MDHS Graduate Research Conference 2020
Come see our PhD students present their work at the MDHS virtual Graduate Research Conference on Tuesday, 8th December, from 7.45AM – 8PM.
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is hosting the MDHS virtual Graduate Research Conference next Tuesday, 8thDecember, from 7.45AM – 8PM. We are excited to announce that several of our fantastic Masters and PhD students will be presenting and discussing their work throughout the conference. We will also be joined by keynote speakers Prof Kurt Gray, Prof Fiona Fidler, and Dr Daniel Bennett, a past graduate student from our hub. Please see the presentation line up and for our students below.
Registration is still ongoing but closes this Friday, so do sign up before then via registration link.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
Please do come along to support and engage with our graduate students at what looks to be an amazing conference!
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Neuroscience – Psychiatry and Mental Health
Session 3
17 00 – 17 15: Anita Dharan
Neuro-cognitive comorbidities in Juvenile Absence Epilepsy
17 45 – 18 00: Shivam Kalhan
Inhibitory control over reward: dependent smokers exhibit more prefrontal cortex activity during preparatory control but reduced anterior cingulate cortex activity during reactive control
Psychological Sciences
Session 1
09 30 – 09 40: Jane Yook
Motion extrapolation in the flash-lag effect depends on perceived, rather than physical speed
09 40 – 09 50: Caoimhe Moran
Decoding and Reconstructing the Remapped EEG Representation Before a Saccadic Eye-Movement
Session 2
10 30 – 11 00: Dr Daniel Bennett
Keynote Presentation
11 00 – 11 15: Hana McDonald
Neuropsychological methods for the pre-surgical lateralization of seizure foci in temporal lobe epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Session 3
17 00 – 17 15: Matthew Jiwa
Choosing to Know: Agency Increases the Value of Non-Instrumental Information
17 15 – 17 30: Talina Bayeleva
The effect of authenticity on conscious and unconscious emotion perception of happiness and disgust
17 45 – 18 00: Philippa Johnson
Predictive activation of hierarchical neural representations compensates for neural delays in visual motion perception
18 00 – 18 15: Elektra Schubert
Decoding explicit and implicit representations of health and taste attributes in the human brain
18 15 – 18 30: Tessel Blom
The time-course of prediction formation and revision in human visual motion processing
18 45 – 19 00: Helen Overhoff
Effects of ageing on neural correlates of metacognition