Date: Thursday 31st March
Location: Town Hall Committee Room 3
Time: 12:00-13:00
Title: "Eye Movement Control and Covert Attention: Embodied or Disembodied Cognition?"
Raymond Klein is a cognitive psychologist whose
research is dominated by the concept of attention. He considers himself a
neo-Hebbian in the sense that he recognizes that the brain is the organ of
mind, and values theories that seek to generate psychological processes in
neural networks. In particular, he has recently become involved in applying the
methods and findings of human experimental psychology to real world problems of
individuals such as those suffering from dyslexia, attention deficit/
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Parkinson's disease, problem gambling, and brain
damage because of stroke; and to real-world issues such as counterfeit
detection, eyewitness testimony, road and offshore safety. Ray has kindly
agreed to come along to Middlesex University and discuss his work on eye
movement control and covert attention.
Biography:
With publications in Science, Nature,
and Trends in Cognitive Science Professor Raymond Klein has an
impressive research record. He has an h-index of 57 and has been cited over
15,000 times, over 6000 times since 2011 (Google scholar). He is on the editorial boards of several
journals such as JEP:HPP, Can. JEP, and Attention Perc. & Psychophys. Ray
helped Mel Goodale establish The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and
Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) and
was its second President in 1993-4. In 2008 Ray was honoured to receive the
society's highest academic honour, the D. O. Hebb Award and in 2012 was
honoured to receive its Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award. In
2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been at
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia (Canada) since 1974.
http://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/psychology_neuroscience/faculty-staff/our-faculty/raymond-klein.html
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