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Departmental internal seminars

Presentations by members of staff and postgraduate students on their ongoing research.

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Archive of previous events

Tue
27
May

PhD Talks: Cognition and Emotion

Presentation 1: Negotiating complexity under threat: evidence from a virtual environment, Aaron Laycock Presentation 2: When seeing human is believing human: An adaptation of Milgram’s Cyranoids, Scarlett Syme Presentation 3: Updating, Shifting and Eye-Blink Rate in Aging: A Comparison of Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Healthy Aging (online), Evgeniadou Nena Presentation 4:  The neural mechanism behind ASMR, Josephine Flockton

Tue
20
May

PhD Talks: Memory / Cognitive Neuroscience

Presentation 1: Task Complexity and the Efficacy of Spaced Retrieval Practice, Ewan Murray Presentation 2: The Oscillatory Mechanisms Supporting the Processing of Lexically Ambiguous Words, Vanessa Keller Language contains substantial ambiguity at several linguistic levels, including sound, structure, and meaning. One type of ambiguity that is ubiquitous in English concerns the meanings of individual words, whereby a single word form (e.g., bark) can refer to multiple distinct concepts. However, when we process language during conversation and when reading texts, we do not routinely struggle to disambiguate the words we encounter and are largely unaware of the alternative possible meanings for any given word, despite psycholinguistic evidence showing that we transiently activate all available meanings. While behavioural and event-related-potential studies have mapped out the time course of the activation of available meanings during the processing of ambiguous words, to date there has been no work investigating the oscillatory dynamics underpinning that process. I will present data from an EEG study that aimed to address this gap by looking at the role of neural oscillations in the comprehension of lexical-semantic ambiguity. Our pre-registered analyses focussed on theta oscillations (~3-8 Hz), which have been implicated in lexical-semantic processing during language comprehension and are generally regarded as a signature of lexical access. Beyond language processing, theta activity has also been linked to successful memory encoding. We used an experimental design that allowed us to disentangle these two purported roles of theta, investigating on the one hand the hypothesised involvement of theta oscillations in the processing of lexical-semantic ambiguity and on the other hand addressing the prediction that increased theta activity should be associated with better memory for linguistic input. I will discuss our findings in the context of previous work from the psycholinguistic and memory literatures and consider how they inform current theories of human language comprehension. Presentation 3: The Neuromarkers of the Successful Startup Founders, Irena Danilovska

Tue
13
May

PhD Talks

Presentation 1: Mind-wandering during reading, Chen Chen Presentation 2: The impact of the semantic content of L1 and L2 maskers on L1 target transcription, Emily Rice Presentation 3: Schema-effects in Temporal Order Memory, Adam Curtis

Tue
6
May

PHD Talks: Mechanisms of Mental Health / Developmental Psychology

Anna Crossland, Hannah Kirsop, Lauren Charters, Trish Chinzara

Tue
4
Mar

Gradients of Semantic Cognition

Professor Beth Jefferies, University of York

Tue
3
Dec
Tue
5
Nov
Tue
22
Oct

Your brain without sleep: a fast-track to anxiety

Dr Scott Cairney, University of York

Tue
15
Oct
Tue
1
Oct

cancelled

cancelled

Tue
24
Sep

Prevalence of Omnicidal Tendencies

Professor Rob Jenkins, University of York

Tue
28
May

PhD Talks

Alex Mepham, Boon Toh

Tue
21
May

PhD Talks

Sophie Marshall, Charlotte Knapper

Tue
14
May

PhD Talks

Naveen Hanif, Noel Lam

Tue
30
Apr

PhD Talks

Kira Noad, Bee Quinn, Kirralise Hansford

Tue
23
Apr
Tue
9
Apr

PhD Talks

Erin Warden-English, Lydia Munns, Robert Brennan

Tue
19
Mar

The old and the new: language comprehension and recent experience

Professor Gareth Gaskell, University of York

Tue
12
Dec
Tue
5
Dec

This weeks talk has been cancelled

This weeks talk has been cancelled

Tue
28
Nov

The third visual pathway in cognition and disease

Dr David Pitcher, University of York

Tue
26
Sep

Face recognition, Individuality and ID

Professor Mike Burton, University of York

Tue
20
Jun

PhD Talks

Natasha Baxter, Daniel Rogers, Alex Mepham

Tue
30
May

PhD Talks

Federico Segala, Emily Madden, Lydia Searle

Tue
9
May

PhD Talks

Emma Sullivan, Emma Jackson

Tue
2
May

PhD Talks - Cancelled

Emily Madden, Lydia Searle

Tue
31
Jan
Tue
24
Jan

Adaptive memory processing during sleep

Dr Dan Denis, University of York

Tue
17
Jan
Tue
14
Jun

PhD Talks

Nick Souter, Emma Raat

Tue
31
May

PhD Talks

Rana Qarooni, Gabriela Epihova, Laura Vinton

Tue
17
May

PhD Talks

Delali Konu, Ximing Shao

Seminars by type

Research centre and group seminars

Psychsoc talks