Workshop
Neuro-EDI Workshop Series
September 30, 2021 - December 13, 2021
Each of our brains is unique. Our personalities, values, knowledge, and innate dispositions for certain ways of thinking give each of us a particular way of working. Creativity, innovation, and impact are at their greatest in environments where all brains can thrive. Read More
Conference, Lecture
CRBLM Symposium: Cultural Evolution of Communication
November 15, 2021
Despite the tremendous structural diversity across languages and across communication systems in non-human animals, many patterns are prevalent across languages, across individuals within animal species, and across species. This symposium will feature talks about cognitive, perceptual, and production biases that contribute to the formation of common patterns in humans and non-human animals.
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Workshop
CRBLM Workshop: Poster-making in Inkscape
October 20, 2021
Looking for another way to create figures and posters, or add to the knowledge you already have? This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of image files, offer some tips for creating clean visuals, and introduce Inkscape, a free software similar to Adobe Illustrator that can be used to create polished documents of any size. We will walk through the tools and functions that will help you through your next project.
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Conference
CRBLM Scientific Day 2021
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
Scientific Day is an annual event that showcases the research interests of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM). The 2021 Scientific Day will be held online. The day will include a keynote address by Dr Aniruddh Patel, poster presentations, and an annual general assembly. Read More
Workshop
Pre-registering your study: Why, How, and What if?
December 09, 2020
Pre-registration is gaining popularity as a way to increase transparency and replicability. Pre-registration allows researchers to specify their research plans in advance, including hypotheses, sample, and planned analyses. Many journals, including Psychological Science (click here for the a list of journals), recognize preregistered research by awarding a Preregistered badge. Read More
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