Rate My Professor Peter Clissa

Peter Clissa serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Murdoch University. He earned his Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Western Australia between 1997 and 1999, followed by a Master of Clinical Psychology from the same institution between 2003 and 2007. Earlier in his career, Clissa was associated with the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Australia, contributing to research on topics such as schizophrenia endophenotypes, working memory processes, and face perception. He has been recognized as a sessional lecturer in clinical psychology at Murdoch University, as noted in departmental handbooks, and currently holds a concurrent position as Senior Clinical Psychologist in Paediatric Rehabilitation at Perth Children’s Hospital.

Clissa's research focuses on areas including memory, cognitive neuropsychology, executive function, cognition disorders, neuropsychological rehabilitation, cognitive development, developmental neuropsychology, and neuroplasticity. His scholarly contributions include several peer-reviewed publications from his time at the University of Western Australia. Key works are 'Revisiting the suitability of antisaccade performance as an endophenotype in schizophrenia' (Brain and Cognition, 2011), 'Binding of verbal and spatial features in auditory working memory' (2009), 'A Multivariate Electrophysiological Endophenotype, from a Unitary Cohort, Shows Greater Research Utility than Any Single Feature in the Western Australian Family Study of Schizophrenia' (Biological Psychiatry, 2006), 'Attractiveness of Own-Race, Other-Race, and Mixed-Race Faces' (Perception, 2005), and 'Retention of order and the binding of verbal and spatial information in short-term memory: Constraints for proceduralist accounts' (2003). These studies explore binding mechanisms in short-term memory, electrophysiological markers in schizophrenia families, and perceptual biases in face attractiveness. Clissa has also supported research efforts such as the DEPS-GP study on depression in primary care. His publications have garnered over 300 citations, reflecting contributions to cognitive and clinical psychology.