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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Poppy Watson (UTS)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Poppy Watson (UTS) \n\n\n\nTitle: When Cues Drive Behaviour: Associative Mechanisms in Humans \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nAssociative 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 underlie (at least some) human behaviour. I will provide an overview of some of this research and discuss a series of ongoing experiments investigating human S-R habits and Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in both healthy and clinical populations. I will highlight some of the conceptual and methodological issues that have arisen along the way and outline some future plans. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr Poppy Watson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Technology Sydney and an ARC Future Fellow. Her research examines how environmental cues influence attention and choice behaviour\, with a particular focus on the tension between explicit goals and more reflexive responses shaped by reward learning and habit. Using behavioural experiments\, alongside methods such as eye tracking and neuroimaging\, she investigates the mechanisms that contribute to unwanted patterns of behaviour in both healthy and clinical populations\, as well as how these insights can inform behaviour change interventions. \n\n\n\nOriginally from New Zealand\, Dr. Poppy Watson completed her Master of Research and PhD at the University of Amsterdam. She worked at UNSW Sydney from 2017 to 2023 as a postdoctoral researcher and later an ARC DECRA Fellow. Since 2023\, she has been based at University of Technology Sydney\, where she has helped develop the undergraduate psychology program alongside her research as an ARC Future Fellow.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-poppy-watson-uts/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University) \n\n\n\nTitle: Dynamic neural encoding of visual information in individual and interacting brains \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nOur 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 time-resolved neural data (EEG/MEG)\, can help disentangle the specific role of selective attention in modulating visual processing from other cognitive functions such as visual short-term memory and decision-making. Extending these approaches from single brains to interacting brains further allows us to examine how information processing converges and diverges across individuals during shared behaviour\, helping to tease apart the distinct cognitive processes that underpin successful cooperation. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDenise Moerel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain\, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Her research investigates how perception enables complex behaviour\, such as social interaction\, and how attention facilitates these processes. She uses research methodologies such as EEG and MEG in combination with multivariate decoding methods.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-denise-moerel-western-sydney-university/
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