Psychology Colloquia 2012

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Colloquia are presented either by local speakers or by visiting speakers. Each visiting speaker has a local host; this is the person to contact if you would like an appointment with a visiting speaker.

Click on a colloquium title for more information about its topic and speaker.

Date	Presenter	Seminar Topic	Hosted by
9 March	Mr Brad Jack (SCU)	Binocular rivalry and the neural correlates of visual consciousness	Professor Robert O'Shea
16 March		No colloquium
23 March	Professor Robert O'Shea (SCU)	Visual perception influences treatment by health-care providers: A randomized, double-blind, simulation study	Dr Steve Provost
30 March		No colloquium
6 April	Intersession break	No colloquium
13 April	Dr Alison Bowling (SCU)	Ageing and oculomotor inhibition: Is control of saccadic eye movements related to cognition in older adults?	Desirée Kozlowski
20 April	Associate Professor Nao Tsuchiya (Monash)	Relationship between attention and consciousness	Professor Robert O'Shea
27 April	Mort Shearer	Observations and learnings from time spent volunteering in Mens Sheds and suicide prevention	Associate Professor Rick van der Zwan
4 May	Dr Jeffrey Rogers (ACU)	Attention effects of mild traumatic brain injury	Dr Jim Donnelly
11 May	Associate Professor Rick van der Zwan (SCU)	Implicit egotism and the naked ape: How non-verbal communication led to humans losing their fur	Desirée Kozlowski
		Break
22 June	Special Refugee Week Colloquium	The Australian Refugee (short) Film Festival	Dr Gail Moloney
29 June		No colloquium
6 July	Dr Mitchell Longstaff (SCU)	Did you actually see what you remember seeing? Some factors that influence eyewitness accuracy.	Desirée Kozlowski
13 July	Dr Andrew Gardner (Hunter New England Health)	Sports-related concussion: What is the current state of affairs?	Dr Jim Donnelly
20 July	Justin Gaetano (SCU)	Male bias: A perceptual electrode with which to probe the neural circuits of sex perception	Dr Anna Brooks
27 July		No colloquium
3 August	Intersession break	No colloquium
10 August	Dr Heather Winskel (SCU)	Reading in different writing systems: An introduction and some recent research	Desirée Kozlowski
17 August	Belinda Smith (SCU)	Eye-tracking as a marker for cognitive decline and as an early detector for Alzheimer's disease	Dr Alison Bowling
24 August		No Colloquium
31 August	Bill O'Hehir	Emotional responses to erectile dysfunction in rural Australian males	Dr Steve Provost
7 September	Dr Andrew Grey	The roots of compassion and its relevance for psychological therapy	Desirée Kozlowski
14 September	Emily Hindman (UNSW)	Environment and executive functioning: Are differences in task performance qualitative or quantitative?	Dr Jim Donnelly

More Information

For more information about the Psychology Colloquia please contact:
Desirée Kozlowski
Discipline of Psychology
e: desiree.kozlowski@scu.edu.au
t: +61 2 6659 3655
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Updated: 13 March 2013