Neuroscience Seminars

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

Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision

User Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University.

Monday 02 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events

User Andrea Greve (MRC CBU).

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr John-Paul Taylor, Senior Clincial Lecturer, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 05 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Deconstructing and reconstructing memory, and what this means for understanding dementia

User Kim Graham (U. of Cardiff).

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

User Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience

User Robert Turner (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

Monday 09 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

User Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

House The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 09 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Jac Davis, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory

User Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Perspective taking during communication

User Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

User Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

User Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught

User Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Monday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Spike timing in motor control

User Ilya Nemenman (Emory University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Large scale network interactions in consciousness

User Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

User Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

House CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Carmine Pariante, Professor of Biological Psychiatry, King's College, London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

How memory guides value-based decisions

User Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation

User Dr Ana Guinote, University College London.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Visual cognition

User Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Monday 23 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton.

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

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity

User Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health

User Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory

User Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Mechanisms of forgetting

User Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Monday 30 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

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

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions

User Marieke Mur (MRC CBU).

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig, Emeritus Professor Social Psychiatry, IoP, King’s College, London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications

User Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?

User Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Emotion

User Haakon Engen (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Monday 06 November 2017, 16:00-17:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Room (2nd floor) for attendees only.

User Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics .

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

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

User Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Talk title TBC

User Peter Jones (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

The brain isn't porridge

User Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Information networks, truth and value.

User Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

Consciousness

User Tristan Bekinschtein (University of Cambridge).

Monday 13 November 2017, 16:00-17:30

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

Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech

User Matt Davis (MRC CBU).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease

User Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge).

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia

User Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

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

How to give good talks

User Tom Manly (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Monday 20 November 2017, 16:00-17:30

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

User Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Cardiovascular problems predict poorer white matter health in the Cam-CAN adult lifespan cohort

User Delia Fuhrmann (UCL).

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Anthony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, King’s College, London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 23 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain

User Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory

User Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) .

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control

User Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Friday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30