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Associate Professor Mark Nielsen

Associate Professor

School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
m.nielsen@psy.uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56414

Overview

Mark joined the School of Psychology in 2002 as a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow after completing his PhD at La Trobe University. His research interests lie in a range of inter-related aspects of socio-cognitive development in young human children and non-human primates. His current research is primarily focused on charting the origins and development of human cultural cognition. He became Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) in 2015.

He is:

  • a Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
  • the Director, Early Cognitive Development Centre: http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/research/ecdc/
  • a member of: Association for Psychological Science; Society for Research in Child Development; Australasian Human Development Association
  • an Associate Editor: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • an Editorial Consultant: Child Development; Infant and Child Development

Research Impacts

Mark has forged an international reputation for cutting-edge research on multiple aspects of developmental social cognition. Based on the quality of his research, he was presented with an Early Career Researcher Award from the International Society on Infant Studies (2006), a Research Excellence Award from the (then) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (2009), and in 2016 was made a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He has published over 60 papers, had his research feature in over 50 conference presentations and over 10 invited conference and colloquia talks that in 2015 include the Cultural Diversity in Social Learning Pre-Conference of the CDS Biennial Meeting, USA and TEDxUQ, Brisbane.

Qualifications

  • PhD, La Trobe University
  • PGradDip (Psychology), La Trobe University
  • Bachelor of Science, Flinders University

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Cross-cultural perspectives on the development of inequity

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Preschool Children's Normative and Instrumental Learning

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Tool innovation in children and chimpanzees: context matters

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence

    Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen L., Clements, Archie C. A., Yakob, Laith and Magalhaes, Ricardo J. Soares (2017). Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence. In Rollinson, D. and Stothard, J. R. (Ed.), Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Evidence (pp. 1-37) Maryland Heights, MO United States: Academic Press. doi:10.1016/bs.apar.2017.05.002

  • Pretend Play and Cognitive Development

    Nielsen, Mark (2015). Pretend Play and Cognitive Development. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 870-876) Orlando, FL, USA: Elsevier . doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23073-0

  • Failure to find over-imitation in captive orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Implications for our understanding of cross-generation information transfer

    Nielsen, Mark and Susianto, Erna W. E. (2010). Failure to find over-imitation in captive orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus): Implications for our understanding of cross-generation information transfer. In Johan Håkansson (Ed.), Developmental Psychology (pp. 153-167) New York. NY, U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers.

  • Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy

    Nielsen, Mark and Slaughter, Virginia (2007). Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy. In Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. and Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Ed.), Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions (pp. 343-360) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489808.023

  • Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy

    Nielsen, Mark G. and Slaughter, Virginia (2007). Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy. In Nehaniv, C. L. and Dautenhahn, K. (Ed.), Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals First ed. (pp. 343-359) United States: Cambridge University Press.

  • Children's communication of pretend acts using social cues

    Randell, A. C. and Nielsen, M. G. (2006). Children's communication of pretend acts using social cues. In M.A. Vanchevsky (Ed.), Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology (pp. 127-144) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc..

  • Imitation and self-recogntion in autism: In search of an explanation

    Nielsen, M G, Suddendorf, T and Dissanayake, C (2006). Imitation and self-recogntion in autism: In search of an explanation. In S.J. Rogers and J.H.G. Williams (Ed.), Imitation and the Social Mind: Autism and Typical Development (pp. 138-197) New York: The Guilford Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • MEASURING THE EFFECT OF SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH (STH) INFECTIONS ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF EVIDENCE

    Owada, Kei, Nielsen, Mark, Lau, Colleen, Clements, Archie, Yakob, Laith and Magalhaes, Ricardo J. Soares (2017). MEASURING THE EFFECT OF SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH (STH) INFECTIONS ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF EVIDENCE. In: 65th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and-Hygiene (ASTMH), Atlanta Ga, (335-335). Nov 13-16, 2016.

  • Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot

    Hensby, Kristyn, Wiles, Janet, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Nielsen, Mark, Pounds, Paul, Riddell, Joshua, Rogers, Kristopher, Rybak, Nikodem, Slaughter, Virginia, Smith, Michael, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Worthy, Peter and Weigel, Jason (2016). Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot. In: HRI 2016 - 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, (437-438). 7-10 March 2016. doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451794

  • The development of self-recognition in mirrors and live videos

    Suddendorf, T., Simcock, G., Nielsen, M. and Collier-Baker, E. (2006). The development of self-recognition in mirrors and live videos. In: Ottmar V. Lipp and Sarah Price, Australian Journal of Psychology: The Abstracts of the 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference. 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Bardon Conference Centre, Brisbane, (91-92). 20-23 April, 2006. doi:10.1080/00049530600940016

  • Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand invisible displacement?

    Collier-Baker, E, Davis, JM, Suddendorf, T and Nielsen, M (2004). Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand invisible displacement?. In: Folia Primatologica. , , (249-249). .

  • Synchronic imitation as pre-linguistic social interaction

    Nielsen, M. G. and Dissanayake, C A (2003). Synchronic imitation as pre-linguistic social interaction. In: K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv, Proceedings of the AISB '03 Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts. AISB '03 Cognition in Machines & Animals, Aberystwyth / The University of Wales, (131-137). April 7-11, 2003.

  • Deferred imitation and the onset of pretend play in the second year

    Nielsen, M. G. and Dissanayake, C.A. (2002). Deferred imitation and the onset of pretend play in the second year. In: Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Paris, France, (). May 2002.

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Cross-cultural perspectives on the development of inequity

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Preschool Children's Normative and Instrumental Learning

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Tool innovation in children and chimpanzees: context matters

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Understanding Children's Motivations for Compassionate Helping Behaviours

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Moral Self Licensing in Children

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Spatial epidemiological approaches to quantify the role of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) in cognitive dysfunction in school-aged population

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • How does living on farms affect children's understanding of the life cycle? An examination of the effects of environment, experiences and parent communication on children's biological concepts

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Learning for the future: Children¿s capacity to acquire information and skills in preparation for a future event

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • RUBI Oz: validation of social robots and new media in the education of young children

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

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