School of Psychology: Academic Staff

DR. MARK ELLIOTT

Office  Rm. 3031, NEB
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Dr. Mark Elliott CSci, BA (Hons) (Open), MSc (Bham), PhD (Lond.)

Mark was awarded a first-class honours degree in psychology from the Open University (UK, 1988-1994), studied Cognitive Science between 1993 - 1994 at the University of Birmingham and graduated with a Masters and Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of London in 1998. After several years as a social worker, Mark returned to education and, following completion of his PhD at the University of London, took up a research fellow's position at the Universität Leipzig. Immediately prior to his appointment as senior lecturer at NUI Galway Mark was employed as an assistant professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich. He was an Honorary Research Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Mark is a Chartered Scientist, was President of the International Society for Psychophysics and has been commissioned by the EC to advise universities in EU candidate states on curricula and research. Since 2010 Mark has been Chair of the Center for Applied Perceptual Research in the Department of Human Sciences, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan. Mark is also a member of the Center for Research on Neurobehavioral Development of Children and Adolescents, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasilia, Brasil.

Members of the Center for Applied Perceptual Research, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan, from L-R Prof. Kazuo Ueda, Dr. Emi Hasuo, Prof. Shozo Tobimasu, Prof. Mark A. Elliott (Chair), Dr. Erika Tomimatsu, Prof. Hiroyuki Ito, Prof. Yoshitaka Nakajima (Director)

Research Interests

Mark's interest is in time and more specifically the timing of psychological processes (or temporal dynamics) at the level of cognitive microstructure. His investigations concern perception, memory and to a lesser extent decision-making. Mark orients this research into psychophysical systems towards an understanding of disease and psychological dysfunction and has recently undertaken research investigating these aspects of dyslexia, specific language impairment, autism spectrum disorder, blindsight and schizophrenia. He is also interested in the visual aesthetic and develops a research agenda around this topic.

His scientific achievements began with the formulation of an entirely original research paradigm as a means for determine regularities in process timing alongside the effects of synchronization for visuo-perceptual organization (Elliott & Müller, 1998, 2000, etc.). From this work he was able to firmly establish that the precise spatio-temporal patterning of a subthreshold priming stimulus embedded in a flickering pattern is of influence upon the binding of subsequently presented visual patterns. In fact, and as shown by Elliott, Giersch and Seifert (2006), this is the only paradigm to have shown direct feature - feature binding is measurable through manipulation of the dynamics of (inter)neural mechanisms. The paradigm thus permits direct access to the mechanisms responsible for the integration of component processes or of individual chunks of sensory information in perception, and thus directly concerns the psychological binding hypothesis which has been a topic of discussion since the mid 1980’s.

Since then Mark has developed an interest in temporal event-structure coding and has published several manuscripts following a paradigm developed with Fatma Sürer and Zhuanghua Shi in Munich (Elliott, Shi & Sürer, 2007). These have proved relevant to the study of disease and psychological dysfunction as introduced above.

Research Facilities

The dedicated research space at Galway comprises a suite of two experimental laboratories alongside an adjoining office. The first lab is equipped with a Datacheck 1050 XY plotter with P15 phosphor, capable of image-frame generation with sub-millisecond resolution. The second lab houses a state of the art Cambridge Research Systems ViSaGe graphics controller powering a final generation 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB monitor and an IRIS Skalar eye tracker. Experimental programs and data analysis are created in house in C or Matlab programming environments. The lab can also make use of 32-channel Brain Amps EEG amplifiers located in the Dept and a 128-channel system, located in a neighboring facility.

Research Students

Mark is designer and director of the Structured PhD in Perception, Cognition and Action at Galway. He has supervised or is supervising 14 doctoral research degrees and something like double that number of advanced undergraduate and Master's degree projects. Former research or lab students have undertaken doctoral research degrees or postdoctoral research at the Universities of London (Kings, Imperial and Birkbeck), Cambridge, and Yale, the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, the Max-Planck Institutes in Leipzig and Munich and the National Academy of Sciences in Moscow. One student was awarded the Armitage Smith memorial prize for the best doctoral research project at Birkbeck College, The University of London.

For the time being Mark is not taking further research students

In compliance with the University’s policy as regards the Croke Park agreement, Mark will offer 1 hour per week of his time for the purpose of first-year undergraduate student counseling. Students are advised to make arrangements via their tutor if they wish to avail of this service.

Publications

Books

• Elliott, M.A. & Paramei, G.A., (Eds.) . Measures in Reflection Whitney: Peter Lang Ltd (in preparation).

Original articles (refereed)

• Falter, C.M., Elliott, M.A., & Bailey, A (2012). Increased perceptual resolution: temporal event structure coding in autism spectrum disorders. PLoS ONE (in press)
• Elliott, M.A., Twomey, D., & Glennon, M. (2012). The Dynamics of Visual Experience, an EEG Study of Subjective Pattern Formation. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30830. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030830
• Elliott, M.A. (2011). The problem with perceptual synchrony, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6789, pp.58-66.
• Aksentijević, A., Barber, P.J., & Elliott, M.A. (2011). Process timing and its relation to the coding of tonal harmony Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(5), 1628-1642.
• Schmidt, H., McFarland, J., Ahmed, M., McDonald, C., & Elliott, M.A. (2011). Low-Level Temporal Coding Impairments in Psychosis: Preliminary Findings and Recommendations for Further Studies, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(2) 476-482. PMID: 21553943.
• Elliott, M.A., & Shanagher, L. (2010). Temporal event-structure coding in developmental dyslexia: evidence from explicit and implicit temporal processing. Psihologija 43(4) 373-387.
• Giersch, A., Elliott, M.A., Boucart, M., & Vidailhet, P (2010). Some cognitive effects of Benzodiazepine administration. A review and therapeutic implications, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 126, 94-108.
• Seifert, D., Falter, C., Strasburger, H., & Elliott, M.A. (2010). Bandpass characteristics of high-frequency sensitivity and visual awareness in blindsight, Consciousness & Cognition, 19, 144-151.
• Giersch, A., Lalanne, L., Corves, C., Seubert, J., Shi, Z., Foucher, J., & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Extended visual simultaneity thresholds in patients with schizophrenia . Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, 816-825 PMID: 18359954.
• Golovina, E., Skotnikova, I., & Elliott, M.A. (2009). The phenomenon of confidence as manifested in the Russian and German cultures. Russian journal of Experimental Psychology, 2(1), 23-34.
• Conci, M., Müller, H.J., & Elliott, M.A. (2009.) The computation of shape orientation in search for Kanizsa figures. . Perception 38, 173-185).
• Becker, C., Gramann, K., Müller, H.J., & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Electrophysiological correlates with the perception of subjective colors. Consciousness and Cognition 18, 266-276.
• Abu Bakir, A., Liu, L., Conci, M., Elliott, M.A., & Ioannides, A.A. (2008). Visual field and task influence illusory figure responses. Human Brain Mapping, 29,1313-1326.
• Foucher, J.R., Lacambre, M., Pham, B.-T., Giersch, A., & Elliott, M.A. (2007). Poorer time resolution in schizophrenia: Longer windows of simultaneity in visual, auditory and bimodal stimuli. Schizophrenia Research, 97, 118-127. PMID: 17884350
• Conci, M., Müller, H.J., & Elliott, M.A. (2007). The contrasting impact of form and inducer similarity on Kanizsa figure detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(8), 1278-1294.
• Bachmann, T., Elliott, M., Herzog, M., & Vorberg, D. (2007). Visual perception in a snapshot. Psychological Research, 71(6), 615-617. PMID: 16614835
• Elliott, M.A., Shi, Z., & Sürer, F. (2007). The effects of subthreshold synchrony on the perception of simultaneity. Psychological Research, 71(6), 687-693. PMID: 16614834
• Shi, Z., & Elliott, M.A. (2007). Oscillatory priming and form complexity. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(2), 193-208. PMID: 17557590
• Conci, M., Müller, H.J., & Elliott, M.A. (2007). Closure of salient regions determines search for a collinear target configuration. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(1), 32-47. PMID: 17515214
• Elliott, M. A., Shi, Z., & Kelly, S. D. (2006) A moment to reflect upon perceptual synchrony. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(10), 1663-1665. PMID: 17014371
• Elliott, M. A., Giersch, A., & Seifert, D. (2006). Some facilitatory effects of lorazepam on dynamic visual binding. Psychopharmacology,  184(2), 229-238. PMID: 16374601
• Conci, M., Gramann, K., Müller, H. J. & Elliott, M. A. (2006). Electrophysiological correlates of similarity-based interference during detection of visual forms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(6), 880-888. PMID: 16839296
• Becker, C. & Elliott, M. A. (2006). Flicker induced colors and forms: Interdependencies and relation to stimulation frequency and phase. Consciousness and Cognition, 15 (1), 175-196. PMID: 16054838
• Elliott, M. A.(2005). Temporal tolerance circumscribed. Visual Cognition, 12 (4), 655-661.
• Becker, C., Elliott, M. A., & Lachmann, T. (2005). Evidence for impaired visuo-perceptual organization in developmental dyslexics and its relation to temporal processes. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22 (5), 499-522.
• Conci, M., Elliott, M. A., Müller, H. J., Wendt, J., & Becker, C. (2004). The dynamics of operations in visual memory: A review of conclusions drawn from evidence for oscillatory priming. Experimental Psychology, 51 (4), 300-310. PMID: 15620231
• Elliott, M. A. & Müller, H, J. (2004). Synchronization and stimulus timing: Implications for temporal models of visual information processing. In C. Kaernbach, E. Schröger, & H. Müller (Eds.). Psychophysics beyond Sensation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates (pp. 137-156).
• Elliott, M.A., Conci, M., & Müller, H.J. (2003). Prefrontal cortex maintains visual information in very short-term oscillatory persistence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 733-734.
• Müller, H. J., Elliott, M. A., Herrmann, C. S., & Mecklinger, A. (2001). Neural Binding of Space and Time: Spatial and temporal mechanisms of feature-object binding. Visual Cognition, 8 (3), 273-285.
• Elliott, M. A. & Müller, H. J. (2001). Effects of stimulus synchrony on mechanisms of perceptual organization. Visual Cognition, 8 (5), 655-677. JIF 2.2.
• Aksentijevic, A., Elliott, M. A., & Barber, P. J. (2001). Dynamics of perceptual grouping: similarities between the organization of visual and auditory groups. Visual Cognition, 8 (3), 349-358.
• Elliott, M. A., & Müller, H. J. (2000). Evidence for a 40-Hz oscillatory short-term visual memory revealed by human reaction time measurements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 26 (3), 703–718. PMID: 10855427
• Elliott, M.A., Herrmann, C. S., Mecklinger, A., & Müller, H. J. (2000). The Loci of 40-Hz visual-object priming mechanisms: A combined electroencephalographic and reaction-time study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 38 (3), 211-225. PMID: 11102664
• Elliott, M. A., Becker, C., Boucart, M., & Müller, H. J. (2000). Enhanced GABA(A) inhibition enhances synchrony coding in human perception. NeuroReport, 11 (15), 3403-3407. PMID: 11059910
• Müller, H. J. & Elliott, M. A. (1999). 40-Hz synchronicity priming of Kanizsa figure detection demonstrated by a novel psychophysical paradigm. In G. Aschersleben, T. Bachmann & J. Müsseler (Eds.). Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events. Amsterdam: Elsevier, (pp. 323 -340).
• Elliott, M. A. (1999). Can we explain cross-modal representation with neural algorithms alone? – a comment on Paillard. In G. Aschersleben, T. Bachmann & J. Müsseler (Eds.). Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events. Amsterdam Elsevier, (pp.117-119).
• Müller, H. J. & Elliott, M. A. (1999). Pertentional retouch, selective attention and synchronicity priming: Commentary on Talis Bachmann, "Visible events and phenomena". In G. Aschersleben, T. Bachmann & J. Müsseler (Eds.). Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events. Amsterdam: Elsevier, (pp. 207-212).
• Elliott, M. A. & Müller, H. J. (1998). Synchronous information presented in 40-Hz flicker enhances visual feature binding. Psychological Science, 9 (4), 277-283.

Proceeding papers

• Elliott, M.A., Mulcahy, P., Kelly, J., Twomey, D., & Brosnan, J. (2011). Effects of golden sectioning on search and discrimination in Mondrian-like grids. In D. Algom, D. Zakay, E. Chajut, S. Shaki, Y. Mama & V. Shakuf (Eds.) Fechner Day 2011: The 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Raanana, Israel: The International Society for Psychophysics (pp. 137-142).
• Elliott, M.A., & Aksentijević, A. (2010). Process timing and its relation to tonal harmony. Proceedings of the Auditory Research Meeting, The Acoustical Society of Japan, 40(10), pp.795-799.
• Elliott, M.A. (2010). Temporal structure and inner psychophysics: A glimpse of equilibrium? In Bastianelli, A., & Vidotto, G., (Eds.) Fechner Day 2010. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Padova, Italy: The International Society for Psychophysics.
• Twomey, D., Glennon, M., & Elliott, M.A. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of flicker-induced form hallucinations. In Bastianelli, A., & Vidotto, G., (Eds.) Fechner Day 2010. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Padova, Italy: The International Society for Psychophysics.
• Mulcahy, P., Rosa Salva, O., Elliott, M.A., & Regolin, L. (2010). Structural imbalance and aesthetic preference in domestic chicks. In Bastianelli, A., & Vidotto, G., (Eds.) Fechner Day 2010. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Padova, Italy: The International Society for Psychophysics
• Antonijević, S., Night, C., Dring, G., Lynch, D., Murphy, G., Boyle, M., & Elliott, M.A. (2009) Noise exclusion in visual and auditory modalities in children with language disorder. In M.A. Elliott, S. Antonijević, S. Berthaud, P. Mulcahy, B. Bargary, C. Martyn, & H. Schmidt. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 197-202).
• Schmidt, H., MacFarland, J., Ahmed, M., McDonald, C., & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Investigating the perception of simultaneity in psychosis: a comparison of first‐episode psychosis and treatment‐resistant schizophrenia patients with healthy controls. In M.A. Elliott, S. Antonijević, S. Berthaud, P. Mulcahy, B. Bargary, C. Martyn, & H. Schmidt. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 209-214).
• Martyn, C., Antonijević, S., & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Little evidence for impaired event-structure coding in language impaired children. In M.A. Elliott, S. Antonijević, S. Berthaud, P. Mulcahy, B. Bargary, C. Martyn, & H. Schmidt. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 539-544).
• Schmidt, H., McFarland, J., McDonald, C., & Elliott, M.A. (2008). Comparing temporal event-coding in patients with first-episode psychosis and chronic schizophrenia. In B. A. Schneider and B. M. Ben-David, S. Parker and W. Wong (Eds.). Fechner Day 2008. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Toronto, Toronto University Press, (pp. 106-110).
• Elliott, M.A. (2007). Defining Perceptual Synchrony. In S. Mori, T. Miyoka, & W. Wong (Eds.). Fechner Day 2007. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Tokyo, Japan: Kijima Printing Inc., (pp. 103-106).
• Elliott, M.A., Shi, Z., & Sürer, F. (2006) The effects of subthreshold synchrony on the perception of simultaneity. In D.E. Kornbrot, R.M. Msetfi, & A.W. McRae (Eds.). Fechner Day 2006. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. St. Albans, England: University of Hertfordshire Press, (pp. 113-118).
• Shanagher, L.M., & Elliott, M.A. (2006). Measures of cognitive dysmetria in developmental dyslexia. In D.E. Kornbrot, R.M. Msetfi, & A.W. McRae (Eds.). Fechner Day 2006. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. St. Albans, England: University of Hertfordshire Press, (pp. 287-292).
• Shi, Z., & Elliott, M. A. (2005). Expectancy, not memory determines identical search rates in static and dynamic displays. In J. S. Monahan, S. M. Sheffert & J. T. Townsend. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2005. Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Traverse City Michigan, USA. The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 333-336).
• Becker, C., & Elliott, M. A. (2004). The visual hallucinatory response to flickering polychromatic light. in A. M. Oliveira, M. Teixeira, G. F. Borges & M. J. Ferro. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2004. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Coimbra, Portugal. The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 146-151).
• Elliott, M. A., & Shenvi, G. (2004). Some effects of negative delays upon the perception of causal relatedness. in A. M. Oliveira, M. Teixeira, G. F. Borges & M. J. Ferro. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2004. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Coimbra, Portugal. The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 356-361).
• Seifert, D., Elliott, M. A., & Giersch, A. (2004). New measures of functional (but not perceptual) continuity in visual grouping. in A. M. Oliveira, M. Teixeira, G. F. Borges & M. J. Ferro. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2004. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Coimbra, Portugal. The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 524-529).
• Aksentijevic, A., Elliott, M. A., & Barber, P. J. (2002). Process timing and its relation to the perception of tonal harmony. In J. A. Da Silva, E. H. Matsushima, & N. P. Ribeiro-Filho (Eds .). Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics, (vol. 18). Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil: Editora Legis Summa Ltda, (pp.161-166).
• Becker. C., Lachmann, T., & Elliott, M. A. (2001). Evidence for impaired integration-segmentation processes and slowed synchrony coding in dyslexics. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.). Fechner Day 2001. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics, Lengerich; Berlin; Riga; Rome; Viernheim; Vienna; Zagreb: Pabst Science Publishers (pp. 273-278).
• Elliott, M. A.,& Müller, H.J. (2001). Quantitative, qualitative and structural descriptions of the effects of synchronized-stimulus presentation. In L. Chen, & Y. Zhou (Eds.). Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science. Beijing: Press of the University of Science and Technology of China, (pp. 239-243).
• Herrmann, C. S., & Elliott, M. A., (2001). Fechner colors are induced by flickering monochromatic light. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.). Fechner Day 2001. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics, Lengerich; Berlin; Riga; Rome; Viernheim; Vienna; Zagreb: Pabst Science Publishers (pp. 427-431).
• Kompass, R., & Elliott, M.A., (2001). Modeling as part of perception: a hypothesis on the function of neural oscillations. In E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, & T. Lachmann (Eds.). Fechner Day 2001. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics, Lengerich; Berlin; Riga; Rome; Viernheim; Vienna; Zagreb: Pabst Science Publishers (pp. 130-135).
• Elliott, M. A., Müller, H. J., & Mecklinger, A. (2000). The temporal characteristics of visual persistence. In E. Schröger, A. Mecklinger, & A. D. Friederici (Eds.). Working on Working Memory: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of the DFG Study Group on Working Memory. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (pp. 25-40).
• Elliott, M. A., & Müller, H, J. (1999). On the role of 40-Hz, and evidence of faster-frequency oscillations during visual-object perception. In P. R Killeen & W. R. Uttal (Eds.). Fechner Day 99: The End of 20^th Century Psychophysics. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual meeting of the International Society of Psychophysics. Tempe, AZ, USA. The International Society for Psychophysics, (pp. 13-18).
• Müller, H. J., Elliott, M. A., Heller, D. & Krummenacher, J. (1999). Dimensionspezifisches Priming von Popout-Zielreizen und Synchronizitätspriming von Figur-Grund- segmentierungsprozessen: Zwei neue Formen des impliziten visuellen Kurzzeitgedächtnisses. In E Wittruk & H-J Lander (Eds.). Informationsverarbeitungsanalysen. Kognitionspsychologische und meßmethodische Beiträge. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, (pp. 55-65).

Editorials

• Elliott, M.A., Antonijević, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C., & Schmidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.
• Bachmann, T., Elliott, M. A., Herzog, M. & Vorberg, D. Visual Processing in Microgenesis: Feedforward or Reentrant? Psychological Research, (Special issue, in press).
• Müller, H. J., Elliott, M. A., Herrmann, C. S., & Mecklinger, A. (2001). Neural Binding of Space and Time: Spatial and temporal mechanisms of feature-object binding. Visual Cognition, 8 (Special Issue).

Other journal articles

• Herrmann, C. S., & Elliott, M. A., (2003). Fechner colors are induced by flickering monochromatic light. Audio-Visual Stimulation, 3 (1), 7-10.

Support from research grants and contracts

Mark has been involved in successful bids for research funds (in the wider EU context as well as in the UK, France, Germany and Ireland and including those in support of multi-project Forschergruppen or research groups in Germany) to a total of over €5,000,000. Of this he has acquired €1,512,386.

Colloquia, conferences and seminars

Since 1998 Mark has presented research on 57 occasions to audiences at major international conferences, meetings or colloquia in 15 countries including major universities or meetings in the UK, USA, Japan, China, France, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, Switzerland and Italy. He has also been involved in the organization of 4 symposia or conference theme sessions on the topic of temporal dynamics in psychophysics. In 2009 Mark hosted the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics at the Glenlo Abbey, Galway in collaboration with Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic of the Dept. of Speech and Language Therapy and their doctoral students.

Society Memberships and Professional Services

• Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (1999 – 2008)
• Visiting Professor, Univerzitet u Beogradu, SRB (2007)
• Chartered Scientist (CSci)
• Member of the American Psychological Association (APA)
• Invited Member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Member of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP)
• Founder Member of the Society for Complex Systems in Cognitive Science (SCSCS)
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate
• Member of the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Sciences (NCBES) (IE)
• Member of the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC), at NUI, Galway, IE
• Founding member of the Neurosciences Cluster and formerly Chair of the Applied Clinical Neurosciences Subgroup of the NCBES, 2006 - 2008
• Member of the Board of the Social Science Research Centre, Galway, 2007 - date
• Former President of the International Society for Psychophysics and advisor to the Society Executive 2005 – date.
• American Psychological Association Task-Force advisor on international teaching and learning, quality-review procedures, 2008 – 2009.
• European-Commission appointed advisor to candidate accession states in the Balkans (SRB and MK) concerning integration and development of Psychology curricula according to Bologna structures 2006 – 2009.
• Chair of the Psychology Panel: the UIA Undergraduate Awards of Ireland, 2009.

University Teaching Responsibilities

Research Degree Supervision

Mark has supervised 15 doctoral research degrees (6 current) and about three times that number of Masters, Diploma or undergraduate dissertations. At the time of writing all of his doctoral students bar four have been in receipt of research council or other funding or were employed and contributed their research work to their thesis. All completed students submitted well within 4 years.

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