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Anina N Rich

Macquarie University

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Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)

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Synaesthesia and multisensory integration
Colour representation in the human brain
The challenge of modern environments for attention
Infrequent targets in a moving world: a major challenge for attention
Predicting errors based on neural patterns: can we prevent errors before they occur?

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mq.edu.au

Professor Anina Rich is based in Sydney, Australia, where she currently holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for her cognitive neuroscience work on attention. She studies the workings of the human brain and the cognitive processes underlying attention and multisensory integration, including in synaesthesia. Professor Rich completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne before receiving a National Health & Medical Research Council/Menzies postdoctoral fellowship to work at Harvard Medical School. She returned to Australia in 2007 to take up a continuing position at Macquarie University where she is now the Director of Cognitive & Neuroscience Research at the Macquarie University Performance and Expertise Research Centre. Professor Rich is also active in science communication, and exploring solutions to address inequity.