Lecture
CANCELLED: Kathleen Wermke (University Hospital, University Würzburg, Germany)
April 28, 2020
**This event has been cancelled**
Title: Prosodic Primitives: Development of Melody Complexity of infants’ cry and noncry vocalisations across the first six months
Workshop
CANCELLED: Lunchtime discussion: An inside perspective on academic job applications
March 31, 2020
**This event has been cancelled**
Lecture
CANCELLED: Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
March 18, 2020
Unfortunately we have had to cancel the talk by Dr Mazuka planned for March 18 due to Japanese travel restrictions related to the corona virus outbreak. We hope to reschedule for a later date.
Workshop
TMS workshop with Kate Watkins
May 15, 2019
Title: Stimulating speech: Auditory-motor interactions in production and perception
In my lab, we use non-invasive brain stimulation to explore auditory-motor interactions during speech perception and speech production. I will describe how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) works and provide a number of examples of how we have used this method in combination with behaviour and other measures of brain function. Read More
Lecture
Sara Incera (Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University)
May 21, 2019
Title: The timing of the cognitive processes underlying bilingualism and the perception of foreign accents: Evidence from mouse tracking
The mouse-tracking paradigm allows researchers to better understand how cognitive processes unfold over time by recording participants’ responses using a computer mouse. In this talk, I will present a diverse set of cognitive experiments in which I used the mouse-tracking paradigm for data collection. Read More
Workshop
Mouse-tracking workshop with Sara Incera
May 22, 2019
Title: Creating and analyzing mouse-tracking experiments
The goal of this four-hour workshop is to create and analyze mouse-tracking experiments. During the first half of the workshop, participants will become familiar with the computer software MouseTracker (download here – only works on Windows os). Read More