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Dr Yatin Mahajan, MARCS Institute: "Maturation of event-related potentials across adolescence" Monday, May 20, 2013 - 16:00
Arnab Ahmed, PhD student: "Evidence for mechanisms sensitive to localised orientation regularity; an adaptation study" Monday, May 20, 2013 - 11:00
Dr Mark Antoniou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Is There a Bilingual Advantage in Phonetic Learning?" Monday, May 13, 2013 - 16:00
Prof Denis Burnham: "Proposal for Advance Research Training Course" and Congratulation MARCS graduates and medal recipients morning tea. Monday, May 13, 2013 - 11:00
Dr Dario Protti, University of Sydney: "Modulation of retinal signalling by cannabinoids" Monday, May 6, 2013 - 16:00
Dr. Yossi Buskila, MARCS Institute: “Dendritic delay adaptation in spiking neurons” Monday, April 29, 2013 - 16:00
Honours students, Honours Colloquium Practice Talks on 29th April and Extended session on 30th April Monday, April 29, 2013 - 11:00
A/Prof. Emery Schubert, UNSW: "Return of the DAG. Matching the music with the feel" Monday, April 22, 2013 - 16:00
Steffen Herff, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany: "Interference in melody recognition: Does the number of distractors matter?" Monday, April 22, 2013 - 11:00
Dr Marcus Pearce, Queen Mary, University of London: "From Expectation to Emotion: Modelling Predictive Processing in Music Perception" Monday, April 15, 2013 - 16:00
Dr. Chris Stanton: "Things I've been doing with the Nao Robot and HRI" and Prof. Kate Stevens: "Things I've been working on in HMI" Monday, April 15, 2013 - 11:00
Prof. Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish National Research Council: "Playing with Cases: Rendering Expressive Music Performance with Case-Based Reasoning" Monday, April 8, 2013 - 16:00
Prof. André van Schaik: "Neuromorphic Engineering – what is it?" and "Mendeley – a reference manager" Monday, April 8, 2013 - 11:00
Dr Mark McDonnell, University of South Australia: "Noise in the nervous system" Monday, March 25, 2013 - 16:00
Prof Denis Burnham, Prof Catherine Best and Sonya O'Shanna: "Student and Supervisor Orientation and Information Session" Monday, March 25, 2013 - 11:00
Prof Marios Fourakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Effect of frequency boundary assignment on speech recognition in newly implanted cochlear implant recipients" Monday, March 18, 2013 - 16:00
Dr Benjawan Kasisopa, Eye Movements in Reading Unspaced Writing System: A Case of Thai Monday, March 18, 2013 - 11:00
Prof Vaughan Macefield, School of Medicine, UWS: "Disturbed proprioceptive function in patients with a genetic absence of muscle spindles" Monday, March 11, 2013 - 16:00
Things I’ve Been Working on (TIBWO) in Music Cognition and Action and Human-Machine Interaction Monday, March 11, 2013 - 11:00
Prof Jan Edwards, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Individual differences in speech perception: Evidence from visual analog scaling and eye-tracking" Monday, March 4, 2013 - 16:00
Prof Allard Jongman, University of Kansas: "Deriving invariance by integrating cues computed relative to expectations" Monday, February 25, 2013 - 16:00
Welcome Back MARCS Monday, February 25, 2013 - 11:00
A/Prof Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney: "Canards and Excitability" Monday, February 18, 2013 - 16:00
Dr Lars T. Boenke, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, "Perceptual uncertainty and information integration – A new theoretical framework to understand bias and interindividual differences in audiovisual simultaneity perception?" Monday, January 21, 2013 - 16:00
Professor Niels Schiller, Leiden University: Morphological priming in speech production: There's butter in butterfly but no corn in corner Monday, December 17, 2012 - 17:00
Saioa Larraza, Visiting PhD Student, "Perceiving dialect variation in L2: the case of Basque bilinguals" Monday, December 17, 2012 - 11:00
MARCS Research Poster Display Friday, December 14, 2012 - 09:00
Professor San Duanmu, University of Michigan: A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Lexicons Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 12:00
Professor San Duanmu, University of Michigan: Sounds and Features in the World’s Languages Monday, December 10, 2012 - 17:00
Mona Faris, Marcs PhD Student, Practice Confirmation of Candidature talk Monday, December 10, 2012 - 11:00
Professor James Scobbie, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh: "An inside view on speech production in phonetic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and acquisition research" Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 12:00
Virginia Slaughter, University of Queensland: "Preschoolers’ theory of mind" Monday, November 26, 2012 - 17:00
Michael Proctor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts: “Investigating speech production using real-time MRI” Monday, November 19, 2012 - 17:00
Baljinder Sahdra, School of Social Sciences and Psychology: "Conflicts and Harmony: Factors Within Affecting Factors Without" Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 12:00
Giacomo Novembre, MARCS Institute: "Action-Perception Coupling in Musicians’ (and Non-Musicians’) Brains: What is It Good for?" Monday, November 5, 2012 - 17:00
Patrick Goodbourn, Talk: "Genetic influences on perceptual decisions" Monday, October 29, 2012 - 17:00
Arnab Ahmed, MARCS Institute, "Assessing the functional significance of the Horizontal Effect" Monday, October 29, 2012 - 11:00
Barbara Kelly, University of Melbourne: "Multi-modality in noun and verb acquisition" Monday, October 22, 2012 - 17:00
Jacques Launay, Marcs Institute, Paper Presentation: Synchronization can influence trust following virtual interaction Monday, October 22, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Tom De Rybel, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Smart Grids - Technical and Human Factors" Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 12:00
Associate Professor Simon Carlile, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney: "The plastic ear: Perceptual relearning and spatial perception" Monday, October 15, 2012 - 17:00
Dr Gabrielle Weidemann, MARCS and School of Social Sciences and Psychology, UWS, " Parallel acquisition of awareness and differential delay eyeblink conditioning" Monday, October 15, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Klaus Stiefel, Marcs Institute, "Why are there no Eusocial Fishes?" Monday, October 15, 2012 - 11:00
Dr. Paul Sidwell, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU: The Proto-Austroasiatic Lexicon Project: unlocking the ‘missing millennia’ of Mainland Southeast Asia Monday, October 8, 2012 - 17:00
Dr Rachel Robbins, MARCS Institute, Paper Presentation: Effects of normal and abnormal visual experience on the development of opposing after-effects for upright and inverted faces Monday, October 8, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Jason Shaw, MARCS Institute, Paper Presentation: Sources of illusion in consonant cluster perception Monday, October 8, 2012 - 11:00
Ravindra DE SILVA, Toyohashi University of Technology , Social Robots for the Year 2020 Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:00
Dr Christian Kroos, MARCS Institute, "About Movement- my time at MARCS" Monday, September 24, 2012 - 11:00
Professor Philip de Chazal, MARCS Institute: “Forever yawning: researching and commercialising a non-invasive sleep monitoring system” Monday, September 17, 2012 - 17:00
Professor Roger Dean, MARCS Institute, Paper Presentation: Comparative time series analysis of perceptual responses to electroacoustic music Monday, September 17, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Kirk Olsen, MARCS Institute, Paper Presentation: Forward masking of dynamic acoustic intensity: Effects of intensity region and end-level Monday, September 17, 2012 - 11:00
Professor Ronan Reilly, Visiting Professor, MARCS Institute: "Of Bayes, Braille, and the Blues: my year at MARCS" Monday, September 3, 2012 - 17:00
Karen Mulak, MARCS Institute: "Development of Phonologically Specified Word Forms" Monday, August 27, 2012 - 17:00
Dr Donald Derrick, MARCS Institute, Multi-Modal Speech Perception Monday, August 27, 2012 - 11:00
Professor Lazar Stankov, Centre for Positive Psychology and Education, School of Education: "Confidence" Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 12:00
Dr Ahmed Mustafa School of Social Science and Psychology Empirical and computational studies of cognitive function in Parkinsons’s Disease Monday, August 20, 2012 - 11:00
Dr. Anton Bogdanovych, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics: Intelligent Virtual Agents Simulating Complex Human Societies Monday, August 13, 2012 - 17:00
Maria Christou, PhD Candidate MARCS Institute, Confirmation of Candidature Practice Talk Monday, August 13, 2012 - 11:00
Associate Professor Jonathon Allen, UWS, School of Humanities and Communication Arts: Designing out the 'dis' in disability Monday, August 6, 2012 - 17:00
Dr Bill Budd, University of Newcastle: Multisensory integration of sound and touch Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 12:00
Erin Gee Visiting Fellow, Concordia University, Canada "From Thinking Heads to Emotional Pianos - Collaborative Performance Art, Science and Robotics research at MARCS" Monday, July 30, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Maria Uther, UNSW: Using event-related potentials to index the acquisition of new phonetic categories Monday, July 23, 2012 - 17:00
Leanne Bugden PhD Student Confirmation of Candidature Float Monday, July 23, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Freya Bailes, Marcs Institute, "Arousal and Valence in Memory for Sounds and Music" Monday, July 16, 2012 - 17:00
Prof Chris Davis, Marcs Institute, "Faces and voices: a brief overview of studies from the face & Voice lab". Monday, July 16, 2012 - 11:00
Prof Jean-Claude Martin, University of Paris South, "Realistic Virtual Agents that Express Complex Emotions via the Face and the Body" Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 17:00
Dr Omar Mubin, UWS School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, “Talk ROILA to your Robot” Monday, July 9, 2012 - 17:00
Jacques Launay, Sound attributed with agency affects Monday, July 9, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Jon Prince Murdoch University, Western Australia Combining pitch and time in music Monday, July 2, 2012 - 16:00
Janise Farrell, PhD Student, MARCS Institute 18th June 2012 Monday, June 25, 2012 - 11:00
Prof Ingo Plag "Informativity and analogy as determinants of compound stress in English" 18th June 2012 Monday, June 18, 2012 - 17:00
Inthraporn Aranyanak, Visiting PhD Student, "An experimental analysis of skilled braille reading using a high-resolution finger-tracking system" Monday, May 28, 2012 - 11:00
Dr Chris Stanton, Marcs Software Developer, Cognitive Robotics Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:00
Wan Ting Yeah, "Detection of Frequency-Modulated Sweep", 14th May 2012 Monday, May 14, 2012 - 11:00
Annette McLaren, Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor, Research. Bryan Gick, The University of British Columbia Monday, April 23, 2012 - 11:00
Rachel Bennets, PhD Student, MARCS Institute, Practice Presentation 20th April 2012 Friday, April 20, 2012 - 11:00
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