School of Psychology Seminar Series
Past Seminars: 2018–2019
Psychology Seminar Series (PSS)
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
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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
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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
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Friday 19 October 2018
Dr Gary Oppenheim, Bangor University
Title: Incremental word learning
Host: Dr Manon Jones
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Friday 26 October 2018
Prof Jenny Read, Newcastle University
Title: Stereoscopic (3D) vision in humans and insects
Host: Dr Simon Watt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friday 1 February 2019
Dr Jodie Davies-Thompson, University of Swansea
Title: Neuroplasticity in Deafness
Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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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
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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
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Friday 22 February 2019
Dr Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University
Title: Virtual humans as a tool in psychological research
Host: Prof John Parkinson
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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
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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
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Friday 15 March 2019
Dr Joe Galea, University of Birmingham
Title: Reward in the motor system
Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva
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Friday 22 March 2019
Dr Tom Hartley, University of York
Title: Rhythm and verbal memory
Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva
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Friday 29 March 2019
Dr Adam Harris, University College London
Title: How optimistic should we be about optimism research?
Host: Dr Stephanie Baines
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friday 18 October 2019
Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University
Title: Is there a special link between binocular vision and the dexterity of the human hand?
Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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Friday 25 October 2019
(soon-to-be-Dr) Marco Gandolfo, Bangor University
Title: Towards a model of human body perception
Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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Friday 1 November 2019
Dr Kay Ritchie, Lincoln University
Title: Variability, the problem of likeness, and the role of averages in face recognition
Host: Dr David Carey
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Friday 8 November 2019
Dr Dan Mirman, University of Edinburgh
Title: Complementary Semantic Systems
Host: Dr Richard Binney
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Friday 15 November 2019
Dr JeYoung Jung, University of Nottingham
Title: The neural basis of semantic cognition and its plasticity: a multimodal approach
Host: Dr Richard Binney
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Friday 22 November 2019
Dr Tim Davies, Bangor University
Title: Temporal-Difference learning underpins the acquisition of intertemporal preferences for high-value food rewards
Host: Prof Robert Rogers
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Friday 29 November 2019
(soon-to-be-Dr) Aoife Fitzpatrick, Bangor University
Title: Hand choice and the role of the posterior parietal cortex
Host: Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer
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Friday 6 December 2019
Dr Daniel Bush, University College London
Title: Temporal Coding of Spatial Trajectories in Rodents and Humans
Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva
Bilingualism Seminar Series (BSS)
Organiser: Dr Marie-Josephe Tainturier
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