School of Psychological Science

		Dr Annukka Lindell Senior Lecturer		Phone: +61 3 9479 2708 Fax: +61 3 9479 1956 a.lindell@latrobe.edu.au Room 408 George Singer Building
		BSc (Melb, 1993), PGradDipPsych (Melb, 1999), PhD (Melb, 2003)

I joined the School of Psychological Science in 2009, having previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Wales, Bangor (2004-2008) and Kingston University, London (2008-2009). I teach courses in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience across all year levels, and am particularly interested in supervising projects in these areas.

My research concerns all aspects of human laterality, including both high and low level cognitive processes. My major research programme focuses on differences in hemispheric strategies for visual word recognition, aiming to determine the processing level at which the left hemisphere’s linguistic predominance arises. I am now examining differences in hemispheric language processing in clinical populations, including people with dyslexia, SLI, and autism-like traits. Other projects, in collaboration with colleagues in Europe and the US, include:

• Hemispheric asymmetries in semantic processing
• Hemispheric asymmetries in pragmatic processing
• Asymmetries in the perception and expression of human emotion
• The developmental course of lateralisation
• Neuroaesthetics
• Laterality and consumer psychology

Recent Publications

Lindell, A.K. & Savill, N.J. (In press). Time to turn the other cheek? The influence of left and right poses on perceptions of academic specialisation. Laterality.

Lindell, A.K., Notice, K., & Withers, K. (2009). Reduced language processing asymmetry in non-autistic individuals with high levels of autism traits. Laterality, 14 (5), 457-472.

Lindell, A.K., & Lum, J.A.G. (2008). Priming vs. Rhyming: Orthographic and phonological representation in the left and right hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 68 (2), 193-203.

Lindell, A.K., Arend, I., Ward, R., Norton, J., & Wathan, J. (2007). Hemispheric asymmetries in feature integration during visual word recognition. Laterality, 12 (6), 543-558.

Lum, J.A.G., Conti-Ramsden, G., & Lindell, A.K. (2007). The attentional blink reveals sluggish attentional shifting in adolescents with specific language impairment. Brain and Cognition, 63, 287-295.

Lindell, A.K. (2006). In your right mind: Right hemisphere contributions to human language processing and production. Neuropsychology Review, 16, 131-148.

Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R., Kwantes, P.J., & Castles, A. (2005). Sequential processing in hemispheric word recognition: The impact of initial letter discriminability on the OUP naming effect. Brain and Language, 93, 160-172.

Nicholls, M.E.R., Orr., C.A., & Lindell, A.K. (2005). Magical ideation and its relation to lateral preference. Laterality, 10 (6), 503-515.

Lindell, A.K., & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2003). Attentional deployment in visual half-field tasks: The effect of cue position on word naming latency. Brain and Cognition, 53 (2), 273-277.

Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R., & Castles, A.E. (2003). The effect of orthographic uniqueness and deviation points on lexical decisions: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral-redundant presentations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56A, 287-307.

Lindell, A.K., & Nicholls, M.E.R. (2003). Cortical representation of the fovea: Implications for visual half-field research. Cortex, 39 (1), 111-117.

Lindell, A.K., Nicholls, M.E.R. & Castles, A.E. (2002). The effect of word length on hemispheric word recognition: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral-redundant presentations. Brain and Cognition, 48 (2-3), 447-452.

Nicholls, M.E.R., Clode, D., Lindell, A.K. & Wood, A.G. (2002). Which cheek to turn? The effect of gender and emotional expressivity on posing behaviour. Brain and Cognition, 48 (2-3), 480-484.

Nicholls. M.E.R., Wolfgang, B.J., Clode, D. & Lindell, A.K. (2002). The effect of left and right poses on the expression of facial emotion. Neuropsychologia, 40, 1662-1665