Welcome!
We are a cognitive psychology and neuroscience lab headed by Dr William Ngiam, studying visual attention and working memory – how we represent visual information in the mind and in the brain. 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
March 2025: The PALM Lab welcomes its inaugural Honours students, Yasmin and Brigitte!
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. Always was, always will be.
“We are wondering what is happening to the world. Everything is changed, changing each day. You woke up in the morning and wondered, “Is it going to get better or getting worse?”. Everybody is wondering, young and old. Everything is going upside down. How are we going to stop and work on it and work together and make the world a better place to live for all of us? – Ngalangka Nola Taylor, Aboriginal artist from the Parnngur Community.
The PALM Lab’s logo was inspired by Tailor Brands’s Logo Maker and uses vector images of palm trees by brgfx on Freepik.