Thomas Pace

Dr. Thomas Pace is a lecturer in the mental health and neuroscience postgraduate programs and a researcher in the healthy brain aging research program at the Thompson Institute. He is a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in multimodal neuroimaging, metacognition, mental imagery, and dementia risk reduction. Thomas's research investigates how the brain creates visual representations of the world, how it monitors its own cognitive processes (metacognition), and how lifestyle interventions can improve brain health and reduce dementia risk. His recent work in cerebral cortex revealed neural oscillatory markers of domain-specific metacognitive processing and age-related compensation, using combined psychophysics and EEG. Building on this, he established UniSC's simultaneous EEG-fMRI (sEEG-fMRI) neuroimaging platform, and is leading the META study, a university first sEEG-fMRI investigation, which will map the spatiotemporal dynamics of metacognition.