Organiser: Paul Downing

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• Friday 26 September 2014

  David Whitney, Berkeley

  Title: Balancing visual prediction and visual stability

  Host: Kami Koldewyn

• 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

• Friday 17 October 2014

  Joern Diedrichsen, UCL

  Title: The cortical architecture of skill

  Host: David Carey

• Friday 24 October 2014

  Alessio Avenanti, University of Bologna

  Title: Understanding others’ emotions before motor resonance

  Host: Bob Rafal

• Friday 31 October 2014

  Paul Whalen, Dartmouth

  Title: Neural responses to the multiple meanings of fear predict attention, bias and personality

  Host: Emily

• Friday 14 November 2014

  Dr Elisa Ferre, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

  Title: Vestibular Contribution to bodily awareness

  Host: Bob Rafal

• Friday 21 November 2014

  Dr Sam Hutton, Sussex

  Title: Can measuring pupil size tell us anything useful about cognitive function?

  Host: Bob Rafal

• 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

• Friday 12 December 2014

  Casimir Ludwig, Bristol

  Title: Active sampling for perceptual decisions

  Host: Filipe

• 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

• Friday 6 February 2015

  Dietmar Heinke, Birmingham

  Title: The Selective Attention for Identification Model (SAIM)

  Host: Charles

• Friday 13 February 2015

  Ken Valyear, Bangor

  Title: Cortical reorganization and recovery of limb function following allogeneic hand transplantation

  Host: Bob

• Friday 20 February 2015

  Michael Nitsche

  Title: Physiology, and functional effects of tDCS and related techniques

  Host: Bob

• Friday 27 February 2015

  Kate Watkins, Oxford

  Title: Brain structure and function in speech fluency disorders

  Host: Rob Rogers

• Friday 6 March 2015

  Wael El-Deredy

  Title: A Bayesian Model of EEG/MEG Source Dynamics and Effective Connectivity

  Host: Guillaume

• 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

• 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

• Friday 24 April 2015

  Holly Bridge, Oxford

  Title: Investigating the ‘visual system’ in the absence of light input

  Host: Bob Rafal

• Friday 1 May 2015

  Neil Stewart

  Title: Eye movements, lab choices, and big data approaches to decision making research

  Host: Paul Downing

• Friday 8 May 2015

  Keith Laws, Hertfordshire

  Title: Is Category-Specificity a Real Phenomenon?

  Host: David

• Friday 15 May 2015

  Janet Bultitude

  Title: Attention and sensorimotor integration in pathological pain

  Host: Bob Rafal

• Friday 22 May 2015

  Marco Tamietto, Tilburg University

  Title:

  Host: Bob

• 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

• Friday 12 June 2015

  David Carey and Leah T Johnstone, Bangor

  Title: Can movements of the two hands reveal asymmetries in the two hemispheres?

  Host:

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

• 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

• Tuesday 2 December 2014

  Mike Jackson, Bangor

  Title: Testing the Cognitive model of psychosis: the UNIQUE study

  Host: Rob Rogers

• Thursday 7 May 2015

  Keith Laws, Hertfordshire

  Title: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Schizophrenia – more politics than science

  Host: David

* 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

• Thursday 4 June 2015

  Bryn Jones, Bangor

  Title: Trawsieithu mewn ysgolion dwyieithog yng Nghymru / Translanguaging in bilingual schools in Wales

  Host: MJ

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

• Thursday 30 October 2014

  Cécile Barbet, Neuchatel, Switzerland

  Title: Experimental investigations of scalar inferences processing in comprehension.

  Host: Guillaume

• Thursday 5 February 2015

  Tamar Keren-Portnoy, York

  Title: Do infants learn from isolated words? An ecological study.

  Host: MJ

• Thursday 5 March 2015

  Marilyn Vihman, York

  Title: One system or two? Relating developmental bilingualism to adult models

  Host: MJ

• Thursday 19 March 2015

  Beth Jeffries, York

  Title: The neural basis of semantic cognition – convergence of neuropsychology, neuroimaging and TMS

  Host: MJT

• Thursday 14 May 2015

  Caroline Rowland, Liverpool

  Title: How do children learn syntax? Evidence from production, comprehension and explanatory models

  Host: MJT/Josh

• 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

• 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