Lab members

We are an interdisciplinary team comprising people with diverse backgrounds in psychology, physics, engineering, medicine, and biology. We work together and learn from each other in our efforts to understand the brain.

 

Dr James Coxon

Head, Movement and Exercise Neuroscience Lab (MEX lab)

The neuroscience of human movement: motor cortex neuroplasticity, skill learning, priming the brain with exercise.

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Dr Joshua Hendrikse

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Turner Institute Bridging Fellow
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences Bridging Fellow

The effects of high-intensity interval training on excitation-inhibition balance, brain network connectivity, and skill learning.

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Emily Brooks
PhD Candidate

Emily is training in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Exercise and consolidation of motor memories over different timescales.

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Claire Cadwallader
PhD Candidate

Claire is training in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Acute exercise as a modifier of neuroplasticity in the motor and visual cortices in young and older adults.

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Dylan Curtin
PhD Candidate

Dylan is training in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Effects of exercise and dopamine on motor cortex plasticity using non-invasive brain stimulation.

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Bridgitt Shea
PhD Candidate (co-supervised with Dr Trevor Chong)

Neurochemical modulators of perceptual decision-making, using EEG, genetics and pharmacological interventions.

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Eleanor Taylor
PhD Candidate

Eleanor is training in Clinical Neuropsychology.

The role of dopamine in improving motor learning following exercise in young and older adults.

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Sophie Thong
PhD Candidate

The neural basis of chunking/‘binding’ during learning in young and older adults.

 

Jaeger Wongtrakun
PhD Candidate

Jaeger is training in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Neural signatures of evidence accumulation and perceptual decision-making using functional magnetic resonance imaging and EEG.

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