Welcome!
We are a cognitive psychology and neuroscience lab, studying visual attention and working memory – how we represent visual information in the mind and in the brain, headed by Dr William Ngiam. The Perception, Attention, Learning and Memory Lab is part of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide.
Highlights
Our Projects
Read about the current research projects going on in the PALM Lab:
Our Publications
Check out our recent research publications, along with the associated preprint, data and code here:
Our Team
Learn more about the members of the PALM Lab!
Recent updates
November 2024: Asha Doughty-Garside joins as a summer research scholar! She will learn to code an experiment in jsPsych, testing how learning influences recall.
September 2024: Oliver Lack becomes the first student member of the PALM Lab! His project will examine human perceptions of machine consciousness.
June 2024: William becomes a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and starts the PALM Lab!
Acknowledgement of Land
The members of the PALM Lab wishes to acknowledge the Kaurna people, the original custodians of the Adelaide Plains and the land on which we currently reside and conduct our work, and on which the University of Adelaide’s campuses at North Terrace, Waite, Thebarton and Roseworthy are built.
The PALM Lab’s logo was inspired by Tailor Brands’s Logo Maker and uses vector images of palm trees by brgfx on Freepik.