School of Psychology Seminar Series

Organiser: Dr Filipe Cristino

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• Thursday 4 October 2018

  Prof David Clark, University of Oxford

  Title: Thrive: how better psychological therapy provision transforms lives and saves money -- !!!NOTE: @4PM in RM: 342!!!

  Host: Dr Michaela Swales

• Friday 5 October 2018

  Dr John Michael, University of Warwick

  Title: Investing in Commitment: Perception of a (human or robot) partner’s effortful contribution elicits a sense of commitment to joint action

  Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn

• Friday 12 October 2018

  Dr Louise Connell, Lancaster University

  Title: Sensory semantics: How our bodies constrain the content of our mental representations

  Host: Dr Richard Binney

• Friday 19 October 2018

  Dr Gary Oppenheim, Bangor University

  Title: Incremental word learning

  Host: Dr Manon Jones

• Friday 26 October 2018

  Prof Jenny Read, Newcastle University

  Title: Stereoscopic (3D) vision in humans and insects

  Host: Dr Simon Watt

• Friday 2 November 2018

  Prof David Shepherd, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University

  Title: The developmental organisation of neural circuits controlling locomotion in insects: a groundplan for the evolution of the nervous system?

  Host: Dr Ken Valyear

• Friday 9 November 2018

  Dr Thora Tenbrink, School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Bangor University

  Title: How a language represents flexible spatial thinking across everyday domains

  Host: Prof Guillaume Thierry

• Friday 16 November 2018

  Prof Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck College, University of London

  Title: Growing up in a multisensory world: From cue integration to category learning across childhood

  Host: Prof Debbie Mills

• Friday 23 November 2018

  Dr Emma Hayiou-Thomas, University of York

  Title: Dyslexia & Developmental Language Disorder: same or different? A longitudinal perspective.

  Host: Dr Marketa Caravolas

• Friday 30 November 2018

  Prof Debbie Mills, Bangor University

  Title: Expression of BUD23/WBSCR22 modulates lateralization of the magnocellular visual pathway

  Host: Dr David Carey

• Friday 7 December 2018

  Dr Alexandra Georgescu, King’s College London

  Title: Social Interaction: Lessons from autism spectrum conditions and typical development.

  Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn

• Friday 18 January 2019

  EXTRA: Dr Christian Salas, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile **!!!@ 4PM!!!**

  Title: Social isolation in people with acquired brain injury

  Host: Prof Oliver Turnbull and Dr Rudi Coetzer

• Friday 1 February 2019

  Dr Jodie Davies-Thompson, University of Swansea

  Title: Neuroplasticity in Deafness

  Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer

• Friday 8 February 2019

  Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz, Goldsmiths, University of London

  Title: Exploration, decision-making and action monitoring during piano performance

  Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

• Friday 15 February 2019

  Dr David Pitcher, University of York

  Title: Mapping the effects of transient cortical disruption across the brain: combining thetaburst TMS and fMRI

  Host: Dr Kami Koldewyn

• Friday 22 February 2019

  Dr Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University

  Title: Virtual humans as a tool in psychological research

  Host: Prof John Parkinson

• Friday 1 March 2019

  Dr Andrew Kemp, University of Swansea

  Title: A role for heart rate variability in understanding and enhancing health and wellbeing?

  Host: Prof John Parkinson

• Friday 8 March 2019

  Dr Alex Kafkas, University of Manchester

  Title: Interacting brain systems support recognition memory: Functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence

  Host: Dr Stephanie Baines

• Friday 15 March 2019

  Dr Joe Galea, University of Birmingham

  Title: Reward in the motor system

  Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

• Friday 22 March 2019

  Dr Tom Hartley, University of York

  Title: Rhythm and verbal memory

  Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

• Friday 29 March 2019

  Dr Adam Harris, University College London

  Title: How optimistic should we be about optimism research?

  Host: Dr Stephanie Baines

• Friday 5 April 2019

  Prof Andrew Lawrence, University of Cardiff

  Title: Connecting the past to the future and the self to others: white matter matters

  Host: Dr Richard Binney

• Tuesday 17 September 2019

  EXTRA: Prof Chris McManus, University College London @ 3PM

  Title: Left and right, hands and brains, myths and truths

  Host: Dr David Carey

• Friday 4 October 2019

  Dr Tamar Makin, University College London

  Title: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive considerations for the embodiment of artificial limbs

  Host: Dr Ken Valyear

• Friday 11 October 2019

  Dr Nicholas Holmes, University of Nottingham

  Title: On being 'a methods person': Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to answer questions in sensory-motor neuroscience

  Host: Dr David Carey

Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier

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