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Recent Talks
Pickering, A.D.
(September, 2011). The psychobiology of major personality
dimensions: From genetics to computational models. Opening keynote address
to the 1st Meeting of the Latin-American Association for the Investigation
of Individual Differences. Castellon, Spain.
Pickering, A.D.
(July, 2011). Recruiting neuroscience
to sharpen personality research. Keynote address presented at the 2nd
Annual Conference of the British Society for the Psychology of Individual
Differences. London.
Pickering, A.D.,
Dawkins, L., & Powell, J.H. (July, 2011). Personality makes the difference: The value of including individual
differences variables when studying the psychopharmacology of addiction.
Paper presented at the 15th Biennial
Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). London.
Older talks
These are in powerpoint
but will shortly be upgraded to PDF handouts.
Naturally, Powerpoint files may be quite large and take a
long-time to download.
Cochrane, M., & Pickering, A.D. (October, 2004). Dopaminergic genes, schizotypal personality, and schizophrenia: Effects on category learning. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Workshop, New York. (Note this talk actually did not include the genetic data.)
Pickering, A.D.
(July, 2004). A formal model of new reinforcement
sensitivity theory. Paper presented at the 12th
European Conference on Personality, Groningen, the
Netherlands.
Pickering, A.D.* & Tharp, I.
(June, 2004). An individual
differences approach to exploring dissociations between memory systems in
category learning tasks. Paper presented at the 3rd
Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference, Cavalese,
Italy.
Pickering,
A. (September, 2003). Striatal dopamine and
learning: Do category learning data constrain computational models? Paper
presented at the 2nd Annual Cognitive Neuroscience of Category
Learning Workshop, New York.
Pickering, A.D.
(July, 2003). A framework for constructing neural
models of dopaminergic contributions to personality.
Paper presented at the 11th Biennial Meeting of the International
Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Graz, Austria.
Pickering, A.D. (September, 2002). Category learning and dopaminergic personality traits: Evidence for a hippocampal contribution to some task variants? Paper presented at the 1st Annual Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Workshop, New York.
Pickering, A., Brady, P., Jeffs, J., & Jones, L. (January, 2001). Personality correlates of the responses to associative mismatch and to stimuli associated with reward or punishment. Presentation at the symposium in honour of Jeffrey Gray at the meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, London.