Dr Neumann is interested in attention and learning and the way these basic processes can influence our lives, either through psychological illness or performance in sport and work. He uses a psychophysiological approach by combining the study of overt behaviour with the measurement of physiological responses.  Three major research projects are:

• Optimising performance under pressure: Testing and developing athletes’ attentional focus strategies. Collaborators: A/Prof. Pat Thomas (Griffith University) and Dr. Sue Hooper (Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport)
• The enhancing or detrimental effects of nicotine and smoking on cognitive functions.  Collaborators: Prof. John Furedy (Toronto University & Bond University) and Prof. Greg Boyle (Bond University)
• The return of extinguished conditioned behaviour and its relevance for understanding the treatment of phobia and addiction.  Collaborators: Dr. Allison Waters (Griffith University)

2006 to present

Neumann, D. L., Fitzgerald, Z. T., Furedy, J. J., & Boyle, G. J. (in press). Sexually dimorphic effects of acute nicotine administration on arousal and visual-spatial ability in non-smoking human volunteers. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.

Neumann, D. L. (in press). The resistance of renewal to instructions that devalue the role of contextual cues in a conditioned suppression task with humans Learning and Motivation.

Boschen, M. J., Parker, I., & Neumann, D. L. (in press). Changes in implicit associations do not occur simultaneously to Pavlovian conditioning of physiological anxiety responses. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

de Geus, E., & Neumann, D. L., (in press). Psychophysiological Measurement of Personality. In G. J. Boyle, G. Mathews, & D. Saklofske (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Theory and Testing. Sage Publishers.

Neumann, D. L. (2007). Prepulse inhibition of the startle blink reflex is modulated during a memory task requiring prepulses to be encoded for later report. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61(1), 55-63.
 

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & 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(2), 385-394.

Neumann, D. L., & Waters, A. M. (2006). The use of an unpleasant sound as an unconditional stimulus in a human aversive Pavlovian conditioning procedure. Biological Psychology, 73(2), 175-185.

Neumann, D. L., Van Beurden, L., & Lipp, O. V. (2006). The effects of reflex stimulus intensity and stimulus onset asynchrony on prepulse inhibition and perceived intensity of the blink-eliciting stimulus. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58(2), 68-78.

Neumann, D. L. (2006). The effects of physical context changes and multiple extinction contexts on two forms of renewal in a conditioned suppression task with humans. Learning and Motivation, 37(2), 149-175.


2001 to 2005

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & McHugh M. R. (2004). The effect of stimulus modality and task difficulty on attentional modulation of blink startle. Psychophysiology,41(3), 407-416.

Lipp, O. V., & Neumann, D. L. (2004). Attentional blink reflex modulation in a continuous performance task is modality specific. Psychophysiology, 41(3), 417-425.

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & Pretorius, N. (2004). The effects of lead stimulus and reflex stimulus modality on modulation of the eyeblink reflex at very short, short, and long lead intervals. Perception and Psychophysics, 66(1), 141-151.

Neumann, D. L., & Lipp, O. V. (2003). The independent effects of attention and lead stimulus properties on the acoustic blink reflex. Journal of Psychophysiology, 17(3), 124-134.

Lipp, O. V., Neumann, D. L., & Pretorius, N. (2003). Attentional blink modulation during sustained and after discrete lead stimuli presented in three sensory modalities. Psychophysiology, 40(2), 285-290.

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & Siddle, D. A. T. (2002). Discriminating between task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimuli: The effects on autonomic orienting and secondary task reaction time. Journal of Psychophysiology, 16(4), 191-200.

Neumann, D. L., & Lipp, O. V. (2002). Spontaneous and reflexive eye activity measures of mental workload. Australian Journal of Psychology (Special Issue on Human Factors), 54(3), 174-179.

Lipp, O. V., Neumann, D. L., McHugh, M. R. (2002). Lead stimulus modality change and the attentional modulation of the acoustic and electrical blink reflex. Biological Psychology, 62(1), 27-48.

Neumann, D. L. (2002). Effects of mental workload on the startle eyeblink reflex. Ergonomics, 45(8), 583-602.

Neumann, D. L., & Martin-Iverson, M. T. (2002). Effects of irrelevant stimuli as prepulses on prepulse inhibition of the startle eyeblink reflex in schizophrenia. Proceedings of the 7th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences '02. [CD-ROM]

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & Siddle, D. A. T. (2001). Effect of probe stimulus intensity on the dissociation between autonomic orienting and secondary probe reaction time. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53(2), 72-76.

Lipp, O.V., Neumann, D.L., & Mason, V. (2001). Stimulus competition in affective and relational learning. Learning and Motivation, 32(3), 306-331.

Lipp, O. V., Neumann, D. L., Siddle, D. A. T., & Dall, P. J. (2001). Assessing the effects of attention and emotion on blink startle modulation. Journal of Psychophysiology, 15(3), 173-182

1997 to 2000

Neumann, D. L. (1999). Psyche: Experiments that changed psychology (software review). Uniserve Science News, 12, 20-21.

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., Siddle, D. A. T., & Martin-Iverson, M. T. (1998). The effects of task requirements on the dissociation between two putative measures of resource allocation. Proceedings of the 5th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences '98. [CD-ROM]

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & Siddle, D. A. T. (1998). The dissociation between skin conductance orienting and secondary task reaction time: Time course in a visual discrimination task. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50(1), 35-42.

Neumann, D. L., Lipp, O. V., & Siddle, D. A. T. (1997). Conditioned inhibition of autonomic Pavlovian conditioning in humans. Biological Psychology, 46(3), 223-233.

Teaching

Course Convenor or Teaching responsibilities

• 1003PSY Research Methods and Statistics 1
• 2000PSY Research Methods and Statistics 2
• 1001PSY Introductory Cognitive and Biological Psychology
• 1009PSY Introduction to Psychological Science and Society
• 3019PSY Brain, Cognition, & Behaviour

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