Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018-19
Welcome to our Autumn Seminar Series 2018-19
All seminars will take place on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, starting at 12.00pm and concluding by 12.50pm or shortly afterwards unless otherwise indicated.
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The seminar programme found below can be downloaded from this page (please see the 'Downloads' box to the right hand side) or by contacting Liz Carl (liz.carl@sheffield.ac.uk).
| Date |
Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| 28.9.18 | Professor Guy Doron | Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel | "Relationship obsessive compulsive disorder (ROCD) and what it taught us about obsessive compulsive phenomena" |
Dr Jaime Delgadillo |
| 5.10.18 | Dr Julia Foecker | University of Lincoln | Neural bases of enhanced attentional control: Lessons from action video game players | Dr Claudia von Bastian |
| 12.10.18 | Dr Rory Devine | University of Birmingham | "Executive Function in Early Childhood: Predictors and Consequence" | Dr Emma Blakey |
| 19.10.18 | Professor Elizabeth Sheppard | University of Nottingham | "Cross-cultural effects on driver cognition: studies in the UK and Malaysia" | Dr Richard Rowe |
| 26.10.18 | Dr Kristine Beaulieu | University of Leeds | "Physical activity and appetite: sedentariness weakens control" | Dr Nicola Buckland |
| 2.11.18 | Dr Francesco Sella | Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield | "Young children make sense of numbers" | Dr Dan Carroll |
| 16.11.18 | Dr Anna Weighall | School of Education, University of Sheffield | "The role of sleep in cognitive development" | Dr Richard Rowe |
| 23.11.18 | Professor Nicholas Holmes | University of Nottingham | "Tickling the body & the brain: Using magnetic stimulation to interfere with touch" | Dr Hannes Saal |
| 30.11.18 | Dr Jim Grange | Keele University | "What role for inhibition in task switching?" | Dr Tom Stafford |
| 7.12.18 | Dr Craig Hedge | Cardiff University | "Crossing the desert: Translating experimental tasks to the study of individual differences" | Dr Claudia von Bastian |