Lab News

Read about what's been going on in the Mattingley Lab lately. Click on the images to see a larger version.

~ 2017 ~

Lab group photo 2017

Congratulations to Angela Renton

Wednesday 13 December 2017

This video by Angela won the best video category in QBI's 2017 Art in Neuroscience competition.

The video shows all the eye movements (rings) and cursor movements (squares) of participants in a recent study moving cursors to eight cued locations on a display.

Congratulations to Cooper Smout

Monday 13 November 2017

Well done to Cooper for being awarded a prestigious and competitive 2018 Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship. Next year, he will use the award funding to visit the Predictive Brain Lab, based at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands and headed by Dr. Floris de Lange. Here, he will run a forward encoding MEG study investigating the interaction between attention and prediction in the human brain.

Congratulations to our Honours students

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Well done to Lucy, Rebecca, and Shena, who submitted their Honours theses today. An achievement to be proud of!

Congratulations to Luke Hearne

Tuesday 12 September 2017

Well done to Luke for submitting his PhD thesis today, titled "Characterisation of functional brain networks underlying cognitive reasoning and intelligence". We're proud of you!

Congratulations to Roxanne Jemison

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Thursday 3 August 2017

Well done to Roxanne Jemison who graduated from her Graduate Certificate in Business Administration today. All the best with your continuing MBA studies, Roxanne!

Congratulations to Cooper Smout

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Well done to Cooper Smout who passed his M2 PhD mid-candidature assessment today. He gave an excellent presentation on his research to date, titled "Great expectations: The neural dynamics of prediction and attention in perception".

Congratulations to Anthony Harris

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Well done to Anthony Harris who had his PhD exit seminar at QBI today. He gave an excellent presentation on the research he has done into the role of neural oscillations in human visual attention and awareness.

Farewell to Joyce Vromen

Wednesday 31 May 2017

Today we say goodbye to Dr. Joyce Vromen, who is leaving us to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. She will be working with Dr. Sanjay Manohar at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Congratulations Joyce, and all the best for the future!

Farewell to Onno van der Groen

Friday 26 May 2017

Onno van der Groen finished his 12 month stay as a visiting PhD student in the Mattingley Lab today. He will return to his parent institution (ETH Zurich), to finish his PhD under Professor Nicole Wenderoth. Farewell Onno, and all the best for the rest of your studies!

Congratulations to Luke Hearne for passing his M3

Friday 5 May 2017

Well done to Luke Hearne who passed his M3 PhD thesis review today, and gave an excellent presentation on the research he has been conducting into the neural underpinning of relational reasoning and fluid intelligenc

Congratulations to Susan Travis for passing her M2

Wednesday 29 March 2017

Well done to Susan Travis who passed her M2 PhD mid-candidature assessment today, and gave an excellent presentation on the research she has been conducting into the relationship between attention and awareness.

Machines that read your mind

Wednesday 22 March 2017

Well done to Jason, David Painter and Angie, who were part of an evening of public presentations about brain-machine interfaces organised by the CIBF, titled "Machines that read your mind". Well done also to David Lloyd for assistance in developing the software used during the presentation. You can watch a recording of the presentation here

Congratulations to Jessica McFadyen for passing her M2

Monday 20 March 2017

Well done to Jessica McFadyen who passed her M2 PhD mid-candidature assessment today, and gave an excellent presentation on the research she has been conducting into the neural pathways for threat detection and face processing.