Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: news
Grants awarded:
Paul Warren has been awarded a grant from the Wellcome Trust for £173,275 entitled: "Estimation of scene relative object movement by a moving observer: and empirically constrained model".
Papers published:
Talmi, D., Dayan, P., Kiebel, S.J, Frith C.D & Dolan, R.J. (2009). How humans integrate the prospects of pain and reward during choice.
Journal of Neuroscience,29(46):14617-26.
October 2009 - Research conducted by Dr Luke Jones in the Temporal Perception Lab featured in the cover story of New Scientist (Timewarp: How the brain creates the fourth dimension. New Scientist, 2731, 32-38).
November 2009 - Jones LA, Poliakoff E, Wells J. (2009). Good vibrations: Human interval timing in the vibrotactile modality. Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, 62(11), 2171-2186.
Papers accepted:
January 2010 - Galpin A, Tipper SP, Dick J, Poliakoff E (2010) Object Affordance and Spatial Compatibility Effects in Parkinson’s Disease. Cortex (in press).
December 2009 - Brown RJ, Brunt N, Poliakoff E, Lloyd D. Illusory touch and tactile perception in somatoform dissociators. Journal of Psychosomatic Research (in press).
Hahn, U. & Warren, P. A. (in press). Why three heads are a better bet than four: A Reply to Sun, Tweney and Wang (2009). Psychological Review.
PhD opportunities:
Neuroscience Research Institute studentship ‘Triggering of actions in Parkinson’s disease’ Supervised by Dr Ellen Poliakoff, Dr Emma Gowen & Dr Wael El-Deredy
Other news:
Ellen Poliakoff is on the organising committee for an Experimental Psychology Society funded workshop on ‘The Development of Body Representations over the Lifespan’ 29th-30th March 2010 at Goldsmiths, University of London.
