Dr Sylvie M. Loneragan 

Email: sylvie.loneragan@uqconnect.edu.au

Current research

Many of our everyday decision-making challenges are characterised by substantial amounts of uncertainty. To improve their certainty, humans can forage for information and maximise information gains for minimal effort. I am interested in understanding how foragers’ beliefs evolve as they explore and exploit an environment, and how their belief certainty influences their decision-making. To address these questions, I use computational modelling in combination with behavioural testing and recording of brain activity using EEG, as participants complete a novel perceptual foraging task.

Research interests

• Foraging

• Decision-making

• Computational modelling beliefs

Conference presentations

Loneragan, S. M., Rangelov, D., & Mattingley, J. B. (2023, November 27-30). What to expect when you’re exploring: the role of uncertainty in visual foraging [Poster]. The 12th Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Loneragan, S. M., Rangelov, D., & Mattingley, J. B. (2022, July 11-14). Should I stay or should I go? Characterising the temporal dynamics of decision making in a visual foraging task [Talk]. Australasian Brain & Psychological Sciences Meeting, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.