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5.08/20/2025

Inspires students to achieve their best.

4.05/21/2025

Makes learning exciting and impactful.

5.03/31/2025

Always fair, constructive, and supportive.

4.02/27/2025

Helps students build confidence and skills.

5.02/4/2025

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About Katherine

Professor Katherine Johnson is a Professor in Psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. As Principal Investigator and Laboratory Director of the Attention Dynamics Lab, she conducts research on attention dynamics across the lifespan, investigating how infants, children, and adults focus and sustain attention amid distractions. Employing methods including behavioral analyses, eye-tracking, and EEG, her work elucidates cognitive and physiological differences in developmental disorders such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, with autism listed as her primary research interest. Johnson also explores the impact of nature exposure, including city green roofs and greenery, on concentration restoration, alongside studies on children's classroom attention, its links to learning, and early attention and memory development in infants. She contributes to the Brain & Mental Health Hub and Cognitive Neuroscience Hub.