Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The frontal lobes and voluntary action: how we choose when young, old or parkinsonian

James Rowe (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Animacy properties of words and expectation modulate ERP components

Elisabeth Fonteneau (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of lexical ambiguity on spoken word recognition using homographs and homophones: Behavioural and neural evidence

Jack Rogers (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dissociations in brain structure and function in incipient Alzheimer's disease?

Peter Nestor (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting fear conditioning: effects of anxiety

Sonia Bishop (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Reduced top-down modulation in autism: The role of prior knowledge in spontaneous attention, memory, and social perception

Eva Loth (BCNI, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Episodes, actions and abstractions in lexical learning

Matt Davis (MRC CBSU) .

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities

Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 12:30-13:30

CBU one-off Talks

Dissociating elements of autobiographical memory with neuropsychology and neuroimaging

Brian Levine (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Tuesday 08 July 2008, 12:00-13:00

CBU one-off Talks

Learning and plasticity for flexible decisions in the human brain

Zoe Kourtzi (Behavioural and Brain Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Monday 07 July 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition

Martin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex

John Duncan (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer?

Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Parkinson's Disease, dopamine and spatial span

Sean Fallon (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG

Caroline Whiting (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia

Morgan Barense (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory?

A late amendment due to the cancellation of the previous speaker

Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks

Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

Robert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound.

Michael Shadlen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention

Rebecca Lawson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression.

Aidan Horner (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder.

Liz Pellicano (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations

Jessica Grahn (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Pragmatic me, pragmatic you: the development of informativeness from a speaker's and a comprehender's perspective.

Napoleon Katsos (Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming

Jason Taylor (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Insight, Attention and Error

Ian Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Alexandra Woolgar.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Ola Jelowicka (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks.

Canceled

Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia

Ben Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Follow your heart? Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience

Barney Dunn (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug action

Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of dopamine and seratonin in reinforcement-based learning and adaptation.

Roshan Cools.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same of different?

Sue Gathercole (University of York).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Cognitive processes and molecular mechanisms

Seth Grant (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Karolina Moutsopoulou.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Danny Mitchell (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobe

Doris Tsao (University of Bremen).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does software matter?

Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatry

Roland Zahn (University of Manchester).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Maturational aspects of auditory ERP

Oleg Korzyukov (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state

Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chaucer Club debate: What can functional neuroimaging tell us that is relevant for cognitive psychology?

Mike Page (University of Hertfordshire) vs Tim Shallice (University College London).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease

New date - postponed from 28 Nov

James Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Uncertainty and behavioural control: Episodes, actions and habits

Peter Dayan (University College London).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia?

Hilary Green (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Beyond localization. What brain imaging can tell us

Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Putting emotions into context

Dean Mobbs (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviour

Richard Cooper (Birkbeck College, University of London).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory

Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice

Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Strateies of spatial listening for speech comprehension

Antje Ihlefeld (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 31 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selection

Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing

Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Neil Macrae (University of Aberdeen).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fronto-temporal dementia not all it seems

John Hodges (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The practical impact of FTD: an observational approach

Eneida Mioshi (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 03 October 2007, 12:30-13:30

CBU one-off Talks

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and relational binding in long-term memory

Charan Ranganath, University of California, Davis.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Tuesday 11 September 2007, 16:00-17:00

CBU one-off Talks

Automatic control: The tradeoff between habit and instruction in go/no-go and stop tasks

Gordon Logan, Vanderbilt University.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 September 2007, 16:30-17:30

CBU one-off Talks

Antipriming: the other side of priming

Chad Marsolek, University of Minnesota.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 05 September 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: building bridges or falling between two stools?

Barbara Wilson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 16:15-17:15

CBU one-off Talks

Normal and abnormal face processing in humans

Ken Nakayama, Harvard University.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Monday 03 September 2007, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Measures of auditory streaming

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

Sarah Thompson (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

Samrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 27 June 2007, 12:30-13:00

Chaucer Club

Human memory: new insights and fresh challenges

Note Wednesday (not Thurs as usual)

Dr Kim Graham.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Seeing patterns, reading words: Some preliminary results on the perception of "invisible words"

This talk was originally scheduled for 16 May

Doris Eckstein (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional and neural bases of eye gaze perception

Andy Calder (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domains

Professor Nick Chater (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 16:15-17:30

Chaucer Club

The time-course of response inhibition revealed by an examination of movement trajectory

Professor Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language and action: Cross-talk between processing of action words and motor control

Veronique Boulenger (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Imaging voice-specific responses in auditory areas

Canceled

Professor Pascal Belin (Glasgow).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Electrophysiological evidence for the enhanced allocation of spatial attention to threat in anxious individuals

Note change of title from that originally publicised

Elaine Fox, University of Essex.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Can the mirror neuron system infer intentions from observed action?

Dr James Kilner (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 16:15-17:30

Chaucer Club

Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition

Canceled

Professor Neil Macrae (Aberdeen).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 16:15-17:30

Chaucer Club

The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in London

Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why masked priming tells us more about normal perception than unconscious processing

Dennis Norris (MRC-CBU).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Psychological factors in the epidemiology of disease

Dr Paul Surtees (Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 26 April 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Breaking the silence - brain-computer interfaces for communication in locked-in patients

Andrea Kuebler, Universitaet Tuebingen.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortex

Dr Gregor Rainer (Tuebingen).

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 19 April 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease

Amended title from that originally posted

Caroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition

CANCELLED

Professor Neil Macrae, Aberdeen University.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future

We regret that this talk has been cancelled.

Kim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

11thousand autobiographical memories: Results from the BBC memory survey

Professor Martin Conway, Leeds University.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Adle Pacini, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

Max Garagnani, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory and strategy implementation

Dr Mark Baxter, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex

Rhodri Cusack, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face processing by combining lesion studies and neuroimaging

Dr Bruno Rossion, UCL Belgium.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A slim grip on reality? The role of anterior prefrontal cortex in source recollection

Jon Simons, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRI

Due to weather conditions this talk is cancelled

Professor Krish Singh, Cardiff University.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

TBCThe past is another country: The elusiveness of specific emotional memories following psychological trauma

Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Crossing the divide: Interactions between the processing of regular and irregular past tense words

Professor Elaine Funnell, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Parafoveal perception of emotional scenes: Evidence from oculomotor biases and affective priming

Note change of title from that originally publicised

Lauri Nummenmaa, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Prefrontal contributions to dynamic cognitive control

Dr Hugh Garavan, Trinity College Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Beyond the scores: Clues to neurophsychological disorders from the things patients say and do

Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Auditory processing, language impairment and developmental dyslexia

Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 18 January 2007, 16:15-17:30

Chaucer Club

Hearing with a cochlear implant: The perception of sound intensity

Prof Colette McKay, Aston University Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 07 December 2006, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Emotion from brain identity

Please note that this is a late addition to the Seminar list

Mitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 06 December 2006, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Experience-dependent plasticity as revealed by fMRI

Dr Zoe Kourtzi, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual differences in emotional responsivity

CANCELLED

Elaine Fox, University of Essex.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness?

The talk advertised for today (Dr Kia Nobre) had to be canceled, but we are fortunate to have Prof Wehrhahn step in at the last moment

Prof Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US..

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Morphological structure in visual word recognition

Mirjana Bozic, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 22 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control in the human brain: Evidence from TMS

Dr Chris Chambers, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

ERP and fMRI correlates of object and word recognition

Olaf Hauk, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 15 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of the hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from amnesia and fMRI

Prof Mieke Verfaellie, University of Boston.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Hemispheric asymmetetries in viewpoint-dependent and viewpoint-invariant priming

This week's slot is shared by two PhD students

Elias Mouchlianitis, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Context-dependent representations in human prefrontal cortex

This week's slot is shared by two PhD students

Mark Stokes, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 08 November 2006, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Semantic knowledge and the anterior temporal lobes: why doesn't anyone believe us?

Dr Tim Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Subliminal face priming: Evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG

Rik Henson, MRC-CBU.

Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 25 October 2006, 12:30-13:30