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Be still my churning stomach

The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Tue 17 Feb 26

16:00 - 17:00
Colchester Campus

Senate room 4.722
Event speaker

Edwin Dalmaijer, University of Bristol
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Lectures, talks and seminars
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Psychology, Department of
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Marlene Poncet marlene.poncet@essex.ac.uk

This event is part of a series of Psychology seminars that regularly occurs during the Autumn and Spring terms.

Disgust is a grimy but useful emotion that helps us to avoid ingesting potentially contaminated food.

In this talk, Edwin Dalmaijer will outline how episodes of disgust inspire aberrations of stomach rhythms ("proto-nausea"). He will then speak to the neurogastric connections underlying disgust in healthy adults, which we study using simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and electrogastrography (EGG).

Finally, and perhaps most importantly for the parents among us, Edwin will attempt to answer the question we have all asked at some point: Why are kids so gross?

Be still my churning stomach

Tue 17 Feb 26

Colchester Campus

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