Dr Owen Churches

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.


I am a cognitive neuroscientist working on social cognition. That is, how do our brains facilitate our social experiences and how do these social encounters affect our brains? I am particularly interested in the neural mechanisms of face perception and how these brain structures are dysfunctional in disorders such as autism. I investigate these questions using event-related potential (ERP) and other electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. Together with Dr. Hannah Keage and Dr. Mark Kohler, I am a founding member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UniSA. For more information about the laboratory, our resources and current research, follow the link below. I have an Erdos number of 5:Owen Churches - Simon Baron-Cohen - Matthew Belmonte - Eric Lander - Daniel Kleitman - Paul Erdos

Cognitive neuroscience,Social cognition, especially face perception,Autism

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Cognitive reserve in older adults: identifying functional and structural brain mechanisms and cognitive correlates Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Louise Lavrencic
2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Effects of experimental trial structure on repetition suppression in vision Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Daniel Feuerriegel

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