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Dr Andrea Loftus
Research Interests
Dr Andrea Loftus’ research spans a number of different areas including; perception and attention, behavioural neuroscience, vision and human motor control. Dr Loftus has a particular interest in post-stroke hemiparesis and unilateral neglect, and how integrated behavioural-physical therapy techniques may benefit stroke survivors. A core theme of her research is the study of the efficacy of integrated behavioural-physical rehabilitation programs for those affected by post-stroke hemiparesis and visuospatial neglect. Dr Loftus addresses this question through the study of neurologically healthy adults and those affected by stroke.
More recently she have been involved in the Parkinson’s Centre (ParkC) project with a keen interest in improving our understanding of the disease progression, identifying subtypes of Parkinson’s and what this means prognostically, and influencing `best practice’ for altering the natural progression of Parkinson’s.
Selected Publications
- Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B. and Bradshaw, J. L (2008). Left to right: Representational biases for numbers and the effect of visuomotor adaptation. Cognition 107 (3) 1048 – 1058
- Nicholls, M., Kamer, A & Loftus, A.M. (2008). Pseudoneglect for mental alphabet lines is alleviated by prismatic adaptation. Experimental Brain Research 191, 109 - 115
- Nicholls, M., Loftus, A.M. & Gevers, W. (2008). Number magnitude affects spatial attention in the absence of left/right response coding. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15(2) 413 – 418
- Loftus, A.M., Vijaykumar, N. & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2008, available online). Prism adaptation overcomes pseudoneglect for the greyscales task. Cortex
- Loftus, A., Mattingley, J., Bradshaw J., Chapman, H., & Nicholls, M. (2008, available online). The way the brain represents numbers and space. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
- Loftus, A.M., Nicholls, M.E.R., Mattingley, J.B. and Bradshaw, J. L (2008, available online). Numerical processing overcomes left neglect for the grayscales task. Neuroreport
- Summers, J, Kagerer, F, Garry, M, Hiraga, C & Loftus, A.M. (2007). Bilateral and Unilateral Movement Training on Upper Limb Function in Chronic Stroke Patients: A TMS Study. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 252(1), 76-86
Contact Details
Dr Andrea Loftus
School of Psychology
Mailbag M304
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Telephone +61 8 6488 3249
email: andrea.loftus@uwa.edu.au
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