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Over the next few days, we'll be introducing you to all the speakers joining us for the first UCLSAP psychedelic science symposium, 25th May!

Full event details, talk abstracts and registration here 👉🏼 uclsap.com/events/ucl-sap… 1/9 🧵

Applications are now open for the @UCL_EP and Peking University (Peking University) Annual Summer School for Experimental, Methodological and Computational Design in Psychology!

Deadline : 12th May

More info : uclpkusummerschool.github.io/2024/index.html

For the next @UCL_EP seminar on 14/05, Prof Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social invites us to reconsider how attention is typically approached: rather than as a mere sensory filter but as a relational process that optimizes agent-environment interactions based on priors.
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See you there!

We are pleased to announce that our upcoming talk will be given by Dr. Rebecca Neel from the University of Toronto! All welcome!!

The next PALS PhD Seminar is on this Friday 3 May at 1pm! Come hear what your fellow postgrads have been up to 😉 with Oliwia Stecko

UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Linguistics UCL Language & Cognition SHaPS UCL Experimental Psychology UCL ICN

One week to go until the annual Sir Julian Priestley Memorial Lecture, delivered by Annette Dittert  and hosted for the first time @UCL!

Chaired by Mike Galsworthy, European Movement UK

Followed by a drinks reception.

Book now: ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

I'll be hosting Michael Arbib next Tuesday (30th) at 1pm (room 305 in 26 Bedford Way) for his UCL Experimental Psychology seminar entitled:

From Spatial Navigation and Episodic Memory to Architectural Design

Zoom link to join:
lnkd.in/eYQtUJPb
Meeting ID: 918 6783 4404
Passcode: 516129

📣 SO EXCITED to share with you all my third first-author paper from my PhD: “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.”

➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.jenv…

I am so grateful to the wonderful team who turned this dream into a reality! 🙌

Featuring our very own Jeremy Skipper! The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

For the next @UCL_EP seminar John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social) presents research demonstrating how crowding in the visual scene affects peripheral and foveal vision in typical and disordered sight, and how this can be modelled by 'pooling' mechanisms for scene 'gist' encoding
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We all have a blind spot in our visual field, yet, visual perception appears continuous. Returning to UCL Experimental Psychology, Sam Schwarzkopf (@sampendu) joins us to discuss how our brains 'fill in' the visual scene across this gap.

16/04, 1PM GMT
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PALS Green Day takes place on Thurs (21 March) in 26 Bedford Way. There'll be a green quiz, seed-planting, veggie food, prizes, and loads more!

🌎 Find out more here: buff.ly/3UJZCIW #GreenUCLPALS

Brad Love Bradley Love from UCL Experimental Psychology and The Alan Turing Institute
will deliver this Thu talk at #CitAI_seminars
'Taming the neuroscience literature with explanatory and predictive models'
March 21; 16:00 GTM
cit-ai.net/seminars.html
To Zoom in, email organisers or DM Esther Mondragón

📢 ERC-funded PhD in our team 📢. Curious about the mechanisms underlying learning and perception? Wish to study them via modelling and neuroimaging? This may be for you! Email me qus. Please circulate 🙏 UCL Experimental Psychology Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging European Research Council (ERC)
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Don't forget our next free seminar is coming up tomorrow! Monday 18th March, 1PM, online and in-person. See you there! 👀 🧠

Really pleased to share this new preprint by Anna Gowenlock
Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children aged 3-11: A Scoping Review
with Prof Courtenay Norbury UCL Experimental Psychology UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Language & Cognition
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Are we really in control of our actions? Or are we just playing out our preprogramming? On 18th March, 1PM GMT, Kevin Mitchell ( @wiringthebrain) joins us to trace the evolutionary development of cognition, metacognition, and free will.
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Time and location change! This is now being hosted in room C3.11, Institute of Education, 6th March, 4-5pm.
Don't forget to add to your calendar!
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Prof Brian Hare (Brian Hare 🇺🇸) joins us to discuss the self-domestication hypothesis, exploring how dogs, bonobos, and humans share evolutionary paths through social problem-solving and reduced aggression. 🐒 🐶

6th March, 1PM,
Online and in person
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