Dr Ian Evans

Lecturer , Neuroscience - School of Science and Technology

Ian Evans

Biography

Ian has been a fixture at UNE since 2008 when he started working with the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the School of Psychology. After a stint at Aston University in Birmingham, he received his PhD from the University of Wollongong studying the effects of EMF radiation on visual perception before joining us here at the School of Science & Technology.

Qualifications

B. Psych (Hons.), PhD

Teaching Areas

Neuroscience, Education (lesson planning)

Primary Research Area/s

Source localization of EEG signals; Neural network functional connectivity; EMF radiation protection

Research Interests

EMF-induced phosphene perception, functional connectivity of resting state neural networks

Research Supervision Experience

EEG analysis of mood disorder biomarkers (Christopher Watson)

Publications

Evans, I. D., Palmisano, S., & Croft, R. J. (2021). Retinal and cortical contributions to phosphenes during transcranial electrical current stimulation. Bioelectromagnetics, 42(2), 146-158. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.22317

Evans, I. D., Palmisano, S., & Croft, R. J. (2022). Effect of ambient lighting on frequency dependence in transcranial electrical stimulation-induced phosphenes. Nature: Scientific Reports, 12(1), 7775. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11755-y

Jamieson, G. A., Page, J., Evans, I. D., & Hamlin, A. (2023). Conflict and control in cortical responses to inconsistent emotional signals in a face-word Stroop. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.955171

Sharpley, C. F., Arnold, W. M., Evans, I. D., Bitsika, V., Jesulola, E., & Agnew, L. L. (2023). Studies of EEG asymmetry and depression: To Normalise or Not? Symmetry, 15(9), 1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15091689

Clinical Skills and Experience

EEG data cleaning/analysis

Memberships

Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR), Brain Behaviour Research Group (UNE)

External Profiles