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Embodiment in perception and language
Speaker:Yann CoelloDate: Thursday 11 December 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Commentator: Cressida Gaukroger (UCL) In the Research Unit in Cognitive and Affective Sciences, we have recently performed a series of psychophysical and brain imaging studies together with neuropsychological investigations … Continue reading Embodiment in perception and language
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Space (closed workshop)
Speaker:VariousDate: Friday 28 November 2014 10:00 am - 6:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Partner EventThis is a one-day closed workshop organised by project members at the University of Warwick to continue discussions begun at the ‘Spatial interactions across vision, audition, and touch: searching for … Continue reading Space (closed workshop)
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Seeing to Feel: From Sensorimotor to Social Aspects of Peripersonal Space
Speaker:Alessandro FarneDate: Thursday 27 November 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Commentator: Chiara Brozzo (Antwerp) The binding of visual information available outside the body with tactile information arising from the body surface allows for the representation of the space … Continue reading Seeing to Feel: From Sensorimotor to Social Aspects of Peripersonal Space
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What has science ever done for perception?
Speaker:Colin BlakemoreDate: Monday 24 November 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarMeeting Room, Level 6, Psychology Department
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The Hidden Senses: the secrets of taste and smell
Speaker:VariousDate: Friday 21 November 2014 2:00 pm - 8:00 pmVenue: The Dana CentreCategory: Partner EventExperience a day of activities that will challenge your understanding of your senses of taste and smell The Rethinking the Senses team will be sharing current research into multisensory interactions involving taste, … Continue reading The Hidden Senses: the secrets of taste and smell
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Body movement as a modality to express and regulate emotions in technology-mediated activity
Speaker:Nadia BerthouzeDate: Thursday 13 November 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Commentator: Marion Godman (Cambridge) The increased cost-effectiveness of technology capable of sensing body movement has led to this technology becoming more pervasive, and with it, there has been … Continue reading Body movement as a modality to express and regulate emotions in technology-mediated activity
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International Conference – Binding within and across the senses
Speaker:VariousDate: Friday 31 October 2014 9:30 am - 6:15 pmCategory: Conference/WorkshopConstructing perceptual objects: binding within and across the senses Sensory information is processed in a distributed way, not just across the senses but also within the same sense (e.g. vision). … Continue reading International Conference – Binding within and across the senses
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Natural scene statistics and other modulatory factors for multisensory integration
Speaker:Cesare PariseDate: Thursday 30 October 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarEVENT CANCELLED Room 243 Commentator: Alisa Mandrigin (Warwick & RTS project) The physical properties of the signals activating our senses are often correlated in nature; it would therefore be advantageous … Continue reading Natural scene statistics and other modulatory factors for multisensory integration
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Large distortions in the perceptual experience of locomotor space are consistent with efficient coding strategies for controlling action
Speaker:Frank DurginDate: Thursday 16 October 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Commentator: Ophelia Deroy (London & RTS project) It has long been observed that the conscious perception of locomotor space seems to be greatly distorted. Nonetheless perception provides the … Continue reading Large distortions in the perceptual experience of locomotor space are consistent with efficient coding strategies for controlling action
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What is ’embodied perception’ the embodiment of? A critical review
Speaker:Frank DurginDate: Wednesday 15 October 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarNOTE: Seminar takes place in the Murray Room, Level 4, 65 Oakfield Avenue The use of the scientific method in the study of conscious perceptual experience is intended to prevent it … Continue reading What is ’embodied perception’ the embodiment of? A critical review
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The angular expansion hypothesis of locomotor space perception
Speaker:Frank DurginDate: Monday 13 October 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarPsychology Department, Meeting Room, Level 6 Commentator: Alisa Mandrigin (Warwick & RTS project) The conscious perception of locomotor space (or action space) seems to be greatly distorted (ground distances appear … Continue reading The angular expansion hypothesis of locomotor space perception
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Explorathon
Date: Friday 26 September 2014 6:00 pm - 11:00 pmVenue: Glasgow Science CentreCategory: Partner EventExplorathon – Scotland’s first European Researchers’ Night European Researchers’ Night is an interactive celebration of research and Glasgow University is joining in by taking over the Science Centre for the … Continue reading Explorathon
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ESPP 2014 (hosted symposium)
Speaker:VariousDate: Tuesday 16 September 2014 2:15 pm - 6:45 pmCategory: Conference/WorkshopThe Rethinking the Senses team is delighted that the first workshop of the second phase of the project will be hosted as a symposium at the 22nd Annual meeting of the … Continue reading ESPP 2014 (hosted symposium)
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Moving Water
Date: Thursday 19 June 2014 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmVenue: October GalleryCategory: Partner EventAn art participation project by Sensory Sites and collaborators. Moving Water revolves around sculptural vessels that contain water. These vessels, made from sensuous materials such as glass, rawhide, metal, and … Continue reading Moving Water
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Research Day
Date: Thursday 19 June 2014 9:00 am - 5:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Conference/WorkshopThis is a 1-day closed workshop organised by the project’s five postdoctoral researchers and will provide the opportunity for students and researchers associated with our academic collaborators to share their research. … Continue reading Research Day
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Philosophical Views of Hallucination and Perception
Speaker:Fiona MacphersonDate: Wednesday 18 June 2014 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmVenue: Shoreditch Town HallCategory: Partner EventRTS co-investigator Professor Fiona Macpherson will be speaking as part of a series of talks to coincide with the exhibition Out of Our Heads. Please visit the talks section of the website … Continue reading Philosophical Views of Hallucination and Perception
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In Conversation with…
Speaker:Jenny Tillotson with Colin BlakemoreDate: Friday 30 May 2014 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmVenue: Central Saint MartinsCategory: Partner EventScentsory design® In Conversation Event E002 LVMH Lecture Theatre Dr. Jenny Tillotson, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in conversation with RTS Principal Investigator Professor Colin Blakemore. Chaired … Continue reading In Conversation with…
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Spatial interactions across vision, audition, and touch: searching for a taxonomy
Date: Friday 30 May 2014 9:00 am - 5:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Conference/WorkshopPlease note that this workshop is now full. Information about the workshop will be published online following the event. Cross-modal interactions between vision and hearing involving spatial properties occur at … Continue reading Spatial interactions across vision, audition, and touch: searching for a taxonomy
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Tasty coloured sounds: the experiences of synaesthetes
Speaker:Julia SimnerDate: Thursday 22 May 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Synaestheia is an inherited neurological condition that gives rise to a kind of ‘merging of the senses’. For example, synaesthetes might ‘see’ colours when they hear music, or … Continue reading Tasty coloured sounds: the experiences of synaesthetes
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Universal Synaesthesia
Speaker:Charles Spence & Ophelia DeroyDate: Wednesday 21 May 2014 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmVenue: The Pichette AuditoriumCategory: Partner EventSynaesthetic Thinking: The Integration of the Senses for Design Every one of us matches the senses in surprising ways. Most people think, for example, that lemons are fast, not slow, … Continue reading Universal Synaesthesia
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Timing and the senses in complex events
Speaker:Argiro VatakisDate: Thursday 8 May 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Timing and sensory processing are tightly intertwined both in terms of the integration of perceptually unified events and in terms of perceptual distortions in interval timing. In the … Continue reading Timing and the senses in complex events
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Why, and in what sense, things look different in the shade: solving the puzzle of constancy
Speaker:John O'DeaDate: Monday 24 March 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarMeeting Room, Level 6, Psychology Department I want to dispute an assumption about perceptual experience that is almost universally held but is undefended because it is unnoticed. This assumption is wreaking … Continue reading Why, and in what sense, things look different in the shade: solving the puzzle of constancy
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Visually-induced analgesia: Seeing the body reduces pain
Speaker:Matthew LongoDate: Thursday 20 March 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 In this talk, I will discuss work my colleagues and I have been conducting investigating the perceptual consequences of vision of one’s own body. In particular, I will … Continue reading Visually-induced analgesia: Seeing the body reduces pain
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Fifth Sense Launch Event – What Does Your Sense of Smell Mean to You?
Date: Saturday 15 March 2014 1:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Partner EventLocation: Macmillan Hall, Senate House Next time you tuck into a fragrant curry, sip a cup of coffee or glass of your favourite wine, or inhale a seductive perfume, consider … Continue reading Fifth Sense Launch Event – What Does Your Sense of Smell Mean to You?
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The Two Senses of Smell
Speaker:Jay Gottfried et al.Date: Friday 14 March 2014 9:30 am - 6:30 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Conference/WorkshopThis workshop is being run jointly by Rethinking the Senses and the AHRC’s Leadership Fellow’s, Professor Barry Smith, Flavour Network. Speakers include: Jay Gottfried, Juyun Lim, Sylvain Delplanque, Ron Kupers, … Continue reading The Two Senses of Smell
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What role for the distinction between the senses?
Speaker:Fiona Macpherson et al.Date: Thursday 6 March 2014 9:30 am - 6:15 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Conference/WorkshopThis workshop has now taken place. The report can be downloaded here. This workshop will ask the following key questions: 1) Does the individuation of the senses matter for scientific, … Continue reading What role for the distinction between the senses?
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Illusions of motion and their perceptual significance
Speaker:Alan JohnstonDate: Monday 24 February 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarMeeting Room, Level 6, Psychology Department The motion aftereffect and other motion adaptation effects have proved useful in uncovering the mechanisms of human motion vision. In this talk I will review … Continue reading Illusions of motion and their perceptual significance
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Music and Dance as Multisensory Perception
Speaker:Frank PollickDate: Thursday 20 February 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 I will present the results of five separate experiments where we have explored brain activity revealed by fMRI while participants watched videos of a dance performance. These performances … Continue reading Music and Dance as Multisensory Perception
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Between Multimodal Perception and Action
Speaker:Bence NanayDate: Thursday 6 February 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Seminar
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Why and how we smell, how to measure olfactory function, and how to diagnose and treat olfactory loss
Speaker:Thomas Hummel, with Barry Smith as commentatorDate: Monday 27 January 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarThomas Hummel, with Barry Smith as commentator. Why and how we smell, how to measure olfactory function, and how to diagnose and treat olfactory loss.
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See what you hear – The neural basis of audiovisual integration
Speaker:Uta NoppeneyDate: Thursday 23 January 2014 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarUta Noppeney, See what you hear – The neural basis of audiovisual integration. Room 243.