News and events 

Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
 

Seminars & Events

'Negative Food Preoccupation and Snack Recall'
Date
22/05/2013 (10:00-11:00)
Description
Part of the Ingestive Behaviour Group talk. Speaker: Bessy Chirwa
One-day conference 'The World Inside the Brain: Internal Predictive Models in Humans and Robots'
Date
23 (09:30) - 24/05/2013 (18:00)
Description
Registration is now open for a one-day conference that will present research focusing on internal models across various fields such as psychophysics, neuroscience, and cognitive robotics.
School seminar (Speaker: Professor Gregor Thut, University of Glasgow)
Date
28/05/2013 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
Hills Building room 1.20
Description
Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Gregor Thut, University of Glasgow
School seminar (Speaker: Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cambridge)
Date
04/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
Hills Building room 1.20
Description
Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cambridge
'Phenotypes of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Current Research and Future Directions'
Date
07/06/2013 (09:00-17:00)
Description
The Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders will be holding a free one day research conference at the University of Birmingham. The conference will cover aspects of the cognitive, social and behavioural phenotypes of neurodevelopmental disorders.
'Is human motor control serial ballistic? Emerging evidence and implications for motor function'
Date
18/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
Hills Building room 1.20
Description
Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Ian Loram, Manchester Metropolitan University
School seminar (Speaker: Professor Essi Viding and Dr Eamon McCrory, ULC)
Date
25/06/2013 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
Aston Webb WG12
Description
Part of the School Seminar Series. Speaker: Professor Essi Viding and Dr Eamon McCrory, UCL

News

Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson awarded £404K from the ESRC to examine "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
Description
Ian Apperly and Steven Frisson have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Economic and Social Research Council: "When and why do humans fail to use their "theory of mind"?"
Date:
23/07/2012
New paper in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior outlines approaches to treating emotional regulatory deficits among sexual offenders
Description
Steven Gillespie, Ian Mitchell, Dawn Fisher, and Anthony Beech have a paper published in 2012 in Aggression and Violent Behavior entitled 'Treating disturbed emotional regulation in sexual offenders: The potential applications of mindful self-regulation and controlled breathing techniques.'
Date:
23/07/2012
New International Network to Detect Serial Offenders: School of Psychology awarded £79K from the Leverhulme Trust's International Networks scheme
Description
Dr Jessica Woodhams has been successful in her application to the Leverhulme Trust for a grant to set up the first international network dedicated to research on crime linkage.
Date:
23/07/2012
School of Psychology welcomes Professors Kim Shapiro and Jane Raymond
Description
We are delighted to welcome two new members of the school. Professor Kim Shapiro and Professor Jane Raymond join us this month from the University of Bangor.
Date:
11/07/2012
Kim Quinn and colleagues awarded £478k by the ESRC to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony
Description
Dr Kimberly Quinn from the School of Psychology, in collaboration with Prof. John Cacioppo from the University of Chicago, has been awarded £478,137 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a research project to test a theoretical model of behavioural synchrony.
Date:
11/07/2012
I just can't get me out of my head: Charlotte Hartwright and colleagues demonstrate that Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex inhibits self perspective when predicting the action of another
Description
A paper newly published in Neuroimage written by Charlotte Hartwright, Ian Apperly and Peter Hansen demonstrates that typically functioning adults find it difficult to overcome their own perspective when making a behavioural prediction about someone else.
Date:
11/07/2012
First UK Event-Related Potential (ERP) Boot Camp hosted at the University of Birmingham
Description
Students and staff interested in becoming more expert in using the event-related potential (ERP) approach to studying human cognition were recently treated to a rare event on the University of Birmingham campus.
Date:
11/07/2012
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