School of Psychology Seminar Series
Past Seminars: 2014–2015
Cognitive Colloquium (CC)
Organiser: Paul Downing
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Friday 26 September 2014
David Whitney, Berkeley
Title: Balancing visual prediction and visual stability
Host: Kami Koldewyn
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Friday 10 October 2014
First Annual Wolfson Lecture: Prof. John Duncan, MRC Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Title: A core brain system in assembly of cognitive episodes.
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 17 October 2014
Joern Diedrichsen, UCL
Title: The cortical architecture of skill
Host: David Carey
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Friday 24 October 2014
Alessio Avenanti, University of Bologna
Title: Understanding others’ emotions before motor resonance
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 31 October 2014
Paul Whalen, Dartmouth
Title: Neural responses to the multiple meanings of fear predict attention, bias and personality
Host: Emily
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Friday 14 November 2014
Dr Elisa Ferre, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Title: Vestibular Contribution to bodily awareness
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 21 November 2014
Dr Sam Hutton, Sussex
Title: Can measuring pupil size tell us anything useful about cognitive function?
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 28 November 2014
Departmental Cognitive Colloquium: Charles Leek, Bangor
Title: Visuo-spatial processing, the medial premotor cortex and a non-drug based intervention for the treatment of motor impairment in Parkinson's disease
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Friday 5 December 2014
India Morrison
Title: Affective somatosensation: brain and behavior
Host: Ali
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Friday 12 December 2014
Casimir Ludwig, Bristol
Title: Active sampling for perceptual decisions
Host: Filipe
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Friday 19 December 2014
Evelina Fedorenko, MIT
Title: The language network and its place within the broader architecture of the human mind and brain
Host: David C
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Friday 6 February 2015
Dietmar Heinke, Birmingham
Title: The Selective Attention for Identification Model (SAIM)
Host: Charles
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Friday 13 February 2015
Ken Valyear, Bangor
Title: Cortical reorganization and recovery of limb function following allogeneic hand transplantation
Host: Bob
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Friday 20 February 2015
Michael Nitsche
Title: Physiology, and functional effects of tDCS and related techniques
Host: Bob
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Friday 27 February 2015
Kate Watkins, Oxford
Title: Brain structure and function in speech fluency disorders
Host: Rob Rogers
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Friday 6 March 2015
Wael El-Deredy
Title: A Bayesian Model of EEG/MEG Source Dynamics and Effective Connectivity
Host: Guillaume
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Friday 13 March 2015
Mark Bellis, Director of Policy, Research and Development for Public Health Wales
Title: Alcohol: Eden, Environment, Equity & Early Years
Host: John P
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Friday 17 April 2015
Justin Ales, St. Andrews
Title: Motion integration times in sensory cortex are dynamically modified in response to changes in stimulus reliability
Host: Simon
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Friday 24 April 2015
Holly Bridge, Oxford
Title: Investigating the ‘visual system’ in the absence of light input
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 1 May 2015
Neil Stewart
Title: Eye movements, lab choices, and big data approaches to decision making research
Host: Paul Downing
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Friday 8 May 2015
Keith Laws, Hertfordshire
Title: Is Category-Specificity a Real Phenomenon?
Host: David
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Friday 15 May 2015
Janet Bultitude
Title: Attention and sensorimotor integration in pathological pain
Host: Bob Rafal
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Friday 22 May 2015
Marco Tamietto, Tilburg University
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Host: Bob
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Friday 5 June 2015
Markus Paulus, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich
Title: Cognitive mechanisms of action understanding and social learning: A developmental perspective
Host: Kami & Alison
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Friday 12 June 2015
David Carey and Leah T Johnstone, Bangor
Title: Can movements of the two hands reveal asymmetries in the two hemispheres?
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Clinical Health and Behaviour (CHB)
Organiser: Robert Rogers
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Tuesday 7 October 2014
Helen Henningham, Bangor
Title: The ‘Irie Classrooms Toolbox’: design and evaluation of a universal violence prevention intervention in early childhood education settings in Jamaica
Host: Rob Rogers
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Tuesday 4 November 2014
Mihela Erjavec, Bangor
Title: Teaching Children to Enjoy Fruit and Veg and Improving the Choice Architecture of Catering Environments in Special Schools.
Host: Rob Rogers
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Tuesday 2 December 2014
Mike Jackson, Bangor
Title: Testing the Cognitive model of psychosis: the UNIQUE study
Host: Rob Rogers
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Thursday 7 May 2015
Keith Laws, Hertfordshire
Title: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Schizophrenia – more politics than science
Host: David
Bilingualism Seminar Series (BSS)
* Please note that BSS talks will take place in the Duncan Tanner Seminar Room, Centre for Research in Bilingualism, 37 College Road (access through Brigantia)
Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier
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Thursday 7 May 2015
Walter van Heuven, Nottingham
Title: TBC
Host: Josh/MJ
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Thursday 4 June 2015
Bryn Jones, Bangor
Title: Trawsieithu mewn ysgolion dwyieithog yng Nghymru / Translanguaging in bilingual schools in Wales
Host: MJ
Language and Cognitive Development (LCD)
Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier
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Friday 5 September 2014
Stephanie Ries, UC Berkeley
Title: Untangling frontal control mechanisms in language production: Insights from neuropsychological and electrophysiological studies.
Host: Gary Oppenheim
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Thursday 30 October 2014
Cécile Barbet, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Title: Experimental investigations of scalar inferences processing in comprehension.
Host: Guillaume
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Thursday 5 February 2015
Tamar Keren-Portnoy, York
Title: Do infants learn from isolated words? An ecological study.
Host: MJ
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Thursday 5 March 2015
Marilyn Vihman, York
Title: One system or two? Relating developmental bilingualism to adult models
Host: MJ
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Thursday 19 March 2015
Beth Jeffries, York
Title: The neural basis of semantic cognition – convergence of neuropsychology, neuroimaging and TMS
Host: MJT
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Thursday 14 May 2015
Caroline Rowland, Liverpool
Title: How do children learn syntax? Evidence from production, comprehension and explanatory models
Host: MJT/Josh
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Thursday 28 May 2015
Colin Davis, Bristol
Title: Another crisis in psychological science: The problem with computational modelling, and how to fix it
Host: MJT/Josh
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Thursday 18 June 2015
Jeannie Judge
Title: The Role of Visual Attention, Eye Movements and Phonological Processing in Children and Adults with Dyslexia
Host: Marketa