Research Seminar: William Ngiam
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William Ngiam is a cognitive neuroscientist trying to understand how information is represented in the mind and brain, and the mechanisms that underpin attention and working memory. He runs the Perception, Attention, Learning, and Memory Lab or PALM Lab. They run psychophysical experiments that test the limits of visual perception and recall, build mathematical models of the processes to explain cognitive performance, and train machine learning models on neuroimaging data to decode the brain patterns underlying attention and memory.
He believes psychological research should be conducted transparently and rigorously through open scholarship. He is involved in many efforts to promote Open Science and is serving as the inaugural Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, where he reviews the shared materials in reviewed manuscripts. He served on the steering committee of ReproducibiliTea, a global journal club network that empowers early-career researchers to pursue reproducible research practices. He has also made small contributions to initiatives such as the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) and the repliCATS project, and was recognised for his efforts as a Rigor Champion by the National Institutes of Health NINDS.
The Seminar
In this event in a series, speakers from within the Hub, the University, and the broader research community tell us about their research. Our Research Seminar Series involves speakers covering a broad range of themes surrounding our Hub’s interests, so we’ll hopefully all learn something interesting. Whether you want to learn to inform your own research or to simply satisfy a personal curiosity, we hope to see you there.
Attend In-Person or Online
Where: Steve Howard Room 5206, Level 5, Melbourne Connect
Online: Join the zoom here Meeting ID: 881 8112 1134 Passcode: 081124