Faculty of Brain Sciences Undergraduate Conference
19 March 2014, 9.15am – 6.00 pm
Chandler House
Time
9.15-9.45
9.45-10.00
10.00-10.15
10.15-10.30
10.30-10.45
10.45-11.00
11.00-11.15
11.15-11.30
11.30-11.45
Panel 1 (Room 118)
Panel 2 (Room 116 / Room G15)
Arrival and registration
Welcome from the Vice Dean Education, Prof Gabriella Vigliocco
(Room 118)
Alice O'Leary (Psychology)
Hollyanna Marler (Speech Sciences)
Spatially Guided Algorithmic Responding Within a Novel Version of Do the effects of auditory attention extend down to the
the Radial Arm Maze
brainstem?
Beatrice Cheong (Psychology)
Sophie Chesney (Linguistics)
Affect dysregulation and Interpersonal hypersensitivity in
Can Information Theory help evaluate Relevance? A crossBorderline Personality Disorder.
linguistic investigation of ‘headlinese’.
Raiyan Azmi (Linguistics)
Alice Wickersham (Psychology)
Title TBC
The Effects of Lockouts on Checking Behaviour during a Number
Entry Task
Hayley Bater (Speech Sciences)
Anisha Tolat (Psychology)
Title TBC
The modulatory effect of sleep on the interaction of values in
space
Tea and coffee
(NB: After coffee, panel 2 will continue in Room G15)
Robyn Hunt (Speech Sciences)
Iva Brunec (Psychology)
Phonological processing and reading in children with mild-toEuclidean Proximity Biases Travel Time Estimates
moderate sensorineural hearing-loss
Samuel Landau (Psychology)
Sarah Kennedy (Speech Sciences)
QUANTIFYING INTENTIONS – A NOVEL APPLICATION OF SSVEP
Assessing Children's Grammar from Language Samples: A Survey
of Methods used by Speech and Language Therapists
11.45-12.00
12.00-12.15
12.15-12.30
12.30-13.30
13.30-13.45
13.45-14.00
14.00-14.15
14.15-14.30
14.30-14.45
Natacha Sha'Ban (Psychology)
Can co-occurring tobacco and cannabis use predict cannabis
dependence? A four year longitudinal study.
Jessica Blakemore (Speech Sciences)
Parent-Child Interaction Interventions used in the UK
Nasreen Hussain (Audiology)
How satisfied are patients with the information given to them
about tinnitus by General Practitioners: do age and hearing status
contribute to whether specialist help is offered?
Lunch
Melvin Wan (Psychology)
Are Decisions Under Risk Better Made Through Unconscious
Thought?
James Carragher (Psychology)
The effect of foregone payoffs on dynamic and static 4-armed
bandit tasks
Naushin Hasnani (Audiology)
Audit of ototoxicity monitoring within a large audiology
department in the absence of a dedicated ototoxicity monitoring
service
Grace Gale (Psychology)
Can mental health problems associated with cannabis use predict
cannabis dependence? A longitudinal study
Solene Lochet (Speech Sciences)
Grammar in a Bilingual French/English Child with Williams
Syndrome: A Case Study
Sandra Lee (Psychology)
Personality and Job Performance: The Bright vs Dark Traits in a
East-West Comparison
Eleanor Fleming (Psychology)
Title TBC
Samuel Kinshuck (Psychology)
Stella Spanos (Psychology)
Fleur Freedman (Psychology)
Cyber-paranoia amongst IT professionals
Leonora Marshall (Psychology)
Title TBC
Victoria Fleming (Speech Sciences)
Investigating the validity of a novel picture judgement task to
explore semantic processing in children: findings for typically
developing children and children with word finding difficulties.
Tea and coffee
14.45-15.00
15.00-15.15
Nick Hartston (Psychology)
Personality Predictors of Response to a Novel Behavioural
Intervention in Hazardous Drinkers.
Gwijde Maegherman (Linguistics)
Going the extra mile – Exploring an embodied cognition model of
metaphor interpretation
Marilena Hadjittofi (Psychology)
The Effect of Social Exclusion on Evaluation of Pain in Facial
Expressions
The Effect of Evaluative Conditioning on Implicit Attitudes to
Cigarettes among Smokers
15.15-15.30
15.30-15.45
15.45-16.00
16.00-16.15
16.15-18.00
Ammen Gill (Audiology)
Is there a Difference in Quality of Life Scores for Children with
Cochlear Implants Compared to Children with Hearing Aids?
Children’s Judgements of Probability and Mixture Strength: Is
Causal Explanation the Key to Intuition?
Elhaam Hashim (Audiology)
Listening in spatialized noise Sentences Test (LiSN-S) test and
correlation with the Children’s Auditory Processing Performance
Scale (CHAPS) in children aged 7-11
Francesca Bromage (Psychology)
Stefanie Sinden (Speech Sciences)
How does mood influence sense of power and willingness to
Does extra-large letter spacing improve reading accuracy and/or
protest?
reading rate in typical readers?
Beth Hoang (Psychology)
Rebecca Tan (Psychology)
Learning a foreign language: Giving the right information at the
Towards Understanding Language Comprehension in Children:
right time
Designing an Experimental Design with Picture Stimuli
Closing Remarks from Dr Julie Evans, Faculty Tutor
(Room 118)
Reception