Psychology Colloquia 2010

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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
5 March	Dr Alex Holcombe (U Sydney)	What is where when? Timing visual perception	Robert O'Shea
12 March	Dr Urte Roeber (U Leipzig)	It does not take much to be distracted	Robert O'Shea
19 March	Dr Katarina Fritzon (Bond U)	Burning desires: Why do people set fires?	Jacqui Yoxall
26 March	A/Prof Jeff Nelson (SCU)	Executive functioning: The "High Priestess" of cognition or reductionism gone mad? When theory and assessment conflict.	Jim Donnelly
2 April		Good Friday
9 April		Intersession break
16 April	Dr Jim Donnelly (SCU)	Mild traumatic brain injury: Do bumps on the head lead to bumps in the road	Robert O'Shea
23 April	Dr Larry Abel (U Melbourne)	Internal states and eye movement behaviour	Alison Bowling
30 April	Prof Jason Mattingley (U Queensland)	Actions speak louder than words: Interactions between observed and executed motor behaviours in humans	Anna Brooks
7 May		No colloquium
14 May	Dr Anna Brooks (SCU)	Sex cells and perceptual 'tells': How human observers identify women and men	Rick van der Zwan
21May	Tara Kocek (SCU)	The influence of executive function on externalising and internalising problem behaviours in middle childhood	Jim Donnelly
2 July	Professor William Noble (UNE)	Impaired hearing understood using intensive self-report	Mitchell Longstaff
16 July	Professor Gillian Finchilescu (University of the Witwatersrand)	Contact and inter-racial relations in South Africa	Gail Moloney
30 July	Desirée Kozlowski (SCU)	The effects of 'small pleasures' for residents of aged care facilities	Rick van der Zwan
27 August	Dr John Haw (SCU)	Improving psychological critical thinking in Australian university students	Steve Provost
3 September	Professor Shi Zhou (SCU)	Does the left leg know what the right leg is doing?	Alison Bowling
10 September	Associate Professor Kate Stevens (UWS)	Learning and memory in dance	Rick van der Zwan
17 September	Mr Geoff Turnbull (SCU)	Potential of environmental enrichment strategies as therapeutic interventions: The journey from mouse to human	Rick van der Zwan
24 September	Dr Alison Bowling (SCU)	Ageing and eye movements	Robert O'Shea
29 October	Dr Evelyn Smith (UNSW)	A new explanation of eating disorders	Robert O'Shea
8 November	Dr Heather Winskel (UWS)	Space, the final frontier: Readingwithoutspaces among other things	Robert O'Shea
8 November	Dr Mitchell Longstaff (SCU)	What your handwriting and drawing reveals about you: Research into the clinical, psychological, forensic, and motor control applications of psychomotor skills	Robert O'Shea

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: 29 October 2012