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Events in 2015
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RTS Seminar: Dr David Andrew Green
Date: Thursday 10 December 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Title TBC
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RTS Seminar: Marcello Constantini
Speaker:Marcello ConstantiniDate: Thursday 26 November 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Title TBC
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RTS Seminar: Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Speaker:Mark DingemanseDate: Thursday 12 November 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Title TBC
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See what you hear: Constructing a representation of the world across the senses
Speaker:Uta NoppeneyDate: Thursday 5 November 2015 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmVenue: University of WarwickCategory: SeminarRoom: The Cowling Room (Social Sciences), University of Warwick To form a coherent percept of the environment the brain needs to integrate sensory signals from a common source and segregate … Continue reading See what you hear: Constructing a representation of the world across the senses
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Linking it Together: From the temporal dynamics of multisensory integration to conscious perception and creative thinking
Speaker:Sharon Zmigrod-ShafirDate: Thursday 29 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Experiencing the world in a manner that effectively integrates and intertwines the multiple streams of information coming from different sensory modalities is one of the most fundamental aspects … Continue reading Linking it Together: From the temporal dynamics of multisensory integration to conscious perception and creative thinking
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Metaperception and the Senses
Speaker:Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod)Date: Thursday 22 October 2015 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmVenue: University of WarwickCategory: SeminarRoom: S0.20 (Social Sciences), University of Warwick
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Segregation of Tactile Input Features in the Cuneate Nucleus
Speaker:Vincent HaywardDate: Thursday 15 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Our tactile perception of external objects depends on skin-object interactions. The mechanics of contact, which is to touch what light is to vision, dictates the existence of fundamental … Continue reading Segregation of Tactile Input Features in the Cuneate Nucleus
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RTS Seminar: Title TBC
Date: Thursday 1 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246
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Explorathon 2015: European Researchers’ Night
Speaker:MultipleDate: Friday 25 September 2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmVenue: Glasgow Science CentreCategory: Partner EventThe Glasgow Science Centre is hosting Explorathon 2015: European Researchers’ Night, in partnership with the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. The event will include research and discovery workshops, talks, comedy, … Continue reading Explorathon 2015: European Researchers’ Night
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Rethinking the Senses Workshop on Binding
Speaker:MultipleDate: Friday 25 September 2015 10:00 am - 6:15 pmVenue: Holden Room (Room 103)Category: Conference/WorkshopThere is a conceptual gulf between what we know of the information conveyed by neurons in sensory areas of the cortex and our subjective experience of a coherent, integrated … Continue reading Rethinking the Senses Workshop on Binding
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Perception and Cognition Workshop: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience
Speaker:MultipleDate: Tuesday 8 September 2015 9:30 am - Wednesday 9 September 2015 6:00 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: Conference/WorkshopThe Rethinking the Senses project is pleased to announce a research-intensive interdisciplinary workshop on the subject of Perception and Cognition: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience to be held on the … Continue reading Perception and Cognition Workshop: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience
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Talking Heads – Digital Portraits from the Tate Collections
Date: Monday 20 July 2015 2:00 pm - Sunday 2 August 2015 3:00 pmVenue: Not specifiedCategory: SeminarFancy a virtual visit to the Tate Britain? Why not take our Rethinking the Senses audioguided tour of a selection of the Tate’s collection and help us better understand the … Continue reading Talking Heads – Digital Portraits from the Tate Collections
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Reconciling sensory reference frames and stabilising multisensory perception
Speaker:David Aagten-MurphyDate: Thursday 2 July 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 As we move through our environment we experience a singular, stable and multisensory representation of our surroundings. This percept requires the dynamic realignment of head-centered auditory and eye-centered … Continue reading Reconciling sensory reference frames and stabilising multisensory perception
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Plasticity of the Social Brain: From Training the Mind and Heart to a more Caring Society
Speaker:Tania SingerDate: Wednesday 10 June 2015 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Partner EventRoom 349, Third Floor In the last decades our society has faced many global problems both on the macro- as well as individual level that call for new solutions and … Continue reading Plasticity of the Social Brain: From Training the Mind and Heart to a more Caring Society
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Glasgow Science Festival: Vision, Perception, and Illusion
Speaker:Prof Colin Blakemore, Prof Fiona MacphersonDate: Monday 8 June 2015 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmVenue: Glasgow UniversityCategory: Partner EventTalk by Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Fiona Macpherson on ‘Vision, Perception, and Illusion’ as part of the 2015 Glasgow Science Festival. Human vision feels like a seamless, real-time video stream. … Continue reading Glasgow Science Festival: Vision, Perception, and Illusion
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Glasgow Science Festival: The Value of Suffering
Speaker:Prof Michael BradyDate: Sunday 7 June 2015 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmVenue: Glasgow UniversityCategory: Partner EventTalk by Professor Michael Brady on what is ‘The Value of Suffering’ as part of the 2015 Glasgow Science Festival. It is widely agreed that suffering is bad: we have … Continue reading Glasgow Science Festival: The Value of Suffering
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Glasgow Science Festival: The Perfect Meal
Speaker:Prof Charles SpenceDate: Sunday 7 June 2015 5:00 pm - 6:30 pmVenue: Glasgow UniversityCategory: Partner EventTalk by Professor Charles Spence on what constitutes ‘The Perfect Meal, as part of the 2015 Glasgow Science Festival. Picnic in a summer meadow or fish and chips by … Continue reading Glasgow Science Festival: The Perfect Meal
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A Multisensory Look on Distractor Processing
Speaker:Christian FringsDate: Thursday 4 June 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Traditionally distracting stimuli are seen as something that hinders efficient behavior (the selective attention approach). Yet, recent research suggests a different look on distractors, namely distractor-based retrieval of … Continue reading A Multisensory Look on Distractor Processing
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Rethinking Joint Attention: Lessons from Deafblindness
Speaker:María NúñezDate: Thursday 28 May 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Joint Attention (JA) is a milestone in human communication that typically appears in the first year of life. Communication in JA serves as a developmental platform for a … Continue reading Rethinking Joint Attention: Lessons from Deafblindness
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Multisensory Integration and Neural Oscillations: Evidence from Clinical, Pain-related, and Audiovisual Perception Studies
Speaker:Daniel SenkowskiDate: Thursday 14 May 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Neural oscillations play an important role in the processing of sensory information, and an increasing body of literature has suggested an involvement of neural oscillations in multisensory integration. … Continue reading Multisensory Integration and Neural Oscillations: Evidence from Clinical, Pain-related, and Audiovisual Perception Studies
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Sensation of Movement
Speaker:VariousDate: Friday 1 May 2015 9:00 am - 6:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: Partner EventVenue: Room G34 (Gordon Room), Ground Floor, Senate House. This is a one-day workshop organised by Mark Schram Christiansen and Thor Grünbaum (University of Copenhagen) in collaboration with the Rethinking the … Continue reading Sensation of Movement
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Expecting the World: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Speaker:Andy ClarkDate: Thursday 30 April 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Perception, according to an emerging vision in computational and cognitive neuroscience, depends heavily on prediction. Rich, world-revealing perception of the kind we humans enjoy occurs, these stories suggest, … Continue reading Expecting the World: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
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Eating Well: Experience and Value in Meals
Speaker:MultipleDate: Friday 27 March 2015 10:00 am - 6:00 pmCategory: Partner EventAt this interdisciplinary workshop researchers and practitioners will share diverse expertise relevant to what is at stake when people gather to eat. A tremendously rich set of factors converge in … Continue reading Eating Well: Experience and Value in Meals
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Temporal recalibration of sensory signals: A time machine in the brain
Speaker:Jordi NavarraDate: Thursday 26 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Our everyday experience tells us that multisensory information from the same event shares a single time. However, various physical circumstances (for instance, the fact that light and sound … Continue reading Temporal recalibration of sensory signals: A time machine in the brain
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Unconscious cross-modal associative learning: A challenge for integration theories of consciousness
Speaker:Ron ChrisleyDate: Thursday 19 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 Several leading theories of consciousness, including Global Workspace Theory, claim that a central function of consciousness is to permit the integration of information from different functional regions, such … Continue reading Unconscious cross-modal associative learning: A challenge for integration theories of consciousness
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Bob Kentridge (Durham)
Speaker:Bob KentridgeDate: Monday 16 March 2015 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmVenue: University of GlasgowCategory: SeminarBob Psychology Seminar Room 511, 58 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB Title tbc
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Bálint’s Syndrome and the Structure of Visual Experience
Speaker:Craig FrenchDate: Thursday 12 March 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmVenue: University of WarwickCategory: SeminarRoom H0.02, Humanities Building Does the visual perception of objects require visual space perception – the perception of space itself? The idea that object seeing requires the perception of space … Continue reading Bálint’s Syndrome and the Structure of Visual Experience
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Two Legs, Two Hands, One Head, Who Am I?
Speaker:Henrik EhrssonDate: Thursday 5 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 Ask any child if his hands belong to him and the answer will be “Of course!” But how does the brain actually identify its own body? Henrik Ehrsson … Continue reading Two Legs, Two Hands, One Head, Who Am I?
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Space, Time and Molyneux’s Question
Speaker:Louise RichardsonDate: Thursday 26 February 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmVenue: University of WarwickCategory: SeminarRoom H0.02, Humanities Building Whatever the answer to Molyneux’s question is, it is certainly not obvious that the answer is ‘yes’. In contrast, it seems clear that we should answer … Continue reading Space, Time and Molyneux’s Question
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The multisensory bodily self
Speaker:Jane AspellDate: Thursday 19 February 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 243 How does a brain generate a self? Growing evidence supports the theory that the most basic foundation of self-consciousness is the brain’s representation of the body. The brain … Continue reading The multisensory bodily self
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Multimodal Sensory Individuals
Speaker:Bence NanayDate: Thursday 5 February 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmVenue: University of WarwickCategory: SeminarRoom F1.11 (Engineering) I am looking at my really loud coffee machine. When I do this, I am attributing properties (of, say, being black) to some kind of entity visually … Continue reading Multimodal Sensory Individuals
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Time, Light and the Nature of Conscious Vision
Speaker:Christopher TylerDate: Thursday 29 January 2015 12:30 pm - 1:45 pmVenue: Senate HouseCategory: SeminarRoom 246 This lecture will take a large-scope view of the field of vision, which has always had a significant place in the history of philosophy. Lucretius in the early … Continue reading Time, Light and the Nature of Conscious Vision