All seminars take place in the departmental Lecture Theatre and start at 1.00pm, concluding by 2.00 or shortly afterwards.
Seminars are on Fridays unless otherwise indicated.
The seminar programme is below or it can be downloaded from this page (please see the 'Downloads' box to the right hand side) or by contacting Josie Cassidy (j.cassidy@sheffield.ac.uk).
To subscribe for notification of future seminars please send an email to sympa@lists.shef.ac.uk with the subject 'subscribe psy-seminars'. n.b. You do not need to do this if you are Staff or student in the Psychology Department.
Please note that the seminar details may occasionally change during the semester
12 February 2010
Prof Michael Siegal, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
"Is language the key to reasoning? Evidence from deafness, bilingualism and autism"
19 February 2010
Dr Melissa Allen, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
"How Children with Autism Understand Visual Representations"
26 February 2010
Dr Ellen Poliakoff, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
"Seeing and doing: Observing actions and affordances in Parkinson's disease"
5 March 2010
Prof Ian Deary, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
"Why do clever children live longer?"
12 March 2010
Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
“Interactions Between Cortex and Cerebellum: Anatomy, Evolution and Function”
19 March 2010
Prof Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge
“Combining Educational Neuroscience and Cognitive Developmental Psychology: The Example of Learning to Read”
16 April 2010
Dr Paul Warren, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
"Does the earth move for you? A new role for optic flow processing in the assessment of scene-relative object movement."
23 April 2010
Dr Erika Nurmsoo, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
“What children understand about the eyes: Children's developing use of gaze cues for inferring social information”
30 April 2010
Dr Kirsten McKenzie, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
“Now You Feel It Now You Don't: Investigating Illusory Touch”
7 May 2010
Dr Shiri Einav, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
"She was much closer!": Children's sensitivity to error magnitude when evaluating others”
14 May 2010
Dr Danielle Matthews, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
"Child’s talk: statistical learning from social experience"
21 May 2010
SEMINAR CANCELLED
