School of Psychology Seminar Series
Past seminars: 2017–2018
Psychology Seminar Series (PSS)
Organiser: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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Friday 6 October 2017
Dr Elena Kushnerenko, University of East London
Title: Assessing the impact of socio-economic status on infants’ neurocognitive development
Host: Prof Debbie Mills
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Friday 13 October 2017
Dr Lyle Skains, Bangor University (School of Creative Studies and Media)
Title: Creative Hyperlinks: Writerly and readerly effects of links in hypertext fiction
Host: Dr Manon Jones
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Friday 20 October 2017
Prof Jon Evans, University of Glasgow
Title: How to manage a dysfunctional PM: Rehabilitation of memory & executive functions in neurological conditions
Host: Dr Rudi Coetzer
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Friday 27 October 2017
Dr Carien van Reekum, University of Reading
Title: Emotion regulation and the ageing brain
Host: Prof Emily Cross
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Friday 3 November 2017
Dr Anna Sadnicka, UCL & St George's University
Title: A motor control framework for task-specific dystonia
Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva
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Friday 10 November 2017
Dr Charlotte Stagg, University of Oxford
Title: Towards causality: combining non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging to understand neuroplasticity
Host: Dr Paul Mullins
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Friday 17 November 2017
Dr Anna Samara, UCL & University of Liverpool
Title: Spelling as statistical learning: evidence from artificial lexicon experiments with typically developing children
Host: Dr Marketa Caravolas
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Friday 24 November 2017
Dr Lovesha Sivanantharajah, Bangor University (School of Biological Sciences)
Title: Understanding the basis for selective vulnerability of different neuron types to tau toxicity in Alzheimer’s Disease
Host: Dr Ken Valyear
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Friday 1 December 2017
Dr Richard Allen, University of Leeds
Title: Binding and attention within working memory
Host: Dr Manon Jones
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Friday 8 December 2017
Prof Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield
Title: The development of the self: a robotics perspective
Host: Prof Emily Cross
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Friday 26 January 2018
Dr Laura Parkes, The University of Manchester
Title: Imaging the Changing Brain: plasticity of primary somatosensory cortex
Host: Dr Paul Mullins
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Friday 2 February 2018
Prof Gabriella Vigliocco, UCL
Title: TBC
Host: Dr Richard Binney
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Friday 9 February 2018
Dr Paul Hoffman, University of Edinburgh
Title: The cognitive control of semantic knowledge
Host: Dr Richard Binney
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Friday 16 February 2018
Dr Scott Cairney, University of York
Title: TBC
Host: Dr Richard Binney
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Friday 23 February 2018
Prof Charles Spence, University of Oxford
Title: Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating
Host: Prof Rob Ward
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Friday 2 March 2018
Dr Tamar Makin, UCL
Title: TALK POSTPONED DUE TO "BEAST FROM THE EAST"
Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva
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Friday 9 March 2018
Dr Maggie Hoerger, Bangor University (School of Education)
Title: British Early Special School Teaching model (BESST): Developing and evaluating a comprehensive treatment model
Host: Dr David Carey
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Friday 16 March 2018
Prof Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: ‘Feeling in seeing’: embodiment and visual politics
Host: Prof Emily Cross
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Friday 23 March 2018
Dr Martin Corely, University of Edinburgh
Title: How the tongue betrays the speaker
Host: Dr Manon Jones
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Friday 20 April 2018
Dr Emma Gowen, The University of Manchester
Title: Voluntary imitation in autistic and non-autistic individuals: Attention, motor imagery and diagnostic possibilities
Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn
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Friday 27 April 2018
Prof Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Title: The mystery of language lateralisation - why do people vary, and does it matter?
!!!Starts @ 3.30!!!Host: Dr David Carey
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Friday 4 May 2018
Dr Daniel Richardson, UCL
Title: Collective behaviour and Social Context: Breaking the fourth wall in cognitive science
Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn and Prof Rob Ward
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Friday 18 May 2018
Prof Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Title: Divide and conquer: The onset of bilingual language learning
Host: Prof Guillaume Thierry
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Friday 1 June 2018
Prof Dario Farina, Imperial College London
Title: Man-machine interfacing by decoding spinal motor neurons
Host: Dr Simon Watt
Bilingualism Seminar Series (BSS)
Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier
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