Doctor Tamara Watson
Research Lecturer,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Contact
| Email: | T.Watson@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6006 |
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| Location: | 24.G.27 Bankstown |
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Biography
My research aims to understand dynamic processing of sensory stimuli. Focusing on the visual system I am interested in how and why an unchanging stimulus can look different to us depending on the context within which it is presented. I use both human psychophysical and neuroimaging techniques in my research. I completed my PhD at the University of Sydney, School of Psychology and subsequently moved to Rutgers University, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (New Jersey, USA) to complete a Human Frontiers Science Program Post Doctoral Fellowship. In 2009 I returned to the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney where I expanded my research focus to investigate perceptual changes that occur during psychosis. I joined the University of Western Sydney as a research lecturer in May 2010.
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Publications
Journal Articles
- Watson, T. (2013), 'Implications of holistic face processing in autism and schizophrenia ', Frontiers in Psychology , 11.
- Watson, T. (2012), 'Mismatch negativity/P3a complex in young people with psychiatric disorders : a cluster analysis', Plos One, .
- Watson, T. and Krekelberg, B. (2011), 'An Equivalent Noise Investigation of Saccadic Suppression', Journal of Neuroscience, 7.
- Van Der Linde, I. and Watson, T. (2010), 'A combinatorial study of pose effects in unfamiliar face recognition', Vision Research, 12.
- Rhodes, G., Watson, T., Jeffery, L. and Clifford, C. (2010), 'Perceptual adaptation helps us identify faces', Vision Research, 6.
- Watson, T. and Krekelberg, B. (2009), 'The relationship between saccadic suppression and perceptual stability', Current Biology, 4.
- Watson, T. and Clifford, C. (2006), 'Orientation-dependence of the orientation contingent face aftereffect', Vision Research, 8.
- Watson, T., Hill, H., Johnston, A. and Troje, N. (2005), 'Motion as a cue for viewpoint invariance.', Visual Cognition, 18.
Research
Psychology- visual perception,cognition, eye movements and perception, face recognition.
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Current Projects
| Title: | Identifying the basis for perceptual stability and perceptual omission during saccadic eye movements |
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| Years: | 2011-01-01 - 2013-12-31 |
| ID: | P00018169 |
| UWS Researchers: | Tamara Watson |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Auditory facilitation of visual search; a steay state visual evoked potential investigation of neural mechanisms. |
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| Years: | 2011-11-09 - 2012-11-08 |
| ID: | P00020509 |
| UWS Researchers: | Tamara Watson and John Cass |
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Supervision
Doctor Watson is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Combinational (EEG/fMRI) neurophysiological recordings of early visual processing in clinical populations. |
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