Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments

Ben Tappin (London School of Economics).

Online.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Power analysis

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

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

Foster Talks

The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation

Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Norah Fogarty - King's College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series

Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit.

Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology .

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

CBU Monday Methods Meeting

Cognitive Neuroscience Methods Day

Multiple.

MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 December 2024, 09:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Peter Watson.

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

Thursday 05 December 2024, 11:00-12:00

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution

Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany .

Old Divinity School, St. Johns College.

Monday 16 December 2024, 18:30-20:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Helen Margetts (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Episodic cognition in cephalopod molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Karen Douglas (University of Kent).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev).

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

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Autonomy as an engine for wellbeing, engagement and student performance: A gamification approach.

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits – the Contribution of Rare and Common Variants

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Goldberg (Yale University).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Title to be confirmed

Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:00-16:00