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Associate Professor Marta Garrido leads the Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry Laboratory at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne and is Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function. Marta received her PhD in 2008 from University College London under the supervision of Professor Karl Friston. She then completed postdocs at University California Los Angeles and back at University College London. In 2013 she moved to the Queensland Brain Institute on a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and later established her independent laboratory. In mid 2019 the lab moved to the University of Melbourne. contact

I am interested in how the brain identifies structures, acts and adapts, through the Predictive Coding framework, in a world with uncertainty. I use perceptual decision tasks, computational modelling and functional neuroimaging to study these questions. Outside the Lab, I sometimes conduct my real-life uncertainty ‘fieldwork’ at a local kickboxing club.

I am an early-career postdoctoral researcher with an interest in visual perception, predictive coding, attention, and awareness. My current project uses structural MRI and diffusion tractography to investigate the pathways underlying visual motion perception. Throughout my PhD, I used EEG combined with modelling and machine learning techniques to investigate various aspects of conscious experience by manipulating attention, awareness and expectations.

For me it starts with my curiosity on the fundamental nature of the brain and how it works to shape our reality. I have completed a BSc (Hons) in neuroscience from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Currently, I'm a PhD student in the Garrido lab investigating the neurocircuitry underpinning belief updating in addiction. When I'm not in the lab, you will most likely find me on the tennis court!

I am a PhD student interested in how differences in processing and representing uncertainty may result in confounding perceptual inferences. My project is focused on understanding underlying aberrancies in the way information is evaluated and integrated into a coherent model of the world, to provide mechanistic insight into the development of positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucinations and delusions. Outside of the lab, you will most likely find me at a gig listening to live music!

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I am a new PhD student interested in understanding the brain circuitry underlying predictive coding using neuroimaging modalities including 7-telsa fMRI and MEG. In general, I am interested in how the brain works and how we are able to perceive things. Outside the lab, I enjoy running and walking in parks. And I recently started to learn table tennis and futsal.

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My MPhil is aimed at understanding how the brain processes both sensory and prior uncertainty. Specifically, I am using 7T fMRI to investigate how manipulations of uncertainty affect activation at different layers of the visual cortex. Ultimately, I hope this research can inform our understanding of how Bayesian inference is performed in the brain. When I'm not in the lab, you will most likely find me outplaying Shivam on the tennis court!

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I am a textile based mid career Australian artist. As part of my ongoing exhibition Internal landscapes, I am a textile based mid career Australian artist. As part of my ongoing exhibition Internal landscapes, I am conducting my own research in the field of neuroscience, anatomy, and biotechnology interventions only through visual perspectives and for cultural perspectives for cultural outcomes, rather than scientific endeavour. I have given myself the task of looking for the poetry within the science. Even within my short time of working with Marta’s team I'm finding this poetry glimmering and glistening like a grains of gold in a swirling gold pan.