Psychology
Research Seminars Archive 2008
Please see below information and abstracts from our 2008 Colloquium Series. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the 2008 Colloquium Series Coordinator, Prof Andrew Heathcote.
Information about current year activities can be found in the Colloquium Series page. Visitors are welcome and anyone is invited to subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular announcements about upcoming events.
Semester 1 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | VC Video/ Abstract |
| 24 Jan | Birte U. Forstmann Amsterdam Center for the study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behaviour Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Individual Differences in Cognitive Control revealed by Model-driven fMRI | abstract |
| 6 Mar | Prof Marc Bekoff University of Colorado |
Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature | |
| 13 Mar | Scott Brown QEII Fellow, University of Newcastle & Mark Steyvers Assoc. Prof., University of California, Irvine |
Detecting and Predicting Changes | abstract |
| 20 Mar | Chris J Jackson School of Organisation and Management, UNSW |
Emerging New Models Of Personality Research | |
| 27 Mar | Dr Osvaldo Rosso | New results in the quantification of EEG time series | abstract |
| 3 Apr | Prof Andrew Heathcote School of Psychology |
Controlling Speed and Accuracy in Task Switching | abstract |
| 10 Apr | Dr Blake Johnson Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University |
How do we imagine a rotation? Brain mechanisms for thinking in space? | abstract |
| FYI 4pm Friday April 11th the School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar in MS202: Professor Margaret Morris, Professor of Pharmacology from the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, will be giving a presentation entitled "Brain, Appetite and Obesity - What are the Drivers and Consequences of Over-Consumption?" |
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| 1 May | Prof Sheryl Sorby Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA |
Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for Engineering Students (A Carrick Competitive Grant Initiative with the School of Architecture and the Built Environment) |
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| 8 May | A/Prof Ross Cunnington University of Queensland |
The mirror system and the processing of observed actions | abstract |
| 15 May | Dr Christopher Dayas School of Biomedical Sciences |
Elucidating the brain circuitry that controls drug relapse | abstract |
| 22 May | Dr Adrian Dunlop Drug and Alcohol Clinical Services, Hunter New England Area Health Service |
A place for the qualitative approach in addiction research methodology | abstract |
| 29 May | Dr Liz Milward and Dr Dan Johnstone School of Biomedical Sciences |
Iron and The Brain | abstract |
| 5 Jun | Dr Carmel Loughland SRI, HMRI and Faculty of Medicine and Population Health |
Facing the challenges of schizophrenia: Visuo-cognitive and emotion processing deficits and their impact on social function | abstract |
| 20 Jun FRIDAY |
Marko Wilke University Children's Hospital and Radiological Clinic, Tuebingen, Germany |
Language-fMRI in children: issues and opportunities | abstract |
| 25 Jun WEDNESDAY 3-4pm |
A/Prof Deanna Barch Washington University |
Schizophrenia: Losing Control Over Thoughts, Memories and Emotions | vc video abstract |
| 26 Jun | Prof Todd Braver Washington University |
Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control | vc video abstract |
Semester 2 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | VC Video/ Abstract |
| 17 Jul | Prof Jay Myung Ohio State University |
Bayesian optimal experimental designs for model discrimination | abstract |
| 24 Jul | Prof Sally Redman Sax Institute |
Evidence Based Health Policy | abstract |
| 31 Jul | Kyp Kypri School of Medicine and Public Health |
A Phases of Research approach to health problems: the case of university student hazardous drinking | abstract |
| 7 Aug | Rob Sanson-Fisher School of Medicine and Public Health |
Meeting the psycho-social needs of cancer patients | abstract |
| 14 Aug | Dr Linda Campbell Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health |
Introducing Velo-cardio-facial syndrome: Making sense of a complex disorder | |
| 21 Aug | Prof Brian Kelly Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health |
Mental Health and Rural Communities: An Overview and current research directions | abstract |
| 28 Aug | Dr Juanita Todd School of Psychology |
Ear/Hemisphere asymmetries in central sound processing: Why do we have them? Do we lose them? What does this mean? | abstract |
| 4 Sep | Dr Jonson Moyle James Fletcher Hospital |
Neuroanatomical localisation of event-related potentials in adults with Phenylketonuria | vc video abstract |
| 5 Sep FRIDAY |
Prof Bill Stell University of Calgary, Canada |
COMBINED SPECIAL SEMINAR: Glucagon and Myopia |
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| 11 Sep | Dr Aarti Iyer | Identity in flux: Change in social identities and implications for well being | abstract |
| 18 Sep | Prof Patrick Heaven University of Wollongong |
Turning out the way we do: trajectories of development in adolescence | vc video abstract |
| 25 Sep | Dr Stuart Johnstone University of Wollongong |
Attention, inhibition and cognitive training in children with AD/HD | vc video abstract |
| 16 Oct | Dr Ullrich Ecker | Familiarity decomposed - Feature binding, perceptual, and conceptual processing in recognition memory | abstract |
| 23 Oct | Dr Renate Thienel | Pharmacological modulation during fMRI: muscarinic and nicotinic proportions of attention - Implications for new Treatments for Schizophrenia | vc video abstract |
| 30 Oct | Dr Eric J. Vanman University of Queensland |
The Role of the Body in Forming Prejudices to Real and Artificial Social Groups | vc video abstract |
| 6 Nov | Dr Barbara Masser University of Queensland |
Bad woman, bad victim? Disentangling & diluting the effects of stereotypes on judgments in acquaintance rape cases | vc video abstract |
