Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Psychological correlates of smoking, drinking and drug-taking use and dependency from a large online sample

David Stillwell.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain

Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Preprocessing of fMRI data and computational morphometry (VBM)

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Seminar Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet

JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR

Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet

Note - this is a Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk and will be held at Department of Experimental Psychology

Professor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 10 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Brain maps for space

Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 13 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc

Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Decision-making in animal collectives

Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

What's special about the female autistic brain?

Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Postdoctoral Research ARC.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments

Stephen Gibson, York St John University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming

Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

The General Linear Model for fMRI analysis

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Seminar Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2012, 14:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation

Dr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function

Danny Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Biological precursors of the number sense

Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 20 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Rm #438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

BRC Seminar Series

"The Salvage Pathway of NAD Biosynthesis: Road to Neuroprotection"

Laura Conforti, University of Nottingham.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

BRC Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Laura Conforti, School of Biomedical Sciences Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Cambridge University Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

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

Thursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices

Christina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mapping Morphogenesis

Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:15-13:55

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Experimental design, Efficiency and Connectivity in fMRI

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Seminar Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

The Adolescent Brain

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 24 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

There no point crying about it … or is there? Some thoughts on why we have emotions

Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBSU).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 27 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

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

Thursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Foster Talks

Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development

Prof. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Autobiographical memory in autism

Dr Kate Plaisted Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Dept of Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

I Am, Therefore I Buy - Measuring How Personality Influences Consumer Preferences in a Digital Age

Sanna Linnea, Psychometrics Centre.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

The roles of the interaction between the APC/C and the centrosome in the cell cycle and development in Drosophila

Yuu Kimata, Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:15-13:55

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

EEG and MEG analysis

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Seminar Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Basic number representations and their neural basis

Dr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Cognitive neuroscience: Seeking convergence between neuroimaging and neuropsychology

Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum

Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 05 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

BRC Seminar Series

"How reggies/flotillins regulate axon regeneration and growth"

Professor. Claudia A.O. Stürmer, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz Germany.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Cambridge University Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.

Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Friday 09 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, and neuropsychiatric disease

Tim Bussey (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

Dept of Experimental Psychology.

Monday 12 March 2012, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo

Jackie Schiller, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Tecnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 12 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Foster Talks

Title to be confirmed

Dr Edward Mann,.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Exploring the underconnectivity theory of autism using independent component analysis

Richard Bethlehem.

Margaret Lowenfeld Room, Brookside clinic, Trumpington road.

Friday 16 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

The Mental Representation of Social Values: From System to Instantiation

Greg Maio, Cardiff University.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Friday 16 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

The role of grey matter astrocyte response in maintaining the integrity of neuronal circuits following remote axonal insults

Dr Andras Lakatos, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 29 June 2012, 13:00-14:00