Meeting at University College London
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Session A
Carys Evans, Michael Banissy and Rebecca A Charlton (Goldsmiths University of London) Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) affects mood differently depending on age and trait mood. Emma Portch, Karen Lander, Charlie Frowd and Timothy Cootes (University of Manchester and University of Central Lancashire) Animating famous face composites and the recognition of identity. Rob Jenkins and Eilidh Noyes (University of York) Deliberate disguise in face identification. Joan Liu-Shuang, Charles C-F Or and Bruno Rossion (University of Louvain, Belgium) Spatiotemporal dynamics of viewpoint-sensitive and viewpoint-invariant face identity perception. Milena Dzhelyova, Qiuling Luo and Bruno Rossion (University of Louvain, Belgium) Perceptual and neural similarities of the six basic emotions. Tjeerd Jellema, Hollie Burnett, Sylwia Macinska and Letizia Palumbo (University of Hull, University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University) The role of emotional anticipation in perceptual face biases in typical development and autism. Aureliu Lavric, Heike Elchlepp and Stephen Monsell (University of Exeter) The ERP signature of facial expression recognition is not influenced by endogenous task-set control.
Session B
Robert H Logie and Andria Shimi (University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford) Feature binding in short-term memory and long-term learning. Rosalind Potts and David R Shanks (University College London) Does generating errors benefit memory by enhancing attention to feedback? Rebecca L Jackson, Lauren L Cloutman and Matthew A Lambon Ralph (University of Manchester) Investigating the function of resting-state networks using a systematic ICA approach. Grace E Rice, Helen L Caswell, Perry Moore, Paul Hoffman and Matthew A Lambon Ralph (University of Manchester, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool and University of Edinburgh) Semantic memory performance following left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection. Franziska R Richter, Rose A Cooper, Paul M Bays and Jon S Simons (University of Cambridge) Distinct neural mechanisms underlie the success, precision, and vividness of episodic memory. Lucy G Cheke, Heidi M Bonnici, Nicola S Clayton and Jon S Simons (University of Cambridge) Neurocognitive investigation of episodic memory impairment in obesity. Catherine L Sebastian, Jean Stafford, Eamon J McCrory, Arjun Sethi, Stephane A De Brito, Patricia L Lockwood and Essi Viding (Royal Holloway University of London, University College London, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford) (Sponsor: Manos Tsakiris) Modulation of amygdala response to task-irrelevant emotion in typical adults and in threat-reactive adolescents with conduct problems.
Thursday 5 January 2017
Session A
Marie Juanchich, Lukasz Walasek and Miroslav Sirota (University of Warwick and University of Essex) Effect of social exclusion on judgment and decision-making. Stefanie Habermann, Silke Goebel, Chris Donlan and Charles Hulme (University College London and University of York) The importance of pre-school transcoding skills in the development of arithmetic. Miroslav Sirota, Lenka Kostovičová and Marie Juanchich (University of Essex and Slovak Academy of Sciences) Numeracy as ability and disposition: Experimental evidence. Peter Morris and Catherine Fritz (Lancaster University and University of Northampton) Statistics and variability reported and not reported in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and the journals of the Psychonomic Society. Catherine Fritz and Peter Morris (University of Northampton and Lancaster University) Effect sizes and confidence interval reporting and use in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and other experimental psychology journals. Mary Zhang and Mark Haggard (University of Cambridge) Advantages of the modelling approach to data analysis – even for medium-sized experimental datasets.
Session B
Symposium: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of action imitation (Organiser: Dr Patti Adank) Antonia Hamilton (University College London) Imitating and being imitated: neural and cognitive mechanisms. Harold Bekkering (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Studying the mechanisms of action observation as a window into imitation. Ellen Poliakoff (University of Manchester) Imitation in Parkinson‘s disease: From motor resonance to motor imagery. Daniel Carey, Marc E Miquel, M Ruthven, Bronwen G Evans, Patti Adank and Carolyn McGettigan (Royal Holloway University of London, Queen Mary University of London, Barts Health, London and University College London) (Speaker: Carolyn McGettigan) Functional, acoustic and articulatory outcomes of speech training: a multimodal investigation of vowel imitation. Alessandro D‘Ausilio (Italian Institute of Technology, Ferrara, Italy) Investigating the sensorimotor basis of natural speech interaction. Chiara Gambi (University of Edinburgh) Imagining others‘ speech: Speech imagery and production share a common covert simulation mechanism.
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Session A Andy J Wills, Garrett O‘Connell, Charlotte Edmunds and Angus Inkster (Plymouth University) Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration: Concepts, tools, and examples. Helen J Cassaday, Hayley J Marshall and Marie A Pezze (University of Nottingham) Activity focus in ageing male rats. Tara Zaksaite and Peter M Jones (Plymouth University) Uncertainty of the blocked cue and the redundancy effect in humans. Sophie O‘Kane, Emma Gowen, Peter Kyberd and Ellen Poliakoff (University of Manchester and University of Greenwich) Do prosthetic hands elicit an uncanny feeling? Chris McManus, Giulia Buckens, Naomi Harris, Alexandra Flint, Abigail Ng and Fenia Vovou (University College London) Faking handedness: How well opposite handedness can be faked, its relation to social cognitions, and a forensic application. Phot Dhammapeera, Xiaoqing Hu and Zara Bergström (University of Kent and University of Texas, Austin, USA) Imagining a false alibi impairs concealed memory detection with the autobiographical Implicit Association Test.
Forty fifth Bartlett Lecture Professor Andy Young (University of York) Faces, people and the brain.
Session B
Symposium: Person perception (Organiser: Professor Mike Burton) Alexander Todorov (Princeton University) Mapping the social space of the face. Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University) “Those were the days, my friend … oops, sorry, I thought you were someone else … .” Bruno Rossion (University of Louvain, Belgium) Thirty years of the composite face effect: a tribute to (one of) Andy Young‘s outstanding contributions to face perception research. Alice O‘Toole (University of Texas at Dallas) Understanding the information in human bodies. Sophie Scott (University College London) What‘s in a voice? Stefan R Schweinberger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany) Person perception from voice and face – basic processes and individual differences.
End of symposium
Friday 6 January 2017
Session A
Victoria E A Brunsdon, Elisabeth E F Bradford and Heather Ferguson (University of Kent) Age-related differences in visual perspective-taking. Antje Nuthmann and Christopher N L Clark (University of Edinburgh) (Sponsor: Kevin B Paterson) Eye movements and the perceptual span in real-world scene search and sentence reading in young and older adults. Patrick Rabbitt, Mary Lunn, Stephen Aichele and Paolo Ghisletta (University of Oxford and University of Geneva, Switzerland) Slowing predicts mortality, and rates and amounts of cognitive decline, but is a marker for global, not local brain changes. Antje S Meyer, Caitlin Decuyper and Cas Coopmans (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Distribution of attention in question-answer sequences: Evidence for limited parallel processing. Chuanli Zang, Manman Zhang, Xuejun Bai, Guoli Yan, Bernhard Angele and Simon P Liversedge (Tianjin Normal University, P.R. China, Bournemouth University and University of Southampton) The skipping of the structural particle de (的) and other high frequency words in Chinese reading. Joanne Ingram and Christopher Hand (University of the West of Scotland and Glasgow Caledonian University) (Sponsor: Fiona Kyle) Words from the wizarding world: Processing fictional and non-fictional words in supportive and non-supportive contexts.
Session B
Chloe Marshall and Vikki Janke (University College London and University of Kent) Using the hands to represent objects: Gesture as a substrate for signed language acquisition.
Symposium: Attention from every angle: A tribute to Glyn Humphreys (Organisers: Professor Chris Olivers and Professor Dana Samson). Derrick Watson, Elisabeth Blagrove and Melina A Kunar (University of Warwick) What‘s new after 20 years of visual marking? Time-based visual selection in complex scenes and with socially relevant stimuli. David Soto (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian and Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation of Science, Bilbao, Spain) How the human brain replays prior episodes of attentional control. Karina Linnell (Goldsmith University of London) Attentional insights from a remote people: New perspectives on an old theoretical debate and on normal function. Carmel Mevorach, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Ian Apperly, Mayra Muller Spaniol and Joy Geng (University of Birmingham, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and University of California Davis, California, USA) Autistic tendencies and psychosis proneness contrastively mediate preparatory and reactive attention control. Rebecca Lawson (University of Liverpool) Social attention – just look at me!
End of symposium
Session A
Patrick Haggard, Steve di Costa, Brianna Beck and Heloise Thero (University College London and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) The psychology of action experience: intentionality, instrumentality and valence. Elizabeth S Collier and Rebecca Lawson (University of Liverpool) Thinking but not perceiving: apparent grasping capacity does not directly influence perceived object size. Monica S Castelhano and Richelle L Witherspoon (Queen‘s University, Canada) (Sponsor: Simon Liversedge) How you use it matters: Object placement in scenes governed by function. David D Coggan, David M Watson, Daniel H Baker, Tom Hartley and Timothy J Andrews (University of York) A data-driven analysis reveals the importance of visual properties in the emergence of higher-level representations in the ventral visual pathway. Daniel Poole, Emma Gowen, Paul A Warren and Ellen Poliakoff (University of Manchester) Selective attention in autism spectrum condition: No crossmodal advantage for the suppression of visual distracters. Sarah Taylor and Chris Kent (University of Bristol) Multiple cue and multiple target effects on visual attention allocation.
Session B
Justyna Sobczak and Gareth Gaskell (University of York) Mechanisms underlying consolidation of new words: implicit versus explicit learning. Greg Maciejewski and Ekaterini Klepousniotou (University of Leeds) Meaning frequency and its effects on word comprehension. Anastasia Ulicheva and Max Coltheart (Royal Holloway University of London, University of Hong Kong and Macquarie University, Australia) Does body-rime consistency influence reading aloud? Lucy J MacGregor, Jennifer M Rodd, Olaf Hauk and Matthew H Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge and University College London) The neuromagnetic time-course of semantic ambiguity resolution in speech comprehension. Hun S Choi, Billi Randall, Barry J Devereux and Lorraine K Tyler (University of Cambridge) Neuro-computational modelling of lexico-syntactic representation and integration during speech comprehension. Barry Devereux, Billi Randall, William Marslen-Wilson and Lorraine K Tyler (University of Cambridge) Effects of lexico-syntactic information on long-distance syntactic structure building during spoken language comprehension.
Poster session
Anna K Bobak, Viktoria R Mileva and Peter J B Hancock (University of Stirling) Stirling Face Recognition Scale (SFRS): A self-report tool for assessing individual differences in face recognition. Matthew Plummer, Stuart Gibson, Yan Wang and Zara Bergström (University of Kent) Retrieval induced updating of unfamiliar face memories. Jet G Sanders, Yoshiyuki Ueda, Sakiko Yoshikawa and Rob Jenkins (University of York and Kyoto University, Japan) Other-race effect in hyper-realistic mask detection: a new challenge for facial identification. David P Morgan, Stacy Wetmore, Laura Mickes and David Shanks (Royal Holloway University of London, Butler University, Indianapolis and University College London) Examining the impact of age on eyewitness memory. Alicia Forsberg, Wendy Johnson and Robert Logie (University of Edinburgh) Verbal labels in working memory? Memory for colours and shapes in healthy cognitive ageing. Satoru Nishiyama and Satoru Saito (Kyoto University, Japan) Aftereffects of retrieval stopping: Evidence from a dot-probe task. Marike O‘Donnell, Chris Jarrold, Rebecca Saw and Félice van ‘t Wout (University of Bristol) Does working memory capacity contribute to age differences in task switching performance? Yuki Tanida, Yu Koshima and Masahiko Okamoto (Osaka University, Japan and Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) (Sponsor: Satoru Saito) The magnitude similarity effect on immediate serial recall of fractions. Jason Hamilton and Scott N Cole (York St. John University) Imagining possible selves across time: Characteristics of self-images and episodic thoughts. Charlotte Edmunds and Andy Wills (Plymouth University) Modeling category learning using a dual-system approach: A simulation of Shepard, Hovland and Jenkins (1961) by COVIS. Eleanor Cole, Katie E Slocombe and Nick E Barraclough (University of York) Explicit mentalizing deficits in adults with higher levels of autistic traits in clinical and non-clinical populations. Mark R Gardner, Aiste P Bileviciute and Caroline J Edmonds (University of Westminster and University of East London) Implicit mentalising in the Samson avatar task revealed by dissociation with attention orienting. Charlotte Gove, Hassan Mansour and Rebecca A Charlton (Goldsmiths University of London) Autism traits and well-being in adults receiving a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Deborah Luxon, Charlotte Gove, Hassan Mansour and Rebecca A Charlton (Goldsmiths University of London) Well-being and sleep in Autism Spectrum Disorders across the lifespan. Gavin R Stewart and Rebecca A Charlton (Goldsmiths University of London) Ageing with autism traits: Examining ageing in the Broad Autism Phenotype. Rebecca A Gilbert, Hannah N Betts, Rachel Jose and Jennifer M Rodd (University College London) New UK-based dominance norms for ambiguous words. Greg Maciejewski and Ekaterini Klepousniotou (University of Leeds) Between- and within-dialects variation in experience with the meanings of ambiguous words. Sujatha Krishnan-Barman and Antonia Hamilton (University College London) The effect of social context on overimitation of actions. Sha Li, Jingxin Wang, Lin Li and Kevin B Paterson (Tianjin Normal University China and University of Leicester) Adult age differences in eye-guidance during Chinese reading. Ruth Filik, Hannah Howman, Christina Ralph-Nearman and Rachel Giora (University of Nottingham and Tel Aviv University, Israel) The role of defaultness and personality factors in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from eye-tracking during reading. Madeleine Payne, Joanna Hale and Antonia Hamilton (University College London) Social modulation of syntactic alignment: An investigation using avatars. Hassan Mansour and Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths University of London) You talking to me? The influence of social anxiety, activity, and framing onto gaze aversion during a skype interaction. Lisa J Stephenson, S Gareth Edwards, Emma E Howard and Andrew P Bayliss (University of East Anglia) The eyes that bind us: Interpersonal sense of agency during joint attention. Nicole Ruta, Alistair Burleigh and Robert Pepperell (Cardiff Metropolitan University) (Sponsor: Marco Bertamini) Smaller hands, bigger head: a perceptual trend in artistic portraits. Dawn Liu and Marie Juanchich (University of Essex) Calorie labels may encourage more exercise-related thoughts and greater intention to exercise than activity labels. Angus Inkster, Chris Mitchell and Andy Wills (University of Plymouth) The effect of context shift on the inverse base rate effect. Angie Makri and Christopher Jarrold (University of Bristol) Investigating the enactment effect for actions versus objects: A developmental study. Constanze Muhl, Orla Sheil, Lina Jarutyte and Patricia EG Bestelmeyer (Bangor University and University of Bristol) (Sponsor: David Carey) The Bangor Voice Matching Test: A standardised test to assess voice perception ability. Letizia Palumbo, Neil Harrison and Marco Bertamini (Liverpool Hope University and University of Liverpool) Approach response for smooth curvature: an ERP study. Andrea Piovesan, Laura Mirams, Helen Poole, David Moore and Ruth Ogden (Liverpool John Moores University) Judging the duration of painful and non-painful stimuli.
Meeting at Queen‘s University, Belfast
Monday 10 April 2017
Session A
Symposium: Time & Causality (Organiser: Marc Buehner) Ben Rottman (University of Pittsburgh) Learning causal relations in non-stationary time series environments. Christos Bechlivanidis and David A Lagnado (University College London) Time reordered: how causal beliefs guide judgments of temporal order. Andrea Desantis (Université Paris Descartes) How actions structure time: about the perceived temporal order of action and sensory events. Axel Lindner (University of Tübingen) The causal attribution of sensory events to one‘s own actions and its impairment in Schizophrenia. Emma Blakey, Sara Lorimer, Christoph Hoerl, David A Lagnado, Teresa McCormack and Marc J Buehner (Sheffield University, Queen‘s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University College London, Cardiff University) When causality shapes the experience of time: Temporal binding across development.
End of symposium
EPS/BSA Undergraduate Project Prize Robert Jagiello (University of Warwick) Social risk amplification in computer-mediated diffusion chains: Effectiveness of information reactivation applied to risk taxonomy.
Session B
Helen S Jones, John Towse, Nicholas Race and Timothy Harrison (Lancaster University and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) Cognitive and situational influences on susceptibility to email fraud. Stergios Makris and David Marchant (Edge Hill University) (Sponsor: Valentina Cazzato) The neural correlates of detecting deception in expert soccer players. Elizabeth Sheppard, Melissa Drake, Corinna Swann and Peter Mitchell (University of Nottingham) Can people guess what cognitive task someone is engaged in based on a brief sample of his/her behaviour? Jeff P Hamm and Michael Han (University of Auckland, New Zealand) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) An examination of reverse Illusory Line Motion. Joseph L Brooks, Anka Davila and Akul Satish (University of Kent) Inter-Edge Grouping: A new principle of figure-ground organisation and new unifying framework for some classic principles. Alexis Makin, Damien Wright, Giulia Rampone, Letizia Palumbo and Marco Bertamini (University of Liverpool, University of Stirling and Liverpool Hope University) Six claims about the extrastriate symmetry network.
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Session A
Symposium: Metacognitions: dissociations or commonalities (Organised by: Professor Patrick Haggard) Stephen M Fleming (University College London) A psychophysical approach to perceptual confidence. Lucie Charles (University College London) Dynamics of metacognition and error awareness.Redmond G O‘Connell, Wouter Rys, Peter R Murphy and Simon P Kelly (Trinity College Dublin, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) Neural mechanisms for first- and second-order decisions in the human brain. Elisa Filevich (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Domain-generality in perceptual metacognition. Janet Metcalfe, Bennett L Schwartz and Paul A Bloom (Columbia University) A functional view of metacognitive phenomenology. Patrick Haggard (University College London) How do we know what we are doing?
End of Symposium
Session B
Gemma Fitzsimmons, Mark J Weal and Denis Drieghe (University of Southampton) Reading for comprehension versus skim reading on the web: How skim reading is informed by hyperlinks. Christopher J Hand, Joanne Ingram and Graham G Scott (Glasgow Caledonian University and University of the West of Scotland) (Sponsor: Ruth Filik) Raednig trnaspoesd txet: Effects of position, frequency and letter constraint. Timothy J Slattery, Rhiannon S Barrington and Julie A Kirkby (Bournemouth University) Inter-letter and inter-word spacing and dyslexia: An eye movement study.
Kayleigh L Warrington, Sarah J White and Kevin B Paterson (University of Leicester) Ageing and the misperception of words during reading. Lin Li, Kayleigh L Warrington, Fang Xie, Sha Li, Jingxin Wang, Victoria A McGowan, Sarah J White and Kevin B Paterson (Tianjin Normal University, China and University of Leicester) Effects of ageing and pattern complexity on the visual span of Chinese readers. Denis Drieghe, Sana Bouamama, Ehab W Hermena and Simon P Liversedge (University of Southampton and Zayed University, UAE) Age of Acquisition effects in Arabic reading.
Session A
Jo Black, David Williams and Heather Ferguson (University of Kent) Imaging impossible counterfactual worlds in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study.
Symposium: Moral reasoning and counterfactuals (Organiser: Professor Ruth Byrne) Bertram F Malle (Brown University) In blame and guilt, counterfactuals are for unintentional behaviors. Jonathan Phillips (Harvard University) The relevance of alternative possibilities. Ruth Byrne, Mary Parkinson, Shane Timmons and Tiago Almeida (Trinity College Dublin) Counterfactual ‘if only‘ and semifactual ‘even if‘ thoughts and moral judgments. Daniel A Effron and Lisa L Shu (London Business School) Truthy lies: How counterfactual thinking can facilitate dishonesty. Teresa McCormack and Brian Uprichard (Queen‘s University Belfast) Moral development and regret.
End of symposium
Patrick Burns, Agnieszka Jaroslawska, Áine Fitzpatrick, Eugene Caruso and Teresa McCormack (Queen‘s University Belfast, University of Edinburgh and University of Chicago) Investigating the developmental trajectory of moral judgements in the mini-ultimatum game: Intentionality and temporal asymmetry.
Sixth Frith Prize Rebecca Brewer (University of East London) The contribution of alexithymia to impaired socio-affective processing across disorders.
Session B
Patti Adank, Helen E Nuttall, Gwijde Maegherman and Harold Bekkering (University College London, Lancaster University and Radboud University, The Netherlands) Covert imitation processes affect speech perception but not speech production. Dan Kennedy-Higgins, Joseph T Devlin and Patti Adank (University College London) Exploring the role of cognitive abilities in plasticity in speech processing. Renske S Hoedemaker and Antje S Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Coordination and preparation of utterances in a joint-naming task. Sven L Mattys, James Hutson, Shekeila D Palmer and Laurence White (University of York and Plymouth University) Lexical knowledge boosts statistically-driven speech segmentation. Shekeila D Palmer, James Hutson and Sven L Matty (University of York) Statistical learning for speech segmentation: Age-related changes and underlying mechanisms. James A Hampton and Elisabeth Thwaites (City University of London) Metacognitive awareness of knowledge of word meanings.
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Session A
Caren A Frosch and Victoria Simms (University of Leicester and Ulster University) Exploring the relationship between mathematical ability and domain general reasoning abilities in children and adults. Kinga Morsanyi, Teresa McCormack and Eileen O‘Mahony (Queen‘s University Belfast) The link between deductive reasoning and maths. Bianca van Bers, Kinga Morsanyi, Patrick O‘Connor and Teresa McCormack (University of Amsterdam and Queen‘s University Belfast) Do children with developmental dyscalculia have an order processing deficit? Katharina M Schnitzspahn, Franziska Plessow, Clemens Kirschbaum and Matthias Kliegel (University of Aberdeen, Harvard Medical School, USA, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany and University of Geneva, Switzerland) (Sponsor: Louise Phillips) Stress effects on cognitive control in aging. Kate Anne Woodcock, Eleanor Callaghan, Katherine Grady, Gurpavnjit Johal, Morgan McKenna, Róisín McKenna and Krupa Seth (Queen‘s University Belfast and University of Birmingham) (Sponsor: Teresa McCormack) Measuring executive functioning in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. Mike Burton, Robin Kramer and Andy Young (University of York) Learning the identity of very few faces delivers incidental perception of social categories. Devin G Ray, Sarah Gomillion, Andrei Pintea and Iain Hamlin (University of Aberdeen and University of Texas, San Antonio) (Sponsor: Louise Phillips) The psychology of being forgotten.
Session B
André Vandierendonck (Ghent University, Belgium) Utility of integrated speed-accuracy measures in a study of task and dimension switching costs. Samuel Sparks, Maxwell Lyons and Ada Kritikos (University of Queensland, Australia) (Sponsor: Simon Liversedge) Spatial and selective attentional constraints in motor contagion in reach-to-grasp action. Joost C Dessing and Sinéad A Reid (Queen‘s University Belfast) (Sponsor: Teresa McCormack) Non-predictive coding for manual interception in the posterior parietal cortex. Maria Laura Filippetti, Louise Kirsch, Laura Crucianelli and Aikaterini Fotopoulou (University College London) (Sponsor: Patrick Haggard) Certainty of interoceptive and exteroceptive signals modulates body ownership in the Rubber Hand Illusion. Gethin Hughes (University of Essex) (Sponsor: Patrick Haggard) The role of the temporoparietal junction in implicit and explicit sense of agency. Samuel Sparks, Virginia Slaughter and Ada Kritikos (University of Queensland, Australia) (Sponsor: Simon Liversedge) Ownership modulates perceptual judgements of object-directed action. Rebecca Weil, Tomás A Palma and Bertram Gawronski (University of Hull, University of Lisbon, Portugal and University of Texas at Austin, USA) (Sponsor: Henning Holle) At the boundaries of misattribution: Does positivity influence judgments of familiarity in the affect misattribution procedure?
Poster session
Amy Atkinson, Ed Berry, Richard Allen, Amanda Waterman, Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (University of Leeds and University of York) How does prioritisation and validity affect performance in visual working memory tasks? Valentina Cazzato and Stergios Makris (Liverpool John Moores University and Edge Hill University) Off-line rTMS of left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex reduces food cravings in females but not males. Jessica Dully and Redmond O‘Connell (Trinity College Dublin) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) Efficiency of strategic adaptation in older adults in a perceptual decision making task. Basma Elkhafif, Anna Weighall, Melanie Burke and Jelena Havelka (University of Leeds) The effect of syntactic priming on auditory word identification. Tamsin Margary, Graham Finlayson, Hannah Nash and Anna Weighall (University of Leeds) Comparing the effects of post-learning exercise, rest and sleep on memory for newly learned words in adults. Amie Fairs, Sara Bogel* and Antje S Meyer (International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. All Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Dual-tasking in language: Concurrent production and comprehension interfere at the phonological level. Sha Li, Maryam A ALjassmi, Kayleigh L Warrington, Sarah J White, Jingxin Wang, Mercedes Sheen, Timothy R Jordan and Kevin B Paterson (Tianjin Normal University China, Zayed University Dubai and University of Leicester) Eye movement control for horizontal and vertical English text. Adam J Parker, Julie A Kirkby and Timothy J Slattery (Bournemouth University) Predictability effects during reading in the absence of parafoveal preview. Gerard M Loughnane, Daniel P Newman, Sarita Tamang, Simon P Kelly and Redmond G O‘Connell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, City College of the City University of New York and University College Dublin) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) Antagonistic interactions between microsaccades and evidence accumulation processes during decision formation. Leila Iliffe, Sonia Rishi and Sarah R Beck (University of Birmingham) Children‘s difficulty with spontaneous counterfactuals: effects of choice and outcome valence. Peter Gooding, Gethin Hughes and Mitchell Callan (University of Essex) (Sponsor: Patrick Haggard) Do notions of choice and control underpin the relationship between belief in free will and subjective wellbeing? Anne Löffler and Patrick Haggard (University College London) Two ways to change your mind: Effects of intentional strength and motor costs on changes of intention. James N MacGregor, J Barton Cunningham and Jennifer Walinga (University of Victoria, Canada and Royal Roads University, Canada) Training insight problem solving: Comparing procedures. James M Ogley and Caren A Frosch (University of Leicester) Non-Functional counterfactual thinking in actors after anticipated regret in a risky decision task. Amanda C Marshall, Antje Gentsch and Simone Schütz-Bosbach (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) (Sponsor: Patrick Haggard) Interoceptive Inference: global vs. local predictions of internal states. Emmet McNickle, Ger Loughnane, David McGovern, Simon Kelly and Redmond O‘Connell (Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) Motor and evidence accumulation signals trace stimulus-response incongruity in the Simon Effect. Ruth S Ogden, Rhiannon McKenzie-Phelan, John Fisk, Catharine Montgomery and John Wearden (Liverpool John Moores University, University of Central Lancashire and Keele University) Executive processes and timing: comparing timing with and without reference memory. Elisabeth Pares and Patrick Haggard (University College London) A new way to access intention in voluntary action. Andrea Piovesan, Laura Mirams, Helen Poole, David Moore and Ruth Ogden (Liverpool John Moores University) Does pain lengthen time estimation because it increases body arousal? A physiological study. Naya Polychroni, Love Hedman and Devin B Terhune (Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Oxford) (Sponsor: Gustav Kuhn) Investigating the behavioural signature of meta-awareness during mind wandering. Wouter Rys and Redmond O‘Connell (Trinity College Dublin) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) Exploring the neural basis of metacognition in perceptual decision-making. Nura Sidarus, Matti Vuorre, Patrick Haggard and Axel Cleeremans (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Columbia University and University College London) The relation between the metacognitive monitoring of action and instrumental learning. Devin B Terhune and Love Hedman (Goldsmiths University of London and University of Oxford) (Sponsor: Gustav Kuhn) Metacognition of agency is reduced in high suggestibility. Jessica Wang, Phillip Tseng, Chi-Hung Juan, Steven Frisson and Ian Apperly (Keele University, University of Birmingham and National Central University, Taiwan) Perspective-taking across cultures: Shared biases in Taiwanese and British adults. Yuchunzi Wu, Bronwen G Evans and Patti Adank (University College London) Sensorimotor learning modulates automatic imitation in visual speech. Yi Xie and Sarah R Beck (University of Birmingham) The notion of psychological distance in counterfactual thinking. Fiona Patrick, Lindsey Marwood, Renata Cserjesi, Robert Davis and Adam Perkins (King‘s College London, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Goldsmiths University of London) (Sponsor: Teresa McCormack) Exploring a novel tool for the measurement of self-criticism, in anorexia nervosa.
Meeting at University of Reading
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Session A
Cai S Longman, Fraser Milton, Andy J Wills and Frederick Verbruggen (University of Exeter, Plymouth University and Ghent University, Belgium) Instructions matter: Transfer of learned category-response and/or stimulus response associations is determined by instruction. Fraser Milton, Kathryn Carpenter, Charlotte Edmunds and Andy Wills (University of Exeter and University of Plymouth) Does deferred feedback sharply dissociate implicit and explicit category learning?
Symposium: Advances in basic applied cognitive control research (Organiser: Professor Chris Chambers) Baptist Liefooghe (Ghent University, Belgium) Investigating the implementation of novel instructions by using instruction-based congruency effects. Gordon Logan (Vanderbilt University, USA) Automatic control: The result of skill. Ian McLaren (University of Exeter) Associatively-mediated inhibition: Basic processes and implications for interventions. Natalia Lawrence (University of Exeter) Inhibiting impulses: Translating cognitive control research from the lab to life. Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) Bringing large-scale open science to cognitive control research.
End of symposium
Twenty fourth EPS Prize Professor Frederick Verbruggen (University of Exeter) Executive control of (impulsive) action.
Session B
Symposium: Glucose facilitation effects on frontal and medial temporal lobe function (Organised by: Dr Karen Brandt) Lauren Owen (University of Central Lancashire) Fuel for the brain; Individual differences and energy substrates for enhanced cognitive function. Sandra Sünram-Lea (Lancaster University) Last in, first out; Brain economy in times of limited resources. Michael A Smith (Northumbria University) Facing diabetes: Face recognition deficits in older adults with type 2 diabetes. Leigh Gibson (University of Roehampton) Cognitive deficits associated with obesity and diabetes: is poor glucoregulation responsible? Andrew Scholey (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Supply and demand in the ageing brain: Can a ‘neuroeconomy‘ model explain glucose effects on neurocognition in younger and older adults?
End of symposium
Frouke Hermens (University of Lincoln) When do arrows start to compete? A developmental mouse-tracking study. Richard O‘Connor (University of Hull) (Sponsor: David George) How children explain their own performance on a non-verbal response false-belief task.
Thursday 13 July 2017
Session A
Zoe Woodhea*, Sheila Kerr, Oscar Aguilar, Alex Leff and Jenny Crinion (University of Oxford and University College London) (Sponsor: Kevin Paterson) Randomized trial of iReadMore word reading training and left IFG anodal tDCS in central alexia. Rachael C Hulme and Jennifer M Rodd (University College London) The testing effect in long-term retention from incidental and intentional vocabulary learning. Emma James, Gareth Gaskell and Lisa Henderson (University of York) Matthew effects in word learning: does prior knowledge aid consolidation? Eleanor Luckcock, Theo Marinis and Carmel Houston-Price (University of Reading Malaysia and University of Reading) Word learning is affected by language experience and learning method. Lydia Viñals, Helen Blank, Jelena Mirković, Gareth Gaskell and Matthew H Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, York St John University and University of York) Overnight changes in the representational structure of newly-learned inflections. Jennifer Ashton, Beth Jefferies, Gareth Gaskell (University of York) Sleep can benefit memory for trained associations but may not play a specific role in rule extraction.
Session B
Agnieszka W Kowalczyk and James A Grange (Keele University) Cognitive Inhibition: The n-2 repetition cost and working memory capacity. James A Grange and Agnieszka W Kowalczyk (Keele University) The effect of ageing on inhibition in task switching when controlling for episodic retrieval. Rachel Swainson, Laura Prosser, Kostadin Karavasilev and Aleksandra Romanczuk (University of Aberdeen) Switch costs following cue-only trials remain after controlling for between-trial intervals and predictability. Claudia C von Bastian and Carla De Simoni (Bournemouth University and University of Zurich, Switzerland) (Sponsor: Peter Hills) No evidence for effects of updating and binding training on working memory capacity and efficiency. Chunliang Yang, Rosalind Potts and David R Shanks (University College London) The forward testing effect on self-regulated study time allocation and metamemory monitoring. C Philip Beaman, Maciej Hanczakowski and Dylan M Jones (University of Reading and Cardiff University) Meta-memory in noise: Auditory distraction interferes with allocation and perception of study time.
Session A
Rebecca A Gilbert, Matthew H Davis, M Gareth Gaskell and Jennifer M Rodd (University College London and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) Generalisation of recent word meaning experience across modalities: How we avoid barking up the wrong tree.
Symposium: Convergent approaches to studying reading acquisition (Organiser: Dr Matt Davis, MRC-CBU, Cambridge) Michal Ben-Shachar (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Changes in children‘s cortical sensitivity and structural connectivity during literacy acquisition. Matthew H Davis and Jo S H Taylor (MRC-CBU, Cambridge and Royal Holloway University of London) Linking functional and neural accounts of lexical processing using predictive coding. Ram Frost (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) Statistical learning and writing systems: Learning to read a novel orthography. Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University and MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands) Computational modelling of reading throughout the lifespan. Kate Nation (University of Oxford) Nurturing a lexical legacy: language experience and learning to read words. Anna M Woollams, Isobel McMillan and Wael El-Deredy (University of Manchester) Stimulating reading of known and novel orthographies.
End of symposium
Fifteenth Mid-Career award Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway University of London) Writing systems, reading and language.
Session B
Kay L Ritchie and Katie L H Gray (University of Lincoln and University of Reading) Familiar face dominance in binocular rivalry. Clare Sutherland, Xizi Liu, Lingshan Zhang, Yingtung Chu, Julian Oldmeadow and Andy Young (University of York, University of Western Australia and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Testing the universality of first impressions from faces using data-driven modelling. Peter J Hills, Aimee Lee Roberts and Daniel Dickinson (Bournemouth University and Anglia Ruskin University) The effects of social pressure on face recognition. Duncan Guest, Andrew Mackenzie, Christina J Howard, Stephen Badham and Louise Brown (Nottingham Trent University and University of Strathclyde) Number of objects and number of features influence the extent of age related differences in visual information processing. Daniel T Smith and Neil Archibald (Durham University) Oculomotor impairments are associated with deficits of covert attention and spatial short-term memory. David Pitcher (University of York) (Sponsor: Mike Burton) Mapping the effects of transient cortical disruption across the brain: combining thetaburst TMS and fMRI. Victoria Brunsdon, Elisabeth Bradford and Heather Ferguson (University of Kent) Mirror neuron activity in younger and older adults.
Friday 14 July 2017
Session A
Gavin Buckingham, Johnny Parr, Greg Wood, Sam Vine, Pan Dimitriou and Sarah Day (University of Exeter, Liverpool Hope University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde) The impact of using an upper-limb prosthesis on the perception of real and illusory weight differences.
Symposium: Social perception and its atypicalities (Organiser: Professor Bhisma Chakrabarti and Dr Katie Gray) Beatrice de Gelder (Maastricht University) Some important differences between facial and bodily expressions and why they matter. David Perrett (University of St Andrews) Attachment style and preferences for perceived social traits in faces. Brad Duchaine (Dartmouth College, USA) A cumulative account of the neural basis of developmental prosopagnosia. Richard Cook (City University London) Holistic face processing in typical and atypical observers. Bhismadev Chakrabarti (University of Reading) Reward driven modulation of the response to faces: Clues for and from autism. Francesca Happe (Kings College London) How is autistic social processing affected by ageing?
End of symposium
Session B
Martina Micai, Mila Vulchanova and David Saldaña (University of Reading, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Individuals with autism do not change reading strategies as a function of reading goals: A matter of planning. Anastasia Ulicheva, Mark Aronoff and Kathleen Rastle (Royal Holloway University of London and Stony Brook University, USA) What do spellings of English suffixes tell us? Ehab W Hermena, Eida J Juma, Ascensión Pagán, Maryam Al Jassmi, Mercedes Sheen and Timothy R Jordan (Zayed University, Dubai, UAE and University of Oxford, Oxford) Orthographic, morphological and semantic parafoveal processing in Arabic reading: Evidence from the boundary paradigm. Holly Joseph (University of Reading) Predictors of incidental word learning during reading in monolingual and bilingual children: Evidence from eye movements. Ascensión Pagán and Kate Nation (University of Oxford) Learning new words when reading: effects of contextual diversity and temporal spacing. Fang Liu and Patrick C M Wong (University of Reading and Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) (Sponsor: Katie Gray) Musical experience affects tone merging in Cantonese speakers: The relationship between perception and production. Kelly Jakubowski, Zaariyah Bashir, Nicolas Farrugia and Lauren Stewart (Durham University, Goldsmiths University of London and IMT Atlantique, France) Involuntary versus voluntary recall of musical memories: Comparing temporal accuracy and emotional responses.
Poster session
Sumera Ahmed, Tom Mercer, Danny Hinton and Richard Darby (University of Wolverhampton) The impact of time and emotion on directed forgetting. Klaudia B Ambroziak, Elena Azañón and Matthew R Longo (Birkbeck University of London) Body size adaptation for bodies and faces, but not across categories. Gizem Arabaci and Ben Parris (Bournemouth University) The relationship between ADHD symptoms and daily-life and probe-caught spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering in community samples. Stephanie Baines and Imca Hensels (University of Manchester) (Sponsor: Ellen Poliakoff) The effect of evaluative conditioning on implicit associations and explicit choices of healthy and unhealthy foods. Anna K Bobak, Viktoria R Mileva and Peter J B Hancock (University of Stirling) The effects of image pixelation on face learning. Emma Garcia, Markus Bindemann and Robert A Johnston (University of Kent) Helpful or harmful? Forensically relevant time delays and the construction of facial composites. Hannah Tummon, John Allen and Markus Bindemann (University of Kent) Unfamiliar face matching at a virtual reality airport. Natalie W Gentry and Markus Bindemann (University of Kent) Example face pairs improve identity-matching in low-performing individuals. Emily Crowe, Ingrid Van Tongeren, Christopher Kent and Alexander Holcombe (University of Bristol and University of Sydney, Australia) Captured by movement: the effect of motion on transient attention. Ashakee Mahabeer, Robert De Vai, Peter James Hills and Andrew Meso (Bournemouth University) Correlating endophenotypes of schizophrenia: sensory gating, smooth pursuit eye movements, attentional blink and schizotypal traits. Federica Degno, Chuanli Zang, Otto Loberg, Manman Zhang, Nick Donnelly and Simon P Liversedge (University of Southampton, Tianjin Normal University, China and University of Jyväskylä, Finland) An investigation of visual, orthographic and lexical processing during reading of sentences. Sha Li, Laurien Oliver-Mighten, Lin Li, Victoria McGowan, Jingxin Wang and Kevin B Paterson (Tianjin Normal University, China and University of Leicester) Effects of subtle changes in text spacing on eye movements of young and older adult readers. Ehab W Hermena, Simon P Liversedge, Sana Bouamama and Denis Drieghe (Zayed University, UAE and University of Southampton) Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic: Evidence from eye movements and lexical decision. Ehab W Hermena, Hajar Aman-Key-Yekani, Ascensión Pagán, Mercedes Sheen and Timothy R Jordan (Zayed University, Dubai, UAE and University of Oxford) Transposed letter effects in Persian: Evidence from a semantic categorization task. Anna Maria Di Betta, David Playfoot, Jane Morgan and Marta Borowka (Sheffield Hallam University) Fighting like cats and pies: Competition between meanings in interlingual homograph processing. Shihui Wu, Silvia Gennari and Lisa Henderson (University of York) Individual differences predict performance in language production and comprehension. Luke Fisher, Tom Mercer and Richard Darby (University of Wolverhampton) Examining the influence of mind wandering and interest on recall within a retroactive interference context. Alexandra L Georgescu and Antonia Hamilton (University College London) The role of congruency and timing for the social consequences of mimicry. David Harris, Sam Vine, Mark Wilson, John McGrath and Gavin Buckingham (University of Exeter and Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital) Observational learning of surgical skills on the daVinci surgical system. Craig Hedge, Georgina Powell, Aline Bompas, Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths and Petroc Sumner (Cardiff University) The costs of caution: How strategic changes influence the correlations between RT costs and error costs in choice RT tasks. Ashleigh Johnstone and Paloma Mari-Beffa (Bangor University) The effects of martial arts training on attentional networks in typical adults. Jonathan Jones, Anna Adlam and Fraser Milton (University of Exeter) The neural correlates of working memory training in children. Louise-Ann Leyland, Benedict Spencer, Nick Beale, Tim Jones and Carien M van Reekum (University of Reading and Oxford Brookes University) (Sponsor: Katie Gray) Cycling as a way to improve cognitive function in older adults. Jennifer McBride, Jaime Brown, Konstantina Papatheocharis, Chloe Middleton and Paul Warren (University of Manchester) Training proactive motor control reduces gambling, but does not increase caution on other forms of decision making. Chloe Newbury and Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University) The interaction between sleep and valence on the processing of false memories. William G Nicholson and Cris Burgess (University of Exeter) (Sponsor: Frederick Verbruggen) Screeching to a halt: Inhibition training does not address drivers‘ risky behaviour at amber traffic lights. Andrea Olguin, Tristan A Bekinschtein and Mirjana Bozic (University of Cambridge) Type of interference modulates neural encoding of attended continuous speech. Jade S Pickering, Ellen Poliakoff, Iracema Leroi and Jennifer McBride (University of Manchester) Continuous force measurement of response activation and inhibition in Parkinson‘s disease. Christos Pliatsikas, João Verissimo, Laura Babcock, Mariel Pullman, Dana Glei, Maxine A Weinstein, Noreen Goldman and Michael T Ullman (University of Reading, University of Potsdam, Germany, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, Georgetown University, USA and Princeton University, USA) Working memory in a large sample of older adults: Sex and education mediate the effects of ageing. Laura Prosser and Rachel Swainson (University of Aberdeen) Investigating types of between-task conflict as drivers of backward inhibition. Jasmine A L Raw, Michiko Sakaki and Judi Ellis (University of Reading) Memory for the 2016 EU Referendum: Flashbulb memories and emotion. Sarwat Rehman, Emma Threadgold, Khadeeja Tul-Kubra and Lauren Owen (University of Central Lancashire) (Sponsor: John Marsh) The effects of metabolic regulation on problem solving and quality of life. John Shaw and Padraic Monaghan (Lancaster University) Sleep spindles protect against false memory effects as a consequence of sleep. Sophie Sowden, Caroline Catmur and Geoffrey Bird (King‘s College London and University of Oxford) Lie detection: how autistic-like traits impact the ability to control competing representations of the self and others‘ opinions. Emma Thompson, Geoff Bird and Caroline Catmur (King‘s College London) Validation of a new reaction time task targeting two ‘Action Understanding‘ processes: Action identification and intention identification. Nilgun Turkileri, David T Field, Judi A Ellis and Michiko Sakaki (University of Reading) Emotional arousal enhances memory-guided attention. Yaqi Wang and Silvia Gennari (University of York) Memory of event duration.
