UNFORTUNATELY, THE L.E.A.R.N.’S COLLOQUIUM HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AND WILL HOPEFULLY BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR. L.E.A.R.N. (Learning, Education, and Assessment Research Network) (Psychology) (USYD) Title: The discipline that couldn’t explain itself: Narrative identity and Psychology’s crisis of coherence Abstract: Anyone familiar with Psychology’s history will recognise a discipline shaped by fragmentation, […]
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Prof Louise Sharpe (University of Sydney) Title: Treating anxiety in the context of physical illness: The importance of safety behaviours and fears of disease progression Abstract: Cognitive-behavioural treatments (CBT) for anxiety disorders are amongst the most successful applications of CBT, with a vast literature confirming efficacy with large effect sizes. However, when anxiety is treated […] |
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Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey (University of NSW) Title: Disaggregating by sex and gender sheds new light on cognitive ageing and dementia risk Abstract: There is now a well established body of literature on modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). However, most findings have been reported in aggregate, without considering […] |
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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 […] |
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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 […] |
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