Dr Mark Kohler

Adjunct Senior Lecturer School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy

email Mark.Kohler@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I have been at the University of South Australia since moving from the Discipline of Paediatrics at the University of Adelaide in 2010. I am currently Program Director for cognitive neuroscience programs, where I teach topics of developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sleep, attention & consciousness, research methods and general psychology. I supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students in psychology. My research focuses on the importance of sleep for cognitive performance - particularly memory, child mental health, child sleep disorders, and the neural basis of cognitive functions. I co-established and am currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, and am also a member of the... Read more

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Research

Research themes

An age friendly world
Healthy futures

Research focus

Psychology
Medical and Health Sciences
Neurosciences
Clinical Sciences
Cognitive Sciences

Highlights

Sleep and cognition, Child development, Child mental health, Memory

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2013	Kohler, M 2013, 'The brain and behaviour', in MW Passer & R Smith (eds), Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour, McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia, Australia, pp. 95-127.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2018	Agostini, A, Lushington, K, Kohler, M & Dorrian, J 2018, 'Associations between self-reported sleep measures and dietary behaviours in a large sample of Australian school students (n = 28,010)', Journal of sleep research, vol. 27, no. 5, article no. e12682, pp. 1-6. 25
2018	Badcock, NA, Spooner, R, Hofmann, J, Flitton, A, Elliott, S, Kurylowicz, L, Lavrencic, LM, Payne, HM, Holt, GK, Holden, A, Churches, OF, Kohler, MJ & Keage, HA 2018, 'What Box: A task for assessing language lateralization in young children', Laterality, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 391-408. Open access 1 6
2018	Cross, ZR, Kohler, MJ, Schlesewsky, M, Gaskell, M & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I 2018, 'Sleep-dependent memory consolidation and incremental sentence comprehension: computational dependencies during language learning as revealed by neuronal oscillations', Frontiers in human neuroscience, vol. 12, article 18, pp. 1-18. Open access 1 1 18
2018	Kohler, M, Kennedy, D, Martin, J, Coussens, S, Pamula, Y, Wabnitz, D & Lushington, K 2018, 'The influence of body mass on long-term cognitive performance of children treated for sleep-disordered breathing', Sleep medicine, vol. 51, pp. 1-6. 4
2018	Liu, X, Immanuel, S, Pamula, Y, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Kohler, M & Baumert, M 2018, 'Pulse wave amplitude and heart period variability in children with upper airway obstruction', Sleep medicine, vol. 50, pp. 55-62. 1 1
2018	Reichherzer, C, Cunningham, A, Walsh, J, Kohler, M, Billinghurst, M & Thomas, BH 2018, 'Narrative and spatial memory for jury viewings in a reconstructed virtual environment', IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 2917-2926.
2018	Stallman, HM, Kohler, M & White, J 2018, 'Medication induced sleepwalking: a systematic review', Sleep medicine reviews, vol. 37, pp. 105-113. Open access 3 2 5
2017	Baumeister, J, Ssin, SY, ElSayed, NA, Dorrian, J, Webb, DP, Walsh, JA, Simon, TM, Irlitti, A, Smith, RT, Kohler, M & Thomas, BH 2017, 'Cognitive cost of using augmented reality displays', IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, vol. 23, pp. 2378-2388. 5 3
2017	Chatburn, A, Kohler, MJ, Payne, JD & Drummond, SP 2017, 'The effects of sleep restriction and sleep deprivation in producing false memories', Neurobiology of learning and memory, vol. 137, pp. 107-113. Open access 6 3 12
2017	El-Hamad, F, Immanuel, S, BEng, XL, Pamula, Y, Kontos, A, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Kohler, M, Porta, A & Baumert, M 2017, 'Altered nocturnal cardiovascular control in children with sleep-disordered breathing', Sleep, vol. 40, no. 10, article no. zsx127, pp. 1-9. 2 3 2
2017	Kohler, M, Rawlings, M, Kaeding, A, Banks, S & Immink, MA 2017, 'Meditation is effective in reducing sleepiness and improving sustained attention following acute sleep restriction', Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 210-218. Open access 6
2017	Stallman, HM & Kohler, M 2017, 'A systematic review of treatments for sleepwalking: 100 years of case studies', Sleep and hypnosis, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 21-29. Open access 34
2017	Stallman, HM, Kohler, MJ, Biggs, SN, Lushington, K & Kennedy, D 2017, 'Childhood sleepwalking and its relationship to daytime and sleep related behaviors', Sleep and hypnosis, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 61-69. 3
2017	Watson, E, Kohler, M, Banks, S & Coates, A 2017, 'Validation and reproducibility of an Australian caffeine food frequency questionnaire', International journal of food sciences and nutrition, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 617-626. 2 6
2017	Watson, EJ, Banks, S, Coates, AM & Kohler, MJ 2017, 'The relationship between caffeine, sleep, and behavior in children', Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 533-543. Open access 1 1
2017	Watson, EJ, Coates, AM, Banks, S & Kohler, M 2017, 'Total dietary sugar consumption does not influence sleep or behaviour in Australian children', International journal of food sciences and nutrition, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 503-512. 1 12
2016	Baumert, M, Pamula, Y, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Ganesan, A, Kabir, M, Kohler, M & Immanuel, SA 2016, 'The effect of adenotonsillectomy for childhood sleep apnoea on cardiorespiratory control', ERJ Open Research, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1-9. Open access 2 5
2016	Camfferman, D, Short, M, Kennedy, J, Gold, M, Kohler, M & Lushington, K 2016, 'Thermoregulation, scratch, itch and sleep deficits in children with eczema', Sleep medicine, vol. 25, pp. 145-150. 2 2 2
2016	Hilditch, C, Short, M, Van Dongen, HP, Centofanti, SA, Dorrian, J, Kohler, M & Banks, S 2016, 'Sleep inertia during a simulated 6-h on/6-h off fixed split duty schedule', Chronobiology International, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 685-696. Open access 1 238
2016	Spooner, R, Lushington, K, Keage, HA, Blunden, S, Kennedy, JD, Schembri, M, Wabnitz, D, Martin, AJ & Kohler, MJ 2016, 'Cognition, temperament, and cerebral blood flow velocity in toddlers and preschool children with sleep-disordered breathing or behavioral insomnia of childhood', Sleep medicine, vol. 21, pp. 77-85. 1
2016	Stallman, H, Kohler, M, Wilson, A, Biggs, S, Dollman, J, Martin, J, Kennedy, D & Lushington, K 2016, 'Self-reported sleepwalking in Australian senior secondary school students', Sleep medicine, vol. 25, pp. 1-3. 1 1 1
2016	Stallman, HM & Kohler, MJ 2016, 'Prevalence of sleepwalking: a systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no 11, article no. e0164769, pp. 1-20. Open access 7 7 90
2016	Watson, EJ, Coates, AM, Kohler, M & Banks, S 2016, 'Caffeine consumption and sleep quality in Australian adults', Nutrients, vol. 8, no. 8, article no. 479, pp. 1-10. Open access 3 6 25
2015	Baumert, M, Pamula, Y, Kohler, M, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Nalivaiko, E & Immanuel, SA 2015, 'Effect of respiration on heartbeat-evoked potentials during sleep in children with sleep-disordered breathing', Sleep Medicine, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 665-667. 5 5 2
2015	Keage, HA, Kurylowicz, L, Lavrencic, LM, Churches, O, Flitton, A, Hofmann, J, Kohler, M & Badcock, N 2015, 'Cerebrovascular function associated with fluid not crystallized abilities in older adults: a transcranial Doppler study', Psychology and aging, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 613-623. Open access 5 5 1
2015	Kohler, M, Keage, H, Spooner, R, Flitton, A, Hofmann, J, Churches, O, Elliott, S & Badcock, N 2015, 'Variability in lateralised blood flow response to language is associated with language development in children aged 1-5 years', Brain and Language, vol. 145-146, pp. 34-41. Open access 7 7 4
2015	Thiessen, M, Kohler, M, Churches, O, Coussens, S & Keage, H 2015, 'Brainy type : a look at how the brain processes typographic information', Visible Language, vol. 49, pp. 175-188.
2014	Bakker, MJ, Hofmann, J, Churches, OF, Badcock, NA, Kohler, M & Keage, HA 2014, 'Cerebrovascular function and cognition in childhood: a systematic review of transcranial Doppler studies', BMC neurology, vol. 14, article no. 43, pp. 1-12. Open access 16 13 2
2014	Caruso, NC, Radovanovic, B, Kennedy, D, Couper, J, Kohler, MJ, Kavanagh, PS, Martin, AJ & Lushington, K 2014, 'Sleep, executive functioning and behaviour in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes', Sleep Medicine, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 1490-1499. 13 11 13
2014	Chatburn, A, Lushington, K & Kohler, MJ 2014, 'Complex associative memory processing and sleep: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioural evidence and underlying EEG mechanisms', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 47, pp. 646-655. 13 9 5
2014	Churches, O, Nicholls, M, Thiessen, M, Kohler, M & Keage, H 2014, 'Emoticons in mind: an event-related potential study', Social neuroscience, vol. 9 no. 2, pp. 196-202. 29 24 329
2014	Churches, OF, Feuerriegel, DC, Callahan, RA, Wells, J, Keage, J, Keage, H, Kohler, MJ, Thomas, N & Nicholls, M 2014, 'Facing up to stereotypes: surgeons and physicians are no different in their emotional expressiveness', Laterality, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 585-590. 3 1 6
2014	Coussens, S, Baumert, M, Kohler, M, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Lushington, K, Saint, D & Pamula, Y 2014, 'Movement distribution: a new measure of sleep fragmentation in children with upper airway obstruction', Sleep, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 2025-2034. Open access 4 4 22
2014	Immanuel, SA, Kohler, M, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Pamula, Y, Kabir, MM, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2014, 'Increased thoracoabdominal asynchrony during breathing periods free of discretely scored obstructive events in children with upper airway obstruction', Sleep and breathing, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 65-71. 4 5
2014	Immanuel, SA, Pamula, Y, Kohler, M, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2014, 'Respiratory cycle-related electroencephalographic changes during sleep in healthy children and in children with sleep disordered breathing', Sleep, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1353-1361. Open access 6 5 1
2014	Immanuel, SA, Pamula, Y, Kohler, MJ, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Nalivaiko, E, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2014, 'Heartbeat evoked potentials during sleep and daytime behavior in children with sleep-disordered breathing', American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 190, no. 10, pp. 1149-1157. 13 11 2
2014	Keage, HA, Coussens, S, Kohler, M, Thiessen, M & Churches, O 2014, 'Investigating letter recognition in the brain by varying typeface: an event-related potential study', Brain and cognition, vol. 88, pp. 83-89. Open access 1 1
2013	Chatburn, A, Coussens, S, Lushington, K, Kennedy, D, Baumert, M & Kohler, MJ 2013, 'Sleep spindle activity and cognitive performance in healthy children', Sleep, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 237-243. Open access 37 35
2013	Chatburn, AJ, Coussens, SW & Kohler, MJ 2013, 'Resiliency as a mediator of the impact of sleep on child and adolescent behavior', Nature and science of sleep, vol. 6, pp. 1-9. Open access 9 2
2013	Kabir, MM, Kohler, M, Pamula, Y, James, M, Kennedy, D, Abbott, D & Baumert, M 2013, 'Respiratory sinus arrhythmia during sleep in children with upper airway obstruction', Journal of sleep research, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 463-470. Open access 3 3 2
2012	Bruni, O, Kohler, M, Novelli, L, Kennedy, D, Lushington, K, Martini, J & Ferri, R 2012, 'The role of NREM sleep instability in child cognitive performance', Sleep, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 649-656. Open access 21 22
2012	Immanuel, SA, Pamula, Y, Kohler, M, Martin, J, Kennedy, D, Kabir, MM, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2012, 'Respiratory timing and variability during sleep in children with sleep-disordered breathing', Journal of applied physiology, vol. 113, no. 10, pp. 1635-1642. Open access 13 12 3
2012	Keage, HA, Churches, OF, Kohler, M, Pomeroy, D, Luppino, R, Bartolo, ML & Elliott, S 2012, 'Cerebrovascular function in aging and dementia: a systematic review of transcranial Doppler studies', Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 258-270. Open access 21
2012	Kohler, MJ, Kennedy, J, Martin, A & Lushington, K 2012, 'Parent versus teacher report of daytime behavior in snoring children', Sleep and breathing, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 637-645. 4 2 1
2011	Baumert, M, Kohler, M, Kabir, M, Sanders, P, Kennedy, D, Martin, J & Pamula, Y 2011, 'Altered cardio-respiratory response to spontaneous cortical arousals in children with upper airway obstruction', Sleep Medicine, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 230-238. 14 16
2011	Piteo, A, Kennedy, J, Roberts, R, Martin, A, Nettelbeck, T, Kohler, M & Lushington, K 2011, 'Snoring and cognitive development in infancy', Sleep medicine, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 981-987. 16 14 1
2011	Piteo, A, Lushington, K, Roberts, R, Martin, A, Nettelbeck, T, Kohler, M & Kennedy, J 2011, 'Parental-reported snoring from the first month of life and cognitive development at 12 months of age', Sleep medicine, vol. 12 no. 10, pp. 975-980. 9 9 2
2011	Piteo, A, Lushington, K, Roberts, R, van den Heuvel, C, Nettlebeck, T, Kohler, M, Martin, A & Kennedy, J 2011, 'Prevalence of snoring and associated factors in infancy', Sleep medicine, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 787-792. 15 14
2010	Baumert, M, Kohler, M, Kabir, M, Kennedy, D & Pamula, Y 2010, 'Cardiorespiratory response to spontaneous cortical arousals during stage 2 and rapid eye movement sleep in healthy children', Journal of sleep research, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 415-424. 13 11
2009	Kohler, MJ, Lushington, K, Van Den Heuvel, C, Martin, J, Pamula, Y & Kennedy, D 2009, 'Adenotonsillectomy and Neurocognitive Deficits in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing', PLoS One, vol. 4, no. 10, article no. e7343. Open access 69 57

Conferences

Year	Output
2015	Baumeister, J, Marner, MR, Smith, RT, Kohler, M & Thomas, BH 2015, 'Visual subliminal cues for spatial augmented reality', in T Oishi & J Grubert (eds), 14th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Workshops, IEEE, article no. 7344747, pp. 4-11.
2015	Baumert, M, Kohler, M, Pamula, Y & Immanuel, SA 2015, 'Symbolic dynamics of pulse transit time and heart period in children with upper airway obstruction', 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, IEEE, pp. 1801-1804. 2 2
2014	Immanuel, S, Kohler, M, Kabir, M, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2014, 'Symbolic dynamics of respiratory cycle related sleep EEG in children with sleep disordered breathing', Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, article no. 6945000, pp. 6016-6019. 1 1 1
2013	Immanuel, S, Kohler, MJ, Pamula, Y, Kabir, M, Saint, D & Baumert, M 2013, 'Increased variability in respiratory parameters heralds obstructive events in children with sleep disordered breathing', 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), IEEE Press, article no. 6609928, pp. 2024-2027. 1
2013	Immanuel, SA, Pamula, Y, Kohler, M, Saint, DA & Baumert, M 2013, 'Characterizing respiratory waveform regularity and associated thoraco-abdominal asynchrony during sleep using respiratory inductive plethysmography', in M Palaniswami et al. (eds), 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2013), IEEE, pp. 329-332.
2012	Cicua-Navarro, DC, Lushington, K, Kohler, M, Biggs, S, Martin, A & Kennedy, D 2012, 'Sleep complaints and sleep schedules in snoring children from a community sample', 9th ACS Annual meeting, Australian Chronobiology Society, pp. 1-5.
2012	Kabir, M, Kohler, M, Abbott, D & Baumert, M 2012, 'Effect of spontaneous arousals on cardio-respiratory interaction in healthy children', 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, IEEE, pp. 45-48. 1 1
2011	Kabir, MM, Kohler, M, Abbott, D & Baumert, M 2011, 'Quantification of cardio-respiratory interactions in healthy children during night-time sleep using joint symbolic dynamics', 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, IEEE, pp. 1459-1462. 2

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	AUSTRALIA
IRCCS Foundation	ITALY
Lyell McEwin Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Monash Medical Centre	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Oregon Health and Science University	UNITED STATES
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Sapienza University of Rome	ITALY
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)	AUSTRALIA
The University of Notre Dame Australia	AUSTRALIA
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Leeds	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Milan	ITALY
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of York	UNITED KINGDOM
Washington State University	UNITED STATES
Women's and Children's Health Network	AUSTRALIA
Women's and Children's Hospital	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychophysiology

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
A neural basis for the benefit of sleep for emotional memory across the lifespan	Current
How does the alpha rhythm of the human electroencephalogram EEG change during development and how is this related to environmental factors and cognitive performance	Current
Investigating the neural mechanisms and individual predictors underlying the effects of mental training on perceptual-motor learning and performance.	Current
Neurobiology of sleep and language learning	Current
Presenting narrative in an immersive virtual environment	Current
The role of sleep in facilitating the generalization of information across sensory modalities	Current
Dietary caffeine and sugar and their relationship with sleep and behaviour in children and adults	Completed
Measuring the effects of new technology on situation awareness in train driving	Completed
Natural history of snoring in children: do neurocognitive deficits improve if snoring resolves?	Completed
New methods for harnessing the unconscious: testing metaphor to generate ideas	Completed
Sleep and sleep disorders during early childhood: investigations of cognition, temperament, co-sleeping and cerebrovascular functioning in sleep disturbed toddlers and preschoolers	Completed
Sleep based associative processing	Completed
Sleep inertia during split duty schedules and following short night-time naps	Completed
The associations between sleep and health in adolescence	Completed
The Impact of split shifts and naps on sleep, performance and mood	Completed

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Dr Mark Kohler

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