Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Emeritus Professor John Wearden - Recent Publications 2014

Ogden, R.S., Wearden, J.H., & Montgomery, C. (2014). The differential contribution of executive functions to temporal generalisation, reproduction and verbal estimation. Acta psychologica 152, 84-94.

Wearden, J., O’Donoghue, A., Ogden, R., & Montgomery, C. (2014). Subjective Duration in the Laboratory and the World Outside. In V. Artstila and D. Lloyd (eds) Subjective Time: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality. MIT Press.


Wearden, J. (2014). Modelling behaviour on classical timing tasks: Verbal estimation, production, and reproduction. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 126, 34-35

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Invited Keynote in Oslo: Children and Music

Dr Alexandra Lamont was the opening invited keynote speaker at a recent conference on "Kunsten a Dele" (Arts to Share) organised by the Norwegian Concerts Society held at the National Gallery in Oslo. She talked about how children develop musically and how best to engage them in music, drawing on her research evaluating Music Partnerships in Staffordshire. (Photo courtesy of Lars Opstad)

Emeritus Professor John Wearden – Time traveller – Some recent conference presentations

Wearden, J. H. (October, 2014). 
Passage of time judgements. 
Invited paper at conference on "Conscious experience of time", Institute of Mind and Brain, Berlin, Germany.

Wearden, J. H. (October, 2014). 
Does time really seem to go faster as you get older?  
Public Lecture at University of Tartu, Estonia.

Wearden, J. H. (November, 2014). 
Varieties of time experience.  
Invited paper at conference on "Time and its images", 
Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona, Spain.

Monday, 1 December 2014

BPS Seminar Series


  • Professor Liz Peel (University of Worcester), Professor Michael Murray (Keele University) and Dr. Carol Holland (Aston University) have been awarded £3,000 by the British Psychological Society to assist with the organisation of a research seminar series.

  • The series entitled Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Psychologies of Ageing will be held across the three universities in the coming year.  Further details will be circulated in due course.