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Department of Cognitive Science

Professor Jason Mattingley

Contact Details

External Address

Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072

Visits to MACCS

  • 30th of September 2009 - 2nd of October 2009
  • 6th of August 2012 - 10th of August 2012

Awards

  • Finalist in Australian Museum Eureka Prizes (2002), Rich, A.N., & Mattingley, J.B.
  • Finalist in Australian Museum Eureka Prizes (2001), Rich, A.N., & Mattingley, J.B.

Grants Awarded

  • NHMRC Project Grant (2008 - 2010) "Selective attention and the processing of observed actions". Cunnington, R., Mattingley, J., & Williams, M.A. ($326,000)
  • ARC Linkage - Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities Scheme (2008) "Tesla MRI system for human cognitive neuroscience research." Mattingley, J. & Coltheart, M. ($650,000)
  • ARC Linkage-Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant (2006) "A MEG based cognitive neuroscience laboratory" Crain, S., Coltheart, M., Michie, M., Crewther, D.P., Pammer, K., Johnson, B.W. & Mattingley, J.B. ($650,000)
  • ANZ Trustees: Medical Research & Technology in Victoria (2006) "A functional brain imaging study of prism adaptation treatment for spatial inattention following stroke" Mattingley, J.B., Chapman, H., Carey, L., & Williams, M.A. ($20,000)
  • University of Melbourne (2006) "A neuropsychological and functional brain imaging investigation of action recognition" Mattingley, J.B., Cunnington, R., & Williams, M.A. ($30,000)

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

  • Rich, A.N., & Mattingley, J.B. (In Press). The role of attention in synaesthesia. In J. Simner & E. Hubbard (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Synaesthesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Rich, A.N., & Mattingley, J.B. (2005). Can attention modulate colour-graphemic synaesthesia. In L.C. Robertson & N. Sagiv (Eds.), Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 108-123). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Mattingley, J.B., & Rich, A.N. (2004). Behavioural and brain correlates of multisensory experience in synaesthesia. In G.Calvert, C.Spence, B.Stein (Eds.), Handbook of Multisensory Integration (pp. 851-866). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Periodicals

  • Rich, A.N. & Mattingley, J.B. (2010). Out of sight, out of mind: suppression of synaesthetic colours during the attentional blink. Cognition, 114, 320-328.
  • Chong, T., Cunnington, R., Williams, M.A., & Mattingley, J.B. (2009). The role of selective attention in matching observed and executed actions. Neuropsychologia, 47(4), 786-795.
  • Chong, T., Williams, M.A., Cunnington, R., & Mattingley, J.B. (2008). Selective attention modulates inferior frontal gyrus activity during action observation. NeuroImage, 40, 298-307.
  • Williams, M.A., Visser, T., Cunnington, R., & Mattingley, J.B. (2008). Attenuation of neural responses in primary visual cortex during the attentional blink. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 9890-9894.
  • Chong, T., Cunnington, R., Williams, M.A., Kanwisher, N.G., & Mattingley, J.B. (2008). fMRI Adaptation Reveals Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Parietal Cortex. Current Biology, 18, 1576-1580.
  • Williams, M.A., McGlone, F., Abbott, D.F., & Mattingley, J.B. (2008). Stimulus-driven and strategic neural responses to fearful and happy facial expressions during visual search. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 3074-3082.
  • Williams, M.A., Berberovic, N. & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Abnormal fMRI adaptation to unfamiliar faces in a case of developmental prosopamnesia. Current Biology, 17, 1259-1264.
  • Stokes, M.G., Chambers, C.D., Gould, I.C., English, T., McNaught, E., McDonald, O., & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Distance-adjusted motor threshold for transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 118, 1617-1625.
  • Chambers, C.D., Bellgrove, M.A., Gould, I.C., English, T., Garavan, H., McNaught, E., Kamke, M., & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Dissociable mechanisms of cognitive control in prefrontal and premotor cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(6), 3638-3647. doi:10.?1152/?jn.? 00685.?2007
  • Edquist, J., Rich, A.N., Brinkman, C. & Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Do synaesthetic colours act as unique features in visual search? Cortex, 42, 222-231.
  • Mattingley, J.B., Payne, J.M., & Rich, A.N. (2006). Attentional load attenuates synaesthetic priming effects in grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Cortex, 42, 213-221.
  • Rich, A.N., Williams, M.A., Puce, A., Syngeniotis, A., Howard, M.A., McGlone, F., Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Neural correlates of imagined and synaesthetic colours. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2918-2925.
  • Williams, M.A., & Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Do angry men get noticed? Current Biology, 16(11), R402-404.
  • Rich, A.N., Bradshaw, J.L. & Mattingley, J.B. (2005). A systematic, large-scale study of synaesthesia: implications for the role of early experience in lexical-colour associations. Cognition, 98, 53-84.
  • Williams, M.A., McGlone, F., Abbott, D.F., & Mattingley, J.B. (2005). Differential amygdala response to happy and fearful facial expressions depends on selective attention. NeuroImage, 24, 417-425.
  • Williams, M.A., Moss, S.A., Bradshaw, J.L., & Mattingley, JB. (2005). Look at me, I'm smiling: Searching for threatening and non-threatening facial expressions. Visual Cognition, 12(1), 29-50.
  • Williams, M.A., Morris, A.P., McGlone, F., Abbott, D.F., & Mattingley, J.B. (2004). Amygdala responses to fearful and happy facial expressions under conditions of binocular suppression. Journal of Neuroscience, 24(12), 2898-2904.
  • Williams, M.A., & Mattingley, J.B. (2004). Unconscious perception of facial emotion in parietal extinction. Experimental Brain Research, 154(4), 403-406.
  • Rich, A.N. & Mattingley, J.B. (2002). Anomalous perception in synaesthesia: a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 43-52.
  • Mattingley, J.B., Rich, A.N., Yelland, G., & Bradshaw, J.L. (2001). Unconscious priming eliminates automatic binding of colour and alphanumeric form in synaesthesia. Nature, 410, 580-582.

Published Conference Proceedings

  • Rich, A.N., Mattingley, J.B., Yelland, G., & Bradshaw, J.L. (1999). Conscious and non-conscious information processing in synaesthesia: a cognitive neuroscience perspective. In C. Davis, T. van Gelder, R. Wales (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Bienniel Australasian Cognitive Science Conference (CD). Australia: Causal Productions.