How do distributed whole-brain neural activity patterns give rise to human cognitive function? This question lies at the heart of modern psychology and neuroscience but, despite decades of neuroimaging experiments, we still don’t have a clear answer. The Brain and Mind Centre (BMC) Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) research group combines neuroimaging data with computational modelling in order to understand the complex, adaptive brain dynamics that form the basis of cognition and attention, and also how they begin to fail in dementia
Meet our Research Group
Dr Mac Shine
Robinson/SOAR fellow, USyd
- Functional Neuroimaging
- Computational Modelling
- Systems Neuroscience
Dr Eli Muller
Postdoctoral Researcher, USyd
- Biophysics
- Computational modelling
- Complex systems
Dr Brandon Munn
Postdoctoral Researcher, USyd
- Computational modelling
- Criticality
- Big data analysis
Natasha Taylor
PhD Student
Determining the role of neuromodulatory impairment in neurodegenerative disease and dementia
Supervisor: Dr Mac Shine
Years: 2020-23
Gabriel Wainstein
PhD Student
A novel approach to understand the role of the ascending noradrenergic arousal system in visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Supervisor: Dr Mac Shine
Years: