School of Psychology
Mailbag M304
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009

BSc (Swinburne), PhD (UQ; 2004)

Professional Memberships; Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition; Australian Psychological Society, APS College of Organisational Psychologists

Reviewing Activity; Memory & Cognition; Human Factors; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

My research seeks to understand the mechanisms that underlie human performance in work contexts. My approach is to observe performance in safety-critical work environments and take these insights back into the laboratory, bringing them under experimental control. This research is grounded in cognitive psychology and human factors, and is complemented by field research and consultancy. Particular areas of interested include prospective memory, skill acquisition, workload, error, conflict detection, and transfer/ individual differences of training.

Loft, S., Bolland, S., Humphreys, M.S., & Neal, A. (in press). A theory and model of conflict detection in air traffic control: Incorporating environmental constraints. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Yeo, G., Loft, S., Xiao, T., & Kiewitz, C. (2009). Goal orientations and performance: Differential relationships across levels of analysis and as a function of task demands. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 710-726

Fothergill, S., Loft, S., & Neal, A. (2009). ATC-labAdvanced: An air traffic control simulator with realism and control. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 118-127.

Loft, S., Kearney, R., Remington, R. (2008). Is task interference in event-based prospective memory dependent on cue presentation? Memory and Cognition, 36, 139-148.

Loft, S., Humphreys, M. S., & Whitney, S. J. (2008). Control of access to memory: The use of task interference as a behavioral probe. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 465-479.

Loft, S., Neal., A., & Humphreys, M. S. (2007). The development of a general associative learning account of skill acquisition in a relative arrival-time judgment task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 938-959.

Loft, S., Sanderson, P., Neal, A., & Mooij, M. (2007). Modeling and predicting mental workload in en route air traffic control: Critical review and broader implications. Human Factors, 49, 376-399.

Loft, S., & Yeo, G. (2007). An investigation into the resource requirements of event-based prospective memory. Memory and Cognition, 35, 263-274.

Boag, C., Neal, A., Loft, S., & Halford, G. (2006). An analysis of relational complexity in an air traffic control conflict detection task. Ergonomics, 14, 1508-1526.

Loft, S., Humphreys, M., & Neal, A. (2004). The influence of memory for prior instances on performance in a conflict detection task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10, 173-187.

Loft, S., Hill, A., Neal, A., Humphreys, M. & Yeo, G. (2004). ATC-lab: An air traffic control simulator for the laboratory. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 36, 331-338.

Loft, S., Humphreys, M. & Neal, A. (2003). Prospective memory in air traffic control. In G. Edkins & P. Pfister (Eds). Innovation and Consolidation in Aviation, pp. 287-293. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.