Jeff Hamm

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88519
Email: j.hamm@auckland.ac.nz
Room: HSB 628

I arrived at The University of Auckland in August of 1997 to conduct a post-doc with Prof. M.C. Corballis after completing my PhD at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). I became a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology in 2002, the same year I got married. Since then I have become a dual citizen, with citizenship in both New Zealand and Canada. I continue to have strong research ties with Canada, and have been developing additional collaborations in the United States, England, Germany, and China.

I have a wide variety of research interests, including the visual identification of objects, mental transformations (such as mental rotation), visual illusions of motion, the attentional blink, visual attention, links between amusia (tone deafness) and language processing, and human LTP (to name a few). I tend to employ classic behavioral paradigms and, when suitable, adapt these to neuro-imaging studies such as EEG and fMRI. I enjoy collaborating with students and colleagues, both in my department and abroad.

• Crawford, T.J., Hamm, J.P., Kean, M., Schmechtig, A , Kumari, V., Anilkumar, A., & Ettinger, U. (in press). The Perception of real and illusory motion in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologica.
• Jiang, C., Hamm, J.P., Lim, V.K., Kirk, I.J., & Yang, Y. (2010) Processing melodic contour and speech intonation in congenital amusics with Mandarin Chinese. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2630-2639.
• Kirk, I. J., McNair, N. A., Hamm, J.P., Clapp, W. C., Mathelon, D. H., Cavus, I., & Teyler, T. J. (in press). Long-term potentiation of visual-evoked potentials. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.
• Wu, C., Fairhall, S.L., McNair, N.A. , Hamm, J.P., Kirk, I.J., Cunnington, R., Anderson, T., & Lim, V.K., (2010). Impaired sensorimotor integration in focal hand dystonia patients in the absence of symptoms. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 81, 659-665.
• Kung, E. & Hamm, J.P. (2010). A model of rotated mirror/normal letter discriminations. Memory & Cognition, 38, 206-220.