2021 Australasian Cognitive
Neuroscience Society Conference
18 and 19 November
Conference program
The final program is below. Please note all time are AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne).
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Conference booklet
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Thursday 18th NovemberSydney/Melbourne times (AEDT) |
Friday 19th NovemberSydney/Melbourne times (AEDT) |
Session 1 |
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country | Chair: Thomas Carlson |
Session 6 |
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country | Co-chairs: Tijl Grootswagers and Anina Rich | |
10:15-11am |
Acknowledgement of Lifetime Award winner
Emeritus Prof Micheal Corbalis |
Thomas Suddendorf |
10-11am |
Keynote from Young Investigator Award winner
Prof Karen Caeyenberghs |
Chair: Tijl Grootswagers | |
| Keynote from Emerging Researcher Award 1
Dr Mana Biabani |
Chair: Sharna Jamadar | Keynote from Emerging Researcher Award 2
Sidhant Chopra |
Chair: Anina Rich | |||
Session 2 |
Rapid fire presentations | Co-chairs: Thomas Carlson and Talitha Ford |
Session 7 |
Rapid fire presentations | Co-chairs: Anina Rich and Tijl Grootswagers | |
11am-12pm |
13 × 3 minute presentations |
11am-12pm |
13 × 3 minute presentations | |||
| Ageing and clinical | Attention, memory and decision making | |||||
| The DelIrium VULnerability in GEriatrics (DIVULGE) Study: Protocol for a prospective EEG study of incident delirium | Monique Boord | A longitudinal investigation of the impacts of sleep on sustained attention in children | Georgia Radford | |||
| Relationships between Cognition, Reward Drive, and Impulsivity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood | Montana Hunter | Decision strategies: causal investigations of the trade-off between decision speed and accuracy in the frontal cortex | Hannah Filmer | |||
| Which measures from a sustained attention task best predict ADHD group membership? | Katherine Johnson | The magic of memory: rapid consolidation via prior knowledge and repeated retrieval | Hayley Caldwell | |||
| Characterising anatomical heterogeneity in psychiatric disorders using normative models | Ashlea Segal | Built environment design modulates autonomic and EEG indices of emotional response | Isabella S. Bower | |||
| Neural Correlates of Co-Occurring Pain and Depression: A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) Meta-Analysis | Carmen Zheng | Trans-ancestry genome wide association study of executive functions in up to 14 877 subjects | Aurina Arnatkeviciute | |||
| Cognitive and neural mechanisms of subjective time in frontotemporal dementia | Lulu Liu | No effect on visuospatial or temporal attention following offline parietal iTBS or alpha frequency tACS stimulation in healthy participants | Jessica Moretti | |||
| Anxiety Attenuates the Behavioural and Neuronal Learning Advantages Conferred by Statistical Stability | Elise Rowe | Investigating individual differences in impulsivity in relation to varied risky decision-making | Taylah Williams | |||
| A systematic review into the relationship between blood pressure variability and structural brain changes | Daria Gutteridge | Heightened risk aversion for auditory versus equivalent visual decision-making trials | Dylan Burrowes | |||
| Compiling a typical ageing trajectory of the brain: Linking the meso- and macro- scale determinants of cognitive ageing. | Robert Di Paolo | Choosing increases the value of non-instrumental information | Matthew Jiwa | |||
| Does cardiorespiratory fitness mediate the relationship between physical activity and cognitive functioning? | Teigan Cotterill | What’s in the box? EEG correlates of the value of curiosity | Patrick Cooper | |||
| Periodic and aperiodic neural activity displays age-dependent changes across early-to-middle childhood | Aron Hill | Cognitive changes in early parenthood: A focus on male parents | Chloe Stevens | |||
| Cerebrovascular Health and Task Switching Variability in Healthy Ageing | Nicholas Ware | Baby-brain Phenomenon is a Universal Experience: Cognitive Deficits found in both Birthing and Non-birthing Parents in the Postpartum. | Yashasveene Jayachandran | |||
| Measuring Myelin in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | Lillian Dipnall | White matter tracts underlying verbal fluency after ischaemic stroke | Chen Liang | |||
Poster Session |
Posters |
AGM |
Zoom | |||
12:15-1:15pm |
.pdfs on Whova
Individual Zoom links provided by participants |
12:15-1:15pm |
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Session 3 |
Oral presentations | Co-chairs: Talitha Ford and Jason Mattingley |
Session 8 |
Oral presentations | Co-chairs: Paul Dux and Katharina Voigt | |
1:30-2:30pm |
4 × 10 minute presentations |
1:30-2:30pm |
4 × 10 minute presentations | |||
| Methods | Social cognition and perception | |||||
| Activation Likelihood Estimates Meta-Analysis of Glucose Metabolism Across the Adult Lifespan | Hamish Deery | Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows | Colin Palmer | |||
| Metabolic and functional connectomes show domain generality in cognition-connectome relationships: a simultaneous MRI-PET study | Katharina Voigt | Investigating the encoding of predictive sensory representations in EEG frequency spectra | William Turner | |||
| Real-time neurofeedback training of spatial and feature-based attention selectively enhances visual processing | Angela I. Renton | The interrelationship between haemodynamics, excitatory-inhibitory modulation, and social processing abilities. | Talitha Ford | |||
| NeuroDesk – A cross-platform data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging | Steffen Bollmann | Differences in effective connectivity between postpartum mothers and non-mothers relate to maternal caregiving, cognitive performance, and social cognition | Winnie Orchard | |||
Session 4 |
Rapid fire presentations | Co-chairs: Sharna Jamadar and Eric Tan |
Session 9 |
Rapid fire presentations | Co-chairs: Paul Dux and Katharina Voigt | |
2:30-3:30pm |
13 × 3 minute presentations |
2:30-3:30pm |
13 × 3 minute presentations | |||
| Methods and clinical | Perception | |||||
| Capitalising on inter-individual differences in aperiodic activity to evaluate the exclusion of left-handers in EEG language research | Nicole Vass | Spatial Attention Does Not Modulate the Processing of a Motion Ensemble | Louisa Talipski | |||
| Cortico-striatal activity distinguishes human safety learning via Pavlovian conditioned inhibition | Patrick Laing | Dissociating the temporal dynamics of prediction error corresponding to orthogonal attributes of the same visual stimulus | Benjamin Lowe | |||
| Investigating the relationship between Research Domain Criteria Social Processes, and GABA and glutamate concentrations in the superior temporal sulcus | Nina Parrella | A correlational study exploring the mechanisms underlying motion-induced position shifts. | Timothy Cottier | |||
| External speech processing and auditory verbal hallucinations: A systematic review of functional neuroimaging studies | Sophie Richards | Does conscious expectation influence adaptation to repeated auditory stimuli? | Joshua Sabio | |||
| An investigation of neuropsychological and lesion characteristics of post-stroke apathy | Kristina Horne | Motion Extrapolation in the Twinkle-Goes Illusion: Effects of Speed, Duration, and Visibility | Ella Wilson | |||
| A 1H MRS study investigating the relationships between cortical GSH and cognition and negative symptoms in chronic schizophrenia | Caitlin Yolland | Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past | Hinze Hogendoorn | |||
| Noradrenergic modulation of saccades in Parkinson’s disease | Isabella Orlando | Modulations of perceptual performance over the gait-cycle: a virtual reality experiment | Matt Davidson | |||
| Characterisation of the Psychopathology of Autoimmune Encephalitis | Sher Ting Chim | Can mental images compete with visual input? | Alexander Sulfaro | |||
| Electroencephalography measures of scopolamine’s potential antidepressant effects | Joseph Chen | Reconstructing remapped stimulus information from EEG in the pre-saccadic period | Caoimhe Moran | |||
| Understanding the relationship between white matter and cognitive function in bipolar disorder: A systematic review | Georgia Caruana | The temporal dynamics of rotation-invariant object processing | Denise Moerel | |||
| Combining information theoretic metrics with electrophysiological measures to characterise early statistical learning mechanisms | Thivina Thanabalan | Asymmetry in colour similarity | Elizabeth Fisher | |||
| Natural vs forced language switching: free selection and consistent choices eliminate significant performance costs and cognitive demands in the brain | Di Zhu | Capacity for movement is a major organisational principle in object representations | Sophia Shatek | |||
| Investigating predictive coding in younger and older children using MEG and a multi-feature auditory oddball paradigm | Hannah Rapaport | Unique contributions of perceptual and conceptual humanness to object representations in the human brain | Tijl Grootswagers | |||
Session 5 |
Oral presentations | Co-chairs: Muireann Irish and Daniel Feuerriegel |
Session 10 |
Oral presentations | Co-chairs: Aurina Arnatkeviciute and Jacob Paul | |
4-5pm |
4 × 10 minute presentations |
4-5pm |
4 × 10 minute presentations | |||
| Ageing and clinical | Decision making and memory | |||||
| Working memory as an endophenotype linking genetic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder to its behavioural traits in a large population-based sample | Mia Moses | Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgments | Adam Bulley | |||
| White matter fibre degeneration over 3 years after ischemic stroke | Natalia Egorova-Brumley | Mapping the neural correlates of decision confidence using event-related potentials | Daniel Feuerriegel | |||
| The locus coeruleus noradrenaline system in Parkinson’s disease modulating impulsivity and reinforcement learning | Claire O’Callaghan | Investigating the effects of varying analysis and signal parameters on multivariate decoding of event-related potential data | Claudia Locatelli | |||
| The structural and functional connectivity of neuromodulatory systems underpins dynamic landscape shifts in brain topology | Natasha Taylor | |||||
ECR Event |
ACNS Virtual Survivor |
Close |
Closing remarks | Chair: Hannah Keage | ||
5-7pm |
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