Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Time course of memory updating in running span

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

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

John Rothwell (UCL).

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

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

Craik Club

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

Testosterone and human gender development

Melissa Hines (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Craik Club

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Chaucer Club

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

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

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

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

Joni Holmes (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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Chaucer Club

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

Tamar Makin (UCL).

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

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

Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Craik Club

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

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

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

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

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

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

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Craik Club

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

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

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

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

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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