Research Students
Saeed's thesis title is "Neuromorphic Architectures in Vision and Memory".
Julie’s thesis title is "Cognitive ageing and hearing under difficult circumstances"
Yeshwanth’s thesis title is "Reinforcement learning using spiking neural networks and event-based sensors"
Arwen is undertaking a Masters degree, investigating the relationship between acoustic an articulatory variation in vowels.
Cecile's thesis title is "Auditory-motor entrainment: behavioural and cerebral dynamics".
Ruth's thesis title is "Depression and anxiety in the postnatal period: An examination of maternal speech, the mother-infant interaction and infant developmental outcomes"
Simon's thesis title is "Dis/liking genre, artist and work in the discovery of new music: developing a model for the predictive recommendation of unfamiliar recorded music"
Juqiang's thesis title is "Cognitive Factors in Perception and Imitation of Thai Tones by Mandarin versus Vietnamese Speakers".
April's thesis title is "Nonconscious Auditory-Visual Interactions in Speech".
Leo's thesis title is "Binocular rivalry and unconscious information processing".
Ian’s thesis title is "Visual and Somatic Cues in Musical Ensemble Synchronization".
Felix's thesis title is "Generation of perceptible events by means of timbral transformation".
Sarah's thesis title is "The role of visual information on the perceptual assimilation of non-native speech".
Yassine's thesis title is "Perception and Production of Arabic Word-final Segmental Length Contrast".
Maya’s research is a hybrid between dance and cognitive psychology. Her thesis is titled "The Pragmatic Nature of Creativity: Exploring the Choreographic Process and the Structuring Stage".
Amit's thesis title is "A Description of the Rhythm of Barunga Kriol using Rhythm Metrics and an Analysis of Vowel Reduction".
Gareth's thesis title is "The cognition of tonality in microtonal scales"
Martin’s thesis title is " Universal and Language-specific in Speech Perception: The Case of Prosody".
Daniel's thesis title is "Is Visual Speech? An investigation of timing and form on the N1 and P2".
Titus' thesis title is "Targeting therapy for Sleep Apnoea: A Novel Personalised Approach".
Sonya's thesis title is "A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Talker Familiarity on Speech Intelligibility by Native and Non-native Australian English Listeners".
David's thesis is titled "Evaluation of the use of Sub-sensory Electrical Noise Stimulation as Therapy for Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy Associated with HIV-Infection".
Yanping is an HDR student in our Speech and Language program. Her Thesis title is "Effects of High versus Low variability training on Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Tones".
Irena's thesis title is "The role of Infant-directed speech in language development in babies with hearing loss."
Peta's thesis Title “Underlying Social, Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Joint Action”.
Patti's thesis title is "The relationship between cortico-muscular measures and synchronization performance to complex multimodal rhythms".
Gloria's thesis title is "Bridging the gap between domain-general cognitive processes and word learning in monolingual and bilingual children".
Tanya's thesis title is "Acquired Automatic Affective Responses and the Contribution of Associative and Cognitive Processes to their Acquisition and Time Course".
Maddie is in our Speech and Language research program and her thesis title is "Usefulness of Gesture as Teaching Modality to learn the Gathang Language."
Maddie is in our Music Cognition and Action research program and her thesis title is "Time Travelling with Technology (TTT): The effect of technology enhanced reminiscence therapy on engagement and carer relationships of people with dementia in aged care facilities."
Nicholas' thesis title is "Exploring Space Situational Awareness with Neuromorphic Event-Based Sensors".
Mark’s thesis title is "An investigation into the role of song in facilitating the acquisition of complex morphology in an Australian Aboriginal language".
Stacey's thesis title is "Social knowledge in the production and perception of linguistic variation"
Elham's thesis title is "Hemodynamic Monitor for Rapid, Cost-effective Assessment of Peripheral Vascular Function".
Simone’s thesis title is "Auditory, Visual and Auditory-visual spoken emotion recognition in young and old adults".
Ram's thesis title is "Computational Approaches to Musical Auditory Processing".
Michael's thesis title is "Social attitude prediction from multimodal expressions of affect across age and culture".
Eline's thesis is titled "Affective evaluation of major and minor chords from an unfamiliar musical system".
The title of Jessica's thesis is "Audiovisual Speech Perception in Infants With and Without Hearing Impairment".
The title of Jesse's thesis is Visualising Speech and Language of Children and Caregivers.
Nicole's thesis title is "The role of affect and infant-directed speech on infants’ early word learning".
Tina’s thesis title is “Early word recognition and perceptual adaptation across regional English accents by Arabic-L1 children in Australia” .
James is a Research Student in our Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience (BENS) program. His thesis title is "Interfaces with the Somatosensory System".
Sarah's thesis title is "The effects of code-switching on executive functioning in early and late bilinguals".
Jia’s thesis title is "Articulatory, Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Laterals in Lebanese Accented English".
Jenny's thesis title is "Infants’ Cue Weighting in Speech and Music Rhythm Perception".
