RCBB Seminar: Ed Beamer

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

The NSP seminar series is starting up again this week for the new semester. This week we have an external speaker from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dr. Edward Beamer. Dr. Beamer’s seminar will be titled: “Nitric Oxide and Adenosine Triphosphate as Extracellular Signalling Molecules in the Central Nervous System”  The seminar will […]

RCBB Seminar: How does cognition contribute to the signs and symptoms of chronic pain?

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

How does cognition contribute to the signs and symptoms of chronic pain? Dr Chris Brown. University of Liverpool. Host: Dr Susannah Walker Room: TRB 1.44 (This talk has been rescheduled – previously due to be held in December 2018)

CANS Meeting: Samatha Brooks

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience research group meeting. Speaker: Dr Samantha Brooks. Title: Learning from the neural correlates of Anorexia Nervosa about how we might treat Substance Use Disorder. The rising trend of internationally competitive research into the cognitive control of impulsivity reflects the importance of examining the neural mechanisms of impulse control.  The rising trend might […]

CANS Meeting: Nicola Jones

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience @ LJMU. Speaker: Nicola Jones Nicola’s interests include learning, memory and attention, and how these processes are represented behaviourally and at a neural level in both typical and atypical populations. Her PhD research was focused on investigating the effects of glucoregulation on memory and face recognition in older adults.

Neuroadaptive Technology Conference (NAT’19)

LJMU, John Lennon Art and Design Building Liverpool School Of Art & Design, 2 Duckinfield Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

The 2nd Neuroadaptive Technology Conference (NAT’19) will be held in Liverpool from 16th to 18th July 2019. The conference covers a range of topics related to: applied neurosciences/psychophysiology, signal detection, human-computer interaction and machine learning.

Interdisciplinary Network of Researchers in Touch – 2019

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Touch: A unique sensory system. Not just a ‘general’ but a special sense. There is so much yet to know about touch, so let’s find out some more. The aim of the first workshop, “Researchers IN Touch” is to start a conversation, to support each other in gaining research funding for, experimenting on, and writing about touch.

Combining Virtual Reality with Neuroscience – Dr Sylvia Terbeck

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

You are invited to this year’s first Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience seminar. The speaker will be Dr Sylvia Terbeck from LJMU. The seminar will start at 1:15 pm. All are welcome. Location is Tom Reilly Building, room 143.  

LJMU CANS Seminar: Linguistic markers of preclinical cognitive decline

Virtual (Teams)

Kimberly Mueller (University of Wisconsin – Madison)Linguistic markers of preclinical cognitive decline: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CANS) 2021 SeminarAll talks at 12 noon. Meeting link upon request to d.bruno@ljmu.ac.uk

Free

LJMU CANS Seminar: Does the non-dominant hemisphere matter?

Virtual (Teams)

Magdalena Sliwinska (Liverpool John Moores University)Does the non-dominant hemisphere matter? TMS investigation of the left hemisphere involvement in facial expression recognition Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CANS) 2021 SeminarAll talks at 12 noon. Meeting link upon request to d.bruno@ljmu.ac.uk

Free

LJMU CANS Seminar: TBC

Virtual (Teams)

TBC(NB The previously advertised seminar has been cancelled.) Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CANS) 2021 SeminarAll talks at 12 noon. Meeting link upon request to d.bruno@ljmu.ac.uk

Free

LJMU CANS Seminar: Attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs amidst the COVID-19 crisis

Virtual (Teams)

Ben Gibson (Liverpool John Moores University)Attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs amidst the COVID-19 crisis: Creating international and national profiles, and assessing relationships with working memory and self-regulation Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CANS) 2021 SeminarAll talks at 12 noon. Meeting link upon request to d.bruno@ljmu.ac.uk

Free

RCBB Seminar: Prof Nicky Edelstyn (Keele University) – From relay station to integrative hub: The evolving view of the thalamus

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

In this RCBB Research Seminar Series talk, Prof Nicky Edelstyn (Keele University) will present her current research under the title “From relay station to integrative hub: The evolving view of the thalamus”. Abstract: Lesions of the mediodorsal and anterior thalamic nuclei consistently produce a neuropsychological footprint that is diverse and inexplicable from the  corticocentric view that considers […]

RCBB Seminar: Dr Amy Bidgood (LJMU) – Individual differences in language development in the preschool years.

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

In this RCBB Research Seminar Series talk, Dr Amy Bidgood (LJMU) will present her current research under the title “Individual differences in language development in the preschool years”. Abstract: Despite the complexity of the task, most children are fluent in at least one language by the time the start school. However, even within the ‘typically developing’ population, large […]

RCBB Seminar: Dr Elsa Fouragnan (Plymouth University) – Ultrasound neuromodulation: Inducing short to medium neuroplastic effects with sound waves.

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

In this RCBB Research Seminar Series talk, Dr Elsa Fouragnan (Plymouth University) will present her current research under the title “Ultrasound neuromodulation: Inducing short to medium neuroplastic effects with sound waves”. Abstract: Ultrasound can make visible what is hidden, for example, an unborn child. We are now putting these high-frequency sound waves – beyond the range of human hearing […]

Computational Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity – Melanie Stefan

LJMU, Tom Reilly Building Tom Reilly Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Professor Melanie Stefan (Medical School Berlin) uses computers to understand learning and memory, from simulating how proteins in the brain work together to strengthen the connection between neurons to using educational data to understand how students learn. In addition to joining the LNG:ECRs to about her career in Neuroscience, Melanie will also be presenting a […]

Free