Douglas Cribb

Email: douglas.cribb@uq.edu.au 

Supervisor

Professor Jason Mattingley 

Current Research

We rely on external stimuli to act as landmarks in order to conceptualise that a period of time has passed e.g. “my stick-in-the-mud-sundial’s shadow has moved from 60° to 90°, therefore this meeting should be over!”

In a different boat, there has been growing interest in correlating our autonomic fidgeting behaviours with many of our processes that maintain homeostatic equilibrium. 

I am interested in investigating whether these autonomic, pseudo-rhythmic and (most importantly) internally-generated behaviours are used as landmarks to assist with our compartmentalisation and thus conceptualisation of the passage of time.

Research interests

• neural correlates of attention loading & fidgeting behaviours

• Time perception & blindness

• Multi-sensory integration

• EEG