Rate My Professor Geoff Hammond

Geoff Hammond is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia. He earned a BPsych (Hons) from the University of Western Australia in 1967 and a PhD from the University of Rochester, New York, in 1973. His academic career began at UWA as a Temporary Lecturer in 1973, advancing to Lecturer from 1974 to 1984, Senior Lecturer from 1985 to 1991, Associate Professor from 1992 to 2002, and Winthrop Professor from 2003 to 2011. Currently, he holds the position of Senior Honorary Research Fellow since 2012. Hammond also served as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Rochester during the summer and fall of 1971, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Toxicology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, from January to June 1979, and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, from March to July 1988.

Professor Hammond's research specializations encompass motor control and reflex organisation, behavioral neuroscience and experimental psychology, as well as research design and methodology. His expertise areas include behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, motor control, and psychoacoustics. He applies transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to examine cortical motor function, inhibitory and excitatory circuits, manual dexterity, handedness, and experience-dependent reorganization in the motor cortex. Key publications include "The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias" (2024, co-authored with C. Lawson, C. Macleod, B. Grafton, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry), "Covariation of the amplitude and latency of motor evoked potentials elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation in a resting hand muscle" (2023, co-authored with A.M. Vallence, B.K. Rurak, H. Fujiyama, Experimental Brain Research), "Long-interval intracortical inhibition is asymmetric in young but not older adults" (2017, co-authored with A.M. Vallence, E. Smalley, P.D. Drummond, Journal of Neurophysiology), "Are Participants Aware of the Type and Intensity of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation?" (2016, co-authored with M. Tang, D. Badcock, PLoS One), "Selective attentional processes in cochlear implant recipients: Measurements of the attentional filter" (2016, co-authored with C. Bester, D.M.P. Jayakody, D. Robertson, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America), and "A classification of handedness using the Annett Hand Preference Questionnaire" (2007, co-authored with M. Dragovic). His research outputs total 66 articles, 2 conference papers, 1 chapter contribution, and 1 review article as documented in the UWA research repository.