10th European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning
Registration is now closed. Please contact emhfc2018@gmail.com for any queries.
ABOUT
The goal of the meeting is to foster and develop a European network of researchers and to promote intense, productive collaborations. As usual, the only constraint for contributions is that they are European-based and involve the human fear conditioning procedure.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Workshops
This year, participants are offered two methods workshops.
Apr 18th, 1 - 3pm, Hensol Castle
Workshop 1: Representational Similarity Analysis
Convener: Anna Gerlicher ( Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center Mainz)
In the first – theoretical – part of this workshop, I will give an overview of the basic concepts in representational similarity analysis. The second part will consist of bringing a practical approach. Participants will work on real data and go through a complete analysis pipeline.
Workshop 2: Bayesian Statistics
Conveners: Angelos Krypotos (Utrecht University), Manuel Kuhn (UKE, Hamburg)
This workshop will introduce participants to Bayesian statistics for the fear conditioning field, and demonstrate how to perform Bayesian hypothesis testing using click-based software (i.e., JASP).
INFO
How to get there
Hensol castle & the Vale Resort Hotel are located in beautiful Vale of Glamorgan near Cardiff, South Wales. The castle & hotel are accessible by taxi either from Cardiff Central station or Cardiff airport.
The nearest airports are Cardiff, Bristol, or Heathrow.
We recommend flying to Cardiff airport as both Bristol and Heathrow are 2 to 2.5 hours away. Cardiff airport has daily flights to Schiphol with KLM.
The Vale Resort hotel is a 4* Golf, Spa & Leisure hotel with a 20m swimming pool, steam room, traditional wooden sauna and whirlpool spa bath, which are open to conference delegates.
Delegates will stay at the Vale resort hotel but the conference meetings will be held at Hensol caste. The hotel is located a 20 minute footwalk from Hensol castle (2 km or 1.2 mi). In the mornings and evenings, a bus shuttle will transfer delegates between the two venues.
Conference Organisers: Simon Dymond, Lars Marstaller, Weike Xia (Swansea University)
Contact: EMHFC2018@gmail.com