@FMLabUNSW

@UNSW's new Future Minds Lab. Part agency/Part cognition lab investigating the psychology & neuroscience of #innovation & #entrepreneurship.

 Sydney, New South Wales
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Joined February 2016
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Prof Joel Pearson@ProfJoelPearson21 Sep 2020
New lab work out: Decoding Nonconscious Thought Representations during Successful Thought Suppression mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs… and this: newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/sc… @UNSWScience @FMLabUNSW Could this be unconscious imagery?
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UNSW Science@UNSWScience21 Sep 2020
Why is it so hard to control our thoughts? 🤔💭 Suppressed thoughts could be hiding in the visual part of our brains – without us even knowing, shows new research by @UNSW's Dr Roger Koenig-Robert and @ProfJoelPearson, @FMLabUNSW. newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/sc…

Can't get you outta my head: neuroscience study finds 'hidden' thoughts in visual part of brain

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We’re all having to find ways of coping with the life changes at the moment. If you’re looking for some evidence-based strategies to help you better manage the #ambiguity we’re currently facing, check out this article from our very own @AskAnnaliese.
Annaliese McGavin@AskAnnaliese16 Apr 2020
To help make space for all unique styles of coping during this challenging time, I'm sharing 4 tools that I use to help me deal with ambiguous, stressful situations. I encourage you to share your fave tools as well💞 #StrongerTogether linkedin.com/pulse/psycholog…

A Psychologist’s Tips for Managing Ambiguity: 4 Tools for Your Mental Toolkit

Anxiety and stress have become our default state these days, and it’s not hard to see why. Everything surrounding COVID-19 perfectly fits the definition of ambiguous: low knowledge about what’s...

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Prof Joel Pearson@ProfJoelPearson10 Mar 2020
Cold showers, blue light blockers... a day in the life...@FMLabUNSW @UNSWScience @Qantas qantas.com/travelinsider/en/…
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Congrats @LachlanKay1612 ! 🥳
Rebecca Keogh@Becca_Keogh_PhD4 Mar 2020
So proud of our neuroscience honours student @LachlanKay1612 for winning the Paxinos and Watson prize for his thesis: Pupillary Response as a Measure of Visual Imagery and Aphantasia! Very well deserved! 🧠🎊🍾
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Ever heard someone claim they don't have a creative bone in their body? Well, we're here to suggest otherwise. @ProfJoelPearson @annabelblake @Ash__Stevens @UNSWScience futuremindslab.com/blog/2020…

It's Time to Change How We Think About Creativity — FUTURE MINDS LAB

You don’t have to speak to many people about creativity before you hear the words “I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” or “I’m just not the creative type!”. These kinds of attitudes and beliefs...

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Understanding why we hold the beliefs and attitudes we do can help us shift them - so take a historical dive and discover some clues as to why many people believe they are incapable of #creativity.
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And while you're there, help yourself to some science-backed creativity games designed by yours truly. 📷 @annabelblake Try them out here: creativechromelab.com/ and here: bit.ly/2UIaice #creativechrome
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The latest pre-print from the lab w/ @ProfJoelPearson and Roger Koenig-Robert found that 'suppressed' thoughts can still be detected in the brain, even when participants report they successfully suppressed the thought! Read below: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Decoding non-conscious thought representations during successful thought suppression

Controlling our own thoughts is central to mental wellbeing and its failure is at the crux of a number of mental disorders. Paradoxically, behavioural evidence shows that thought-suppression often...

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Lab director @ProfJoelPearson will be speaking @FestOfDanger on 'The Consciousness Lie'... What if we have tricked ourselves into believing we make our own decisions, rather than our subconscious urges driving our lives? How much control do we actually have? @UNSWScience
Festival of Dangerous Ideas@FestOfDanger28 Jan 2020
JUST ANNOUNCED // The Consciousness Lie // #FODI keynote with Joel Pearson (@ProfJoelPearson) bit.ly/FestOfDanger
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As we finish up the year, many of us are reflecting on key moments. One moment we’re reflecting on is this snippet from the Future Minds episode w/ @DrEmmaLJohnston on teaching our daughters about careers in STEM #YouCouldBeAProfessor #WomenInSTEM @UNSWScience @ProfJoelPearson
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If you would like to re-live this episode, listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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You will be greatly missed @annabelblake!
Annabel Blake@annabelblake19 Dec 2019
This week I finished up my job at @FMLabUNSW to work full-time with @deborahhodotcom on @littlelitco . Because gender stereotypes in children's toys, books and games is still a problem, and it's high time it isn't.
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Listening to Mozart does not make you smarter! New blog by lab intern Victor Bian explains how the long-standing #myth that listening to Mozart makes you smarter came about... (1/2) Read below:
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Does Listening to Mozart Make us Smarter? — FUTURE MINDS LAB

If there was one, simple trick to make your child smarter than the rest, there would be no doubt that parents would leap on it. Many people have an innate fascination with the ability to unlock some...

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And how it was debunked! Victor also discusses what the current research says about the effects of music on our cognitive abilities 🧠 (2/2)
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Annabel Blake@annabelblake9 Dec 2019
My brain has a little quirk called #aphantasia and today, during my day job @FMLabUNSW , I had my brain scanned with @Becca_Keogh_PhD. People think that you need mental imagery to be 'creative', and that without it I have no #imagination- which isn't quite true 1/2
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Ever left a team #brainstorming session that felt… faulty? Our new blog by lab intern Won Jae Lee discusses what’s wrong with traditional brainstorming models. Read more below & find out what an ideal group brainstorming session might look like: futuremindslab.com/blog/2019… (1/6)
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Research has also found that this model of brainstorming causes a number of human level barriers to occur, acting as a roadblock, rather than a facilitator. (5/6)
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Some of these roadblocks include #groupthink, fear of evaluation and other common cognitive biases such as #anchoring, where the first idea shared constrains all future trains of thought. Head to the blog post to read more! (6/6) @ProfJoelPearson @UNSWScience
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