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Events in 2015

• RTS Seminar: Dr David Andrew Green

  Date: Thursday 10 December 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 246 Title TBC

• RTS Seminar: Marcello Constantini

  Speaker:Marcello Constantini

  Date: Thursday 26 November 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 246 Title TBC

• RTS Seminar: Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck, Nijmegen, Netherlands)

  Speaker:Mark Dingemanse

  Date: Thursday 12 November 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 246 Title TBC

• See what you hear: Constructing a representation of the world across the senses

  Speaker:Uta Noppeney

  Date: Thursday 5 November 2015 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Venue: University of Warwick

  Category: Seminar

  Room: 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 →

• Linking it Together: From the temporal dynamics of multisensory integration to conscious perception and creative thinking

  

  Speaker:Sharon Zmigrod-Shafir

  Date: Thursday 29 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Metaperception and the Senses

  Speaker:Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod)

  Date: Thursday 22 October 2015 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Venue: University of Warwick

  Category: Seminar

  Room: S0.20 (Social Sciences), University of Warwick

• Segregation of Tactile Input Features in the Cuneate Nucleus

  

  Speaker:Vincent Hayward

  Date: Thursday 15 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• RTS Seminar: Title TBC

  Date: Thursday 1 October 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 246

• Explorathon 2015: European Researchers’ Night

  

  Speaker:Multiple

  Date: Friday 25 September 2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

  Venue: Glasgow Science Centre

  Category: Partner Event

  The 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 →

• Rethinking the Senses Workshop on Binding

  Speaker:Multiple

  Date: Friday 25 September 2015 10:00 am - 6:15 pm

  Venue: Holden Room (Room 103)

  Category: Conference/Workshop

    There 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 →

• Perception and Cognition Workshop: Top-Down Influences in Perceptual Experience

  Speaker:Multiple

  Date: Tuesday 8 September 2015 9:30 am - Wednesday 9 September 2015 6:00 pm

  Venue: University of Glasgow

  Category: Conference/Workshop

  The 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 →

• Talking Heads – Digital Portraits from the Tate Collections

  Date: Monday 20 July 2015 2:00 pm - Sunday 2 August 2015 3:00 pm

  Venue: Not specified

  Category: Seminar

  Fancy 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 →

• Reconciling sensory reference frames and stabilising multisensory perception

  

  Speaker:David Aagten-Murphy

  Date: Thursday 2 July 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Plasticity of the Social Brain: From Training the Mind and Heart to a more Caring Society

  Speaker:Tania Singer

  Date: Wednesday 10 June 2015 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Partner Event

  Room 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 →

• Glasgow Science Festival: Vision, Perception, and Illusion

  

  Speaker:Prof Colin Blakemore, Prof Fiona Macpherson

  Date: Monday 8 June 2015 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Venue: Glasgow University

  Category: Partner Event

    Talk 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 →

• Glasgow Science Festival: The Value of Suffering

  

  Speaker:Prof Michael Brady

  Date: Sunday 7 June 2015 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

  Venue: Glasgow University

  Category: Partner Event

    Talk 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 →

• Glasgow Science Festival: The Perfect Meal

  

  Speaker:Prof Charles Spence

  Date: Sunday 7 June 2015 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

  Venue: Glasgow University

  Category: Partner Event

    Talk 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 →

• A Multisensory Look on Distractor Processing

  

  Speaker:Christian Frings

  Date: Thursday 4 June 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Rethinking Joint Attention: Lessons from Deafblindness

  

  Speaker:María Núñez

  Date: Thursday 28 May 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Multisensory Integration and Neural Oscillations: Evidence from Clinical, Pain-related, and Audiovisual Perception Studies

  

  Speaker:Daniel Senkowski

  Date: Thursday 14 May 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Sensation of Movement

  Speaker:Various

  Date: Friday 1 May 2015 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Partner Event

  Venue: 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 →

• Expecting the World: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

  

  Speaker:Andy Clark

  Date: Thursday 30 April 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Eating Well: Experience and Value in Meals

  

  Speaker:Multiple

  Date: Friday 27 March 2015 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

  Venue: MS.04 (Maths and Statistics Building)

  Category: Partner Event

  At 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 →

• Temporal recalibration of sensory signals: A time machine in the brain

  

  Speaker:Jordi Navarra

  Date: Thursday 26 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Unconscious cross-modal associative learning: A challenge for integration theories of consciousness

  

  Speaker:Ron Chrisley

  Date: Thursday 19 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Bob Kentridge (Durham)

  Speaker:Bob Kentridge

  Date: Monday 16 March 2015 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

  Venue: University of Glasgow

  Category: Seminar

  Bob Psychology Seminar Room 511, 58 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB Title tbc

• Bálint’s Syndrome and the Structure of Visual Experience

  Speaker:Craig French

  Date: Thursday 12 March 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

  Venue: University of Warwick

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Two Legs, Two Hands, One Head, Who Am I?

  

  Speaker:Henrik Ehrsson

  Date: Thursday 5 March 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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? →

• Space, Time and Molyneux’s Question

  Speaker:Louise Richardson

  Date: Thursday 26 February 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

  Venue: University of Warwick

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• The multisensory bodily self

  Speaker:Jane Aspell

  Date: Thursday 19 February 2015 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Multimodal Sensory Individuals

  Speaker:Bence Nanay

  Date: Thursday 5 February 2015 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

  Venue: University of Warwick

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

• Time, Light and the Nature of Conscious Vision

  

  Speaker:Christopher Tyler

  Date: Thursday 29 January 2015 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

  Venue: Senate House

  Category: Seminar

  Room 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 →

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