Dr Scott Coussens

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow UniSA Justice & Society

email Scott.Coussens@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Psychology
Medical and Health Sciences
Clinical Sciences
Neurosciences
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Research

Outputs

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

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2018	Galland, BC, Short, MA, Terrill, P, Rigney, G, Haszard, JJ, Coussens, S, Foster-Owens, M & Biggs, SN 2018, 'Establishing normal values for pediatric nighttime sleep measured by actigraphy: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Sleep, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1-16. Open access 185 169
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. Open access 7 6 3
2018	Reynolds, CM, Gradisar, M, Coussens, S & Short, MA 2018, 'Sleep spindles in adolescence: a comparison across sleep restriction and sleep extension', Sleep Medicine, vol. 50, pp. 166-174. Open access 13 13
2018	Short, MA, Blunden, S, Rigney, G, Matricciani, L, Coussens, S, Reynolds, CM & Galland, B 2018, 'Cognition and objectively measured sleep duration in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Sleep Health, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 292-300. 144 130 41
2018	Short, MA, Weber, N, Reynolds, C, Coussens, S & Carskadon, MA 2018, 'Estimating adolescent sleep need using dose-response modeling', Sleep, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1-14. Open access 93 74

Chapters

Year	Output
2019	Carskadon, MA & Coussens, S 2019, 'Human sleep architecture', in RJ Hoss, K Valli,& RP Gongloff (eds), Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, pp. 24-32.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Cross, ZR, Helfrich, RF, Corcoran, AW, Dede, AJ, Kohler, MJ, Coussens, SW, Zou-Williams, L, Schlesewsky, M, Gaskell, GM, Knight, RT & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I 2025, 'Slow oscillation-spindle coupling predicts sequence-based language learning', Journal of Neuroscience, 45. 3
2024	Boord, MS, Feuerriegel, D, Coussens, SW, Davis, DH, Psaltis, PJ, Garrido, M I, Bourke, A & Keage, HA 2024, 'Neurophysiological patterns reflecting vulnerability to delirium subtypes: a resting-state EEG and event-related potential study', Brain Communications, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1-13. Open access 2 2 4
2024	Bower, IS, Broadbent, J, Coussens, S & Enticott, PG 2024, 'Elevated ceiling heights reduce the cognitive performance of higher-education students during exams', Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 97, article no. 102367. 1 514
2024	Howlett, CA, Stanford, T, Berryman, C, Karran, EL, Bellan, V, Coussens, S, Miles, S & Moseley, GL 2024, 'Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: an online, cross-sectional, observational study', British Journal of Pain, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 176-196. Open access 5 5 3
2023	Astley, J, Keage, HA, Kelson, E, Callahan, R, Hofmann, J, Thiessen, M, Kohler, M & Coussens, S 2023, 'Font disfluency and reading performance in children: an event-related potential study', Brain and Cognition, vol. 169, article no. 105986, pp. 1-9. Open access 3 1 1
2022	Macnamara, A, Coussens, S, Chen, C, Schinazi, VR & Loetscher, T 2022, 'The psychological impact of instrumental activities of daily living on people with simulated age-related macular degeneration', BJPsych Open, vol. 8, no. 5, article no. e152, pp. 1-10. Open access 6 5 1
2022	Macnamara, A, Schinazi, VR, Chen, C, Coussens, S & Loetscher, T 2022, 'The effect of age-related macular degeneration on cognitive test performance', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, article no. 4033, pp. 1-6. Open access 7 6 494
2021	Boord, M, Moezzi, B, Davis, D, Ross, TJ, Coussens, S, Psaltis, PJ, Bourke, A & Keage, HA 2021, 'Investigating how electroencephalogram measures associate with delirium: a systematic review', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 132, no. 1, pp. 246-257. Open access 50 47 20
2021	Boord, MS, Davis, DH, Psaltis, PJ, Coussens, SW, Feuerriegel, D, Garrido, M I, Bourke, A & Keage, HAD 2021, 'DelIrium VULnerability in GEriatrics (DIVULGE) study: a protocol for a prospective observational study of electroencephalogram associations with incident postoperative delirium', BMJ Neurology Open, vol. 3, no. 2, article no. e000199, pp. 1-8. Open access 3 3 6
2021	Chandrakumar, D, Coussens, S, Keage, H, Banks, S, Dorrian, J & Loetscher, T 2021, 'Monotonous driving induces shifts in spatial attention as a function of handedness', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, article no. 10155, pp. 1-12. Open access 2 2 5
2021	Liebherr, M, Corcoran, AW, Alday, PM, Coussens, S, Bellan, V, Howlett, CA, Immink, MA, Kohler, M, Schlesewsky, M & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I 2021, 'EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, article no. 22325, pp. 1-13. Open access 23 21 10
2021	Macnamara, A, Schinazi, VR, Chen, C, Coussens, S & Loetscher, T 2021, 'Vision impairments reduce cognitive test performance', Nature Aging, vol.1, no. 11, pp.975-976. Open access 3 3
2021	Skorucak, J, Weber, N, Carskadon, MA, Reynolds, C, Coussens, S, Achermann, P & Short, MA 2021, 'Homeostatic response to sleep restriction in adolescents', Sleep, vol. 44, no. 9, article no. zsab106. 13 8
2020	Centofanti, S, Banks, S, Coussens, S, Gray, D, Munro, E, Nielsen, J & Dorrian, J 2020, 'A pilot study investigating the impact of a caffeine-nap on alertness during a simulated night shift', Chronobiology International: The Journal of Biological and Medical Rhythm Research, vol. 37, no. 9-10, pp. 1469-1473. Open access 18 15 599
2020	Chandrakumar, D, Dorrian, J, Banks, S, Keage, H, Coussens, S, Gupta, C, Centofanti, S, Stepien, J & Loetscher, T 2020, 'The relationship between alertness and spatial attention under simulated shiftwork', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, article no. 14946, pp. 1-12. Open access 8 6 2
2020	Cross, ZR, Santamaria, A, Corcoran, AW, Chatburn, A, Alday, PM, Coussens, S & Kohler, MJ 2020, 'Individual alpha frequency modulates sleep-related emotional memory consolidation', Neuropsychologia, vol. 148, article no. 107660, pp. 1-16. Open access 11 9 5
2020	Keage, HA, Feuerriegel, D, Greaves, D, Tregoweth, E, Coussens, S & Smith, AE 2020, 'Increasing objective cardiometabolic burden associated with attenuations in the P3b event-related potential component in older adults', Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 11, article no. 643, pp. 1-11. Open access 7 8 18
2020	Mellow, ML, Goldsworthy, MR, Coussens, S & Smith, AE 2020, 'Acute aerobic exercise and neuroplasticity of the motor cortex: a systematic review', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. P408-P414. Open access 57 49 119
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
2019	Hofmann, J, Keage, HA, Callahan, R, Coussens, S & Churches, O 2019, 'Neural indices of associative learning in pre-adolescents: an event-related potential study', Brain and Cognition, vol. 130, pp. 11-19. 1 1
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
2018	Galland, BC, Short, MA, Terrill, P, Rigney, G, Haszard, JJ, Coussens, S, Foster-Owens, M & Biggs, SN 2018, 'Establishing normal values for pediatric nighttime sleep measured by actigraphy: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Sleep, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1-16. Open access 185 169
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. Open access 7 6 3
2018	Reynolds, CM, Gradisar, M, Coussens, S & Short, MA 2018, 'Sleep spindles in adolescence: a comparison across sleep restriction and sleep extension', Sleep Medicine, vol. 50, pp. 166-174. Open access 13 13
2018	Short, MA, Blunden, S, Rigney, G, Matricciani, L, Coussens, S, Reynolds, CM & Galland, B 2018, 'Cognition and objectively measured sleep duration in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Sleep Health, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 292-300. 144 130 41
2018	Short, MA, Weber, N, Reynolds, C, Coussens, S & Carskadon, MA 2018, 'Estimating adolescent sleep need using dose-response modeling', Sleep, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1-14. Open access 93 74
2017	Agostini, A, Carskadon, MA, Dorrian, J, Coussens, S & Short, MA 2017, 'An experimental study of adolescent sleep restriction during a simulated school week: changes in phase, sleep staging, performance and sleepiness', Journal of Sleep Research, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 227-235. Open access 54 47 19
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	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 10 8
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 92 90
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 36 22

Conferences

Year	Output
2022	Reichherzer, C, Cunningham, A, Barr, J, Coleman, T, McManus, K, Sheppard, D, Coussens, S, Kohler, M, Billinghurst, M & Thomas, BH 2022, 'Supporting jury understanding of expert evidence in a virtual environment', 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), IEEE, pp. 615-624. Open access 6 6

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Bond University	AUSTRALIA
Brown University	UNITED STATES
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Dalhousie University	CANADA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
E.P. Bradley Hospital	UNITED STATES
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital	UNITED STATES
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Hochschule Luzern	SWITZERLAND
Institute of Environmental Science and Research	NEW ZEALAND
Karolinska Institute	SWEDEN
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics	NETHERLANDS
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network	AUSTRALIA
Northwestern University	UNITED STATES
Royal Adelaide Hospital	AUSTRALIA
South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI)	AUSTRALIA
South Australian Health and Medical Institute	AUSTRALIA
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of California, Berkeley	UNITED STATES
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Otago	NEW ZEALAND
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Tubingen	GERMANY
University of York	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Zurich	SWITZERLAND
Women's and Children's Hospital	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Treasurer Australasian Sleep Technologists Association	2019
Treasurer Australasian Sleep Technologists Association	2018

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Electroencephalogram associations of incident postoperative delirium	Completed
Spatial attention and alertness in healthy adults	Completed
The psychological and physiological impact of age-related macular degeneration in daily life	Completed
The relationship between sleep and emotional memory across the lifespan	Completed

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