School of Psychology Seminar Series

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

• 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

• 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

• Friday 27 October 2017

  Dr Carien van Reekum, University of Reading

  Title: Emotion regulation and the ageing brain

  Host: Prof Emily Cross

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Friday 1 December 2017

  Dr Richard Allen, University of Leeds

  Title: Binding and attention within working memory

  Host: Dr Manon Jones

• Friday 8 December 2017

  Prof Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield

  Title: The development of the self: a robotics perspective

  Host: Prof Emily Cross

• 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

• Friday 2 February 2018

  Prof Gabriella Vigliocco, UCL

  Title: TBC

  Host: Dr Richard Binney

• Friday 9 February 2018

  Dr Paul Hoffman, University of Edinburgh

  Title: The cognitive control of semantic knowledge

  Host: Dr Richard Binney

• Friday 16 February 2018

  Dr Scott Cairney, University of York

  Title: TBC

  Host: Dr Richard Binney

• Friday 23 February 2018

  Prof Charles Spence, University of Oxford

  Title: Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

  Host: Prof Rob Ward

• Friday 2 March 2018

  Dr Tamar Makin, UCL

  Title: TALK POSTPONED DUE TO "BEAST FROM THE EAST"

  Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

• 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

• Friday 16 March 2018

  Prof Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway, University of London

  Title: ‘Feeling in seeing’: embodiment and visual politics

  Host: Prof Emily Cross

• Friday 23 March 2018

  Dr Martin Corely, University of Edinburgh

  Title: How the tongue betrays the speaker

  Host: Dr Manon Jones

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Friday 1 June 2018

  Prof Dario Farina, Imperial College London

  Title: Man-machine interfacing by decoding spinal motor neurons

  Host: Dr Simon Watt

Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier

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