What an amazing day! Thanks to everyone who helped to put it together! Below are a few pictures of our beautiful communities, by one of our photographers,
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Congratulations to all three for their brilliant and inspiring work advancing psychological and behavioural sciences!

We're thrilled to announce the winners of this first edition:
- Dr. Sisi Wang
- Assistant Professor Matthias Nau
- Assistant Professor Giuliana Spadaro

Talks:
• Dr. Sánchez-Fuenzalida: “Predictions, utility & visual illusions in subjective experience”
• Prof. Press: “Learning to perceive & perceiving to learn”
• Dr. van Holst: “Disadvantageous decision-making in gambling disorder”
• Dr. de Gee: “Noradrenaline & prior-belief updating across species”

We learned about measuring subjective experience in vision, using visual tasks to understand disorders like gambling addiction and OCD, the role of learning to predict in vision, and how neuromodulators like noradrenaline shape visual inference.

Huge thanks to everyone from VU & UvA who joined us! And especially to our speakers: Dr. Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida, Prof. Clare Press, Dr. Ruth van Holst, Dr. Jan Willem de Gee. And of course, our presenter Dr Lola Beerendonk.

📣 Vote now to support:
🔹 *Explore Your Brain* – by **Tieme Janssen, Nienke van Atteveldt & Funda Jelsma** (Education category)
🔹 *Digital biomarkers for stress* – by **Martin Gevonden, Cor Stoff & Eco de Geus** (Health category)

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