Neuropsychology of Perception and Action
Poster
Festschrift for Professor David Milner
"The Neuropsychology of Perception and Action"
6th of September 2008, Department of Psychology, Durham University
Festschrift for Professor David Milner
"The Neuropsychology of Perception and Action"
Durham, 6th of September 2008
start: 9:00 - end: 17:30
Department of Psychology
Durham University
9:00: Introduction
(Dr.
Thomas Schenk, Durham
University, UK)
9:10: What's so special about near and far space?
(Professor Alan Cowey, University of Oxford, UK)
9:40 The two visual streams and their importance for neglect rehabilitation
(Dr. Monika Harvey, University of Glasgow, UK)
10:10 Perception, action and the somatosensory
system
(Dr. Chris Dijkerman, Utrecht University, Netherlands)
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 Colours, contours and faces
(Professor
David Perrett, University of
St. Andrews, UK)
11:30 Pioneering cartographer of the mind: How
David Milner created new maps for the world we see within our head
(Dr. Mark Mon-Williams, University of Aberdeen, UK)
12:00 Attention without awareness
(Dr. Robert Kentridge, Durham University, UK)
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Dissociation of
perception and action unmasked by the hollow-face illusion
(Professor
Richard Gregory, University of
Bristol, UK)
14:30 Online visuomotor control, as revealed by the
hand's automatic pilot
(Dr. Robert McIntosh, University of Edinburgh, UK)
15:00 Friends, Canadians, Yorkshiremen, lend me
your ideas: Connecting David
Milner to my research on blindsight and handedness
(Dr. David Carey, University of Aberdeen, UK)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Putting the two visual systems together
(Professor
Richard Passingham, University
of Oxford, UK)
16:30 Two visual systems: the early years
(Professor Mel Goodale, University
of Western Ontario, London Ontario,
Canada)
17:00 Concluding remarks
(Professor David Milner, University of Durham, UK)
17: 30 End
Organizers: Dr Thomas Schenk, Lee De-Wit, Alison Lane, Gill Rogers, Keira Bell, Marco Hirnstein.
Speakers group pictures
19:00 Dinner at Penthouse Boardroom - Collingwood College- See photos