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Aurelio Bruno
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Vision Scientist | Lecturer in Psychology and Vision Sciences at the University of Leicester, UK | Interested in Time Perception, Metacognition and Individual Differences | Book collector (i.e., maniac)
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📢 Sluckin Lecture 2025 📢

Join us at the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, for this year’s Sluckin Lecture!

🗓 21st May 2025
🕔 5 PM
🎙️ Professor Sophie Scott

All welcome!

#Psychology #Neuroscience #SluckinLecture
A quick reminder that the Sluckin Lecture is happening next week, at the University of Leicester.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sophie Scott as this year’s speaker.

The event is open to all, and we warmly encourage students, academics, and members of the public to attend.
📢 Sluckin Lecture 2025 📢

Join us at the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, for this year’s Sluckin Lecture!

🗓 21st May 2025
🕔 5 PM
🎙️ Professor Sophie Scott

All welcome!

#Psychology #Neuroscience #SluckinLecture
May 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📢 Sluckin Lecture 2025 📢

Join us at the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, for this year’s Sluckin Lecture!

🗓 21st May 2025
🕔 5 PM
🎙️ Professor Sophie Scott

All welcome!

#Psychology #Neuroscience #SluckinLecture
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It's a great privilege to have Professor Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social (UCL) as our next speaker on Thursday 20th March, at 1pm. Steve will talk about his mind-blowing research on the boundary between reality and imagination. If you're near Leicester, please consider attending.
March 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Still a few days left to apply for this fully-funded #PhD #PhDposition. Deadline: 24 February.
February 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
There is still plenty of time to apply for this. Please share with potential candidates.
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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If you're applying for Senior Fellowship of the HEA (SFHEA) and want to see a completed application, here's my one from a couple of years back

osf.io/jg4ef/
January 16, 2024 at 12:09 PM
🔔🗣️NEW #PhD opportunity in #Psychology and #Neuroscience with Prof Neil Roach (Nottingham) and me (Leicester):

This ESRC-funded project aims to use individual differences to study the socially relevant components of time perception.

Application deadline: 24 February
PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Explore a PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposted by Aurelio Bruno
My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳

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#CogSci
#Neuroskyence
#SciComm
Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time?
Do you ever feel like time slows down when you’re bored but flies when you’re having fun? Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova explores the ways your brain and heart shape your perception of time,...
go.ted.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Aurelio Bruno
Well this is interesting. Why does time feel like it flies by in our lives? Turns out, out theories may have been totally wrong. Nostalgia and satisfaction are the best predictors of "fast times"
#PsychSciSky #mentalhealth
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why Life Moves Fast: Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Autobiographical Time Perception - Young-Ju Ryu, Mark J. Landau, Samuel E. Arnold, Jamie Arndt, 2024
We investigate why individuals commonly perceive time as passing quickly when reflecting on past periods of their lives. A traditional cognitive account propose...
journals.sagepub.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Aurelio Bruno
How selective are neurons?
Lots and lots of people think that HD selectivity means exclusivity.

More generally, lots of people think that there are discrete categorical cell types in the brain.

That's the center-point of this particular debate - categorical or not.
January 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Aurelio Bruno
Why can't you tickle yourself? And what does this have to do with the brain predicting sensory data by sending out internal copies of its motor actions? Learn the secrets of perception on Inner Cosmos: "How do we operate in the present when we perceive the past?"
eagleman.com/podcast/87
#brain #time
January 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM