Paul E. Dux 1 CURRICULUM VITAE November, 2009 DR. PAUL EDMUND DUX, PHD PERSONAL DATA DATE OF BIRTH: January 2, 1980 PLACE OF BIRTH: Townsville, Queensland, Australia CITIZENSHIP: Australian and British Citizen MARITAL STATUS: Married to Natasha Leigh Matthews WORK ADDRESS: School of Psychology 463 McElwain Building University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia PHONE: Office: +61 (0)7 33656885 Home: +61 (0)431 258121 EMAIL: paul.e.dux@gmail.com HOMEPAGE: www.paulduxlab.org EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT 1998-2001 Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia Bachelor of Psychology (1 st class Honours) Supervisor (in Honours year): Dr. Karen Murphy 2002-2004 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia PhD in Cognitive Science, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. Supervisors: Dr. Veronika Coltheart, Professor Max Coltheart and Dr. Irina Harris. 2005-2008 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate. Sponsor: Dr. René Marois Jan 2009 - present University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Psychology.
Paul E. Dux 2 AWARDS GRANTS 2000 Membership Golden Key Honours Society 2001 Griffith University Academic Excellence Award 2002 Australian Post-Graduate Award Living Stipend: $18 500 per year, for three years 2005 Vice-Chancellor s Letter of Commendation for Excellence in Research (for PhD thesis) 2009 Australian Psychological Society Early Career Research Award 2002 MACCS Postgraduate Grant ($1000) 2003 MACCS Postgraduate Grant ($1000) 2003 Macquarie Postgraduate Research Fund ($4000) 2004 MACCS Postgraduate Grant ($1000) 2003 MACCS Special Postgraduate Fund ($3000) 2009-2012 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0986387) including APD Fellowship ($334000) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2002 PSY237 Cognition and Perception, tutor PSY222 Statistics, tutor 2003 PSY237 Cognition and Perception, tutor PSY222 Statistics, tutor PSY422 Advance Cognitive Processes, Guest Lecturer 2004 PSY237 Cognition & Perception, tutor PSY422 Advance Cognitive Processes, Guest Lecturer PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS - Association for Psychological Science - Psychonomic Society - The Society for Neuroscience
Paul E. Dux 3 - Vision Sciences Society PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editorial Board: - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Reviewer for: - Brain - Biological Psychiatry - Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience - Current Biology - Experimental Psychology - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience - Memory & Cognition - Neuroimage - Neuropsychologia - Perception & Psychophysics (Now Attention, Perception & Psychophysics) - PLoS ONE - Psychological Science - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - Visual Cognition - Vision Research. RESEARCH INTERESTS Neuroscience of Human Cognition and Perception Visual Attention Consciousness Executive Attention/Decision Making Dual-Task Performance Training/Learning Short-Term Memory Object Recognition Individual Differences Techniques primarily employed are Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fmri) and psychophysics RESEARCH SKILLS Proficient in the following computer programs (for both MAC and PC platforms) MATLAB (numerical computing environment and programming language) SPSS (statistical analysis) Excel (spread sheet and statistical analysis)
Paul E. Dux 4 JOURNAL ARTICLES BrainVoyager (statistical analysis of brain imaging data) DMDX (stimulus presentation) Coltheart, V., Mondy, S., Dux, P. E., & Stephenson, L. (2004). Effects of orthographic and phonological word length on memory for lists shown at RSVP and STM rates. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30, 815-826. 5 year impact factor (Thomson journal citation reports): 3.46 Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. (2005). Orientation-invariant object recognition: Evidence from repetition blindness. Cognition, 95, 73-93. 5 year impact factor: 4.85 Dux, P. E., & Coltheart, V. (2005). The meaning of the mask matters: Evidence of conceptual interference in the attentional blink. Psychological Science, 16, 775-779. 5 year impact factor: 5.3 Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. (2005). Turning objects on their heads: The influence of the stored axis on object individuation. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1010-1015. 5 year impact factor: 1.92 Dux, P. E., Coltheart, V., & Harris. I. M. (2006). On the fate of distractor stimuli in rapid serial visual presentation. Cognition, 99, 355-382. 5 year impact factor: 4.85 Dux, P. E., Ivanoff, J. G., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2006). Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fmri. Neuron, 52, 1109-1120. 5 year impact factor: 14.7 Dux, P. E., & Harris, I. M. (2007). Viewpoint Costs Occur During Consolidation: Evidence from the Attentional Blink. Cognition, 101, 47-48. 5 year impact factor: 4.85 Dux, P. E., & Harris, I. M. (2007). On the failure of distractor inhibition in the attentional blink. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 723-728. 5 year impact factor: 2.85 Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2007). Repetition blindness is immune to the central bottleneck. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 729-734. 5 year impact factor: 2.85
Paul E. Dux 5 Harris, I. M., Dux, P. E., Benito, C. T., & Leek, E. C. (2008). Orientation sensitivity at different stages of object processing: Evidence from repetition priming and naming. PLoS ONE, 3, e2256. Yet to be assigned an impact factor Dux, P. E., & Coltheart, V. (2008). Repetition Blindness and Repetition Priming: Effects of Featural Differences Between Targets and Distractors of RSVP Dual-Target Search. Memory & Cognition, 36, 776-790. 5 year impact factor: 2.2 Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2008). An attentional blink for sequentially presented targets: Evidence in favor of resource depletion accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 809-813. 5 year impact factor: 2.85 Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2008). Distractor inhibition predicts individual differences in the attentional blink. PLoS ONE, 3, e3330. Yet to be assigned an impact factor Buckholtz, J. W., Asplund, C. L., Dux, P. E., Zald, D. H., Gore, J. C., Jones, O. D., & Marois, R. (2008). The neural basis of third-party punishment. Neuron, 60, 930-940. 5 year impact factor: 14.7 Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. (2009). Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink: A reply to Olivers et al. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 219-224. 5 year impact factor: 2.85 Dux, P. E., Tombu, M. N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B. P., Tong, F., & Marois, R. (2009). Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 63, 127-138. 5 year impact factor: 14.7 Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. (2009). The attentional blink: A review of data and theory. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 1683-1700. 5 year impact factor: 1.92 DISSERTATIONS Dux, P. E. (2001). Short-term consolidation: An evaluation of its processing limitations. Unpublished honours dissertation, Griffith University (Gold Coast), Queensland, Australia.
Paul E. Dux 6 Dux, P. E. (2005). Searching through time: Target and Distractor Processing in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Dux, P. E., & Murphy, K. Short-term consolidation: An evaluation of its processing limitations. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Adelaide, 5th-7th April, 2002. Coltheart, V., Mondy, S., Dux, P. E., & Stephenson, L. S. Word length effects on immediate memory after varying visual presentation rates. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, 25-27 April, 2003. Harris, I.M., & Dux, P. E. Repetition blindness for rotated objects. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, 25-27 April, 2003. Dux, P. E., Coltheart, V., & Harris, I. M. Effects of distractor repetition on the attentional blink. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Object Perception, Attention and Memory Conference, Vancouver, 6 November, 2003. Dux, P. E., & Coltheart, V. Phonological processing of distractor stimuli in RSVP streams. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, 25-27 April, 2003. Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Recognition of rotated objects: Paying attention to orientation. Paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, 8-13 August, 2004. Dux, P. E., & Harris, I. M. Object orientation and the attentional blink: Tests of a two-stage model of object recognition. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota, 29 April - 5 May, 2004. Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Probing the nature of object representations with repetition blindness for rotated objects. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota, 29 April - 5 May, 2004. Dux, P. E., & Coltheart, V. Colour differences between targets and distractors induce repetition advantage in an RSVP stream. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Dunedin, 16-18 April, 2004. Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Putting orientation in the picture: A new theory of object recognition. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Dunedin, 16-18 April, 2004.
Paul E. Dux 7 Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Paying attention to orientation: a two-stage framework of familiar object recognition. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 6-11, May, 2005. Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Effects of object orientation on the attentional blink. Australian Journal of Psychology. Paper presented at the 32nd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 1-3 April, 2005. Dux, P. E., & Coltheart, V. The meaning of the mask matters: Evidence of Conceptual Interference in the Attentional Blink. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 6-11, May, 2005. Harris, I. M., & Dux, P. E. Orientation-invariant representations are activated first in object recognition. Poster presented at the 27th Annual European Conference on Visual Perception, A Coruña, 22-26, August, 2005. Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. Repetition blindness is immune to the central bottleneck. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 5-10, May, 2006. Dux, P. E., Ivanoff, J. I., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. Isolation of a central bottleneck of information processing with time-resolved fmri. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta 14-18, October, 2006. Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. Evidence in favor of a resource depletion account of the attentional blink. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 11-16, May, 2007. Harris, I., & Dux, P. E. Failure of distractor inhibition in the attentional blink. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 11-16, May, 2007. Buckholtz, J. B., Asplund, C. L., Dux, P. E., Zald, D., Gore, J. C., Jones, O., & Marois, R. The neural basis of legal decision-making. Paper to be presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego 3-7, November, 2007. Dux, P. E., Tombu, M. N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B. P., Tong, F., Kamitani, Y., & Marois, R. From Capacity-Limited to Capacity-Free processing: Training eliminates dual-task costs in human prefrontal cortex. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego 3-7, November, 2007. Harris I.M., Benito C.T., & Dux P.E. Representing object orientation in the absence of attention. Poster presented at the European Conference of Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy, 27-31 August 2007.
Paul E. Dux 8 Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. Individual differences in distractor priming during the attentional blink: Distractor inhibition gives rise to awareness. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Naples 9-14, May, 2008. Harris I.M., Benito C.T., & Dux P. E. Object processing in the absence of attention. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Sarasota 9-14, May, 2008. Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. Target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink. Paper presented at the 36th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Wollongong, 17-19 April, 2009. Dux, P. E., Asplund, C. L., & Marois, R. Both exogenous and endogenous target salience manipulations support resource depletion accounts of the attentional blink. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Naples 8-13, May, 2008. Scalf, P. E., Dux, P. E., & Marois, R. Working memory consolidation delays topdown attention processing in visual cortex: A time-resolved fmri study. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society, Naples 8-13, May, 2008. INVITED TALKS STUDENTS Dux, P. E. On the nature of object representations: Evidence from repetition blindness and the attentional blink. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 18 November, 2003. Dux, P. E. On target selection and distractor processing in rapid serial visual presentation. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Academy Colloquium on temporal attention, 22-24 August, 2007. Ms. Christina Kordatou (4 year honours student 2009) Ms. Carly Mayberry (4 year honours student 2009) Ms. Stephanie Goodhew (PhD student 2008-present) Mr. David Painter (PhD student 2009-present)
Paul E. Dux 9 MEDIA COVERAGE Stories about some of the research listed above have been featured in a range of popular media including: The New York Times (USA), BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia) and The Tennesseean (USA) and scientific media: Nature News and Scientific American Mind. REFEREES René Marois, PhD Associate Professor Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University 530 Wilson Hall 111 21st Ave. So Nashville, TN 37203 rene.marois@vanderbilt.edu Tel. +1 615-322-1779 Irina M. Harris, PhD Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow School of Psychology University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006 Australia irina@psych.usyd.edu.au Tel. +61 2 9351 3497 Veronika Coltheart, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Psychology and Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia vcolthea@maccs.mq.edu.au Tel. +61 2 9850 8104 Max Coltheart, DSc FASSA FAA FBA Director Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia max@maccs.mq.edu.au Tel. +61 2 9850 8086