Madison's primary research interests are ADHD, executive function, and serious gaming, and motor learning, which are central to her PhD work. Recently, her engagement with the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work has expanded her interest into generative AI and education. Additionally, throughout her research career, she has engaged with a broader range of topics, including neurocognitive mechanisms, neurocognitive mechanisms of sleep and memory, and oscillatory activity within the brain.

Madison's interest in research began during her undergraduate studies, culminating in an Honours project at the University of South Australia in 2020. Her project investigated how individual differences in oscillatory EEG, such as Individual Alpha Frequency, influence memory consolidation mechanisms during sleep. This early work focused on rule learning and the impact of individual information processing capabilities on learning mechanisms.

After completing her Honours, Madison expanded her research into motor learning and executive function by commencing a PhD at Flinders University. As a recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Scholarship within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, her PhD research aims to co-design a video-game-based intervention for adolescents with ADHD, leveraging the connection between motor function and cognition to enhance executive function.

In addition to her PhD work, Madison has recently joined a project exploring the application of generative AI in higher education, helping to support the development and evaluation of AI-based educational tools.