Professor Jason Mattingley is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Queensland. His research is directed toward understanding the behavioural and neural mechanisms of selective attention, in health and disease, with a particular focus on how attentional processes influence perception, learning and neural plasticity. His work has appeared in many of the world’s top journals, including Nature, Science, Neuron, Current Biology and Nature Neuroscience. Professor Mattingley is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, and is a serving member of the ARC College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. In 2012 he was awarded the Australian Psychological Society’s Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award.