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Examining social cognition in dementia syndromes and with healthy ageing

This project examines how abilities which we usually take for granted, such as recognizing how someone else is feeling, and being able to empathise with them, can be affected in peo more...

Supervisor(s): Kumfor, Fiona (Dr)

Computer Supported Learning and Cognition

The CoCo Research Centre was created at the University of Sydney in 2003. Our primary goal is research. We study innovative uses of advanced learning technologies, in order to gain more...

Supervisor(s): Reimann, Peter (Professor), Goodyear, Peter (Professor), Markauskaite, Lina (Professor), Jacobson, Michael (Professor)

Educational Psychology

This program of research aims to explore how we can improve student learning by better understanding cognition, motivation, emotion, and/or behaviour. more...

Supervisor(s): Ginns, Paul (Associate Professor), Bartimote-Aufflick, Kathryn (Dr)

Understanding autism and its treatment

We have recently established an Autism Research group within the Brain and Mind Research Institute. We seek to substantially advance knowledge about autism and to lead the worl more...

Supervisor(s): Guastella, Adam (Associate Professor)

Mathematics education

This research examines students’ understanding of key mathematical concepts as well as the processes involved in the learning of mathematics in early childhood and among prima more...

Supervisor(s): Bobis, Janette (Professor), Way, Jennifer (Associate Professor)

Music Education

Research in music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music encompasses a wide range of perspectives on the teaching and learning of music in culturally diverse settings from more...

Supervisor(s): Marsh, Kathryn (Associate Professor), Webb, Michael (Dr), McEwan, Neil (Associate Professor)

What drives motivation?

This project aims to investigate the neural and behavioural mechanisms underpinning apathy in healthy adults and people with dementia. Loss of motivation and reduction in goal-direc more...

Supervisor(s): Kumfor, Fiona (Dr)

Linguistics

Linguistics studies the full range of aspects of human language. It investigates the phonetics, grammar and semantics or individual languages, but through this seeks to uncover the more...

Supervisor(s): Hyslop, Gwendolyn (Dr), Mahboob, Ahmar (Dr), Martin, James (Professor), Enfield, Nick (Professor), Bednarek, Monika (Dr), Riemer, Nicholas (Dr)

Memories of the future

Human memory is incredibly complex, allowing us to mentally travel back in subjective time to revisit the past. Mounting evidence points to the importance of memory in enabling us t more...

Supervisor(s): Irish, Muireann (Associate Professor)