The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development is an interdisciplinary research institute of Western Sydney University.

The vision for MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development is to optimise human interaction and wellbeing across the lifespan. They strive to solve the problems that matter most through the themes sensing and perceiving, interacting with each other, and technologies for humans.

The interdisciplinary nature of the Institute’s research brings together staff and students from all 3 clusters including the disciplines cognitive science, developmental psychology, language science, music science, cognitive neuroscience, and biomedical, electrical, electronic and software engineering.