JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITÄT GIESSEN


Kolloquium der Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Current Topics in Perception and Cognition
WS 2008/2009


Seminars take place Wednesdays at 10 am in room F9, unless noted otherwise.
Talks marked in orange are on Tuesdays at 6 pm within the Research Training Network NeuroAct.

Previous seminars: SS 2002, WS 2002/3, SS 2003, WS 2003/4, SS 2004, WS 2004/5, SS 2005, WS 2005/6 , SS 2006, WS 2006/7 , SS 2007, WS 2007/8, SS 2008.

Current seminars within the Research Training Network NeuroAct.
October 15
Workshop Cue combination, Rauischholzhausen castle
October 22
Thomas Schmidt (Giessen) Playing with your inner zombie: Perception, attention, and motor control without visual awareness
October 28
Manfred Fahle (Bremen) Perzeptuelles Lernen
November 5
Postertag, Koffka Award presentation Claes von Hofsten (Uppsala Univ)
November 12
Laurence Maloney (New York) The economics of speeded movement
November 18
Uwe Mattler (Göttingen) Werden Erwartungen zu Systemen verbunden?
November 26
Yazhu Ling (Newcastle) A new system of colour preference: sex, culture and age.
December 2 (GI)
Patrick Cavanagh (Paris and Harvard Univ) The Coordinates of Attention
December 9 (GI)
Geoff Loftus (Seattle) Eyewitness Testimony and the Law: Seeing Things at a Distance
December 10
Geoff Loftus (Seattle) Hypothesis testing: Curse or abomination?
December 16
Uta Wolfensteller (MPI Leipzig) Bei rot musst Du was? Die Abbildung von S-R Regeln im Gehirn
January 14
Anna Seydell (Giessen) Learning to behave optimally in a probabilistic environment.
January 21
Daniel Kiper (Zürich) Virtual reality and neurorehabilitation
January 28
Christian Frings (Saarbrücken) Cognitive Inhibition in Perception and Action
February 4
David Souto (Genf) Attention and target selection for smooth pursuit eye movements
February 11
Antje Nuthmann (Edinburgh) Fixation durations in scene viewing: Experimental data and computational modeling