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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: HDR Prize Ceremony\, with presentations by Dr Roslyn Wong\, Dr Anastaia Suraev & Dr Kelly Dann
DESCRIPTION:H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for the Best PhD Thesis in the School of Psychology for 2023Awarded to Dr Roslyn Wong for Anticipatory prediction during online language processing.\nFaculty of Science Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis for 2023\nAwarded to Dr Anastaia Suraev for From Prohibition to Prescription: The Role of Cannabinoids in Sleep.\n2024 APS Award for Excellent PhD Thesis in Psychology\nNomination of Dr Kelly Dann for Cognitive Flexibility and Everyday Function in Anorexia Nervosa.\nSchool of Psychology Publications Prize for 2023 \nAlexander Sulfaro\nBaby Foo\nBiya Tang\nCosette Saunders\nDaelin Coutts-Bain\nHayley Donohue\nJessica Barker\nRoberta Chen\nRoslyn Wong\nSarah Barakat\nTessa Rooney
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-hdr-prize-ceremony-with-presentations-by-dr-roslyn-wong-dr-anastaia-suraev-dr-kelly-dann/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Will Harrison (University of the Sunshine Coast)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Will Harrison (University of the Sunshine Coast)Title: Seeing More with Less: Efficient sensory coding with and without eye movements\nAbstract: It is often difficult to understand perceptual and cognitive processes from a scientific point of view. Unfortunately\, I think we often mistake our difficulty in understanding a problem with the complexity of the problem itself. For example\, it may feel intuitive to conclude that the brain must use complex algorithms to coordinate action and perception solely because we\, as scientists\, have difficulty understanding how such phenomena come about. But what if the brain is much simpler?\nRecently I’ve been trying to understand the minimum computational requirements for various perceptual and cognitive tasks. Efficient coding theory tells us that nervous systems should use as few resources as possible to convey the most amount of information. Put differently\, the brain is lazy: if one neuron can code two pieces of information with high fidelity\, it would be wasteful to have this information replicated by a second neuron. By combining ideas from efficient coding with psychophysical experiments and computational modelling\, I have found efficiencies within the mammalian visual system that promote perceptual inference\, with and without eye movements.\nBio: Dr Will Harrison is a cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in how the brain transforms visual information into conscious thoughts and memories. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland in 2013\, and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School\, the University of Cambridge\, and the Queensland Brain Institute. He has published dozens of papers in top international journals\, focusing on how people perceive and remember objects in their peripheral vision\, how eye movements affect what we see\, and how the human brain uses the structure of natural environments to guide perception. Dr Harrison uses a variety of methodologies\, include psychophysics\, neuro-imaging\, and computational modelling.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-will-harrison-university-of-the-sunshine-coast/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Will Ngiam (University of Adelaide)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Will Ngiam (University of Adelaide)Title: Multivariate decoding of visual attention and memory – is what we see\, what we remember?\nAbstract: The ability to select relevant information and maintain it in mind – our attention and working memory respectively in broad strokes – is central to perception and cognition. In hopes of better understanding of these processes\, philsophers\, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to model how inforation is represented in mind and brain.\nMy talk will focus on two deceptively simple questions: what is a visual object and how are they remembered? First\, I will provide a brief overview of multivariate classification of neuroimaging data with machine learning – a trending analysis method that has shown promise in unveiling representations in the brain. I will present two EEG research projects using this method – the first involves understanding how the features of a moving object are remembered\, and the second involves how our learning and experience influence how we represent items in mind.\nBio: Will is an alum of the School of Psychology\, completing his undergraduate Honours degree here before his PhD with Alex Holcombe in 2019. He went abroad for his postdoc\, working with Edward Awh and Edward Vogel at the University of Chicago\, before recently returning back to Australia and joining the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer. Will has started the Perception\, Attention\, Learning and Memory (PALM) Lab\, where he hopes to design novel psychophysical experiments to inform computational models of attention and memory and linking those models to patterns of neural activity – all in the hopes of better understanding human cognition.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-will-ngiam-university-of-adelaide/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Virginia Slaughter (UQ)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Virginia Slaughter (UQ)Title: Do humans imitate from birth?\nAbstract: Imitation in human newborns is widely cited as evidence of an inborn Mirror Neuron System that underpins human social behaviour\, even though its existence has been debated for decades. The possibility that newborns do not imitate was reinvigorated in recent years by research from our lab at the University of Queensland.  In this talk I will present original data from the largest-ever longitudinal study of newborn imitation and the first-ever meta-analysis.  I will also discuss findings from infant EMG experiments which further challenge the claim that newborn humans can imitate.  All of this leads to alternative accounts of the development of imitation and its role in human sociality.\nBio: Virginia Slaughter is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Queensland\, Australia. Her research focuses on social and cognitive development in infants and young children\, with particular emphasis on social behaviour in infancy\, theory-of-mind development and the acquisition of peer interaction skills. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-virginia-slaughter-uq/
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