Dr Owen Churches

Dr Owen Churches

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

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

Year Citation
2019 Feuerriegel, D., Churches, O., Coussens, S., & Keage, H. A. D. (2019). Temporal expectations modulate face image repetition suppression of early stimulus evoked event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 122, 76-87.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC6
2018 Feuerriegel, D., Churches, O., Coussens, S., & Keage, H. A. D. (2018). Evidence for spatiotemporally distinct effects of image repetition and perceptual expectations as measured by event-related potentials. NeuroImage, 169, 94-105.
DOI Scopus23 WoS22 Europe PMC30
2017 Nicholls, M., Hobson, A., Petty, J., Churches, O., & Thomas, N. (2017). The effect of cerebral asymmetries and eye scanning on pseudoneglect for a visual search task. Brain and Cognition, 111, 134-143.
DOI Scopus29 WoS28 Europe PMC19
2017 Churches, O., Loetscher, T., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2017). Perceptual biases in the horizontal and vertical dimensions are driven by separate cognitive mechanisms. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(3), 444-460.
DOI Scopus23 WoS23 Europe PMC15
2016 Nicholls, M., Beckman, E., & Churches, O. (2016). An investigation of the mechanisms underlying the effects of viewing distance and stimulus length on attentional asymmetries during line bisection. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(5), 1351-1362.
DOI Scopus15 WoS11 Europe PMC11
2016 Saccone, E. J., Churches, O., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2016). Explicit spatial compatibility is not critical to the object handle effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(10), 1643-1653.
DOI Scopus33 WoS32 Europe PMC20
2016 Aniulis, E., Churches, O., Thomas, N., & Nicholls, M. (2016). Representational pseudoneglect for detecting changes to Rey-Osterrieth figures. Experimental Brain Research, 234(11), 3381-3387.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2016 Lavrencic, L., Kurylowicz, L., Valenzuela, M., Churches, O., & Keage, H. (2016). Social cognition is not associated with cognitive reserve in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 23(1), 61-77.
DOI Scopus27 WoS27 Europe PMC20
2015 Feuerriegel, D., Churches, O. F., & Keage, H. A. D. (2015). Is neural adaptation of the N170 category-specific? Effects of adaptor stimulus duration and interstimulus interval. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 96(1), 8-15.
DOI Scopus14 WoS14 Europe PMC12
2015 Kohler, M., Keage, H., Spooner, R., Flitton, A., Hofmann, J., Churches, O., . . . Badcock, N. (2015). Variability in lateralised blood flow response to language is associated with language development in children aged 1-5 years. Brain and Language, 145-146, 34-41.
DOI Scopus16 WoS15 Europe PMC10
2015 Loetscher, T., Chen, C., Wignall, S., Bulling, A., Hoppe, S., Churches, O., . . . Lee, A. (2015). A study on the natural history of scanning behaviour in patients with visual field defects after stroke. BMC Neurology, 15(64), 64-1-64-4.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC6
2015 Feuerriegel, D., Churches, O., Hofmann, J., & Keage, H. (2015). The N170 and face perception in psychiatric and neurological disorders: a systematic review. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126(6), 1141-1158.
DOI Scopus111 WoS103 Europe PMC89
2015 Keage, H., Kurylowicz, L., Lavrencic, L., Churches, O., Flitton, A., Hofmann, J., . . . Badcock, N. (2015). Cerebrovascular function associated with fluid, not crystallized, abilities in older adults: a transcranial doppler study. Psychology and Aging, 30(3), 613-623.
DOI Scopus14 WoS14 Europe PMC8
2015 Szpak, A., Loetscher, T., Churches, O., Thomas, N., Spence, C., & Nicholls, M. (2015). Keeping your distance: attentional withdrawal in individuals who show physiological signs of social discomfort. Neuropsychologia, 70, 462-467.
DOI Scopus23 WoS22 Europe PMC16
2015 Nicholls, M., Loveless, K., Thomas, N., Loetscher, T., & Churches, O. (2015). Some participants may be better than others: Sustained attention and motivation are higher early in semester. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(1), 10-18.
DOI Scopus31 WoS27 Europe PMC11
2014 Churches, O., Feuerriegel, D., Callahan, R., Wells, J., Keage, J., Keage, H., . . . Nicholls, M. (2014). Facing up to stereotypes: Surgeons and physicians are no different in their emotional expressiveness. Laterality, 19(5), 585-590.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 Europe PMC1
2014 Churches, O., Nicholls, M., Thiessen, M., Kohler, M., & Keage, H. (2014). Emoticons in mind: an event-related potential study. Social Neuroscience, 9(2), 196-202.
DOI Scopus80 WoS64 Europe PMC23
2014 Bakker, M., Hofmann, J., Churches, O., Badcock, N., Kohler, M., & Keage, H. (2014). Cerebrovascular function and cognition in childhood: a systematic review of transcranial doppler studies. BMC Neurology, 14(1), 43-1-43-12.
DOI Scopus30 WoS26 Europe PMC23
2014 Keage, H., Coussens, S., Kohler, M., Thiessen, M., & Churches, O. (2014). Investigating letter recognition in the brain by varying typeface: An event-related potential study. Brain and Cognition, 88(1), 83-89.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC5
2013 McCallum, S., Mikocka-Walus, A., Keage, H., Churches, O., & Andrews, J. (2013). A novel treatment resource for co-occurring symptoms. Advances in Dual Diagnosis: policy, practice and research in mental health and substance use, 6(4), 155-167.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2013 Catarino, A., Andrade, A., Churches, O., Wagner, A. P., Baron-Cohen, S., & Ring, H. (2013). Task- related functional connectivity in autism spectrum conditions: an EEG study using wavelet transform coherence. Molecular Autism, 4(1), 1-1-1-14.
DOI WoS64 Europe PMC61
2012 Churches, O., Damiano, C., Baron-Cohen, S., & Ring, H. (2012). Getting to know you: The acquisition of new face representations in autism spectrum conditions. NeuroReport, 23(11), 668-672.
DOI Scopus13 WoS13 Europe PMC11
2012 Churches, O., Callahan, R., Michalski, D., Brewer, N., Turner, E., Keage, H., . . . Nicholls, M. (2012). How academics face the world: a study of 5829 homepage pictures. PLoS One, 7(7), e38940-1-e38940-4.
DOI Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC10
2012 Churches, O., Baron-Cohen, S., & Ring, H. (2012). The psychophysiology of narrower face processing in autism spectrum conditions. NeuroReport, 23(6), 395-399.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC7
2012 Keage, H., Churches, O., Kohler, M., Pomeroy, D., Luppino, R., Bartolo, M., & Elliott, S. (2012). Cerebrovascular function in aging and dementia: a systematic review of transcranial Doppler studies. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2(1), 258-270.
DOI WoS73 Europe PMC62
2011 Damiano, C., Churches, O., Ring, H., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). The development of perceptual expertise for faces and objects in autism spectrum conditions. Autism Research, 4(4), 297-301.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC4
2011 Catarino, A., Churches, O., Baron-Cohen, S., Andrade, A., & Ring, H. (2011). Atypical EEG complexity in autism spectrum conditions: A multiscale entropy analysis. Clinical Neurophysiology, 122(12), 2375-2383.
DOI Scopus225 WoS206 Europe PMC165
2010 Churches, O., Wheelwright, S., Baron Cohen, S., & Ring, H. (2010). The N170 is not modulated by attention in autism spectrum conditions. NeuroReport, 21(6), 399-403.
DOI Scopus34 WoS35 Europe PMC28
2009 Churches, O. F., Baron Cohen, S., & Ring, H. (2009). Seeing face-like objects: An event-related potential study. NeuroReport, 20(14), 1290-1294.
DOI Scopus37 WoS33 Europe PMC29

Year Citation
2016 Feuerriegel, D., Coussens, S., Churches, O., & Keage, H. (2016). Temporal Expectations and Stimulus Repetition: An Event-Related Potential Study. In PERCEPTION Vol. 45 (pp. 102). SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
2015 Keage, H., Kurylowicz, L., Churches, O., Kohler, M., & Badcock, N. (2015). Indexing neurovascular coupling by combining electroencephalogram and functional transcranial doppler. In JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY Vol. 134 (pp. 237-238). Cairns, AUSTRALIA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Year Citation
2015 Saccone, E. J., Churches, O., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2015). Abstract spatial coding and affordance influences on the object handle orientation effect. Poster session presented at the meeting of COGNITIVE PROCESSING. Rome, ITALY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG.
2015 Szpak, A., Loetscher, T., Churches, O., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2015). Too close for comfort: The effect of interpersonal proximity on spatial attention. Poster session presented at the meeting of COGNITIVE PROCESSING. Rome, ITALY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG.
2015 Churches, O., Loetscher, T., Thomas, N., & Nicholls, M. (2015). Perceptual biases in the horizontal and vertical dimensions are driven by separate cognitive mechanisms. Poster session presented at the meeting of COGNITIVE PROCESSING. Rome, ITALY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG.

Year Citation
- Keage, H., Kohler, M., & Churches, O. (n.d.). Cerebrovascular cognitive outcomes in older adults dataset.
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