Academic CentreMonthly Lab Seminar in Collaboration with RSU will take place from November 2021 to May 2022. These webinars are organised for doctoral students, researchers and lecturers representing various professional fields, from medical and computer sciences to social sciences and humanities.
Topics
- Spatial perception and spatial cognitive processes, their impact on neural and other processes
- Processing emotions
- Visual perception and its relation to other senses
- Perception of medical images
- Cross-modal perception (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing and their connections)
- Integrative analysis of neural and cognitive processes
- Mathematical and logical modelling of cognitive processes
The webinar cycle is implemented by RSU in cooperation with the University of Latvia (Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems at the Faculty of Computing).
For more information visit:
https://www.rsu.lv/en/events/doctoral-school-interdiscilinary-research-seminar-cognitive-sciences
Past webinars
16/06/22 Illusions of mind from perception to biology, from normality to pathology
Lecturer: Professor Baingio Pinna
17/05/22 Cognitive Heuristics for Commonsense Reasoning in the next generation of AI systems
Lecturer: Antonio Lieto, PhD
07/04/22 Wearables, theatre, and the cognitive sciences
Lecturer: Dr. Jamie A. Ward
24/03/22 Brain pathways & information flow for face processing
Lecturer: Prof. Aina Pūce, Ph.D.
24/02/22 Sex/gender differences in language and brain: Findings and methodological challenges
Lecturer: Prof. Mikkel Wallentin
20/1/22 Patterns of free exploration in space shape memory for new environments
Lecturer: Dr. Iva Brunec
9/12/21 Individual differences in navigation ability: Brain and behaviour
Lecturer: Dr. Elizabeth Chrastil
11/11/21 A new approach to object and face perception
Lecturer: Professor Baingio Pinna