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Colloquium Series 2008

The seminars provide staff and visitors to the school an opportunity to present their research to their colleagues. Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to attend.

When: Thursdays
12.00 noon – 1.00 pm
Where: Keats Reading Room (AVLG17)
Aviation Building
Attendance: Everyone Welcome
Co-Ordinator: Professor Andrew Heathcote
Timetable: Semester 1
Semester 2
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Semester 1
Date Presenter Title VC Video/
Abstract
24 Jan Birte U. Forstmann
Amsterdam Center for the study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behaviour
Universiteit van Amsterdam		 Individual Differences in Cognitive Control revealed by Model-driven fMRI abstract
6 Mar Prof Marc Bekoff
University of Colorado		 Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature abstract
13 Mar Scott Brown
QEII Fellow, University of Newcastle &
Mark Steyvers
Assoc. Prof., University of California, Irvine		 Detecting and Predicting Changes abstract
20 Mar Chris J Jackson
School of Organisation and Management, UNSW		 Emerging New Models Of Personality Research abstract
27 Mar Dr Osvaldo Rosso New results in the quantification of EEG time series abstract
3 Apr Prof Andrew Heathcote
School of Psychology		 Controlling Speed and Accuracy in Task Switching abstract
10 Apr Dr Blake Johnson
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University		 How do we imagine a rotation? Brain mechanisms for thinking in space? abstract
FYI 4pm Friday April 11th the School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar in MS202:
Professor Margaret Morris, Professor of Pharmacology from the School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales, will be giving a presentation entitled "Brain, Appetite and Obesity - What are the Drivers and Consequences of Over-Consumption?"
1 May Prof Sheryl Sorby
Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA		 Developing 3-D Spatial Skills for Engineering Students
(A Carrick Competitive Grant Initiative with the School of Architecture and the Built Environment)		 abstract
8 May A/Prof Ross Cunnington
University of Queensland		 The mirror system and the processing of observed actions abstract
15 May Dr Christopher Dayas
School of Biomedical Sciences		 Elucidating the brain circuitry that controls drug relapse abstract
22 May Dr Adrian Dunlop
Drug and Alcohol Clinical Services, Hunter New England Area Health Service		 A place for the qualitative approach in addiction research methodology abstract
29 May Dr Liz Milward and Dr Dan Johnstone
School of Biomedical Sciences		 Iron and The Brain abstract
5 Jun Dr Carmel Loughland
SRI, HMRI and Faculty of Medicine and Population Health		 Facing the challenges of schizophrenia: Visuo-cognitive and emotion processing deficits and their impact on social function abstract
20 Jun
FRIDAY		 Marko Wilke
University Children's Hospital and Radiological Clinic, Tuebingen, Germany		 Language-fMRI in children: issues and opportunities abstract
25 Jun
WEDNESDAY
3-4pm		 A/Prof Deanna Barch
Washington University		 Schizophrenia: Losing Control Over Thoughts, Memories and Emotions vc video
abstract
26 Jun Prof Todd Braver
Washington University		 Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control vc video
abstract

Semester 2
Date Presenter Title VC Video/
Abstract
17 Jul Prof Jay Myung
Ohio State University		 Bayesian optimal experimental designs for model discrimination abstract
24 Jul Prof Sally Redman
Sax Institute		 Evidence Based Health Policy abstract
31 Jul Kyp Kypri
School of Medicine and Public Health		 A Phases of Research approach to health problems: the case of university student hazardous drinking abstract
7 Aug Rob Sanson-Fisher
School of Medicine and Public Health		 Meeting the psycho-social needs of cancer patients abstract
14 Aug Dr Linda Campbell
Priority Research Centre for Brain and Mental Health		 Introducing Velo-cardio-facial syndrome: Making sense of a complex disorder abstract
21 Aug Prof Brian Kelly
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health		 Mental Health and Rural Communities: An Overview and current research directions abstract
28 Aug Dr Juanita Todd
School of Psychology		 Ear/Hemisphere asymmetries in central sound processing: Why do we have them? Do we lose them? What does this mean? abstract
4 Sep Dr Jonson Moyle
James Fletcher Hospital		 Neuroanatomical localisation of event-related potentials in adults with Phenylketonuria vc video
abstract
5 Sep
FRIDAY		 Prof Bill Stell
University of Calgary, Canada		 COMBINED SPECIAL SEMINAR:
Glucagon and Myopia		 abstract
11 Sep Dr Aarti Iyer Identity in flux: Change in social identities and implications for well being abstract
18 Sep Prof Patrick Heaven
University of Wollongong		 Turning out the way we do: trajectories of development in adolescence vc video
abstract
25 Sep Dr Stuart Johnstone
University of Wollongong		 Attention, inhibition and cognitive training in children with AD/HD vc video
abstract
16 Oct Dr Ullrich Ecker Familiarity decomposed - Feature binding, perceptual, and conceptual processing in recognition memory abstract
23 Oct Dr Renate Thienel Pharmacological modulation during fMRI: muscarinic and nicotinic proportions of attention - Implications for new Treatments for Schizophrenia vc video
abstract
30 Oct Dr Eric J. Vanman
University of Queensland		 The Role of the Body in Forming Prejudices to Real and Artificial Social Groups vc video
abstract
6 Nov Dr Barbara Masser
University of Queensland		 Bad woman, bad victim? Disentangling & diluting the effects of stereotypes on judgments in acquaintance rape cases abstract

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