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Brain, Vision, Mental Processes and Health

We advance our understanding of how brain, vision and mind systems work in health and disease, and how this information can be used to improve human capability and wellbeing, and develop better therapeutics and treatments for neurological, eye and mental health conditions.

About

This theme aims to advance our understanding of how the brain and visual system processes information and how this information can be used to develop better therapeutics and treatments. 

Researchers in this theme will investigate various aspects of visual perception, cognitive processing, emotion recognition, and decision making. They will use a range of techniques, including neuroimaging, electrophysiology, molecular biology and psychophysics, to study the neural mechanisms underlying visual system and cognition. This theme will use a  transdisciplinary approach that will bring together researchers from psychology, neuroscience, retinal biology, clinical sciences and computer science to shed light on fundamental questions about how the brain processes information and how this information can be used to guide, improve or enhance behavior in the real world. 

Theme Leaders: Bernadette Fitzgibbon & Riccardo Natoli (interim)  

Groups

brain, clinical neuroscience, internventional psychiatry

The Interventional Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience research group focuses on developing innovative therapies for mental health conditions.

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Projects

This research looks at the effects that ageing has on driving abilities and applied cognition and will develop tools to determine if a person is a safe driver in order to ensure road safety.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Masters, MPhil, PhD students

People

  • Professor Mark Horswill, University of Queensland, Co-investigator
  • Associate Professor Andrew Hill, University of Queensland, Co-investigator

Attentional control, self control and executive function all play important roles in our health, safety and overall wellbeing. This project seeks to develop new and innovative ways of measuring attentional control.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students

People