B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Professor, School of Psychology

Contact details for Professor Murray Dyck

Research expertise

• Developmental (autism spectrum, communication, attention, and motor disorders) and sensory disorders (blindness, deafness)
• Normal poor achievement versus underachievement that results from disorder
• Distinctions between different patterns of disordered development
• The reliability and validity of diagnosis
• Neurocognitive impairments that underlie disordered development, including impaired social cognitive abilities (the ability to understand the experience of other people), impaired sensory processing abilities (unusual responses to sound, light, touch), and impaired sensory integration abilities (difficulties integrating what is seen or heard with one's own body position)

Current teaching areas

• Murray is cross-campus ocordinator of clinical psychology programs
• Mainly teaches in the postgraduate clinical psychology courses, especially in the areas of psychotherapy and psychopathology, but also teaches in the undergraduate programs.
• Supervises Honours and Postgraduate research on childhood disorders.

Publications

• Dyck, M., Piek, J., Kane, R., and Patrick, J. (2007). How uniform is the structure of ability across childhood? European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Published online 18 August 2007 (DOI: 10.1080/17405620701439820)
• Dyck, M., Piek, J., Hay, D., and Hallmayer, J. (2007). The relationship between symptoms and abilities in autism. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 19, 251-261.
• Egan, S., Piek, J., Dyck, M., and Rees, C. (2007). The role of dichotomous thinking and rigidity in perfectionism. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1813-1822.
• Piek, J., Dyck, M., Francis, M., and Conwell, A. (2007). Working memory, processing speed and set-shifting in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 49, 678-683.
• Wisdom, S., Dyck, M., Piek, J., Hay, D., and Hallmayer, J. (2007). Can autism, language and coordination disorders be differentiated based on characteristic ability profiles? European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 16, 178-186.