BA (Honours), PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology

Contact details for Dr Trevor Hine

Research expertise

• Dr Hine’s current research interests include the use of virtual reality in clinical psychology, especially in understanding phobias like driving and performance anxiety.
• He also uses virtual reality to study driving performance and its relation to visual deficits in senior citizens.
• Dr Hine’s main focus of research is in human vision. He has had a long interest in colour vision more recently as it relates to improved reading performance. This in turn is related to his studies on the effects of noise in the visual system and how this may actually help performance.
• He also has an interest in timing in the visual pathway and how this related to cross modal integration as well as studies on eye movements.

Current teaching areas

• Dr Hine teaches mainly in the areas of biological and cognitive psychology, with a specialisation in visual perception. He teaches these topics at the first, second, third and honours year levels.
• Recently he has also been teaching in the area of philosophical and social foundations of the study of psychology.
• Dr Hine supervises research Honours, Masters and PhDs in the research areas listed above

Publications

• Čelka, P. and Hine, T. (2008) The perception of entropy in rapidly moving sparse dot arrays: a nonlinear dynamic perspective Biological Cybernetics.
• Hine, T, J., Wallis, G., Wood, J. M. and Stavrou, E. (2006) Reflexive optokinetic nystagmus in younger and older observers under photopic and mesopic viewing conditions. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 47, 5288 –5294.
• Chappell, Mark, Hine, Trevor J., Acworth, Charmaine, and Hardwick, David R. (2006) Attention 'capture' by the flash-lag flash. Vision Research, 46, 3205–3213.
• Coelho, C., Tichon, J., Hine, T.J., Wallis, G., and Riva, G (2006) The sense of presence in virtual reality technologies. In G. Riva and F. Davide (Eds) From Communication to Presence, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 25 – 46
• Cole G. R., Hine T. J. and McIlhagga W. M. (1993) Detection mechanisms in L, M and S –cone contrast space. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 10, 38–51