Past events

December 2018

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Working memories: Ambling and stumbling towards the multicomponent model
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Frank Schumann and Steve Torrance

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • David C. Geary, “The Evolution of Vulnerability”

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Faith in thy threshold: An investigation of the decision making processes of jurors

• Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising The Turing Test (external website)
  • Interdisciplinary Conference 2018

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Normal forgetting of phrases as a function of repetition
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • The limits of minimal mindreading: modularity and representational format (Joulia Smortchkova)

• Cognitive Science talk
  • Music first: hunter-gatherer ethnography and the evolution of language (Jerome Lewis)

October 2018

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Kathy Rastle, “Ending the Reading Wars”

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Naomi Wray, "Genetics of depression: the ups and downs"

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Maja Spener (University of Birmingham)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Will Davies (University of Birmingham)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Cognitive offloading: Why digital memory is bad for your brain

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Assessing long-term forgetting of verbal material in healthy populations and Alzheimer disease

September 2018

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • What do you get if you add many babies to philosophy? (Suilin Lavelle)

• Meet the Staff
  • An opportunity for MSc students to learn who’s who and who does what research in Psychology at Edinburgh

August 2018

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Perception is Biased by Newtonian Prediction
• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • "What is it like to be a bat?" - a pathway to the answer from the Integrated Information Theory

• PsychStatsBanter Gathering
  • What is Wrong with Cronbach’s Alpha and What to Use Instead

July 2018

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Radical Embodiment, Consciousness, and the Cybernetic Bayesian Brain: Towards Teleology (Adam Safron)

June 2018

• Information session
  • The MamaLita charity presents Food For Thought In Malawi

• Computational mind reading group
  • What are the active ingredients of successful shared remembering?

• Cognitive ageing journal club
  • Scottish Longitudinal Study

• Music, improvisation, and embodied cognition workshop
  • Interdisciplinary workshop

May 2018

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • The processing limits of Parallel Distributed Processing Models: Relational generalization and statistics independence

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Assessing systematic differences in intermodal attention in synaesthetes

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Epistemic Value in the Subpersonal Vale (Professor Rob Rupert)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • The impact of training healthcare professionals to use the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS)

April 2018

• Psychology seminar
  • Responsive support of aspirations predicts relationship growth and well-being

• Inaugural lecture: Professor Caroline Watt
  • Investigating the Impossible: The work of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Cognitive biases in the unconscious processing of emotions

March 2018

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • The competitive process in speaking: the effect of similarity in Mandarin Chinese

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Erica Consentino (University of Bochum)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar - CANCELLED
  • Combining short-term memory binding and fMRI to yield a neurocognitive neuromarker for Alzheimer Disease

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Storage and processing in working memory: Dual-task costs, prioritization, and short-term consolidation across the adult lifespan

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Cristina Borgoni (University of Bayreuth)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Predicting and perceiving magnetic north: A predictive processing account of sensory information

February 2018

• Psychology seminar
  • Ethical quiz

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • Can L2 Speakers Acquire New Morphological Distinctions? Evidence from Temporal Morphological Production in Mandarin Speakers of English
• Knowledge Exchange Learning Lunch
  • Teaching, research and public engagement (Thomas Bak and Bonnie Auyeung, PPLS Psychology)
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • The impact of age, aetiology, and cognitive reserve on the cognitive performance of frontal and posterior patients
• Twenty-eighth PPLS Interdisciplinary Seminar
  • Professor Maryellen C. MacDonald (Donald P. Hayes Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Psychology seminar
  • How language background contributes to reading difficulties and "achievement gaps"

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • Loss aversion bias is affected by L2 proficiency, not by more rational behaviour in the L2

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • "Me", "You", and "We", representations in joint action planning: Evidence from EEG

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • How to review a paper

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • Catching the Cognitive Consequences of Bilingual Language Processing on the Fly
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Liz Irvine (Cardiff University)

January 2018

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • What changes during working memory training?

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Forgetting one's own routine: Forgetting in habitual prospective memory

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Joel Anderson (University of Utrecht)

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