Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Psychology.
Seminars & Events
- 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
- 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.
- Date:
- 22/03/2012
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 20/03/2012
- Description
- 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'.
- Date:
- 20/03/2012
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 21/02/2012
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 21/02/2012
- Description
- 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).
- Date:
- 21/02/2012
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 21/02/2012
- Description
- 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.
- Date:
- 21/02/2012