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A/PROF MICHAEL ELMO RICHARD NICHOLLS



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/NichollsM.html
Work: 8344 6377
Fax: 9347 6618
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
behavioural neuroscience laterality, handedness, cerebral asymmetry, attention Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Japan Senshu University Research
United Kingdom University of Oxford Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Adelaide University
Bachelor of Architectural Studies Adelaide University
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying lateral biases in human vision Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Attentional biases that underlie free-viewing perceptual asymmetries: endogenous and exogenous effects in a behavioural/imaging study. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Pseudoneglect and neglect for mental alphabet lines
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1152
    Page numbers: 130-138
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  • Things that go bump in the right: The effect of unimanual activity on rightward collisions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1122-1126
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A stimulus-dependent dissociation between the cerebral hemispheres under free-viewing conditions
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Experimental Brain Research
    Volume: 172
    Page numbers: 49-56
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  • Asymmetries for the visual expression and perception of speech
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Brain and Language
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 322-331
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  • Satisfaction guaranteed: The effect of spatial biases on responses to likert scales
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Psychological Science
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1027-1028
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  • The effect of body and environment-centred coordinates on free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cortex
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 336-346
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Enhanced P1-N1 auditory evoked potential in patients with musician's cramp
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences
    Volume: 1060
    Page numbers: 349-359
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  • Flexible contrast gain control in the right hemisphere
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 269-276
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Hemispheric asymmetry in temporal resolution: Contribution of the magnocellular pathway
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 755-759
    Publisher: Psychonomic Society(Texas)
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  • Magical ideation and its relation to lateral preference
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Laterality
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 503-515
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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  • Sequential processing in hemispheric word recognition: The impact of initial letter discriminability on the OUP naming effect
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain and Language
    Volume: 93
    Page numbers: 160-172
    Publisher: Academic Press
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  • The effect of strategy on pseudoneglect for luminance judgements
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cognitive Brain Research
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 71-77
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • The nature and contribution of space- and object-based attentional biases to free-viewing perceptual asymmetries
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Experimental Brain Research
    Volume: 162
    Page numbers: 384-393
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Abnormal Sensorimotor Processing in Pianists with Focal Dystonia
    Year: 2004
    Book: Advances in Neurology. Volume 94. Dystonia 4.
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Philadelphia)
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Journal Articles

  • An investigation of the relationship between free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cognitive Brain Research
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 289-301
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Are object- and space-based attentional biases both important to free-viewing perceptual asymmetries?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Experimental Brain Research
    Volume: 154
    Page numbers: 513-520
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Detecting hemifacial asymmetries in emotional expression with three-dimensional computerized image analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 271
    Issue: 1540
    Page numbers: 663-668
    Publisher: The Royal Society of London(London)
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  • Research Report. Read My Lips. Asymmetries in the visual expression and perception of speech revealed through the McGurk effect
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Psychological Science
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 138-141
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Malden)
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  • The greyscales task: a perceptual measure of attentional bias following unilateral hemisheric damage
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 387-394
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Aberrant sensorimotor integration in patients with musician's cramp
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Psychophysiology
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 195-202
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  • Attentional deployment in visual half-field tasks: The effect of cue position on word naming latency.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 273-277
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Cortical representation of the fovea: implications for visual half-field research.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cortex
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 111-117
    Publisher: Masson Divisione Periodici(Milan)
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  • Perceptual differences in sequential stimuli across patients with musician's and writer's cramp.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Movement Disorders
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1286-1293
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  • The effect of orthographic uniqueness and deviation points on lexical decisions: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral-redundant presentations.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A - Human Experimental Psychology
    Volume: 56A
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 287-307
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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  • Trunk- and head-centred spatial coordinates do not affect free-viewing perceptual asymmetries.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 247-252
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Can Free-Viewing Perceptual Asymmetries Be Explained By Scanning, Pre-Motor Or Attentional Biases?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Cortex
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 113-136
    Publisher: Masson Divisione Periodici(Milan)
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  • Hemispheric asymmetries for visual and auditory temporal processing: an evoked potential study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International Journal of Psychophysiology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 37-55
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • The Effect of Word Length on Hemispheric Word Recognition: Evidence from Unilateral and Bilateral-Redundant Presentations
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 447-452
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • The effect of left and right poses on the expression of facial emotion
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 1662-1665
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Which Cheek to Turn? The Effect of Gender and Emotional Expressivity on Posing Behavior
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 480-484
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Cerebral asymmetrics in the level of attention required for word recognition
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Laterality
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 97-110
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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