Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Prof Aroon HIngorani, Director, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science

Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, will focus on some of the opportunities and challenges of using genomic information to improve personal and public health, using cardiovascular disease as an example.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Prof Andrew Nevins, Professor of Linguistics, UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally collected examples where the hearer is the source of miscommunication. Looking into recurrent slips reveals that our expectations can bias what we mishear, but within limits: the actual utterance and the misheard message must be phonetically close enough to allow our ears to deceive us.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Prof Andrew Nevins, Professor of Linguistics, UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally collected examples where the hearer is the source of miscommunication. Looking into recurrent slips reveals that our expectations can bias what we mishear, but within limits: the actual utterance and the misheard message must be phonetically close enough to allow our ears to deceive us.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Prof Andrew Nevins, Professor of Linguistics, UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Almost every song lyric can be misunderstood: famously, Jimi Hendrix’s 'Kiss the Sky' is often heard as 'Kiss This Guy'. Why does this happen? While slips of the tongue are well-known, slips of the ear have received far less attention. Professor Nevins has developed a database of 4000 naturally collected examples where the hearer is the source of miscommunication. Looking into recurrent slips reveals that our expectations can bias what we mishear, but within limits: the actual utterance and the misheard message must be phonetically close enough to allow our ears to deceive us.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Dr Matt Piper, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing

It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruit flies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific nutrients are required for this effect. Importantly, these effects appear to be evolutionarily conserved, meaning these new discoveries could be applied to benefit human ageing.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series in our set:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Dr Matt Piper, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing

It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruit flies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific nutrients are required for this effect. Importantly, these effects appear to be evolutionarily conserved, meaning these new discoveries could be applied to benefit human ageing.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series in our set:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Dr Matt Piper, UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing

It has been known for some time that moderate dietary restriction can extend healthy lifespan in a variety of organisms. By experimenting on fruit flies, we are uncovering that only very small changes in specific nutrients are required for this effect. Importantly, these effects appear to be evolutionarily conserved, meaning these new discoveries could be applied to benefit human ageing.

Listen to more Lunch Hour Lectures from this series in our set:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/lunch-hour-lectures-spring-2013

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

UCL News Podcast from 1 March, 2013 with an intro on the latest news from around UCL, including a new database on the legacy of Britain's slave-owners, a study on alcohol consumption and an audio competition, Sounds of UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1302/180213-competition-sounds-of-ucl).

If you want just Professor Nevins's talk, click here:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/misheard-lyrics-ucl-news-podcast

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

UCL News Podcast from 1 March, 2013 with an intro on the latest news from around UCL, including a new database on the legacy of Britain's slave-owners, a study on alcohol consumption and an audio competition, Sounds of UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1302/180213-competition-sounds-of-ucl).

If you want just Professor Nevins's talk, click here:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/misheard-lyrics-ucl-news-podcast

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

UCL News Podcast from 1 March, 2013 with an intro on the latest news from around UCL, including a new database on the legacy of Britain's slave-owners, a study on alcohol consumption and an audio competition, Sounds of UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1302/180213-competition-sounds-of-ucl).

If you want just Professor Nevins's talk, click here:

https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/misheard-lyrics-ucl-news-podcast

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.