Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/index.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-06-19T13:21:19Z Lydia Rea

Work by Professor Ian Apperly and colleagues is highlighted in the cover feature of this week's New Scientist magazine. The article "Mind readers: how we get inside other people's heads" describes research on social perspective-taking, to which Ian has made a significant contribution in the past decade.

2013-06-14T16:44:00Z 2013-06-14T16:31:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/14Jun-new-scientist-apperly.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Charlotte Connor, Honorary Fellow at The University of Birmingham, has recently had two papers published following research conducted in collaboration with Professor Max Birchwood at The University of Birmingham.

2013-06-03T10:39:00Z 2013-06-03T10:35:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28May-papers-untreated-psychosis.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Leam Craig, member of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology in the school, has received the 2013 Senior Academic Award from the Division of Forensic Psychology, for distinguished contribution to academic knowledge in forensic psychology.

2013-05-23T11:08:00Z 2013-05-23T10:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/23May-leam-craig-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Anthony Beech, Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology, School of Psychology, has recently presented (May 16-17th 2013) at an invited experts workshop entitled 'Developing sexual offender laws and treatment in Europe' at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Criminal Law in Freiburg Germany.

2013-05-20T10:53:00Z 2013-05-20T10:43:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/20May-beech-workshop.aspx Lydia Rea

This is the main paper to be produced from a trial of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with people who have learning disabilities and anger problems that was supported by the National Institute for Health Research through an award of over a million pounds. John Rose and Biza Stenfert Kroese who work in the clinical group in the School of Psychology were integral members of the team.

2013-05-07T16:52:00Z 2013-05-07T16:49:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/07May-rose-kroese-press-release.aspx Lydia Rea

The University of Birmingham has been ranked number 7 out of 112 universities for Psychology subjects in the Complete University Guide 2014 league tables.

2013-05-01T10:05:00Z 2013-05-01T09:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01May-university-guide-rankngs.aspx Lydia Rea

Work conducted in the School's clinical psychology group is changing clinical practice in inpatient psychiatric units in Coventry Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

2013-04-26T11:37:00Z 2013-04-29T10:36:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/26Apr-larkin-inpatient-psychiatric.aspx Lydia Rea

Drs Andy Bagshaw, Steve Mayhew and Amanda Wood, in collaboration with Dr Alberto Tannus (University of São Paulo) and Professor Peter Morris (University of Nottingham), have been awarded £72,000 to establish a research collaboration with Brazilian universities in the São Paolo region under the Scientific Cooperation Agreement between FAPESP, University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham.

2013-04-25T17:16:00Z 2013-04-25T16:58:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/25Apr-bagshaw-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Ulrik Beierholm has contributed to a paper titled 'Dopamine Modulates Reward-Related Vigor', published in Neuropsychopharmacology on 18th February 2013.

2013-04-22T12:40:00Z 2013-04-22T12:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/22Apr-neuropsychopharmacology-paper.aspx Lydia Rea

University of Birmingham scientists are looking for volunteers who have had out-of-body experiences to come forward and be involved in a new study which seeks to identify the scientific causes behind these bizarre phenomena.

2013-03-28T16:13:00Z 2013-03-28T14:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Mar-out-of-body.aspx Lydia Rea

Research in the School of Psychology suggests that 'attentive eating' affects how much people choose to eat. A paper published recently by the research team in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition took an overview of research on attentive eating and concluded that encouraging people to eat more attentively could aid appetite control.

2013-03-28T10:55:00Z 2013-04-04T12:01:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Mar13-easter-chocolate.aspx Lydia Rea

In the forthcoming Horizon programme 'The Truth About Taste', Jackie Blissett will be discussing some of the reasons why children like some foods and dislike others, how this changes as they move from infancy to adulthood, and some of the psychological processes involved in our development of food likes and dislikes.

2013-03-26T15:10:00Z 2013-04-04T14:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/26Mar-blissett-horizon.aspx Lydia Rea

PhD students Angela Meadows and Sara Tookey are running a multidisciplinary conference on the subject of Weight Stigma and Health.

2013-03-22T11:38:00Z 2013-03-22T11:25:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/22Mar-phd-student-conference.aspx Lydia Rea

Teresa da Silva, a doctoral research student working in the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology under the supervision of Dr Jessica Woodhams and Dr Leigh Harkins, has contributed a chapter entitled "Multiple Perpetrator Rape as an international phenomenon" to the Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape published on the 5th of March 2013.

2013-03-18T10:32:00Z 2013-03-18T10:20:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Mar-teresa-da-silva.aspx Lydia Rea

Drs Steve Mayhew (pictured right) and Andy Bagshaw (pictured left) have been awarded £39,840 by the Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund to develop a collaborative project entitled ' Birmingham-Nottingham multimodal neuroimaging alliance: Understanding spatio-temporal brain network dynamics'.

2013-03-18T10:19:00Z 2013-03-18T10:09:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Mar-bagshaw-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape, edited by Dr Jessica Woodhams and Professor Miranda Horvath, is the first text to be compiled regarding this type of sexual violence which has been so prominent in international news recently.

2013-02-28T12:18:00Z 2013-02-18T12:18:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/28Feb-forthcoming-text-woodhams.aspx Lydia Rea

Representing the University and the organisation he has founded, Gambling Watch UK, Professor Jim Orford spoke last Monday at a meeting to launch a campaign to remove high-stake gambling machines from betting shops.

2013-02-18T13:29:00Z 2013-02-18T13:30:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Feb-jim-orford-fobts.aspx Lydia Rea

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have released a press notice regarding the latest trends in child sexual exploitation online. One of the major stories highlighted by the press release was the published literature review written by Helen Whittle (School of Psychology PhD student and CEOP employee), Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis and Anthony Beech (School of Psychology).

2013-02-18T12:01:00Z 2013-02-18T11:45:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/18Feb-ceop-press-coverage.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Jo Moss, Professor Ian Apperly and Dr Joe McCleery have been awarded £200,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to carry out a three year project which will evaluate social-cognition and its relation to social functioning in three genetic syndromes; Cornelia de Lange, Fragile X and Rubinstein Taybi syndromes.

2013-02-04T12:44:00Z 2013-02-04T09:49:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01Feb-grant-social-cognition.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Jo Moss and Dr Debbie Allen have been awarded a grant from the ESRC in partnership with Cerebra. The project is part of the ESRC's knowledge exchange scheme and will enable the development of a website resource for parents, carers and professionals working with children and adults with six rare genetic syndromes.

2013-02-04T10:00:00Z 2013-02-05T10:40:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/01Feb-cerebra-resource-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-31T09:52:00Z 2013-01-31T09:36:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/16Jan-stroke-assessment-tool.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-29T10:36:00Z 2013-01-15T16:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-braithwaite-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-22T16:21:00Z 2013-01-15T16:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-alena-streltsova-journal.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-22T15:25:00Z 2013-01-15T16:30:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-elliot-equipment-sharing.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-21T17:03:00Z 2013-01-21T16:26:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/21Jan13-secrets-3d-vision.aspx Lydia Rea

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'.

2013-01-15T16:00:00Z 2013-01-15T15:59:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan-galea-klein-vogelbach-prize.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2013-01-15T15:36:00Z 2013-01-15T15:34:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2013/15Jan13-Beech-invited-talk.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-12-17T08:45:00Z 2012-12-10T16:00:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-cfcp-winterschool-conference.aspx Lydia Rea

MRes Clinical Psychology student Joshua Muggleton has had an article published on the Guardian website in which he discusses the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s plans to remove the terms "Asperger's syndrome" and "autism" and replace them with "autism spectrum disorder".

2012-12-17T08:30:00Z 2012-12-10T15:46:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-student-article-guardian.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor in Criminological Psychology, Anthony Beech, has taken part in a discussion on Radio 4 on the psychology of the child sex offender. The programme was broadcast on Tuesday 11 December 2012 at 9am.

2012-12-10T16:55:00Z 2012-12-13T17:00:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-beech-radio4.aspx Lydia Rea

An MRC grant for approximately £818K has recently been awarded to Professor Stephen Wood for research into – 'Linear and non-linear brain changes over the transition to psychosis'.

2012-12-10T12:04:00Z 2012-12-10T15:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-stephen-wood-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Forensic Psychology PhD student Helen Whittle has had two literature reviews accepted to be published in the Journal 'Aggression and Violent Behavior'. The article, titled, "A review of online grooming: characteristics and concerns" explores the research surrounding how young people are targeted by offenders on the internet. The second article explores risk factors that may make a young person vulnerable to being groomed online.

2012-12-10T12:02:00Z 2012-12-14T09:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Dec12-helen-whittle.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Ruth Howard and Dr Gary Law have created a new DVD for young people with Coeliac Disease. It came from an ESRC Knowledge Transfer Grant, and features young people talking about their experiences of living with and managing Coeliac Disease.

2012-12-06T16:56:00Z 2012-12-10T10:00:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/06Dec12-dvd-coeliac-disease.aspx Andy Tootell

Professor Jim Orford made an appearance on the BBC1 Panorama programme shown on the evening of Monday 5th November. Like last month's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, this was devoted to gambling and again focused on the problems associated with the high stake fixed odds betting machines now to be found in high street betting shops.

2012-11-09T16:13:00Z 2013-01-21T15:20:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/07Nov12-orford-gambling.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Max Birchwood and Professor Helen Lester (primary care) have recently secured an NIHR grant for £2M. The 'PARTNERS2' project aims to help primary care and community based mental health services work more closely together.

2012-11-09T15:07:00Z 2012-11-09T14:48:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/07Nov12-birchwood-lester-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Research conducted by Suzanne Higgs into the link between memory and appetite has featured in a New Scientist article titled 'Memory: Lost in the here and now'.

2012-10-24T16:42:00Z 2012-10-24T16:28:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/24Oct12-higgs-new-scientist.aspx Lydia Rea

An ESRC collaborative project brings together developmental psychologists Sarah Beck and Ian Apperly and bioscientist Jackie Chappell to explore human tool making. The project develops work funded by a College of Life and Environmental Sciences Cutting Edge grant and Nicola Cutting's PhD work.

2012-10-24T09:00:00Z 2012-10-10T14:46:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/24Oct12-esrc-grant-making-tools.aspx Lydia Rea

'Forensic Psychology: Crime, Justice, Law and Interventions' has become the number one bestseller in Forensic Psychology on Amazon. The book is co-edited by Professor Anthony Beech (pictured right), Deputy Head of School and Head of the Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham.

2012-10-17T10:00:00Z 2012-10-10T15:08:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/17Oct12-beech-forensic-book.aspx Lydia Rea

Jonathan Lee and Attila Sik (School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine) have been awarded a 3 year grant from the Biolotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council: "The neural mechanisms of memory updating".

2012-10-17T09:00:00Z 2012-10-10T14:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/17Oct12-bbsrc-award-memory.aspx Lydia Rea

Lucy Wilde, from the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the School of Psychology, has been awarded one of the first postdoctoral research training fellowships from the UK support group charity the Tuberous Sclerosis Association.

2012-10-15T09:00:00Z 2012-10-10T14:14:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/15Oct12-award-tuberous-sclerosis-association.aspx Lydia Rea

Chris Miall has featured in a news article and podcast for Nature titled 'Neuroscience: Idle minds' (19 September 2012), which discusses the activity of the brain while it is in a resting state.

2012-10-10T13:37:00Z 2012-10-10T13:00:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/10Oct12-miall-nature-podcast.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Joe McCleery and incoming overseas PhD student, Supriya Malik, from the School of Psychology have been awarded £103,272 from the UK charity, Autistica, and Fortis Healthcare (India) for a research project entitled 'The effects of gesture training on the neural processing of auditory and visual gestures in children with autism.'

2012-09-24T09:00:00Z 2012-09-13T15:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-autism-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

Doctoral researcher Dinesh Ramoo (pictured) has been chosen as one of the six students sponsored by the British Science Association to represent the University at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.

2012-09-24T08:30:00Z 2012-09-13T15:38:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-dinesh-ramoo.aspx Lydia Rea

Dominique Moran and Louise Dixon (Psychology) have been successful in obtaining funding from the ESRC for a project entitled 'Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK' (£370k fEC).

2012-09-13T18:52:00Z 2012-09-13T11:40:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sep12-breaking-cycle-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

The 'Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers' (ATSA) has awarded Ross Bartels the Graduate Student Award, with which he will be presented at ATSA's 2012 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, USA (October 17th - 20th).

2012-09-13T18:50:00Z 2012-09-13T11:30:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/13Sept12-ross-bartels-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Prof Jim Orford appeared on the Channel 4 Dispatches TV programme which finally appeared, after some postponements, on the evening of August 6. The programme was about one of Jim's favourite research topics, gambling, and particularly focused on what are now called Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).

2012-09-06T10:46:00Z 2012-09-06T10:41:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/09Sep12-jim-orford-dispatches.aspx Lydia Rea

The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) awarded Jason Thomas the Hannah Steinberg Award at its 2012 Summer Meeting in Harrogate, in recognition of his research.

2012-08-23T10:23:00Z 2012-08-23T10:11:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Aug12-jason-thomas-award.aspx Lydia Rea

A grant of £140,462 has been awarded to Drs. Michael Larkin, John Rose and Biza Kroese in the School of Psychology to explore the experiences and views of social care services amongst people with learning disabilities and black and minority groups. The award was made by the National institute for Health Research, School for Social Care Research (3rd Wave) and it will run until the end of 2013.

2012-08-21T09:05:00Z 2012-08-14T10:35:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Jul12-bme-social-care.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Kimberly Quinn from the School of Psychology has been awarded £78,297 from the Leverhulme Trust for a research project entitled 'Witnessing Virtue versus Vice: Comparing Moral Praise and Moral Condemnation'.

2012-08-21T09:00:00Z 2012-08-23T09:44:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Aug12-kim-quinn-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Research in the Centre for "Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics" is flourishing, and we are delighted to announce that we have secured more than €5.5M in funds coming into the University as part of five European research projects.

2012-08-14T11:06:00Z 2012-08-14T10:05:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/14Aug12-cncr-progress.aspx Lydia Rea

In July Dr Louise Dixon attended The House of Lords to raise awareness of the Everyman Project. It was an exciting networking event, and one that will raise awareness of an organisation delivering evidence-based treatment to violent men who aggress against their intimate partner.

2012-08-14T09:57:00Z 2012-08-14T09:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/14Aug12-dixon-house-of-lords.aspx Lydia Rea

Emeritus Professor Jim Orford will feature on The Channel Four TV show Dispatches on the subject of gambling. The special interest just now is in the types of gambling machines, new in the last 10 years, which allow people to play virtual casino-type games on machines to be found in high street betting shops.

2012-07-24T16:01:00Z 2012-07-24T16:02:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/06Jul12-orford-dispatches.aspx Lydia Rea

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"?"

2012-07-23T12:25:00Z 2012-07-23T11:37:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-esrc-theory-mind.aspx Lydia Rea

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.'

2012-07-23T11:55:00Z 2012-07-23T11:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-new-paper-sexual-offenders.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-07-23T11:20:00Z 2012-07-23T13:36:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/23Jul12-leverhulme-trust-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Information on Congratulations to our PhD students who graduated this week

2012-07-11T17:30:00Z 2012-07-12T08:54:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-congratulations-phd-students.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-07-11T17:21:00Z 2012-07-11T17:11:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-welcome-shapiro-raymond.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-07-11T17:10:00Z 2012-07-12T08:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-kim-quinn-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-07-11T17:01:00Z 2012-07-12T09:12:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-ventrolateral-prefrontal-cortex.aspx Lydia Rea

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.

2012-07-11T17:01:00Z 2012-07-12T08:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/11Jul12-erp-bootcamp.aspx Lydia Rea

Cognitive therapy (CT) reduces the severity of psychotic experiences in adults who are at risk of developing conditions such as schizophrenia, a study published on the BMJ website claims.

2012-05-18T14:33:00Z 2012-05-30T11:53:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-cognitive-therapy.aspx Lydia Rea

It is often reported that the presentation of ASD characteristics in these genetic syndromes differs (in very subtle ways) to that observed in individuals with ASD. According to current diagnostic guidelines this might be classified as 'atypical autism'. Forthcoming changes to these guidelines may result in many individuals with genetic syndromes who currently meet diagnostic criteria for 'atypical autism' to be excluded, with inevitable consequences for access to appropriate resources and intervention.

2012-05-18T14:32:00Z 2012-05-30T12:06:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-autism-diagnosis.aspx Lydia Rea

The project will investigate how humans perceive the softness of an object while pressing their hand against it. The grant will be used to purchase a force-feedback device that simulates the haptic interaction with objects having different materials.

2012-05-18T14:17:00Z 2012-05-18T14:15:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/18May12-di-luca-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

A large number of Staff and Postgraduate students, as well as the Chancellor and Vice Chancellors of the University, wore blue on the 2nd of April, 2012, in recognition of World Autism Awareness Day.

2012-04-05T15:52:00Z 2012-04-17T13:44:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/05Apr12-autism-day.aspx Lydia Rea

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have awarded Dr Alex Balani £71K to investigate the interaction between working memory and selective attention.

2012-03-27T12:11:00Z 2012-03-27T11:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/27Mar12-esrc-award.aspx Lydia Rea

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded the University of Birmingham a £125,634 Research Project Grant to examine Cortical hyperexcitability and the out-of-body experience (OBE).

2012-03-27T12:11:00Z 2013-01-04T09:16:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/27Mar12-leverhulme-funding.aspx Lydia Rea

From 15-17 March a group of staff and students from the School were at the Big Bang Fair at Birmingham's NEC. The annual event is aimed at young people across the UK and encourages them to get involved in science, maths and engineering.

2012-03-22T12:21:00Z 2012-03-23T16:51:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/22Mar12-big-bang.aspx Lydia Rea

Previous research on dual-tasks has shown that, under some circumstances actions impair the perception of action-consistent stimuli, while under other conditions actions facilitate their perception. This paper proposes a new model to reconcile these contrasting findings.

2012-03-20T13:54:00Z 2012-03-20T13:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/20Feb12-action-perception.aspx Lydia Rea

Recent research from the School of Psychology revealing underlying biases in brain function and how these relate to anomalous bodily experiences is to be published soon in the top international neuroscience journal 'Cortex'.

2012-03-20T13:37:00Z 2012-03-20T13:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/20Feb12-out-of-body-experiences.aspx Lydia Rea

Hiroshi Ban and Andrew Welchman's new paper in Nature Neuroscience reveals an area of the brain that fuses different depth cues together to support three-dimensional (3D) perception. The research demonstrates that area V3B/KO in the dorsal visual cortex is particularly important in integrating depth information from different cues.

2012-02-21T16:37:00Z 2012-02-21T16:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-ban-welchman-depth-cues.aspx Lydia Rea

Graham Davies (University of Leicester) and Anthony Beech (University of Birmingham) present an exciting and broad range of topics within the field including detailed treatments of the causes of crime, investigative methods, the trial process, and interventions with different types of offenders and offences.

2012-02-21T16:15:00Z 2012-02-21T16:35:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-beech-new-book.aspx Lydia Rea

Sotaro Kita has been awarded a £98,000 research grant from the Economic and Social Research Council, with two collaborators, Professor Susan Goldin Meadow and Professor Diane Brentari (both at the University of Chicago).

2012-02-21T15:40:00Z 2012-02-21T15:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-grant-deaf-comms.aspx Lydia Rea

Professor Shoumitro Deb (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) has been appointed as a panel member for the West Midlands Research for Patient Benefit advisory committee.

2012-02-21T15:24:00Z 2012-02-21T15:17:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-deb-nihr.aspx Lydia Rea

This Scientific Meeting gives researchers and mental health professionals the chance to meet together and find out about some of the pioneering studies supported by the MHRN. Professor Max Birchwood will be speaking on 'Public mental health and the prevention of serious mental illness' on Wednesday 25th, and Professor Shoumitro Deb will be chairing a session to discuss 'Interventions in Intellectual Disabilities: what is the evidence' on Thursday 26th.

2012-02-21T14:00:00Z 2012-02-22T09:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/21Feb12-mhrn-meeting.aspx Lydia Rea

The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) will receive £4.5 million from the BBSRC. Match funding from the three universities will enable the partnership to fund up to 90 four-year PhD studentships over the next three academic years in important biological fields such as food security, industrial biotechnology and bio-energy.

2012-02-02T10:50:00Z 2012-02-02T13:42:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/31Jan-collaboration-receives-government-investment.aspx Lydia Rea

Information on Alan Wing and Andrew Welchman new BBSRC panel members

2012-01-26T15:51:00Z 2012-01-26T15:45:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/26Jan12-wing-welchman-bbsrc.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Max Di Luca has been awarded a 100k€ Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG) for a project titled 'Temporal Information in Crossmodal Stimuli.

2012-01-26T15:31:00Z 2012-01-26T15:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2012/26Jan12-maxdiluca-award.aspx Lydia Rea

Andrew Bagshaw (School of Psychology) and Theo Arvanitis (School of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering) have been awarded a £716,000 EPSRC grant for a new project: 'The Human Brain as a Complex System: Investigating the Relationship between Structural and Functional Networks in the Thalamocortical System'.

2011-12-21T10:50:00Z 2011-12-21T10:43:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-human-brain-epsrcgrant.aspx Lydia Rea

Jackie Blissett, Gill Harris and Suzanne Higgs have been awarded a £50K Feeding For Life Foundation grant towards a project examining the effectiveness of specific ways in which parents may increase the success of introducing new foods to their 2-3 year olds.

2011-12-20T17:00:00Z 2011-12-20T16:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-feeding-for-life.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Caroline Richards' PhD research investigating the risk markers and causes of self-injurious behaviour in autism spectrum disorder was highlighted in a recent Channel 4 News article.

2011-12-20T16:07:00Z 2012-02-08T13:25:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-self-injurious-behaviour.aspx Lydia Rea

Stuart Derbyshire is the 2012 winner of the Paul D MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. The award is given every year by the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) for outstanding neuroscientific research that advances knowledge directly related to Dr MacLean's hypothesis regarding altered cortical-subcortical interactions affecting physical disease outcomes or mediating processes that can be directly linked to disease outcomes.

2011-12-20T15:59:00Z 2011-12-20T15:52:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-maclean-award.aspx Lydia Rea

A report compiled by Biza Stenfert Kroese and John Rose investigating the training needs of staff who work with people with Learning Disabilities from the Judith Trust charity has recently been launched.

2011-12-20T15:49:00Z 2011-12-20T15:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/20Dec11-judith-trust.aspx Lydia Rea

Dr Stephen Mayhew was one of the successful candidates offered a Birmingham Fellowship under the Cognitive Psychology theme. Steven explains a bit about his research.

2011-11-18T09:31:00Z 2011-11-22T13:56:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/17Nov11-stephen-mayhew.aspx Lydia Rea

School of Psychology PhD student Leah Bull was awarded the Pat Howlin prize at this year's Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes Scientific Symposium held in Brisbane.

2011-11-18T09:08:00Z 2011-11-18T09:41:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/17Nov11-leah-bull.aspx Lydia Rea

Four Birmingham Fellowships have been offered under the Cognitive Psychology theme, championed by the School of Psychology.

2011-11-03T14:00:00Z 2011-11-03T17:04:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-birmingham-fellows.aspx Lydia Rea

Channel 4 is currently showing a series of four shows by Derren Brown called "The Experiments". The first 'experiment' asked whether an ordinary person could be programmed to kill using hypnotic suggestion. Dr Stuart Derbyshire was asked to take part, along with Professor Zoltan Dienes from Sussex University, to discuss the nature of hypnosis and to facilitate a hypnotic task that could not be easily faked or simulated.

2011-11-03T13:00:00Z 2011-11-07T16:42:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-derbyshire-derrenbrown.aspx Andy Tootell

Dr Jackie Blissett and IdeasLab at the University of Birmingham have designed an app to try to get people thinking about how they are using food to deal with their emotions, and to try to suggest simple alternatives that may get people through those moments when a chocolate biscuit seems irresistible.

2011-11-03T12:00:00Z 2013-01-29T16:16:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-comfort-eater-beater-app.aspx Lydia Rea

BCos, the Birmingham Cognitive Screen project, is featured in the National Institute for Health Research Stroke Research Network short film series (part 2) released for the World Stroke Day on the 29th Oct 2011.

2011-11-03T11:00:00Z 2011-11-03T17:01:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-cognitive-screen.aspx Lydia Rea

Retrieving a memory is crucial when trying to extinguish it completely, according to research published today (18 October) by University of Birmingham scientists in the journal Nature Communications.

2011-11-03T10:00:00Z 2011-11-03T17:05:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/03Nov11-RememberingtoForget.aspx Lydia Rea

Emeritus Professor Jim Orford (pictured right) was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society at the Society's annual general meeting in London on 24th June.

2011-09-29T16:34:00Z 2011-09-29T16:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-orford-honorary-bps-fellow.aspx Lydia Rea

Many studies suggest that multiple brain processes are involved in perspective-taking. Joe McCleery, Ian Apperly and colleagues have combined new behavioural methods with scalp recording of the brain's electrical activity to investigate the order in which these processes occur.

2011-09-29T16:34:00Z 2011-09-29T16:31:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-someone-elses-perspective.aspx Lydia Rea

Information on Second of BPS funded seminars on multiple perpetrator rape hosted by Dr Jessica Woodhams

2011-09-29T16:33:00Z 2011-09-29T16:13:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-second-seminar-perpetrator-rape.aspx Lydia Rea

Studies into human visual perception rarely control for how participants weigh up processing speed against processing accuracy. For the first time, the paper presents evidence in one experiment that IOR affects both, processing speed and processing accuracy.

2011-09-29T16:10:00Z 2011-09-29T15:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/paper-perception-psychophysics.aspx Lydia Rea

A recent paper in Psychological Science demonstrates that when one spontaneously produces gestures during problem solving, one tends to solve the problem based on concrete spatial information as opposed to more abstract information.

2011-09-29T16:10:00Z 2011-09-29T16:03:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/29Sept-gestures-problem-solving.aspx Simon Levermore

Getting drunk at the office party and behaving in an inappropriate way may be down to the fact that drinking alcohol in an unfamiliar environment can lead to an inability to reign in unsuitable behaviour, according to research by psychologists at the University of Birmingham published online in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism.

2011-09-20T16:55:00Z 2011-09-20T16:46:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/19Sep11ResearchExplainsWhyPeopleGetDrunkattheOfficeParty.aspx Lydia Rea

Andrew Welchman has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science.

2011-07-22T16:09:00Z 2011-07-22T16:08:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/welchman-wellcome-grant.aspx Lydia Rea

New grants awarded to staff in the School of Psychology in July 2011.

2011-07-22T09:00:00Z 2011-08-12T15:25:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2011/grants-july2011.aspx