Question: Hey Paul, What do you want to acheive in your reasearch?

Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

Hi Isla,

Thanks for this question. What is currently the goal of my research is to use what we know about the mind and the brain and the tools of neuroimaging to better understand and improve people’s functioning in real environments. That is, thge aim of the research of mine and my group is to better understand the brain and cognitive mechanisms allowing us to see and interact in real-world environments, such as the classroom, high-street or at home.Filling out these lacks in knowledge is probably the most important for supporting how children learn every day as well as in rehabilitation of different disorders – from kids not seeing very well (like when they have a “lazy eye” to kids having problem with learning or older adults who have problems with their memory. To help these people, I am at the same time interested in how we can use technology – tablets, virtual reality, even robots – to make learning – and rehabilitation (often very boring and very long!) more fun and engaging and more adjustable to when children / patients are ready to do all this “learning”.

So these are very exciting times, because we are finally crossing into studying “problems” (like “learning”) from all possible points of view at the same time – what we know about the mind (psychology), about the brain (neuroscience and brain imaging), the potential of technology (engineering and educational psychology) and important of health (medicine).