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We are hosting two 'How to...' webinars at the end of November designed to help students who are considering applying for a WGSSS studentship. (1/3)

Very pleased to be part of this collaborative enterprise with a truly excellent team of researchers. @Marco_Gandolfo Etienne Abassi @BalgovaEva Liuba Papeo Bangor Imaging Unit Bangor University Bangor Psychology

Having now completed the 'Becoming Social' grant Bangor Psychology, it is so very nice to consider all the great projects - and all the excellent researchers - this ERC starting grant let me engage with. So many thanks, European Research Council (ERC)!

Check out this cool paper by Alex Mitko , Ana Navarro-Cebrian, Sarah Cormiea and Jason Fischer using correlation of abilities across tasks to infer the existence of a distinct cognitive system for intuitive physical reasoning: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Bangor crew enjoyed opening night at #ECVP2024 Bangor University Bangor Psychology

Pleased to give a talk in a great line-up of talks in the Social Perception session this afternoon at #ECVP2024. Bangor University Bangor Psychology

Bangor Psych's Simon Watt, presenting his poster "Intuitive visuomotor control of grip force in a (simulated) body-powered prosthesis?" at #ECVP2024. Bangor University Bangor Psychology

Paul Aiken, presenting his PhD work with Paul Downing at Bangor at #ECVP2024. In presenting "The perceptual integrality of sex and age: understanding the functional organisation of face processing" he had both great data *and* a fancy presentation. Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Great poster from Marjola Peça with Ayelet Sapir at #ECVP2024: "Investigating the effect of hemispheric dominance on perceptual bias in 3D shape-from-shading: Evidence from left-handers". Special guest appearance from former Bangorian Charles Leek. Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Paul Downing, presenting a poster on "Visual encoding of social interactions in body-selective human brain regions" at #ECVP2024. Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Mae Bernard did a stellar job presenting their work with Paul Rauwolf, @Neweyances, and me at #ECVP2024: "Do we judge robots like humans when they give us incorrect information?" Bangor Psychology Bangor University

The symposium at #ECVP2024 on "Reproducing reality: What is needed to build displays that pass the "visual Turing test"?" included a diverse set of talks from varied viewpoints and was a great success. Co-organised by Simon Watt Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Joshua Matthews presenting his work with Ayelet Sapir at #ECVP2024: Attention facilitates three-dimensional shape from shading. Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Filip Durovic, presenting his work with Paul Downing at #ECVP2024: "Measuring the speed of action recognition". Special guest appearance by former Bangorian and current collaborator Patric Bach (now at Aberdeen). Bangor Psychology Bangor University Action Prediction Lab / Prof Patric Bach

Molly Hewitt, presenting her work with Simon Watt in the last poster session of the conference: "Visually guided grasping in tool use: movement planning takes into account changes in tool orientation". #ECVP2024 Bangor Psychology Bangor University

(Most) of the Bangor crew gathers after the final (excellent) keynote talk of #ECVP2024. Guest appearances from former Bangorians @DrMadgeJackson, Corinna Haenschel, and Charles Leek. Bangor Psychology Bangor University

Goodbye #ECVP2024 and Aberdeen -- we've had a grand time and seen a lot of great science. Last photos from the farewell party and cèilidh at Union Kirk. Molly Hewitt and Mae Bernard seen dancing here - it got much busier later!

New paper out! We identify a building block of the Language of Thought in infancy: thematic roles (agent, patient). More on Liuba Papeo's thread below. Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod Baby Lyon 🧵👇