Events

Prof. Rosemary Varley, UCL will give a joint CCR/CeLM talk, as follows: Title: Global aphasia: the case for autonomy of language and thought Time: 3-4.30pm Date: Wednesday 18th March Location: Agriculture, Room 1L06 …Read More >

The Dual Character of Art Concepts Tuesday 25th November, 2-4pm. Location: Carrington 101. Dr. Shen-yi Liao, University of Leeds & Nanyang University. All welcome. Abstract: There is a dormant debate…Read More >

The list of talks this term in the Psychology Department is now available. Many will be of interest to CCR members and all are welcome to attend.

Professor Emma Borg, CCR Director, will give a public lecture on animal cognition, entitled  ‘Planet of the Apes: what makes us human?’. To register for this free public event, please…Read More >

A reminder that our first CCR talk of the new academic year is as follows: Towards a computational theory of spatial cognition Friday 12th September, 1-3pm. Location: Psychology GS05  Prof. Albert…Read More >

Persons and Other Animals Wednesday 19th November. Location: Palmer Building. 18:00-19:00: public seminar, convened by Professor Brad Hooker (Reading Ethics and Political Philosophy Centre, REAPP) on the ethical dimensions of personhood,…Read More >

Please find below the talks we currently have arranged for the forthcoming academic year. All welcome at all talks. Further details, and further talks, will be posted on this site…Read More >

Prof. Lynne Murray (Winnicott Research Unit, Psychology Department, Reading University) will give a talk on: How early interactions with infants might support the development of social understanding and cognition 3-5pm,…Read More >

Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan) will talk on ‘A Puzzle about Relations between Thought, Experience and the Motoric’, in Psych G79, 3.30-5.30pm. Abstract: Motor representations live a kind of double life. Although…Read More >

Celia Heyes (Oxford) will talk on Mirror neurons and their role in action understanding, Psych 79, 3.30-5.30pm. All are welcome to attend.

The final talk of the current series in the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism programme will take place on Monday 7th. All welcome. Differences in L2 ultimate attainment: age of…Read More >

This May CCR Director Emma Borg will be speaking at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival. Alongside philosopher and theologian Mark Vernon, musician and poet Penny Rimbaud, and sociologist…Read More >

Dr Matthew Spencer, a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain Embodiment Lab at University of Reading, will give a talk on: Emergent representations from stochastic diffusion dynamics Gordon Lecture Theatre at 3pm…Read More >

Professor Barry Everitt FRS will give a talk entitled: “Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits” Professor Everitt is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at Cambridge,…Read More >

Dr Emmanuel Pothos (City University) will be talking about “The Clash of the (Formal Probability Theory) Titans” in which he will try to convince us that the reason why human judgments and…Read More >

Mark Haselgrove from the University of Nottingham will be giving a seminar on Thursday 6th February on Effects of predictability and uncertainty on human and animal learning The causal structure…Read More >

The conference programme can be found at: Semantics_Science_programme The flyer is available at: CCR conference flyer For registration, please go to: http://store.rdg.ac/UoR-SemanticsandScience2014  

An Interdisciplinary Summer School June 22 – 28 , 2014, Hotel Apollo, Aegina, Greece http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/sites/lab/?page_id=610 Applications are invited from PhD students, post-doc and young researchers to attend the Summer School on “Shared…Read More >

Apologies for the short notice, but we have had to alter the venue of Gergely Csibra’s talk tomorrow. It will now take place in GU04 in Agriculture (Agriculture is located…Read More >