Doctor Gabrielle Weidemann

SENIOR LECTURER,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

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Qualifications

PhD University of New South Wales
BSc University of New South Wales

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

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Email:	G.Weidemann@uws.edu.au
Extension:	6669
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Location:	24.G.28 Bankstown
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Biography

I received my PhD in 2005 from the University of New South Wales in the area of behavioural neuroscience. My PhD research was concerned with mathematical modelling of savings and recovery after extinction of a classically conditioned response in the rabbit. I have also collaborated on research projects examining the neurobiological and neuropharmacological mechanisms of learning and memory in animals with researchers at the University of New South Wales and the University of Michigan.

More recently I have been conducting research examining associative learning and classical conditioning processes in human participants. I have received funding for research projects examining the role of higher order cognitive processes in the acquisition and expression of eyeblink conditioning and the role that conscious expectancy plays in mediating the conditioned response in a variety of different conditioning paradigms. I am also interested in the role that associative learning and memory play in the acquisition of likes and dislikes. In examining learning and memory I use a variety of different behavioural measures (e.g. reaction times) and physiological responses like skin conductance, heart rate, facial EMG, eyeblink responses, startle responses, and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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Teaching

Current Teaching Areas

101676 Human Learning

Publications

Chapters in Books

Weidemann, G. and Mcnally, G. (2012), 'Neuroscience of associative Learning', Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford University Press NA.

Journal Articles

Weidemann, G. (2013), 'DIsgust and fear responding in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder during pictorial exposure', Behavior Therapy, 12.
Weidemann, G., Broderick, J., Lovibond, P. and Mitchell, C. (2012), 'Both trace and delay conditioned eyeblink responding can be dissociated from outcome expectancy.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 10.
Weidemann, G. (2012), 'Parallel acquisition of awareness and differential delay eyeblink conditioning', Learning & Memory, 10.
Lovibond, P., Chen, S., Mitchell, C. and Weidemann, G. (2012), 'Competition between an avoidance response and a safety signal : evidence for a single learning system', Biological Psychology, 8.
McCarry, A., Henry, J., Hippel, W., Weidemann, G., Sachdev, P., Wohl, M. and Williams, M. (2012), 'Age differences in neural activity during slot machine gambling : an fMRI study', PLoS ONE, 6.
Weidemann, G. and Antees, C. (2012), 'Parallel acquisition of awareness and differential delay eyeblink conditioning', Learning & Memory, 10.
Mitchell, C., Wardle, S., Lovibond, P., Weidemann, G. and Chang, B. (2010), 'Do reaction times in the Perruchet effect reflect variations in the strength of an associative link?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 6.
Weidemann, G., Tangen, J., Lovibond, P. and Mitchell, C. (2009), 'Is Perruchet's dissociation between eyeblink conditioned responding and outcome expectancy evidence for two learning systems?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 8.
Lovibond, P., Saunders, J., Weidemann, G. and Mithcell, C. (2008), 'Evidence for expectancy as a mediator of avoidance and anxiety in a laboratory model of human avoidance learning', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18.

Research

Associative Learning; Classical conditioning; Behavioural Neuroscience.