Huw Jarvis
Cognitive Neuroscientist
I am currently a graduate researcher at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Australia.
My doctoral research is supervised by Dr. Trevor Chong and focuses on the computational and neurobiological features of learning and motivation. I use a range of methods, including eye tracking, pharmacological studies, neuroimaging (fMRI), and computational modelling of cognition and behaviour.
In 2021-22 I was a Fulbright Scholar in the lab of Dr. Robb Rutledge at Yale University working on computational models of momentary mood and motivation based on data collected remotely from smartphones.
In 2016-17 I worked at the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of the Australian Government, focusing on the translation of research findings into clinical practice guidelines and public health policy.
I have also undertaken internships at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva (2015), at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne (2015), and at Akim Oda Government Hospital in Ghana (2013).
I am interested in bringing computational tools out of the lab and into the clinic to improve treatment for people with psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Interests
Cognitive neuroscience
Computational psychiatry
Research translation
Education
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, current, Monash University
Master of Public Health, 2015, University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons I), 2012, University of Tasmania
Publications
Exercise-induced cortical disinhibition mediates the relationship between fitness and memory in older adults (2024)
Cadwallader C, Curtin D, Taylor E, de Moel T, Jarvis H, Hutchison C, Hendrikse J, Chong T, Coxon J, Journal of Physiology. online pdf
A computational architecture of punishment insensitivity (2023)
Jarvis H, Chong T, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. online pdf
Computational models of subjective feelings in psychiatry (2023)
Kao C-H, Feng G, Hur J, Jarvis H, Rutledge R, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. online pdf
Effort reinforces learning (2022)
Jarvis H, Stevenson I, Huynh A, Babbage E, Coxon J and Chong T, Journal of Neuroscience. online pdf
What can saccades reveal about the link between learning and motivation? (2019)
Jarvis H, Journal of Neuroscience. online pdf
Undisclosed financial ties between guideline writers and pharmaceutical companies: a cross-sectional study across 10 disease categories (2019)
Moynihan R, Lai A, Jarvis H, Duggan G, Goodrick S, Beller E and Bero L, BMJ Open. online pdf
Dopamine and reward: a view from the prefrontal cortex (2018)
Chau B, Jarvis H, Law C, and Chong T, Behavioural Pharmacology. online pdf
The response of axons to acute in vitro stretch injury (2013)
Vickers J, Jarvis H, Gasperini R, Kirkcaldie M, & King A, Conference Proceedings in the Journal of Neurotrauma