Scott Coussens

Dr Scott Coussens

School of Society and Culture

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.


Year Citation
2025 Cross, Z. R., Santamaria, A., Coussens, S. W., & Kohler, M. J. (2025). Effects of aperiodic neural activity on sleep-based emotional memory consolidation across the lifespan. Neuropsychologia, 219, 109270.
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2025 Fatima, Y., Edmed, S. L., Von Senden, R., Bucks, R. S., Nasir, B., Sullivan, D. P., . . . Skinner, T. (2025). Obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis and management in First Nations communities: protocol for the Let’s Yarn About Sleep-Obstructive Sleep Apnea Program. Sleep Advances, 6(4), 10 pages.
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2025 Cross, Z. R., Helfrich, R. F., Corcoran, A. W., Dede, A. J. O., Kohler, M. J., Coussens, S. W., . . . Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2025). Slow oscillation-spindle coupling predicts sequence-based language learning. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 45(3), e2193232024-1-e2193232024-14.
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2024 Howlett, C. A., Stanford, T., Berryman, C., Karran, E. L., Bellan, V., Coussens, S., . . . Moseley, G. L. (2024). Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study. British Journal of Pain, 18(2), 176-196.
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2024 Boord, M. S., Feuerriegel, D., Coussens, S. W., Davis, D. H. J., Psaltis, P. J., Garrido, M. I., . . . Keage, H. A. D. (2024). Neurophysiological patterns reflecting vulnerability to delirium subtypes: A resting-state EEG and event-related potential study. Brain Communications, 6(5), fcae298-1-fcae298-13.
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2024 Bower, I. S., Broadbent, J., Coussens, S., & Enticott, P. G. (2024). Retraction notice to “Elevated ceiling heights reduce the cognitive performance of higher-education students during exams” Journal of Environmental Psychology (2024) 102367 (Journal of Environmental Psychology (2024) 97, (S0272494424001403), (10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102367)). Journal of Environmental Psychology, 99, 102451.
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2024 Bower, I. S., Broadbent, J., Coussens, S., & Enticott, P. G. (2024). Elevated ceiling heights reduce the cognitive performance of higher-education students during exams. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97(102367), 7 pages.
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2023 Astley, J., Keage, H. A. D., Kelson, E., Callahan, R., Hofmann, J., Thiessen, M., . . . Coussens, S. (2023). Font disfluency and reading performance in children: An event-related potential study.. Brain and cognition, 169(105986), 105986.
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2022 Macnamara, A., Coussens, S., Chen, C., Schinazi, V. R., & Loetscher, T. (2022). The psychological impact of instrumental activities of daily living on people with simulated age-related macular degeneration. BJPsych Open, 8(5, article no. e152), 1-10.
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2022 Macnamara, A., Schinazi, V. R., Chen, C., Coussens, S., & Loetscher, T. (2022). The effect of age-related macular degeneration on cognitive test performance. Scientific reports, 12(article no. 4033), 1-6.
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2021 Skorucak, J., Weber, N., Carskadon, M. A., Reynolds, C., Coussens, S., Achermann, P., & Short, M. A. (2021). Homeostatic response to sleep restriction in adolescents. Sleep, 44(9, article no. zsab106), 1-11.
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2021 Chandrakumar, D., Coussens, S., Keage, H. A. D., Banks, S., Dorrian, J., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Monotonous driving induces shifts in spatial attention as a function of handedness. Scientific Reports, 11(1, article no. 10155), 1-12.
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2021 Macnamara, A., Schinazi, V. R., Chen, C., Coussens, S., & Loetscher, T. (2021). Vision impairments reduce cognitive test performance. Nature Aging, 1(11), 975-976.
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2021 Liebherr, M., Corcoran, A. W., Alday, P. M., Coussens, S., Bellan, V., Howlett, C. A., . . . Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2021). EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 22325-1-22325-13.
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2021 Boord, M. S., Davis, D. H. J., Psaltis, P. J., Coussens, S. W., Feuerriegel, D., Garrido, M. I., . . . Keage, H. A. D. (2021). DelIrium VULnerability in GEriatrics (DIVULGE) study: A protocol for a prospective observational study of electroencephalogram associations with incident postoperative delirium. BMJ Neurology Open, 3(2), e000199-1-e000199-8.
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2021 Boord, M. S., Moezzi, B., Davis, D., Ross, T. J., Coussens, S., Psaltis, P. J., . . . Keage, H. A. D. (2021). Investigating how electroencephalogram measures associate with delirium: a systematic review. Clinical Neurophysiology, 132(1), 246-257.
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2020 Cross, Z. R., Santamaria, A., Corcoran, A. W., Chatburn, A., Alday, P. M., Coussens, S., & Kohler, M. J. (2020). Individual alpha frequency modulates sleep-related emotional memory consolidation.. Neuropsychologia, 148(107660), 1-16.
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2020 Centofanti, S., Banks, S., Coussens, S., Gray, D., Munro, E., Nielsen, J., & Dorrian, J. (2020). A pilot study investigating the impact of a caffeine-nap on alertness during a simulated night shift. Chronobiology International, 37(9-10), 1469-1473.
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2020 Chandrakumar, D., Dorrian, J., Banks, S., Keage, H. A. D., Coussens, S., Gupta, C., . . . Loetscher, T. (2020). The relationship between alertness and spatial attention under simulated shiftwork. Scientific Reports, 10(1, article no. 14946), 1-12.
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2020 Keage, H. A. D., Feuerriegel, D., Greaves, D., Tregoweth, E., Coussens, S., & Smith, A. E. (2020). Increasing objective cardiometabolic burden associated with attenuations in the P3b event-related potential component in older adults. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 1-11.
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2019 Mellow, M. L., Goldsworthy, M. R., Coussens, S., & Smith, A. E. (2019). Acute aerobic exercise and neuroplasticity of the motor cortex: a systematic review. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 23(4), 408-414.
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2019 Hofmann, J., Keage, H., Callahan, R., Coussens, S., Churches, O., & Baetu, I. (2019). Neural indices of associative learning in pre-adolescents: An event-related potential study. Brain and Cognition, 130, 11-19.
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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.
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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.
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2018 Kohler, M., Kennedy, D., Martin, J., Coussens, S., Pamula, Y., Wabnitz, D., & Lushington, K. (2018). The influence of body mass on long-term cognitive performance of children treated for sleep-disordered breathing. Sleep Medicine, 51, 1-6.
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2018 Short, M. A., Weber, N., Reynolds, C., Coussens, S., & Carskadon, M. A. (2018). Estimating adolescent sleep need using dose-response modeling. Sleep, 41(4), 1-14.
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2018 Reynolds, C. M., Gradisar, M., Coussens, S., & Short, M. A. (2018). Sleep spindles in adolescence: a comparison across sleep restriction and sleep extension. Sleep medicine, 50, 166-174.
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2018 Galland, B. C., Short, M. A., Terrill, P., Rigney, G., Haszard, J. J., Coussens, S., . . . Biggs, S. N. (2018). Establishing normal values for pediatric nighttime sleep measured by actigraphy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep, 41(4), 1-16.
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2018 Short, M. A., Blunden, S., Rigney, G., Matricciani, L., Coussens, S., Reynolds, C. M., & Galland, B. (2018). Cognition and objectively measured sleep duration in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep health, 4(3), 292-300.
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2017 Agostini, A., Carskadon, M. A., Dorrian, J., Coussens, S., & Short, M. A. (2017). An experimental study of adolescent sleep restriction during a simulated school week: changes in phase, sleep staging, performance and sleepiness. Journal of sleep research, 26(2), 227-235.
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2015 Thiessen, M., Kohler, M., Churches, O., Coussens, S., & Keage, H. (2015). Brainy type : a look at how the brain processes typographic information. Visible Language, 49, 175-188.
2014 Chatburn, A., Coussens, S., & Kohler, M. (2014). Resiliency as a mediator of the impact of sleep on child and adolescent behavior. Nature and Science of Sleep, 6, 1-9.
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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.
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2014 Coussens, S., Baumert, M., Kohler, M., Martin, J., Kennedy, D., Lushington, K., . . . Pamula, Y. (2014). Movement distribution: a new measure of sleep fragmentation in children with upper airway obstruction. Sleep, 37(12), 2025-2034.
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2013 Chatburn, A., Coussens, S., Lushington, K., Kennedy, J., Baumert, M., & Kohler, M. (2013). Sleep spindle activity and cognitive performance in healthy children. Sleep, 36(2), 237-243.
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2006 Baraglia, D., Berryman, M., Coussens, S., Pamula, Y., Kennedy, J., Martin, A., & Abbott, D. (2006). Automated sleep scoring and sleep apnea detection in children. Proceedings of Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology 2005, 6039, 60930T-1-60930T-12.
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2005 Berryman, M., Coussens, S., Pamula, Y., Kennedy, J., Lushington, K., Shalizi, C., . . . Abbott, D. (2005). Nonlinear aspects of the EEG during sleep in children. Proceedings of SPIE Vol 5841, Fluctuations and Noise in Biological, Biophysical, and Biomedical Systems III, 5841, 40-48.
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  • Obstructive sleep apnoea diagnosis and
management in First Nations communities: community co-design, local capacity
building and place-based models for sustainable success , Medical Research Future Fund, 01/06/2023 - 01/03/2027

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 External Supervisor Investigating the relationship between nature-based learning, cognitive development, resilience and psychological wellbeing, and educational outcomes in primary school children Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Angela Osborn
2020 Co-Supervisor Investigating the relationship between nature-based learning, cognitive development, resilience and psychological wellbeing, and educational outcomes in primary school children Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Angela Osborn