Role
Christina is an Associate Professor in Psychology. She teaches on our undergraduate Psychology courses, Masters Psychology courses as well as supervising PhD students.
Research areas
Christina's research interests are:
- visual cognition
- visual attention capacity
- attention to dynamic objects
- scene perception
- visual search
- public understanding of and engagement with science
Christina uses experimental and quantitative research methods and is open to any research ideas, with particular interest in perception and cognition. Potential supervised projects could include how people track moving objects, how people monitor changing scenes, how we search our environments and how we learn to be better aware of the visual world. In the area of public understanding of and engagement with science, supervised projects could include how people understand scientific information relating to AI-generated content and global challenges around sustainability.
Press expertise
- Human visual attention
- Neurological basis of attention
- High performance cognition
- Cognition of thinking about science