Psychology Research Seminars 2010 2011
Seminar schedule for academic year 2010-2011
You will see we covered a diverse range of topics and welcomed some fantastic speakers:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semester A | |||
| 14/10/10 | Vivienne Parry, MRC, UCL, BBC | 'Madwomen in the Attic' | LF231 |
| 21/10/10 | Patrick Rabbitt, Universities of Oxford & Western Australia | 'How variability in mental abilities, within and between individual lives, increases as we grow old' | C408 |
| 28/10/10 | Carine Lewis, University of Hertfordshire | 'Verbal fluency, originality and improvisation' | F418 |
| 28/10/10 | Nicky Knights, University of Hertfordshire | 'Coming in from the cold? What helps bullied adolescents to recover' | F418 |
| 04/11/10 | Chris Frith, UCL and Aarhus University | 'What is consciousness for?' | B400 |
| 11/11/10 | Narinder Kapur, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge | 'The paradoxical brain' | B400 |
| 18/11/10 | Chris Armitage, University of Sheffield | 'Using self-affirmation to help people overcome fears and change behaviour' | F326 |
| 25/11/10 | Susan Gathercole, University of York | 'Working memory, inattention, and classroom learning' | F326 |
| 02/12/10 | Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge | 'Rhyme, rhythm, reading and dyslexia' | F326 |
| 09/12/10 | Barry Smith, Institute of Philosophy, London | 'Matters of taste' | F326 |
| Semester B | | | |
| 13/01/11 | David Healy, Cardiff University | 'Has Evidence Based Medicine become the Problem rather than the Solution?' | F326 |
| 20/01/11 | Peter Hobson, Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Child Health, UCL | 'What is autism?' | F309 |
| 09/02/11 | Charles Spence, University of Oxford | 'Integration, expectation, and the multisensory perception of flavour' | F315 |
| 17/02/11 | Larry Phillips, London School of Economics | 'Drug harms in UK: a multicriteria decision analysis' | F315 |
| 24/02/11 | John Weinman, King’s College, London | 'Stress & Wound Healing: Clinical and Experimental Studies' | F315 |
| 03/03/11 | Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge | 'Rhyme, Rhythm, Reading and Dyslexia' | F315 |
| 10/03/11 | Nick Medford, Brighton & Sussex Medical School | 'Emotion and the Unreal Self: Depersonalization Disorder' | F315 |
| 17/03/11 | Peter Goldie, University of Manchester | 'Empathy with our past' | F315 |
| 24/03/11 | Patricia Howlin, Institute of Psychiatry, London | 'Psychological Intervention for Young Children with Autism' | F315 |
| 31/03/11 | Irving Kirsch, University of Hull | 'The Emperor's New Drugs: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect' | F315 |
| 07/04/11 | Jeff Dalley, University of Cambridge | 'Impulsivity: neural and psychological vulnerability mechanisms of stimulant addiction' | LS231 |
| 28/04/11 | Ken Gilhooly & George Georgiou, University of Hertfordshire | 'Problem Solving & Incubation' | F315 |
| 05/05/11 | Lyndsay Hughes, University of Hertfordshire | 'Psychological models of medication non-adherence in Rheumatoid Arthritis' | F418 |
| 05/05/11 | Karen Irvine, University of Hertfordshire | 'Facial Emotion Recognition Deficits in Alzheimer's Patients' | F418 |
| 09/06/11 | William Marslen-Wilson, University of Cambridge | 'Human language and communication: Separable neurobiological substrates' | F309 |
