Newspaper, Radio, TV News: May 2026
Siddiqui et al. (2026) received a lot of media attention with 171+ mentions across a range of outlets with a reach of >900,000. Below are some of the highlights:
Live interview on 7News:
Live interview on ABC Weekend Morning News:
Live radio interview on ABC Conversation Hour, listen from 25:40.
Live radio interview on ABC Canberra Mornings, listen from 1:44:45.
Live radio interview on 3AW:
Highlighted on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald:
Double page spread in the Age:
Above-the-fold article on dads in the Herald Sun:
Article in SBS News:
News Article: December 24, 2025
Quoted for the Guardian in an article titled “After getting so drunk I hugged a bouncer before blacking out, I wondered, what does alcohol do to our brains?”
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Interview: August 7, 2025
Understanding Self as part of the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies monthly seminar series of interviews on topics related to consciousness and contemplation, interviewed by Professor Craig Hassad:
Blog Post: June 17, 2025
Fidgeting paper digested in a blog post by Clinician and Researcher at University of California San Francisco, Julio Nicanor, MD:
7News: November 10, 2024
Filmed for The House of Wellness TV program as a full episode, the following segment was broadcast on 7 News nationwide on Sunday November 10, 2024:
Your Mind on the Self: S2 E1 Minds Matter Podcast
To kick off season 2, we are joined by Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad, a post-doc at Monash University. Dr. Perrykkad tells us about her work on understanding the self, in the framework of predictive processing. We discuss what predictive processing actually is, whether people can change, and why the self feels the way it does… and more!
Check out the show notes, here: https://www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/ep-1-your-mind-on-the-self
Foraging for the Self ACNS 2021 Poster
This is a brief, 3min summary of Perrykkad, K., Robinson, J.E. & Hohwy, J. Foraging for the self: Environment selection for agency inference. Psychon Bull Rev (2022). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02187-w as presented at the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s 2021 virtual conference, where it won the Best Poster award.
The Self in Action Cognitio 21 Keynote Presentation
In 2021, Kelsey gave a keynote presentation at the cognitio conference, hosted online by the Nested Minds Network out of the Université du Québec à Montréal. This presentation covers the majority of Kelsey’s thesis, which is freely available in full here.
The Danger of Overselling Science: The Conversation, 2016
https://theconversation.com/the-danger-of-overselling-science-57652
The Role of Synchrony in Collaborative Learning: Teacher Magazine, 2016
https://www.teachermagazine.com/au_en/articles/the-role-of-synchrony-in-collaborative-learning
Wearable Tech Giving Classroom Insights: Teacher Magazine, 2016
Kelsey was interviewed for the following article.
https://www.teachermagazine.com/au_en/articles/wearable-tech-giving-classroom-insights
The Perrykkads 