Rate My Professor Bernadine Cocks

Cocks's research interests lie primarily in language and cognition, with additional focus on addiction, childhood development, language and literacy development and dysfunction across the lifespan, cognitive augmentation and enhancement, heart rate variability and EEG analysis, and persuasion and propaganda. Her scholarly output includes numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Notable publications encompass 'Minimum connected component–A novel approach to detection of cognitive load induced changes in functional brain networks' (Neurocomputing, 2015, with Vijayalakshmi et al.), 'Directed Connectivity Analysis of Functional Brain Networks during Cognitive Activity using Transfer Entropy' (Neural Processing Letters, 2017, with Shovon et al.), 'Capturing Cognition via EEG Based Functional Brain Networks' (book chapter, 2016, with Shovon et al.), 'Personality, opinion strength, and social media use – not such a straightforward relationship' (2025, with Cox et al.), and 'Are Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering Opposite Constructs? It Depends on How Mindfulness is Conceptualised' (2023, with Somaraju et al.). Beyond research, she advocates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students by developing the Sorry Business Factsheet, adopted across the Faculty of Medicine and Health, contributing to decolonising the undergraduate psychology curriculum, and volunteering at the Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, where she mentors students to foster self-efficacy and support their progression in psychology.