MACCS Seminar Series
MACCS hosts a seminar series in which MACCS staff members, MACCS students and visiting academics present research relevant to the research focus of the Centre. Seminars are usually held in the Research Hub Seminar Room (C5C498) and are open to interested researchers and professionals.
Recent and upcoming seminars
A Role for Authorship in the Explanation of Thought Insertion.
Speaker : Dr Lisa Bortolotti, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK.
Date : 12th of August 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Mechanisms contributing to socioemotional functioning in older adulthood
Speaker : Dr. Julie Henry, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales.
Date : 29th of July 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
TBA
Speaker : Rosalind Thornton, MACCS, MACCS.
Date : 22nd of July 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Welcome to the real world: Using fixation related brain potentials to test ecologically valid settings.
Speaker : Florian Hutzler, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg.
Date : 8th of July 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498, MACCS.
Understanding Face Perception: Insights from Neuropsychology and Electrophysiology
Speaker : Dr Noam Sagiv, Centre of Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University, West London, UK.
Date : 8th of July 2008, 11:00AM until 12:00PM
Location : C5C498, MACCS.
Using TMS and fMRI to study causal functional interactions in the human visual system
Speaker : Dr Christian Ruff, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.
Date : 25th of June 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Consciousness: a dynamic state?
Speaker : Dr Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Date : 24th of June 2008, 11:00AM until 12:00PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Multi-voxel coding of behavioural context in human frontal and parietal cortex
Speaker : Alexandra Woolgar, MRC cognition and brain sciences unit, Cambridge University.
Date : 24th of June 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498, MACCS.
Multimodal functional neuroimaging of human visual cortex: Comparing the fMRI BOLD response with changes in evoked and induced cortical oscillatory activity as measured with MEG
Speaker : Professor Krish Singh, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
Date : 20th of June 2008, 2:00PM until 3:30PM
Location : C5C498, Macquarie University.
The role of attention and awareness in face repetition priming: evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG
Speaker : Rik Henson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University.
Date : 20th of June 2008, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : C5C498, Macquarie University.
Human Brain Imaging using MEG: The approach of understanding functional temporal connectivity.
Speaker : Professor Urs Ribary, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University.
Date : 13th of June 2008, 2:00PM until 3:30PM
Location : C5C498, Macquarie University.
The Relationship between attention and implicit learning
Speaker : Dr Evan Livesey, Psychology, Sydney University.
Date : 10th of June 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498, MACCS.
Surface recordings of cortical responses to speech sounds: A review of research at National Acoustic Laboratories.
Speaker : Harvey Dillon, Director of Research, National Acoustic Laboratories.
Date : 4th of June 2008, 2:00PM until 3:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Why are some people poor spellers despite being good readers?
Speaker : Associate Professor Virginia Holmes, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne.
Date : 3rd of June 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498, Macquarie University.
Neural correlates of correct and erroneous picture naming responses
Speaker : Dr. Stefanie Abel, Section Neurolinguistics, Neurological Clinic, University Hospital RWTH Aachen.
Date : 3rd of June 2008, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : C5C 498 MACCS, Macquarie University.
The perceived location of moving objects
Speaker : Dr Daniel Linares, School of Psychology, University of Sydney.
Date : 27th of May 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C498, MACCS.
Orthographic and Phonological Cues in Aphasia Therapy.
Speaker : Dr Wendy Best, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London.
Date : 16th of May 2008, 10:00AM until 12:00PM
Location : C5C 419 - Forster Room, Macquarie University.
Autobiographical Memory in Semantic Dementia
Speaker : Michael Hornberger, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney.
Date : 13th of May 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
Using fMRI to read representations in human visual cortex.
Speaker : Associate Professor Colin Clifford, School of Psychology, University of Sydney.
Date : 6th of May 2008, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.