In the Genes, Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, we are focused on understanding how our genes affect our experience of the world. We use a wide range of techniques spanning molecular genetics, cognitive neuroscience and psychology to investigate the genetic basis of behaviour and brain function. Our research examines normal variation between individuals, as well as disorders including autism and schizophrenia. By revealing the links between genes, brain and behaviour, we hope to cast new light on the architecture and development of the mind.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, the Wurundjeri people, and pay our respects to the Elders, past and present.

Dr Patrick T. Goodbourn

Director

Genes, Brain and Behaviour Laboratory

Room: 813
Building: Redmond Barry
Campus: Parkville

Current students

Sarah Griffith

MPsych Candidate

MSPS

s.griffith2@student.unimelb.edu.au

Co-supervisor:
Dr Cali Bartholomeusz
Callum MacKenzie

MPhil Candidate

Australian National University

callum.mackenzie@anu.edu.au

Co-supervisors:
Dr Deborah Apthorp & Prof. Alex Holcombe
William Ngiam

PhD Candidate

University of Sydney

wngi5916@uni.sydney.edu.au

Co-supervisor:
Prof. Alex Holcombe
Joel Pellicci

MPhil Candidate

MSPS

jpellicci@student.unimelb.edu.au

Co-supervisors:
Dr Jason Forte & Dr Simon Cropper
Anne Louise Thorbecke

Honours Candidate

MSPS

athorbecke@student.unimelb.edu.au

Co-supervisors:
A/Prof. Olivia Carter
Jiaheng Xie

MSc Candidate

School of Biosciences

jiahengx@student.unimelb.edu.au

Co-supervisors:
Dr Patricia Jusuf & A/Prof. Bang Bui

Current staff

Jessica Driscoll

Research Assistant

j.driscoll@student.unimelb.edu.au
Phoebe Lee

Research Assistant

phoebel1@student.unimelb.edu.au
Maxwell Lyons

Research Assistant

maxwell.lyons@unimelb.edu.au
Eliza Honybun

Research Assistant

ehonybun@student.unimelb.edu.au
Deanna Spinks

Research Assistant

dspinks@student.unimelb.edu.au

Current collaborators

Dr Cali Bartholomeusz, Orygen
A/Prof. Bang Bui, Health Sciences
A/Prof. Olivia Carter, MSPS
Dr Simon Cropper, MSPS
Dr Jason Forte, MSPS
Prof. Alex Holcombe, University of Sydney
Dr Patricia Jusuf, BioSciences
Dr Steven Miller, MAPrc
Dr Erik van der Burg, VU Amsterdam

Past staff, students & interns

Chris Bush, Honours 2015 (University of Sydney)
Christopher Chia, Research Intern 2017–8
Christina Damicoucas, Honours 2017 (with Olivia Carter)
Duy Dao, Research Intern 2017–8
Francis Merson, Honours 2015 (University of Sydney)
Bree Ong, Research Intern 2017–8
Kaǧan Porsuk, Research Intern 2018

Journal articles

2018

Ransley, K., Goodbourn, P.T., Nguyen, E.H.L, Moustafa, A.A., & Holcombe, A.O. (2018). Reading direction influences lateral biases in letter processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1678-1686.
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Ngiam, W.X.Q., Khaw, K.L.C., Holcombe, A.O., & Goodbourn, P.T. (in press). Visual working memory for letters varies with familiarity but not complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Accepted 7^th November 2018.
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2017

Holcombe, A.O., Nguyen, E.H.L., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2017). Implied reading direction and prioritization of letter encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(10), 1420–37.
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Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Hogg, R.E., & Mollon, J.D. (2017). Individual differences in human eye movements: An oculomotor signature? Vision Research, 141, 157–69.
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Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Verhallen, R.J., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Hogg, R.E., & Mollon, J.D. (2017). An exploratory factor analysis of visual performance in a large population. Vision Research, 141, 303–16.
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Verhallen, R.J., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bargary, G., & Mollon, J.D. (2017). General and specific factors in the processing of faces. Vision Research, 141, 217–27.
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Chen, W.-Y., Wu, S.K., Song, T.-F., Chou, K.-M., Wang, K.-Y., Chang, Y.-C., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2017). Perceptual and motor performance of combat sport athletes differs according to specific demands of the discipline. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 124(1), 293–313.
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Verhallen, R.J., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bargary, G., & Mollon, J.D. (2017). The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and face recognition. Psychological Science, 28(1), 47–55.
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McNair, N.A., Goodbourn, P.T., Shone, L.T., & Harris, I.M. (2017). Summary statistics in the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(1), 100–16.
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2016

Goodbourn, P.T., Martini, P., Barnett-Cowan, M., Harris, I.M., Livesey, E.J., & Holcombe, A.O. (2016). Reconsidering temporal selection in the attentional blink. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1146–56.
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Holcombe, A.O., Brown, N.J.L., Goodbourn, P.T., Etz, A., Geukes, S. (2016). Does sadness impair color perception? Flawed evidence and faulty methods. F1000 Research, 5, 1778.
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2015

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716-1–8.
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Cellini, N.*, Goodbourn, P.T.*, McDevitt, E.A., Martini, P., Holcombe, A.O., & Mednick, S.C. (2015). Sleep after practice reduces the attentional blink. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(6), 1945–54. (* Equal contributions)
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Goodbourn, P.T. & Holcombe, A.O. (2015). ‘Pseudoextinction’: Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 364–84.
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Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bargary, G., Hogg, R.E., & Mollon, J.D. (2015). A population study of binocular function. Vision Research, 110(A), 34–50.
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Van der Burg, E. & Goodbourn, P.T. (2015). Rapid, generalized recalibration to asynchronous audiovisual speech. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282, 20143083.
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2014

Verhallen, R.J., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). An online version of the Mooney Face Test: Phenotypic and genetic associations. Neuropsychologia, 63, 19–25.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., Bargary, G., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). Variants in the 1q21 risk region are associated with a visual endophenotype of autism and schizophrenia. Genes, Brain & Behavior, 13(2), 144–51.
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Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). Suggestive association with ocular phoria at chromosome 6p22. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 55(1), 345–52.
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Bosten, J.M., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). Individual differences provide psychophysical evidence for separate on- and off-pathways deriving from the short-wave cones. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31(4), A47–54.
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Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). Counterphase modulation flicker photometry: Phenotypic and genotypic associations. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31(4), A226–31.
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2013

Goodbourn, P.T. & Forte, J.D. (2013). Spatial limitations of fast temporal segmentation are best modeled by V1 receptive fields. Journal of Vision, 13(13), 23.
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Holcombe, A.O. & Goodbourn, P.T. (2013). Review of the book Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays, C. Mole, D. Smithies, & W. Wu (Eds). Philosophy in Review, 33, 391–5.
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Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Hogg, R.E., & Mollon, J.D. (2013). Genetic association suggests that SMOC1 mediates between prenatal sex hormones and digit ratio. Human Genetics, 132, 415–21.
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2012

Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2012). Do different ‘magnocellular tasks’ probe the same neural substrate? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279, 4263–71.
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Conference papers

2018

Ngiam, W.X.Q., Khaw, K., Holcombe, A.O., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2018) Training recognition familiarity does not improve visual working memory performance. Paper presented at the 45^th Experimental Psychology Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 4^th–7^th April.
Goodbourn, P.T., Xie, J., & Jusuf, P.R. (2018) Developmental tuning of the contrast-sensitivity function in larval zebrafish. Poster presented at the 45^th Experimental Psychology Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 4^th–7^th April.
2017

Goodbourn, P.T., Xie, J., & Jusuf, P.R. (2017). Development of spatiotemporal frequency tuning of the larval zebrafish optomotor response. Poster presented at the 7^th Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Adelaide, SA, 23^rd–26^th November.
Xie, J., Goodbourn, P.T., Bui, B.V., & Jusuf, P.R. (2017) A zebrafish pipeline using PDZK1 as a proof-of-concept to mechanistically link genes to behaviours. Poster presented at the 10^th Melbourne Cell and Developmental Biology Conference, Melbourne, VIC, 27^th October.
MacKenzie, C., Goodbourn, P.T., Holcombe, A.O., & Apthorp, D. (2017). Selection across a bilateral visual field: Simultaneous versus sequential selection mechanisms. Poster presented at the 40^th European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany, 27^th–31^st August.
Jusuf, P.R., Bui, B.V., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2017). Zebrafish models to provide mechanistic links between human behaviours and their genetic associates. Poster presented at the Model Organisms in Human Health Australia Meeting, Yarra Valley, VIC, 27^th–29^th June.
Goodbourn, P.T., Forte, J.D., & Merson, F. (2017). Connecting objects affects perceived number lawfully. Poster presented at the 44^th Experimental Psychology Conference, Shoal Bay, NSW, 19^th–22^nd April.
MacKenzie, C., Holcombe, A.O., Goodbourn, P.T., & Apthorp, D. (2017). Selection across a bilateral visual field: Simultaneous versus sequential selection mechanisms. Paper presented at the 44^th Experimental Psychology Conference, Shoal Bay, NSW, 19^th–22^nd April.
2016

Holcombe, A.O., Ransley, K., Nguyen, E.H.L., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2016). Implied reading direction and prioritization of letters for identification. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 57.
Ngiam, W.X.Q. & Goodbourn, P.T. (2016). Familiarity, but not visual complexity, affects letter encoding in visual working memory. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 57.
Ransley, K.L., Goodbourn, P.T., Nguyen, E.H.L., Moustafa, A.A., & Holcombe, A.O. (2016). Spatial asymmetries in simultaneous object identification: The effect of reading direction in Arabic and English. Combined Abstracts of the 2016 Australian Psychology Conferences.
Holcombe, A.O., Martini, P., Barnett-Cowan, M., Harris, I.M., Livesey, E.J., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2016). Reconsidering temporal selection in the attentional blink. Combined Abstracts of the 2016 Australian Psychology Conferences.
2015

Lo, S.-Y., Goodbourn, P.T., & Holcombe, A.O. (2015). Can we select multiple colours simultaneously? Evidence for serial processing from left to right. Perception, 44 (Suppl.), 111–2.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Livesey, E.J., Ngiam, W.X.Q., Holcombe, A.O., & Forte, J.D. (2015). Learning new symbolic representations of number. Combined Abstracts of 2015 Australian Psychology Conferences.
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Ngiam, W.X.Q. & Goodbourn, P.T. (2015). Encoding and capacity limits of visual working memory are not set by stimulus complexity. Combined Abstracts of 2015 Australian Psychology Conferences.
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Latham, A.J., Nguyen, E.L., Goodbourn, P.T., Polito, V. & Holcombe, A.O. (2015). Video gamers show superior temporal precision when selecting letters from a stream. Combined Abstracts of 2015 Australian Psychology Conferences.
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2014

Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). A potassium ion channel associated with variation in the accuracy of ocular tracking. Journal of Vision, 14(15), 46.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2014). Cortical patterning genes are associated with individual differences in visual orientation perception. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 55, e-abstract 6396.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Martini, P., Barnett-Cowan, M., Harris, I.M., Livesey, E.J., & Holcombe, A.O. (2014). Re-examining temporal selection errors during the attentional blink. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1338.
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Battelli, L., Agosta, S., Martini, P., Holcombe, A.O., & Goodbourn, P.T. (2014). The attentional blink in right parietal patients: A detailed analysis of temporal selection parameters. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 545.
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Nguyen, E., Goodbourn, P.T., & Holcombe, A.O. (2014). Prism adaptation ameliorates pseudoneglect by enhancing target processing in right hemispace. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 533.
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Nguyen, E., Goodbourn, P.T., & Holcombe, A.O. (2014). Pseudoextinction and visual frames of reference. Combined Abstracts of 2014 Australian Psychology Conferences.
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2013

Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2013). Genetic associates of a visual endophenotype of autism and schizophrenia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
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Mollon, J.D., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Hogg, R.E. & Bosten, J.M. (2013). An oculomotor signature. Journal of Vision, 13(15), P18.
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Verhallen, R.J., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2013). The Mooney Face Task: Genetic, phenotypic, and behavioural associations. Perception, 42 (Suppl.), 198.
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Goodbourn, P.T. & Holcombe, A.O. (2013). Temporal selection: Two targets for the price of one. Combined Abstracts of 2013 Australian Psychology Conferences, forthcoming.
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Goodbourn, P.T. & Holcombe, A.O. (2013). Attentional selection of simultaneous targets, Program of the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, 26942.
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Goodbourn, P.T. & Holcombe, A.O. (2013). Simultaneous selection of multiple targets and the role of hemifield-specific resources. Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 644.
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Cellini, N., Goodbourn, P.T., McDevitt, E.A., Holcombe, A.O., Martini, P., & Mednick, S.C. (2013). A daytime nap reduces the attentional blink. Journal of Vision, 13 (9), 1190.
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2012

Mollon, J.D., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Bargary, G., Hogg, R.E., & Bosten, J.M. (2012). Genetic correlates of directional biases in the perception of structure-from-motion. Journal of Vision, 12 (14), 43.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2012). Genome-wide association methods reveal genetic contributions to visual detection of orientation. Perception, 41 (Suppl.), 226.
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Verhallen, R.J., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2012). When faced with faces: Individual diﬀerences in face perception and recognition. Perception, 41 (Suppl.), 22.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2012). Genetic correlates of directional biases in perceiving bistable structure-from-motion. Combined Abstracts of 2012 Australian Psychology Conferences, 3:27.
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Mollon, J.D., Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., & Lawrance-Owen, A.J. (2012). Genome-wide association study reveals genetic contributions to individual differences in visual temporal processing. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 53, e-abstract 4141.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2012). Do “magnocellular tasks” measure “magnocellular function”? i-Perception, 3, 221.
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2011

Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2011). Visual temporal processing is associated with self-perception of mathematical ability among university-educated adults. Perception, 40 (Suppl.), 99–100.
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Lobo, D.M., Goodbourn, P.T., & Mollon, J.D. (2011). Mechanisms of perceptual learning for bistable structure-from-motion stimuli. Perception, 40 (Suppl.), 133.
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2010

Goodbourn, P.T., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2010). Poor correlation between different putative measures of magnocellular function. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 52, e-abstract 1878.
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Bosten, J.M., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2010). Individual differences provide psychophysical evidence for separate S-on and S-off channels. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 52, e-abstract 3907.
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Goodbourn, P.T., Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2010). Reliable individual differences in the perception of ambiguous rotational motion. Perception, 39 (Suppl.), 124.
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Bargary, G., Bosten, J.M., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., Hogg, R.E., & Mollon, J.D. (2010). Individual differences in saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements. Perception, 39 (Suppl.), 38.
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Bosten, J.M., Hogg, R.E., Bargary, G., Goodbourn, P.T., Lawrance-Owen, A.J., & Mollon, J.D. (2010). Individual differences in stereo acuity. Perception, 39 (Suppl.), 164.
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2009

Goodbourn, P.T. & Forte, J.D. (2008). A computational model of temporal segmentation and the perception of phantom contours. Perception, 37 (Suppl.), 28–9.
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Goodbourn, P.T. & Forte, J.D. (2008). Spatial limitations of fast temporal segmentation: Psychophysical evidence for an early cortical mechanism. Australian Journal of Psychology, 60 (Suppl. 1), 73.
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Genes, Brain & Behaviour Laboratory

Dr Patrick T. Goodbourn

Current students

Sarah Griffith

Callum MacKenzie

William Ngiam

Joel Pellicci

Anne Louise Thorbecke

Jiaheng Xie

Current staff

Jessica Driscoll

Phoebe Lee

Maxwell Lyons

Eliza Honybun

Deanna Spinks

Current collaborators

Past staff, students & interns

Journal articles

Conference papers

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences