Eminent psychologists from across the world will showcase their work when The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus hosts Malaysia’s largest ever psychology conference this weekend — Saturday October 22 2011.
The key note address at The Malaysian Psychology Conference will be delivered by Kazuo Mori, Professor of Educational Psychology at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan.
Professor Mori devised The MORI (Manipulation of Rivalrous Images by polarising filters) Technique. This breakthrough in psychological research presentation enables experimenters to project two different video films on the same screen to be viewed separately by two groups of viewers without them noticing the differences. Professor Mori, who has already used the technique on eye witness testimonies of simulated criminal events, will demonstrate his research and discuss future applications for the technique.
Dr Ian Stephen, in the School of Psychology, said: “Over 500 researchers, lecturers, students and practitioners from across the world are attending the conference entitled ‘Bringing Psychology Together.”
Peter Mitchell, Professor of Psychology, said: “Everybody wants to know how people’s minds work and with the advent of brain imaging technologies we can now see inside the head, so to speak, and look at the working brain. The purpose of this conference is to bring together students and staff working across a diverse range of disciplines and unite people from Malaysia and overseas in our quest to understand the human mind.”
The conference will feature more than 50 research talks by experts in all fields of psychology from clinical and counselling psychology to cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary, social and perceptual psychology.
The one day conference is being held at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia.
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Notes to editors: The University of Nottingham, described by The Sunday Times University Guide 2011 as ‘the embodiment of the modern international university’, has award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It is ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and the QS World University Rankings. It was named ‘Europe’s greenest university’ in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, a league table of the world’s most environmentally-friendly higher education institutions, which ranked Nottingham second in the world overall.
The University is committed to providing a truly international education for its 40,000 students, producing world-leading research and benefiting the communities around its campuses in the UK and Asia.
More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, with almost 60 per cent of all research defined as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. Research Fortnightanalysis of RAE 2008 ranked the University 7th in the UK by research power. The University’s vision is to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health
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More information is available from Dr Ian Stephen, on +60 3 8924 8730, MPC@nottingham.edu.my.
Posted on 20th October 2011