Psychological Sciences Research Groups
Affective Development and Psychopathology Team
Laboratory Director: Dr Julian Simmons
The Affective Development and Psychopathology Team (ADAPT) is a network of researchers investigating the environmental, interpersonal and biological processes that influence emotional reactivity and emotion regulation across the lifespan.
Attention Dynamics Lab
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Katherine Johnson
We are interested in the ways infants, children, and adolescents think and act. We investigate how children focus on one task amidst a sea of choices and how they receive and respond to information.
Behavioural Ethics, Affect and Meaning Lab
Laboratory Director: Prof Brock Bastian
The BEAM lab is focused on examining motivational and affective processes involved in ethical decision-making and behavior, how people regulate and respond to negative experiences, and determinants and consequences of living a meaningful life.
Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Stephen C Bowden
The Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory is part of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, located in the Redmond Barry Building at the University of Melbourne.
Clinical and Health Psychology
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Carol Hulbert
Our Laboratory brings together a number of staff members who are interested in the phenomenology, classification, etiology, maintenance and outcomes of mental disorders across the entire lifespan.
Clinical and Music Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Sarah Wilson
Our Laboratory investigates the brain mechanisms that underpin human hearing.
Cognitive and Neuropsychological Development Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Robert Reeve
Among other issues, we are interested in the neurological and cognitive causes of developmental dyscalculia; diagnosis and treatment of dyscalculia.
Cognitive Interventions Technologies and Evaluation Research Group (CITE)
Laboratory Directors: Dr Amit Lamput & Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs
CITE is a research group within the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age in the Department of Psychiatry, co-led by Dr Amit Lampit and Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs. We develop, evaluate, implement and study the mechanisms of cognition-oriented treatments across the lifespan and brain disorders.
Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Rob Hester
The implementation of cognitive control by the human brain is critical to a range of everyday activities, and the failure of this mechanism is believed to contribute to the symptom profile of a number of clinical conditions.
Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry Lab
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Marta Garrido
We use a combination of brain imaging techniques and computational modelling to understand the neural underpinnings of learning and decision making both in typical individuals as well as in people with psychiatric disorders.
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Jason Forte
Behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli.Effects of electrophysiological stimulation on behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli.Modelling the relationship between visual input, and behavioural and physiological responses.
Computational Cognitive Science Lab
Research Group Leader: Associate Professor Andrew Perfors
Our research focuses on quantitative approaches to higher-order cognition: categorisation, concepts, language acquisition and evolution, decision-making, and social learning and transmission
Computational Memory Lab
Laboratory Director: Dr Adam Osth
The Computational Memory Lab aims to develop and test computational models of memory processes. The lab focuses on understanding the processes behind encoding, representation, retrieval, and decision-making in memory.
Decision-making & Affective Learning in Emotional Conditions (DALEC)
Laboratory Director: Dr Nicholas Van Dam
My research interests center on the use of cognitive neuroscience methods, decision science, and computational psychology/psychiatry to better understand and delineate high-prevalence symptoms across the spectrum from normal to pathological with a critical focus on value-based decision-making processes.
Decision Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Stefan Bode
Our research group focuses on the investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual, health-related, financial and voluntary decision-making, as well as decision errors and preference formation.
Evolution, Conflict, and Equality Lab
Lab Director: Dr Khandis Blake
Research from the ECE Lab addresses big issues that profoundly influence people's mental, social and economic wellbeing.
Functions of Emotions in Everyday Life (FEEL) Research Lab
Head of Lab: Dr Katie Greenaway , Dr Peter Koval & Dr Elise Kalokerinos
The FEEL Lab aims to discover how emotions function in the rich and complex environments we encounter in our daily lives.
Genes, Brain and Behaviour Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Patrick Goodbourn
In our lab, we investigate how normal and disordered behaviours and brain functions are affected by our genes.
John Trinder Sleep Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Prof Amy Jordan & Dr Christian Nicholas
The Sleep Laboratory conducts a variety of sleep related research including the effects of poor sleep on mental health and cognition, as well as research to better understand the causes for sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea.
Knowledge, Information & Learning Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Daniel R Little
Our work focuses on understanding how we develop knowledge through experience and learning, how knowledge representations influence how we perceive and interpret new information, how our interpretations and perceptions influence our behaviour, and what our behaviour tells us about our knowledge.
Life-span Development Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Jeanette Lawrence
Our research focuses on different aspects of personal and social development in varying life periods across the whole of life.
Memory and Language Lab
Laboratory Director: Prof Simon Dennis
Our research utilises large scale real world data, experimental paradigms and computational modelling techniques to investigate the cognitive architecture underlying memory and language. Much of our research uses experience sampling technologies (smartphone apps, social media, and internet-of-things devices) to capture a person’s experience and behaviour in their real world environment.
Melbourne Psychology and Ageing
Directors: A/Prof Christina Bryant & A/Prof Kathryn Ellis
Our research draws on a biopsychosocial framework and considers mental health and wellbeing in the context of age-related physical, medical and cognitive conditions.
Mental Illness Stigma Laboratory
Head of Lab: Dr Chris Groot
Our laboratory conducts research into stigma about mental illness.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Litza Kiropoulos
Our laboratory investigates the biological, psychological, social and cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in the development of affective and anxiety disorders.
Moral Psychology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Simon Laham
The Moral Psychology Laboratory is dedicated to understanding the psychological bases of moral and ethical judgement, decision-making and behaviour.
Negotiation and Interactive Behaviour Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Philip L Smith
We investigate the factors that shape negotiation processes and outcomes.
Neurocognitive Disorders Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Sarah Wilson
This Laboratory investigates a range of neurocognitive disorders, including epilepsy, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
Objectification and Gender Lab
Laboratory Director: Dr Elise Holland
The Objectification and Gender Lab conducts research into the objectification of women, gender equality, and body image.
Pain and Cognition Neuroimaging Lab
Director: Dr Natalia Egorova
Our lab seeks to understand the relationship between pain and cognition in healthy and clinical populations, using multi-modal neuroimaging.
Perception and Pharmacology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Olivia Carter
The majority of the research in the lab focuses on two questions
- How does the brain's natural chemicals control complex behaviours, thoughts and perceptions?
- What are the factors that determine the contents of an individual's conscious experience?
Personality Processes Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Luke D Smillie
The Personality Processes Laboratory seeks to expand our knowledge of the structure of personality, along with its underlying causes and downstream consequences for various aspects of our lives.
Physical Appearance Research Team (PART)
Directors: Dr Scott Griffith, Dr Khandis Blake & Dr Isabel Krug
Led by Drs Scott Griffiths and Isabel Krug, PART unites a team of academics, postdocs, research assistants and postgraduate and undergraduate students with a shared interest in the phenomena of human physical appearance.
Prediction and Decision-Making Laboratory
Welcome to the Prediction and Decision-Making Laboratory at the University of Melbourne
Social Action Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Yoshihisa Kashima
The Social Action Laboratory is primarily concerned with the antecedents and consequences of meaningful human social action.
Social Networks Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Johan Koskinen
Research and training in the theory, methods and applications of social networks.
Social/Personality Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Nick Haslam
Our Laboratory investigates topics that bridge social and personality psychology.
Subcortical Cognitive Dysfunction Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Jacqueline Anderson
We seek to better understand how the middle part of the brain (subcortex) contributes to cognitive functions, particularly higher-level functions such as processing complex information
Time in Brain and Behaviour Laboratory
Principle Investigator: Dr Hinze Hogendoorn
The group is interested in researching Our brain needs time to process what our senses tell us. As a result, we are always living in the past: we act and choose on the basis of outdated information. So how is it possible that we can return a tennis serve or drive through fast-moving traffic?
Trauma Anxiety and Stress (TAS) Lab
Laboratory Director: Professor Kim Felmingham
Our research examines the mechanisms underlying the development and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Anxiety Disorders, predictors of response to exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, and the impact of stress and trauma on brain and emotional functioning.
Vision and Attention Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Philip L Smith
Work in our Laboratory seeks to explain how colour, motion, and attentional mechanisms operate within the visual system. We employ a diverse range of approaches including behavioural psychophysics, computational modelling, and electrophysiology.
Vision, Cognition and Behaviour Lab
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Piers Douglas Howe
Our Laboratory has a general interest in cognition, with a particular focus in visual perception.