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.
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
| 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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