Past events

December 2021

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Seeing Things As They Are is Seeing Things As They Could Be (Jessie Munton)

November 2021

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • What does a cognitive neuroscientist do when the scanners are closed? (Edward Silson - online)
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Rules, Judgement and Mechanisation (Mazviita Chirimuuta)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Explaining interpersonal and diachronic differences in self-control (Polaris Koi)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Active causal structure learning in continuous time (Tia Gong - online)
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Cumulative Culture and Cognitive Novelties (Andrew Buskell)

October 2021

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Two paths to scepticism about animal consciousness (Jonathan Birch)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Can Cognition Influence Perception? Insights from Colour Categorisation (Jasna Martinovic - online)
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Animal Culture and Animal Welfare (Kristin Andrews)

July 2021

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • The Anatomy of Autism: Chandelier cells (Professor Verónica Martínez Cerdeño - online)

May 2021

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • How Linguistic Framing Shapes Socially Charged Inferences: Labels, Syntax, and Pragmatic Reasoning (Kevin J. Holmes - online)

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Adopting a neuroscientific perspective in the study of creativity (Anna Abraham - online)

• Language evolution seminar
  • Cultural Evolutionary Psychology (Cecilia Heyes - online)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Talk about brains, but don’t make it scary: introducing neuroscience ideas as part of a primary school resource pack about neurodiversity (Alyssa M. Alcorn - online)

April 2021

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Variability in Bilingual Language Brokering Experiences Affects Decision-Making Strategies (Belem Lopez - online)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Bilingualism in autism: What about social processes? (Bérengère Digard - online)

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Re-biologizing cognition (Terence Deacon - online)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Super-Recognizers: Individual differences and mechanisms underlying superior face (re)cognition (Meike Ramon - online)

February 2021

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • What can you learn if you have semantic dementia? (Paul Hoffman - online)

January 2021

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Sampled testing delays forgetting of unsampled items in both younger and older adults (Andreea Stamate - online)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Relating conceptual structure with flexible concept use (Sarah Solomon - online)

December 2020

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • WoMAAC - Working Memory Across the Adult Lifespan: Adversarial Collaboration (Professor Robert Logie - online)

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Developing a Theory of Mind: Insights from Pediatric Neuroimaging Studies (Hilary Richardson - online)

November 2020

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • The problem of power in single-case neuropsychology (Robert McIntosh - online)

• Human cognitive neuroscience seminar
  • Everything you wanted to know about publications, and never dared asking (Sergio Della Sala - online)

August 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • A Meshy Exchange: Thinking and Performance in Conversation (Shaun Gallagher - online)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Towards a variational ecology: Multi-scale active inference (Maxwell Ramstead - online)

July 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Cognitive Agency and its Feelings (Joëlle Proust - online)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Metacognitive Model of Epistemic Curiosity (Janet Metcalfe - online)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Virtual Science Through Virtual Being on Mars (John Vervaeke - online)

June 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Metacognition and Conceptual Change (Joulia Smortchkova - online)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Hacking the Predictive Brain (Andy Clark - online)

May 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • What could cognition be, if not human cognition? (Carrie Figdor - online)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Cognition in the (not so) Wild: Creativity, Experimentation and the Nature of Embodied Thinking (Michael Wheeler - online)

April 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • POSTPONED until further notice

March 2020

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Psycholinguistics coffee
  • Allomorphic factors in lexical processing (Itamar Kastner - online)
• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • POSTPONED until further notice

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • POSTPONED until further notice

February 2020

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Positioning teleology in relation to belief-desire psychology (Eva Rafteseder)

• PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
  • Visual illusions in schizophrenia and the rationality of perception (Matteo Colombo)

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Comparing human and computer 'perception' of faces (Peter Hancock)

January 2020

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Postponed until further notice.

• Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk
  • Can humans simulate talking like other humans? (Liz Stokoe)

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