Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

Gaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

West Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: the life sciences on film and radio

CANCELLED

Max Long (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain

Anthony Wagner (Stanford University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why

Joseph Marks.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths

Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

CANCELLED

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (Newton International Fellow, British Academy and University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation

chair: Dr Hisham Ziauddeen

Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory

Dr Athena Akrami (University College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology

Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence

Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"?

chair: Dr Graham Murray

Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur

Matt Holmes (CRASSH).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress

James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments

Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)

Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Psychology talks and events

Understanding the transition from suicidal thoughts to suicidal attempts

Please note that no registration is required for this event, and that parking is limited.

Rory O’Connor (University of Glasgow).

Herchel Smith Building on the Forvie site at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge .

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making

Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder

Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities

Patricia Andrews Fearon.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A

Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800

Paul Sampson (Rutgers University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The emotional modulation of memory

Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis

Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies

chair: Prof John O'Brien

Professor Alan Thomas, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 10 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What's new in PsychoPy3?

Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases

Please note: This is a Pre-Zangwill Talk - see change of venue

Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ablative surgeries for psychiatric disorders: The Vancouver capsulotomy and new insights into the neuroanatomy of depression

chair: Prof John Suckling

Professor Trevor Hurwitz, Medical Director, BC Neuropsychiatry Programme, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 October 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cognitive Remediation Therapy confers broad benefits to people with bipolar disorder

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

Dr Becci Strawbridge, post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ageing and dementia risk-related brain differences in the cognitively healthy: Evidence from multi-modal MRI

Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Determining the mechanism underlying retrieval-extinction: reconsolidation or extinction?

Eloise Kuijer - Masters Student, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 12 August 2019, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience

Lynne Cooper.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 15 July 2019, 15:00-16:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience

Dr Lynne Cooper.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 15 July 2019, 15:00-13:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime Solving story

Dr Tesh Goyal.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

STaR (Stress Timing affects Relapse): A model of the effects of stress/glucocorticoids on extinction and relapse

Dr Shira Meir Drexler - Department of Cognitive Psychology Ruhr-University Bochum Germany.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 08 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience

Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 July 2019, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Stimulus-driven behaviors in OCD: inhibition and action tendencies

Dr Gideon Anholt, Psychology Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 01 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids

Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Monday 01 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The clinical effectiveness of sertraline in primary care and the role of depression severity and duration: The PANDA pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman

Speaker to be confirmed.

TBC, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens

Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Craik Club

First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero

Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study

Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Digitally Distracted

Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning

Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Risk and resilience in adolescent mental health

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change

Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual nonlinearities

Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood

Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Dementia: can we PROTECT our Cognitive Health?

Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Is the child the father of the political man?

Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories

Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England

James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA AT 4.00PM

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Craik Club

The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection

Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Narrative in neuroscience: evolutionary approach as a teaching tool

Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London; Senior Lecturer, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Why do we cry?

Dr Eric Vanman, University of Queensland.

Nick Mackintosch Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability

Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Machine Learning in Readability Assessment

Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge).

Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)

Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Affective biases and other cognitive disturbances in Major Depressive Disorder

Vibeke N. H. Dam - Cand.psych., PhD student, Neurobiology Research Unit, 6931 The Neuroscience Centre Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 13 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people

Alexa Morcom .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning

Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Binocular vision and the control of hand movements

Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When is a cow not a cow?

Harriet Ritvo (MIT).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after"

Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudoword

Carol Wang (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The politics of the potato in the 19th century

Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Re-evaluation of learned behaviour, changing memory - on the fly

Dr Johannes Felsenberg - Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Waddell Lab, University of Oxford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

Kate Nation (University of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions

Dr Marwa El Zein.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions

Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Infant feeding and post-natal depression: quantitative and qualitative evidence on the role of maternal aspirations and the management of childbirth

Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making

Professor Jason Mattingley.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 April 2019, 11:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illnesses

Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research

Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

A Computational Approach to Adolescent Brain Development in the Context of Schizophrenia

Dr Qiang Luo - BCNI/Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay.

Peter Romero.

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Craik Club

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty

Matija Franklin .

Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice

Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?

Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

Tamar Makin (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients

Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance

Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK

John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 25 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Serotonergic modulation of emotion and cognition: the search for specific functions and future research directions

Clark Roberts, The LeDoux Lab, Center for Neural Science, NY Univ.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 25 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century

Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 18 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Language learning and use as cognitive reserve?

Dr Thomas Bak, Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 11 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents

Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Illness and Attitude: Characterizing Functional Disorders

Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 04 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Psychology talks and events

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 28 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

John Rothwell (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Time course of memory updating in running span

Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

University Museum of Zoology.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life

Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health

David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The origins of empathy and the impact of early disturbances: Evolutionary insights from our great ape relatives

Dr Zanna Clay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Durham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting

Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the genetic basis of growth, reproduction and behaviour

Dr Felix Day, Career Development Fellow, MRC Epidemiology Unit.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can we optimise the selection of an antidepressant for a specific patient?

Professor Andrea Cipriani, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford; Associate Director, Research and Development Department, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 December 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Representing Same-Sex Parents: non-traditional families?

Dr Mark McGlashan: Birmingham City University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cambridge Research on Mindfulness Training for Mental Health Promotion

Dr Julieta Galante, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms

Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Getting In Early - the Challenge of Effective Early Intervention

Prof. Paul ramchandani: LEGO Professor of Play In Education Development and Learning, Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Sociology Seminar Room, 1st floor, Free School Lane, New Museum Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Making use of data from the UK Biobank cohort for mental health research

Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches

Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Does minority stress still matter? Stigma, intimacy, and the health of same-sex couples

Dr David Frost: University College London, Department of Social Science and Thomas Coram Research Unit.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Everything you wanted to know about treatment resistant depression but were afraid to ask

Professor Anthony Cleare, Professor of Psychopharmacology and Affective Disorders, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load

John Duncan (MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream'

Becky Jackson and Tim Kietzmann (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise

Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sailing close to the wind of psychotic fire-a dopaminergic journey

Dr Sameer Jauhar, Senior Research Fellow, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks

Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Interference and memory capacity limitations

Ansgar Endress (City University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts

Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL CLUB TALK THIS WEEK

Speaker to be confirmed.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: from Regan to Trump

Dr Nanette Gartrell.

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Optimal Design for Item Response Theory Models

Professor Heinz Holling, University of Muenster, Germany.

Room W4.05, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control

Simon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Delusions and Three Myths of Irrational Belief

Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What cognitive mechanisms underlie multi-target search organisation in children and adults?

Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations

Dr Wei Wang.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency

Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour

Prof Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to intervention

Alan Gow (Heriot-Watt University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

An introduction to Evolutionary Psychiatry

Dr Riadh Abed, former Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist, Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust .

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The framework behind the Kymata Atlas: Mapping early sensory processing in the human brain and nervous system

Andrew Thwaites (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging)

Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

New approaches to old problems in behavioral neuroscience: The role of locus coeruleus in anxiety and cognitive control

Andrea Bari, PhD - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA .

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disorders

Matt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

From cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: Translational concerns for mental health research

Camilla Nord (MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Barriers to reproducible research (and how to overcome them)

Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 27 September 2018, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Using Computational Models to Characterise and Engage and Putative Treatment Targets for Depression

Professor Michael Browning - Computational Psychiatry Lab, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Oxford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 24 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Can 24 months of high dose minocycline change disease course in mild Alzheimer's disease?

Professor Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 20 September 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Is clozapine really unique?

Dr James MacCabe, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Kings College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 July 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How can we beat the government's 10% target for suicide prevention?

Professor Louis Appleby, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Concept learning as compression

Bradley Love (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

The role of percieved coparenting quality for parent & child adjustment

Dr Rachel Latham, King’s College London.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline

James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients

Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

‘Infertility in History: Approaches, Perspectives, Experiences’

Dr Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

How can we improve and maintain child mental health; lessons from interventional epidemiology

Dr Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Exeter Medical School.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?

Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The structure and function of visual working memory

Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Tackling mental illness where it begins

Dr Andrea Danese, Senior Lecturer in Development Psychobiology and Psychiatry, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Re-thinking cognitive training research

Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis

John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A..

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Why are we so bad at face recognition?

Mike Burton (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Admissions and early intervention: insights from newer approaches

Dr Matthew Taylor, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Bipolar Disorder, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system

Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Flexible Drug-Seeking and the Development of Addiction-Like Behaviour

Dr Bryan Singer - School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Remembering complex events

Chris Bird (U. of Sussex).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The puzzle of adolescent depression

Professor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds

Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory

Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Title TBC

Speaker TBC.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The Oliver Zangwill Centre: 21 years and counting of Innovation in holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation

Dr Pieter du Toit, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 10 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model

Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)

Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex

Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?

Gareth Gaskell (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the genetics of autism through the genetics of related traits

Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Brain imaging and genetics in autism

Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 03 May 2018, 12:30-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June

Talk has been postponed until 20 June.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania

Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

'The ethics of in vitro derived gametes: privacy and genetic ties’

Dr John Appleby, Lancaster University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What can we learn from the study of brain sulcal variability for cognition, mental health and illness

Professor Arnaud Cachia, Professeur en Neurosciences, Université Paris Descartes, Membre Junior, Institut Universitaire de France (spécialité neurosciences).

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits

Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Mehrdad Jazayeri.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Control over behaviour: corticolimbic mechanisms

Louk Vanderschuren - Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Utrecht.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Insights from genome wide association studies on depression

Dr Na Cai, European Bioinformatics Institute.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Calcium signalling in bipolar disorder - new twists to an old story

Professor Paul Harrison, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Gambling Disorder in the UK: an overview

Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 22 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Capturing the Full Spectrum of Repetitive Behaviour in Typical and Atypical Development

Professor David W. Evans - Psychology Program in Neuroscience, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 19 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?

Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Advances in understanding and treatment of eating disorders

Professor Ulrike Schmidt, Professor of Eating Disorders and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

All-resolutions inference for brain imaging

Wouter Weeda (Leiden University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

CANCELLED Being and Becoming a Mother in ‘Challenging’ Circumstances

Dr. Sarah Christie, Research Centre for Children, Families and Communities, Canterbury Christ Church University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks

CANCELLED

Genie Yoo (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 12 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception?

Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Time-dependent regulation of memory retrieval by hippocampal clock

Professor Satoshi Kida - Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture (TUA).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 09 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The persistence and transience of memory

Paul Frankland (U. of Toronto).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour *** We regret that it has been necessary to cancel this talk ***

Professor Rory O'Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow / Mental Health & Wellbeing Academic Centre, Gartnavel Royal Hospital.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 08 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results

Catarina Rua (U. of Cambridge, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Bringing Personality Theory Back to Life: On Persons-in-Context, Idiographic Strategies, and Lazarus

Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection

CANCELLED

Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 05 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

How is visual perception biased

Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action

Catherine Harmer (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing

Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge

CANCELLED

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 26 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

: Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties

Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus-Leibig University Giessen .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Finding meaning in English writing

Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Research Applications of the Berkeley Puppet Interview for the Assessment of Young Children’s Self-Perceptions and Family Relationships

Dr. Jeff Measelle, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Using vision to understand dementia in Parkinson’s disease

Dr Rimona Weil, Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 22 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains

Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

MRI in large animals: a new imaging model

Arsene Ella (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genetic social psychology

Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s

Caterina Schürch (LMU München).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 19 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis.

Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Craik Club

Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps”

Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

“I’m missing out on it all”: the Lived Experience of Involuntary Childless Older Men

Dr. Robin Hadley.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Electrophysiological approaches in Lewy body dementia: helpful or not?

Dr John-Paul Taylor, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees

Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 12 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Attentional episodes and cognitive control

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Value generalization during human avoidance learning

Agnes Nobury (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

What constitutes 'discrimination' in everyday talk? Argumentative lines and the social representations of discrimination

Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world

Simon Werrett (UCL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 05 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE AND CHANGE OF TIME: This is a shared event with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, please sign up https://goo.gl/LPAAaF

Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University .

Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities

Karla Miller (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63

Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 29 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening

Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language

Prof Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives

Kamen Tsvetanov (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The role of attachment in cults and radicalization

Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century

Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 22 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise

Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

CANCELLED: Infertility in History: Approaches, Perspectives, Experiences

Dr. Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Psychedelics: mechanisms of action and therapeutic potential

Dr Robin Carhart-Harris - Head of Psychedelic Research, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making

Fabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Retaining hope in the management of treatment resistant depression

Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams, Professor of Affective Disorders, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

**We regret that this lecture has been cancelled**

Professor Ian Goodyer, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 December 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory

Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 December 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention

David Shanks (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Ketamine for treatment resistant depression: prospects and pitfalls

Dr Rupert McShane, Dementia Clinical Network Lead - Oxford Academic Health Science Network; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates.

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

Dr Janine Mendola (McGill).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian

Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

The role of the dorsal striatum in skill learning

Dr Karly Turner - Post-doc Researcher, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 27 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control

Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory

Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Craik Club

Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain

Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Depersonalisation Disorder: from psychopathology to cognitive neuroscience

Professor Anthony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, King’s College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning and plasticity in adolescence

Delia Fuhrmann (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Spaces for citizen involvement in healthcare: an ethnographic study

Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism

Alex Aylward (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Developmental trajectories of ADHD symptoms from childhood to late adolescence

Dr Aja Murray - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 20 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia

Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Attachment Across the Life-Span

Prof. Marinus van Ijzendoorn Visiting Scholar, Department of Public Health.

Sociology Semiar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease

Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Schizophrenia - therapy for cognition

Professor Dame Til Wykes, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech

Matt Davis (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Information networks, truth and value.

Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

The brain isn't porridge

Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p

Peter Jones (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa

Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)

Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Associative vs hierarchical account of human cue-elicited responding

Dr Sara Garofalo - IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli (IS), and NEUROBIOTECH, Caserta, Italy.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 06 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?

Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Clinical Complexity and Gender Identity Development

Dr. Sophie Landa Visiting Scholar, Centre for Family Research.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications

Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Computer assisted therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations: the AVATAR clinical trial

Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig, Emeritus Professor Social Psychiatry, IoP, King’s College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions

Marieke Mur (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance

Andrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 30 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory

Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health

Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity

Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse?

Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Family Estrangement: What do we know about the breakdown of relationships between family members?

Dr. Lucy Blake Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation

Dr Ana Guinote, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

How memory guides value-based decisions

Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Depression and inflammation in the 21st century

Professor Carmine Pariante, Professor of Biological Psychiatry, King's College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Large scale network interactions in consciousness

Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Perspective taking during communication

Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A dimensional approach to developmental impairments of learning

Professor Susan E. Gathercole, Director, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 12 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory

Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages

Jac Davis, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Engaging Fathers in Perinatal Mental Health Research: Why and How

Dr. Jill Domoney Clinical Psychology, King’s College London.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage

Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing

Rik Henson (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events

Andrea Greve (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision

Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 02 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trading places: understanding psychosis risk in migrant groups

Dr James Kirkbride, Reader in Epidemiology in the Division of Psychiatry, University College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 September 2017, 12:30-13:30

Business Briefing Series, Cambridge Judge Business School

How to Deploy Psychometrics Successfully in an Organisation

Registration essential

David Stillwell.

BNY Mellon Centre, 160 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4V 4LA.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 18:30-21:00

Craik Club

Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

The 2017 Flynn Lecture: Male and Female IQ- A balance sheet

Professor James Flynn, Department of Politics, University of Orago.

Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 July 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

University High Performance Hub for Informatics Q&A

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369

Professor John Suckling, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Resilience vs Vulnerability to Compulsion: behavioral, neurochemical and psychopharmacological evidences in rats selected by Schedule-induced polidipsia

Dr Margarita Moreno, Tenured Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Almería, Spain.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Andrea Reinecke, Research Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

From neuroscience to ultra-brief treatments for anxiety disorders

Dr Andrea Reinecke, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain

Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Cocaine-induced chromatin modifications associate with increased expression and three-dimensional looping of Auts2

Dr Olivia Engmann, Senior Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Isabelle Mansuy, ETH/University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 03 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex

Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?

Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

'Jessica Lynn's transgender journey'

Jessica Lynn, President of Your True Gender .

Seminar room, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Mark Johnson (UoC).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Stimulant treatment and the developing brain in ADHD

Dr Lizanne Schweren, Research Associate, Developmental Psychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications

Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Exploring psychotic experiences in ‘non-need for care’ populations: Findings from the UNIQUE study

Dr Emmanuelle Peters, Reader in Clinical Psychology, King’s College, London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Virtual reality based testing of entorhinal cortex function in mild cognitive impairment

Dr Dennis Chan - University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, BCNI, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Cambridge.

Herchel Smith building, Forvie Site, ground floor Seminar Room.

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain

Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI

Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning

Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Sibling Interaction: Cause or Consequence

Dr Alison Pike, University of Sussex.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Lateral septal interneurons broadcast hippocampal signals to calibrate fear responses

Dr Antoine Besnard - Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

Psychotic Experiences in Cambridge: Revisiting the Gold Mine

Professor Jesús Pérez, Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia; Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMEO Early Intervention Services, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychotic Experiences in Cambridge: Revisiting the Gold Mine

Professor Jesús Perez, Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia; Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMEO Early Intervention Services, CPFT.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 18 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives

This is a joint seminar, featuring talks by Dr Sophie Zadeh and her collaborators. Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

International research networks in imaging genetics: Developing imaging predictors and neurobehavioural phenotypes of psychopathology

Professor Gunter Schumann.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Structural brain connectivity in autism spectrum disorder

Dr Clare Gibbard - Visiting Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.

Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Thinking about what might have been: the development of children's counterfactual thinking

Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?

Mark Stokes (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

What’s New in Lewy Body Disease?

Professor Ian McKeith, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4.00PM

Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know

Dr Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related work

Dr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Behavioural measurements versus assessments of personality

Dr Jana Uher - Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

Jennifer Lau (KCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar

De-identified electronic mental health records for research and recruitment

Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Department of Psychiatry.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

De-identified electronic mental health records for research and recruitment

Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Reality discrimination deficits in hallucinations

Dr Jane Garrison, Director of Studies, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 04 May 2017, 12:30-13:00

Craik Club

Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Ritual, Community, and Conflict

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Family Estrangement: what do we know about the breakdown of relationships between family members?

Dr Lucy Blake, Edge Hill University.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction

Antonia Hamilton (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Lone mothers: family life and emotions in contemporary western Mexico

Dr Ana Cuevas Hernández, Visiting Researcher, Centre for Family Research.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Contact with Donor Siblings among Parents and Offspring: Understandings of Genes and Kinship

Professor Margaret K. Nelson.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and mental health

Dr Simon Kyle,Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 06 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Functional, genetic and in vitro studies in schizophrenia

Dr János Réthelyi, School of Mental Health Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 30 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Rethinking psychosis

Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, Clinical Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry and Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

"The koniocellular visual pathway"

Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Observations from the Edge of Beauty

Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Apathy in Health and Parkinson’s Disease

Kinan Muhammed, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks

Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Clinical Work in Children's Social Care: Innovation, Ehics and Evaluation

Dr Pamela Parker, Clinical Lead for Psychology, Specialist Clinician Unit 23 .

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)

James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making

Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Social brain development in adolescence

Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression

Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action

Professor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Developmental changes after early adversity: lessons from adoption research

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Jesus Palacios, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'

Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK

Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

Essi Viding (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

Essi Viding (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Emergency psychiatry

Dr Caroline Meiser-Stedman, Consultant Psychiatrist, CPFT.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cognitive dysfunction in depression: testing the potential of modafinil as a treatment

Dr Muzaffer Kaser, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 March 2017, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Multidimensional IRT models and their applications to psychological testing

Igor Menezes (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:30-17:30

Craik Club

“How does melanopsin help us to see?“

Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network

Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Clinical experiences in working with transgender children and adults

Dr Vickie Pasterski, University of Cambridge.

Sociology Seminar Room, 1st floor, Free School Lane, New Museum Site.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Targeting negative repetitive thought as a transdiagnostic mechanism: translating cognitive science into innovative treatment

Professor Edward Watkins, Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward

Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social Identity: The enactment and performance of religious identities

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Nicholas Hopkins, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence

Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Understanding the Long-Term Consequences of Marijuana Use by Adolescents: A Psychobiological Perspective

Dr Alejandro Higuera Matas - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychobiology, School of Psychology, National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making?

Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychotic Major Depression: Challenges in Clinical Practice and Research

Dr Margaret Heslin, Research Fellow, Health Services & Population Research, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 16 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School

Richard Bellis (University of Leeds).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

The promises and challenges of using transcranial current stimulation to modulate social perception

Dr Michael Banissy - Reader in Psychology, Head of Research at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 13 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Learning to learn: lessons from action video games

Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Confidence and adaptive decision making

Nick Yeung (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU

Bob Carlyon (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women's leadership roles in times of crisis

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter and University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Higher-order cognitive flexibility: influences of catecholamines, tVNS and stress

Dr Klodiana-Daphne Tona - Cognitive Psychology Univt, Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, and Leiden Medical Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex

DUE TO ILLNESS, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex

Matteo Carandini (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training working memory is learning to do something new

Sue Gathercole (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars

Textual sentiment, option information and stock predictability

Cathy YH Chen, Yanchu Liu and Wolfgang Karl Härdle.

Room W2.02, Judge Business School, Trumpington St., Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Uterine transplants; the latest new families

Professor Martin Richards, Centre for Family Research.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008

Sara Peres (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 30 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Stimulating OCD

Professor Damiaan Denys - Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 30 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it)

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE ON DOWNING SITE

Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley.

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 27 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Unitization effects on memory

Roni Tibon (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Social representations and political thought

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Christian Staerklé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books

Katrina Maydom (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Beyond E/I balance: Inhibitory cell-type regulating circuit wide defects in Rett syndrome

Dr Abhishek Banerjee - Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.

Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars

Ras-ERK signalling in dopamine mediated behavioural and synaptic plasticity: a translational perspective for cocaine addiction and related disorders

Professor Riccardo Brambilla - Neuroscience Degree Co-ordinator, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University .

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Psychology Building, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

"Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing"

Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK

Dr Rosalind Ridley.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Craik Club

When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe OCD

Professor Eileen Joyce, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 15 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

Craik Club

Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception

The host for this talk is Zoë Kourtzi (zk240@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Lynne Kiorpes (NYU).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience

In the Craik Club tradition, the administrative arrangements for this meeting are minimal. There is no registration fee. However, so that we can cater appropriately (and also for security reasons), we do ask you to sign up at http://doodle.com/poll/hrd

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience.

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience: Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

Monday 12 December 2016, 10:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development

Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain

Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

Andrew Welchman, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The power and pitfalls of ontologies in data integration

Dr Helen Parkinson, Head of Molecular Archival Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 01 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00