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 […]

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 […]

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 […]