The first event in the CCR Summer Seminar series next term will be:
‘Could the mechanisms that underlie motor control be responsible for perception?’, Andrew Glennerster & James Stazicker.
Week 2: Thursday 2nd May: 2-3.30pm Humss 181
Monthly Archives: March 2013
The role of brain hemisphere connections?
Interesting piece on the neuroscience behind extreme memory abilities and the impact of loss of hemispheric connection, by Berit Brogaard:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201303/the-brain-the-real-rain-man
Inaugral CCR conference
The Centre for Cognition Research will hold an inaugral conference in Spring/Summer 2014. Further details to follow shortly.
Cog Sci reading group
James Stazicker, Nat Hansen and Emma Borg will be running a graduate reading class looking at some recent papers in cognitive science during the Summer Term. The classes will take place in week 3 and then weeks 5-9 at 2-3.30 on Thursdays, in Humss 181. Full programme details to follow, but anyone interested in coming along will be most welcome.
Events next term
In the Summer term we will have two dedicated CCR talks:
Week 2: Thursday 2nd May, 2-3.30pm. Andrew Glennerster (Psych) and James Stazicker (Philosophy) will talk on ‘Could the mechanisms that underlie motor control be responsible for perception?’ (abstract to follow).
Week 4: Thursday 16th May, 2-3.30pm. Prof. Vincent Muller (James Martin Research Fellow, http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford; see also http://www.sophia.de, will give a talk, probably on embodied cognition but title and abstract to follow.
Room details will be posted nearer the time.
Welcome
Welcome to the new blog for the Centre for Cognition Research at Reading. This blog aims to report the activities and events of the Centre, together with comment on and discussion about recent events and news stories of relevance to the understanding of the human mind.