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Dr Tobias Loetscher

Position/s:	Postdoctoral Fellow School of Psychology
Phone:	work+61 8 82012547
Email:	tobias.loetscher@flinders.edu.au
Location:	Social Sciences North (215)
Postal address:	GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Research and supervision

Research expertise

Cognitive science
Neurosciences
Psychology

Research interests

Together with Prof Mike Nicholls I am investigating the neural mechanisms that control spatial attention in the healthy brain, and how these mechanisms are altered after brain damage. The long-term goal of my research is to develop effective treatments of attentional disorders such as spatial neglect.

Supervisory interests

Attention
Brain and cognitive function
Cognition
Experimental eye research
Laterality
Neuropsychology
Rehabilitation

RHD research supervision

Current

Associate supervisor: Brain and cognition (2);

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Badawy, R., A. B. , Loetscher, T., Macdonell, R. and Brodtmann, A. (2012). Cortical excitability and neurology: Insights into the pathophysiology. Functional Neurology, 27(3), pp.131-145. [online]. Available from: http://www.functionalneurology.com/common/php/portiere.php?ID=9b6fbb440d592cb3c332fbaca8073146.

Lenggenhager, B., Loetscher, T., Kavan, N., Pallich, G., Brodtmann, A., Nicholls, M., et al. (2012). Paradoxical extension into the contralesional hemispace in spatial neglect. Cortex, 48(10), pp.1320-1328. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.10.003.

Loetscher, T., Nicholls, M., Brodtmann, A., Thomas, N.A.M. and Brugger, P. (2012). Disentangling input and output-related components of spatial neglect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, p.176. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00176.

Nicholls, M., Thomas, N.A.M., Loetscher, T., Wignall, S.J., Yates, M., Forte, J., et al. (2012). The relationship between vertical stimulation and horizontal attentional asymmetries. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(12), pp.2384-2396. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.688979.

Thomas, N.A.M., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Central fixations with rightward deviations: saccadic eye movements on the landmark task. Experimental Brain Research, 220(1), pp.29-39. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3113-9.

Yates, M., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). A generalized magnitude system for space, time, and quantity? A cautionary note. Journal of Vision, 12(7), p.9. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/12.7.9.

Thomas, N.A.M., Loetscher, T., Clode, D. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Right-wing politicians prefer the emotional left. PLoS One, 7(5), p.e36552. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036552.

Nicholls, M., Lew, M., Loetscher, T. and Yates, M. (2011). The importance of response type to the relationship between temporal order and numerical magnitude. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(5), pp.1604-1613. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0114-x.

Nicholls, M., Forte, J., Loetscher, T., Orr, C., Yates, M. and Bradshaw, J. (2011). Near, yet so far: The effect of pictorial cues on spatial attention. Brain and Cognition, 76(3), pp.349-352. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2011.04.006.

Nicholls, M.E.R., Rademacher, M. and Loetscher, T. (2010). Miss to the right: The effect of attentional asymmetries of goal-kicking. PLoS One, 5(8), pp.1-6. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012363.

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Refereed journal articles

Brugger, P., Schubiger, M. and Loetscher, T. (2010). Leftward bias in number space is modulated by magical ideation. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 23(2), pp.119-123. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181d74901.

Loetscher, T., Bockisch, C., Nicholls, M. and Brugger, P. (2010). Eye position predicts what number you have in mind. Current Biology, 20(6), pp.264-265. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.01.015.

Loetscher, T., Nicholls, M., Towse, J., Bradshaw, J. and Brugger, P. (2010). Lucky numbers: Spatial neglect affects physical, but not representational, choices in a Lotto task. Cortex, 46, pp.685-690. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.010.

Nicholls, M., Chapman, H.L., Loetscher, T. and Grimshaw, G. (2010). The relationship between hand preference, hand performance, and general cognitive ability. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, pp.585-592. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S135561771000084.

Loetscher, T. and Brugger, P. (2009). Random number generation in neglect patients reveals enhanced response stereotypy, but no neglect in number space. Neuropsychologia, 47, pp.276-279. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.005.

Loetscher, T., Bockisch, C. and Brugger, P. (2008). Looking for the answer: The mind's eye in number space. Neuroscience, 151, pp.725-729. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.07.068.

Loetscher, T., Schwarz, U., Schubiger, M. and Brugger, P. (2008). Head turns bias the brain's internal random generator. Current Biology, 18(2), pp.60-62. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.015.

Brugger, P., Loetscher, T., Graves, R. and Knoch, D. (2007). Semantic, perceptual and number space: Relations between category width and spatial processing. Neuroscience Letters, 418(2), pp.133-137. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.012.

Brugger, P., Surbeck, W. and Loetscher, T. (2007). Pseudoneglect in representational space: Effects of magical ideation. Acta Neuropsychologica, 5(1/2), pp.1-7. [online]. Available from: http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?album=1135760&pid=9044801.

Loetscher, T. and Brugger, P. (2007). A disengagement deficit in representational space. Neuropsychologia, 45(6), pp.1299-1304. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.020.

Loetscher, T. and Brugger, P. (2007). Exploring number space by random digit generation. Experimental Brain Research, 180, pp.655-665. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-0889-0.

Journal articles

Loetscher, T., Regard, M. and Brugger, P. (2006). Misoplegia: Review of the literature and a case without hemiplegia. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 77(9), pp.1099-1100. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2005.087163.

Conference publications

Brugger, P., Frey, M., Fehr, M. and Loetscher, T. (2012). From number lines to time lines: How "numerical" is the mental number line. In 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy. 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition.

Loetscher, T., Baumann, H., Tamagni, C., Nicholls, M. and Brugger, P. (2012). Neglect of early relative to late events after right-hemisphere damage. In 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia. 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference.

Yates, M., Vicario, C., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Prismatic lenses influence the magnitude of numbers selected in a random number generation task. In 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy. 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition.

Loetscher, T., Tamagni, C., Baumann, H., Nicholls, M. and Brugger, J. (2012). Impaired memory for early relative to late events in spatial neglect. In 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, Italy. 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition.

Thomas, N., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Central fixations with rightward deviations: Saccadic eye movements on the landmark task. In 3rd Annual North Sea Meeting on Brain Asymmetry, Ghent, Belgium. 3rd Annual North Sea Meeting on Brain Asymmetry.

Thomas, N., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Central fixations with rightward deviations: Saccadic eye movements in pseudoneglect. In 39th Australian Experimantal Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia. 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference.

Yates, M., Vicario, C., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2012). Prismatic lenses influence number choices in a random number generation task. In 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia. 39th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference.

Loetscher, T., Baumann, H., Tamagni, C., Nicholls, M. and Brugger, P. (2011). Neglect of early relative to late events after right-hemisphere damange. In Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Auckland, New Zealand. Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society.

Yates, M., Loetscher, T. and Nicholls, M. (2011). The truth about left handers. In EPC Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand. EPC Meeting.

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