School of Psychology Seminar Series

Unless stated otherwise, all seminars take place in Brigantia 342 at 4:00pm

Organiser: Patricia Bestelmeyer

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• Friday 9 October 2015

  Dr Ken Valyear, Bangor

  Title: Grasping with a new hand

  Host: Prof Paul Downing

• Thursday 15 October 2015

  Dr Jiehu Hu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  Title: Cognitive control in language processing

  Host: Prof Guillaume Thierry

• Friday 16 October 2015

  Dr Laurence White, Plymouth University

  Title: Beating the bounds: Are there universal prosodic cues to speech structure?

  Host: Prof Debbie Mills

• Friday 23 October 2015

  Dr Rene Westerhausen, University of Bergen

  Title: Always right? The ear advantage in dichotic listening.

  Host: Dr David Carey

• Friday 30 October 2015

  Dr Stephen Mayhew, University of Birmingham

  Title: Using EEG-fMRI to investigate the origins of negative and post-stimulus fMRI responses

  Host: Dr Paul Mullins

• Friday 6 November 2015

  Dr Anthony Atkinson, University of Durham

  Title: fMRI and dynamic causal modelling reveals a hierarchical feedforward and feedback neural network for understanding emotional actions

  Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn

• Friday 13 November 2015

  Dr Scott Frey, Washington University

  Title: Civil union between cognitive neuroscience and neurorehabilitation: snapshots from research involving current and former hand amputees.

  Host: Dr Ken Valyear

• Friday 20 November 2015

  Prof David French, The University of Manchester

  Title: How to help older adults to maintain increases in physical activity (when most do not).

  Host: Prof Val Morrison

• Friday 27 November 2015

  Dr Clara Martin, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

  Title: Interlocutors’ faces prime language activation in bilinguals

  Host: Prof Guillaume Thierry

• Friday 4 December 2015

  Dr Susanne Quadflieg, University of Bristol

  Title: Witnessing Social Interactions

  Host: Dr Emily Cross

• Friday 11 December 2015

  Dr Daniela Sammler, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig

  Title: Voice or words - The neural contribution of prosody to communication

  Host: Dr Emily Cross

• Friday 18 December 2015

  Prof Kenneth Hugdahl, University of Bergen

  Title: Auditory hallucinations: The perception of voices that do not exist

  Host: Dr David Carey

• Friday 22 January 2016

  Dr Emily Cross, Bangor University

  Title: Robots on the Brain and Brains in Robots?: Social Neuroscience Perspectives on How We Perceive and Interact with Artificial Agents

  Host: N/A

• Friday 29 January 2016

  Dr Peter Lovatt, University of Hertfordshire

  Title: Dance for Parkinson's: investigations into two forms of dance on problem solving and wellbeing

  Host: Dr Emily Cross

• Friday 5 February 2016

  Dr Bob Kentridge, University of Durham

  Title: Sensation, perception, and awareness.

  Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer

• Friday 12 February 2016

  Prof Robert Rogers, Bangor University

  Title: What can neuropsychology tell us about psychopathy?

  Host: Prof John Parkinson

• Friday 19 February 2016

  No speaker scheduled.

  Title: Slot available

  Host: N/A

• Friday 26 February 2016

  Prof Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Università di Bologna

  Title: Surprise signals in medial prefrontal cortex: evidence from ERP studies

  Host: Prof Paul Downing

• Friday 4 March 2016

  Dr Kristina Moll, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

  Title: Comorbidity of Learning Disorders

  Host: Dr Manon Jones

• Friday 11 March 2016

  Prof Pieter Medendorp, Donders Institute

  Title: Multisensory integration for stable perception and action control

  Host: Dr Ken Valyear

• Friday 18 March 2016

  Dr Anastasia Christakou, University of Reading

  Title: Flexible decision-making; cortico-subcortical contributions in typical and atypical development.

  Host: Dr Paul Mullins

• Thursday 14 April 2016

  Prof Dr Frank van Overwalle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  Title: Belief and trait attribution in the social brain ****RM146

  Host: Dr Richard Ramsey

• Friday 22 April 2016

  Dr Amanda Ellison, University of Durham

  Title: Current classic conundrum of convergent coherence in cranial communication capacity considered

  Host: Dr David Carey

• Friday 29 April 2016

  Prof Dr Mariët Hagedoorn, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

  Title: Intimate relationships in the face of illness

  Host: Prof Val Morrison

• Friday 6 May 2016

  Prof Dave Snowden, Bangor University

  Title: Distributed ethnography and ‘nudge’ economics

  Host: Prof John Parkinson

• Friday 13 May 2016

  Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou, University College London

  Title: Bodily Egocentricity and Allocentricity: From Anosognosia to Anorexia

  Host: Prof Oliver Turnbull

• Friday 20 May 2016

  Gary Oppenheim, Bangor

  Title: Implicit incremental learning in novel and familiar word production

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• Friday 27 May 2016

  Dr Jon Andoni Dunabeitia, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

  Title: Emotions and foreign languages, oil and water

  Host: Prof Guillaume Thierry

• Friday 3 June 2016

  Prof Jody Culham, Western University

  Title: Neural representations for real objects and hand actions in the human brain

  Host: Dr Ken Valyear

• Wednesday 8 June 2016

  PUBLIC LECTURE - Giuseppe Di Pellegrino, Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience – Department of Psychology, University of Bologna - Italy

  Title: How do we make choices? Lessons from neuropsychology

  Host: Paul Downing

BSS talks 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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• Monday 9 November 2015

  Guillaume Thierry, Bangor

  Title: How neurophysiological exploration of the bilingual mind has shaped my conception of human freedom

  Host: Marie-Joseph Tainturier

• Monday 23 November 2015

  Napoleon Katsos

  Title: Can people with ASD function successfully as bilinguals?

  Host: Cecile Barbet

• Monday 7 December 2015

  Eirini Sanoudaki

  Title: Bilingual acquisition: research and implications

  Host: Marie-Joseph Tainturier

• Monday 11 April 2016

  Jacob Finifrock

  Title: Trilingual Education in Rural China: Current Practice and Attitudes Towards Language in the Classroom

  Host: Josh Payne

• Monday 25 April 2016

  Jacob Finifrock, Bangor

  Title: Trilingual Education in Rural China: Current Practice and Attitudes Towards Language in the Classroom

  Host: Dr Anne-Marie Smith, Bangor

• Monday 23 May 2016

  Panos Athanasopoulos, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

  Title: Time Travel through Language

  Host: Guillaume Thierry