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5.08/20/2025

Always fair, kind, and deeply insightful.

4.05/21/2025

Fosters collaboration and teamwork.

5.03/31/2025

Makes every class a rewarding experience.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages creative and innovative thinking.

5.02/5/2025

Great Professor!

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About Natasha

Dr Natasha Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle. Her research specializations encompass metacognition, particularly meta-attention and its connections to academic wellbeing, cognitive control, and strategy adjustment. Matthews examines cognitive development in children, focusing on private speech, self-regulation, and executive functioning. She investigates attention and perceptual decision-making, including the impacts of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, mild traumatic brain injury, and media-multitasking. Additional academic interests include mindfulness meditation for pain management, brain oscillations, and temporal order judgements and recalibration. As an affiliate of the Centre for Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience, she contributes to projects on metacognition, emotion regulation, high school transitions, and cognitive offloading in children.