ACNS president A/P Trevor Chong kicking off the #ACNS2025 conference. Remember to get your magics ☕️

A full audience at #ACNS2025 for today’s keynote session by Prof Anne Collins (UC Berkeley)

Thank you A/P Collins for a fantastic and thought provoking keynote #ACNS2025

Fantastic poster session this morning. Posters will be up all day on level 2 so go check them out

Young investigator winner Dr Reuben Rideaux taking us through the neural design principles for efficient perception #ACNS2025 @reubenrideaux.bsky.social

A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.

My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
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Welcome back to Australia, Anne! It is a pleasure to have you at #ACNS2025, and thank you for your excellent keynote yesterday!

In Melbourne for Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting! Very happy to visit again after 30 years! @acnsau.bsky.social

So proud. Introducing Drs @huwjarvis.net and Bridgitt Shea.

Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models

The pink elephant test: what your visual imagination predicts about your ability to control your thoughts Research shows people with more vivid visual imaginations may also be more prone to certain kinds of intrusive thoughts.

A report on our New Study: Don’t think of a Pink Elephant!

Aphants, and people with low vividness imagery, may be resistant to intrusive visualisations!

#Aphantasia #Imagery

@sampendu.bsky.social

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This Starter Pack is a fast way to connect with your ACNS colleagues - reply here to be added! And don't forget to follow @acnsau.bsky.social Only 5 more sleeps! 🤩 #ACNS2024

#ACNS2024 Emerging Researcher Awards go to Shuting Li and Denise Morrell. Well deserved, both!

It was a pleasure presenting some of my work today on dopaminergic modulation of vigour and mood in PD at #ACNS2024 @acnsau.bsky.social in sunny Newcastle! 🧠☀️

#ACNS2024 Outstanding Service awards go to Sharna Jamadar and Hannah Keage. Thank you both for your hard work to build up our community!
@sharnajamadar.bsky.social @trevorchong.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to present my latest work, an evidence-based neuronal framework for tDCS at #ACNS2024, thanks to @acnsau.bsky.social, @trevorchong.bsky.social, and the organizing team for putting on such a great conference. I look forward to the rest!

#academia #conference #neuromodulation #tDCS

Navyaan Siddiqui presenting our latest #ParentalBrain research @acnsau.bsky.social. This was Nav’s first conference presentation and he smashed it 🤩

- with @kperrykkad.bsky.social @trevorchong.bsky.social #MonashPsych #MonashBiomedicalImaging

Happy to share that my PhD ‘Computational mechanisms underlying effort and reward valuation in the human brain’ passed @monashuniversity.bsky.social Huge thanks to @trevorchong.bsky.social constant support and mentorship, with crucial assists from Mark Bellgrove and @robbrutledge.bsky.social 🧠🥳🍾🙏

Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

Passed without corrections, might I add! A superlative thesis, Huw. Thanks for allowing me the pleasure of supervising.

The Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is now on Bluesky: @acnsau.bsky.social. And just in time for our annual conference in Newcastle next week! #neuroskyence

Ask and ye shall receive
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@jocelynhalim.bsky.social

Delighted to share our brief Letter to the Editor of PNAS in which we suggest that a key computational (mis)step underlying punishment insensitivity may be a failure to strengthen no-go action weights. w @trevorchong.bsky.social

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Superstars @huwbris.bsky.social and Jocelyn Halim rocking it at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Sydney.

#neuroscience #psychology

Our recent commentary on some thought-provoking work on punishment learning by Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, Gavan McNally, and others.

Short new paper: The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue
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I highlight the new findings by @quining.bsky.social et al. and I reflect on the current state of fatigue science. #psychscisky #cogsci #psychology

🧵Little thread with the main points: (1/6)

Computational mechanisms underlying the dynamics of physical and cognitive fatigue The willingness to exert effort for reward is essential but comes at the cost of fatigue. Theories suggest fatigue increases after both physical and c…

Our manuscript on computational mechanisms underlying the dynamics of physical and cognitive fatigue:

The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue If you are currently feeling tired, you are not alone: feelings of fatigue are incredibly common. In a recent study, Matthews et al. investigated mome…

Thanks for the kind review, @erikbij.bsky.social!