ProfessorTom Carlson

My research focuses on uncovering the brain mechanisms that support human perception -- how do we see?

We are a computational and theoretical neuroscience research group in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. Our research uses neural decoding methods to study how the brain represents information; and how the structure of information in brain representations relates to, and can be use to be predict behaviour. We use functional magnet resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how information is represented in different brain areas; and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study how the brain dynamically processes information in time with millisecond precision.

For more information about our lab, see our websitehttps://www.sydneycompcogneurolab.com

My research aligns with the Faculty of Science Research Strengths - Brain, Behaviour and Cognition, Preventing and Treating Disease & Disorder.