My research is in philosophy of mind and in cognitive science. I conduct research on the traditional mind-body debate as well as more interdisciplinary areas such as philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and philosophical psychopathology. I am involved in a number of experimental, interdisciplinary research projects with neuroscientists and psychiatrists and have built up a laboratory where we conduct experiments using neuroscience and psychology methods to address philosophical issues, and vice versa.

Jakob.Hohwy@monash.edu

We use mostly psychophysical measures, but increasingly start to use EEG as well. My research currently focuses on three main questions: (1) Interaction between attention and consciousness (2) the influence of individual traits on biological motion perception (3) individual differences in automatic (pre-attentive) processing. One theme that particularly interest me is when increases in attention decreases perception or performance.

Jeroen.Van.Boxtel@monash.edu

In particular, our current projects focus on:

1. Behavioural effects and neuronal correlates of conscious and non-conscious processing.

2. Clarifying the relationship between consciousness and attention.

3. Analysis of multi-channel neurophysiological data to understand the neuronal mechanisms of consciousness.

4. Testing theories of consciousness, in particular, the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness proposed by Guilio Tononi, using empirical neuronal data. 

Naotsugu.Tsuchiya@monash.edu

Our aim is to understand the neuronal mechanisms underlying perception. We focus on visual motion perception, because it is relatively simple to present precisely controlled moving stimuli to a subject. We correlate the subject's perceptual reports, or the responses of single neurons in visual cortex, with the presented stimulus. This gives us insights into the neuronal mechanisms that underlie the encoding of a visual stimulus, and decoding of sensory activity to generate perception or behaviour.

Nicholas.Price@monash.edu

My research focuses on philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. I am particularly interested in conscious experience during sleep, including dreaming, and its relationship to wake states such as mind wandering, imagination, hallucination, and full-body illusions. I am also interested in methodological and epistemological questions about the relationship between dreams and dream reports, and between first-person reports and third-person data more generally. Aside from my theoretical-conceptual work, I have participated in a number of interdisciplinary collaborations and research projects.

Jennifer.Windt@monash.edu

Professor Dominic Thyagarajan is head of Neuroscience Research in the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences (Monash University) and Directory of Neurology (Monash Health), based at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton. He leads one of the largest neurology departments in Australia (22 neurologists) in the Monash Health hospital network; servicing about one third of Victoria's population. Professor Thyagarajan's interests include the molecular genetics of mitochondrial diseases like Parkinson's Disease, movement disorders and the mechanisms of perception after Deep Brain Stimulation.

dominic.thyagarajan@monash.edu

My current research concerns consciousness. I am particularly interested in the nature of global states of consciousness, in questions regarding the kinds of contents that can enter consciousness, and the challenges of how to develop robust and reliable ways of measuring consciousness.

tim.bayne@gmail.com