A/Prof Fiona Kumfor (USYD)Abstract Historically, neuropsychologists have focused on examining traditional cognitive domains such as attention, memory and visuospatial ability. However, people with some neurological conditions can perform well on traditional […]
Ashleigh Morse & Iseult Cremen (NSW Department of Customer Service) Abstract Policymakers in Australia and the world over are increasingly using evidence and data to guide policy decisions. The NSW […]
A/Prof Stefan Volk (USYD Business School) Abstract Most modern workplaces place high value on teamwork in advancing the goals of the organization, and much research effort has been devoted to […]
Dr Sophie Li (Black Dog Institute) Abstract Rates of depression are increasing among adolescents. A novel way to reduce depression is by improving sleep. We evaluated whether an app-based intervention […]
Dr Celia Harris (Western Sydney University) Abstract Theoretical approaches from philosophy and cognitive science emphasise how experience, cognition, memory, and self are embedded within and distributed among the social and […]
Dr Nathan Holmes (UNSW) Abstract Animals and people integrate information acquired at different times when responding to novel situations or problems. For example, after being attacked by a boy at […]
Dr Ashley Luckman (University of Exeter) Abstract Reason-based accounts of decision-making, such as Query Theory, have been successfully applied to a range of binary preferential choice phenomena, such as default, […]
A/Prof Mac Shine (University of Sydney) Abstract Perception is thought to rely upon evolving activity within a recurrent, distributed thalamocortical network whose interconnections are modulated by bursts of noradrenaline. To […]
Dr Laura Bradfield (UTS) Abstract Neuroinflammation has been observed in the striatum and hippocampus of individuals with psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases to different extents, but whether this causes the […]
Dr Alexis Whitton (UNSW) Abstract In the face of escalating rates of depression among young people, effective and scalable treatments are urgently required. Although a range of different interventions have […]
