Stem Cells &amp; Regenerative Medicine

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

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

User Kate Nation (University of Oxford).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

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

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

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

Imagers Interest Group

Directed dynamical connectivity in neuroimaging data: approaches, promises, and pitfalls

User Daniele Marinazzo, Ghent University.

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

Monday 29 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

User Gido van de Ven.

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

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

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

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

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

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

User Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

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

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

TBC

User East of England Research Interest Group - Parkinson's UK.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Dementia Journal Club

Exploring the amyloid beta secretome in 2D and 3D culture models

User Laura Pellegrini (MRC-LMB).

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

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

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

Foster Talks

An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature

User Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London.

House Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

User Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Craik Club

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people

User Alexa Morcom .

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

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

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

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

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

Title to be Confirmed

User Dr. David Evans, Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University, Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBC

User Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, University of Lausanne.

House TBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Narrative in neuroscience: evolutionary approach as a teaching tool

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

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

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

Dementia Journal Club

TBC

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Sackler Lecture room, Level 7, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

User Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is the child the father of the political man?

User Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

TBC

User Bryan Jones - University of Utah.

House TBC.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

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

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

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

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

Talk title tbc

User Speaker tbc.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

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

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

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

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

Autism and Emotion: Perspectives from Affective Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, and Computer Vision.

User Dr John Herrington, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 10:30-11:30

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

Visual nonlinearities

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

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

Inside-out: How emotions are perceived in the face

User Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London.

House TBC.

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

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

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

User Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin).

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

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

Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement

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

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

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

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

User Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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

House James Fawcett Seminar Room, van Geest Building.

Crossing over OMICS in mitochondrial diseases affecting the optic nerve

User Guy Lenaers, University of Angers - France.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

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

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

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

Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning

User Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge).

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

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

Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception

User Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

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

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

Digitally Distracted

User Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL).

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

User Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London.

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

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

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

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

User Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York).

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience

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

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

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30