Queensland Brain Institute

Mattingley

  • How personal background and brain health influence stroke recovery

    Published on: 9 February 2026
    QBI research has contributed to a worldwide study providing essential groundwork to develop tailored rehabilitation strategies for cognitive impairment in stroke and reveals a fundamental change in how cognitive problems are understood.

  • Memory recall

    Virtual reality (VR) is changing how scientists study memory, and it involves exploring virtual mazes. QBI's Professor Jason Mattingley, PhD student Richard Ronayne, and research assistant Jayce Rushton take us behind the scenes of their VR experiments.

  • How our brains make sense of the world

    Published on: 14 November 2025
    Researchers in the Mattingley lab are studying how the brain combines different types of predictions about what we see and where we see it to understand how these expectations affect brain activity.

  • UQ granted $6 million for two new Centres of Research Excellence

    Published on: 30 August 2024
    University of Queensland researchers have received two $3 million grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to accelerate knowledge and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, and to improve gynaecological cancer treatment.

  • Stroke Research at QBI

  • What can self-driving cars learn from the brain?

    Published on: 5 August 2024
    Professor Jason Mattingley and Dr Will Harrison set out to understand how our brains are able to keep track of visual information across the thousands of eye movements we make every day.

  • The business of neuroscience

    Why do we buy one car and not the other? What should I pay my staff? How much am I prepared to spend on a house? As a Research Fellow in Neuroeconomics, Dr Rangelov investigates human sensory perception, decision-making and memory.

  • New study confirms the influence of brainwaves on perception

    Published on: 5 April 2024
    Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute have confirmed that brainwaves can affect visual perception, particularly when it comes to distinguishing between objects.
  • How the human brain adapts to external stimulation – an important mechanism for species survival – has been made clearer at the Queensland Brain Institute.

    UQ research may provide clues to sensory brain disorders

    Published on: 2 February 2023
    How the human brain adapts to external stimulation – an important mechanism for species survival – has been made clearer at the Queensland Brain Institute.
  • Don't think twice about changing your mind

    Don't think twice about changing your mind

    Published on: 30 May 2022
    If you’ve ever wondered whether changing your mind is the best decision, then you should be reassured that your chances of success are better if you do.

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