12th Implicit Learning Seminar

Thursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th)

No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided.

Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway station and is a short journey from Brighton station. The university provides a list of discounted hotels. Gatwick airport is only 30 minutes away from Brighton by train. Brighton Festival is on for the whole of May.

9:30 coffee

10:00 Introduction (Zoltan Dienes, Sussex):  The importance of implicit learning

10:20 David R. Shanks & Adam J. L. Harris (UCL London): Is anchoring automatic?

10:40 Fenna Poletiek (Leiden University) The effect of learning combinatorial versus non-combinatorial names of objects on how the objects are visually detected

10:40 Dezső Németh (INSERM Lyon/Gran Canaria Cognitive Center)  Implicit learning, local sleep, and mind wandering

11:00 coffee

11:20 Lush, P., & Dienes, Z. (Sussex) Controlling visual experience by unconscious intentions

11:40 John Williams & Yuyan Xue (Cambridge) Learning without awareness revisited and reconsidered

12:00 Razvan Jurchis (Babeș-Bolyai University) The genesis of conscious experience from statistical regularities

12:20 Lunch (provided)

1:20 Syrus Chen, Ryan Scott, & Zoltan Dienes (Sussex) Naked attraction: are we unconsciously attending to naked bodies?

1:40  Andrei Preda (Babeș-Bolyai University) Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of Artificial Grammar Learning Tasks: a Bayesian Structural Equation Modelling Approach

2:00  Nathan Pond, Frances Meeten, Charlotte Krahé, Libby Tindle & Ryan Scott (Sussex/KCL London) The Efficacy of Subliminal Interpretation Bias Modification for Anxiety

2:20 Zsofia Zavecz (University of Surrey) Similarity of brain activity patterns during statistical learning and subsequent resting state predicts memory consolidation.

2:40 coffee

3:00 Jacob Maaz & Arnaud Rey (Aix-Marseille Université) Passive or active? Your EEG activity is spontaneously modulated through neurofeedback

3:20 Arnaud Rey (CNRS Marseille) & Leonaordo Pinto Arata (ULB Brussels) What are the time limits of implicit learning?

3:40 Sam Behrens & Sophie Johnson (Sussex) Learning map-like neural representations of abstract concepts 

4:00 Axel Cleeremans (ULB, Brussels) Can we be motivated by unconscious incentives?

4:20 Finish

6:00 socialising in pubs, restaurant etc