An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

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

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks

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

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

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales

Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) .

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

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social rank processing in depression

Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University.

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind

Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute.

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

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression

Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University.

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

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Developmental disorders of working memory

Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network

Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain

Evelina Fedorenko, MIT.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

Executive functions during abstract problem solving

Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Cognitive control in affective contexts

Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory

Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency

Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition

Alpar Lazar, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli

Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?

Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis

Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

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

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning

Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Gained in translation

Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning

Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings

Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test

Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory

Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Why do we jump the gun? Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans

Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

Investigation of priming effects on associative memory

Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression

Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods

Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users

Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex

Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12:30-13:30

Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception

Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-13:30

Estimating representational dissimilarity measures

Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:30-13:00

The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)

Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex

Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success

Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity

Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors

Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data

Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function

Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

Michael Browning (University of Oxford) .

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

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and

Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions

Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help?

Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks

Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis

Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools

Jon Quach (University of Melbourne).

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

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment

Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions

Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development

Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making

Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people

Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

Stimulating speech: tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients

Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) .

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

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

The configural processing hypothesis revisited: The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition

Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.

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

Wednesday 26 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury

Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities

Adam Hampshire (Imperial) .

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

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations

Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG

Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming

Alex Billig .

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

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception

Matthias Treder (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain

Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) .

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

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective

Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) .

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

Wednesday 15 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Working memory and Specific Language Impairment

Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 12:30-13:30

Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem

Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity

Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected

Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies

Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T?

Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing

Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30

The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE

Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) .

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

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms?

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses

Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control

Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results

Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific?

Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either

Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:30-13:30

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Representational geometry modelling

Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex

Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system

John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Decision-making with and without rules

Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory

Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech

Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

The consequences of intentional forgetting

Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Depression and training positive future imagery

Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams

Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments

Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation

Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Recent research updates

CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

Two short talks today

Moos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

Two short talks today

Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition

Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe

Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states

Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway

Two short talks today

Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Face space in the primate visual system

Two short talks today

Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory

Kristjan Kalm (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts)

Roland Benoit (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity).

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

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases

Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Comparing models of contour in music and speech

Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience

Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly

John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism

Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission

Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account

Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective

Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry).

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

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 12:30-13:30

A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data

Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Fast cortical mapping: a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults

Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis

Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal

Michael Ewbank (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Executive function in children with reading difficulties

Shinmin Wang (University of York).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations

Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 12:30-13:30

Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans

Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health).

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

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 12:30-13:30

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease

Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Does working memory training work?

Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech

Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex

Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials

Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention

Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Heart and brain

Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI)

Olaf Hauk (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex

Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI

Joanne Taylor (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control

Chelan Weaver (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Max Garagnani (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam

Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Now, Sometime, Never? Equality for Women in Science

Paul Walton (York University).

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

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia

Laura Hughes (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception

Daniel Mitchell (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content

Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Individual object representation in individual people

Ian Charest (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex

Ben Crittenden (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning?

Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Articulatory contributions to speech perception

Matt Davis (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study

Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Individual differences in visual short term memory

Michele Veldsman (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30

Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results)

Sinéad Hynes(CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30

Individual object representations in individual people

CANCELLED - REPLACED BY JUSTIN HULBERT. WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM

Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR WEDS 1ST DEC

Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners

Lucy McGregor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep

Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata

Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus

Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state

Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns

Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation

Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception

Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

Davy Evans (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Discreteness: The essence of language?

Friedmann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation

Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

The neural basis of human moral decision-making: A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self

Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population

Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Investigating the assembly of task sets

Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Connectivity in face processing

Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU) .

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

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex

Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Title to be confirmed

Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales

John Griffiths (CSLB).

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

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI

Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach

Su Li (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Does motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception?

Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Differentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks

Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it?

Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

The syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates

Jeff Hanna (RCEAL).

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

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Processing lexical complexity in Polish

Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex

Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Task modulation in visual word recognition: a parametric EEG/MEG and fMRI study

Yuanyuan Chen (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Investigating object and feature processing in human audition

Annika Linke (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection

Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception

Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted

Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Tuuut... Puff. Tuuut... Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut

Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Diffusion MRI and tractography

Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 12:30-13:30

Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation

Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations

Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system

Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special

Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity

Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks

David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality

Please note change of time for this talk only - 12pm-2pm. This talk is a joint event with Developmental Psychiatry (UoC) and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, with light refreshments available after the talk.

Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre).

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

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

The effect of attention on illusory vowel perception and sound onset: an fMRI study

Antje Heinrich (Department of Linguistics).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 10 June 2009, 12:30-13:30

Sometimes angry, but always afraid: Differential effects of anxiety on the neural response to facial signals of threat

Michael Ewbank (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension

CANCELLED - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

John Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Emotion effects on memory and conceptual priming

Cristina Ramponi (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Temporal grouping effect in verbal short term memory

Kristjan Kalm (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

The neural basis of frustration: an fMRI study

Jacky Yu (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Lateral prefrontal cortex and the representation of task relevant information

Natasha Sigala (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 12:30-13:30

Understanding speech with an ageing brain: perception, cognition, and compensation

Jonathan Peelle (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

Prefrontal cortex and representation of task relevant information

CANCELLED due to illness

Natasha Sigala (MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

Early linguistic access: rapid, parallel and automatic?

Yury Shtyrov (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Recurrent activity supports the construction of meaningful object

Alex Clarke (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam

Georgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Pitch matching between acoustic and electric hearing: what cochlear implant scientists can learn from Christopher Poulton

Olivier Macherey (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

MEG in older controls: counterparts of 1) semantic & episodic memory & 2) speech perception

Lisa Brindley (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

The structure of the parietal VSTM representation features, objects and space

Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Behavioural and imaging investigations of spatial exploration or awareness in patients with unilateral neglect

Margarita Sarri (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

The frontal lobes and voluntary action: how we choose when young, old or parkinsonian

James Rowe (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 12:30-13:30

Animacy properties of words and expectation modulate ERP components

Elisabeth Fonteneau (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

The effect of lexical ambiguity on spoken word recognition using homographs and homophones: Behavioural and neural evidence

Jack Rogers (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Dissociations in brain structure and function in incipient Alzheimer's disease?

Peter Nestor (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting fear conditioning: effects of anxiety

Sonia Bishop (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Reduced top-down modulation in autism: The role of prior knowledge in spontaneous attention, memory, and social perception

Eva Loth (BCNI, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Episodes, actions and abstractions in lexical learning

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU) .

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities

Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex

John Duncan (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Parkinson's Disease, dopamine and spatial span

Sean Fallon (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG

Caroline Whiting (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia

Morgan Barense (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks

Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention

Rebecca Lawson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression.

Aidan Horner (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations

Jessica Grahn (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming

Jason Taylor (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Alexandra Woolgar.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Ola Jelowicka (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks.

Canceled

Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Follow your heart? Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience

Barney Dunn (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

The role of dopamine and seratonin in reinforcement-based learning and adaptation.

Roshan Cools.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Karolina Moutsopoulou.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Danny Mitchell (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Does software matter?

Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Maturational aspects of auditory ERP

Oleg Korzyukov (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state

Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease

New date - postponed from 28 Nov

James Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 12:30-13:30

Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia?

Hilary Green (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Putting emotions into context

Dean Mobbs (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory

Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Strateies of spatial listening for speech comprehension

Antje Ihlefeld (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing

Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Fronto-temporal dementia not all it seems

John Hodges (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

The practical impact of FTD: an observational approach

Eneida Mioshi (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Measures of auditory streaming

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

Sarah Thompson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

Samrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 June 2007, 12:30-13:00

Seeing patterns, reading words: Some preliminary results on the perception of "invisible words"

This talk was originally scheduled for 16 May

Doris Eckstein (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 12:30-13:30

Functional and neural bases of eye gaze perception

Andy Calder (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 12:30-13:30

Language and action: Cross-talk between processing of action words and motor control

Veronique Boulenger (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Electrophysiological evidence for the enhanced allocation of spatial attention to threat in anxious individuals

Note change of title from that originally publicised

Elaine Fox, University of Essex.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Why masked priming tells us more about normal perception than unconscious processing

Dennis Norris (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Breaking the silence - brain-computer interfaces for communication in locked-in patients

Andrea Kuebler, Universitaet Tuebingen.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 12:30-13:30

The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease

Amended title from that originally posted

Caroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future

We regret that this talk has been cancelled.

Kim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Adle Pacini, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Max Garagnani, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex

Rhodri Cusack, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

A slim grip on reality? The role of anterior prefrontal cortex in source recollection

Jon Simons, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

TBCThe past is another country: The elusiveness of specific emotional memories following psychological trauma

Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

Parafoveal perception of emotional scenes: Evidence from oculomotor biases and affective priming

Note change of title from that originally publicised

Lauri Nummenmaa, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 12:30-13:30

Beyond the scores: Clues to neurophsychological disorders from the things patients say and do

Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 12:30-13:30

Emotion from brain identity

Please note that this is a late addition to the Seminar list

Mitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 December 2006, 12:30-13:30

Individual differences in emotional responsivity

CANCELLED

Elaine Fox, University of Essex.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Morphological structure in visual word recognition

Mirjana Bozic, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

ERP and fMRI correlates of object and word recognition

Olaf Hauk, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Hemispheric asymmetetries in viewpoint-dependent and viewpoint-invariant priming

This week's slot is shared by two PhD students

Elias Mouchlianitis, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Context-dependent representations in human prefrontal cortex

This week's slot is shared by two PhD students

Mark Stokes, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Subliminal face priming: Evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG

Rik Henson, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 12:30-13:30