Prof Ed Awh (University of Chicago) Title: Content-independent pointers mediate storage in working memory Abstract: Although past neural studies of working memory (WM) have focused on stimulus-specific activity that tracks the stored feature values, a separate line of evidence has revealed neural signals that track the number of items in WM, independent of the contents […]
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Prof Luigi Fontana (University of Sydney) Title: Promoting healthy longevity through lifestyle medicine: biological and behavioural mechanisms Abstract: Chronic diseases are often perceived as an unavoidable consequence of genetics or chance. Yet converging evidence shows that a large proportion of cardiometabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, and many cancers is preventable, and that the years lived […] |
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Prof Agnieszka Tymula (University of Sydney) Title: Rationally Selected Utility – A New Theory of Choice Abstract: Traditional prescriptive decision theories from Pascal’s to Expected Utility have struggled to explain inconsistent human choices, leading to predictive models like Prospect Theory. This paper introduces a novel approach to understand why these behaviors occur, reconciling these observed “irrationalities” with […] |
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Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel (University of NSW) Title: A cross-species paradigm for exploring persistent detrimental behaviour Abstract: A basic precept in psychology is that actions with positive consequences are repeated while actions with negative consequences are avoided. However, individuals vary immensely in their tendency to cease detrimental actions, with many persisting in self-destructive behaviour. Tasks used […] |
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