Psychology Research Seminars 2009 2010
Seminar schedule for academic year 2009-2010
You will see we covered a diverse range of topics and welcomed some fantastic speakers:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semester A | |||
| 15/10/09 | Jamie Ward, University of Sussex | 'Synaesthesia is an extension of typical multi-sensory perception' | 2H250 |
| 22/10/09 | Josef Perner, University of Salzburg | 'Children's understanding of identity: relations to theory of mind and alternative naming' | F418 |
| 29/10/09 | Dorothy Begg, University of Otago | 'The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study – What we have learnt about young drivers' | F418 |
| 05/11/09 | Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge | 'Reward, uncertainty and the brain' | F418 |
| 12/11/09 | Vittoria Ardino, London Metropolitan University | 'Trauma and criminal behaviour: theoretical and empirical implications' | F418 |
| 19/11/09 | Fiona Essig, University of Hertfordshire | 'The use of cues in complex task switching: a case of less is more?' | F418 |
| 19/11/09 | Rosemarie Samaritter, University of Hertfordshire | 'Shared movement: a new approach to interpersonal attunement in autism' | F418 |
| 26/11/09 | Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, Oxford | 'The meaning of mirror neurons' | F418 |
| 03/12/09 | Madeline Eacott, University of Durham | 'The remembrance of things past' | F418 |
| 10/12/09 | Mandeep Dhami, University of Cambridge | 'Emotional effects on the optimism and pessimism of risk perception' | F321 |
| Semester B | |||
| 14/01/10 | Brian Moore, University of Cambridge | 'Perceptual consequences of cochlear hearing loss and the limited benefit of hearing aids' | F418 |
| 04/02/10 | Karen Pine, University of Hertfordshire | 'What the hands reveal about the mind: Insights from gesture research at UH' | 1F391 |
| 11/02/10 | Daniel Hutto, University of Hertfordshire | 'The Theory of Mind debate: The Narrative Practice Hypothesis' | F418 |
| 18/02/10 | Ashok Jansari, University of East London | 'The man who mistook his neuropsychologist for a popstar: When configural processing fails in acquired prosopagnosia' | 1F391 |
| 25/02/10 | Peter Ayton, City University, London | '‘Deal or No Deal’, Terrorism and Bicycle Accidents: Effects of emotions on risky decisions (and vice versa)' | 1F391 |
| 04/03/10 | Petter Johansson, University College London | 'Choice Blindness and the use of external evidence in self-understanding' | B154 |
| 11/03/10 | Patrick Rabbitt, Universities of Oxford and Western Australia | 'Why do people's brains and minds age at such different rates?' | 1F391 |
| 18/03/10 | Carine Lewis, University of Hertfordshire | 'Verbal fluency, originality and improvisation' | 1F391 |
| 18/03/10 | Burak Erdeniz, University of Hertfordshire | 'Neural Correlates of Gains and Losses: A Model-Based fMRI Approach' | 1F391 |
| 25/03/10 | Keith Laws, University of Hertfordshire | 'False and delusional memories in schizophrenia and healthy individuals' | F414 |
| 22/04/10 | Vittoria Ardino, London Metropolitan University | 'Trauma and criminal behaviour: theoretical and empirical implications' | F418 |
| 29/04/10 | Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Cambridge | 'Rhyme, Rhythm, Reading and Dyslexia' | 1F391 |
| 06/05.10 | John Duncan, MRC CBU, Cambridge | 'Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions' | C450 |
