Priming

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Professor Masud Husain and Dr Ben Morgan give the third Unconscious Memory talk.

Priming refers to an improved ability to identify or produce a word on the basis of previous encounters, independently of any recollection of the learning episode. This seminar will examine the phenomenon of unconscious memory called priming, discuss existing EEG and fMRI studies results on the effects of priming on the brain, clarify what experimental approaches can hope to accomplish and consider the feasibility of conducting new experiments. Chaired by: Simon Kemp (Somerville, Oxford). Dr Masud Husain (New College, Dept of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford): The Neuroscience of Unconscious Memory. Masud Husain, Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, will present evidence regarding the effects of unconscious memory on behaviour. He will examine findings from patients with focal brain damage as well as neuroimaging studies in healthy individuals. The talk will consider the range of levels at which priming may occur, from perception through to associative memories and actions. Dr Ben Morgan (Worcester, Oxford): Automaticity and Priming.

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Date Added: 18/02/2015

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Unconscious Memory and Mental Space

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Unconscious Memory

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Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes give the second Unconscious Memory talk.

Chaired by: Dr Ben Morgan (Worcester, Oxford) Professor Michael Burke (Utrecht): 'Implicit Memory in Literary Discourse Processing' Michael Burke, Professor of Rhetoric at Utrecht University, explores the role of implicit memory during acts of literary reading. Drawing on his theory of the literary reading loop, he looks at the role that unconscious top-down inputs play and what it takes for such inputs to be able to overrule the incoming rhetorical bottom-up linguistic prompts and reach conscious awareness. Dr Sebastian Groes (Roehampton): 'Neurofictions? Literary and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Psychogeography' Principal Investigator of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust-funded Memory Network and English Literature lecturer, Dr Sebastian Groes talks about his collaboration with writer and psychogeographer Will Self and neuroscientist Hugo Spiers (UCL) on research into the brains of London's black cab drivers, memory and spatial navigation. The project shows that consillience between literature and neuroscience is hard to achieve, but that our capacity to process narratives arose from a primal spatial processing system in the hippocampus, which has a vital role in creating semantic maps for spatial sentences, and for narrative memory and narrative processing.

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Exploring the Two Cultures

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Unconscious Memory

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Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp give the first Unconscious Memory Seminar.

Larry Squire: ‘Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain’ Distinguished Professor Larry Squire (UCSD), whose pioneering work established the distinction between conscious and unconscious memory, discusses the structure and organization of memory. Simon Kemp: 'Unconscious Memory from Proust to the Present' Dr Simon Kemp (Somerville, Oxford), explores how memory and the unconscious intertwine in literature from Proust to the contemporary novel, and consider what light might be shed by new perspectives on the nature and functioning of unconscious memory offered by cognitive neuroscience.

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Unconscious Memory

‘What is the unconscious? Where is it? How does it affect our conscious experiences? The Unconscious Memory Network is a new forum where humanists and neuroscientists can discuss and exchange their research findings on diverse aspects of the unconscious, in particular unconscious memory.

Humanities and Science: Randomness and Order

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music.

The discussion begins with a 20 minute presentation by Professor Ian Walmsley (Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics & Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Oxford), followed by three c. 8 minute responses from:

Professor Jonathan Cross (Professor of Musicology, University of Oxford)
Professor Alison Etheridge (Professor of Probability, University of Oxford)
Professor Chris Wickham (Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford)

Chaired by Professor Stephen Tuck (Director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford)

For related videos and more information about the Humanities and Science series please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/humsciox

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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Date Added: 18/02/2015

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Hilary Seminar Series 2015: Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco

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International Migration Institute

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'Sub-Saharan mobility and the transformation of the urban religious landscape in Morocco', presented by Johara Berriane

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International Migration Institute

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 18/02/2015

Duration: 00:28:37

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Persepolis: Introductory talk by Kaveh Moussavi, Iranian human rights lawyer

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

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Kaveh Moussavi, Iranian human rights lawyer, introduces the film Persepolis.

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

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Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Date Added: 17/02/2015

Duration: 00:22:58

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Patent Policy in Genomics and Human Genetics: Epistemic Communities, Courts and the Democratic Shaping of Patent Law

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

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Professor Dr Ingrid Schneider gives a talk for the FLJS seminar series.

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Date Added: 17/02/2015

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Capital failure - restoring trust in the financial system

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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Professor David Vines gives a talk onthe financial system.

Financial firms were once organisations which helped their clients to do well, and earned fees from doing so. They have become organisations which look for people from whom to make money. As a result, people who work in finance are now very different from doctors; and they are no longer trusted. How did this happen? What can we do to make financial corporations, once again, institutions that are useful to society? Professor Vines, Director of Ethics and Economics at INET Oxford, will provide some answers to these questions in his talk, and will provide particular examples of what needs to be done.

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