Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience is a non-profit organisation that promotes basic and applied research on social & affective behavior.

Joined September 2015
🚨 Fantastic News! The AS4SAN Emerging Researcher Project Grant deadline has been extended to November 8, 2024! This grant supports researchers up to 10 years post-PhD submission to advance their work in social and affective neuroscience. Don't miss out: tinyurl.com/AS4SAN
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🧠Your research belongs at #AS4SAN2026. The Annual Meeting for Social & Affective Neuroscience is coming to Brisbane this July and #abstract submissions are NOW OPEN. ⏰ Deadline: May 15, 2026 All career stages welcome. Don't miss your chance. 👇 as4san.com/2026-conference-a…
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Excited to share findings from this paper! We found maternal emotion regulation, emotion socialisation parenting behaviours, and the emotional climate of the family were associated with adolescent brain function during emotion regulation 🧠@SarahLWhittle @NERD_CYMH
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🚨 Calling all Emerging Neuroscience Stars! 🚨 Are you ready to take your social or affective neuroscience project to the next level? 🧠✨ This is YOUR chance to fuel your breakthrough projects! 🌟 🔹 Deadline: Nov 1, 2024 🚀Apply now!🚀👉as4san.com/emergingresearche…
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Happy Friday! We are happy to announce our AS4SAN Emerging Researcher Grant! Key dates: Applications open now - Close 1st November How much: $5000 AUD What for: Direct project costs Who: AS4SAN members, <10 years post PhD More details here: as4san.com/emergingresearche…
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Help needed from Autistic Adults for co-designing a VR sensory room. Help shape a VR sensory room prototype through 3 feedback sessions. Your insights are crucial! Be part of innovative research to support the autistic community. Scan the QR code for info. #AutismResearch
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Great work led by @DrHannahSavage!
🎊The first paper from my #postdoc at @DondersInst @radboudumc with @amarquand is officially out! 🎉 Dissecting task-based fMRI activity using normative modelling: an application to the Emotional Face Matching Task nature.com/articles/s42003-0… A 🧵on our main findings: 1/10
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‼️ 🗣️🗣️🗣️FINAL REMINDER Tomorrow is the submission deadline for BPA ECRN Excellence Plenary Award (one student and one ECR) Don't forget to submit your application!! 📷 For more info, see the link below 📷 biolpsychaustralia.com.au/ec… ⬇️
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Important work showing social cognition, including facial emotion recognition, can help to differentiate behaviour variant frontotemporal dementia from phenocopy-bvFTD syndromes. #FTD #social #affective #neuroscience
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Curious about EEG? We have the right workshop for you! Register for the upcoming EEG workshop co-hosted with the Cognitive Neuroscience Testing Precinct. 🕙15 Aug 2024, 10am-3pm 🏫The University of Melbourne eventbrite.com.au/e/eeg-work… @Eventbrite
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🚨New preprint with co-author @OrbenAmy. In this paper, we introduce a framework for social media interventions and explore their potential to improve wellbeing (particularly for adolescent users). osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u9…
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Really cool new research investigating the gut-brain connection and relations to mental health - and beautiful figures! Check it out! #interoception #emotion #social #neuroscience
Got Butterflies in your Stomach?😵‍💫I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @visceral_mind! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Huge congratulations 👏 @bella_s_bower 🥳 @ACNS_ECR @ACNS_Official @UniversitySA @unisaresearch @BBBRC_
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Excited to share a photo of our #neurofeedback team at the Australian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience (AS4SAN) Conference 2024! #AS4SAN2024 #neuroscience @vale_addiction @ChaoSuo @SaamprasG @APaloubis @ethan_murphy1
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What an absolute treat to introduce my PhD advisor as keynote speaker and see my first PhD student present @AS4SANinc ! 🧠🦘
Kicking off day 2 of #AS4SAN2024 with an inspirational keynote from Adriana Galván on adolescent brain development. Her work has influenced policy, eg, no life without parole in young people.
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Very proud of @nataliepeluso Her presentation entitled “visual saliency and task relevance modulate oculomotor behaviour towards naturalistic faces” just won best platform presentation @AS4SANinc Well done, Nat!
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Our final #AS4SAN2024 keynote by @caro_charp! Fantastic work investigating mechanisms for social learning challenges in ASD, employing a computational psychiatry approach.
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Kicking off day 2 of #AS4SAN2024 with an inspirational keynote from Adriana Galván on adolescent brain development. Her work has influenced policy, eg, no life without parole in young people.
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Our PhD student Jia Teo will have a presentation in #AS4SAN2024 on her work 'Can a peer become a safety signal that impairs fear extinction in adolescent rats?' in Data Blitz session 2 and poster session at board #18. Please drop by her session and discuss more details!
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Come to board number 22 for @SylviaCLin and number 27 for @steph_hartanto to have a chat on Tuesday 28th May during afternoon tea!
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