Chaucer Club

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) .

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

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

Avital Hahamy (University College London) .

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol).

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

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University).

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

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

Tim Denison (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

Adrian Horner (U. of York) .

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

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control

Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) .

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

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The role of reward in language learning

Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway).

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

Thursday 06 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain

Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley).

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

Monday 03 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The problem with mental health awareness

Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

How does the human brain recognize faces?

Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine).

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Sleep to forget unwanted memories

Scott Cairney (U. of York).

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

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Learning and memory in developmental amnesia 

Rachael Elward (London South Bank University).

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust

Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation

Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth).

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production

Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces

Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Consolidation of memory and model-based planning

Neil Burgess (UCL.

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

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations

Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth).

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments

Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems

Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) .

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

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The finger of blame in depression and the brain

Roland Zahn (KCL).

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children

Torsten Baldeweg (UCL).

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

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition

Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland).

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved

Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto).

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 12:45-13:45

Chaucer Club

Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants

Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison).

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

Thursday 07 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research

Essi Viding (UCL) .

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

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy

Quentin Huys (UCL).

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

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside

Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

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

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

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

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex

Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view

Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College).

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

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

When language typology meets dementia

Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) .

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

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures

Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) .

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

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy

Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) .

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

Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia

Dan Bush (UCL) .

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

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts

Mike Anderson (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting

Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour

Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life

Joseph Ledoux (New York University) .

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

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory

Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde).

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

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Somatosensory participation in human motor learning

David Ostry (McGill University) .

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

Thursday 23 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

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

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex

Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) .

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

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand

Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

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

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice

Helen Barron (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines

Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind).

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

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being

Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss

Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

Steve Fleming (UCL).

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

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits

Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocomputational basis of anxiety

Oliver Robinson (UCL).

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning

Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

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

Thursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

Karen Campbell (Brock University).

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

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

Sven Bestmann (UCL).

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

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)

Cathy Price (UCL).

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

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00