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Trevor Chong

@trevorchong.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist. Monash University, Australia. cogneuro.com.au

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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Join us next week for our free virtual ACNS webinar presented by @clairegillan.bsky.social. Prof. Gillan will explore emerging research on the role of habits in compulsive disorders, challenging traditional models centred on cognitive control. 📅 Thurs, 18 June 16:00 AEST 🔗 tinyurl.com/kpcrsm4m
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Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · 27/04/2026
📄NEW PAPER📄 Dopamine underpins both effort💪 and reward learning⭐. Here, we show it also supports their interaction! w A Huynh, D Obawede, J Coxon @coxon.bsky.social, M Bellgrove, and T Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social #dopamine #learning #effort @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/5
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 20/04/2026
Dopamine is implicated in effort & reward #learning, but how do these interact? @huwjarvis.net @trevorchong.bsky.social &co show that #dopamine supports the relationship between effort & learning, revealing how we learn from the consequences of our actions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41FqSdX
Reward-based learning paradigm with effort manipulation. Top: Participants made a series of choices between two abstract stimuli by applying physical force to a pair of hand-held dynamometers. One stimulus required a negligible amount of force to select (low effort stimulus; >5% MVC) and the other a greater amount of force (high effort stimulus; >44% MVC). Participants, therefore, had to balance an aversion to the high effort stimulus against their desire to maximize reward. Bottom: Stimulus-reward contingencies across a single block of 150 trials. The probability of reward upon selecting a given stimulus was either P = 0.7 or P = 0.3. These contingencies reversed every 12 or 24 trials, and reversals were not signaled to participants.
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
ACNS president A/P Trevor Chong kicking off the #ACNS2025 conference. Remember to get your magics ☕️
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A full audience at #ACNS2025 for today’s keynote session by Prof Anne Collins (UC Berkeley)
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thank you A/P Collins for a fantastic and thought provoking keynote #ACNS2025
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Fantastic poster session this morning. Posters will be up all day on level 2 so go check them out
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Young investigator winner Dr Reuben Rideaux taking us through the neural design principles for efficient perception #ACNS2025 @reubenrideaux.bsky.social
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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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. rdcu.be/eQjLN
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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.
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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Melbourne for Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting! Very happy to visit again after 30 years! @acnsau.bsky.social
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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So proud. Introducing Drs @huwjarvis.net and Bridgitt Shea.
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models
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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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 theconversation.com/the-pink-ele...
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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.
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 19/11/2024
Are you an Australian cognitive neuroscientist 🧠 affiliated with the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society? 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
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#ACNS2024 Emerging Researcher Awards go to Shuting Li and Denise Morrell. Well deserved, both!
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Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · 27/11/2024
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! 🧠☀️
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#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
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Dan Fehring @danfehring.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Sharna Jamadar @sharnajamadar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · 19/11/2024
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 🧠🥳🍾🙏
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Dr Emily Colton @ecoltonpsych.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks
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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · 02/11/2023
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 1/2 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Superstars @huwbris.bsky.social and Jocelyn Halim rocking it at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society in Sydney.
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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Our recent commentary on some thought-provoking work on punishment learning by Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, Gavan McNally, and others.
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Erik Bijleveld @erikbij.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Short new paper: The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue authors.elsevier.com/a/1hwHP4sIRv... 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)
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Trevor Chong @trevorchong.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Thanks for the kind review, @erikbij.bsky.social!
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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…
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