MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitUnit Diary
Monday 14th January
Sally Butterfield is testing in schools this week.
Joni Holmes is testing at King’s Hedges school.
Bernhard Staresina is travelling to Nijmegen to work with collaborators at the Donders Center. Bernhard is away until 28th February.
12:30 IIG Meeting – Lecture Theatre
fMRI Presentation (Kristjan Kalm)
Representations of item and order in short term memory
MEG Presentation (Ediz Sohoglu and Matt Davis)
Perceptual learning of degraded speech: An MEG investigation
13:30 Web Re-Vamp Project Meeting – West Wing Seminar Room
14:30 Object Vision Lab Meeting – West Wing Seminar Room
Tuesday 15th January
Sharon Erzinclioglu is attending the Travel to Work meeting and will be out all morning.
Sue Gathercole is at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for a faculty meeting at the Clinical School.
Jane Hall is attending a Unite Branch meeting at 12:30 in the Hutchison Building. If you are a Unite member and wish to attend please contact Jane.
Wednesday 16th January
Duncan Astle and Andria Shimi are afternoon testing in schools today, tomorrow and Friday.
Anthea Hills is at the Clinical School in the morning.
12:30 Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar – Lecture Theatre
Emily Holmes (MRC – Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation
Thursday 17th January
Bob Carlyon is meeting with Sonova and Phonak Ltd in Zurich.
15:30 Chaucer Club – Lecture Theatre
Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)
Volition and Agency
Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk hosted at the CBSU
Friday 18th January
12:00 Special Talk – Lecture Theatre
Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humboldt University, Berlin)
The dynamics of lexical access during language production:
A swinging lexical network account
Additional Information
Vacancies
Investigator Scientist to work with Bob Carlyon on a project funded by Action on Hearing Loss, entitled “Using measures of neural survival to improve hearing by cochlear implant users”.
Ref IRC77689. Closing date is 16th January 2013.
Room Changes
Simon Blackwell has moved offices. He is now in room 76 and on extension 763.
Welcome
Welcome to Sam Wass, a new member of staff working with Sue Gathercole. Sam is in room 27 and on extension number 270.
Welcome also, to Taylor Schmitz who started at the Unit this week. Taylor is in room 87 and is working with Mike Anderson. Telephone extension to follow.
Leave
Clare Dixon 14th January
Alex Kaula 14th January – 18th January
Eileen Sanderson 17th January
Nitin Williams 14th January – 16th January
Diary Updates
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