Dr Owen Churches

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow UniSA Education Futures

Magill Campus ()
tel +61 8 830 24145

email Owen.Churches@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I am a cognitive neuroscientist working on social cognition. That is, how do our brains facilitate our social experiences and how do these social encounters affect our brains? I am particularly interested in the neural mechanisms of face perception and how these brain structures are dysfunctional in disorders such as autism. I investigate these questions using event-related potential (ERP) and other electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. Together with Dr. Hannah Keage and Dr. Mark Kohler, I am a founding member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UniSA. For more information about the laboratory, our resources and current research, follow the link below. I have an Erdos number of 5:Owen Churches - Simon Baron-Cohen - Matthew...

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Research

Research focus

Neurosciences
Cognitive Sciences
Psychology
Clinical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences

Highlights

Cognitive neuroscience,Social cognition, especially face perception,Autism

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Feuerriegel, D, Churches, O, Coussens, S & Keage, HA 2019, 'Temporal expectations modulate face image repetition suppression of early stimulus evoked event-related potentials', Neuropsychologia, 122, pp. 76-87. Open access 7 7 4
2018	Feuerriegel, D, Churches, O, Coussens, S & Keage, HA 2018, 'Evidence for spatiotemporally distinct effects of image repetition and perceptual expectations as measured by event-related potentials', NeuroImage, vol. 169, pp. 94-105. Open access 23 22 6
2017	Churches, O, Loetscher, T, Thomas, NA & Nicholls, ME 2017, 'Perceptual biases in the horizontal and vertical dimensions are driven by separate cognitive mechanisms', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 444-460. 23 23 1
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 14 14 1
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: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 585-590. 6 5
2014	Nicholls, ME, Loveless, KM, Thomas, NA, Loetscher, T & Churches, O 2014, 'Some participants may be better than others: sustained attention and motivation are higher early in semester', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 10-18. 31 27
2013	Catarino, A, Andrade, A, Churches, O, Wagner, AP, Baron-Cohen, S & Ring, H 2013, 'Task-related functional connectivity in autism spectrum conditions: an EEG study using wavelet transform coherence', Molecular Autism, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-14. Open access 64
2013	McCallum, SL, Mikocka-Walus, A, Keage, H, Churches, OF & Andrews, J 2013, 'A novel treatment resource for co-occurring symptoms', Advances In Dual Diagnosis: Policy, Practice And Research In Mental Health And Substance Use, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 155-167. 1 1
2012	Churches, O, Baron-Cohen, S & Ring, H 2012, 'The psychophysiology of narrower face processing in autism spectrum conditions', NeuroReport, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 395-399. 9 9
2012	Churches, O, Callahan, RA, Michalski, D, Brewer, N, Turner, E, Keage, HAD, Thomas, NA & Nicholls, MER 2012, 'How academics face the world: a study of 5829 homepage pictures', PLoS One, vol. 7, no. 7, article no. e38940. Open access 17 16
2012	Churches, O, Damiano, C, Baron-Cohen, S & Ring, H 2012, 'Getting to know you: the acquisition of new face representations in autism spectrum conditions', NeuroReport, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 668-672. 13 13
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 55
2011	Catarino, A, Churches, O, Baron-Cohen, S, Andrade, A & Ring, H 2011, 'Atypical EEG complexity in autism spectrum conditions: a multiscale entropy analysis', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 122, no. 12, pp. 2375-2383. 221 203
2011	Damiano, C, Churches, OF, Ring, H & Baron-Cohen, S 2011, 'The development of perceptual expertise for faces and objects in autism spectrum conditions', Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 297-301. 4 4
2010	Churches, O, Wheelwright, S, Baron-Cohen, S & Ring, H 2010, 'The N170 is not modulated by attention in autism spectrum conditions', NeuroReport, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 399-403. 34 35
2009	Ring, H, Baron-Cohen, S & Churches, OF 2009, 'Seeing face-like objects: An event-related potential study ', NeuroReport, vol. 20, no. 14, pp. 1290-1294. 37 33

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Organisation	Country
Autism Research Centre	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service	AUSTRALIA
Lyell McEwin Hospital	AUSTRALIA
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Lisbon	PORTUGAL
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	UNITED STATES
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of York	UNITED KINGDOM

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Cognitive reserve in older adults: identifying functional and structural brain mechanisms and cognitive correlates	Completed
Effects of experimental trial structure on repetition suppression in vision	Completed
New methods for harnessing the unconscious: testing metaphor to generate ideas	Completed

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