Dr David Neumann

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B Science (Honours), PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology

Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council

Using a combination of behavioural, self-report, and physiological measures to study attention and learning.
The fundamental nature of attention and how to best harness attention to enhance performance during sport and exercise.
Basic learning processes that underlie fear and other emotions and ways to improve cognitive-behavioural treatment programs for these problems.

Undergraduate Convenor for the Psychology Program. Can assist new and current students in general enquiries about the undergraduate psychology program, advice on enrolling into a psychology program, assistance in planning what courses to take, the selection of elective courses, and obtaining further information or resources to improve study skills (e.g., library workshops, assignment writing skills).
Research methods and statistics
Biological psychology
Behavioural neuroscience
Supervision of honours research projects in the areas of clinical psychology, sport psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychophysiology

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., and McHugh M. R. (2004). The effect of stimulus modality and task difficulty on attentional modulation of blink startle. Psychophysiology, 41, 407-416.
Neumann, D. L., and Waters, A. M. (2006). The use of an unpleasant sound as an unconditional stimulus in a human aversive Pavlovian conditioning procedure. Biological Psychology, 73, 175-185.
Neumann, D. L., Fitzgerald, Z. T., Furedy, J. J., and Boyle, G. J. (2007). Sexually dimorphic effects of acute nicotine administration on arousal and visual-spatial ability in non-smoking human volunteers. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 86, 758-765.
Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., and Cory, S. E. (2007). Conducting extinction in multiple contexts does not necessarily attenuate the renewal of shock expectancy in a fear conditioning procedure with humans. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 385-394.
Neumann, D. L. (2007). The resistance of renewal to instructions that devalue the role of contextual cues in a conditioned suppression task with humans. Learning and Motivation, 38, 105-127.