MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Exploring the Mind and Brain – Improving cognition and mental health

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 18:00-20:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Methods and math in cognitive neuroscience

Olaf Hauk ( MRC-CBU).

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

Monday 31 October 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Memory

Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Monday 24 October 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Visual semantics and visual cognition

Dr Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 17 October 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience

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

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

Monday 10 October 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the Frontal lobes

Professor John Duncan ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 01 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Autism Spectrum condition

Florina Uzefovsky (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Mental Health

Caitlin Hitchcock, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Monday 02 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Deep neural networks and visual object recognition

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Monday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Language processing in a neurobiological context

Mirjana Bozic, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

Monday 19 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to make good scientific figures

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 19 January 2015, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Emotion and mental imagery: from experiments to therapeutic applications

Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 03 November 2014, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

John Duncan (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 27 October 2014, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to design good experiments and analyse the results

Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Monday 20 October 2014, 16:00-17:30

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

EEG and MEG analysis

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 13 March 2014, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Experimental design, efficiency and connectivity in fMRI

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 06 March 2014, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

The General Linear Model for fMRI analysis

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 27 February 2014, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Preprocessing of fMRI data and computational morphometry (VBM)

Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 20 February 2014, 11:00-13:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Science: How not to do it

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration

Cancelled due to travel dispruption, please accept our apologies

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 28 October 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Has neuroscience abolished free will (or even criminal responsibility)

Nicholas Mackintosh (Department of Psychology).

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

Monday 21 October 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 14 October 2013, 16:00-17:30

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

EEG and MEG analysis

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 21 March 2013, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Experimental design, Efficiency and Connectivity in fMRI

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 14 March 2013, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

The General Linear Model for fMRI analysis

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 07 March 2013, 11:00-13:00

Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM)

Preprocessing of fMRI data and computational morphometry (VBM)

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 28 February 2013, 11:00-13:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational models and theories – who needs them?

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Computational models and theories – who needs them?

Dennis Norris (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 04 February 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Science: How not to do it

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 28 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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

Tim Bussey (Department of Psychology).

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

Monday 21 January 2013, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Neuroscience and the law

Nicholas Mackintosh (Department of Psychology).

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

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The psychology of gambling and gambling addiction

Luke Clark (Dept of Psychology).

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

Monday 29 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 22 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal detection theory - what it is and why you need it

(Bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 15 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How children's cognitive abilities vary: methods for understanding individual differences

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 08 October 2012, 16:00-17:30

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

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Sex differences in mind

Simon Baron-Cohen (Dept of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 06 February 2012, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

From genes to behaviour: insights from people with neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with intellectual disabilities

Tony Holland (Dept of Psychiatry).

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

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems

John Duncan (MRC CBSU).

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

Monday 23 January 2012, 16:00-17:30

MRI Physics and Analysis for Cognitive Neuroscientists

Ageing Neuroscience Day

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 18 June 2010, 09:30-15:00