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Zulch Prize

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 10 October 2013

Ray Dolan has received the Zulch prize with Wolfram Schultz. For more information, please click here .

Post Doc Opportunities

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 8 October 2013

Three post-doc vacancies in Eleanor Maguire’s Memory Lab at UCL.  Please follow this link for further details.

New Publications

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

New psychology blog

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

Molly Crockett: New psychology blog at the Guardian, please click here .

MRC Grant

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

MRC Research Grant (3 years): ‘Brain mechanisms underlying reading improvement in post-stroke central alexia’. PI: Alex Leff. Collaborators: Zoe Woodhead and Jenny Crinion

Upcoming Talks

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

Laurence Hunt will be giving some talks:

  •  ‘A within-attribute comparison strategy in multi-attribute choice’ at Society for Neuroeconomics 
  • ‘Where do neural correlates of value come from?’ at the Autumn School in  Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford

Tobias Nolte is presenting the following:

  • Keynote, International Balint Congress, Heidelberg: “The Neurobiology of Close Relationships” 
  • Symposium, 13th ISSPD conference, Copenhagen: ” A Computational Neuroscience Approach to understand Borderline and Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Attachment-Related Trauma”

New Publications

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

 

PLORAS updates

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

  • 18 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price gave a keynote lecture entitled ‘Connecting fMRI to Lesion Studies’ at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Conference, Seattle.
  • 27 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price presented ‘Towards a Clinical Application of PLORAS’ and Louise Lim presented a summary of the PLORAS focus groups (see here ) at the Neurology Staff Round, Newcastle University Medical School.
  • 15 August 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at Maldon and Dengie Stroke Support Group.
  • 13 September 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at the Stroke Association Lewisham group.
  • 17 September 2012: Members of Speakeasy (an aphasia charity) took part in a focus group to give feedback on the PLORAS website, to help make it as accessible as possible for stroke survivors with aphasia.
  • Rachel Browne held an exhibition stand at the British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference in Manchester (9-11 September 2013) – giving information on the PLORAS project listening to feedback, and advising clinicians how to get involved via the Stroke Research Network. See pictures below Website_Focus_Group_Cropped[1]and a video here .BAS_Biennial_2013[1]

The PLORAS project (Language Group) also featured in the Different Strokes Summer Newsletter in an article where research participant Penny, who has aphasia, explains why she chose to take part in PLORAS. Different Strokes is a charity for younger stroke survivors. You can read it here The newsletter goes out to 12,000+ people and is then also downloadable from the Different Strokes website and they put a link on their Facebook group and Twitter.

Paper covered by the New Scientist

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

Helen Barron’s new paper was covered by the New Scientist. A quote: “Tea jelly was
popular,” says Barron. “Beetroot custard not so much.” Read more here .

Best Paper Award

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013

Peter Smittenaar received a “Best Contributed Paper Award” for the Reinforcement Learning
and Decision Making conference.