School of Psychology - ColloquiumTalks

Semester 2: 2008

Wednesday 26^th November: 11am, Room 2.33
John Dunn (Psychology, University of Adelaide) (Host: Steve Lewandowsky)
Title TBA

Thursday 27^th November: 2pm, Room 2.33
Dorothy Bishop (Psychology, UWA) (Host: Mike Anderson)
“Insights into cerebral lateralization from use of functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound”

Tues Dec 9, 11am
Donna Bayliss (Psychology, UWA) (host: Murray Maybery)
TBA

All talks are in room 2.33 Nth Block.

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Semester 1: 2008

Thurs Feb 7, 11am

Kimron Shapiro (University of Wales, Bangor)

The Functional Architecture of Divided Attention

Thurs Feb 7, noon

Jane Raymond (University of Wales, Bangor)

Interactions of selective visual attention and emotion

Tues March 11, 11am

Harold Rosenberg (Bowling Green State University)

Direct and indirect assessment of alcohol and drug craving

Tues March 18, 11am

Bundy Mackintosh (University of East Anglia and MRC Cognition & Brain

Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK)

Learning to look on the bright side of life: Influencing emotional vulnerability by “training” cognitive biases

Tues March 25, 11am

Alexandra Hogan (University College London Institute of Child Health)

Hypoxia: An Acute, Intermittent and Chronic Challenge to Neurocognitive

Development

Tues April 29, 11am

Sarah Dunlop (Animal Behaviour, University of Western Australia)

Training to restore function after CNS and PNS injury: molecules to

Behaviour

Tues May 20, 11am

SPECIAL EVENT – EPC STUDENT PRIZE-WINNING TALKS

Renita Almeida (Psychology, University of Western Australia)

A new step towards understanding Embedded Figures Test performance in the Autism spectrum

(Co-authors: Edwin J. Dickinson1, Murray Maybery1, Johanna C. Badcock2 &

David Badcock1 - 1Psychology, UWA, 2CCRN, Graylands Hospital)

Hanne Lie (Psychology & Animal Biology, University of Western Australia)

More than just a pretty face? Male averageness and female symmetry signal genetic quality

(Co-authors: Gillian Rhodes1 & Leigh W. Simmons1,2 - 1Psychology, 2Animal

Behaviour, UWA)

Tues May 27, 11am

Marianne Peters (Animal Behaviour, University of Western Australia)

Male secondary sexual traits and human mate choice

Tues June 10, 11am

Marie-Jose Van Tol (University of Leiden & University of Amsterdam)

fMRI correlates of executive functioning in depression

Tues June 24, 11am

Tom Johnstone (University of Reading)

Prefrontal regulation of the emotional brain: findings in depressed and health subjects from neuroimaging and psychophysiology

Tues July 8, 11am

Nic Fay (Psychology, University of Western Australia)

The interactive evolution of communication systems: process and fitness

All talks are in room 2.33 Nth Block.