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Dr Mark Kohler

  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
  • email Mark.Kohler@unisa.edu.au
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About me

Dr Mark Kohler

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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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 Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre.

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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Behavioural Science) University of South Australia

  • Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) University of South Australia

  • Bachelor of Behavioural Science Flinders University

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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

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  • Brain Foundation - Cerebrovascular functioning in Alzheimer's Disorder and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Brain Foundation - Annual Research Awards, 01/01/2012 - 30/06/2013

  • Cerebrovascular contributions to aging and dementia, Australian Association of Gerontology Inc., 01/01/2012 - 31/12/2012

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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
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Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychophysiology

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Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • BEHL 3030 The Neuroscience of Language (2018)
  • BEHL 2015 States of Awareness (2019)
  • BEHL 2015 States of Awareness (2018)
  • BEHL 3011 Developmental Psychology (2018)
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Supervisions from 2010 shown

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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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