Psychology
Research Seminars 2010

Psychology Colloquium Series events are held on Thursdays from 16:00 to 17:00 in the Keats Reading Room (Lower Ground Floor, Room AVLG17, Aviation Building, Callaghan Campus) unless otherwise specified. Presentations are visible via video-conferencing link at the same time in the Ourimbah campus (Meeting Room, Science Offices, E1.32), at the Orange's Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH - Conference Room B).

If you are interested in meeting any of the speakers on the programme, please contact the speaker's local sponsor (details on right-hand side of programme) to make arrangements. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Colloquium Series Coordinator.

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2010 Program
Date Presenter/ Affiliation Title/ Topic Video/ Abstract Sponsor/ Contact
4 Mar Kylie Bailey (School of Psychology, University of Newcastle) The relationship between trauma and comorbid depression and alcohol use Abstract Rosemary Webster

Amanda Baker
11 Mar Prof Robert West (Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, England) Theory and practice of helping people change their behaviour: the case of smoking cessation Abstract
Video
 Jenny Bowman
18 Mar Prof Peter Walla
(School of Psychology, University of Newcastle)		 Neuromarketing Abstract
Video
25 Mar A/Prof Stephen Palmisano (School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia) Simulated Viewpoint Jitter Shakes Sensory Conflict Accounts of Self-motion Perception Abstract
 Stuart Marlin
1 April Dr Darryl Eyles (Neurobiology Laboratory, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia) Maternal Vitamin D deficiency; an animal model of schizophrenia Abstract
Video
 Deborah Hodgson
Recess  
15 April Prof Stephan Lewandowsky (Cognitive Science Laboratories, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia) The limits of cognition: Forgetting over the short term Abstract
Video
 Andrew Heathcote
22 Apr  Dr Stuart Marlin Wheels on a bus go round and round, but which way do they go: multiple pathways to coherent motion Abstract
29 Apr Prof Bernard Balleine (Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Australia) Choice and decision-making in the cortico-striatal network Abstract
Video
 John Prescott
6 May Dr Danielle Sulikowski (Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University, Australia) Do different cognitive systems underlie foraging for discretely versus continuously distributed resources? Abstract
Video
 Andrea Griffin
13 May Dr Darren Burke (School of Psychology, University of Newcastle) The human face as an evolved signaling system Abstract
Video
20 May *Prof Ursula Sonnewald (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) The MK-801 animal model of schizophrenia; 13C NMRS studies Abstract
Video		 Rebbekah 
Atkinson 
27 May Dr Melissa Green (School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia) Modeling shard aetiology for schizophrenia and bipolar disorders: Lessons from epidemiology, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience Abstract
Video		 Pat 
Michie 
3 June Dr Andrew Barron (Department of Brain, Behaviour & Evolution, Macquarie University, Australia) Bees crack on: honey bee responses to drugs of abuse Abstract
Video		 Darren Burke
Semester Break
29 July Prof Ottmar Lipp
(School of
Psychology,
University of
Queensland)		 Stimulus fear relevance: From animal to intergroup fear Abstract Andrea Griffin / Stefania Paolini
5 Aug Prof Nick Allen
(Psychological
Sciences and
Orygen Youth
Health Research
Centre, University of
Melbourne)		 The brains of the
family: interactions
between brain
development,
family context and
risk for adolescent
depression		 Abstract
Video		 Pat Michie
10 Aug (10:30am) Dr Rhiannon
Turner (Institute
of Psychological
Sciences, University of Leeds, UK)		 Reducing prejudice via direct, extended,
and imagined
contact		 Video Stefania Paolini
12 Aug Dr Richard
Peters (Department of Zoology, La
Trobe University)		 Evolution of
motion signals: a
lizard tale		 Abstract
Video		 Andrea Griffin
19 Aug Rohan McAdam
(School of IT,
Charles Sturt
University)		 Just do it!
Problem solving
through movement		 Andrew Heathcote
26 Aug Dr Clare Coleman
(Centre for Rural and
Remote Mental
Health, University of
Newcastle)		 The Australian
Rural Mental
Health Study - a
rural perspective
of determinants of
mental health.		 Abstract
Video
2 Sept Prof Rhoshel
Lenroot (Infant,
Child, and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University of New South Wales)		 The Journey is
the Destination:
Insights from
longitudinal studies of brain development in
psychiatric disorders		 Abstract Frini Karayanidis
9 Sept Dr Mark Rubin
(School of Psychology,
University of
Newcastle)		 Explaining Negative
Reactions Towards
Category- Inconsistent
Stimuli		 Abstract Mark Rubin
16 Sept Dr Bill Budd (School of Psychology, University of Newcastle) Time, Sound and
the Four Dimensional
Brain: Neuroimaging
Measures of Auditory
Temporal Processing
23 Sept Prof William
Petrusic (Department of Psychology,
Carleton University,
Canada)		 Confidence and Human Judgement Andrew Heathcote
Recess
14 Oct Prof Peter Lovibond (School of Psychology, University of New South Wales)
 Single versus dual-system accounts of learning: Theory, evidence and clinical implications Andrea Griffin / Stefania Paolini
21 Oct Dr Tim Karl
(NHMRC Research
Fellow, Behavioural
Neuroscience,
Neuroscience
Research Australia)		 Validity of neuregulin 1 mutant mouse
models for schizophrenia
research		 Abstract Pat Michie
28 Oct Dr Rebbekah
Atkinson
(School of Psychology,
University of
Newcastle)		 Birds, Brains and Behaviour Abstract Rebekkah Atkinson
4 Nov Dr Irene Favara
(Department of
Applied Psychology,
University of
Padova, Italy)		 The effects of
direct and indirect
intergroup contact
on the attributions
of humanity		 Stefania Paolini