• Psychology Colloquium: Dr Poppy Watson (UTS)

    Dr Poppy Watson (UTS) Title: When Cues Drive Behaviour: Associative Mechanisms in Humans Abstract: Associative learning theories provide parsimonious explanation of how stimuli in the environment can trigger behavioural responses through both instrumental and Pavlovian mechanisms. Although much of this experimental work has been conducted using rodents, many studies have demonstrated similar associative mechanisms that […]

  • Psychology Colloquium: Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University)

    Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University) Title: Dynamic neural encoding of visual information in individual and interacting brains Abstract: Our goals shape how the brain processes visual information, but separating the contributions of various cognitive processes remains a challenge. In this talk, I will demonstrate how well-controlled stimuli, combined with multivariate decoding techniques applied to […]