The Australian National University, Canberra
ASP 2025
We warmly invite you to attend the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Psychophysiology. ASP2025 will take place at ANU in Canberra from Monday, December 1st, to Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025.
The conference will feature talks from three keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations of original research in the fields of psychophysiology and cognitive/social/affective neuroscience, awards, and, of course, a social dinner.
As always, ASP places a particular emphasis on student involvement, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and present their work to a knowledgeable audience as part of their career development. The late-year timing of the conference also provides the perfect opportunity for Honours students to present their recent work.
Submit your aBSTRACT
Are you an honours or postgraduate student, academic, or researcher working in psychophysiology or a related field? We warmly invite you to share your work at the conference. Submit your abstract following the guidelines below—we look forward to showcasing your research.
To submit an abstract (maximum 400 words), download the abstract template and submit the completed abstract via email to:
KEY DATES
27 October Early Registration Opens
10 November Deadline for Abstracts
12 November Notification of Abstracts
17 November Early Registration Closes
30 November Late Registration Closes
1-3 December 2025 Conference Dates
Keynotes
Thomas Whitford is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on using electroencephalography and neuroimaging to explore the neural basis of schizophrenia. His recent research has focused on developing an EEG-based biomarker for inner speech (the silent production of words in one’s mind) in the hope that this may shed light on the neural basis of auditory-verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’) and may be useful in predicting transition-to-psychosis in at-risk individuals.
Elise Kalokerinos is the co-director of the Functions of Emotion in Everyday Life (FEEL) Lab at the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, and a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven. Her research investigates emotion and emotion regulation in everyday life, using ecological momentary assessment to map emotional experiences as they unfold across time. With these dynamic data, she maps the processes that enable real-world emotion regulation, including emotion differentiation, regulatory flexibility, and motivation. She also aims to open daily-life methods to a broader audience, including through EMOTE (emotedatabase.com), a large-scale open-access repository of daily-life data on emotion processes.
Nicole Vargas is an emerging leader in integrative and environmental exercise physiology whose research portfolio spans behavioural thermoregulation, heat-stress responses and applied cooling/mitigation strategies. Her work bridges mechanistic human-physiology experiments (e.g., on thermal perception and voluntary behavioural adjustments during passive and exertional heat stress) while exploring real-world challenges of extreme heat exposure, vulnerability and adaptation. Originally trained through post-doctoral tenures at the University at Buffalo and the University of Sydney, she now leads interdisciplinary projects that inform health policy and climate-resilience decision-making — highlighting both academic rigour and translational impact.