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Psychology Colloquium: Seeking signatures of perceptual experience in human visual cortex. Sam Schwarzkopf, University of Auckland
Associate Professor Sam Schwarzkopf, School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of AucklandBio: Sam did a neuroscience degree at Cardiff University and subsequently decided to stay there also to do his PhD with Frank Sengpiel where he used optical imaging to investigate experience-dependent plasticity of visual cortex. Subsequently, he did a brief postdoc project at the University […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Affective Neuroscience, Professor Elaine Fox, University of Adelaide
Professor Elaine Fox, Head of School, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of AdelaideBio: Elaine Fox, PhD, is a psychologist and author and became Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia in early 2022. Originally from Dublin, most of her academic career has been in the […]
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Psychology Colloquium: The Sally Andrews Lecture on Cognitive Psychology. The magic of reading: How vision and language interact to transform inkmarks into ideas. Dr Aaron Veldre, University of Sydney & Macquarie University
Dr Aaron Veldre, Research Associate, School of Psychology, University of SydneyBio: Dr Aaron Veldre is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Psychology at The University of Sydney and the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. His research uses eye tracking, computational modelling, and behavioural paradigms to investigate the cognitive processes underlying language […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Dr Kiley Seymour: This talk will not take place as scheduled and has been postponed until 2023.
Dr Kiley Seymour, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science, Western Sydney University Bio: My research aims to advance both our basic understanding of human brain function and brain dysfunction through the development, application, and translation of innovative neuroscientific methods. I combine visual psychophysics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI and MR-Spectroscopy) to investigate the neural basis of […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Towards domain-general predictive coding: Linking motor and sensory attenuation using TMS and EEG, Dr Dominic Tran, University of Sydney
Dr Dominic Tran, University of Sydney.I will briefly discuss my DECRA application on response inhibition and then I wanted to share some exciting data recently collected in the lab on predictive coding: The brain’s response to sensory input is modulated by prediction. For example, sounds that are produced by one’s own actions, or those that […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Consent, assent, and competence determination in dementia care
Dr Hojjat Soofi, University of SydneyBio: Dr Hojjat (Hoji) Soofi is a Lecturer in Bioethics at Sydney Health Ethics (School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health). He is a pharmacist by training and an early career bioethics researcher. He received his PhD and MRes in bioethics from Macquarie University in October 2021 and […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Dr Susan Nolan: Sex, Gender Expression, and Gender Identity: Embracing Variability, Ending Discrimination, and Enhancing Psychological Well-Being
Dr Susan Nolan (Seton Hall University (USA); University of New South Wales (Australia))Bio: Susan Nolan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Seton Hall University (USA). She is Past President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Susan […]
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Psychology Colloquium: Dr Katharina Helming: Mentalizing and the problem of coordination
Dr Katharina Helming (Department of Philosophy at Leipzig University)Abstract Common knowledge, that is the ability to know things together, underlies uniquely human forms of coordination. However, there is a puzzle in the existing literature about how to characterize this kind of knowledge. Traditionally philosophers propose that common knowledge requires the ability to compute higher-orders of […]