A/Prof Vincent Laurent (UNSW) Cholinergic regulation of fear by the basal forebrain Abstract The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the infralimbic (IL) region of the medial prefrontal cortex are heavily implicated in fear regulation. These two regions receive dense cholinergic projections from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) and/or the horizontal limb of the diagonal band ...

Dr Erin Goddard (UNSW) Visual feature binding and colour constancy: similar processes? Abstract Different regions in visual cortex show specialisation for encoding different visual features, giving rise the question of how these features are ‘bound together’ to create a unitary percept of each object. I will show recent work based on classification of magnetoencephalography (MEG) ...

Prof Carolyn MacCann (USYD)

Prof Michael Bowen (USYD)

Dr Dave Trudinger & Mr James Bates (NSW Department of Customer Service)