Attending A Public Talk

Well, TARC doesn't hold a lot of public talks as expected( or isit that I m ignorant to noe any?) Either way, here's one that benefited the course I taken...

Mr. ..sorry...Dr. Ashok Jansari, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuropsychology in Uni. East London(UEL) is the speaker of this talk...Lets see how he looks like...















Apparently, he looks cool, too cool to be a lecturer...not the typical shirt-with-tie type...with an earing dangling on his left ear...he speaks free-flowing and British-accented English...which of course sounds...erm..cool...

Anyway, he was going to talk about cognition and emotion and synaesthesia( which is a phenomenon of multi-sensory perception which is caused by cross overs of sensory information)....and due to Malaysian timing....meaning the culture of timing...the talk started late due to some technical problems(another Malaysian culture of excuses, its always the case, aint it?)...
















....which will annoy him if it was the first time he staged a talk here( probably he got used to it anyway after being here for soo many times)....

Well, back to the main topic....he talked about the many experiments that he had made or facilitate during the past few years, shared a couple of interesting theories and some applications for the links between cognition and emotion...for the first half...

Then we have a break...
As I was walking around I took some pics for the day...















Here, the guests...meaning the VIPs are treated to a nice cup of coffee with Dr. Ashok....while the not so famous audience( meaning us students) have to find our own food....

As the second half was about to begin...















Students are ushered into thier sits....while thee are some who are undecided whether to stay on...hence the standing up and sitting down actions....

Anyway, the talk began again for almost another 2 hours.....and it was about synaestasia this time....very interesting topic...though there are still many unexplained phenomenon which Dr. Ashok did not find out yet...

Before the end of session, we got some gifts all the way from England....















Yep...this are balls...To be exact..its call Tension balls. To release tension, jz grab it very hard...or the alternative way is...to throw it on someone else...niahaha...
Either way, its a nice gift coming at the right moment prior to the exam fever coming our way....
Thanks, UEL.