Topic: Physiological responses

Join the Environmental Physiology Laboratory at the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise on a Natural Hazards Research Australia project addressing heat stress in rural and bushfire firefighters. Work with Julien Périard to investigate physiological, perceptual, behavioural, cognitive and psychological responses to environmental stress through laboratory, field and survey research. Duties include developing thermophysiological methods, analysing data, preparing publications and technical reports, supporting grant proposals and maintaining laboratory facilities. This

The cognitive neuroscience of conscious perception has seen considerable growth over the past few decades. Confirming an influential hypothesis driven by earlier studies of neuropsychological patients, we have found that the lateral and polar prefrontal cortices play important causal roles in the generation of subjective experiences. However, this basic empirical finding has been hotly contested by researchers with different theoretical commitments, and the differences are at times difficult to resolve. To address the controversies, I suggest one alternative venue may be to look for clinical a