Kelsey Perrykkad

Experience

• 2025–present
  Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS), Monash University
• 2023–2025
  Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Women's and Children's Mental Health, Monash University
• 2021–2023
  Postdoctoral research fellow, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS), Monash University
• 2017–2021
  PhD Candidate, Monash University
• 2014–2017
  Senior Research Technician, The University of Queensland
• 2016–2017
  Senior Research Officer, Autism Cooperative Research Center
• 2011–2014
  Research assistant, Occidental College

Education

• 2021 
  Monash University, PhD in Cognitive Science
• 2014 
  Occidental College, Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science and Philosophy

Publications

• 2026
  Baby brain? Evidence for no objective cognitive differences between mothers, fathers and non-parents in the post-partum period, Cortex
• 2025
  Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development, Developmental Review
• 2025
  Screening for perinatal depression in Australia: Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in pregnancy and the postpartum, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
• 2025
  Body as first teacher: The role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in early cognitive development, Perspectives on Psychological Science
• 2024
  Sense of self in first-time pregnancy, npj Women's Health
• 2024
  The role of lack of grandparental support in perinatal depression, Journal of affective disorders
• 2023
  Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study, Addiction
• 2023
  Agency in schizophrenia and autism: a systematic review, Frontiers in psychology
• 2023
  Foraging for the self: Environment selection for agency inference, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• 2023
  Beliefs about action efficacy mediate the relationship between self-concept clarity and self-reported compassionate action, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
• 2022
  How selves differ within and across cognitive domains: self-prioritisation, self-concept, and psychiatric traits, BMC psychology
• 2021
  A preliminary investigation of sound-field amplification as an inclusive classroom adjustment for children with and without autism spectrum disorder, Journal of communication disorders
• 2021
  The Effect of Uncertainty on Prediction Error in the Action-Perception Loop, Cognition
• 2021
  Sound Amplification in School Contexts: Implications for inclusive practice, Supporting Students on the Autism Spectrum in Inclusive Schools
• 2021
  Oculomotor deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): A systematic review and comprehensive meta-analysis, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
• 2020
  The ‘acoustic health’of primary school classrooms in Brisbane, Australia, Speech, Language and Hearing
• 2020
  Modelling me, modelling you: the autistic self, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 2020
  Fidgeting as self-evidencing: A predictive processing account of non-goal-directed action, New Ideas in Psychology
• 2019
  Changes in science attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and physiological arousal after implementation of a multimodal, cooperative intervention in primary school science classes, Information and Learning Sciences
• 2019
  Adaptive behaviour and predictive processing accounts of autism, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• 2019
  Explaining hyper-sensitivity and hypo-responsivity in autism with a common predictive coding-based mechanism, Cognitive neuroscience
• 2019
  When big data aren’t the answer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2017
  The hard problem of 'Educational Neuroscience', Trends in Neuroscience and Education
• 2017
  Improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Classroom Performance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Systematic Review, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
• 2016
  Multimodal representations during an inquiry problemsolving activity in a Year 6 science class: a case study investigating cooperation, physiological arousal and belief states., Australian Journal of Education
• 2015
  Identity-specific predictions and implicit measures of agency., Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
• 2013
  Engaging Reading, Teaching Philosophy

Professional Memberships

• Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Research Areas

• Cognitive Sciences (1702)
• Philosophy Of Cognition (220312)