Rick Richardson, PhD, Professor

Jee Kim, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow
Area: extinction of conditioned fear in the developing rat

Current PhD students
Bronwyn Graham
Area: Pre-clinical studies of fibroblast growth factor and memory

Julia Langton
Area: Pre-clinical studies of DCS and re-extinction of learned fear

Elizabeth Mason
Area: Looking Beyond Fear: The Extinction of Other Emotions Implicated in Anxiety Disorders

Nisha Sethi
Area: Negative effects of ostracism can last: The role of cognitive factors

Andreas B. Storsve
Area: Behavioural and neural bases of the inhibition of learned fear

Helen Tang
Area: Effects of ostracism on attentional processes

Aliza Werner-Seidler
Area: D-cycloserine and the extinction of reward-motivated behaviour

Current Honours students
Bridget Callaghan
Area: Developmental differences in extinction

Stella Li
Area: Neural signature of forgetting

Karyn Wang
Area: DCS and extinction of learned fear

Past PhD students
Jee Kim, PhD (2008)
Thesis title: Extinction of Conditioned Fear in the Developing Rat

Carol Yap, PhD (2006)
Thesis title: An Analysis of Late-Developing Learning and Memory Systems in Rats: Fear-Potentiation of Startle and Context-Specific Latent Inhibition and Extinction

Lisa Zadro, PhD (2004)
Thesis title: Ostracism: Empirical Studies Inspired by Real-World Experiences of Silence and Exclusion

Elizabeth Woodcock, PhD (2004)
Thesis title: Effects of environmental enrichment on fundamental cognitive processes in rats and humans

Marianne Weber, PhD (2003)
Thesis title: A Developmental and Neural Analysis of Conditioned Fear in Rats