Rate My Professor Camilla Luck

Dr. Camilla Luck is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. She holds a PhD in Psychology. Her research specializations include psychophysiology, fear conditioning, instructed extinction, electrodermal responding, fear-potentiated startle, cognition, anxiety, learning, and memory. Luck has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications in these fields, amassing over 520 citations across 43 works as documented on ResearchGate. She frequently collaborates with Professor Ottmar V. Lipp and other researchers on studies examining the mechanisms of fear acquisition, extinction, and relapse.

Key publications by Dr. Luck include 'Instructed extinction in human fear conditioning: History, recent developments, and future directions: Instructed extinction review' (2016), 'Temporal context cues in human fear conditioning: Unreinforced conditional stimuli can segment learning into distinct temporal contexts and drive fear responding' (2018), 'Novelty-facilitated extinction and the reinstatement of conditional human fear' (2018), 'Contrast Effects in Backward Evaluative Conditioning: Exploring Effects of Affective Relief/Disappointment Versus Instructional Information' (2019), and 'Relapse of Evaluative Learning—Evidence for Reinstatement, Renewal, but Not Spontaneous Recovery, of Extinguished Evaluative Learning in a Picture–Picture Evaluative Conditioning Paradigm' (2019). More recent contributions encompass 'The effect of prepulse amplitude and timing on the perception of prepulses' (2022), 'N1-P2 event-related potentials and perceived intensity are associated with prepulse inhibition of the startle eyeblink reflex' (2023), and 'The effect of temporal predictability on sensory gating: Cortical suppression is unaffected by temporal uncertainty' (2024). She serves on the editorial board of Behaviour Research and Therapy and has participated in research funded by the Australian Research Council and Wellcome Trust, including projects on personalized extinction profiles for clinical anxiety. In 2021, Dr. Luck received the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award. She teaches psychology courses at Curtin University, such as PSYC2000: Understanding the Psychology of Learning.