Past events

A list of past events in Psychology

	November 2019
01 Nov	Ethical evening An Ethical Evening: Ethical questions for psychologists
13 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Relation learning in a neurocomputational architecture supports cross-domain transfer (Alex Doumas)
15 Nov	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk Birrell Lecture (Professor Paul Fletcher, "Unshared realities: an attempt to understand psychosis")
20 Nov	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Determining the future (Matthew Soteriou)
	October 2019
09 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Varieties of conceptual change: the evolution of colour concepts (Lieven Decock)
23 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Hane Maung (University of Manchester)
	September 2019
25 Sep	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group What does Taste Represent (Louise Richardson)
27 Sep	Meet the Staff An opportunity for MSc students to learn who’s who and who does what research in Psychology at Edinburgh
	June 2019
12 Jun	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group The Broken Window Transparency and Loss of Self in Depersonalisation and Meditation (Anna Ciaunica)
24 - 25	Lexical Flexibility (external website) Workshop: Perspectives on lexical semantics and polysemy
	May 2019
15 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Can the body tell its own tale? Phenomenology of the body and interoception (Helena de Preester)
20 May	Psychology seminar The Parent-Infant Neural Connection and Early Learning
30 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Workshop: Mental Action and the Phenomenology of Cognition
31 May	Andy Clark and Critics Conference (external website)
	April 2019
03 Apr	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar CANCELLED
17 Apr	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar CANCELLED
	March 2019
06 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Investigating the relationship between apathy subtypes, quality of life, wellbeing and burden in motor neurone disease PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Transformative embodiment and the self - Why you are and aren't your body (Miriam Kyselo)
08 Mar	Ethical evening An Ethical Evening: Ethical questions for psychologists
15 Mar	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk Ways of Thinking: From Crows To Children And Back Again (Nicola Clayton, FRS)
20 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar CANCELLED PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group The Unusual Suspects: the Role of Literature, Art and History in Cognitive Theory (Mike Wheeler)
22 Mar	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk "Computer: Resume program". How chimpanzees navigate virtual space (Josep Call)
27 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar CANCELLED
	February 2019
05 Feb	Special Event/Talk (external website) Precognition: From Life to Lab (Professor Caroline Watt)
06 Feb	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Bounded learning as active exploration in the world and in the mind
13 Feb	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Exploring factors affecting magnitude of minimal interference benefits to long-term memory retention PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Hearts and Minds: Hidden impacts on emotion and cognition (Sarah Garkinkel)
20 Feb	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Being Moved by Core Affect: Generalized Approach/Avoidance Responses of Unconscious Affective Stimuli
22 Feb	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar (Special Guest Talk) Dissociable neural information dynamics for conscious contents and cognitive control (Andrés Canales-Johnson)
27 Feb	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Psychopathology, Interpersonal Experience, and the Sense of Reality (Matthew Ratcliffe)
	January 2019
23 Jan	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Still Happily Entangled (Mark Miller)
	December 2018
05 Dec	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Nicolas Pillaud (Université de Bordeaux)
	November 2018
07 Nov	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Working memories: Ambling and stumbling towards the multicomponent model PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Frank Schumann and Steve Torrance
09 Nov	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk David C. Geary, “The Evolution of Vulnerability”
14 Nov	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Faith in thy threshold: An investigation of the decision making processes of jurors
15-16 Nov	Rethinking, Reworking, and Revolutionising The Turing Test (external website) Interdisciplinary Conference 2018
21 Nov	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)
30 Nov	Cognitive Science talk Music first: hunter-gatherer ethnography and the evolution of language (Jerome Lewis)
	October 2018
05 Oct	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk Kathy Rastle, “Ending the Reading Wars”
08 Oct	Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk Naomi Wray, "Genetics of depression: the ups and downs"
10 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Maja Spener (University of Birmingham)
17 Oct	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Will Davies (University of Birmingham)
24 Oct	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Cognitive offloading: Why digital memory is bad for your brain
31 Oct	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Assessing long-term forgetting of verbal material in healthy populations and Alzheimer disease
	September 2018
26 Sep	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group What do you get if you add many babies to philosophy? (Suilin Lavelle)
28 Sep	Meet the Staff An opportunity for MSc students to learn who’s who and who does what research in Psychology at Edinburgh
	August 2018
03 Aug	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
31 Aug	PsychStatsBanter Gathering What is Wrong with Cronbach’s Alpha and What to Use Instead
	July 2018
24 Jul	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Radical Embodiment, Consciousness, and the Cybernetic Bayesian Brain: Towards Teleology (Adam Safron)
	June 2018
05 Jun	Information session The MamaLita charity presents Food For Thought In Malawi
13 Jun	Computational mind reading group What are the active ingredients of successful shared remembering?
18 Jun	Cognitive ageing journal club Scottish Longitudinal Study
27 Jun	Music, improvisation, and embodied cognition workshop Interdisciplinary workshop
	May 2018
03 May	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar The processing limits of Parallel Distributed Processing Models: Relational generalization and statistics independence
10 May	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Assessing systematic differences in intermodal attention in synaesthetes
15 May	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Epistemic Value in the Subpersonal Vale (Professor Rob Rupert)
17 May	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar The impact of training healthcare professionals to use the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS)
	April 2018
06 Apr	Psychology seminar Responsive support of aspirations predicts relationship growth and well-being
25 Apr	Inaugural lecture: Professor Caroline Watt Investigating the Impossible: The work of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit
26 Apr	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Cognitive biases in the unconscious processing of emotions
	March 2018
07 Mar	Psycholinguistics coffee The competitive process in speaking: the effect of similarity in Mandarin Chinese
14 Mar	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Erica Consentino (University of Bochum)
15 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar - CANCELLED Combining short-term memory binding and fMRI to yield a neurocognitive neuromarker for Alzheimer Disease
22 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Storage and processing in working memory: Dual-task costs, prioritization, and short-term consolidation across the adult lifespan
28 Mar	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Cristina Borgoni (University of Bayreuth)
29 Mar	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Predicting and perceiving magnetic north: A predictive processing account of sensory information
	February 2018
02 Feb	Psychology seminar Ethical quiz
07 Feb	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)
08 Feb	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)
09 Feb	Psychology seminar How language background contributes to reading difficulties and "achievement gaps"
14 Feb	Psycholinguistics coffee Loss aversion bias is affected by L2 proficiency, not by more rational behaviour in the L2
15 Feb	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar "Me", "You", and "We", representations in joint action planning: Evidence from EEG
21 Feb	Psycholinguistics coffee How to review a paper
28 Feb	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
11 Jan	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar What changes during working memory training?
18 Jan	Human cognitive neuroscience seminar Forgetting one's own routine: Forgetting in habitual prospective memory
24 Jan	PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group Joel Anderson (University of Utrecht)

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