Openings in the lab

PhD studentships

As part of my ARC fellowship, I have funding for PhD studentships in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. There will be three main aspects to the research, and PhD projects can span one or more of these aspects:

• Development of post-error slowing over childhood and adolescence and its associations to developmental differences in functional connectivity of the cognitive control and attention networks. This work will involve analysis of existing datasets.

• Development of the neural correlates of post-error slowing and cognitive offloading, using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

• Development of a school-based intervention to foster children and adolescents' metacognitive skills in the maths domain.

Some relevant references

de Mooij, S. M. M., Dumontheil, I., Kirkham, N. Z., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2022). Post-error slowing: Large scale study in an online learning environment for practising mathematics and language. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13174. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13174 

Fair, D. A.  et al. (2007). Development of distinct control networks through segregation and integration. PNAS, 104, 13507–13512. 

Boldt, A. & Gilbert SJ. (2022). Partially overlapping neural correlates of metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive control. J

Neurosci., 42, 3622–3635. 

Gilbert SJ, Boldt A, Sachdeva C, Scarampi C & Tsai PC. (2022). Outsourcing memory to external tools: A review of 'intention offloading'. Psychon. Bull. & Rev. doi:10.3758/s13423-022-02139-4

Weil, G. L., Fleming, S. M., Dumontheil, I., Kilford, E. J., Weil, R. S., Rees, G., & Dolan, R. J. (2013) The development of metacognitive ability during adolescence. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(1):264-271.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.01.004