Cognitive Neuroscience Hub

Arshiya Sangchooli, Dr Elise Rowe, Dr Robert Smith, Prof Iroise Dumontheil and Prof Marta Garrido investigated how visual brain pathways mature during early adolescence, revealing a developmental shift from subcortical to cortical processing that supports more efficient visual information processing.

A new preprint by Dr Sophie Lin, Nikhita Terence, and Prof Marta Garrido explored how the brain combines what we already expect with what we actually see, introducing a new method to better understand the different ways people make sense of uncertain visual information.

A new publication by Andy Sitoh, A/Prof Jacqueline Anderson and colleagues examined a spatial memory task in people with temporal lobe epilepsy, showing that it can help identify memory problems linked to damage affecting both sides of the brain's hippocampus, a region essential for learning and memory.

Dr Chiranth Bhagavan, Prof Olivia Carter and colleagues investigated the effects of psilocybin on motor function in healthy adults, finding that clinically relevant doses produced only mild, temporary changes in movement, supporting its safety profile for clinical research.

A new publication by Prof Philip Smith, Dr Paul Garrett, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel, Jane Yook and Simon Lilburn compared two leading models of decision-making, showing that both accurately explain how people gradually accumulate evidence when making continuous decisions about the world around them.

A publication by Yubing Zhang, Madeline Coates, Prof Marta Garrido and Dr Sarah Tashjian explored how adolescents' brains combine information about danger and protection when judging safety, revealing that the brain's safety network becomes more integrated as teenagers get older.

Alcohol is a normal part of life for many Australians. But why do some people develop problems with drinking while others don't? Hub member Dr Antoinette Poulton unpacks the link between impulsivity and hazardous drinking, and explains why our decisions around alcohol are shaped by much more than willpower. From personalised feedback to smartphone-based interventions, we explore how researchers are finding new ways to help people better understand their drinking and make lasting changes.

Kavindu Bandara, Dr Elise Rowe, and Prof Marta Garrido investigated two leading theories of consciousness, finding stronger evidence for Global Neuronal Workspace Theory while helping clarify how brain-wide communication gives rise to conscious awareness.

Violet Chae, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel, and colleagues have developed an open-access dataset combining EEG recordings and behavioural responses to food images, providing researchers with a valuable resource to better understand how the brain processes food and influences eating decisions.

A publication by Yubing Zhang, Prof Marta Garrido, Dr Jacob Paul and Dr Sarah Tashjian explored how learning from safe experiences changes the way adolescents' brains respond to uncertain threats, showing that the brain can quickly learn to recognise when something that once seemed threatening is actually safe.

Online sports betting is now part of everyday life in Australia. But how do betting apps actually work, and why are they so hard to ignore. PsychTalks is back for Season 5, with our first episode featuring hub member Dr Daniel Bennett discussing Australia's fondness for gambling. He explores the psychology behind modern betting products, sharing how features like in-play betting, cash-out options and constant advertising are designed to keep people hooked.

New research from PhD candidate Andy Sitoh, A/Prof Jacqueline Anderson and colleagues shows that the left hippocampus plays a central role in multiple forms of verbal memory in temporal lobe epilepsy, providing new insights that could improve cognitive assessment and surgical planning.

Dr Sophie Lin was recently featured by QUBIC for her work advancing wearable quantum brain imaging to better understand the cerebellum and its role in learning, language, and neurological disorders.

A new preprint by Lauren Fong, Silvia Seghezzi, Dr Paul Garrett, Mia Nightingale, Prof Philip Smith, Prof Rob Hester and Dr Daniel Feuerriegel investigated how voluntary actions and the availability of choice influence people's perception of time, showing that temporal binding is strongest over very short action-outcome intervals and is not affected by choice availability.

A new publication by Dr Antoinette Poulton, Joanna Bowen, Dr Gezelle Dali, Dr Cindy Chew, Prof Rob Hester and collaborators from the Matilda Centre at The University of Sydney examined how different formats of personalised feedback, including co-designed visual approaches, influenced engagement and outcomes in a digital alcohol use intervention.

Professor Marta Garrido was recently featured by QUBIC, highlighting her research at the forefront of quantum-enabled brain imaging and wearable MEG technology.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are seeking participants aged 16 years and over for a study investigating how people recognise and adapt their behaviour following errors. Participation involves a 30-minute online survey and a 2-hour EEG session at the Parkville campus.

A recent French-language article from La Presse explores the science behind why humans vocalise pain, featuring insights from Hub Director A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley on how the brain processes pain, emotion, and social communication.

Junyi Pan, Adrian Gonzales, Mingge Shi and A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley found that objective sleep quality (sleep efficiency) shapes how strongly depressive symptoms are linked to pain sensitivity, with poorer sleep amplifying this relationship in otherwise healthy adults.

Lauren Fong and Dr Daniel Feuerriegel were featured in a recent article in The Conversation, exploring how our brains begin forming decisions before we’re consciously aware, revealing decision-making as a gradual neural process rather than a single moment of choice.

A new publication by Prabhakar Singh, Prof Olivia Carter, Prof Marta Garrido and colleagues shows that communication between key brain regions enables the brain to process emotional signals even without conscious awareness, revealing how emotion perception can occur behind the scenes in the brain.

A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley and colleagues examined how sleep disruption influences central pain processing mechanisms in osteoarthritis, highlighting that targeting sleep could translate into meaningful real-world improvements in pain, function, and overall quality of life.

A new piece in The Conversation highlights research from our Vision and Attention Lab, published in Computational Brain & Behavior by Dr Paul Garrett and colleagues. It shows that even imprecise, 'fuzzy' memories can support effective decision-making, reflecting how recall and recognition share limited cognitive resources.

Dr Paul Garrett, Anthony Lua, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel, Prof Daniel Little and Prof Philip Smith used response time models of recall and recognition to show how visual working memory performance reflects shared cognitive resources.

Jie Sun, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and A/Prof Adam Osth examined whether systematic variability in drift rates can better explain decision-making processes within the diffusion decision model in this new publication.

Lauren Fong, Dr Paul Garrett, Prof Philip Smith, Prof Rob Hester, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleague used EEG to track how evidence accumulation and motor preparation unfold over time during voluntary decision-making.

In a recent podcast interview with the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Prof Marta Garrido discusses predictive coding, psychosis, her journey into neuroscience, and the development of Australia’s first optically pumped MEG system.

A new study conducted by Shima Rouhi, Prof Amy Jordan and hub director A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley investigated how naturally shorter sleep influences experimental pain responses, revealing sex-specific differences.

A new publication by Dr Chiranth Bhagavan and Prof Olivia Carter looked at research on psychedelics in functional disorders and found early evidence of potential symptom improvement.

A new paper by A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley and colleagues shows that sleep, mental wellbeing and musculoskeletal health are linked through shared neuroimmune pathways, helping explain how poor sleep and psychological distress can drive ongoing pain and physical problems.

A new paper led by Morgan Kikkawa, with Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and Prof Marta Garrido, shows that newly learned object‑scene expectations influence early brain responses without changing how objects themselves are represented, and that these effects depend on the type of visual detail in the scene.

Dr Antoinette Poulton’s research on smartphone-based, real-world cognitive assessment was featured in the International Society for Ambulatory Assessment newsletter, highlighting the benefits and future potential of measuring cognition outside the laboratory.

A new paper led by Linzhi Tao, with Prof Marta Garrido and colleagues, reveals two brain pathways involving the insula and pulvinar that help the visual system balance predictions with incoming sensory information.

New ENIGMA research, with contributions from our own A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley, shows that changes in the “unaffected” side of the brain after stroke are linked to motor difficulties and could help guide more personalised rehabilitation.

Isabella Goodwin, Prof Marta Garrido and colleagues assessed whether psychosis is driven by disruptions in sensory input, prior expectations, or their interaction within a predictive processing framework in this new review.

A new publication by A/Prof Jacqueline Anderson examined how illness beliefs and coping styles relate to post-concussion symptoms in people with and without mild traumatic brain injury after traumatic injury.

A new publication by Isabella Goodwin, Prof Rob Hester and Prof Marta Garrido found that everyday psychotic-like experiences in healthy people are not linked to changes in the brain’s white-matter “wiring,” offering important clarity for early psychosis research.

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel explains how Black Friday’s urgency and scarcity tactics hijack our decision-making, pushing our brains toward faster, more impulsive purchases.

A new paper by A/Prof Natalia Egorova‑Brumley, Leila Nategh and colleagues links lower left nucleus accumbens volume with poorer sleep quality in people with hip osteoarthritis.

A new study by Dr Gezelle Dali, Dr Antoinette Poulton, Prof Rob Hester and colleagues shows how changes in delay discounting from adolescence to young adulthood predict smoking behaviour, highlighting adolescence as a key period for supporting self-control.

PhD student Violet Chae, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues have released a new preprint introducing FOODEEG, an open EEG and behavioural dataset that captures how the brain responds to food images.

In the episode, she discusses what these rapid neural responses mean for our everyday eating habits and how understanding them could support healthier choices.

In a new preprint by Lauren Fong, Dr Paul Garrett, Prof Philip Smith, Prof Robert Hester, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues, how the brain transforms evidence accumulation into action is tracked, revealing how decision and movement processes unfold together in real time.

Dr Sophie Lin and collaborators demonstrate what is likely the first cerebellar EEG‑based brain–computer interface, decoding movement‑related neural signals for potential BCI applications.

A new pilot trial conducted by Sally Meikle, Prof Olivia Carter and colleagues found that psilocybin therapy with psychotherapy support may help reduce symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression.

Arielle Levy and A/Prof Jacqueline Anderson examined whether how people perceive their illness (illness perceptions) predicts their subjective reports of cognitive difficulties in the weeks following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

Dr Sophie Lin and colleagues used OP-MEG brain imaging to investigate eyeblink conditioning in humans.

Kavindu Bandara, Dr Elise Rowe and Prof Marta Garrido used computational modelling to investigate how sensory and frontal brain regions contribute to consciousness, finding that both play a key role in shaping awareness.

Prof Olivia Carter, A/Prof Jason Forte, Dr Jacob Paul and colleagues explored what it is like living with Visual Snow Syndrome in this new preprint.

A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley and colleagues published a paper investigating how exercise can impact executive function post stroke.

A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley and colleagues published a paper showing how depression influences the reliability of EEG Peak Alpha Frequency as a biomarker of pain sensitivity across different recording methods.

Dr Sarah Tashjian and colleagues outline ten simple rules in computational biology that could transform the way we work with human participants.

Prof Philip Smith, Dr Paul Garrett, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues investigated how people make memory-based decisions when reporting precise details, in this new preprint.

Jie Sun, Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues had a preprint released, examining whether a specific brain signal reflects how memory evidence builds over time.

Linzhi Tao, Prof Marta Garrido and colleagues explored how the brain predicts what you’ll see next.

Prof Olivia Carter, Prof Marta Garrido, Prabhakar Singh and colleagues found that a third visual brain pathway can help us understand moving facial expressions, separate from how we recognise faces or track movement.

Prof Marta Garrido, Dr Sophie Lin, and former students Luisa Zhao and Emma Pike found that our brains expect things more on the right, even though attention usually favours the left.

A/Prof Natalia Brumley, Adrian Gonzales and colleagues explored how features of spoken language, such as vocal tone, pitch, and rhythm, can reveal valuable information about a person's pain experience.

Morgan Kikkawa, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and Prof Marta Garrido have had a new preprint released, investigating whether low-spatial frequency scene information influences object processing in the brain.

Violet Chae, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues have had a new preprint released. These findings shed light on the swift and nuanced ways our brains interpret food-related information, offering insights into the neural underpinnings of dietary decisions.

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Psychophysiology,

Prof Marta Garrido and colleagues investigated how predictive processes influence 40 Hz auditory steady-state responses (ASSR).

A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley examined the variability in sedentary behaviour and physical activity patterns on weekdays versus weekends in stroke survivors.

A/Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley and colleagues investigated how weekly variations in sleep affect pain perception in young women. To read more, click here.

Dr Chin-Hsuan Sophie Lin and colleagues investigated the use of source-level signal analysis to improve the accuracy of BCI decoding of imagined movements in people with multiple sclerosis.

Dr Chin-Hsuan Sophie Lin had a paper published in The Journal of Engineering, investigating the feasibility of using a BCI to decode imagined movements in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Dr Antoinette Poulton and colleagues from The Nepean Clinical School investigated the effect of amphetamine treatment on executive function in individuals with obesity. Read the new published paper here.

Congratulations to A/Prof Jacqueline Anderson who has secured an $80,000 grant for a pilot study investigating neuropsychological interventions aimed at improving outcomes after a mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and colleagues investigated the visceral afferent training' hypothesis, incorporating the development of top-down (allostatic) control over bodily states.

A new preprint published by Prof Marta Garrido, Isabella Goodwin and colleagues evaluates the role of predictive processing in understanding psychosis.

Dr Antoinette Poulton had a paper published in Brain Sciences, as the issue cover for the December Issue.

Prof Hannah Keage tells us all about delirium in her recent talk to the hub. Did you know that delirium can be preventable in 30-40% of cases, yet is one of the most understudied conditions in cognitive neuroscience? Find out more in the recap of her talk!

Jacob chats about his research in understanding dyscalculia - maths learning disorder, and what he is doing to raise awareness and support for these children and adults.

Apply now for this joint-PhD project on "Understanding the development of metacognitive regulation in academic learning during childhood: the role of metacognitive control", working with Prof Iroise & Dr Jacob, and experts based in KU Leuven.

Jacqueline investigated whether multiple homogenous subgroups could be meaningfully identified based on their HRQoL profiles.

Luiza, Daniel and colleagues report about the significance of aperiodic resting EEG correlates in studying personality traits - it's not all just "noise"! Read more in their paper published in NeuroImage.

Dr Rob Seymour presents his midnight (UK time) talk with us on how wearable MEG can be implemented on studying the brain in natural conditions. You can now recap on his talk recording here.

Prof James Danckert presents data from neuroimaging work and individual differences studies to show that boredom proneness can be cast as both a disengaged attentional state and a struggle to establish a sense of agency. Find out about this in his recent talk with the hub!

Congratulations to Dr Antoinette Poulton for securing an MRFF grant! Her project will assess the efficacy of an innovative, scalable and accessible app-based intervention designed to curb hazardous alcohol use.

Dr Jacob Paul and colleagues analyse 7T MRI human data to show that the neural representation to initiate response to numerosity and timing are initially different, then overlaps in parts, but never fully form a common representation.

This new collaborative interdisciplinary project aims to develop targeted assessments to test for neural markers of delirium vulnerability. The team includes Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and Prof Marta Garrido.

Catch up on the talk by Dr Silvia Seghezzi that delves into the nature of voluntary action, presenting recent research findings that investigate the brain activity preceding voluntary actions.

Come join us as we celebrate the hub's rebranding launch! This in-person event will take place on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 11am at the Parkville campus, and will feature talks by internationally renowned neuroscientist Prof Anil Seth and computational vision scientist Dr Katherine Storrs!

Natalia Brumley and co-authors review and systhesise what we currently know about brain changes in osteoarthritis. Read more in their newly published review paper!

Listen to the talk by Dr Giorgio Fuggetta about how his recent work using feature salient singletons sheds new light on the attentional capture model debate: is it stimulus-driven? is it goal-dependent? is it a hybrid model?

Congratulations to Dr Natalia Brumley, our Hub's Deputy Director, on an incredible success on securing an ARC Future Fellowship grant! Her interdisciplinary project will deliver significant insights into how poor sleep changes the brain to increase pain sensitivity in healthy adults. Read more about her project and other successful applicants!

Read about the new publication co-authored by Dr Daniel Feuerriegel that speaks to the link between human brain waves (resting EEG) and cognitive performance in middle age to older age individuals.

Prof Philip Smith introduces and evaluates a new neurally-inspired dual diffusion model, the linear drift, linear infinitesimal variance (LDLIV) model, which embodies three features often thought to characterize neural mechanisms of decision making.

Struggling to help someone who's a hazardous drinker? A smartphone app could help. Read more about it in this new research by Antoinette, Rob Hester and team.

A/Prof Stefan Bode, Dr Natalia Brumley and team presents new research suggesting that we might choose to endure physical pain over the ‘pain of not knowing’ when it comes to finding out useless information faster.

The Jülich-University of Melbourne Postgraduate Academy (JUMPA) is a partnership between Melbourne, the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ/Jülich Research Centre) and its affiliate universities. A/Prof Stefan Bode is the academic lead of the program. Get in touch to find out about PhD opportunities!

This paper stems from Dr Elektra Schubert's PhD project. Her work shows that experiencing positive emotions increases desire particularly strongly for healthy foods, which can additionally be modulated via emotion regulation. This has important implications for designing health-related interventions targeting mood improvement

Anemia and iron deficiency have been associated with poor child cognitive development. This study looked into the effects of supplementation with iron or multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs) on brain activity measures using resting electroencephalography (EEG).

Dr Sophie Lin co-authors a paper suggesting that ErTDCS may be a useful new protocol to dissect task components of learning.

Amy Thompson, Patrick Goodbourn and Jason Forte reports that sensory hypersensitivity may be prevalent in people with VSS and indicate that visual allodynia is associated with increased severity of VSS.

Dr Natalia Brumley tells that the loss of brain white matter and associated cognitive decline is faster for at least three years after a stroke.

PhD Student Yiuhong Ko, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel, and team share how the brightness of an image affect our sense of confidence in our decisions.

Textile artist Chrys Zantis and A/Prof Marta Garrido discuss the connection – and potential disconnect – between the brain’s internal and external worlds is explored in artworks that combine textiles and neuroscience.

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and team discuss how we rapidly adjust our decision-making strategies after response conflict.

In his new collaborative research, Dr Simon Cropper discusses how one can go about measuring the multifaceted and unique human quality that is creativity without killing it completely.

Dr Hinze Hogendoorn discusses how and why the COVID-19 pandemic has messed with our brain's sense of time.

Have we begun to assess our own personal risk based on local case numbers rather than adhere to public health advice? ABC News spoke to Dr Daniel Feuerriegel about mask compliance on trains.

Dr Jason Forte discusses why we think better when we're moving

Dr Simon Cropper proposes that we achieve meaning in the world through reconstruction of signals absorbed by our senses into some coherent sense of what we see as reality. Part exhibition, part experiment, MENTAL is a welcoming place to confront societal bias and stereotypes about mental health.

PhD Student Jiaheng Xie, Dr Patrick Goodbourn and team discuss their findings on altered visual function in a larval zebrafish knockout of neurodevelopmental risk gene pdzk1

PhD Students Helen Overhoff and YiuHong Ko, along with A/Prof Stefan Bode, Dr Daniel Feuerriegel and team discuss their findings on ERPs of error detection and confidence in healthy ageing.

PhD Student Elektra Schubert, A/Prof Stefan Bode, collaborators from Cancer Council Victoria and team found that health warning labels on sugary drinks decrease people's desire to consume them, but don't strongly modulate craving-related neural responses

Catch Decision Science Hub's Dr Simon Cropper's presentation titled "Is your brain a slave to sense" in the MSPS May Lecture series.

A pilot research project provides a tantalising hint that the scent of blood may enhance our appetite for food...even vegetables

A new study shows that health warnings on packaged foods can help us make healthier choices – but it’s negative messaging that really drives the point home

New research finds that making a difficult choice between two equally desirable options can change the way our brains think about future preferences.

Researchers have teamed up with the ABC to investigate the kind of sudden problem-solving insight that makes people spontaneously exclaim “yes” or “at last” or, indeed, “aha!”

Do you ever get confused when you're struggling with a difficult subject, only to have everything click into place with sudden and certain clarity?

Spearheaded by Dr Simon Cropper, the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences left an incredible footprint on National Science Week in 2019, with our most impactful contribution yet.

New research tracks the neural patterns that allow us to change our minds. Understanding this could open up the possibility of more advanced artificial intelligence

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel was recently named the School’s new Decision Science Fellow in recognition of his exciting work on human perception and decision making. We recently sat down him to learn a little bit more about his research work with the Decision Science Hub.

“Even a short exposure to very popular brands shifts your decision-making,” Bode explains. “We have found that when you buy something you really like, you want to keep rewarding yourself.

Modeling Subjective Belief States in Computational Psychiatry: Interoceptive Inference as a Candidate Framework

PhD student Elektra Shubert and A/Prof Stefan Bode from the Decision Neuroscience Lab share new findings on their recent EEG study which suggest that we prepare ourselves for upcoming situations in which we need to control our emotions for.

Dr Ilvana Dzafic presents ongoing findings from research project titled "Neural Dynamics of Sensory Learning across the Psychosis Continuum".

Join ABC RN Talkfest to hear Decision Science Hub's A/Prof Olivia Carter explore the ways in which technology is changing our human experience and the human brain.

Recent article in the conversation by hub members, Dr Simon Cropper and A/Prof Daniel Little, and colleagues discuss the meaning we find in the night sky.

Dr Simon Lilburn shares recent research at the Vision and Attention Lab and tips on how to read and write manuscripts and papers.

The DSH has launched it's first interview with A/Prof Marta Garrido as she shared about her background and research career, thoughts and advice on online conferences and developing good research habits.

New publication alert - Dr Paul Garrett and his team of international researchers investigate whether people support Immunity & Vaccination passports, and why.

Researchers Dr Simon Cropper and Honorary Fellow Dr Margaret Webb along with researchers from Harvard University and McGill University have created this simple word test that can reveal how creative you are. It only takes a few minutes and involves thinking of 10 nouns that are unrelated to one another and as far apart in meaning as possible.

The TimingLab, led my Deputy Director, Dr Hinze Hogendoorn, is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow to conduct EEG decoding, behaviour, and modelling to investigate how the brain allows us to experience the world in real-time.

The Decision Science Hub will be co-hosting an information session to showcase the funding opportunities available to conduct research in Germany, including research grants currently open for applications. Register here

A/Prof Katherine Johnson brings us on her journey that kicked off with a PhD, then leaving academia for a job in industry, returning to academia in the UK and Ireland, before coming back home to Melbourne. She also shares some of her ongoing research, how COVID-19 has changed her lifestyle, and shares quick tips for honours students who are about a month away from thesis submission.

MSPS has put together a series of events discussing Industry Career Pathways for PhD, postdoc and honours students. A range of activities including panel discussions and interviews will take place over September and October 2020. Register now.

New research by hub member, Marta Garrido, and Kelly Garner and Paul Dux from UQ, show that multitasking involves more of the brain than previously thought, which might also explain why practice improves performance.

Dr Jason Forte weighs in on the challenges and ethical implications of using brain stimulation to reduce aggression.

Got 15 mins to spare and your computer handy? New study by Decision Science Hub's Dr Simon Cropper and team investigate people's abilities to detect fake videos, known as deepfakes, and the aspects that give them away. Test out your ability to spot deepfakes via their survey.

Decision Science Hub Fellow, Daniel Feuerriegel, and PhD student Hayley Jach and A/Prof Luke Smillie share findings from their new study, showing how machine learning can be used to predict aspects of a person’s personality from their electrical brain rhythms.

Heavy alcohol consumption over ten years or more can cause significant brain function problems. But what about casual drinking? Decision Science Hub's Prof Rob Hester addresses this quesiton in a recent article in the Conversation.

Dr Natalia Egorova shares about her current work and vast experiences studying and working in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. She also shares the importance of being up to date with newer neuroimaging techniques and technologies.

In a recent article in the Conversation, Dr Hinze Hogendoorn explains why information available to our conscious experience is always outdated, why we don't notice these delays, and how the brain allow us to feel like we are experiencing the world in real time.

In a recent article in The Conversation, Dr Simon Lilburn and Prof Philip Smith share recent research that suggests that we have a limited capacity to process information when processing information for meaning, rather than being aware of its presence.

Catch Decision Science Hub's Katherine Johnson deliver a lecture on attentional control amongst individuals with ADHD and ways to improve attentional control through exposure to natural spaces such as green roofs and green walls.

With the increasing number of Deepfakes going viral online, DSH's Dr Simon Cropper believes that people could be given training to distinguish real videos from fakes.

Dr Daniel Feuerriegel speaks about his humble beginnings in academia and how he found his way to the University of Melbourne as the Decision Science Hub Fellow. Apart from sharing some of his research interests around the intersection between prediction and decision-making, Daniel highlights the importance and advantages of having expertise in cognitive neuroscience research methods, such as EEG, fMRI, and computational modelling, and how to go about developing such expertise.

A new study’s found deepfake videos are becoming more common, and harder to detect. Dr Simon Cropper breaks it down for us on this fab episode of Behind The News - an education program for 10 - 13 year olds.

Social media algorithms, artificial intelligence, and our own genetics are among the factors influencing us beyond our awareness. Stefan Bode addresses the ancient question: do we have control over our own lives?

In a recent ABC Radio interview, A/Prof Stefan Bode speaks about a 1983 experiment that found that "brain activity preceded reported intentions to move by around half a second". Stefan argues that there are both external and internal factors that influence us, from which we can never fully escape — our previous decisions, our memories, desires, wishes and goals, all of which are represented in the brain.

A/Prof Stefan Bode speaks about his journey that began in Germany and how he ended up at the University of Melbourne as the Decision Science Hub Director. Stefan shares about his passion for neuroimaging techniques that he uses in his research and how he grew to love research within the field of cognitive neuroscience.

PhD Student, Will Turner, presents findings from current PhD work which suggests that forgone physical effort expenditure can inflate decision confidence.

Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? Prof Philip Smith says 'We're dealing with a speech signal that's degraded relative to face-to-face speech, even with a good internet connection, so the cognitive load required to process or decode it is greater.'

New article published in the schizophrenia bulletin by hub members Ilvanna Dzafic, Marta Garrido, Olivia Carter and team finding an interplay between Top-Down and Bottom-Up connections as psychotic phenomena increased.

Hub members Daniel Feuerriegel, Hinze Hogendoorn and PhD student Tessel Blom explore how do our expectations influence our decision-making and conscious experience in a recent viewpoint paper.

Hub members Daniel Feuerriegel, Rob Hester, Stefan Bode and PhD student William Turner found that changes of mind decisions can be tracked in their information usage patterns AND that the strength of even the very first frame of evidence was associated with the speed and likelihood of later changes of mind

In this viewpoint article, hub member Hinze Hogendoorn provides key insights into the lessons learnt from 25 years of the flash-lag debate

Hub member Prof Philip Smith speculates the psychology behind the infamous 'cat lawyer' in SBS's The Feed.

Hub member, Dr Miriam Mosing, presents her findings from recent work investigating the gene-environment interplay in skill acquisition, using music as a model behaviour.

Hub members Marta Garrido, Rob Hester, and PhD Student, Shivam Kalhan, propose a framework to discuss ways in which behaviour may be made more adaptive and how the framework may be supported or falsified experimentally.

In this new publication, hub member Daniel Feuerriegel evaluates the evidence for how our expectations shape neuronal activity in the visual system.

New article published Nature by Stefan Bode and PhD student Matt Jiwa and team that suggests that people are more curious about outcomes pertaining to their own decisions rather than externa events.

Dr Amanda Robinson (The University of Sydney) presents her work on the temporal dynamics of information processing within and across the hemispheres.

Special guest, Prof Clare Press (Birkbeck, University of London) speaks about how we render our experiences, both veridical and informative.

Could psychedelic drugs be the powerful medicine we have been looking for? Professor Olivia Carter discusses this on a panel that explores this idea at the World Science Festival Brisbane 2021

Prof Agnieszka Tymula (The University of Sydney) presents a descriptive model of choice with normative foundations based on how the brain is thought to represent value.

Dr Jacob Paul (The University of Melbourne) presents four of his recent projects using Ultra-high resolution (7 Tesla) fMRI combined with population receptive field modelling that suggest a widespread network of brain areas that selectively process quantities, such as numerosity (object number) and object size, which are organised as topographic maps.

Prof Ofir Turel (School of Computing Systems, The University of Melbourne) presents a suite of studies investigating the neuroscience and psychology of problematic social media behaviors

Dr Paul Garret (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences) presents a suite of recent studies on mathematical applications to numeral and linguistic decision-making

Prof Agnieszka Tymula (The University of Sydney) presents a descriptive model of choice with normative foundations based on how the brain is thought to represent value.

In this panel discussion held on 20th October, Prof Olivia Carter and other experts will discuss current neuroscientific understandings of consciousness.