School of Psychology Seminar Series
Past Seminars: 2015–2016
Psychology Seminar Series (PSS)
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
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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
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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
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Friday 23 October 2015
Dr Rene Westerhausen, University of Bergen
Title: Always right? The ear advantage in dichotic listening.
Host: Dr David Carey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friday 4 December 2015
Dr Susanne Quadflieg, University of Bristol
Title: Witnessing Social Interactions
Host: Dr Emily Cross
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friday 5 February 2016
Dr Bob Kentridge, University of Durham
Title: Sensation, perception, and awareness.
Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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Friday 12 February 2016
Prof Robert Rogers, Bangor University
Title: What can neuropsychology tell us about psychopathy?
Host: Prof John Parkinson
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Friday 19 February 2016
No speaker scheduled.
Title: Slot available
Host: N/A
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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
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Friday 4 March 2016
Dr Kristina Moll, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Title: Comorbidity of Learning Disorders
Host: Dr Manon Jones
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Friday 11 March 2016
Prof Pieter Medendorp, Donders Institute
Title: Multisensory integration for stable perception and action control
Host: Dr Ken Valyear
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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
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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
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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
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Friday 29 April 2016
Prof Dr Mariët Hagedoorn, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Title: Intimate relationships in the face of illness
Host: Prof Val Morrison
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Friday 6 May 2016
Prof Dave Snowden, Bangor University
Title: Distributed ethnography and ‘nudge’ economics
Host: Prof John Parkinson
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Friday 13 May 2016
Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou, University College London
Title: Bodily Egocentricity and Allocentricity: From Anosognosia to Anorexia
Host: Prof Oliver Turnbull
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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
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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
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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
Bilingualism Seminar Series (BSS)
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
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Monday 23 November 2015
Napoleon Katsos
Title: Can people with ASD function successfully as bilinguals?
Host: Cecile Barbet
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Monday 7 December 2015
Eirini Sanoudaki
Title: Bilingual acquisition: research and implications
Host: Marie-Joseph Tainturier
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Monday 11 April 2016
Jacob Finifrock
Title: Trilingual Education in Rural China: Current Practice and Attitudes Towards Language in the Classroom
Host: Josh Payne
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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
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Monday 23 May 2016
Panos Athanasopoulos, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
Title: Time Travel through Language
Host: Guillaume Thierry