Conscious perception

Dr Anina Rich's research focuses on the way the brain integrates information, both across the senses, and within vision, to provide us with our seamless conscious experience of the world around us. She explores the role of attention in this 'binding' in both normal participants and in people with synaesthesia, an unusual phenomenon in which there is a 'mixing of the senses'. Rich has an ARC grant on attention and distraction and she is also a CI on a successful NHMRC Project Grant with other Core staff Members in the Cognitive Science and the Australian School of Advanced Medicine on brain plasticity. She provides quality supervision to HDR students (5 current PhDs, 1 completed), and her work is widely cited, with recent papers in top journals such as Psychological Science. Rich is frequently invited to speak on her research around Australia and internationally. Her work has featured in the media both in Australia and abroad, including 4 documentaries in 2010, and numerous interviews in print and on radio over the past 5 years.