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Shahd Al-Janabi
BIOSKETCH
The candidate is a Lecturer in Psychology at Charles Darwin University. They received their B.A.
(Psychology Hons) from the University of Western Australia, and their Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
from the Centre for Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University. The candidate has extensive
training in psychology, cognitive neuro/science and statistics, and have authored numerous peer-
reviewed publications and abstracts for scientific conferences. Their research investigates
information processing and decision-making. They have applied this work to understanding the way
in which humans select important information in the environment, process that information, and
use the information to make effective decisions whilst projecting out into the future. They strive to
ensure that education is accessible to all by participating in teaching, supervisory and mentorship
opportunities at all levels: professional, tertiary, and secondary, which make use of active and mixed-
learning practices to engage learners. The candidate sees bringing the interaction between research
and education into the classroom as being vital to preparing students for our knowledge society.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY • LEARNING AND MEMORY • PERCEPTION • RESEARCH METHODS •
BEHAVIOURAL/COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2015 Macquarie University
[Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science]
Thesis title: “Constraints on attentional orienting by symbolic cues”
Supervisor: Associate Professor Matthew Finkbeiner
Other education/training
• Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, 2021
• Introduction to Science Management, Department of Defence, 2018
• Senior First Aid Officer, Australia Wide FirstAid, 2018
• Collaborative IRB Training Initiative, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2015
• Responsible Conduct of Research, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2014
EMPLOYMENT
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Defence Science and Technology, Melbourne, VIC Australia MAR 2018 till AUG 2019
Cognitive and Behavioural Scientist, Land Human Systems 1.5 YEARS
Summary:
Contribution to the research of the Land Human Systems capability through the development of a Human-Robot
Teaming program. In this role I collaboratively conduct research that investigates optimal ways to support the
interaction of human operators with autonomous systems, affects the design of emerging technology, and feeds
into reports that advise the Commonwealth on the feasibility of human-robot teaming. To that end, I conduct
cooperative research with academia, industry and international agencies, effectively report on research to internal
and external stakeholders, support funding bodies, and provide training across all organisational levels.
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI USA JUL 2014 till JUL 2017
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, College of Letters and Sciences 3 YEARS
Summary:
Contribution to the research of the Sensory Neuroscience of Attention and Perception Laboratory through creating
their transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) capabilities. I
developed the lab’s research stream on the brain mechanisms that subserve different modes of attention by
integrating psychophysical with neuroscientific methods. To that end, I created data collection and analysis
pipelines for the new TMS and fMRI capabilities, collaborated with internal and external partners, provided ongoing
support to research students, disseminated research information, and contributed to teaching.
TEACHING
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Anonymous Evaluations >90% responded that I was “well prepared for each class”
>80% responded that I “communicated well with the class”
>80% responded that I “created a good environment for learning”
INVITED TALKS:
2019 Stop! Too much information: cognitive load and augmented-reality systems
Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, VIC Australia
2017 Cognitive control: can it occur without conscious awareness?
Department of Psychology, Carthage College, WI USA
2017 Ascertaining the extent to which cognitive control depends on feedforward
versus feedback mechanisms
Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition (CerCo), Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier,
France
2017 Elucidating the cognitive and neural constraints imposed upon visual attention
Department of Psychology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
2013 Constraints on attentional orienting by symbolic cues as revealed through
masking
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Germany
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
2013 Effective processing of masked gaze and arrow cues requires volitional control
ASC Lab, McGill University, QB Canada
2013 Do eye-gaze and arrow cues automatically orient attention?
BAR Lab, University of British Columbia, BC Canada
2020 Administrator
SONA Participant Management System, Charles Darwin University
2020 Mentor
CSIRO STEM in Schools Program, NT Australia
2019 Psychology Representative
Health Innovation Virtual Reality Education Working Group, Charles Darwin University
2019 Robotics Autonomous Systems Sub-Team Chair
Human Performance Group, The Technical Cooperation Program
2018 - 19 Australian Representative
Human Performance Group, The Technical Cooperation Program
2018 - 19 Land Division Ethics Representative
Low Risk Ethics Panel, Defence Science and Technology, VIC Australia
2018 - 19 Land Division Gender Equality Representative
Gender Equality Working Group, Defence Science and Technology, VIC Australia
2017 Judge
NSW Robotics Competition Judge, Macarthur Girls High School, NSW Australia
2014 -17 Research in Psychology Workshop Facilitator
Future Success Program, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI USA
Upward Bound Program, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI USA
2014 -17 Mentor
Mentor 2.0, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, WI USA
2012 Organiser
Psychology Open House, Macquarie University, NSW Australia
1st Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Macquarie University, NSW Australia
2011 Organiser
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Seminar Series, Macquarie University, NSW Australia
2005 Tutor
Peer Assisted Learning Scheme, Macarthur Girls High School, NSW Australia
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Psychological Research
Journal of Vision
Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Social Cognition
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
Vision
Information
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
RESEARCH
MEDIA:
Connections Magazine
Augmenting-reality to make the unseen seen
2019
Australia Science Augmenting-reality to make the unseen seen
2019
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
2017 Samantha Rose Stepflug 2014 Rachel Bogatay 2011 Lisa Wyburd
2015- Richard John Dubbelde 2013 Jessica Rozysnoi 2010 Laura Pogatchnik
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2015 Jonathan Reich 2013 Audrey Fletcher 2010 Magdalena Ward
RESEARCH/TECHNICAL SKILLS:
PUBLICATIONS
REPORTS:
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Price, T., Dummin, R., Al-Janabi, S., & Cahill, L. (2019). Cognitive Burden Associated with Information Quantity
& Form: A simulated augmented reality study.
Price, T., Cahill, L., Dummin, R., & Al-Janabi, S. (2019). The effect of a prototype augmented reality night
vision and thermal helmet-mounted display on dismounted soldier cognitive burden and mission
performance.
Al-Janabi, S. Dummin, R., & Cahill, L. (2019). Land-53 PH1 BR Tranche 2 User Evaluation.
Al-Janabi, S., Care, S., & Cahill, L. (2019). Human factors risks for L-200 Tranche 2.
PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:
Care, S., Al-Janabi, S., Simpson, A., Coleman, J. & Davis, S. (in press). Customizing human factors
information for better Australian Army soldier equipment design and acquisition. Applied Human
Factors and Ergonomics.
Tan, W., Alsadoon, A., Withana, C., Al-Janabi, S., Deva, A., & Hsu, J. (2019). A novel enhanced intensity based
automatic registration framework for supporting augmented reality breast cancer surgery. The
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery.
Luitel, P., Alsadoon, A., Prasad, P.W.C., Al-Janabi, S., & Pham, L. (2019). A novel solution of Distortion Aware
TCP Friendly Adaptive Congestion Control (DATFACC): real-time wireless networks for rural tele-
psychology. Transactions in Emerging Telecommunications Technology. Doi:10.1002/ett.355
Al-Janabi, S., & Greenberg, A. (2016). Target-object integration, attention distribution and object orientation
interactively modulate object-based attention. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. doi:
10.3758/s13414-016-1126-3
White, D., Burton, A.M., Rivolta, D., Al-Janabi, S., & Palermo, R. (2016). Face matching in congenital
prosopagnosia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1173076
Palermo, R., Rossion, B., Rhodes, G., Laguesse, R., Tez, T., Hall, B., Albonico, A., Malaspina, M., Daini, R., Irons,
J., Al-Janabi, S., Taylor, L., Rivolta, D., & McKone, E. (2016). Do people have insight into their face
recognition abilities? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:
10.1080/17470218.2016.1161058
Ocampo, B., Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2014). Direct evidence of inhibitory control without perceptual
awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0766-3
Burianova, J., Sowman, P., Marstaller, L., Rich, A., Williams, M., Savage, G., Al-Janabi, S., De Lissa, P., &
Johnson, B. (2014). Adaptive motor imagery: a multimodal study of immobilization-induced brain
plasticity. Cerebral Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhu287
Al-Janabi, S., Nickels, L.A., Sowman, P.F., Burianová, H., Merrett, D.L., & Thompson, W.F. (2014). Augmenting
melodic intonation therapy with non-invasive brain stimulation to treat impaired left-hemisphere
function: two case studies. Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(37).
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00037
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2014). Responding to the direction of the eyes: In search of the masked
gaze-cueing effect. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 76, 148-161. doi: 10.3758/s13414-
013-0570-6
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional control.
Experimental Brain Research, 216, 433-443. doi:10.1007/s00221-011-2944-0
Al-Janabi, S., MacLeod, C., & Rhodes, G. (2012). Non-threatening other-race faces capture visual attention:
Evidence from a dot-probe task. PLoS One, 7(10), e46119. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046119
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Strommer-Davidovich, N., Al-Janabi, S., Greenberg, A., & Gabay, S. (in preparation). The evolutionary nature
of object-based attention.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS:
Al-Janabi, S., Strommer-Davidovich, N., Gabay, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2016). Perceptual completion alters the
cortical level at which object-based attentional selection is evident. Journal of Vision Conference
Abstract: Vision Sciences Society, 16, 688. doi: 10.1167/16.12.688
Narra, M., Al-Janabi, S., Sowman, P., & Finkbeiner, M. (2015). Tracking the evolution of task relevant and
irrelevant information in the Simon task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Conference Abstract: ACNS
– 2015, Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference.
Al-Janabi, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2015). Target ‘on’ or ‘of’ an object? It does not matter for object-based
attention. Journal of Vision Conference Abstract: Vision Sciences Society. doi: 10.1167/15.12.885
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Moving to the direction of the eyes: finding the masked gaze cueing
effect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Conference Abstract: ACNS-2012, Australasian Cognitive
Neuroscience Conference. doi:10.3389/conf.fnhum.2012.208.00014
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012). Effective processing of masked eye-gaze requires volitional control.
Perception, 41, ECVP Abstract Supplement, page 27.
Finkbeiner, M., Friedman, J., Quek, G., & Al-Janabi, S. (2012). Using Reaching Trajectories to Reveal the
Dynamics of Stimulus Categorisation. Clinical EEG Neuroscience Conference Abstract: ACNS – 2011
Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. doi: 10.1177/1550059412444821
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Care, S. & Al-Janabi, S. (2020, July). Customising human factors information for better Australian Army
soldier equipment design and acquisition. International Conference on Applied Human Factors and
Ergonomics (AHFE), San Diego.
Taylor, L., Al-Janabi, S., & Coleman, J. (2018, November). Using inertial measurement units to determine
human performance measures for weapons assessment. Paper presented at the Human Factors &
Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) conference, Perth.
Al-Janabi, S. & Cahill, L. (2018, November). Making the unseen seen: using the perceptual and cognitive
sciences to guide augmented-reality design. Paper presented at the Defence Human Science
Symposium (DHSS), Perth.
Al-Janabi, S., Strommer-Davidovich, N., Gabay, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2017, November). Object-based
selection emerges late in visual cortex for object percepts of varying strength . Paper presented at the
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, D.C.
Al-Janabi, S., Strommer-Davidovich, N., Gabay, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2017, May). Object-based selection
emerges early in visual cortex for object percepts of varying strength . Poster presented at the 17th
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference, Florida.
Al-Janabi, S., Strommer-Davidovich, N., Gabay, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2016, November). Object-based
attention acts upon degraded object representations in early visual cortex . Poster presented at the
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, San Diego.
Al-Janabi, S., Strommer-Davidovich, N., Gabay, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2016, May). Perceptual completion
alters the cortical level at which attentional selection is evident. Poster presented at the 16th Vision
Sciences Society (VSS) Conference, Florida
Strommer-Davidovich, N., Al-Janabi, S., Greenberg, A., & Gabay, S. (2016, February). The evolutionary
nature of object-based attention. Poster presented at the 3rd Conference on Cognition Research of
the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCoP), Acre.
Narra, M., Al-Janabi, S., Sowman, P., & Finkbeiner, M. (2015, November). Tracking the evolution of task
relevant and irrelevant information in the Simon task. Poster presented at the 5th Australasian
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference (ACNS), Auckland.
Al-Janabi, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2015, November). Target-object integration interacts with object
presentation during object-based selective attention. Poster presented at the Objects, Perception,
Attention and Memory (OPAM) Conference, Chicago.
Al-Janabi, S., & Greenberg, A.S. (2015, May). Target ‘on’ or ‘of’ an object? It does not matter for object-
based attention. Poster presented at the 15th Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Conference, Florida.
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LECTURER • CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY • NORTHERN TERRITORY
+1(08)8946 6491 • shahd.al-janabi@cdu.edu.com
Narra, M., Al-Janabi, S., Sowman, P., & Finkbeiner, M. (2015, April). Temporal dynamics of motor cortex
excitability for task relevant and irrelevant information in the Simon task. Poster presented at the 42nd
Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Sydney.
Thompson, W.F., Sowman, P., Nickels, L., Al-Janabi, S., Merret, D., & Savage, G. (2013, August). Melodic
intonation therapy: is it an effective treatment for non- fluent aphasia? Paper presented at the
Biannual meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), Toronto, Canada.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2013, April). Re-defining the hallmarks of exogenous attention by non-
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conscious cues. Paper presented at the 40 Australiasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC),
Adelaide.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012, November). Moving to the direction of the eyes: finding the masked
gaze cueing effect. Poster presented at the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference
(ACNS), Brisbane.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012, April). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional
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control. Paper presented at the 34 European Conference for Visual Perception (ECVP), Alghero.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2012, April). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional
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control. Paper presented at the 39 Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Sydney.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2011, December). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional
control. Paper presented at the 2012 Higher Degree Research Showcase (HDR Showcase), Sydney.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2011, December). Effective processing of masked eye gaze requires volitional
control. Poster session presented at the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (ACNC),
Sydney.
Finkbeiner, M., Friedman, J., Quek, G., & Al-Janabi, S. (2011, December). Using reaching trajectories to
reveal the dynamics of stimulus categorization. Paper presented at the Australasian Cognitive
Neuroscience Conference (ACNC), Sydney.
Al-Janabi, S., & Finkbeiner, M. (2011, April). Do eye-gaze cues automatically orient spatial attention?
Evidence from a masked-cueing task. Poster session presented at the 38th Australasian Experimental
Psychology Conference (EPC), Auckland.