Dr Frini Karayanidis

Dr Frini Karayanidis

Position: Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School of Psychology
Telephone: +61 2 4921 5457
Facsimile: +61 2 4921 6980
Email: Frini.Karayanidis@newcastle.edu.au
Location: Behavioural Sciences Building
Room W249
Campus: Callaghan
Qualifications:
  • BA, Deree College
  • MQual(Hons), University of NSW,
    The role of septal cell bodies and their affiliations in the septal syndrome
  • PhD, University of NSW,
    Parkinsons disease and aging: Changes in cognitive processes indexed by event-related brain potentials.
Research Areas:
  • Executive Control
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Electrophysiology
  • Brain Imaging

Interests

  • Structural and functional organization of cognitive control processes
  • Developmental trajectories of cognitive control across the lifespan
  • Contribution of cognitive control deficits to behavioural profile of clinical psychopathologies, including schizophrenia and ADHD

Collaborations

Local

  • Prof Patricia Michie, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
  • Prof Andrew Heathcote, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
  • Dr Ulrich Schall, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle
  • Dr Kerry Chalmers, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
  • Dr Ross Fulham, Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, Hunter Medical Research Institute
  • Dr Scott Brown, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle
  • Dr Liz Milgram, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle

National

  • Dr Patrick Johnston, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Prof Rhoshel Lenroot, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
  • Prof Vaughan Carr, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales

International

  • Dr Birte Forstmann, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Assoc Prof E.J. Wagenmakers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Assoc Prof Natalie Phillips, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  • Dr Mike X Cohen,  University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Dr Hannes Ruge, University of Dresden, Germany
Research Groups:
Honours, Distinctions, Societies:  
Teaching Interests:
  • 4th Year Program Coordinator
  • Convenor, Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Postgraduate)
  • Developmental Psychopathology in Psyc3700
  • Research Methodology in Psyc3000
  • Cognitive Neuroscience in Psyc3300
  • Critical Thinking and Research Proposal Development in Psyc4800
  • Course coordinator for Psyc4800 Critical Review of Specialised Research Topic
Supervision of Students:
  • Todd Jolly
  • Elise Mansfield
  • Alexander Provost (secondary supervisor)
  • Sharna Jamadar - PhD - The Task Switching Paradigm: Evidence for the Structural and Functional Organisation of Cognitive Control Processes (awarded 2010)
  • Alicia Sercombe - PhD - Face and Facial Expression Processing in Autism
  • Phylippa McKay (secondary supervisor)
  • Lisa Whitson
  • Dearne Sanday
  • Catherine Dinneen
  • Dane Poboka - PhD (secondary supervisor)
  • Mara Schulz - PhD (secondary supervisor) - Empathic Processing in Aggressive Children and Adolescents
Professional Positions:
  • Review Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Co-convenor of Emerging Programs Panel, Centre for Brain and Mental Health Priority Research Centre, University of Newcastle
  • School of Psychology Representative, Connectivity and Cognition Panel, Schizophrenia Research Institute
  • Advisory Committee of Parkinson's NSW
  • Management Committee, Hunter Medical Research Institute Research Volunteer Register
  • Australasian Society for Psychophysiology
  • International Society for Psychophysiological Research (SRP)
  • Psychonomics Society
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • European Society for Cognitive Psychology

Publications: Link to: Researcher Report
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