Biography

Janie is a researcher in cognitive psychology and mental health. She completed her BSc and PhD at the University of Queensland and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. Her interests in experimental psychology include the development of episodic memory and planning (mental time travel) in children, the development of the understanding of time, and adult temporal perception and drive states. Her research in mental health focuses on the epidemiology of common mental disorders and ethical implications of randomised controlled trials. Janie has a keen interest in statistical methodology and is a member of the Cognition Research Stream at the Centre for Applied Psychology.

Teaching Areas

Research Interests

• Episodic memory and planning (mental time travel)
• Cognitive development
• Understanding of time and temporal perception
• Ethics in psychological and psychiatric research
• Screening methodologies for common mental disorders
• Statistical methodology

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Busby Grant, J. & Suddendorf, T. (under review). Young childrens ability to use temporal markers to track changes in physical and mental states. Developmental Psychology.
  
• Busby Grant, J. & Suddendorf, T. (under review). Production of temporal terms by 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
  
• Busby Grant, J., Mackinnon, A., Christensen, H. & Walker, J. (in press). Participants perceptions of motivation, randomisation and withdrawal in a community-based prevention randomised controlled trial. Journal of Medical Ethics.
  
• Busby Grant, J., Mackinnon, A., Christensen, H. & Walker, J. (2008). Participants perceptions of motivation, randomisation and withdrawal in a community-based prevention randomised controlled trial. Paper presented at the Australasian Society of Psychiatric Research, Newcastle, Australia 3-5 December 2008.
  
• Busby Grant, J. & Suddendorf, T. (advance online publication 2008). Preschoolers differentiate the times of events from throughout the lifespan. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
  
• Halford, G. S. & Busby, J. (2007). Acquisition of structured knowledge without
  instruction: The relational schema induction paradigm. Journal of Experimental
  Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 33, 586-603.
  
• Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2005). Recalling yesterday and predicting tomorrow. Cognitive Development, 20, 362-372.
  
• Halford, G. S., Ford, M., Busby, J. & Andrews, G. (2005). Literature Review of Formal Models of Human Thinking. A report prepared under contract to Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC): Toronto.
  
• Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2005). Making decisions with the future in mind:
  Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel. Learning and Motivation, 36, 110-125.
  
• Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2003). Like it or not? The mental time travel debate: Reply to Clayton et al., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 437-438.
  
• Suddendorf, T. & Busby, J. (2003). Mental time travel in animals? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 391-369.
  
• Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2003). The emergence of mental time travel: Two investigations of childrens temporal abilities. Poster presented at the XIth Conference on Developmental Psychology, Milan, Italy 27 - 31 August, 2003.
  
• Busby, J. & Halford, G.S. (2003). Acquisition of artificial grammar: Schema induction versus implicit learning. Paper presented at the ICCS/ASCS Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia 13 - 17 July 2003.
  
• Busby, J. & Suddendorf, T. (2002). Progress and mental time travel: An evolutionary psychology approach. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Work
  in Progress Conference, Brisbane, Australia 4 - 6 October, 2002.