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Professor Taeko Wydell to give invited lecture at 2013 Oxford-Kobe Symposium
Brunel Psychology Professor Taeko Wydell will be an invited speaker at the 3rd Oxford-Kobe Symposium, 11-14th April 2013 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. The talk by Professor Wydell, who is an expert on language-related cognitive and neural processes, is entitled ‘The manifestation of visual attention span deficit in English-native-speakers with compensated dyslexia: an fMRI study’.
The Oxford-Kobe symposium will involve "twenty-five world experts on the neurobiological basis of dyslexia… discuss[ing] its genetics, neurology, diagnosis and treatment in different writing systems" (for more information see http://www.oxfordkobe.com/).
Dr Bridget Dibb to deliver invited lecture at IFESS UK & Ireland 2013 conference
At the invitation of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS), Brunel health psychologist Dr Bridget Dibb will deliver a talk titled 'Exploring positive adjustment in people with spinal cord injury' at the IFESS UK & Ireland 2013 conference on 12th April 2013 at the University of Southampton. And in more good news, the paper on which this talk is based has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Health Psychology.
Dr. Noam Sagiv to deliver keynote lecture at American Synesthesia Association meeting in Toronto
Brunel psychologist Dr. Noam Sagiv, one of the world's leading researchers on synaesthesia, will deliver the keynote lecture at the American Synesthesia Association meeting in Toronto (May 31 - June 2, 2013).
Synaesthesia is a condition in which stimulating one sense results in an experience in two or more sensory modalities (e.g., a person with synaesthesia may vividly perceive colours when they hear music or taste food). Dr Sagiv's lecture is titled 'Synaesthesia - A window into human consciousness and social cognition'.
More information about the American Synesthesia Association meeting is available here: http://www.synesthesia.info/upcoming.html
