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2021
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2020
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March
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Exploring touch in humans: how single afferents contribute to complex sensations
-This event was cancelled
Our touch system presents a complex network of afferents, where a multitude of sensations can be felt, from more simple facets like vibration to blended percepts such as wetness. The technique of microneurography permits recordings from single human afferents, via the insertion of an electrode into a peripheral nerve. The...
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First impressions: face perception and social stereotyping
-Despite the common advice “not to judge a book by its cover”, we form impressions of character within a second of seeing a stranger’s face. These impressions have widespread consequences for society and for the economy. It is therefore vital that we have a clear theoretical understanding of which impressions are important and...
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Why conversations are easy to hold but hard to study
-Everyday conversation is characterized by smooth turn-taking, i.e. short gaps and frequent overlaps between turns. Switching quickly between the tasks of listening and speaking, and planning one's turn during an interlocutor's utterance should render conversation a taxing task. Yet, it is not commonly experienced as such. Why is this? I...
February
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How does inner speech work and why do we care?
-Our minds are enriched and shaped by our experience of language. As we go through our day, we often hear an inner speech in our mind’s ear. Inner speech is pervasive in human cognition, playing a functional role in thinking, problem solving, working memory, reading and writing. Yet, we know...
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Consciousness as something that the brain learns to do
-Understanding consciousness — what if feels like — remains a formidable challenge. Different theories of consciousness have proposed vastly different mechanisms to account for phenomenal experience. Here, appealing to aspects of global workspace theory, higher-order theories, social theories, and predictive processing, I introduce a novel framework: the Self-Organizing Metarerpresentational Account (SOMA),...
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"It feels like she's talking to me": explaining assignments using lecturer-videos
-This study investigates how Psychology students experience the implementation of ‘assignment videos’. These videos were created by the course-coordinator and posted on our university’s VLE. They explain assignments and are available throughout the semester. End-of-course comments about the videos were largely positive. The current study showed a three-fold cause of...
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Investigating the pathways underlying residual vision in hemianopia
-Damage to the primary visual cortex leads to loss of the visual field contralateral to the damaged cortex. However, in spite of this loss, some patients are still able to detect visual information about stimuli presented within their blind field. A growing area of research aims to exploit this residual...
2019
November
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The emerging (neuro-)science of people watching
-Witnessing how people behave around, and towards, each other can prompt far-reaching social impressions. These impressions can concern, for instance, whether those observed are acquainted with one another, have compatible desires and goals, or compete for limited resources. But despite their prevalence in everyday life, so-called encounter-based impressions have attracted...
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Probability distortion serves to maximize mutual information between objective probabilities and their internal representation
-Normative models of perception, action and cognition share the assumption that humans base their decisions on accurate representations of probability and relative frequency. Experimental results indicate that they often do not. In decision under risk, for example, participants act as if their choices were based on probability values systematically different...
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Cafe Scientifique - Did I take my medication today? Remembering to remember
-Discover the concept of prospective memory and the impact that this can have on your everyday life.
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The visual control of goal-directed arm movements
-I will talk about how visual information about a target’s position and motion is used to guide one’s hand to the target. I will present several experiments that examined how movements are influenced by small perturbations and by sequential regularities. I will present evidence that people continuously update their movements on the basis of the latest available information...
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Working Memory Across the Adult Lifespan: An Adversarial Collaboration (WoMAAC)
-The human ability to keep track of ongoing thoughts, plans, actions, current tasks, and changes around us is essential for everyday living. This ability is known as working memory, a system that allows us to focus on what we are doing, avoid distractions, switch from one task to another, solve problems,...
October
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The processing of object semantics in extra-foveal vision. Evidence from healthy and pathological populations.
-In vision science, a topic of considerable interest and controversy is the processing of objects that are (in)consistent with the overall meaning of the visual context in which they occur. In particular, it is yet unclear whether object meaning can be processed in extra-foveal vision and how much time is...
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Offloading intentions into the external environment: Metacognition, ageing, and development
-In everyday life, we often choose between accomplishing goals using unaided cognitive abilities or offloading cognitive demands onto external tools and resources. For example, to remember an upcoming appointment we might rely either on unaided memory or set a reminder such as a smartphone alert. In this talk I will...
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Consequences of predictive language processing for memory
-Language arrives in the form of a rapid input stream that needs to be decoded at high speed. There is now an emerging consensus that the input is to some extent predictable, and that the brain exploits this predictability by thinking ahead about upcoming words. However, it is unclear whether...
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Why Ignorance Fails to Recognise Itself by Prof. David Dunning
-This years School of Psychology's Annual Anderson Lecture will be presented by Professor David Dunning from University of Michigan.
September
May
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It's a trap! Could non-technical skills save the rebel alliance?
-Non-technical skills such as situation awareness and teamwork are a Force for safety, helping workers to manage risks, spot traps and avoid danger. Come along to this Star Wars themed workshop to hear the Applied Psychology and Human Factors team talk about non-technical skills. Learn to identify examples of these skills in...
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Spot the risk! Fatigue and stress in comic book strips
-Fatigue and stress can negatively affect the performance of workers and can lead to serious incidents. But fear not! There are simple things which can be done to tackle risks and to avoid danger. Join us for a game of spot the risk like you have never played before! The Applied Psychology...
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Troll Hunting: Investigating and dealing with cyber-bullying
-Cyberbullying is a concern among young people with as many as 75% of school children experiencing cyberbullying at some stage. This interactive seminar will discuss four types of ‘troll’ – cyber bully types (harassment, flaming, impersonation, stalking). The impact of these ‘trolls’ and methods for dealing with them will also be covered....
March
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The cradle of (mental) health: The science of perinatal and infant mental health, and why it needs psychologists.
-There is increasing evidence that the global burden of mental health difficulties is rising, and that many of the risk factors for these difficulties relate to psychological and developmental factors – from in-utero through to early years. In this seminar, I will explore how psychological approaches can help us understand...
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Beyond the language given: The neurobiological infrastructure for pragmatic inferencing
-Even though language allows us to say exactly what we mean, we often use it to express things indirectly, in a way that depends on the specific communicative context. One of the big puzzles in language science is how listeners work out what speakers really mean, a skill central to communication. In this...
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The emerging (neuro-)science of people watching
-This event was cancelled
Witnessing how people behave around, and towards, each other can prompt far-reaching social impressions. These impressions can concern, for instance, whether those observed are acquainted with one another, have compatible desires and goals, or compete for limited resources. But despite their prevalence in everyday life, so-called encounter-based impressions have attracted...
February
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Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic structure
-Language is a product of learning in individuals, and universal structural features of language presumably reflect properties of the way in which we learn. But language is not necessarily a direct reflection of properties of individual learners: languages are culturally-transmitted systems, which persist in populations via a repeated cycle of...
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From dyads to social networks: the importance of the inter-personal in social interaction
-The mechanisms that enable us to engage in successful social interaction are still poorly understood, despite a movement in social cognition research toward studying two- or more people engaged in interaction rather than in isolation. However, studies investigating interpersonal mechanisms that emerge and facilitate joint action beyond symmetric tasks have...
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The psychology of everyday interactions
-In 1988 Norman’s published “The Psychology of Everyday Things”, which became a seminal work, commonly considered the base for the developing of User Centered Design (UCD). The main goal of UCD was to develop “usable” products, where usability is typically defined as the extent to which a product can be...
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Inhibitory Control in Task Switching
-The inhibition of irrelevant tasks is considered an important cognitive control process involved in human multitasking performance. In a task-switching situation, inhibiting the no longer relevant task facilitates switching to the currently relevant task. In this talk I will present research on task-level inhibition using behavioral measures and diffusion modeling....
2018
November
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What can biological colouration tell us about visual processing
-To process sensory information efficiently and quickly visual systems take shortcuts based upon redundancies and regularities in natural scenes. i.e. objects might be defined uniquely by their shape or colour, so why bother encoding anything more complex? Biological camouflage exploits these shortcuts in order to conceal animals. By asking what...
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Perceptual Anticipation as Foundation for Intentional Action and Social Perception
-Recent frameworks propose that perceptual anticipations underlie both volitional action and social perception. On this view, actions are initiated by forming a strong enough mental image of the consequences (body movements, effects in the environment) one wants to achieve. Similarly, the behaviour of others may be understood if it matches...
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Safety Snapshot Exhibition
-We all want to come home safely at the end of each work day, but some workplaces present a number of risks and hazards that have to be safely negotiated! Come along to this photographic exhibition to see how our winning photographers have stepped up to the challenge of capturing safety at...
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The 'Clever' Hand - How We Explore the World by Active Touch
-Perception is an active process during that we purposively gather sensory information. Haptic perception is the prime example for this principle. When people aim to judge an object by active touch, they first have to appropriately explore the object in order to obtain the relevant sensory information. Often a single...
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How Does Dialect Exposure Affect Literacy Acquisitions?
-Some educators are worried that children’s exposure to local dialects such as Doric or Dundonian Scots may impair their literacy acquisition due to competition between lexical variants such as English ‘house’ vs. Scots ‘hoose’. However, empirical evidence to support such worries is scant. A few studies from children exposed to...
October
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Finding a Way Through Trauma? Exploring Post-Traumatic Growth
-This event was cancelled
Following my recent return to the University, I will explore how a combination of my research and clinical training and experience has led me to develop an interest in the different routes people experience following trauma. In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, rather than focusing only on the ‘stress’ part of the...
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Business Breakfast - Human Factors in the Workplace
-How to increase safety in your own place of work
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Getting a Grip on Human Tool Use: A Sensorimotor Perspective
-The ability to use complex tools is arguably a defining human characteristic. The modal account of how this is achieved is that tools are ‘incorporated’ into the body schema—the putative internal representation of our bodies (Head & Holmes, 1911)—in order to control them as if they are a part of...
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Children Create Design Features of Language: Insights from Gestures and an Emerging Sign Language
-Why does language have the properties they have? The goal of my presentation is to provide evidence for the idea that some of the design features of language (Hocket, 1956) has emerged (partly) due to children's tendency to shape communication systems into "language-like" ones. I will discuss two design features...
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Annual Anderson Lecture - Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett
-This event was fully booked
Emotion: Separating Facts from Fiction
September
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Postgraduate Welcome Event
-This event is to welcome our new postgraduate students to the department. It will provide them with an opportunity to meet other new students, existing postgraduate students and the staff they will be working closely with. Refreshments will be provided.
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First Year Welcome Event
-This in an informal event where our new first year psychology students can come along and meet their fellow classmates and staff from the department. Refreshments will be provided.
August
May
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Visual Brain Challenge - Hall of Mayhem, MayFestival
-We will demonstrate experimental techniques for studying visual attention and invite people to participate in an interactive study exploring whether attention changes with age. Free/Drop-In/No Booking Required/All Ages
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Decoding the Hidden Messages in Communication - MayFestival
-In everyday life, we often need to express ourselves indirectly to avoid losing face (“Your work does have room for improvement.”). This talk will demonstrate how body language such as gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact can facilitate the decoding of the indirect message in a conversation.
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Intergenerational Communication: Aging and Social Attention
-CafeSci
March
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Social Attention event for British Science Week
-Find out about social attention and eye movements, take part in eyetracking demonstrations and visual illusions. There are also some arts and crafts and fun games. Ideal for families. This event is hosted by postdoctoral researcher Dr Christopher Luke from the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. It forms part of...
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Social cognition: Across age and species
-Dr Yong Min Hooi, Sunway University, Malaysia
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Cafe Philosophique Talk - Dr Sandie Cleland
-"A head for numbers: Numerical cognition across the lifespan"
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Moving into action: Individual and Social Processes in Self-Regulation
-Dr Gertraud Stadler, Senior Lecturer, Dept. Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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A Computational Model of Intention Selection
-Prof Søren Kyllingsbæk, Head of Department, Institute for Psychology, University of Copenhagen
February
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The self's body and the expression and malleability of implicit racial bias
-Prof Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
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Effects of expertise, normal aging and psychological illness on our ability to monitor for processing conflicts and errors
-Dr Ines Jentzsch, St Andrews University, Scotland
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The Philosophy Cafe - Bilingualism, Language & Thought
-Whether you have a date or not for Valentines Day, why not come along to the Philosophy Cafe on Wednesday 14th February, Balmedie Library at 7pm. The topic is Bilingualism, Language and Thought which will be led by Dr Emily Nordmann from the School of Psychology. You can bring your...
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Prediction of Action Consequences
-Prof Katja Fiehler, Experimental Psychology, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany
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The Psychology of Swearing, with Dr Emily Nordmann
-Mysteries of swearing unraveled!
2017
October
2016
November
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Place that Face. Mr Happy vs. Mr Angry
-How expressions influence our ability to remember who was where.
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Psychology Seminar: Dr Tim Smith
-Watching the rhythm of life: The influence of audio on gaze during film and naturalistic scene viewing
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How to survive a 7-1 loss in football
-The psychology of social identity and bad luck.
October
August
May
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May Festival 2016
-From famous faces and top performers to lively talks, debates and hands-on activities, the festival has something for everyone.
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Cafe Scientifique: Social Interaction - the eyes have it
-An informal way to engage with the latest topics in science.
February
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The Anderson Lecture 2016: The Luck Factor
-Given by Professor Richard Wiseman, Professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology
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Psychology Seminar - Prof Carien van Reekum
-Emotion regulation and the ageing brain
2015
November
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School of Psychology afternoon tea event
-The School of Psychology is hosting a Thank you afternoon tea event to express gratitude to the kind older participants that come in to complete psychology experiments.
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Postgraduate Open Day 2015
-Our next Postgraduate Open Day will take place on Saturday 14th November 2015.
September
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Cognition seminar by Prof James Enns, UBC
-Social Signals and Sensorimotor Control: Busy traffic on a two-way street
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Perception Seminar Dr Mauro Manassi
-Putting serial dependence in context
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Undergraduate Open Day 2015
-This year's Undergraduate Open Day takes place on Tuesday 1 September 2015.
August
April
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Simon Hanslmayr
-The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory - Association vs information
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Postgraduate Psycholoquia 5
-Postgraduate students present their recent work in short (15 min) talks
March
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Andrew Bayliss
-Following and leading social gaze
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Postgraduate Psycholoquia 4
-Postgraduate students present their recent work in short (15 min) talks
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Melinger
-What sociolinguistic factors tell us about lexical selection.
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Postgraduate Psycholoquia 3
-Postgraduate students present their recent work in short (15 min) talks
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The Domesticated Self: How the Social Development of the Species and the Individual Change Our Brains
-The School of Psychology present the annual Anderson Lecture for 2015. The Lecture, delivered by Professor Bruce Hood, University of Bristol, will argue that we have become self-domesticated, uncovering the illusion of self and how this is formed over our lifetimes.
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Bring Your Own Brain: Shining a Light on the Function of the Brain
-Join medical scientists as they illuminate how the brain senses light in the surrounding environment and how light lets us understand the brain.
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Ryan Scott
-How testing the limits of unconscious learning can assist in evaluating theories of consciousness
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Postgraduate Psycholoquia 2
-Postgraduate students present their recent work in short (15 min) talks
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Helge Gillmeister
Visual-tactile interactions in spatial attention to touch: Seeing your own body may or may not be such a good thing
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Postgraduate Psycholoquia 1
-Postgraduate students present their recent work in short (15 min) talks
February
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Søren Andersen
-Temporal dynamics of Feature-Selective Attention
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Psychology Seminar - Prof Rhona Flin
-Dissecting Surgeons' Intra-Operative Decision Making
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Monika Harvey
-Action Control and Attention in the Healthy and Impaired brain
January
2014
November
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CafeMED Special: Lessons from the flightdeck for healthcare education and practice
-Learn how findings in aviation are changing education for medical students and doctors.
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Peter Neri
-Natural scene interpretation controls visual extraction of local image features
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Who's Who? Human and Computer Face Recognition
-Face recognition: man vs computer
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Who's Who - Festival of Social Science
On Saturday 8th of November, Aberdeen Face Lab will be at the Satrosphere Science Centre in Aberdeen, as part of the Festival of Social Science!
October
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Psychology Seminar - Prof Asifa Majid
-Semantic categories across cultures
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Perception Talk - Gerrit Maus
-Predictive Localization in the Visual System
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Cliodhna Quigley
-Differential decline in attentional modulation of visual processing in healthy old age
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Lynden Miles
-More than just a phase? Social Psychology meets Coordination Dynamics
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Mary Luszcz
-22 Years of Cognitive Ageing in Adelaide: Evidence from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA)
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Psychology Seminar - Dr Marco Bertamini
-Mirror Cognition
September
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Bright Club Comedy
-Members of our Face Lab will be taking part in the Bright Club comedy on Friday 26th September.
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Explorathon 2014
-Members of our Face Lab will be at Aberdeen, Union Square with the European Research Association's Explorathon 2014 on Friday 26th September, in order to present our exciting research to members of the public.
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Psychology Seminar - Prof David Whitney, UC Berkeley
-Prof Whitney will give a talk titled "Balancing visual prediction and visual stability"