The Cognition Institute is pleased to announce that many of the external seminars hosted by research groups within the institute will now be taking place in a single venue – the workshop space in Link 3. The space will host weekly and monthly seminars by Transtechnology, School of Psychology, CRNS and CogNovo amongst others.
Dates and times for the confirmed talks are below:
| Date and time (location) | Speaker and talk title | Talk series |
|---|---|---|
| 22/10/2014 | Lee Hogarth (University of Exeter) - Learning mechanisms underpinning human drug dependence | Psychology |
| 22/10/2014 | The Hypnotic Image: between named emotion and affect | TransTechnology |
| 23/10/2014 | Yukie Nagai (Osaka University) - Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction | CRNS |
| 24/10/2014 | Anna Esposito (IIASS, Naples) - Socially believable behaving systems: Needs and challenges in processing social information | CRNS |
| 29/10/2014 | Jenny Thomson (University of Sheffield) - The digitization of reading development: affordances and challenges. | Psychology |
| 30/10/2014 | Duncan Williams (Plymouth University) - Biomedical Applications of Audio Technology | ICCMR |
| 03/11/2014 | David Shanks (University College London) - Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, False Negatives, and the Illusion of Unconscious Learning | CogNovo |
| 05/11/2014 | Juliane Kaminski, (University of Portsmouth) - Do dogs get the point? Dogs' understanding of human communication | Psychology |
| 12/11/2014 | Ray Norbury (University of Roehampton) | Psychology |
| 14/11/2014 | Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London) - Synaptic plasticity and its functional implications | CRNS |
| 17/11/2014 | Stefano Nolfi (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Rome) | CogNovo |
| 19/11/2014 | Bob Johnston (University of Kent) | Psychology |
| 19/11/2014 | Edenic Technologies: Machines of innocence and oblivion | TransTechnology |
| 26/11/2014 | Psychology | |
| 27/11/2014 | Aurelien Antoine (Plymouth University) - Computer-Aided Musical Composition | ICCMR |
| 01/12/2014 | Mark Runco (University of Georgia, USA) - Testing Theories of Creative Cognition with New Assessments | 01/12/2014 |
| 03/12/2014 | Harriet Over (University of York) - The origins of belonging: social motivation in young children | Psychology |
| 05/12/2014 | Shadowhand Robotics - The development of the shadowhand | CRNS |
| 08/12/2014 | Patrick Tresset (University of London) - Artistically Skilled Embodied Agents | CogNovo |
| 10/12/2014 | Bas Verplanken (University of Bath) | Psychology |
| 12/12/2014 | Anil Bharath (Imperial College London) - Image analysis and signal processing | CRNS |
| 17/12/2014 | Instrumental Recirculation: Simulating health – the very idea! | TransTechnology |
| 09/01/2015 | Adam Ponzi (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) - Edge of Chaos in the Striatum and Temporal Expectation | CRNS |
| 14/01/2015 | Rogier Kievit (University of Cambridge) - The Frontal Lobe Hypothesis Revisited: A Psychometric Approach to Neurocognitive Ageing | Psychology |
| 15/01/2015 | Alexis Kirke (Plymouth University) - Music as Computational Media | ICCMR |
| 19/01/2015 | Patrick Tresset (University of London) - Artistically Skilled Embodied Agents | CogNovo |
| 21/01/2015 | Technophillia: Technologies for the Corrupted Body | TransTechnology |
| 21/01/2015 | Gregor Hasler (University of Zurich) - Social Neuroscience and Psychiatry | Psychology |
| 28/01/2015 LINK 107 | Patti Adank (UCL) - Cognitive Neuroscience (Language) | Psychology |
| 02/02/2015 | Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh) - Predictive coding | CogNovo |
| 04/02/2015 | Martin Yeomans (University of Sussex) | Psychology |
| 11/02/2015 | Edward Braund (Plymouth University) - Bio-computer Music | ICCMR |
| 11/02/2015 | Alexandra Freund (University of Zurich) | Psychology |
| 18/02/2015 | The Opaque Lens: Affect and Subversion in Media Practices | TransTechnology |
| 18/02/2015 | Anthony McGregor (University of Durham) | Psychology |
| 25/02/2015 | Phil Higham (University of Southampton) | Psychology |
| 02/03/2015 | Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) - Personal knowledge: embodied, extended or animate? | CogNovo |
| 04/03/2015 | Wouter Poortinga (University of Cardiff) | Psychology |
| 09/03/2015 | Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo) | CogNovo |
| 11/03/2015 | Brad Love (UCL) | Psychology |
| 12/03/2015 | Nuria Bonet Filella (Plymouth University) - Sonification of Dark Matter | ICCMR |
| 18/03/2015 | Acetic Image: Technologies of Disavowal | TransTechnology |
| 18/03/2015 | Matt Davis (University of Cambridge) | Psychology |
| 25/03/2015 | Doug Martin (University of Aberdeen) | Psychology |
| 26/03/2015 | Jared Drayton (Plymouth University) - Articulatory Vocal Synthesis with Genetic Algorithms | ICCMR |
| 01/04/2015 | Duncan Williams (Plymouth University) - Biomedical Applications of Audio Technology | ICCMR |
| 03/04/2015 | Anil Seth | CRNS |
| 22/04/2015 | Facts, Concerns and Topics: Transdisciplinarity and the provisional ‘Real’ | TransTechnology |
| 20/05/2015 | "Drawing Things Together” (Latour) | TransTechnology |
| 08/06/2015 | Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo, Canada) | CogNovo |
| 15/06/2015 | Keith Sawyer (University of North Carolina) | CogNovo |
For more up-to-date information and titles/abstracts please visit the relevant research group websites: