email: antoinette.poulton@unimelb.edu.au
twitter: @antwo
researcher profiles: research gate / google scholar
Research
Antoinette is an NHMRC MRFF Early to Mid-Career Research Fellow (2024-2026; CIA; $489,000) and also holds a University of Melbourne Dean’s Innovation Seed Grant (2024; CIA; $40,000). Her research focuses on executive function and transition to addiction. She investigates how cognitive factors related to self-control and impulsivity influence the transition from at-risk alcohol/drug consumption to alcohol/drug dependence. Antoinette is interested in how smartphone technologies can be used to provide researchers with real-time information about drinking, self-control and reward sensitivity, and the feasibility of collecting data completely online. She is is currently investigating how personalised feedback about alcohol intake and cognition impact subsequent alcohol use. She is the previous recipient of a University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant (2023; CIA; $40,000).
Antoinette studied for her PhD at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences). During her studies, she was in receipt of an Australian Postgraduate Award and an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. She has been awarded the Velma Stanley Award (University of Melbourne) and the Bursary in Memory of Feminist Fathers (Graduate Women Victoria). She is a founding member of the Australian Ambulatory Assessment and Intervention Network. Antoinette also has a Master of Education and has previously worked in the secondary and tertiary education sectors, both in Australia and abroad.
Publications
Poulton, A., Dali, G. … & Hester, R. (2023). Impact of personalised alcohol intake and cognitive feedback on alcohol use behaviour in hazardous drinkers. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47(7), 1377-1389.
Dali, G., Poulton, A., & Hester, R. (2023). Chronic cannabis use and error awareness: The effect on learning from errors. PloS one, 18(3), e0283158.
Dali, G., Poulton, A., & Hester, R. (2022). Investigating the Neurobiological and Cognitive Effects of Binge Drinking: Concerns and Considerations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(10), 955-956.
Poulton, A., Rutherford, K., Boothe, S., Brygel, M., Crole, A., Dali, G., Bruns Jr, L. R., Sinnott, R. O., & Hester, R. (2022). Evaluating untimed and timed abridged versions of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, 44(1), 73-84
Poulton, A., Chen, E., Dali, G., Fox, M., & Hester, R. (2022). Web-based independent versus laboratory-based Stop-Signal Task performance: Within-subjects counterbalanced comparison study. JMIR, 24(5), e32922
Poulton, A., Eastwood, O., Bruns Jr, L. R., Sinnott, R. O., & Hester, R. (2022). Addressing methodological issues in a study of impulsivity and vulnerability for transition to alcohol use disorder. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 46(2), 262-276.
Dali, G., Poulton, A., & Hester, R. (2022). Investigating the Neurobiological and Cognitive Effects of Binge Drinking: Concerns and Considerations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(10), 955-956.
Poulton, A., & Hester, R. (2020). Transition to substance use disorders: Impulsivity for reward and learning from reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Nsz077.
Poulton, A., Mata, A., Pan, J., Bruns, L. R., Sinnott, R. O., & Hester, R. (2019). Predictors of adverse alcohol use consequences among tertiary students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 43(5), 877-887.
Poulton, A., Pan, J., Bruns, L. R., Sinnott, R. O., & Hester, R. (2019). A smartphone app to assess alcohol consumption behavior: Development, compliance, and reactivity. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 7, e11157.
Poulton, A., Pan, J., Bruns Jr, L. R., Sinnott, R. O., & Hester, R. (2017). Assessment of alcohol intake: Retrospective measures versus a smartphone application. Addictive Behaviors, 83, 35-41.
Poulton, A., Mackenzie, C., Harrington, K., Borg, S., & Hester, R. (2016). Cognitive Control Over Immediate Reward in Binge Alcohol Drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical And Experimental Research, 40(2), 429-437.
Conference/Poster presentations
Research Society on Alcohol Scientific Meeting, 2023 (Bellevue-Seattle), Poster.
Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol & Other Drugs (APSAD) 2022 (Darwin). Oral Communication and Poster (x2).
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) 2020 (Melbourne, Australia). Individual Talk.
European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) 2019 (Lille, France). Oral communication and Poster.
Lisbon Addictions 2019 (Lisbon, Portugal). Oral communications (x2).
European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) 2017 (Crete). Oral communication.
Ambulatory Assessment and Intervention Network (AAI) 2017 (Melbourne). Oral presentation.
Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol & Other Drugs (APSAD) 2016 (Sydney). Poster Breakout.
Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) 2015 (Auckland). Poster.
Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) 2013 (Melbourne). Poster.