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Cathy Macpherson is a postdoctoral researcher at Macquarie University in the School of Psychological Sciences, where she investigates how individuals coordinate speech movements during social interactions. Her research primarily focuses on understanding multimodal behavioral signals between individuals, capturing cognitive load and communicative demands linked to social and clinical difficulties. Currently, she is engaged in projects examining how people collaborate in noisy, high-demand environments and seeks to reveal subtle coordination patterns that may indicate challenges related to mental health, including social anxiety. A significant aspect of her work involves exploring markers of interpersonal coordination used in applied settings. She is currently leading a project that quantifies coordination during psychotherapy sessions to improve treatment outcomes, and she is passionate about making advanced time series analyses more accessible to researchers. In addition, Cathy contributes to open resources on GitHub, offering tutorials and tools to help researchers incorporate sophisticated techniques into their work.
University of Western Australia • Perth
Collaborating on research projects focusing on mental health and interpersonal coordination.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).