Trevor Chong

My research addresses some of the fundamental issues in cognitive neuroscience with the aim of achieving a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying behavioural deficits in the diseased brain. The themes of my research are:

1. Decision-making: When we decide to perform an action, we often need to balance the benefit of performing that action with the costs associated with it. My recent research centres on the mechanisms underlying these computations in healthy individuals, as well as patient populations who may have disorders of decision-making (e.g., Parkinson's disease).
   
   

2. Attention, Consciousness and Memory: How does the brain generate a conscious experience of the world and our place within it? Much of my research has centred on the mechanisms of attention. More recently, I have been interested in the role of conscious and non-conscious mechanisms in recognition memory, in both healthy populations and those with focal lesions of the medial temporal lobe. 

I use a combination of approaches, including:

• Classical behavioural psychophysics

• Structural and functional brain imaging

• Lesion/Patient studies

I am always interested to hear from motivated undergraduate and postgraduate students.