Department of Psychology events archive

Thursday 9 February 2017

• Dr Diana Omigie: Amygdala oscillations and Zygomaticus activations: What is it about music?

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• How virtual reality works for social psychologists

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• Dr. Vaughan Bell: An extensive series of unlikely doubles: a 'big data' approach to Capgras delusion

Thursday 2 February 2017

• Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino: Cognitive embodiment: how sensorimotor experience shapes perception

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• The artist emerges: the psychology of artistic production and appreciation

Thursday 26 January 2017

• Dr. Jessica Horst: The Role of Context in Learning the Meanings of Words

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• How do we interact in immersive virtual reality?

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• Stephen Volk: Creating paranormal drama for film and TV

Tuesday 10 January 2017

• Dr Rupert Sheldrake: The Extended Mind: Experimental evidence for the effects of attention at a distance

Thursday 8 December 2016

• Composer, Performer, Listener // Jason Freeman

Wednesday 7 December 2016

• Redeemable

Tuesday 6 December 2016

• Dr Devin Terhune: You will come to this talk: Current knowledge of suggestion and suggestibility

Thursday 1 December 2016

• Gavin Robert Stewart: Ageing with autism traits: Examining ageing in the Broad Autism Phenotype

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• Attention and Cross-Cultural differences

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• Dr. Paul Broks: Imaginal Reality

Thursday 24 November 2016

• Dr Brian Sharpless: The Original Night-Mare: The Psychology and Mythology of Sleep Paralysis

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• Characterising human imagination through art and science

Friday 18 November 2016

• The Fascinating Phenomenon of False Memories

Thursday 17 November 2016

• Dr Ana Tajadura-Jimenez: The Hearing Body: Using sound to alter the perception of body and space, emotion and motor behaviour

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• Cultural Computing: Looking for Japan // Naoko Tosa

Friday 11 November 2016

• Genes and Tonic II

Thursday 10 November 2016

• Dr Sian Jones: Swings, slopes, and superpowers: Imagining contact with children with disabilities

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• Linguistic and perceptual colour categories

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• Dr. Anna Stone & Professor Mark McDermott: How many kinds of paranormal belief are there?

Monday 7 November 2016

• What can Deep Neural Networks learn from music?

Saturday 29 October 2016

• Open Research for Academics: A workshop & hackathon.

Thursday 27 October 2016

• Dr Catherine Loveday: Claire and the lost island of Hirta: a case study of a successful science arts collaboration

Thursday 20 October 2016

• Claudia Hammond: The Psychology of Money

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• Development of inhibitory control & conceptual understanding

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• Scott Wood: Hidden insults and helpful terrorists