Themes
Learning
Theoretical and empirical research on human and non-human animal learning
Reasoning
Theoretical and experimental research on the effects of complexity on reasoning and decision-making, and on the design of communication mechanisms to reduce complexity
- Approximation complexity and human decision-making
- How do humans solve the knapsack problem?
- Human performance on random instances of NP-complete problems
- Neural correlates of instance complexity
- Pharmaceutical enhancement of complex optimisation
- Phase transitions in the knapsack problem
- Use of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers in the Australian financial services industry
Social interaction
Theoretical and experimental research on neurocomputational mechanisms of human decision-making in social and non-social contexts
Markets
Theoretical and experimental research on the behaviour of markets
- Asset pricing and computational complexity
- Asset pricing with imperfect foresight
- Combinatorial double auctions
- Credit market bubbles
- Dark markets
- Designing trading schemes to overcome the disposition effect
- Emotional engagement of traders and investors
- Human-robot interaction in financial markets
- Information aggregation in markets
- Markets as oracles
- Off-equilibrium dynamics in markets