The majority of the take the perspective of a research high school students hosted by the participant too by lying in the MEG In addition to the CCD-wide Work Centre participated through our highly scanner and by wearing the EMOTIV Experience Program, CCD researcher successful CCD High School Work head set. A unique highlight of the Professor Elizabeth Pellicano Experience Program. This program, High School Work Experience Program managed a work experience program which was first developed in 2014, has was the ‘mini research project’. for secondary school students grown in popularity with the waiting Small groups of students worked as a with autism spectrum disorders. list becoming longer each year. This research team to design and execute The program started in 2013 with year the Centre offered three week- a research project. At the end of the two week-long work experience long program placement dates in May, week, they presented a summary of placements that gave autistic July, and November. their findings to Centre academics. students a taste of working in a The feedback from the students has research team and an idea of where The High School Work Experience been overwhelmingly positive: their strengths and weaknesses lie. Program is designed for students in The program also offered longer Years 10, 11 and 12, and gives them “It has allowed me to better term placements with some students the opportunity to be immersed in a understand a career path in science working with a job coach and autism range of research training activities. and makes Macquarie University researchers once per week for an Through the program they gain first- Psychology course a very tempting entire year. In 2017, the program hand experience with many aspects career path.” (Student – May 2017) hosted four students at the Centre of a research career. This year, the for Research in Autism and Education, students spoke with research support “I have become more informed University College London, UK. staff (in research administration, about a career in research and I am finance, student administration and considering a career in neuroscience/ IT support) about what it takes to psychology.” (Student – July 2017)

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High school engagement Regional engagement University engagement In addition to the High School Work This year CCD researchers expanded CCD researchers are frequently Experience opportunities, CCD the Centre’s regional engagement involved in their respective university communities, participating in events researchers have been involved in through new high school activities and | various careers fairs, visited a number research undertakings that engaged designed for current and prospective NETWORKS of different high schools and hosted indigenous Australians in the Northern university students, such as University high school students at the CCD. Territory and Western Australia, Open Days and Research Week During these activities, researchers including the Kimberley region. programs. offered demonstrations and answered Macquarie in a Day and the Macquarie students’ questions about their fields As part of the ASPIRE program, Dr Linda Jeffery from The University Discovery Day programs are excellent of expertise and about what it means examples of CCD engagement with to be a researcher. of Western Australia node of the CCD ran two workshops in which potential students. The Macquarie in a For example, in July Dr Bianca de 70 Year 11 high school students from Day program in April helps Year 10 and Wit gave the keynote presentation the Kimberley/northwestern and 11 students understand what it is like at the Queensland State Brain southwestern regions of Western to be an undergraduate student. Five Bee Competition in Brisbane. The Australia participated. The aim of the of our researchers gave presentations Australian Brain Bee Challenge is workshops was to raise aspirations on topics ranging from neuroscience (‘Hacking the brain’), language a competition where Year 10 high for tertiary education for students disorders (‘When language breaks school students learn about the brain in regional schools by providing down’) and perception (‘How did I see and its functions. Participants hear innovative hands-on activities that that? How did I miss that?’). These about neuroscience research and help identify future higher degree talks made leading-edge research what career options are available in study options. This ongoing program accessible to high school students neuroscience as well as common is designed to increase higher degree and enabled them to see the path to a misconceptions about neurological participation in lower socioeconomic career in science. In July, and mental illnesses. This year, Dr groups and by indigenous students. de Wit’s presentation, ‘Neurogaming Dr Ian Stephen talked with Year 7 and technology meets neuroscience: Members of the CCD also engaged 8 students about some of his research A magical story for research and with primary school students in into perception in a talk entitled, education’, engaged the audience the Northern Territory. In 2017, ‘Change how you view yourself in of over 100 high school students by Professor Katherine Demuth, two minutes’. The talk covered new demonstrating how EMOTIV gaming Associate Professor Mridula Sharma research on body size misperception. technology can be used to study brain from Macquarie University and the It showed the students how basic activity. HEARing CRC, and Professor Gillian research into perceptual mechanisms Wigglesworth from The University can help us to understand and In September, CCD Masters student, of Melbourne began a research potentially treat real-world Marion Aitchison, was invited to project investigating the relationship problems, like body dysmorphia. talk with the high school students between the hearing of indigenous This presentation was given at the from Pacific Hills Christian School in children and their performance on Macquarie University Discovery Day, Dural. Her talk introduced the Year early literacy activities. Over 50 local wherein students from select schools 9 students to cognitive science. school children, aged 5-11 years, were are invited to campus for a taster of The students learned the structure tested to determine their hearing university life. and function of the brain as well as and auditory processing ability as This year, Drs Linda Jeffery and about how researchers study the well as for their understanding of Clare Sutherland (Person Perception mind and the brain using a range of individual sounds in spoken words Program) gave public lectures as technologies, such as EEG, brain (phonological awareness), which is part of The University of Western stimulation and MEG. She also talked an important precursor to literacy. Australia’s Research Week. Designed about pathways to undergraduate and The team identified a small number to celebrate and promote the graduate studies in cognitive science. of children with ear infections and University’s research, Research From 16-18 November, Jemma referred them on for further appraisal. Week incorporated 59 events and Collova, PhD student, led a three-day The preliminary results suggest that attracted over 5,000 participants psychology workshop at the 2017 indigenous children tend to have and attendees. Dr Linda Jeffery’s ConocoPhillips Science Experience at significantly poorer hearing than presentation on 8 September The University of Western Australia. the greater population. It also shed entitled, ‘How do we read faces?’ This national event engaged Year light on some of the factors that may provided a brief introduction to 9 and 10 high school students in impact school readiness in indigenous research on face processing. She psychology research. Eighty high children. The researchers plan to touched on prosopagnosia (the school students participated in build on this work to understand inability to recognise faces) and hands-on interactive activities and the listening challenges of children agnosia (the inability to recognise learned about the many aspects in remote communities and the facial expressions) as well as how of psychology research, including potential effects these may have on people gather information from face processing, optical illusions learning so that any issues may be faces. Dr Sutherland’s talk on the and memory. The students also had addressed. same day entitled, ‘First impressions the chance to ask questions about from faces’, revealed how people studying psychology at the university form impressions of total strangers level and the types of career just from seeing their faces. Her talk opportunities open to students who covered how facial impressions are earn a bachelors or postgraduate formed, how accurate they are and degree in psychology. some of the surprising consequences they have in everyday life.

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The CCD’s outreach activities have provided numerous opportunities for Centre members to develop and enhance links with stakeholders and the community. CCD members have been involved in science communication events this year such as Pint of Science (May), Vivid Sydney 2017 (June), Sydney Science Festival (August), Toddler and Baby Expos and in school visits. Centre members also provide ongoing support and resources to clinicians, educators and other community members through direct consultation, provision of updates to professional communities about new developments in research, as well as participation in formal and informal discussions. We are pleased to feature a number of highlights in this section, with further information on the participation of individual Centre members in various outreach activities listed in the community presentations list (see Outputs section).

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT grammar in their first or second cognitive and perceptual illusions, National Science Week language, and about some of including the Rubber Hand Illusion. the techniques scientists use to Across the course of the evening, this CCD members were involved in understand language development. hugely popular event was attended by numerous events as part of National over 400 members of the public. At the 14 August National Science Science Week 2017, including Week Event ‘The time-travelling For the second year in a row, contributing to the opening night of brain - how memory works’, Associate Associate Professor Muireann Irish the Sydney Science Festival at the Professor Muireann Irish discussed and CCD students Siddharth Ramanan Powerhouse Museum, organising and memory and imagination. At this and Stephanie Wong organised and running the A Night of Illusions event event in the Mitchell Theatre at ran a Science in Schools visit to and a Science in Schools visit to Sydney Mechanics’ School of the Newtown Public School (Sydney) as Newtown Primary School. Arts, the audience learned how the part of National Science Week. On 14 Members of the Child Language seemingly simple feat of mental August, Associate Professor Irish, Mr Lab were very active throughout time travel belies the inherent Ramanan and Ms Wong taught Year 5 the National Science Week. Five complexity of our memories and and 6 students about the brain. During researchers from the Child Language imagination. Associate Professor Irish the two one-hour presentations the Lab participated in the Opening also explained how damage to the students learned about the structure Night at MAASive Lates ‘Speed Date a brain impacts these sophisticated and function of the brain, and even Scientist’ at the Powerhouse Museum cognitive processes and how had the chance to dissect jelly brains. in Sydney on 13 August. Members of devastating losing these important CCD postdoc Kate Crookes from the public had the opportunity to ask functions can be. the Person Perception Program their questions about language in again competed in The University children, such as how children learn Another stellar event during National of Western Australia Science Bake to speak, whether or not parents Science Week and the Sydney Off competition as part of National should use baby talk and whether Science Festival was organised and Science Week. At the 13 August event, bilingual children learn differently run Dr Regine Zopf and PhD student she unveiled her ‘Colourblind’ cake. than others. The Child Language Erika Contini in conjunction with their Lab also ran the sold-out National colleagues from other universities Science Week Event ‘Brilliant Brains across Sydney. The ‘A Night of - how kids learn language’. This event Illusions’ event, held on 19 August at included audience participation the 107 Projects venue in Redfern, in the form of interactive provided an evening of tactile and demonstrations and games. The visual illusions designed to baffle presentations also revealed how the senses. Members of the public children acquire sounds, words and experienced demonstrations of

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT held at the Bar Orient in Fremantle. hear about the latest research in FTD. Essential Baby and Toddler The 30-minute talks were followed by a 30-minute session set aside for the The program included presentations Expo over 50 attendees to ask questions. focusing on the eating changes and Dr Sutherland’s talk focused on facial progression in FTD by Dr Rebekah In September 2017, CCD researchers first impressions and Dr Bell talked Ahmed (former CCD PhD student) from the Child Language Lab ran about attentional biases associated and on pathological discoveries in a booth at the ‘Essential Baby and with eating disorders. FTD from Professor Glenda Halliday Toddler Expo’ at the International from The University of Sydney. Convention Centre, in Darling Across this three-night Festival The day also included talks about Harbour, Sydney. In conjunction with of Science, there were six events communication in people with FTD researchers from the MARCS Baby which ran in Perth and Fremantle. and the services available in Australia Lab at Western Sydney University, In addition to the psychology talks, to help people living with FTD. The the Child Language Lab members there were presentations about event closed with an overview of discussed studies of child language research using radio telescopes future projects and an update on development and showcased (as part of the ‘Space’ event), and the upcoming 11th International our latest developments in infant how virtual reality is used in science Conference of Frontotemporal research. (‘Full throttle future’). Overall, the Dementias (Sydney, November 2018) event reached over 10,000 people presented by Professor Olivier Piguet This massive three-day event on social and local media. As well as (Leader of the Memory Program and provided the perfect opportunity for learning about research from local the co-director of Frontier). Very members of the Child Language Lab scientists, participants played games positive feedback was received from to connect with parents and carers. and earned prizes for their scientific those who attended. The Child Language Lab researchers knowledge. were able to answer numerous questions about speech perception COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT and language development. They COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT also provided parents with the Reading Program Chief opportunity to register on behalf of Frontotemporal Dementia Investigators influence their children to take part in existing Information and Support Day policy and provide expert and future CCD research studies. for Families and Carers consultation In October, CCD Memory Program COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT As recognised experts in the fields researchers from the Frontier of reading and spelling research, Pint of Science Research Group were once Professors Anne Castles and again involved in the annual Genevieve McArthur of the Reading In May, CCD researchers helped to Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Program have often been consulted organise and present talks at the Pint Information and Support Day for for authoritative, evidence-based of Science events. Pint of Science is Families and Carers. answers and recommendations to an international outreach festival that inform the decisions of educational connects scientists with the local This one-day event at the Brain and policy makers. community in a relaxed atmosphere. Mind Centre at The University of For this Western Australian event, Sydney was attended by over 90 This year, the UK Minister of State PhD student Jemma Collova people, some of whom travelled for School Standards, The Rt Hon recruited speakers and acted as the from interstate. As always, the FTD Nick Gibb consulted with Professors publicist. Drs Clare Sutherland and Information Day was a valuable Castles and McArthur prior to his Jason Bell gave sold-out psychology opportunity for family members to meeting with the Australian Minister talks at the ‘It’s All in your Head’ event meet others in a similar situation and for Education and Training, Senator

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the Hon Simon Birmingham, to INCLUSIVENESS IN SCIENCE Educational Studies; and Amber discuss phonics screening and Inclusive Research Network Loomis, Jen Smith and Xuan Luu, implementation. MP Gibb was Respect Now Always Officers, brought to the CCD by Reading The CCD Inclusive Research Network Macquarie University | NETWORKS Program Associate Investigator, Dr (IRN) was formed this year and grew • Inclusivity in 2017 – A year in Jennifer Buckingham. Dr Buckingham out of the CCD Women in Science review and draft CCD Inclusivity is part of a panel engaged to make group. The aim of this transition Policy – Teresa Schubert and Lisa educational recommendations was to broaden the focus of the Yen to the government around the group beyond gender, into academic implementation of national reading, and societal barriers that exist for In conjunction with these monthly phonics and numeracy checks. different social identities and to sessions, in July the IRN hosted a This visit was part of an effort to encourage members to consider public lecture by Professor Jennifer give policy makers the opportunity active and practical steps for Martin (Director, Griffith Institute to base decisions that directly improving equity in our local and for Drug Discovery, Fellow of the affect classroom practice on sound global environments. This was done Australian Academy of Science) research evidence. by outlining a series of objectives for entitled, ‘Unconscious bias and the IRN, holding monthly meetings outdated stereotypes: How thinking Later in the year, Deputy Leader of and hosting a public lecture to shortcuts lead to bad outcomes’. the Opposition and Federal Shadow promote those objectives. This event was well received among Minister for Education and Training, the 100 attendees and was helpful in Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, met with An IRN organising committee was educating the faculty and university Professors Castles and McArthur officially formed, including Associate about gender equity issues in science for a briefing on the CCD Reading Professor Anina Rich, Drs Teresa and society. Program and to discuss the activities Schubert, Simmy Poonian, Lisa Yen of the Macquarie University Reading and Monica Brockmyre. The IRN The IRN also encouraged and Clinic. MP Plibersek was fascinated organising committee agreed on promoted activism within the to learn how CCD research has two main objectives: 1. Provide a broader community. In August, the increased our understanding supportive environment to educate IRN supported marriage equality of dyslexia management in the and advocate for inclusive practices as a basic right for all people. The education system, and about our in academia, and 2. Communicate IRN also had members attend the development and dissemination current issues regarding equity 2017 Women’s March, March for of evidence-based assessments, and diversity in our research Science and the Yes Rally for Marriage treatments, and advice for people communities. Equality. IRN members continued to who are struggling with their literacy. reach out to high-school students This year the IRN hosted monthly to inform them about equity and TOUR meetings that were open to all inclusion in academic institutions so Australian Hearing Hub CCD academic, professional and student that conversations about inclusivity members of the CCD and the greater will continue. facilities tour program Macquarie University community.

The Macquarie University node Topics included: of the CCD is actively involved in demonstrations and tours of • Hiring practices and quotas – its world-class research facilities Teresa Schubert and Simmy located within the Australian Hearing Poonian Hub, including the KIT-Macquarie • Valeria Aurora’s Ally Skills Brain Research Laboratory, high Workshop – Lisa Yen quality neurophysiology and action labs (including ERP, non-invasive • Science in Australia Gender Equity brain stimulation, Optotrack, (SAGE) at Macquarie University Cyberglove, Transcranial Doppler, – Harriet Jones, SAGE Project speech perception laboratories and Manager, Macquarie University KinArm), and a high-performance • Societies for women in science, cluster for computational modeling technology, engineering, and other behavioural research labs. mathematics and medicine (STEMM): Founding member This year, the Centre’s tour program of Females of Vision et al. and continued its popularity within Women in cognitive science the University community, hosting – Professor Mary Peterson, 22 customised tours for over 270 University of Arizona, US domestic and international visitors, • Reflections on the Professor including over 50 visitors as part of Jennifer Martin Public Lecture Cochlear Limited’s Visiting Implant on Unconscious bias – Teresa Specialists to Australia (VISTA) Schubert program as well as delegations from China, India, the United States of • Intersectionality and privilege: America, Latin America, the Middle What is it and what can I do about East and Europe. it? – Simmy Poonian • The National Report on Student Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment – Vana Webster,

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COMMUNITY | STAKEHOLDER | INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS | NETWORKS Representatives from the following industry, community and peak body organisations have been involved in CCD activities and events throughout the year:

ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES Catholic Schools Office Alzheimer’s Australia ACT Chatswood High School Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation Cherrybrook Technology High Alzheimer’s Australia NSW Goodstart Early Learning Ltd AUSPELD Harbord Public School Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society International French School Australian Cricketers’ Association Killara High School Australian Fronto-Temporal Dementia Association MLC School Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) Newtown Public School Autistic Self Advocacy Network, USA North East Metropolitan Language Development Centre British Film Institute, UK and Outreach Service, WA Cricket Australia North Sydney Boys High School Dyslexia SPELD Foundation Northcross Christian School Five from Five Alliance NSW Department of Education Hunter Dementia Alliance NSW TAFE Learning Differences Convention Pacific Hills Christian School Learning Difficulties Australia Inc Parramatta High School MultiLit Pty Ltd Penrith High School One Door Mental Health (formerly Schizophrenia Phoenix Special School, UK Fellowship of NSW Inc) Queenwood School for Girls Playgroup Australia Redlands Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children Royal Far West School Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Sefton High School State Specific Learning Difficulties (SPELD) Associations Southern Region Student Services Network of Catholic Education St John’s Baradine Catholic School CLINICAL SERVICES St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Moorebank All Abilities Therapy and Support Services St Mary MacKillop Primary School Back Space Chiropractic St Philips Christian College Communicate Speech Pathology St Therese Catholic Primary School Padstow Communicating Kids Sydney Boys High School Complete Concussion Management Sydney Catholic Schools DARE Speech Pathology The Centre for Independent Studies DSF Literacy and Clinical Services Trinity Grammar School Early Start Westminster School, SA Language and Learning Leaps and Bounds Speech Pathology GOVERNMENT | INDUSTRY Little Star Speech Pathology North Sydney/Stadium Sports Medicine Clinic Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting READ Speech Pathology Authority Ltd Speech Pathology Australia Australian Hearing Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre Barking and Dagenham Local Authority, UK The Communication Clinic Cochlear Limited The Shepherd Centre CSIRO Hospitals - Children’s Hospital Westmead and Randwick, Prince of Wales, Royal North Shore, Royal Prince Alfred, EDUCATION War Memorial, Westmead Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School Literacy Planet Alexandria Park Community School Local Health Districts - Hunter New England, South Arndell Anglican College Eastern Sydney Barrack Heights Public School National Acoustic Laboratories Beverly Hills Girls High School Objective Eye Tracking Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College Powerhouse Museum Brisbane Catholic Education Royal Rehab Burwood Public School Stanton Library Storypark Ltd The HEARingCRC VoiceBox Technologies Australia

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In 2017, CCD members continued to be involved in the public communication of their research via various media and | NETWORKS social media platforms. Over the course of the year, tweets sent from the CCD outreach twitter account (@CCD_ Outreach) generated more than 111,000 impressions and over 3,000 profile views. Once again, students and researchers ‘live-tweeted’ the CCD Annual Workshop. A series of 24 news stories were profiled on the CCD homepage, including 11 research feature articles and one member spotlight feature. The website received nearly 60,000 visits in 2017.

National and international The Conversation • International study shows media many Australian children are The Centre’s research is in still struggling with reading. Media this year saw over 400 Centre frequent demand with many news (Buckingham, J.) 6 December. member appearances across a organisations approaching members variety of media at local, national and for expert commentary. In addition, Newsletters | Social media 16 researchers from across all five of international levels. A complete listing The Reading Program, the Centre’s programs contributed to of these can be found on the CCD Frontotemporal Dementia Research the online forum The Conversation: website (News » CCD in the Media). Group of the Memory Program, • Explainer: What is phonics and why Some highlights of media uptake in SciFace for Kids of the Person is it important? (Wang, H.-C.) 2017 include: Perception Program and the Aphasia 17 January. • Here’s how picking up a new skill Research Group of the Language can help your brain. Huffington • Let’s face it, first impressions Program each distributed annual Post. (Irish, M.) 19 January. count online. (Willis, M.) 30 newsletters to their stakeholders (Memory Program) January. including schools, teachers, • New study demonstrates link • The power of ‘our song’, the clinicians, professionals, study between music and statistical musical glue that binds friends participants and parents. The learning. The Sydney Morning and lovers across the ages. (Baird, Language Program’s Child Language Herald. (Mandikal Vasuki, P.R.) 27 A., & Thompson, W.) 17 March. Lab also distributed a quarterly January. (Language Program) [Reprinted in French by The newsletter. All of these newsletters • Literacy and numeracy tests for Conversation, 22 March] are available on the CCD website. Australian Year 1 students. The • Two simple questions that have Australian. (Buckingham, J.) 29 changed the way people hear inner Our Neuronauts Brain Science Club January. (Reading Program) voices. (McCarthy-Jones, S.) 3 May. provides regular emails highlighting • Is sexual infidelity written on your • GPs urgently need training on news from across the Centre to its face? Psychology Today. (Rhodes, autism. (Pellicano, E.) 9 May. members, which include children and families who participate in the G., & Simmons, L.) 2 February. • Mental health services are failing Centre’s research. (Person Perception Program) young autistic people. (Pellicano, • Life after a stroke: How Raghbir E., & Crane, L.) 26 June. In addition to the CCD Outreach relearned her mother tongue in • How building your child’s spoken twitter account, three CCD an Australian first. SBS World word bank can boost their capacity research groups have a presence News. (Miller Amberber, A.) 1 April. to read. (Wegener, S., & Castles, A.) on Facebook (Person Perception (Language Program) 18 July. Program, Macquarie University’s • The skewed ethical universe of the • Sensing the dead is perfectly Child Language Lab, NeuRA Frontier) terrorist. Pacific Standard. (Ibáñez, normal – and often helpful. and over 20 CCD members are A.) 16 June. (Memory Program) (McCarthy-Jones, S.) 19 July. active on Twitter. CCD members • Misinformation and alternative • Abolish the oath: moral prejudice also contribute to personal and facts. Inspiring Australia. (McArthur, against atheists may bias externally-hosted blogs, such as G, Barnier, A., & Brock, J.) 3 courtroom decisions. (McKay, R.) those listed below: July. (Reading Program | Belief 10 August. • Dr Brocktagon: by Dr Jon Brock Formation Program) • The concept of schizophrenia is (drbrocktagon.com) • Study of how we look at faces may coming to an end – here’s why. • BishopBlog: by Professor Dorothy offer insight into autism. The New (McCarthy-Jones, S.) 24 August. Bishop (deevybee.blogspot.com) York Times. (Duchaine, B.) 12 July. • For Australian students, academic • This Month in Voices: Voice- (Person Perception Program) potential still outweighs social Hearing Research Update • The Serial Killer Test: Biases against circumstances. (Byrne, B., Grasby, Blog: by Associate Professor atheists emerge in study. The New K., Olson, R., & Coventry, W.) Simon McCarthy-Jones York Times. (McKay, R.) 7 August. 12 September. (thismonthinvoices.wordpress. (Belief Formation Program) • Gay-identifying AI tells us more com) • Australia jumps up world rankings about stereotypes than the origins • Research Blog: by Dr Xenia in reading. ABC Radio Adelaide. of sexuality. (Klein, C.) Schmalz: (xeniaschmalz.blogspot. (Castles, A.) 7 December. (Reading 14 September. com.au) Program) • Why we remember our youth as • ReadOxford: by Professor Kate • The part of my dad that dementia one big hedonistic party. (Barnier, Nation (readoxford.org/blog) can’t take. BBC Future. (Baird, A.) A. J., & Harris, C.) 17 September. • Music on the Mind blog: by 14 December. (Memory Program) • Three proven psychological PhD student Rebecca Gelding, treatments for young people that (musiconthemindblog.wordpress. need to be funded.. (Hudson, J., com) Oar, E. & Wuthrich, V.) 6 November. 74 2017 ANNUAL REPORT OUTREACH RESOURCES | TOOLS

CCD members provide ongoing support and resources to clinicians, educators and other community members. This | support takes the form of direct consultation with clinicians and educators, participation in community events and NETWORKS outreach activities and provision of advice about evidence-based assessment and interventions.

Some of the assessment and tests for reading comprehension University Reading Clinic to get help treatment tools developed by CCD and diagnostic spelling tests, which and support (Resources » Tools » researchers over the years have been include normative data for K-3 Reading and Spelling Intervention). made available via links on the CCD students, as well as applications website (Resources » Tools). to assess the abilities of people Registers with aphasia (i.e. the inability to A variety of registers for people of In 2017, Social Cognition Task understand or produce speech). In all ages who are interested in taking assessments were added to the addition to these tests, which are part in research are maintained and website. These provide researchers designed for professionals, CCD accessible from the CCD website and clinicians with access to the researcher Dr Eva Marinus developed (Get Involved » Participate in tasks used in schizophrenia research a plug-in to be used by members Research). These include the CCD published by Professors Robyn of the general public with dyslexia. Adult Registers, the Neuronauts Brain Langdon and Max Coltheart along The Google Chrome plug-in named Science Club (for those under 18 with their colleagues on first and EasyRead changes the spacing years of age) and the Prosopagnosia second order Theory of Mind. Theory between letters and words on a register. The Prosopagnosia of Mind is the ability to attribute webpage to help individuals with register also enables people with mental states, such as beliefs, dyslexia read onscreen text. The app prosopagnosia (face-blindness) to intentions and desires, to oneself currently has over 500 users. and others. First order Theory of make contact with leading experts Mind involves one’s own ability to In 2017, the MOTIf site also received in the field for research updates and answers to queries. Using attribute a state to another person several technical enhancements, the Sona Systems software, over (e.g., I think she thinks …) whereas such as facilitating testing with 8,000 people have registered to second order involves assessing the tablets and making more tests participate in CCD research. This thoughts of another person about available to be administered online. year, the Centre ran more than 70 another subject (e.g., He thinks that Further additions are anticipated studies with approximately 700 she thinks …). Certain disorders, for 2018. The Reading Clinic has just participants from these registers. such as autism and schizophrenia, completed a large-scale study of 500 The CCD greatly appreciates the time and damage to the brain can impair high school students’ reading and donated to these research projects these abilities. The website includes spelling abilities using a battery of by community members - without tools and instructions for clinicians new tests. These tests will be made their support we would not be able and other researchers to assess an freely available on the MOTIf website to conduct the various research individual’s Theory of Mind and social shortly. projects undertaken within our cognition abilities, which can help Centre. determine a course of treatment and The CCD website also maintains links to other resources for professionals contribute to further research. The Neuronauts Brain Science Club and the general public. For example, continued to broaden its research The Macquarie Online Test Interface the site has resources that provide areas in 2017 by implementing (MOTIf) is another valuable resource information and support to registration of 18 distinct that the CCD continued to support in healthcare professionals working with developmental issues. This register 2017. Developed by the Reading Clinic patients who suffer from progressive facilitates research into a range of researchers and their colleagues, aphasia caused by frontotemporal newly identified areas of concern. MOTIf (www.motif.org.au) is an dementia (Resources » Tools » Neuronauts researchers are also online platform for administering Treatment and intervention tools » fostering collaborations with other and scoring reading tests. Over Additional Resources from the PPA groups, such as the Centre for 10,000 people have registered as Educational Workshop). The website Atypical Neurodevelopment and test administrators for the fourteen also connects individuals with the Centre for Emotional Health at different available tests and over reading and spelling difficulties, and Macquarie University. 21,000 students have participated professionals and clinicians working in testing. The applications include in this area with the Macquarie

Cards from the picture sequencing task used by Langdon and Coltheart to study false beliefs in patients with schizophrenia. Patients were asked to correctly order the four cards.

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NETWORKS Our researchers have strong links with international and national researchers beyond the five national collaborating COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS institutions and 10 international INTERNATIONAL University Medical Center Hamburg- partner institutions of the CCD. Our Academia Sinica, Taiwan Eppendorf, Germany researchers have hosted visitors, Aston University, UK University of Alberta, Canada and developed and maintained Beijing Language and Culture University of Birmingham, UK collaborations with research partners University, China University of Bristol, UK from over 145 institutions in 22 Catholic University of Sacred Heart, University of California Los Angeles, USA countries. This collaboration section Italy University of California, San highlights these links between the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Francisco, USA Centre and leading international and University of Cambridge, UK national researchers. Christian Doppler Klinik, Austria City University London, UK University of Cardiff, UK University of Chicago, USA Visitors City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Colorado Boulder, USA University of Connecticut, USA The CCD’s increasing international Concordia University, Canada Dalhousie University, Canada University of Edinburgh, UK profile has resulted in numerous visits University of Florence, Italy to the Centre. These visitors are a Durham University, UK Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Groningen, The highly valued part of the research Germany Netherlands culture of the CCD, as they share Harvard Medical School, USA University of Hamburg, Germany their expertise with Centre members Hospital for Sick Children, Canada University of Leeds, UK and participate in Centre research Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Lincoln, UK activities, events and seminars. Across Germany University of London, UK University of Otago, NZ the three nodes, Macquarie University, Institute for Public Policy Research, University of Padova, Italy The University of Sydney and The UK University of Pennsylvania, USA University of Western Australia, there Kanazawa Institute of Technology, University of Potsdam, Germany were 142 visits in 2017, with 77 visiting Japan University of Salzburg, Austria Kanazawa University, Japan from overseas. University of South Carolina, USA King’s College London, UK University of Toronto, Canada Linköping University, Sweden University of Trento, Italy Lund University, Sweden Partnership agreements University of Tsukuba, Japan Massachusetts Institute of University of Washington at St Louis, Technology, USA In 2017 the CCD continued to USA McMaster University, Canada strengthen our international profile University of Waterloo, Canada Miyagi Gakuin Women’s College, through formal international University of Wisconsin, USA Japan agreements with new partners. On University of Zurich, Switzerland National Institute of Mental Health, 14 December 2017 a Memorandum of VU University Medical Center, The USA Understanding was signed between Netherlands Netherlands Institute for Brain Wellesley College, USA the University of Reading, UK and Research, The Netherlands Macquarie University to encourage New York University, USA activities in the field of cognition and Newcastle University, UK NATIONAL its disorders, including joint research Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan Cochlear Limited activities, joint conferences and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France CSIRO academic meetings, joint research Plymouth University, UK Curtin University program leading to the award of a PhD, Purdue University, USA Flinders University exchange of staff and students, and Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan HEARing CRC exchange of academic materials and Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany KaRa Minds information. Shanghai Normal University, China La Trobe University Stanford University, USA Literacy Planet Stony Brook University, USA The CCD honoured our relationship Murdoch Children’s Research Swansea University, UK Institute with the Kanazawa Institute of Tsinghua University, China National Acoustic Laboratories Technology, Japan by hosting the CCD- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital KIT MEG Workshop, including a tribute Hong Kong Royal Rehab to Professor Hisashi Kado. The KIT- The University of Auckland, NZ Scipilot Macquarie Brain Research Laboratory The University of British Columbia, Swinburne University of Technology is one of the world’s most advanced Canada Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre laboratories for brain research, due in The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Adelaide large part to a long-standing research USA The University of Melbourne collaboration with KIT and with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The University of New South Wales Professor Kado and his team. Professor Canada The University of Newcastle Kado pioneered the 160-channel Tufts University, USA The University of Queensland whole-head MEG system, which is now University Hospital of Basel, The University of Sydney Switzerland The University of Western Australia used internationally. University Hospital Zurich, University of South Australia Switzerland War Memorial Hospital Western Sydney University

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British S., Read, A., Engfors, L.M., Emiechel, R., & characteristics in person perception. Journal of Psychology, 108(1), 191-219. Palermo, R. (In Press). Ensemble coding Journal of Personality and Social of faces occurs in children and develops Dawel, A., Wright, L., Irons, J., Dumbleton, Psychology, 113(4), 513-529. R., Palermo, R., O’Kearney, R., & dissociably from coding of individual McKone, E. (2017). Perceived emotion Kloth, N., Pugh, C., & Rhodes, G. (2017). faces. Developmental Science. The contributions of temporal delay genuineness: Normative ratings for Rhodes, G., Nishimura, M., de Heering, A., and face exposure to the decay of gaze popular facial expression stimuli and Jeffery, L., & Maurer, D. (2017). Reduced direction aftereffects. Journal of Vision, development of perceived-as-genuine adaptability, but no fundamental 17(3), 5. and perceived-as-fake sets. Behavior disruption, of norm-based face coding Research Methods, 49(4), 1539-1562. Kloth, N., Rhodes, G., & Schweinberger, following early visual deprivation from Dondzilo, L., Rieger, E., Palermo, R., S.R. (2017). Watching the brain congenital cataracts. Developmental Byrne, S., & Bell, J. (2017). The mediating recalibrate: Neural correlates of Science, 20, e12384. role of rumination in the relation between renormalisation during face adaptation. attentional bias towards thin female NeuroImage, 155, 1-9. bodies and eating disorder symptomatology. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0177870.

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Rhodes, G., Pond, S., Jeffery, L., Benton, Wan, L., Crookes, K., Dawel, A., Pidcock, Boyes, M.A., Tebbutt, B., Preece, K.A., & C.P., Skinner, A.L., & Burton, N. (2017). M., Hall, A., & McKone, E. (2017). Face- Badcock, N.A. (In Press). Relationships Aftereffects support opponent coding blind for other-race faces: Individual between reading ability and child mental of expression. Journal of Experimental differences in other-race recognition health: Moderating effects of self- Psychology: Human Perception and impairments. Journal of Experimental esteem. Australian Psychologist. Performance, 43(3), 619-628. Psychology: General, 146(1), 102-122. Brock, J., Sukenik, N., & Friedmann, N. Ritchie, K. L., Palermo, R., & Rhodes, White, D., Rivolta, D., Burton, A.M., Al- (2017). Individual differences in autistic G. (2017). Forming impressions of Janabi, S., & Palermo, R. (2017). Face children’s homograph reading: Evidence attractiveness is mandatory. Scientific matching impairment in developmental from Hebrew. Autism & Developmental Reports, 7, 469. prosopagnosia. The Quarterly Journal Language Impairments, 2, 1-10. of Experimental Psychology, 70(2), Rivolta, D., Lawson, R.P., & Palermo, R. Challinor, K.L., Mond, J., Stephen, I.D., 287-297. (2017). More than just a problem with Mitchison, D., Stevenson, R.J., Hay, faces: Altered body perception in a White, D., Sutherland, C.A.M., & Burton, P., & Brooks, K.R. (In Press). Body group of congenital prosopagnosics. A.L. (2017). Choosing face: The curse of size and shape misperception and The Quarterly Journal of Experimental self in profile image selection. Cognitive visual adaptation: An overview of an Psychology, 70(2), 276-286. Research: Principles and Implications, emerging research paradigm. Journal of 2, 23. International Medical Research. Seymour, R.A, Rippon, G., & Kessler, K. (2017). The detection of phase Heathcote, L., Nation, K., Castles, A., & amplitude coupling during sensory Beyersmann, E. (In Press). Do ‘blacheap’ processing. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Reading Program and ‘subcheap’ both prime ‘cheap’? An 11, 487. investigation of morphemic status and position in early visual word processing. Skuk, V.G., Palermo, R., Broemer, L., & Quarterly Journal of Experimental Schweinberger, S.R. (In Press). Autistic Book chapters Psychology. traits are linked to individual differences Dodd, H.F., Hudson, J.L., & Rapee, in familiar voice identification. Journal of R.M. (2017). Temperament in youth Kezilas, Y., McKague, M., Kohnen, S., Autism and Developmental Disorders. internalizing disorders. In D. McKay (Ed.), Badcock, N., & Castles, A. (2017). Disentangling the developmental Smith., M.L., Cesana, M.L., Farran, E.K., Treatments for Psychological Problems trajectories of letter position and letter Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Ewing, L. (In and Syndromes (pp. 504-524). New identity coding using masked priming. Press). A “spoon full of sugar” helps the Jersey, USA: Wiley. Journal of Experimental Psychology: medicine go down: How a participant Grainger, J., & Beyersmann, E. (2017). Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(2), friendly version of a psychophysics task Edge-aligned embedded word activation 250-258. significantly improves task engagement, initiates morpho-orthographic performance and data quality in a segmentation. In B. Ross (Ed.), Kinoshita, S., de Wit, B., Aji, M., & Norris, typical adult sample. Behavior Research Psychology of Learning and Motivation D. (2017). Evidence accumulation in the Methods. (pp. 285-312). Cambridge, USA: integrated and primed Stroop tasks. Memory & Cognition, 45(5), 824-836. Stephen, I.D., Burke, D., & Sulikowski, Academic Press. D. (2017). Tinbergen’s “four questions” Nation, K., & Castles, A. (2017). Putting Lah, S., Castles, A., & Smith, M.-L. 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Friedmann, N. (2017, January). McKay, R. (2017, July). “I once was Keynote | Invited talks Developmental dyslexia in Hebrew and blind…” Religion, adversity and choice Balzan, R. (2017, May). Metacognitive in Arabic. Invited paper presented at the blindness. Keynote paper presented Therapy (MCT+) for psychosis: A trial Egdal Workshop: Aspects in Learning at the Computational Foundations of update. Invited paper presented at the Disability Diagnosis, Ramat Gan, Israel. Religious Cognition: A workshop hosted Beckfest, Vancouver, Canada. by the International Association for the Friedmann, N. (2017, February). Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR), Bishop, D. (2017, January). Why is it Language disorders and what they 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive so hard to agree on definitions and can tell us about language. Invited Science Society, London, UK. terminology for children’s language paper presented at the Annual disorders? Keynote paper presented at Multidisciplinary Science & Humanities Nation, K. (2017, March). Learning to the International Journal of Language Meeting of The Israel Academy of read and learning to comprehend. & Communication Disorders Winter Sciences and Humanities: Languages: Keynote paper presented at the Lecture, London, UK. Natural, Human and Artificial Systems of Language, Literacy and Learning Bishop, D. (2017, February). What’s Communication, Jerusalem, Israel. Conference, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth. wrong with our Universities, and will Friedmann, N. (2017, March). Evidence the Teaching Excellence Framework for modularity in developmental Palermo, R. (2017, January). Face put it right? Keynote paper presented language impairments. Invited blindness: The inability to recognise at the University of Southampton symposium conducted at the Natural identity from the face. Keynote Distinguished Lecture, Southampton, and Artificial Grammars Seminar Series, paper presented at The University UK. Collège de France, Paris, France. of New South Wales Unfamiliar Face Identification Group Meeting, Sydney. Brooks, K.R. (2017, August). Looking Friedmann, N. (2017, April). On the at the figures: Perceptual adaptation nature of the Wh impairment in Palermo, R. (2017, October). What can as a mechanism for body size and syntactic SLI. Invited paper presented individual variability tell us about the shape misperception. Keynote paper at the PRIN Workshop: Theory, mechanisms of face perception? Invited presented at the 4th National Eating Experimentation, Applications: Long paper presented at the Face Recognition Disorder and Obesity Conference, Gold Distance Dependencies in Forms of at its Best Workshop, London, UK. Coast. Linguistic Diversity, University of Siena, Pellicano, E. (2017, August). Predicting Siena, Italy. Brüne, M. (2017, May). Mentalisation- autistic children’s developmental based group therapy as an add-on Friedmann, N. (2017, May). Goslings, outcomes: The key role of early- to dialectical behaviour therapy in kittens, sparrows, and critical period for emerging executive skills. Invited borderline patients. Invited symposium language development. Invited paper symposium conducted at the Enter the given at the 6th Psychopathology presented at the Bases of Education Wild: Advances in Research on Social Summer School, part of the 57th Conference, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Cognition in Everyday Life in Individuals International Neuropsychiatric Israel. With and Without Autism Spectrum Congress, Pula, Croatia. Conditions Workshop, Ludwig Maximilian Ibáñez, A. (2017, May). But seriously ... University of Munich, Germany. Crain, S. (2017, March). Parameters What can the neurosciences contribute of logic. Keynote paper presented at to education? Keynote paper presented Pellicano, E. (2017, October). Knowing the First International Conference on at the “Educating the Brain” Conference autism. Keynote given at the Centre Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, on Education and Science, Cordoba, for Research in Autism and Education The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spain. (CRAE) Annual Lecture, UCL Institute of Hong Kong. Education, University College London, Irish, M. (2017, May). ‘The time travelling UK. Crain, S. (2017, May). How to design brain’: How we remember the past poverty-of-stimulus experiments. and imagine the future. Keynote paper Pellicano, E. (2017, November). Knowing Keynote paper presented at the presented at the Paul Bourke Lecture, autism. Keynote presentation given Generative Linguistics in the 21st Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, at the Community Perspectives on Century: Evidence and Rhetoric The University of Sydney. Autism Research, Olga Tennison Autism Workshop, University of Reading, UK. Research Centre (OTARC), Melbourne. Marinus, E. (2017, March). Dyslexie font: Crain, S. (2017, May). How the brain Does it work and if so, why? Invited paper Piguet, O. (2017, March). Social structures language. Invited paper presented at the Learning Differences cognition and early dementia. Invited presented at the International Workshop Convention, Sydney. symposium conducted at the 5th on Brain, Language and Cognition, Singapore International Neurocognitive McArthur, G. (2017, March). Interventions Nanjing University, China. Symposium, Singapore. for poor readers: An introduction to Crain, S. (2017, September). How making evidence-based choices. Invited Piguet, O. (2017, March). Cognitive and children order events in time. Keynote paper presented at the Language, behavioural presentation of young onset paper presented at the Mental Time Literacy and Learning Conference, Perth dementia. Keynote paper presented Symposium, Nara, Japan. Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth. at the 5th Singapore International Neurocognitive Symposium, Singapore. Demuth, K. (2017, September). McKay, R. (2017, May). Changing the Becoming bilingual. Invited paper mind: Understanding deviations Piguet, O. (2017, June). The long and presented at the International from rational belief revision. Keynote winding road: Social cognition and sense Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual paper presented at the 2017 National of identity in dementia. Keynote paper Speech, Crete, Greece. Geographic Science Festival, Rome, Italy. presented at the 40th Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Melbourne.

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Piguet, O. (2017, June). Clinical Buckingham, J. (2017, September). Kumfor, F. (2017, February). Social cues presentations and neurobiology of Resistance to research: Why don’t all to aid dementia diagnosis. Invited younger onset dementia syndromes. children receive effective, evidence- presentation given at the Alzheimer’s Invited symposium conducted at based reading instruction? Invited Australia ACT and Alzheimer’s Australia the 40th Annual Brain Impairment presentation at the Reading and Spelling Dementia Research Foundation - Conference, Melbourne. Workshop, Macquarie University. Dementia Research in Focus, Canberra. Sutherland, C., Liu, X., Zhang, L., Chu, Y., Brüne, M. (2017, March). Are mental Lo, C.-Y. (2017, April). Graduate Oldmeadow, J., & Young, A. (2017, July). disorders specifically human? employability. Invited presentation Modelling Chinese and British perceivers’ Similarities and differences between given at the PACE Employability Forum, facial first impressions using a data- human and animal minds. Presentation Macquarie University. driven approach. Invited symposium given at the Brain Café, Collaborative McArthur, G. (2017, February). How conducted at the 18th General Meeting Research Centre 874 “Integration and to make evidence-based decisions of the European Association of Social Representation of Sensory Processes“, about treatments for poor readers. Psychology, Granada, Spain. Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Presentation given at Dyslexia SPELD, Germany. Brisbane. Terhune, D. & Polito, V. (2017, June). Castles, A. (2017, June). Synthetic A primer on experimental hypnosis McArthur, G. (2017, June). The phonics and dyslexia. Invited research. Invited symposium conducted Macquarie University Reading Clinic. presentation given at the Southern at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Invited presentation given at the Meeting Region Student Services Network of with Hon Tanya Pilbersek MP (Deputy Association for the Scientific Study of Catholic Education Meeting, Melbourne. Consciousness, Beijing, China. Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Castles, A. (2017, June). Reading in Minister for Education and Training and Young, A.W. (2017, January). Faces, children. Invited presentation given at Shadow Minister for Women), Macquarie people, and the brain. Invited paper the Meeting with Hon Tanya Plibersek University. presented at the 45th Bartlett Lecture, MP (Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Murteira, A., & Hameister, I. (2017, Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Shadow Minister for Education and Society, University College London, UK. April). When language breaks down. Training and Shadow Minister for Presentation given at MQ in a Day, Zeman, A. (2017, January). Neurology Women) Macquarie University, Sydney. Macquarie University. Invited is psychiatry (and vice versa). Child Language Lab (2017, August). Nickels, L. (2017, May). Communication paper presented at the Medically Speed date a scientist. Presentation research and measurement in clinical Unexplained Symptoms Conference, given at the Sydney Science Festival, practice. Invited presentation given at London, UK. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. the South Eastern Sydney Local Health Zeman, A. (2017, March). The eye’s Coltheart, M. (2017, September). District Speech Pathology Professional mind: The science and philosophy of Identifying and understanding the Development Workshop, Sydney. consciousness. Invited paper presented varieties of developmental dyslexia. Pellicano, E. (2017, January). Satellite at the Northcott Lecture, Devon and Invited presentation at the Reading and models: A promising model for Exeter Medical Society, UK. Spelling Workshop, Macquarie University. educating children and young people on Zeman, A. (2017, March). Neurological Contini, E. (2017, August). VR, bodily the autism spectrum. Presentation given examination for psychiatrists. Invited and visual illusions demonstration. at the Report Launch, Phoenix Special paper presented at the Neuropsychiatry Presentation given at the Sydney School, London, UK. Workshop, The Royal College of Science Festival ‘Night of Illusions’, Pellicano, E. (2017, January). Having a Psychiatrists, Totnes, UK. Redfern. say - through film. Invited presentation de Wit, B. (2017, July). Neurogaming given at the SEND Hub’s ‘Visual Literacy, Zeman, A. (2017, April). Disorders of technology meets neuroscience: SEND and Learning Differences visual imagery. Invited paper presented A magical story for research and Workshop’, British Film Institute at the British Neuroscience Association education. Invited presentation given Southbank, London, UK. Festival of Neuroscience, Birmingham, UK. at the Queensland State Brain Bee Pellicano, E. (2017, January). Girls on the Zeman, A. (2017, June). Aphantasia. Competition, Brisbane. Autism Spectrum. Presentation given at Keynote paper presented at the Medical de Wit, B. (2017, November). the ‘The Big Shout’ conference, London. Sciences Undergraduate Student Neurogaming technology meets Conference, University of Exeter, UK. Pellicano, E. (2017, March). neuroscience: Measuring brain activity Understanding autism. Invited with a gaming headset. Presentation presentation given at the Barking and Community given at the Pioneering Women in Dagenham Local Authority’s Social Work presentations STEMM Program, Macquarie University. Team, London, UK. Aitchison, M. (2017, September). Di Ieva, A. (2017, November). Pritchard, S. (2017, August). VR, bodily Introduction to cognitive science. Invited Neurotrauma: A historical, clinical and and visual illusions demonstration. presentation given at the High School surgical perspective. Presentation Presentation given at the Sydney Outreach, Pacific Hills Christian School, given at the Sports Concussion Forum, Science Festival ‘Night of Illusions’, Dural. Macquarie University. Redfern. Friedmann, N. (2017, May). Attention Baird, A. (2017, August). Music, memory Ruggero, L. (2017, March). Primary and dyslexia: Points of connection and and the self in dementia. Presentation progressive aphasia: Quality of life and disconnection. Invited presentation given at the Hunter Dementia Alliance depression. Presentation given at the given at the Diagnosis Centers Forum, Newcastle. Primary Progressive Aphasia Support Conference: Aspects of Attention Group, War Memorial Hospital, Sydney. Balzan, R. (2017, March). Cognitive Disorders, Tel-Aviv, Israel. behavioural therapy (CBT) for Sowman, P., & de Wit, B. (2017, Irish, M., Ramanan, S., & Wong, S. psychosis. Presentation given at the November). The future of concussion (2017, August). Science in schools. Sydney Handbook of Schizophrenia research at Macquarie University. Presentation given at the National Project (Webinar Series), The University Presentation given at the Sports Science Week, Newtown Public School. of Sydney. Concussion Forum, Macquarie University. Kohnen, S. (2017, September). MOTiF - Bell, J. (2017, January). How studying Sowman, P., & Wehrman, J. (2017, April). The Macquarie Online Testing Interface. attention can help us understand mental Hacking the brain. Presentation given at Invited presentation at the Reading and illness. Presentation given at the Pint of MQ in a Day, Macquarie University. Spelling Workshop, Macquarie University, Science, Bar Orient, Fremantle. Sydney.

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Stephen, I. (2017, July). Change how you view yourself in two minutes. Presentation given at Discovery Day, Macquarie University. Strikwerda-Brown, C. (2017, October). Memory and the self. Presentation given at the Stanton Library, North Sydney. Sutherland, C. (2017, May). First impressions from faces. Presentation given at Pint of Science, Fremantle. Sutton, J. (2017, April). Emotional skills and the mental game in Australian professional cricket. Presentation given at the Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association, Melbourne. Taylor-Rubin, C. & Croot, K. (2017, May). Primary progressive aphasia. Invited presentation given at the NSW Ministry of Health’s Health Education and Training Institute Professional Development Workshop for Speech Pathologists, Royal Rehab, Sydney. Wegener, S. (2017, September). Oral vocabulary helps children learn to read before written words are seen. Invited presentation at the Reading and Spelling Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney. Wilson, N.-A. (2017, October). Memory and the self. Presentation given at the Stanton Library, North Sydney. Wong, S. (2017, October). Neuroscience in schools. Presentation given at the Lycée Condorcet, International French School, Maroubra. Yau, S. (2017, March). Autism and the classroom. Presentation given at Autism Awareness Week, University of Bristol, UK. Zopf, R. (2017, August). VR, bodily and visual illusions demonstration. Presentation given at the Sydney Science Festival ‘Night of Illusions’, Redfern.

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Awards Dr Fiona Kumfor Centre awards Travel Award to attend Science Meets Dr Amee Baird Policymakers, Canberra, NHMRC Olivia Brancatisano Early Career Researcher Grant Income National Institute for Dementia Research Annual Workshop Highly Commended Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Visiting Fellowship, University of PhD Poster Award Macquarie University Tasmania Jemma Collova Professor Amanda Barnier Chi Yhun Lo Annual Workshop Joint Winner of Best Associate Dean (Research), Service Student Aid Award, Conference on PhD Poster Award Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Implantable Auditory Prostheses Laura McLaughlin Engfors Macquarie University Dr Xuejing Lu Excellence in Research Student Award: Dr Nathan Caruana Higher Degree Research Excellence Outstanding 2016 Publication Excellence in Higher Degree Research Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Dr Yong Zhi Foo - Humanities, Business and Social Macquarie University Excellence in Research Student Award: Sciences, Macquarie University Sarah Pini Outstanding 2016 Publication Professor Anne Castles Best Poster, Australasian Skill Cheng Liang Eminent Researcher Award, Learning Acquisition Network (ASAN) Conference Annual Workshop Winner of Best Difficulties Australia Dr Sharon Savage Postgraduate Poster Award Dr Leidy Castro-Meneses Conference Poster Prize, British Dr Xuejing Lu Higher Degree Research Excellence Neuropsychiatry Association Excellence in Research Student Award: Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Elsevier Young Investigator Award for Outstanding 2016 Publication Macquarie University Best Clinical Paper, World Congress Neurology Conference Benjamin McLean Professor Stephen Crain Excellence in Research Student Award: Edited Book, Studies in Chinese and Dr Pragati Rao Mandikal Vasuki Outstanding 2016 Publication Japanese Language Acquisition: In Higher Degree Research Excellence Honor of Stephen Crain, John Benjamins Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Siddharth Ramanan Publishing Company, The Netherlands Macquarie University Annual Workshop Highly Commended PhD Poster Award Dr Kirsten Dalrymple Cherie Strikwerda-Brown Professional and Administrative Council Student Travel Award, Australian Andrea Salins Professional Development Grant, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) Annual Workshop Highly Commended University of Minnesota, USA Conference Postgraduate Poster Award Dr Bianca de Wit Andrea Salins Elizabeth Stewart Travel Grant, Association for Shaila Vora Award for Best Paper, Excellence in Research Student Award: Psychological Science Language Outstanding 2016 Publication Best ECR Poster, International Science Professor John Sutton Lina Teichmann of Learning Conference: Research to Annual Workshop Joint Winner of Best Reality Visiting International Collaborative Fellowship, Institute of Philosophy, PhD Poster Award Dr Sonja Eisenbeiss University of London, UK Excellence Award, University of Essex, UK Dr Anita Szakay Promotions Student-Led Award for Excellence in Dr Louise Ewing Teaching, Macquarie University Dr Nicholas Badcock Staff Engagement Award, University of Promotion to Senior Lecturer (Level C) East Anglia, UK Professor William Thompson Distinguished Professor, Macquarie Associate Professor Laurie Miller Laura McLaughlin Engfors University Promotion to Associate Professor Conference Travel Grant for (Level D) Postgraduate Research Students, Dr David White, Dr Clare Sutherland Dr Regine Zopf Capstone Editing and Dr Amy Burton Promotion to Lecturer (Level B) Joyce Riley Bursary, Graduate Women WA Best Article Award, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) Dr Yong Zhi Foo Endeavour Research Fellowship, Dr Stephanie Wong New external appointments Department of Education and Training, Higher Degree Research Excellence Professor Anne Castles Australian Government Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University President, Learning Difficulties Australia Rebecca Gelding Poster Award, Australian Society for (2017 continuing) Higher Degree Research Excellence Social and Affective Neuroscience Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, Conference Member, Australian Academy of Science Macquarie University The David Hall Prize, Faculty of Human Council (2017 - 2019) Rakshita Gokula Sciences, Macquarie University Dr Kimberley Docking First runner-up, Three Minute Thesis, Vice Chancellor’s Commendation Organising Committee member, Sydney Department of Linguistics, Macquarie for Academic Excellence, Macquarie Cancer Conference (2017 - 2018) University University Second runner-up, Three Minute Thesis, Professor Andy Young Professor Jennifer Hudson Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie 45th Bartlett Lectureship, Experimental Fellow, Association for Psychological University Psychology Society Science (2017) Dr Tijl Grootswagers Dr Fiona Kumfor Higher Degree Research Excellence President, Australasian Society for Social Award, Faculty of Human Sciences, and Affective Neuroscience (AS4SAN). Macquarie University (2017 continuing)

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Professor Lyndsey Nickels ANR/DFG Bilateral Research Grant (2016 ARC Discovery Project [DP170102407] Honorary Professor, University College - 2019) Joint funding scheme by the (2017 - 2019) “Speech production in the London (2017 - 2022) Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) developing brain.” Johnson, B., Cheyne, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tehran and the German Research Foundation D., & van Lieshout, P. ($338,000) University of Medical Science (2017 - (DFG). “The role of morphemes during ARC Discovery Project [DP170103148] 2020) reading development.” Beyersmann, E., (2017 - 2019) “The development of Grainger, G., Ziegler, J.C., Schroeder, S., & Dr Lyn Tieu predictive brain function in preschool Smolka, E. ($587,890) Senior Research Fellow, Research children.” Sowman, P., He, W., & Brock, J. Theme Fellowship Scheme (“Education ARC Centre of Excellence ($367,000) and Aspirational Change”), Western [CE110001021] (2011 - 2017) “ARC ARC Discovery Project [DP170104575] Sydney University (2017) Centre of Excellence in Cognition and (2017 - 2020) “Towards a process model its Disorders.” Crain, S., Rhodes, G., of visual working memory.” Donkin, C., & Hodges, J., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., Le Pelley, M. ($295,000) New editorial appointments Barnier, A., Brock, J., Byrne, B., Demuth, K., Green, M., Langdon, R., Johnson, B., ARC Discovery Project [DP170104602] Dr Agustin Ibáñez McArthur, G., Miller, L., Nickels, L., Piguet, (2017 - 2019) “Who may judge a book by Associate Editor, Social Neuroscience. O., Savage, G., Thompson, W., Thornton, its cover?” Rhodes, G., Sutherland, C., (2017 continuing) R. et al. ($21,000,000) Palermo, R., & Young, A. ($333,500) Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. (2017 continuing) ARC Discovery Early Career Research ARC Discovery Project Grant Award (DECRA) [DE140100499] (2014 [DP160101300] (2016 - 2019) “Predicting Dr Petroula (Betty) Mousikou - 2017) “The body in interaction: The behaviour from brain representations.” Ad hoc reviewer, Behavior Research impact of tracking the human body Carlson, T., Solomon, S., McMahon, D., & Methods. (2017 continuing) on visual object processing.” Zopf, R. Kriegeskorte, N. ($535,117) Ad hoc reviewer, Reading and Writing. ($393,087) ARC Discovery Project Grant (2017 continuing) ARC Discovery Early Career Research [DP150100419] (2015 - 2018) “Making Award (DECRA) [DE150100667] words stick: Lexical consolidation Grants (2015 - 2018) “How ‘known unknowns’ effects in learning to read.” Castles, A., become known: How do people Nation, K., & Gaskell, G. ($661,200) Agencia Nacional de Promoción encode unpredictability?” Griffiths, O. ARC Discovery Project Grant Científica y Tecnológica de la Nación, ($328,000) [DP150100684] (2015 - 2019) “Improving Argentina, (pict 0412) (2014 - 2017) human perception of low resolution face ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher “Redes fronto-temporo-insulares images.” McKone, E. ($518,500) y biomarcadores neurocognitivos Award (DECRA) [DE150100318] (2015 en la demencia fronto temporal, la - 2017) “Solving the puzzle of complex ARC Discovery Project Grant enfermedad de alzheimer y lesiones speech sounds.” Proctor, M. ($360,000) [DP150100845] (2015 - 2017) “The phonological structure of Kaytetye: focales.” Manes, F., Ibáñez, A., Roca, ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Unique or universal?” Harvey, M.D., M., Torralva, T., & Gleichgerrcht, E. Award (DECRA) [DE150100396] (2015 Turpin, M.M., & Proctor, M.I. ($202,135) ($333,900) - 2017) “What are the active ingredients Allied Health Workplace Learning of successful shared remembering?” ARC Discovery Project Grant Grants Program, Sydney Managers Harris, C. ($342,000) [DP150101540] (2015 - 2017) “The emotional face: Effects on orienting, of NSW Health Speech Pathology ARC Discovery Project (2017 - 2019) Departments - Adult Subgroup (2016 visual search, and categorisation.” Lipp, “Targeting early contact with the criminal O.V., Hess, U., & Martin, F.H. ($443,900) - 2017) “Comprehensive Assessment justice system in young people.” Dean, and Management of Primary Progressive K., Tzoumakis, S., Laurens, K., Green, M., ARC Discovery Project Grant Aphasia Workshop.” Taylor-Rubin, C., & & Carr, V. ($372,500) [DP150102441] (2015 - 2017) “The Croot, K. ($4,000) behaviour-genetics of NAPLAN data: ARC Discovery Project [DP140103268] Increasing power for complex analyses.” Alzheimer’s Research UK (2016 - (2014 - 2017) “How does uncertainty 2019) “The impact of acute systemic Coventry, W.L., Byrne, B.J., & Olson, R.K. influence selective attention during ($202,700) inflammation upon cerebrospinal human associative learning?” Beesley, T., fluid and blood biomarkers of brain Le Pelley, M.E., & Mitchell, C.J. ($311,670) ARC Discovery Project Grant inflammation and injury in dementia: A [DP160101174] (2016 - 2019) “The role study in acute hip fracture and memory ARC Discovery Project [DP140104394] of early testosterone and brain laterality clinic patients.” (£277,786) Hornberger, (2014 - 2017) “Understanding prediction in language development.” Whitehouse, M., & Fox, C. ($740,000) errors: Interrogating the brain’s lingua A., Maybery, M., Bishop, D., Francks, C., franca.” Whitford, T.J., Le Pelley, M.E., & Fisher, S., Keelan, J., Jacoby, P., & Murphy, Alzheimer’s Research UK and Deutsche Luque, D. ($346,000) A. ($415,000) Telekom Partnership Grant (2016 - 2018) “Understanding human navigation using ARC Discovery Project [DP170101715] ARC Discovery Project Grant mobile gaming, big data and machine (2017 - 2020) “Capture and control: [DP160101470] (2016 - 2019) “Violent learning.” (£146,322) Spiers, H., & Overcoming distraction by reward- music: Social, psychological, and Hornberger, M. ($249,810) related stimuli.” Le Pelley, M., Most, S., neurological implications.” Thompson, Theeuwes, J., & Wiers, R. ($393,000) W., Warburton, W., Schubert, E., Gentile, Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training D., Schellenberg, G., & Koelsch, S. (2016 - 2019) “Multi-disciplinary ARC Discovery Project [DP170101780] Centre ($400,000) study of dysfunctional brain networks in (2017 - 2019) “Why is monitoring for rare dementia.” (£442,621) Randall, A., Mill, events so difficult and what can we do ARC Discovery Project Grant J., Zeman, A., Terry, J., Shore, A., Brown, about it?” Rich, A., Woolgar, A., Wiggins, [DP160102156] (2016 - 2018) “Improved J., Dodds, C., Lunnon, K., Goodfellow, M., M., Wolfe, J., & Helton, W. ($397,500) syntactic parsing and semantic analysis Llewellyn, D., & Lavric, A. ($938,000) ARC Discovery Project [DP170101840] for natural language processing.” (2017 - 2019) “Improving inferences Johnson, M., & Steedman, M. ($388,000) from brain imaging to understand ARC Future Fellowship [FT130100960] selective attention.” Woolgar, A., Rich, A., (2013 - 2017) “Enculturated cognition.” & Duncan, J. ($291,500) Menary, R. ($589,656)

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ARC Future Fellowship [FT140100422] British Academy Small Research Grant Dementia Collaborative Research (2014 - 2018) “Changing your mind by (2017 - 2019) “Does Strategy Matter? Centres Grant (2016 - 2017) changing your brain: An interventionist Probing the functional consequences “Longitudinal social and biomedical perspective on cognitive neuroscience.” of individual differences in strategic risk factors for incident dementia and Klein, C. ($609,220) information use during face identity cognitive decline in urban and regional ARC Future Fellowship [FT160100096] judgments.” (£9,556) Ewing, L., Smith-, Aboriginal Australians.” Radford, (2016 - 2020) “Constructing a refined M.L., & Palermo, R. ($16,088) K., Delbaere, K., Broe, T., Draper, B., Garvey, G., Schofield, P., & Cumming, R. model of human memory.” Irish, M. British Academy Small Research Grant ($200,000) ($688,000) (2016 - 2017) “On the interaction ARC Future Fellowship [FT170100105] between morpho-syntax and semantics/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2017 - 2021) “Insights from brain pragmatics. The case of temporal [German Research Foundation] (2015 imaging to study the neural basis of implications.” (£8,029) Romoli, J., Sudo, - 2018) “Metacognitive training for cognition.” Woolgar, A. ($759,294) Y., & Folli, R. ($13,692) patients with psychosis.” (€550,000) Brüne, M., & Moritz, S. ($852,500) ARC Laureate Fellowship [FL130100014] Canada Research Chair Tier II - Canada (2013 - 2018) “Neural and behavioural Research Chair in Social Perceptual Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft evidence for children’s learning of Development (2012 - 2017) (C$500,000) [German Research Foundation] grammatical morphology.” Demuth, K. Rutherford, M.D. ($470,540) (2015 - 2018) “Social brain functioning in forensic patients with antisocial ($2,865,815) Canadian Institutes of Health Research personality disorder.” (€229,000) Brüne, (2015 - 2020) “Understanding the ARC Linkage Project [LP140100468] M., & Schiffer, B. ($351,700) (2014 - 2017) “Learning to talk, talking thoughts and emotions of others: to learn: Effects of an early childhood Neuroimaging measures of typical and Dunhill Medical Fund (2014 - 2017) language program in remote Northern atypical development.” (C$748,500) “Transient epileptic amnesia: Causation, Territory indigenous communities.” Taylor, M., Anagnostou, E., Pang, E., & prognosis and the benefits of treatment” Jones, C., Escudero, P., Mattock, Smith, M.L. ($783,900) (£179,343) Butler, C., & Zeman, A. ($332,222) K., Sharma, M., Rosas, L., Everitt, P., Canadian Institutes of Health Research Taumoepeau, M., Demuth, K., McMahon, (2014 - 2019) “Cognitive outcome in Economic and Social Research C., Spiers, I., Wing, R.J., & Demosthenous, children born very preterm: Longitudinal Council (UK) Research Grant (2015 S. ($183,000) measures of brain structure and - 2017) “Nurturing a lexical legacy: ARC Linkage Project Grant function from birth.” (C$821,700) Taylor, Understanding the transition from [LP160101803] (2017 - 2019) M., Miller, S.P., Shroff, M., Sled, J., Smith novice-to-expert in children’s reading “Enhancing lifeguard performance: A M.L., & Whyte G. ($829,935) development” (£649,084). Nation, K., & Castles, A. ($1,329,140) multidisciplinary approach.” Griffin, B., Canadian Institutes of Health Research Wiggins, M., Rich, A., Curby, K., Taylor, (2014 - 2019) “Impact of pediatric Economic and Social Research Council M., Olsen, K., Kavakli, M., & Giacomelli, L. epilepsy surgery on health-related and Department for International ($280,000) quality of life.” (C$670,000) Smith, Development Grant (ESRC-DFID) (2016 - Australian Rotary Health ‘Mental Health M.L., Widjaja, E., Ferro, M., Speechley, K., 2020) “Multilingualism and multiliteracy: of Young Australians’ Research Grants Connolly, M., & Snead, C. ($659,000) Raising learning outcomes in challenging contexts in primary schools across (2017 - 2018) “Determinants of risk and Canadian Institutes of Health Research India” (£650,748) Tsimpli, I., Marinis, T., & resilience in maltreated children using (CIHR) Team Grant - HIV/AIDS and Treffers-Daller, J. ($1,314,700) multi-agency administrative records: A comorbidities (2013 - 2017) “Cellular population record-linkage study.” Green, aging and HIV comorbidities in women European Commission (2016 - 2020) M., Carr, V., Katz, I., Laurens, K., Dean, K., and children.” (C$2,500,000) Cote, “DE-ENIGMA: Multi-modal HRI for & Tzoumakis, S. ($135,854) H., Bitnun, S.A., Money, D.M., Pick, N., expanding social imagination in autistic Autistica (2017 - 2018) “Deutsche Bank Soudeyns, H., Brophy, J.C., Janssen, P.A., children.” (€3,904,188) Pellicano, workplace internships: Phase two.” Kakkar, F., Lapointe, N.D., Murray, M.C., E., Evers, V., Pantic, M., Schuller, B., (£67,000) Remington, A., & Pellicano, E. Prior, J.C., Silverman, M., Singer, J., & Sminchisescu, C., Petrovic, S., & ($118,693) Smith, M.L. ($2,596,800) Baranger, A. ($8,442,510) Autistica (2016 - 2017) “Deutsche Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities European Commission 7th Framework Bank workplace internships: Proof Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Programme for Research and of concept.” (£8,735) Pellicano, E., & Grant (2013 - 2018) “Early modern Technological Development (EU-FP7) Remington, A. ($15,320) conversions: Religions, cultures, (2014 - 2019) “Advancing The European cognitive ecologies.” (C$2,297,800). Multilingual Experience (AThEME).” Beryl Bayley MND Postdoctoral Yachnin, P., Beckwith, S.T., Cumming, (€5,000,000) Saddy, J.D., Marinis, T., & Fellowship (2017 - 2019) “Behaviour, J.E., Fenlon, I., Fraenkel, C., Kirby, W.J.T., Tsimpli, I. ($10,800,000) cognition, eye-movements and Marshall, P., Mullaney, S., Pérez-Gómez, European Commission Horizon 2020 psychiatric disease in C9orf72 MND A., Schmidt, B., Sinclair, S.G., Sutton, J., (2016 - 2020) “The Sign Hub: preserving, and FTD: A cross modal-approach to Traub, V., Vanhaelen, A.C., Vessey, M., researching and fostering the linguistic, facilitate early and accurate diagnosis.” Wilson, B.M.S. ($2,345,633) Devenney, E. ($300,000) historical and cultural heritage of Cancer Institute NSW (2017 - 2018) European deaf signing communities Big Lottery Fund Grant (2015 - 2020) “Improving quality of life and with an integral resource.” (€2,490,000) “Language made fun!” (£27,000) Romoli, communication in survivors of Quer, J., Cecchetto, C., Branchini, C., J., Folli, R., Sevdali, C., Rhys, C., & Henry, childhood brain cancer and leukaemia: Prinetto, P, Pfau, R., Steinbach, M., A. ($46,044) Development of Australian clinical Kelepir, M., Geraci, C., Donati, C., & Brain Foundation Research Gifts (2017) practice guidelines.” Docking, K.M. Friedmann, N. ($3,667,000) ($119,508) “Screening for de novo brain morphology European Research Council (ERC) changes in preclinical frontotemporal Advanced Grant (2013 - 2017) “Face dementia.” Irish, M., & Madan, C. recognition: Understanding the role of ($30,000) within-person variability.” (£1,230,000) Burton, A.M. ($2,275,000)

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European Union Education, Audiovisual Japan Society for the Promotion of Netherlands Organisation for Scientific and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (NWO) Internationalisation Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Research - Scientific Research Category in the Humanities Grant (2014 - 2017) (Action 1B). (2012 - 2017) “International C [17K02738] (2017 - 2020) Kiguchi, H., “Collaboration between nine teams Doctorate in Experimental Approaches Funakoshi, K., & Thornton, R. ($26,500) in seven countries - Universities of to Language and Brain (IDEALAB).” De Groningen (Netherlands), Cambridge John Templeton Foundation (2017 Bleser, R., Bastiaanse, R., Howard, D., (UK), Greenwich (UK), Nantes (France), - 2019) “Mapping the psychology of Miceli, G., & Nickels, L. ($6,800,000) Milano-Bicocca (Italy), Nova de Lisboa unbelief across contexts and cultures.” (Portugal), Autònoma de Barcelona Experimental Psychology Society (2017 (£149,428) Jong, J., McKay, R., Brown- (Spain), Pompeu Fabra (Spain), and the - 2018) “Improving police line-ups: The Iannuzzi, J., Gervais, W., Lanman, J., Centre for General Linguistics (‘ZAS’, effect of multiple images at memory Pennycook, G., & Ross, R. ($251,776) Germany).” (€53,750) Guasti, M.T. retrieval.” (£3500) Ritchie, K.L., & John Templeton Foundation (2015 - ($77,750) Fitzgerald, R. ($5,915) 2017) “Toward an affective science NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Health and Medical Research Fund of religion: The emotional causes and [APP1079102] (2015 - 2019) “Australian (2017) “Adaptation and validation of a consequences of religious belief.” Centre of Excellence in Twin Research.” Cantonese Sydney Language Battery (US$251,261) McKay, R., Jong, J., & Hopper, J., Craig, J., Mackey, D., Simpson, for the assessment of language deficits Halberstadt, J. ($269,222) S., Ferreira, P., Carrick, S., & Byrne, B. in patients with Primary Progressive Netherlands Organisation for Scientific ($2,475,361) Aphasia in Hong Kong”. (HKD320,396) Research (NWO) Internationalisation Wong, A., Tsoh,. J., Savage, S., Yuen, Y., NHMRC Dementia Research Team Grant in the Humanities Grant (2017 - 2020) Au, L., Yan, C., Lam, B., Hodges, J.R., & (2015 - 2019) “Non-Alzheimer’s disease “Language Abilities in Children with Mok, V. ($8,350) degenerative dementias: Identifying Autism (LACA) a collaboration among prodromal genetic/familial phenotypes, Hong Kong Research Grants Council 12 teams in 8 countries from the modifying factors and protein variations (General Research Fund) (2016 - 2017) universities of Amsterdam, Groeningen, involved in progression.” Halliday, G., “Reading comprehension difficulties Potsdam, Milano-Bicocca, Bruxelles, Hodges, J., Lewis, S., Piguet, O., Kril, J., in Hong Kong Chinese children: Reading, CNRS Lyon, Haifa, UCL London, Kwok, J., Villemagne, V., Kiernan, M., Linguistic and cognitive underpinnings.” Tours, TEI Patras, Cambridge.” (€75,000) Rowe, D., & McKeith, I. ($6,449,246) (HKD636,470) Chow, B., & Nation, K. including Guasti, M.T., & Marinis, T. ($110,180) ($116,588) NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (Australia) [APP1120770] (2017 - 2020) Hong Kong Research Grants Council Leverhulme Trust Research Grant “Characterisation of eating behaviour (General Research Fund) (2014 - (2016 - 2018) “Plural mass nouns as and metabolic phenotypes across 2017) “How does writing/drawing a window into language variation.” neurodegenerative diseases: Insights experience enhance visual expertise?” (£134,267) Romoli, J., Tsoulas, G., & Folli, for survival and progression.” Ahmed, R. (HKD976,813). Hsiao, J.H. ($143,000) R. ($228,970) ($340,891) Human Frontier Science Program Grant Medical Research Council (2015 - 2020) NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (2016 - 2019) “Analog computations “The UK GENetic Frontotemporal (Overseas) [APP1121859] (2017 - 2020) underlying language mechanisms”. Dementia Initiative (UK GENFI).” “Neural signatures of disease spread and (US$1,050,000) Treves, A., Friedmann, (£3,233,96) Rosso, M., Rohrer, J., & evolution in motor neurodegenerative N., & Monasson, R. ($1,355,970) Hornberger, M. ($5,463,000) syndromes.” Tu, S. ($408,768) Hunter New England and Central Coast Medical Research Council Clinician NHMRC Early Career Fellowship Health Services, Collaborative Health Scientist Fellowship (2013 - 2018) [APP1072245] (2014 - 2017) “Advancing Innovation Project (2017) “Music, Mind, “Amnesia and the medial temporal lobes: methods for decoding brain activity and Movement (MMM) Program for aged An investigation in limbic encephalitis.” in human visual cortex using care facilities.” Baird, A., & Thompson, W. (£1,409,874) Butler, C. ($2,611,710) neuroimaging.” Wardle, S. ($304,596) ($20,000) Motor Neurone Disease Association NHMRC Early Career Fellowship Institute for Special Needs Education Health Care Research Grant (2016 [APP1072451] (2014 - 2017) “Language (ISP) - Internal Research Funds (2017) - 2019) “Practical management deficits and cognitive dysfunction “Learning to read in Norwegian: of cognitive and neuropsychiatric in Motor Neuron Disease.” Burrell, J. Investigating explicit and implicit learning symptoms in MND: Development of ($255,217) processes in reading development.” the MiNDToolkit.” (£199,957) Mioshi, E., (112.900 NOK) Larsen, L. ($17,700) Hornberger, M., Shepstone, L., & Dick, D. NHMRC Early Career Fellowship ($338,000) [APP1117718] (2016 - 2019) “Novel Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research measures of socioemotional function grant on syntax in hearing impairment National Institute of General Medical to improve the differential diagnosis of (2014 - 2018) “Syntax in children with Sciences [P20-GM103650] (2012 - 2017) dementia.” Kumfor, F. ($314,644) hearing impairment: A characterisation “Center for Integrative Neuroscience.” of the syntactic deficit and the critical (US$9,775,626) Webster, M.A. NHMRC Project Grant (2017 - 2019) period for first language acquisition.” ($10,407,906) “Apathy in dementia: Identifying (520,000 NIS) Friedmann, N. ($192,145) mechanisms for targeted interventions.” National Science Foundation (2014 - Kumfor, F, & Irish, M. ($514,403) Italian Ministry of University and 2017) “Collaborative research: Language Research PRIN Grant (2014 - 2017) structure and number word learning.” NHMRC Project Grant [APP1037746] “Theory, experimentation, applications: (US$772,508) Barner, D., & Shusterman, (2013 - 2017) “Frontotemporal Long distance dependencies in forms of A. ($1,047,000) dementia and motor neurodegenerative linguistic diversity.” (€30,000) Guasti, syndromes.” Halliday, G., Gotz, J., Ittner, National Social Science Foundation of M.T., & Cecchetto, C. ($42,200) L., Kril, J., Hodges, J., & Kiernan, M. China [16BYY076] (2016 - 2019) “Using ($11,011,390) James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar eye movements to gauge language Award (2011 - 2017) “Encoding abstract development in preschool children.” NHMRC Project Grant [APP1069487] concepts in language.” (USD600,000) Zhou, P., & Crain, S. ($40,000) (2014 - 2017) “Prediction error Barner, D. ($813,000) processing in schizophrenia.” Le Pelley, M.E., Morris, R., Green, M., Whitford, T., & Killcross, A.S. ($243,447)

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NHMRC Project Grant [APP1081603] Qatar National Research Fund NPRP (2015 - 2017) “Epigenetic mechanisms of [#8-293-2-124] (2016 - 2019) “Apraxia brain dysfunction in psychotic and mood World: An interactive, technology-based disorders.” Green, M., Cairns, M., comprehensive tool for remote speech & Cohen-Woods, S. ($601,328) therapy of CAS.” (US$900,000) Ahmed, NHMRC Project Grant [APP1083010] B., Gutierrez-Osuna, R., & Ballard, K.J. (2015 - 2018) “COMPARE - Constraint ($1,230,000) Induced or Multi-modal Aphasia Spanish Ministry of Science and Rehabilitation: An RCT of therapy for Technology, Excellence Research Program stroke related chronic aphasia.” Rose, [PSI2013-44754-P] (2014 - 2017) “Learning M., Copland, D., Nickels, L., Togher, to pay attention and paying attention to L., Meinzer, M., Ong, B., & Godecke, E. learn: Two roles of attentional processes ($998,167) in human associative learning.” (€22,000) NHMRC Project Grant [APP1088931] Luque, D., Vadillo, M.A., Le Pelley, M.A., & (2015 - 2019) “Predicting language Whitford, J. ($31,665) skills from early auditory speech discrimination in infants with hearing Swiss National Science Foundation Early loss: Implications for early management Postdoc Mobility Fellowship (2015 - 2017) and intervention.” Ching, T.Y.C., Rance, “Behavioural and neural markers of conﬂict G., Demuth, K., Van Dun, B., Dillon, H., processing in healthy and delusional & Sharma, M. ($678,192) populations.” (CHF74,750) Kaliuzhna, M. NHMRC R.D. Wright Biomedical Career ($101,274) Development Fellowship (Level 2) The Cogito Foundation (2017 - 2019) “Public [APP1061875] (2014 - 2017) “Carving understanding of science in a post-truth psychosis at its biological joints.” Green, M.J. world.” (CHF139,642) McKay, R., Tappin, B., & ($447,840) Efferson, C. ($182,273) NHMRC Research Fellowship Grant The Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic [APP1103258] (2016 - 2020) “Improving Support Fund/Fell Fund (2016 - 2017) “The diagnosis and prognosis of early-onset history of dyslexia project.” (£168,000) dementia.” Piguet, O. ($622,655) Nation, K., Whyte, W., & Snowling, M. NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research ($283,000) Development Fellowship [APP1097026] US National Institutes of Health (2014 - (2016 - 2019) “Identifying novel markers to 2018) “Longitudinal outcomes of children differentiate frontotemporal dementia from with hearing impairment: Early vs later Alzheimer’s disease.” Kumfor, F. ($603,912) intervention.” (US$1,500,000) Ching, T.Y.C., NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Dillon, H., Cupples, L., Leigh, G., & Wass, M. Development Fellowship [APP1102969] ($1,734,150) (2016 - 2019) “Disentangling aphasic syndromes in Alzheimer’s disease.” Leyton, C. ($682,936) NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship [APP1103312] (2016 - 2019) “Ageing and dementia in Aboriginal Australians: Promoting vitality, identifying decline and supporting communities.” Radford, K. ($603,411) NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship [APP1104833] (2016 - 2019) “Can music mend minds? Investigating the mechanisms underlying the beneﬁcial effects of music on persons with dementia.” Baird, A. ($411,108) NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship [APP1110183] (2016 - 2019) “Cognition in motion: Characterization and evolution of cognitive dysfunction in motor neurodegeneration and frontotemporal dementia.” Hsieh, S. ($604,106) Ontario Brain Institute (2013 - 2018) “Cognition and pediatric epilepsy.” (C$300,000) Sub project in EPLINK/ Integrated Discovery System for Epilepsy (New Approaches to Intractable Seizures). Smith, M. L. ($311,600)

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Visitors Professor Gen Uehara Associate Professor Adrian Lee Applied Electronics Laboratory Department of Speech and Hearing Professor Karin Landerl Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Sciences Department of Psychology 20 - 23 February, 4 - 7 December, Macquarie University of Washington, USA University of Graz, Austria University 26 April, Macquarie University 20 September 2016 - 28 February 2017, Macquarie University Dr Edwin Burns Professor Mary Peterson School of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Psychology Professor Kemal Türker Nanyang Technological University, Singapore University of Arizona, USA School of Medicine 23 February, The University of Western 2 May, The University of Western Australia Koç University, Turkey Australia 9 December 2016 - 10 January 2017, Dr Silke Hamann Macquarie University Associate Professor Annette Bohn Department of Linguistics Department of Psychology and Behavioural University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr Christopher Carignan Sciences – Con Amore 8 - 14 May, Macquarie University The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour Aarhus University, Denmark Dr Xin Wang and Development 1 March, 21 - 23 March, Macquarie University Western Sydney University Department of Language, Literature and 7 February, Macquarie University Professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn Theatre School of Communication and Culture University of Greenwich, UK Dr Ann Burchfield Aarhus University, Denmark 30 May - 9 June, Macquarie University The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour 1 March, 29 March, Macquarie University and Development Dr Richard Socher Western Sydney University Professor Douglas H Whalen Salesforce 10 February, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics 7 June, Macquarie University Yale University, USA Associate Professor Andrew Timming Professor Roelien Bastiaanse 1 March, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics Management and Organisations (UWA University of Groningen, The Netherlands Associate Professor Mridula Sharma Business School) 13 - 17 February, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics The University of Western Australia Macquarie University 19 June, The University of Western Australia Professor Barbara Höhle 8 March, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics Professor Kleanthes Grohmann University of Potsdam, Germany Dr Anna Stephen Department of English Studies 13 - 17 February, Macquarie University Department of Languages and Linguistics University of Cyprus, Cyprus The University of Melbourne 26 - 28 June, Macquarie University Professor David Howard 8 March, Macquarie University School of Education, Communication and Associate Professor Maria Kambanaros Language Sciences Professor Gillian Wigglesworth Department of Rehabilitation Sciences Newcastle University, UK Department of Languages and Linguistics Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus 13 - 17 February, Macquarie University The University of Melbourne 26 - 28 June, Macquarie University 8 March, Macquarie University Professor Gabriele Miceli Dr Rinus Verdonschot Department of Psychology and Cognitive Professor Paula Fikkert Waseda Institute of Advanced Study Sciences Department of Dutch Language and Culture Waseda University, Japan University of Trento, Italy Radboud University Nijmegen, The 27 June - 14 July, Macquarie University Netherlands 13 - 17 February, Macquarie University Professor Florian Schweigert 13 March - 30 April, Macquarie University Professor Douglas Cheyne International Affairs, Alumni and Fundraising Department of Medical Imaging Associate Professor Hirohisa Kiguchi University of Potsdam, Germany University of Toronto, Canada Department of Cultural Studies 28 June, Macquarie University Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Japan 18 February - 31 March, Macquarie University Professor Hyun-Taek Kim 21 - 28 March, Macquarie University Professor Martin Eimer Department of Psychology Department of Psychological Sciences Dr Hamish Innes-Brown Korea University, South Korea Birkbeck, University of London, UK Bionics Institute Melbourne 7 - 22 July, Macquarie University 7 April, Macquarie University 18 - 22 February, The University of Western Professor Jennifer Martin Australia The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery Professor Yasuhiro Haruta Minister of State for School Standards, UK Griffith University Applied Electronics Laboratory 11 April, Macquarie University 21 July, Macquarie University Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Professor Paul Boersma Professor Mark Alfano 20 - 23 February, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics Department of Values, Technology and Professor Masanori Higuchi University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Innovation Applied Electronics Laboratory 24 April - 14 May, Macquarie University Delft University of Technology, USA 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Associate Professor Bob McMurray 20 - 23 February, 4 - 6 December, Macquarie Department of Psychological and Brain Professor Rob Brotherton University Sciences Department of Psychology Associate Professor Daisuke Oyama University of Iowa, USA University of Columbia, USA Applied Electronics Laboratory 24 - 29 April, Macquarie University 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Dr Sofi Bin-Salamon Professor Karen Douglas 20 - 23 February, Macquarie University Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA School of Psychology Dr Dries Trippas 26 April, Macquarie University University of Kent, UK 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University Center for Adaptive Rationality Professor Mark Hutchinson Max Planck Institute for Human ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Dr Adam Dunn Development, Germany BioPhotonics Centre for Health Informatics 20 February - 4 March, Macquarie University The University of Adelaide Macquarie University 26 April, Macquarie University 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University

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Professor Jolanda Jetten Professor Amy Lederberg Dr Alexa Morcom School of Psychology Educational Psychology, Special Education, School of Philosophy, Psychology and The University of Queensland and Communication Disorders Language Sciences 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University George State University, USA The University of Edinburgh, UK 7 - 8 November, Macquarie University 8 - 15 December, Macquarie University Professor Neil Levy Department of Philosophy Professor Greg Leigh Professor Cathy Creswell Macquarie University Renwick Centre Royal Institute for Deaf and School of Psychology and Clinical Language 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University Blind Children Sciences 7 - 8 November, Macquarie University University of Reading, UK Professor Stephan Lewandowsky 13 - 15 December, Macquarie University School of Experimental Psychology Dr Simone Favelle University of Bristol, UK School of Psychology Professor Shirley Reynolds 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University University of Wollongong School of Psychology and Clinical Language 21 - 29 November, The University of Western Sciences Ms Mandy Nayton, OAM Australia University of Reading, UK The Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation of WA (Inc) 13 - 15 December, Macquarie University 27 - 28 September, Macquarie University Dr Kelly Jakubowski Department of Music Professor Rhona Stainthorp Durham University, UK Institute of Education 22 November, Macquarie University Student visitors University of Reading, UK 27 - 28 September, Macquarie University Dr Vincenzo Galatà Ms Xiaohe Yuan The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour Department of English Dr Minna Torppa and Development Beijing Language and Culture University, Department of Teacher Education Western Sydney University China University of Jyväskylä, Finland 28 November, Macquarie University 20 October 2016 - 20 October 2017 27 September - 30 November, Macquarie Associate Professor Timothy Carroll Macquarie University University School of Human Movement and Nutrition Ms Jessica van Schagen Dr David Lewis Sciences Graduate School of Humanities School of Psychology and Exercise Science The University of Queensland Utrecht University, The Netherlands Murdoch University 30 November, Macquarie University 14 November 2016 - 2 January 2017 2 October, The University of Western Associate Professor Yoshiaki Adachi Macquarie University Australia Applied Electronics Laboratory Ms Sara Davis Dr Scott Gwinn Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Department of Psychology Department of Psychology 4 - 7 December, Macquarie University The Iowa State University, USA University of Nevada, Reno, USA Dr Bill Budd 9 - 13 January, Macquarie University 2 October - 24 November, The University of School of Psychology Western Australia Ms Valeria Peretokina The University of Newcastle The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour Assistant Professor Tetsu Hirosawa 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University and Development Graduate School of Medical Science Dr Brian Cornwell Western Sydney University Kanazawa University, Japan School of Health Sciences 24 February, Macquarie University 3 October 2017 - 30 March 2018, Macquarie Swinburne University of Technology Mr Tobias Goehring University 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Engineering and the Environment Associate Professor Charlie Stone Dr Marta Garrido University of Southampton, UK Department of Psychology Centre for Advanced Imaging 20 March, Macquarie University John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA The University of Queensland Ms Nadia Nawi 3 - 20 October, Macquarie University 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Faculty of Cognitive Science and Human Professor Carl Craver Professor Masanori Higuchi Development Department of Philosophy Applied Electronics Laboratory University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia University of Washington at St. Louis, USA Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan 3 July - 30 September, Macquarie University 14 October - 14 November, Macquarie 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Ms Diana Tan University Dr Arjan Hillebrand School of Psychological Science Professor Rebecca Treiman Department of Clinical Neurophysiology The University of Western Australia Department of Psychological and Brain VU University Medical Center, The 24 July, The University of Western Australia Sciences Netherlands Ms Ayako Prokopczuk Washington University in St Louis, USA 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Department of Linguistics 18 - 19 October, Macquarie University Professor Klaus Kessler University of Leipzig, Germany Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva School of Life and Health Sciences 1 September 2017 - 3 April 2018, Macquarie ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Aston University, UK University Australian National University 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Mr Farnoush Abedi 23 October, Macquarie University Department of Psychology Professor Mitsuru Kikuchi Dr Tara Thiagarajan Research Center for Child Mental Macquarie University Sapien Labs Chandigarh, India Development 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie University 23 - 27 October, Macquarie University Kanazawa University, Japan Dr Katalin Tamasi 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University Ms Audrey Acebedo Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Assistant Professor Jonathan Peelle Department of Psychology Singapore University of Technology and Department of Otolaryngology Macquarie University Design, Singapore Washington University of St Louis, USA 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 27 October, Macquarie University 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University University Dr Megan Gilliver Professor Liina Pylkkanen Mr Sijal Ansari National Acoustic Laboratories Department of Linguistics Department of Psychology 7 - 8 November, Macquarie University New York University, USA Macquarie University 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie Dr Fiona Kyle University School of Health Sciences Associate Professor Juanita Todd City University of London, UK School of Psychology 7 - 8 November, Macquarie University The University of Newcastle 4 - 6 December, Macquarie University

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Mr Areeba Awan Ms Angeleena Le Ms Lirije von Petersdorff Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Macquarie University Macquarie University University of Potsdam, Germany 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 5 October - 23 December, Macquarie University University University Ms Jowana Awick Mr Chen Lu Ms Rebecca Hirst Department of Psychology Department of Psychology School of Psychology Macquarie University Macquarie University The University of Nottingham, UK 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 23 October - 7 December, Macquarie University University University Ms Ji Yeon Bae Ms Natasha Mitchell Ms Elizabeth Kinghorn Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Don Wright Faculty of Music Macquarie University Macquarie University University of Western Ontario, USA 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 22 November, Macquarie University University University Mr Philip Schulz Mr Stephen Brooke Ms Matilda Parry Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Psychology Department of Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Macquarie University Macquarie University 20 December, Macquarie University 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie University University Ms Nicola Burgess Ms Megan Phillips Internal visitors Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Dr Clare Sutherland Macquarie University Macquarie University School of Psychological Science 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie The University of Western Australia University University 5 - 21 January, Macquarie University Ms Hannah Cahill Ms Gabrielle Picard Dr Britta Biedermann Department of Psychology Department of Psychology School of Psychology and Speech Pathology Macquarie University Macquarie University Curtin University 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 28 March, 25 - 29 September, Macquarie University University University Ms Gemma Campbell Ms Kea Pleasance Dr Jennifer Buckingham Department of Psychology Department of Psychology The Centre for Independent Studies Sydney Macquarie University Macquarie University 11 April, 27 - 28 September, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie University University University Dr Danielle Colenbrander Mr Joshua Carey Ms Maxie Johanna Reise School of Experimental Psychology Department of Psychology Department of Psychology University of Bristol, UK Macquarie University Macquarie University 11 - 12 April, Macquarie University 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie Professor Naama Friedmann University University School of Education and Sagol School of Mr Jeremy Cheuk Ms Jenna Resnik Neuroscience Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Tel Aviv University, Israel Macquarie University Macquarie University 10 August - 14 September, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie University University University Mr Ben Tappin Ms Lauren Dennis Mr Jordan Rogers Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Macquarie University Macquarie University 10 - 11 August, Macquarie University 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie Professor Kate Nation University University Department of Experimental Psychology Mr Samuel Free Mr Ranjeet Rajput Singh University of Oxford, UK Department of Psychology Department of Psychology 16 - 24 August, Macquarie University Macquarie University Macquarie University Dr Antonio Di Ieva 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie Department of Clinical Medicine University University Macquarie University Mr Blake Hunt Ms Jacqueline Thomas 30 August, Macquarie University Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Dr Sharon Savage Macquarie University Macquarie University Department of Psychology 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie University of Exeter, UK University University 30 August, Macquarie University Mr Ryan Jones Ms Erin Toovey Associate Professor Romina Palermo Department of Psychology Department of Psychology School of Psychological Science Macquarie University Macquarie University The University of Western Australia 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 6 - 7 September, Macquarie University University University Dr Amy Dawel Mr Giles King Ms Roshini Randeniya Research School of Psychology Department of Psychology Queensland Brain Institute Australian National University Macquarie University The University of Queensland 4 - 6 December, The University of Western 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 4 October - 19 December, Macquarie Australia University University 15 December, Macquarie University Ms Veronika Kosourikhina Ms Judith Martens Professor James Douglas Saddy Department of Psychology Institute of Philosophy II School of Psychology and Clinical Language Macquarie University Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Sciences 1 October - 30 November, Macquarie 4 October – 22 December, Macquarie University of Reading, UK University University 13 - 15 December, Macquarie University 96 2017 ANNUAL REPORT PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Research ﬁndings TARGET OUTCOME

Number of research outputs

Books 4 2

Book chapters 40 41

Journal articles 120 188

Quality of journal articles (IF > 2) 50 140

Keynote and invited presentations at major meetings 30 37

Commentaries about Centre achievements Media releases and articles 30 309

Scopus citations for Chief Investigators 1,000 9,584

Research training | Professional education TARGET OUTCOME

Training sessions organised by the Centre 15 34

Number of attendees at Centre training sessions 57 >2,000

New postgraduate students 15 44

New postdoctoral researchers 2 3

New honours students 10 9

15, 19, PhD completions, completion times 3yr 6mth 3yr 11mth

Number of Early Career Researchers (within 5 years of PhD) 17 67

Mentored high school and visiting students 10 84

International, national and regional links | Networks TARGET OUTCOME

International visitors 18 77

National and international workshops organised by the Centre 5 14

Visits to overseas laboratories 30 98

Interdisciplinary research supported by the Centre 27: 22 papers and Cross-program experiments/papers 7 5 projects Interdisciplinary PhD supervision 30% 21%

End-user links TARGET OUTCOME

Government, industry and business briefings 15 19

3: Community Engagement, Public awareness programs 3 Educational Outreach, Regional Engagement

Website updates

Events 12 37

Research outcomes 4 24

Website hits 20,000 59,100

Public talks given by the Centre 10-15 45

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Organisational support TARGET OUTCOME

Total annual cash contributions from Collaborating Organisations $1,162,082 $932,177

Total annual in-kind contributions from Collaborating Organisations $1,173,057 $2,266,753

Total annual cash contributions from Partner Organisations $0 $0

Total annual in-kind contributions from Partner Organisations $119,231 $114,231

Total annual other research income $3,825,000 $26,360,575

New collaborations with institutions/industry 3 2 (University of Reading, UK; Oculus)

Governance TARGET OUTCOME

Breadth, balance and experience of advisory committees

Scientiﬁc Committee 4 6 members; 1 meeting: 16 Nov

Advisory Board Members 10 10 members

Advisory Board meetings 2 2 meetings: 2 Feb, 7 Sep

Bringing researchers together to form an interactive and effective research team

Recruit/retain staff and recruit students 42 58 across the five research programs

Research Management Committee 4 meetings: 1 Feb, 12 Apr, 2 Aug, 1 Nov; 1 meetings plus 2 Director/COO visits to UWA/USyd nodes

National beneﬁt TARGET OUTCOME

Contributed to National Research Priorities: A healthy start to life:

Reading, Language and Person Perception Programs; Ageing well, ageing Contribution to the National Research Priorities 6 and the National Innovation Priorities productively: Memory, Belief Formation and Language Programs Contributed to National Innovation Priorities: 1, 2, 6 & 7

Centre-speciﬁc performance indicators TARGET OUTCOME

Participation at peak body meetings and information sessions 15 24

Eleven research feature articles and one member spotlight articles on the CCD homepage; sixteen Centre members contributed to ‘The Conversation’: (see Media | Public Awareness); 5 Centre members maintain blogs relevant to their Cognitive science in the public interest program research; 6 members made guest contributions to relevant external blogs; over 20 researchers and the Person Perception Program maintain active twitter accounts. Increased activity using the @CCD_outreach twitter account: over 111,000 impressions and over 3,000 profile views

The CCD Inclusive Research Network (IRN) was formed this year and grew out of the CCD Women in Science group. Two main objectives: 1. Provide a supportive environment to educate Women in Science program and advocate for inclusive practices in academia, and 2. Communicate current issues regarding equity and diversity in our research communities. Hosted monthly meetings in 2017.

Hosted 34 high school students for work experience as part of the CCD Work Experience Program. Prof Liz Pellicano’s work experience program for students with autism hosted 4 students. Educational outreach program Centre members also provided mentoring to 45 student interns. Jemma Collova led a three-day psychology workshop at the 2017 ConocoPhillips Science Experience at the University of Western Australia for 80 students (see Educational Outreach).

UWA node took part in the ASPIRE program designed to engage indigenous students and facillitate their participation in higher degree research, 70 Year 11 students participated. Katherine Rural outreach program Demuth and colleagues worked with 50 primary school students from the Northern Territory on hearing issues and phonological awareness.

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EXPENDITURE INCOME EXPENDITURE

INCOME Source 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Estimates

ARC Centre of Excellence Grant $3,047,251 $3,164,494 $3,286,244 $3,385,555 $3,446,191 $3,504,776 $3,557,348 _

Cash Contributions by Node $1,098,116 $1,824,287 $996,487 $1,442,681 $1,295,742 $1,056,095 $932,177 $94,178

Macquarie University $750,535 $1,473,8991 $646,099 $1,065,792 $945,084 $705,7072 $608,2893 $94,178

The University of New South Wales $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 _ _

The University of Sydney ______$150,000 _

The University of Western $197,581 $200,388 $200,388 $226,888 $200,388 $200,388 $173,888 _ Australia

Other Income _ $11,060 – _ _ _ $1,136 _

NSW Science Leveraging Fund $511,579 _ – _ _ _ _ _

TOTAL INCOME $4,656,946 $4,999,841 $4,282,731 $4,828,236 $4,741,663 $4,560,872 $4,490,662 $94,178

Accumulated funds from previous $2,062,637 $2,607,150 $2,339,975 $2,680,118 $2,809,046 $2,905,850 $3,675,997 year

1 $500,000 brought forward from 2016 and 2017 to contribute to NSW Science Leverage Fund Helium Recovery System project 2 $250,000 cash contribution for 2016 was received in 2012 to contribute to NSW Science Leverage Fund Helium Recovery System project 3 $250,000 cash contribution for 2017 was received in 2012 to contribute to NSW Science Leverage Fund Helium Recovery System project

EXPENDITURE Description 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Estimates

Salaries/Contractors $1,830,699 $3,148,550 $3,230,798 $3,450,435 $3,525,912 $3,625,640 $2,991,800 $2,537,240

Scholarships _ $285,369 $348,185 $497,888 $373,636 $382,676 $241,770 $181,429

Equipment $295,387 $408,456 $471,986 $31,234 $107,738 $24,965 $460 $12,590

Travel/Professional Development $190,836 $267,494 $167,891 $231,646 $347,652 $287,158 $310,008 $394,354

Maintenance/Consumables $165,195 $212,482 $235,848 $135,957 $60,080 $29,221 $52,172 $50,032

Other Expenditure $112,192 $132,977 $95,198 $140,933 $197,718 $114,410 $124,304 $283,779

TOTAL EXPENDITURE $2,594,309 $4,455,328 $4,549,906 $4,488,093 $4,612,735 $4,464,069 $3,720,515 $3,459,424

Accumulated funds to next year $2,062,637 $2,607,150 $2,339,975 $2,680,118 $2,809,046 $2,905,850 $3,675,997 $310,751 4

4 Anticipated carryforward of cash contributions

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Funding sources

Administering organisations

Collaborating organisations

Partner organisations

Institute of Education

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ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR ORGANISATIONS

INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL

Aarhus University, Denmark Australian Catholic University, ACT/NSW/VIC Academia Sinica, Taiwan Australian College of Applied Psychology, NSW Aix-Marseille University, France Australian National University, ACT Aston University, UK Charles Sturt University, SA Birkbeck, University of London, UK Curtin University, WA Bristol University, UK Flinders University, SA Brock University, Canada Monash University, NSW Cardiff University, UK Murdoch University, WA Dartmouth College, USA National Acoustics Laboratories, NSW Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany The Centre for Independent Studies, NSW Goldsmiths, University of London, UK The University of Queensland, NSW The University of Sydney, NSW Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany University of Tasmania, TAS Indiana University, USA University of Technology, Sydney, NSW Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Western Sydney University, NSW (ZAS), Germany Linköping University, Sweden Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA McMaster University, Canada Montana State University, USA National Central University, Taiwan New York University, USA Swansea University, UK The Ohio State University, USA The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Trinity College, UK Tsinghua University, China University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany University of Alberta, Canada University of Birmingham, UK University of Bristol, UK University of California, Berkeley, USA University of California, San Diego, USA University of Cambridge, UK University of Connecticut, USA University of Edinburgh, UK University of Essex, UK University of Exeter, UK University of Geneva, Switzerland University of Lincoln, UK University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy University of Minnesota, USA University of Nevada, Reno, USA University of Oslo, Norway University of Padova, Italy University of Reading, UK University of Siena, Italy University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada University of Tsukuba, Japan University of Turku, Finland University of Ulster, UK

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