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2018
November
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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