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	Dr Cobie BRINKMAN PhD Visiting Fellow Email : Cobie.Brinkman@anu.edu.au Phone : (02) 612 55103 Fax : (02) 612 50499 Office Location Room 135, Department of Psychology (Building 39) Mailing Address Department of Psychology (Building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia	On this page... About Me Research and Supervision Interests Research Students Selected Publications

About Me
I was born and educated in The Netherlands, and moved to Australia in 1974 to undertake postdoctoral work in behavioural neurophysiology at Monash University followed by an appointment at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Experimental Neurology Unit. I have held my present appointment with the ANU School of Psychology since 1987.
Research and Supervision Interests
Hemispheric lateralization and interaction, motor control, and hand preference in young adult and aging humans; comparative psychology; nonhuman primate behaviour and welfare; neuro/bioethics. Current Research Hemispheric interaction; lateralization and motor control in the aged.
Research Students
Current Research Students Lisa McLeod (PhD) - Thesis : Development of prioprioception in normal and clumsy children. Michelle Russell (Honours) - Thesis : Sex, song and the single hemisphere Past Research Students Nic Cherbuin (PhD) - Thesis : Hemispheric lateralization and hemispheric interaction. Lisa McLeod (Honours student) - Thesis : Lateralization of somatosensory function in healthy aging: does the right hemisphere age faster than the right? Lyndal Waters (Honours student) - Thesis : Handedness, motor control and lateralization: Changes in healthy aging Susan Van der berg (Honours student) - Thesis : Bimanual coordination: Performance and cognition in the aged. Karen Tran (Honours student) - Thesis : Reduced hemispheric asymmetry in aging: Testing the HAROLD model. Peter Coleman (Honours student) - Thesis : Complexity of processing and hemispheric interaction. Adele Eather (Honours student) - Thesis : The effect of sex on age differences in interhemispheric interaction and functional hemispheric asymmetry. Jessica Edquist (Graduate Diploma student) - Thesis : The role of visual attention in grapheme-colour synesthesia.
Selected Publications
Cherbuin, N., & Brinkman, C. (2006) Efficiency of transfer of the corpus callosum and hemispheric interaction. Neuropsychology, 20, 178-184 Edquist, J., Rich, A. N., Brinkman, C., and Mattingly, J. B. (2006) Do synaesthetic colours act as unique features in visual search? Cortex, 42, 222-231 Cherbuin, N., & Brinkman, C. (2005) Hemispheric activation and interaction: past activity affects future performance. Laterality, 10, 563-579 Cherbuin, N., & Brinkman, C. (2005) Practice makes two hemispheres almost perfect. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 413-422 Cherbuin, N., & Brinkman, C. (2004). Cognition is cool: Can hemispheric activation be assessed by tympanic membrane thermometry? Brain and Cognition, 54(3), 228-231. Brinkman, C. (2001). A monkey could paint that... Artonview No 28, Summer 2001-2002, 42-45 Brinkman, C. (2000). Research using nonhuman primates: Only two Rs? ANZCCART News 13(4), 4-7.

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