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Research Themes
The Healthy Brain
- Identifying the mechanisms of brain disease
- Age-related changes in cognition and sensorimotor control
- Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of brain disease and trauma
- Rehabilitation and treatment of sensory and motor loss
The Developing Brain
- The development of the brain mechanisms underlying speech, reading, arithmetic, reasoning, and social behaviour
- The neural correlates of developmental disorders
- Optimizing education for normal and abnormally developing brains
The Working Brain
- Genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms
- Networks and connectivity
- Computational models of the working brain
The Thinking/Acting Brain
- Attention, memory, perception, and decision-making
- Sense of self, theory of mind, and meta-cognition
- Neural substrates of social behaviour
- Speech and language
- Consciousness
- Sensorimotor control systems
- Computational models of cognition and sensorimotor control
- Neuroethology
The Brain and Neurotech
- Neuroimaging, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG etc
- Brain stimulation
- Brain-computer/machine interfaces
- Cognitive ergonomics
The Artificial Brain and Robotics
- Emulating human decision-making in AI
- Recognition and classification in AI
- Collaborative robotics
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous robotics