Flinders University
Prof Mike Nicholls
Prof
Mike
Nicholls
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/mike.nicholls
| Position/s: | Academic Staff School of Psychology |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012425 |
| Email: | mike.nicholls@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences North (351) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Research and consultancy
Research interests
My research interests fall within the realm of cognitive neuroscience, which examines cognitive processes and how they relate to brain function. One specific interest is centred on the study of asymmetries in behaviour and perception, which are tied to the lateralisation of brain function. Topics include handedness, spatial attention in clinical and healthy populations, language and facial expression and perception. I am also interested in how spatial attention is controlled by the brain and the links between attention in the various sensory modalities and spatial / representational dimensions.
Postgraduate research supervision
Potential PhD Projects:
(1) investigating the impact of social context upon our perception and action in the world
(2) examining rehabilitation treatments of the neurological disorder spatial neglect
(3) investigating how language affects our perception in space
(4) handedness and its relation to personality and cognitive ability
(5) the role of eye movements in attentional asymmetries.
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Giummarra, M.J., Bradshaw, J., Hilti, L.M., Nicholls, M.E., & Brugger, P., 2012. Paralyzed by desire: A new type of body integrity identity disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 25(1), 34-41.
Giummarra, M.J., Bradshaw, J., Nicholls, M.E., Hilti, L.M., & Brugger, P., 2011. Body integrity identity disorder: Deranged body processing, right front-parietal dysfunction, and phenomenological experience of body incongruity. Neuropsychology Review, 21(4), 320-333.
Giummarra, M.J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., & Bradshaw, J., 2011. The third hand: Ownership of a rubber hand in addition to the existing (phantom) hand. CORTEX, 47(8), 998-1000.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Somatosensory prior entry assessed with temporal order judgments and simultaneity judgments. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1586-1603.
Josev, E.K., Forte, J., & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Left of centre: Asymmetries for the horizontal vertical line illusion. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG, 75(5), 435-443.
Nicholls, M.E., Forte, J., Loetscher, T., Orr, C.A., Yates, M.J., & Bradshaw, J., 2011. Near, yet so far: The effect of pictorial cues on spatial attention. Brain and Cognition, 76(3), 349-352.
Nicholls, M.E., Lew, M., Loetscher, T., & Yates, M.J., 2011. The importance of response type to the relationship between temporal order and numerical magnitude. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1604-1613.
Ren, P., Nicholls, M.E., Ma, Y., & Chen, L., 2011. Size matters: Non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response. PLoS One, 6(8).
Chapman, H., Grimshaw, G.M., & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Going beyond students: An association between mixed-hand preference and schizotypy subscales in a general population. Psychiatry Research, 187(1-2), 89-93.
Ishii, Y., Okubo, M., Nicholls, M.E., & Imai, H., 2011. Lateral biases and reading direction: A dissociation between aesthetic preference and line bisection. Brain and Cognition, 75(3), 242-247.
Refereed journal articles
Giummarra, M.J., Bradshaw, J., Hilti, L.M., Nicholls, M.E., & Brugger, P., 2012. Paralyzed by desire: A new type of body integrity identity disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 25(1), 34-41.
Giummarra, M.J., Bradshaw, J., Nicholls, M.E., Hilti, L.M., & Brugger, P., 2011. Body integrity identity disorder: Deranged body processing, right front-parietal dysfunction, and phenomenological experience of body incongruity. Neuropsychology Review, 21(4), 320-333.
Giummarra, M.J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., & Bradshaw, J., 2011. The third hand: Ownership of a rubber hand in addition to the existing (phantom) hand. CORTEX, 47(8), 998-1000.
Giummarra, M.J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., Gibson, S.J., Chou, M., & Bradshaw, J., 2011. Maladaptive plasticity imprinting of past experiences onto phantom limb schemata. Clinical Journal of Pain, 27(8), 691-698.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Somatosensory prior entry assessed with temporal order judgments and simultaneity judgments. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1586-1603.
Josev, E.K., Forte, J., & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Left of centre: Asymmetries for the horizontal vertical line illusion. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG, 75(5), 435-443.
Nicholls, M.E., Forte, J., Loetscher, T., Orr, C.A., Yates, M.J., & Bradshaw, J., 2011. Near, yet so far: The effect of pictorial cues on spatial attention. Brain and Cognition, 76(3), 349-352.
Nicholls, M.E., Lew, M., Loetscher, T., & Yates, M.J., 2011. The importance of response type to the relationship between temporal order and numerical magnitude. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(5), 1604-1613.
Ren, P., Nicholls, M.E., Ma, Y., & Chen, L., 2011. Size matters: Non-numerical magnitude affects the spatial coding of response. PLoS One, 6(8).
Chapman, H., Grimshaw, G.M., & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Going beyond students: An association between mixed-hand preference and schizotypy subscales in a general population. Psychiatry Research, 187(1-2), 89-93.
Ishii, Y., Okubo, M., Nicholls, M.E., & Imai, H., 2011. Lateral biases and reading direction: A dissociation between aesthetic preference and line bisection. Brain and Cognition, 75(3), 242-247.
Giummarra, M.J., Fitzgibbon, B.M., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., Gibson, S.J., & Bradshaw, J., 2010. Ouch! My phantom leg jumps/hurts when you stab "my" virtual hand. PERCEPTION, 39, 1396-1407.
Giummarra, M.J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., Gibson, S.J., & Bradshaw, J., 2010. The phantom in the mirror: A modified rubber-hand illusion in amputee and normals. PERCEPTION, 39(103), 103-118.
Nicholls, M.E., Rademacher, M., & Loetscher, T., 2010. Miss to the right: The effect of attentional asymmetries of goal-kicking. PLoS One, 5(8), 1-6.
Nicholls, M.E., Hadgraft, N., Chapman, H., Loftus, A.M., Robertson, J., & Bradshaw, J., 2010. A hit-and-miss investigation of asymmetries in wheelchair navigation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(6), 1576-1590.
Nicholls, M.E., Chapman, H., Loetscher, T., & Grimshaw, G.M., 2010. The relationship between hand preference, hand performance, and general cognitive ability. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 585-592.
Nicholls, M.E. & McIlroy, A.M., 2010. Spatial cues affect mental number line bisections. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 57(4), 315-319.
Giummarra, M.J., Georgiou-Karistianis, N., Nicholls, M.E., Gibson, S.J., Chou, M., & Bradshaw, J., 2010. Corporeal awareness and proprioceptive sense of the phantom. British Journal of Psychology, 101, 791-808.
Loetscher, T., Bockisch, C.J., Nicholls, M.E., & Brugger, P., 2010. Eye position predicts what number you have in mind. Current Biology, 20(6), 264-265.
Loetscher, T., Nicholls, M.E., Towse, J.N., Bradshaw, J., & Brugger, P., 2010. Lucky numbers: Spatial neglect affects physical, but not representational, choices in a Lotto task. CORTEX, 46, 685-690.
Jarick, M., Dixon, M.J., Maxwell, E.C., Nicholls, M.E., & Smilek, D., 2009. The ups and downs (and lefts and rights) of synaesthetic number forms: Validation from spatial cueing and SNARC-types tasks. CORTEX, 45(10), 1190-1199.
Loftus, A.M., Vijayakumar, N., & Nicholls, M.E., 2009. Prism adaptation overcomes pseudoneglect for the greyscales task. CORTEX, 45(4), 537-543.
Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E., Mattingley, J.B., Chapman, H., & Bradshaw, J., 2009. Pseudoneglect for the bisection of mental number lines. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(5), 925-945.
Johnston, D.W., Nicholls, M.E., Shah, M., & Shields, M.A., 2009. Nature's experiment? Handedness and early childhood development. DEMOGRAPHY, 46(2), 281-301.
Yates, M.J. & Nicholls, M.E., 2009. Somatosensory prior entry. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71(4), 847-859.
Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E., Mattingley, J.B., & Bradshaw, J., 2008. Left to right: Representational biases for numbers and the effect of visuomotor adaptation. Cognition, 107(3), 1048-1058.
Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E., Mattingley, J.B., & Bradshaw, J., 2008. Numerical processing overcomes left neglect for the greyscales task. Neuroreport, 19(8), 835-838.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E., 2008. Hemispheric asymmetries for temporal information processing: Transient detection versus sustained. Brain and Cognition, 66, 168-175.
Nicholls, M.E., Orr, C.A., Yates, M.J., & Loftus, A.M., 2008. A new means of measuring index/ring finger (2D:4D) ratio and its association with gender and hand preference. LATERALITY, 13(1), 71-91.
Nicholls, M.E., Loftus, A.M., Orr, C.A., & Barre, N., 2008. Rightward collisions and their association with pseudoneglect. Brain and Cognition, 68, 166-170.
Nicholls, M.E., Loftus, A.M., & Gevers, W., 2008. Look, no hands: A perceptual task shows that number magnitude induces of attention. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 15(2), 413-418.
Nicholls, M.E., Kramer, A., & Loftus, A.M., 2008. Pseudoneglect for mental alphabet lines is affected by prismatic adaptation. Experimental Brain Research, 191(1), 109-115.
Nicholls, M.E., Loftus, A.M., Mayer, K., & Mattingley, J.B., 2007. Things that go bump in the right: The effect of unimanual activity on rightward collisions. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, 45, 1122-1126.
Nicholls, M.E. & Loftus, A.M., 2007. Pseudoneglect and neglect for mental alphabet lines. Brain Research, 1152, 130-138.
Nicholls, M.E., Orr, C.A., Okubo, M., & Loftus, A.M., 2006. Satisfaction guaranteed: The effect of spatial biases on responses to Likert Scales. Psychological Science, 17(12), 1027-1028.
Nicholls, M.E. & Searle, D.J., 2006. Asymmetries for the visual expression and perception of speech. Brain and Language, 97(3), 322-331.
Nicholls, M.E., Smith, A., Mattingley, J.B., & Bradshaw, J., 2006. The effect of body and environment-centred coordinates on free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for vertical and horizontal stimuli. CORTEX, 42(3), 336-346.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E., 2006. A stimulus-dependent dissociation between the cerebral hemispheres under free-viewing conditions. Experimental Brain Research, 172(1), 49-56.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E., 2005. Flexible contrast gain control in the right hemisphere. Brain and Cognition, 59(3), 269-276.
Nicholls, M.E., Orr, C.A., & Lindell, A.K., 2005. Magical ideation and its relation to lateral preference. LATERALITY, 10(6), 503-515.
Nicholls, M.E., Mattingley, J.B., & Bradshaw, J., 2005. The effect of strategy on pseudoneglect for luminance judgements. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH, 25(1), 71-77.
Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E., Kwantes, P.J., & Castles, A., 2005. Sequential processing in hemispheric word recognition: The impact of initial letter discriminability on the OUP naming effect. Brain and Language, 93(2), 160-172.
Okubo, M. & Nicholls, M.E., 2005. Hemispheric asymmetry in temporal resolution: contribution of the magnocellular pathway. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 12(4), 755-759.
Orr, C.A. & Nicholls, M.E., 2005. The nature and contribution of space- and object-based attentional biases to free-viewing perceptual asymmetries. Experimental Brain Research, 162(3), 384-393.
Nicholls, M.E., Wolfgang, B.J., Clode, D., & Lindell, A.K., 2002. The effect of left and right poses on the expression of facial emotion. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, 40(10), 1662-1665.
Nicholls, M.E., Clode, D., Lindell, A.K., & Wood, A., 2002. Which cheek to turn? The effect of gender and emotion expressivity on posing behaviour. Brain and Cognition, 48, 480-484.
Refereed conference papers
Lim, V.K., Bradshaw, J., Nicholls, M.E., & Altenmuller, E., 2005. Enhanced P1-N1 auditory evoked potential in patients with musicians' cramp. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance, 1060(1), 349-359.
Conference publications
Loetscher, T., Baumann, H., Tamagni, C., Nicholls, M.E., & Brugger, P., 2011. Neglect of early relative to late events after right-hemisphere damange. Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Auckland, New Zealand.
Forte, J. & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Pseudo neglect depends on the 3-D spatial configuration of a line bisection stimulus. EPC Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand.
Nicholls, M.E., Johnston, D.W., Shah, M., & Shields, M.A., 2011. The truth about left handers. Laterality Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand.
Yates, M.J., Loetscher, T., & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. The truth about left handers. EPC Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand.
Orr, C.A. & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. The effect of face and emotional face distracters on the attentinal blink. EPC Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand.
Orr, C.A. & Nicholls, M.E., 2011. Face processing under conditions of attentional suppression: An attentional blink study. European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France.
