News and Events

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 >

Registration is now open for the inaugural CCR conference (21st-22nd March 2014). For further details, please see the CCR conference flyer. The running order for the conference will be posted on this…Read More >

Prof. Gergely Csibra (Cognitive Development Centre, Budapest) http://people.ceu.hu/gergely_csibra Thursday 23rd January, Psychology 127, 2.30-4pm ‘Non-verbal generics’ All human languages allow for making generic statements about kinds, which fosters the acquisition of…Read More >

Prof. Piotr Winkielman (UC San Diego) 12pm Wednesday 27th Nov., Nike Lecture Theatre, Agriculture. Emotion, Cognition, and ‘Rational’ Embodiment Emotions permeate social life and influence perception, cognition, decision, and action….Read More >

Dr Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi from the University of Warsaw will be at the Brain Embodiment Lab on Wednesday, November 27th. She will give a talk in the Gordon Lecture Theatre in the…Read More >

14th Nov 2013, 13:00; Meteorology, GU01 Professor Eva Belke, University of Bochum, Germany Phonological influences on lexical-semantic encoding in word production: Can they be regulated by the speaker?    

Gergely Csibra’s CCR talk next term will now take place on: Thursday 23rd Jan, 2.15-3.45 (Not 13th Feb. as previously advertised.) Title and location tba.