Dr. Amanda K. Robinson

Email: a.robinson4@uq.edu.au

Current research

Our brains are constantly processing and integrating information from different sources so we can make decisions and interact with the world around us. My research uses behavioural paradigms, neuroimaging methods (EEG, MEG, fMRI) and multivariate analyses to understand the mechanisms underlying human perception and attention, particularly focusing on hemispheric lateralization and hemispheric integration for visual object perception.

Research interests

• Visual perception and attention

• Hemispheric lateralisation

• Object perception

Publications

Saurels, B. W., Robinson, A. K.,  and Taubert, J. (2025). Increased susceptibility to the face pareidolia illusion in Visual Snow syndrome. Perception,  03010066251387849 3010066251387849. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251387849

Robinson, A. K., Stuart, G., Shatek, S. M., Herbert, A.,  and Taubert, J. (2025). Neural correlates reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception. Communications Psychology , 3 (1)  126 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00308-4

Stuart, G., Saurels, B. W., Robinson, A. K.,  and Taubert, J. (2025). One object with two identities: The rapid detection of face pareidolia in face and food detection tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 51 (6) 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001296

Robinson, A. K., Grootswagers, T., Shatek, S. M., Behrmann, M.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2025). Dynamics of visual object coding within and across the hemispheres: Objects in the periphery. Science Advances,  11 (1)  eadq0889 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq0889

Moore, M. J., Robinson, A. K.,  and Mattingley, J. B. (2025). Expectation dynamically modulates the representational time course of objects and locations. Imaging Neuroscience,  3  IMAG.a.999 3. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.999

Buhmann, Z., Robinson, A. K., Mattingley, J. B.,  and Rideaux, R. (2024). Inverted encoding of neural responses to audiovisual stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97230.1

Moore, M. J., Robinson, A. K.,  and Mattingley, J. B. (2024). Expectation modifies the representational fidelity of complex visual objects. Imaging Neuroscience,  2.  imag-2-00083 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00083

Sulfaro, A. A., Robinson, A. K.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2024). Properties of imagined experience across visual, auditory, and other sensory modalities. Consciousness and Cognition, 117  103598 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103598

Grootswagers, T., Robinson, A. K., Shatek, S. M.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2024). Mapping the dynamics of visual feature coding: Insights into perception and integration. PLoS Computational Biology, 20 (1)  e1011760 e1011760. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011760

Robinson, A.K., Quek, G.L.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2023). Visual Representations: Insights from Neural Decoding. Annual Review of Vision Science,  9 (1) 2.1-2.23. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-100120-025301

Sulfaro, A. A., Robinson, A. K.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2023). Modelling perception as a hierarchical competition differentiates imagined, veridical, and hallucinated percepts. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023 (1)  niad018 niad018. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad018

Moerel, D., Grootswagers, T., Robinson, A. K., Shatek, S. M., Woolgar, A., Carlson, T. A.,  and Rich, A. N. (2022). The time-course of feature-based attention effects dissociated from temporal expectation and target-related processes. Scientific Reports, 12 (1)  6968 6968. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10687-x

Shatek, S. M., Robinson, A. K., Grootswagers, T.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2022). Capacity for movement is an organisational principle in object representations. NeuroImage,  261  119517 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119517

Moshel, M. L., Robinson, A. K., Carlson, T. A.,  and Grootswagers, T. (2022). Are you for real? Decoding realistic AI-generated faces from neural activity. Vision Research, 199  108079 108079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108079

Grootswagers, T., Zhou, I., Robinson, A. K., Hebart, M. N.,  and Carlson, T. A. (2022). Human EEG recordings for 1,854 concepts presented in rapid serial visual presentation streams. Scientific Data,  9(1) . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01102-7

Robinson AK, Rich AN, Woolgar A. (2022) Linking the brain with behaviour: the neural dynamics of success and failure in goal-directed behaviour. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(4). DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01818

Grootswagers T, Robinson AK, Shatek SM, Carlson TA (2021). The neural dynamics underlying prioritisation of task-relevant information. Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis and Theory, 5(1). DOI: 10.51628/001c.21174

Robinson AK, Grootswagers T, Shatek SM, Gerboni J, Holcombe A, Carlson TA (2021). Overlapping neural representations for the position of visible and imagined objects. Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis and Theory, 4(1). DOI: 10.51628/001c.19129

Carlson TA, Grootwagers T, Robinson AK. (2020). An introduction to time-resolved decoding analysis for M/EEG. In Gazzaniga, M.G., Mangun, G.R. & Poeppel, D. (eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition, MIT Press.

Teichmann L, Quek GL, Robinson AK, Grootswagers T, Carlson TA, Rich AN (2020). Yellow strawberries and red bananas: The influence of object-colour knowledge on emerging object representations in the brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(35), 6779-6789. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0158-20.2020

Grootswagers T, Robinson AK, Shatek SM, Carlson TA (2019). Untangling featural and conceptual object representations. NeuroImage, 202, 116083. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116083

Robinson AK*, Grootswagers T*, Carlson TA. (2019). The influence of image masking on object representations during rapid serial visual presentation. NeuroImage, 197, 224-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.050

Grootswagers T*, Robinson AK*, Carlson TA (2019). The representational dynamics of visual objects in rapid serial visual processing streams. NeuroImage, 188, 688-679. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.046

Collins, E*, Robinson AK*, Behrmann M (2018). Distinct neural processes for the perception of familiar and unfamiliar faces along the visual hierarchy revealed by EEG. NeuroImage, 181, 120-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.080

Robinson AK, Venkatash P, Boring M, Tarr M, Grover P, and Behrmann M (2017). Very high density EEG elucidates spatiotemporal aspects of early visual processing. Scientific Reports, 7, 16248. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16377-3

Robinson AK, Plaut D, Behrmann M (2017). Word and face processing engage overlapping distributed networks: Evidence from RSVP and EEG investigations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(7), 943-961. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000302

Robinson AK, Reinhard J, Mattingley JB. (2015). Olfaction modulates early neural responses to matching visual objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(4), 832-841. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00732

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