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Displaying from Saturday, April 12, 2014
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April 2014
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Tuesday 15 |
13:00 - Colloquium - How is Attention Deployed During Goal Directed Movements?
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People make goal directed movements to interact with their environment. We examined how attention is deployed during goal directed movements and how shifts in attention impact these movements. In the first study, we used a dual task paradigm to investigate how attention can be divided between a (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
Helen Stain is currently Senior Clinical Lecturer at Durham University where the focus of her post is on the research of psychological interventions for youth mental health and includes a clinical role with the NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this appointment in 2012, Helen was in private practice (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
13:00 - Colloquium - On the other side of the fence: The effects of social categorisation and spatial arrangement on memory for own-race and other-race faces.
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1. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia
2. DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Two presentations from the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference.
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May 2014
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Friday 02 |
14:00 - EVENT - Once, twice or thrice upon a time: Audio-visual temporal recalibration is driven by decisional processes
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Derek Arnold’s research focuses on issues that arise due to the functional architecture of human sensory processing. Sensory analyses are often initially independent, can take place in different brain regions and be completed at different rates. How then do they combine across space and time in (...)
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Monday 05 |
16:30 - Group Treatment Program - Does your child live in fear of needles or blood? : Blood Injection-Injury Phobia Group for Children.
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Does your child live in fear of needles or blood? If so, read on...
Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia is a fear that is triggered by seeing blood or an injury, or by receiving an injection or other invasive medical procedure. People vary in the way they react to situations involving blood or (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Visual processing in Migraineurs: what happens between the headaches?
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Migraines are experienced by a substantial proportion of the population and, appropriately, the focus of discussion is usually on the headache phase. There are often visual sequelae associated with the headache but our research has been directed at visual performance in the period between headaches (...)
17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH - Launch of "Personalities & Places" : Full Title: Personalities & Places on the Crawley Campus
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This book was funded by a University Centenary Grant with detailed vignettes of 71 places named after personalities on the Crawley Campus. An initiative of the UWA Historical Society, it includes a fold-out map showing each location. Join the authors and their many supporters for the launch.
18:00 - EVENT - Do you live in fear of needles or blood? : Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia Group
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Do you live in fear of needles or blood? If so, read on...
Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia is a fear that is triggered by seeing blood or an injury, or by receiving an injection or other invasive medical procedure. People vary in the way they react to situations involving blood or (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
If you can't escape from the reality of your life, and are feeling stressed and overwhelmed, The Robin Winkler Clinic is here to help! This clinic is linked to the School of Psychology at UWA. Post-graduate Clinical Psychology trainees at the clinic will soon be starting a stress management (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
13:00 - EVENT - The objectified self(ie) � young women�s use of Facebook and The orientation dependence of a motion streak aftereffect reveals reciprocal gain interactions between orientation and motion neurons
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Two talks will be presented that have recently been given at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists and the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology conferences respectively.
Abstract 1:
Recent years have seen the ‘selfie’ become ubiquitous. The act of taking a (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - Colloquium - CANCELLED - Police line-ups in 2064: Getting the bad guy with certainty.
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CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
Neil Brewer is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Flinders University. He was Dean of the School of Psychology for around 10 years between 2000 and 2013. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and (...)
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June 2014
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Monday 02 |
7:00 - COURSE - Winter Clinical Pilates : Exercise to keep you mobile during the winter months
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Machine &/or mat based clinical Pilates classes focusing on efficient and effective movement patterns. Classes are designed to strengthen the body whilst enhancing mobility over the colder winter months!
Classes may incorporate elements of myofascial and muscle release, contemporary Pilates (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - Are individual health emergency risk perceptions, experiences with previous disaster events, and anxiety level associated with household based health emergency preparedness in Hong Kong? : Colloquium
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Professor Chan is the Director of Centre of Global health at SPHPC and the Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), which was established in 2011 and aims to conduct research, teaching and engage in knowledge (...)
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Thursday 26 |
1:00 - SEMINAR - Life as an Instrument of Art : School of Animal Biology Seminar Series.
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Realising that (the concept of) life is going through some radical transformations; artists have been experimenting with ways of articulating these shifts. This talk would cover the some of the strategies and projects that artists at SymbioticA have employed to deal with life as both raw material (...)
12:00 - TALK - Dr Ian Stephen - Facial shape predicts aspects of health : A geometric morphometric modelling study
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Several aspects of facial appearance contribute to attractiveness, including shape cues such as symmetry (Grammer & Thornhill, 1994), averageness (Rhodes, Zebrowitz, et al., 2001) and sexual dimorphism (Thornhill & Gangestad, 1999). It has been suggested that these facial cues represent (...)
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July 2014
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Tuesday 01 |
R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. The course will include: Introduction to R: How to install R on (...)
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Monday 07 |
7:45 - EVENT - St George's College July School Holiday Program : St George's College will again be holding its popular School Holiday Program in July. The year's entry will be grades 3 - 7.
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Dates are 7 - 11 and 14 - 18 July 2014, 7.45 am - 5.00 pm.
The holiday program provides for exciting educational days in and around the College's historic buildings and beautiful gardens. This year's entry will be expanded to cover school years 3 - 7.
The schedule starts at 7.45 each (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
9:00 - COURSE - ANOVA, Linear Regression and Logistic Regression : A Short Course using SPSS
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The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple (...)
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Monday 14 |
The course is designed as an applied course in Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using the Mplus software package. SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables and subsumes other analytical techniques such as (...)
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