Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- Date
- 22/05/2013 (10:00-11:00)
- Description
- Part of the Ingestive Behaviour Group talk. Speaker: Bessy Chirwa
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Description
- Scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a unique screening instrument that provides a 'one-stop' brain function profile of patients who have suffered stroke or other neurological damage.
- Date:
- 31/01/2013
- Description
- Dr Jason Braithwaite has been successful in being awarded a grant for £32,000 from the Bial Foundation to study the role of cortical suppression in those showing signs of depersonalization disorder and associated dissociative / hallucinatory experiences in the non-clinical population.
- Date:
- 29/01/2013
- Description
- Alena Streltsova, a doctoral research student working in the Infant and Child Laboratory, has published a study showing that touch areas of our own brain are activated as if we were being touched ourselves when we observe other people being touched.
- Date:
- 22/01/2013
- Description
- Dr Mark Elliott, from the School of Psychology is investigating group synchrony in collaboration with the Vibration Engineering Research Group at Sheffield University and has recently received £5k under the EPSRC Equipment Sharing scheme to access facilities at the University of Worcester's Motion Performance Centre.
- Date:
- 22/01/2013
- Description
- It's a familiar sight at the fairground: rows of people gaping at curvy mirrors as they watch their faces and bodies distort. But while mirrored surfaces may be fun to look at, new findings by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge and Giessen, suggest they pose a particular challenge for the human brain in processing images for 3D vision.
- Date:
- 21/01/2013
- Description
- Dr Joseph Galea (Birmingham Fellow, School of Psychology) has been awarded the '2012 Klein-Vogelbach Prize for the Research of Human Movement' for his paper 'Dissociating the roles of the cerebellum and motor cortex during adaptive learning: the motor cortex retains what the cerebellum learns'.
- Date:
- 15/01/2013
- Description
- Professor Anthony Beech has been invited to speak at the Open University Psychological Society conference at the University of Westminster on the subject of Understanding the Mechanisms of Sexual and Violent Offending: A Neurobiological Perspective.
- Date:
- 15/01/2013
- Description
- Steven Gillespie and Juliane Kloess, doctoral researchers at the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, have been invited to present their research at the European Winterschool 2013.
- Date:
- 17/12/2012