Vince Polito
Seniour Lecturer at Macquarie University
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolVince Polito is a Senior Lecturer and cognitive scientist at Macquarie University with over a decade of research experience investigating self-representation, particularly sense of agency and body representation. His work develops precise measures of how people monitor control over actions and how those processes vary across expertise, clinical conditions, and altered states of consciousness. He has progressed from research assistant to senior academic roles at Macquarie and the ARC Centre of Excellence, blending rigorous experimental methods with translational aims. Notably, he compares seemingly opposite experiences of effortless action—beneficial expert performance versus distressing patient experiences—to uncover cognitive mechanisms underlying agency. Based in Sydney, he brings a sustained, programmatic focus on quantifying subjective experience that informs both theory and potential therapeutic insights.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science at Macquarie University
Github Skills (103)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
knitr10
forestry10
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open-science10
stable10
jupyter10
netlify10
rmarkdown10
page-builder10
rstudio10
data-wrangling9
data-visualization9
cms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vince-p/academicprofile
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:197 pushes in 5 years 1 month
vince-p/vtools
Feb 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:22 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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