Yishu's list


2006-01-11 13:00: Moving Colours (Annette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen)

2006-01-24 13:00: Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain. (Adrian Dyer)

2006-02-07 13:00: The Trefethen Effect (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-23 13:00: Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons (Salome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-16 13:00: Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI (Kathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University)

2006-03-21 13:00: Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes (Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester)

2006-04-04 13:00: On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing (Winrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)

2006-05-15 13:00: The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century (Benjamin Wardhaugh,  University of Oxford)

2006-05-22 13:00: Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens" (Anna Mrker,  Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

2006-05-24 13:00: Learning and recall of  visuomotor transformations (John Krakauer, Columbia University)

2006-05-30 13:00: Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people (Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-06-05 13:00: Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation (William Adams, University of Cambridge)

2006-07-03 13:00: Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception (Jane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco)

2006-07-07 13:00: Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic (Bruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso)

2006-08-16 13:00: Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells (Trevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra)

2006-10-06 16:30: Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies (Professor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-09 13:00: The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793) (Simon Chaplin (Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons))

2006-10-13 16:30: Sex differences in intelligence? (Professor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-16 13:00: Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India (Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College))

2006-10-20 16:30: What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI (Professor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-24 13:00: The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-25 12:30: Subliminal face priming: Evidence from fMRI, EEG and MEG (Rik Henson, MRC-CBU)

2006-10-27 16:30: Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? (Professor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire)

2006-10-30 12:30: Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950 (Jasper Heinzen (Darwin College))

2006-11-02 16:00: Semantic knowledge and the anterior temporal lobes: why doesn't anyone believe us? (Dr Tim Rogers, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2006-11-03 16:30: Mood, memory & clinical depression (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-06 13:00: R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics (Jim Moore (Open University))

2006-11-08 12:30: Hemispheric asymmetetries in viewpoint-dependent and viewpoint-invariant priming (Elias Mouchlianitis, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-08 12:30: Context-dependent representations in human prefrontal cortex (Mark Stokes, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-09 16:15: The role of the hippocampus in relational memory: Evidence from amnesia and fMRI (Prof Mieke Verfaellie, University of Boston)

2006-11-10 16:30: Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations (Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain)

2006-11-13 13:00: More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith (Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia))

2006-11-13 13:00: Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'? (David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-15 12:30: ERP and fMRI correlates of object and word recognition (Olaf Hauk, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-16 16:15: Neural mechanisms of attention and cognitive control in the human brain: Evidence from TMS (Dr Chris Chambers, University College London)

2006-11-17 13:00: Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity (Simon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)

2006-11-17 16:30: Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studies (Professor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2006-11-20 13:00: Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century (Niall O'Flaherty)

2006-11-21 16:30: The Role of Language in Mathematical Development (Dr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London)

2006-11-22 12:30: Morphological structure in visual word recognition (Mirjana Bozic, MRC-CBU)

2006-11-23 16:15: Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness? (Prof Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US.)

2006-11-24 16:30: The origins of adult magical beliefs (Professor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2006-11-27 13:00: Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2006-11-29 12:30: Individual differences in emotional responsivity (Elaine Fox, University of Essex)

2006-11-30 16:15: Experience-dependent plasticity as revealed by fMRI (Dr Zoe Kourtzi, University of Birmingham)

2006-12-01 13:00: Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks (Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada)

2006-12-06 12:30: Emotion from brain identity (Mitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center)

2006-12-07 16:15: Hearing with a cochlear implant: The perception of sound intensity (Prof Colette McKay, Aston University Birmingham)

2006-12-12 13:00: Motion Perception -  from visual arts to neural processing (Johannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2006-12-14 17:00: Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect (Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2006-12-15 13:00: A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound (Michael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington)

2007-01-18 16:15: Auditory processing, language impairment and developmental dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-19 16:30: New family forms: Implications for parenting and child development (Professor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-22 13:00: Geological deluge and snowball Earth (Martin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-24 12:30: Beyond the scores: Clues to neurophsychological disorders from the things patients say and do (Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU)

2007-01-25 16:15: Prefrontal contributions to dynamic cognitive control (Dr Hugh Garavan, Trinity College Dublin)

2007-01-26 16:30: Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory (Professor Graham Hitch, University of York)

2007-01-29 13:00: Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world (Laurence Totelin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-01-31 12:30: Parafoveal perception of emotional scenes: Evidence from oculomotor biases and affective priming (Lauri Nummenmaa, MRC-CBU)

2007-02-01 16:15: Crossing the divide: Interactions between the processing of regular and irregular past tense words (Professor Elaine Funnell, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2007-02-02 16:30: Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genes (Dr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA)

2007-02-05 13:00: Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing (Peter Bowler (Queen's University Belfast))

2007-02-06 16:30: Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-07 12:30: TBCThe past is another country: The elusiveness of specific emotional memories following psychological trauma (Tim Dalgleish, MRC-CBU)

2007-02-08 16:15: Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRI (Professor Krish Singh, Cardiff University)

2007-02-09 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-02-12 13:00: Alchemy and natural history (Jenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-13 13:00: Biophysics of wiring the brain (Aldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-16 16:30: Is theory of mind necessary for teaching (Dr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

2007-02-19 13:00: "Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol" (Joe Cain (University College London))

2007-02-21 12:30: A slim grip on reality? The role of anterior prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons, Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-22 16:15: Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face processing by combining lesion studies and neuroimaging (Dr Bruno Rossion, UCL Belgium)

2007-02-23 13:00: The concatenation of factors of change in perception (Donald MacLeod, UCSD)

2007-02-23 16:30: Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG (Professor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2007-02-26 13:00: The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s (Peter Edwards (Roehampton University))

2007-02-27 16:30: Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line (Dr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France)

2007-02-28 12:30: Discrete object representation for perception and memory in posterior parietal cortex (Rhodri Cusack, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-01 16:15: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory and strategy implementation (Dr Mark Baxter, University of Oxford)

2007-03-02 16:30: Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisions (Professor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA)

2007-03-05 13:00: Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840 (Leucha Veneer (University of Leeds))

2007-03-07 12:30: Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition? (Adle Pacini, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-07 12:30: Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex (Max Garagnani, MRC-CBU)

2007-03-08 16:15: 11thousand autobiographical memories: Results from the BBC memory survey (Professor Martin Conway, Leeds University)

2007-03-09 16:30: Intuition and affect in decision-making (Dr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College)

2007-03-12 13:00: "Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording" (Jenny Beckman (University of Uppsala, Stockholm))

2007-03-14 12:30: Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future (Kim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU)

2007-03-15 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae, Aberdeen University)

2007-03-19 13:00: Date and Title to be confirmed (Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada)

2007-03-21 12:30: The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease (Caroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)

2007-04-04 11:00: Colour Vision Meeting (Speakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst)

2007-04-12 13:00: Variational free energy and the brain (Karl Friston, UCL)

2007-04-19 16:15: The effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortex (Dr Gregor Rainer (Tuebingen))

2007-04-24 13:00: Visual discrimination of interacting human agents (Peter Neri, City University, London)

2007-04-25 12:30: Breaking the silence - brain-computer interfaces for communication in locked-in patients (Andrea Kuebler, Universitaet Tuebingen)

2007-04-26 16:15: Psychological factors in the epidemiology of disease (Dr Paul Surtees (Cambridge))

2007-04-27 13:00: On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination (Jörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor)

2007-04-27 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-04-30 13:00: Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900 (Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-05-02 12:30: Why masked priming tells us more about normal perception than unconscious processing (Dennis Norris (MRC-CBU))

2007-05-03 16:15: The thoughts and brain activity of taxi drivers navigating in London (Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL))

2007-05-04 16:30: The role of action in directing attention (Professor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2007-05-10 13:00: The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes (Ruth Hogg, University of Melbourne)

2007-05-10 16:15: Tactics of person understanding: Minds, brains and social cognition (Professor Neil Macrae (Aberdeen))

2007-05-11 16:30: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memory (Dr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2007-05-14 13:00: Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century (Susanne Pickert (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2007-05-17 16:15: Can the mirror neuron system infer intentions from observed action? (Dr James Kilner (UCL))

2007-05-18 16:30: Timing, memory and choice (Professor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA)

2007-05-22 13:00: Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia (Gary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin)

2007-05-22 16:30: Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRI (Dr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of  General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University)

2007-05-23 12:30: Electrophysiological evidence for the enhanced allocation of spatial attention to threat in anxious individuals (Elaine Fox, University of Essex)

2007-05-24 16:15: Imaging voice-specific responses in auditory areas (Professor Pascal Belin (Glasgow))

2007-05-30 12:30: Language and action: Cross-talk between processing of action words and motor control (Veronique Boulenger (MRC-CBU))

2007-05-31 16:15: The time-course of response inhibition revealed by an examination of movement trajectory (Professor Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2007-06-05 13:00: How do we perceive motion direction? (Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology)

2007-06-07 13:00: The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture (Adrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick)

2007-06-07 16:15: Fundamental principles of cognition, which might apply across several cognitive domains (Professor Nick Chater (UCL))

2007-06-13 12:30: Functional and neural bases of eye gaze perception (Andy Calder (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-20 12:30: Seeing patterns, reading words: Some preliminary results on the perception of "invisible words" (Doris Eckstein (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-20 16:15: Human memory: new insights and fresh challenges (Dr Kim Graham)

2007-06-26 13:00: Decoding consciousness (Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2007-06-27 12:30: Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment (Samrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU))

2007-06-27 13:00: Measures of auditory streaming (Sarah Thompson (MRC-CBU))

2007-07-03 13:00: Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text (Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2007-09-04 16:15: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: building bridges or falling between two stools? (Barbara Wilson (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-03 12:30: The practical impact of FTD: an observational approach (Eneida Mioshi (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-05 16:30: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Dr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2007-10-08 13:00: 'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England (Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford))

2007-10-09 13:00: Collaborative learning in children: contradiction, co-construction and the development of knowledge (Christine Howe, Faculty of Education, Cambridge)

2007-10-10 12:30: Fronto-temporal dementia not all it seems (John Hodges (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-11 16:15: Knowing Me, Knowing You (Neil Macrae (University of Aberdeen))

2007-10-12 16:30: The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviour (Dr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2007-10-15 13:00: Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain (Carlos López Beltrán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México))

2007-10-15 13:00: The origins and biology of play (Professor Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee)

2007-10-17 12:30: Listening in a cocktail party with acoustic and electric hearing (Bob Carlyon (MRC-CBU))

2007-10-18 16:15: Functional interactions of frontal cortex during action selection and attentional selection (Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford))

2007-10-19 16:30: Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol Connection (Professor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster)

2007-10-23 13:00: Intrusive Thoughts and Cognitive Functioning following Potentially Traumatic Events: From Hurricanes to Maltreatment, Injury, and Chronic Illness (Manuel Sprung, University of Innsbruck)

2007-10-26 16:30: Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees (Professor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2007-10-29 13:00: 'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America (Helen Cowie (University of Warwick))

2007-10-30 16:30: Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers (Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London)

2007-10-31 12:30: Strateies of spatial listening for speech comprehension (Antje Ihlefeld (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-01 16:15: The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice (Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow))

2007-11-02 16:30: Androgen and gender development (Professor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-05 13:00: Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum (Sam Alberti (Manchester Museum))

2007-11-06 13:00: Chinese Whispers and Virtual Arrowheads: What cultural transmission experiments can tell us about cultural evolution (Alex Mesoudi, SPS)

2007-11-07 12:30: From emotion in the control of action to emotional meaning - a suggested evolutionary trajectory (Phil Barnard (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-08 16:15: Computational mechanisms for the generation and regulation of behaviour (Richard Cooper (Birkbeck College, University of London))

2007-11-09 16:30: Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events (Dr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham)

2007-11-12 13:00: 'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s (Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh))

2007-11-13 16:30: Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory Function (Dr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2007-11-14 12:30: Putting emotions into context (Dean Mobbs (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-15 16:15: Beyond localization.  What brain imaging can tell us (Dick Passingham (University of Oxford))

2007-11-16 16:30: Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotion (Professor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol)

2007-11-19 13:00: The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology (David Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-11-20 13:00: Change in Personal Values: How, When, What, and Effects on Well-Being (Dr Anat Bardi, University of Kent)

2007-11-21 12:30: Amazing puzzles: a preserved ability in Semantic Dementia? (Hilary Green (MRC-CBU))

2007-11-23 16:30: Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes (Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth)

2007-11-26 13:00: Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages (Kathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London))

2007-11-29 16:15: Uncertainty and behavioural control: Episodes, actions and habits (Peter Dayan (University College London))

2007-12-05 12:30: Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease (James Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital))

2007-12-06 16:15: 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))

2007-12-07 13:00: The machinery of colour vision (Professor P. Lennie)

2007-12-07 16:30: Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems (Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA)

2008-01-10 13:00: Normalizing colour vision (Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada)

2008-01-16 12:30: Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state (Paul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit))

2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Colin Blakemore (University of Oxford))

2008-01-21 13:00: ‘What is meant by this system?’ Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature (Nicola Gauld (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge))

2008-01-23 12:30: Maturational aspects of auditory ERP (Oleg Korzyukov (MRC-CBU))

2008-01-24 16:15: The neural architecture of social concepts and values: implications for neuropsychiatry (Roland Zahn (University of Manchester))

2008-01-25 16:30: How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to response (Professor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2008-01-28 13:00: Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection, 1869-1900 (Elise Juzda (Faculty of History))

2008-01-30 12:30: Does software matter? (Matthew Brett (MRC-CBU))

2008-01-31 16:15: Cell recording and fMRI reveal a specialized system for processing faces in the temporal lobe (Doris Tsao (University of Bremen))

2008-02-01 16:30: Functional MRI studies of memory and ageing (Dr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh)

2008-02-04 13:00: Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall (Simon Naylor (University of Exeter))

2008-02-05 13:00: Stress and Child care (Professor Lieselotte Ahnert, Faculty of Human Science, University of Cologne)

2008-02-05 16:30: Children's Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of Object Motion: The First Results (Christine Howe, Joana Taylor Tavares and Amy Devine)

2008-02-06 12:30: Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation? (Karolina Moutsopoulou)

2008-02-06 12:30: Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory (Danny Mitchell (MRC-CBU))

2008-02-07 16:15: Cognitive processes and molecular mechanisms (Seth Grant (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2008-02-08 16:30: Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learning (Dr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2008-02-11 13:00: Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge (Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group))

2008-02-14 16:15: Developmental impairments of attention and working memory: Same of different? (Sue Gathercole (University of York))

2008-02-15 16:30: The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actions (Professor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2008-02-18 13:00: Distancing animals in medieval chronicles (Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool))

2008-02-19 13:00: The geography of personality (Dr Jason Rentfrow, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Cambridge)

2008-02-20 12:30: The role of dopamine and seratonin in reinforcement-based learning and adaptation. (Roshan Cools)

2008-02-21 13:00: Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons (Dr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford)

2008-02-21 16:15: A cognitive neuropsychological account of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford))

2008-02-22 16:30: Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviour (Professor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2008-02-25 13:00: Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project (Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-02-26 13:00: Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008:  How far have we come? (Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York)

2008-02-27 12:30: Follow your heart?  Investigating the influence of bodily feedback on decision-making and emotion experience (Barney Dunn (MRC-CBU))

2008-02-28 16:15: Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia (Ben Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital))

2008-02-29 16:30: Cancellation in Auditory Scene Analysis (Dr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2008-03-03 13:00: Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life (Gail Davies (University College London))

2008-03-04 13:00: How to measure God: Innovations in the experimental investigation of religious cognition (Dr Nicholas Gibson, Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity,)

2008-03-05 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks. (Luca Passamonti (MRC-CBU))

2008-03-07 16:30: Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled? (Dr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire)

2008-03-10 13:00: Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-03-12 12:30: fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants (Alexandra Woolgar)

2008-03-12 12:30: Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia (Ola Jelowicka (MRC-CBU))

2008-03-13 16:15: Insight, Attention and Error (Ian Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin))

2008-04-08 11:00: Count nouns and the semantics of counting (Professor Susan Rothstein, Bar Ilan University)

2008-04-16 17:00:  Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision (Professor Mark Georgeson)

2008-04-23 12:30: EEG and MEG Correlates of Recollection, Familiarity, and Priming (Jason Taylor (MRC-CBU))

2008-04-24 16:15: 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))

2008-04-25 16:30: Attentional bias and craving in substance use (Dr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool)

2008-04-28 13:00: Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates (Neil Rennie (University College London))

2008-04-29 13:00: Fathers, Infants and Family Leave Policies: International Perspectives and Policy Impact (Professor Margaret O'Brien, University of East Anglia)

2008-04-29 16:30: Adult influences on children's informal learning (Professor Andrew Tolmie, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, London)

2008-04-30 12:30: Rhythm perception in musicians and non-musicians: auditory-motor network modulations (Jessica Grahn  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-01 16:15: Adaptive face-coding mechanisms in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder. (Liz Pellicano (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol))

2008-05-02 16:30: A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative! (Dr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-06 13:00: Spatial vision in the periphery (Professor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology)

2008-05-07 12:30: Adaptation of Visual Cues to Social Attention (Rebecca Lawson  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-07 12:30: Response learning contributions to priming and repetition suppression. (Aidan Horner  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-07 15:00: Psychometric Principles 3: Why is it important to standardise tests? (Professor John Rust, Director, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-08 16:15: 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))

2008-05-09 16:30: Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together (Joint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2008-05-12 13:00: Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections (Stéphane Schmitt (Université Paris Diderot))

2008-05-13 16:30: Predicting relational and serious physical aggression: The influences of emotions and social cognitive styles in adolescence (Professors Marie S. Tisak & John Tisak, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA)

2008-05-15 16:15: Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. (Robert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-16 16:30: Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography (Professor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-05-19 13:00: Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris (Ralph Kingston (Auburn University))

2008-05-20 16:30: Children's intuitive physics in thought and action (Professor Friedrich Wilkening, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2008-05-21 12:30: Personality differences predict connectivity in emotional regulation networks (Luca Passamonti  (MRC-CBU))

2008-05-21 13:00: The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements (Dr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University)

2008-05-21 15:00: Psychometric Principles 4: How can test bias and adverse impact be addressed? (Professor John Rust, Director, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-22 16:15: Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory? (Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2008-05-23 16:30: Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems? (Professor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2008-05-26 13:00: Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century (Patricia Fara (Clare College and HPS))

2008-05-27 13:00: Shifting ground: The variable use of essentialism in contexts of inclusion and exclusion (Dr Thomas Morton, University of Exeter)

2008-05-28 12:30: Interactions between memory, perception and semantics: Insights from amnesia and semantic dementia (Morgan Barense  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-02 13:00: Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand (Michael Stevens (University of Otago))

2008-06-03 16:30: Do undergraduates' motivations change as they progress through their degrees? (Dr Richard Remedios, School of Education, Durham University)

2008-06-04 12:30: Parkinson's Disease, dopamine and spatial span (Sean Fallon  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-04 12:30: Examining morphological processing in word recognition using MEG (Caroline Whiting  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-05 16:15: Binding temporary information in working memory: A role for an episodic buffer? (Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York))

2008-06-10 13:00: Dialogue and the development of reasoning and understanding (Professor Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2008-06-11 12:30: Associations and dissociations in prefrontal cortex (John Duncan  (MRC-CBU))

2008-06-12 16:15: Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition (Martin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee))

2008-06-25 13:00: Grandmother cells in the human brain? (Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2008-06-26 13:00: Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging (Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara)

2008-07-15 13:00: The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next (Dr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne)

2008-07-16 13:00: A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features (George Sperling, University of California, Irvine)

2008-07-17 13:00: "The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye" (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University)

2008-09-25 16:15: Resting-state functional connectivity: Principles and applications in cognitive neuroscience (Michael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine))

2008-10-02 16:15: Conflict, competition and cognitive control (Nick Yeung (University of Oxford))

2008-10-08 12:30: Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU))

2008-10-09 16:15: Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brain (Heidi Johansen-Berg  (University of Oxford))

2008-10-10 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-10-10 16:30: The spatial foundations of the conceptual system (Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA)

2008-10-13 13:00: The evolution of wonder (Paul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-15 12:30: Episodes, actions and abstractions in lexical learning (Matt Davis (MRC CBSU)	)

2008-10-16 11:00: The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-10-16 16:15: Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging (Sophie Scott  (University College London))

2008-10-17 16:30: Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzees (Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa)

2008-10-20 13:00: Orford Ness: landscape of war and science (Sophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-21 17:30: How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science (Ben Goldacre, Author, broadcaster, doctor and blogger - badscience.net)

2008-10-22 12:30: Reduced top-down modulation in autism: The role of prior knowledge in spontaneous attention, memory, and social perception (Eva Loth (BCNI, Cambridge))

2008-10-23 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-10-23 13:00: Recent developments in the chemical senses:  a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists (Professor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge)

2008-10-23 16:15: Remapping attention (Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes))

2008-10-24 16:30: Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes (Professor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2008-10-30 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-10-30 16:15: Causal functional interactions between cortical areas (Wim Vanduffel  (Catholic University of Leuven))

2008-10-31 16:30: The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder (Dr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-11-03 13:00: The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes (Alexander Etkind (Department of Slavonic Studies))

2008-11-04 13:00: The Colour of Motivation (Prof. Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester, NY, USA)

2008-11-04 16:30: Activity theory: methodological and analytical resources for researching learning for interprofessional work ( Professor Harry Daniels, University of Bath)

2008-11-05 12:30: Neurocognitive mechanisms supporting fear conditioning: effects of anxiety (Sonia Bishop (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-06 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-11-06 16:15: Neural mechanisms of sequence learning (Bruno Averbeck (University College London))

2008-11-07 16:30: Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe (Dr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter)

2008-11-10 13:00: New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use (Trish Stewart (University of St Andrews))

2008-11-11 16:30: Vygotsky & Piaget, as seen from Neuchatel today (Professor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Geneva)

2008-11-12 12:30: Dissociations in brain structure and function in incipient Alzheimer's disease? (Peter Nestor (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2008-11-13 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-11-13 16:15: Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and disease (Irene Tracey (University of Oxford))

2008-11-14 16:30: What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex? (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London)

2008-11-17 13:00: Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)? (Andrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-11-18 13:00: Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Children's Evaluations of Disclosing an Adult's Wrongdoing (Lindsay Malloy, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-19 12:30: The effect of lexical ambiguity on spoken word recognition using homographs and homophones: Behavioural and neural evidence (Jack Rogers (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-20 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-11-20 16:15: Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaesthesia (Jamie Ward (University of Sussex))

2008-11-21 16:30: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought (Professor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull)

2008-11-24 13:00: A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge (Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of Warwick))

2008-11-26 12:30: Animacy properties of words and expectation modulate ERP components (Elisabeth Fonteneau (MRC CBSU))

2008-11-27 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-11-27 13:00: Going with the flow:  Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees (Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute)

2008-11-27 16:15: Reward and choice (Ray Dolan (University College London))

2008-11-28 16:30: The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function (Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-12-01 13:00: Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England (Debby Banham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-12-02 13:00: Adoption: Recovery After Initial Adversity (Prof. Jesús Palacios, University of Seville, Spain)

2008-12-03 12:30: The frontal lobes and voluntary action: how we choose when young, old or parkinsonian (James Rowe (MRC CBSU))

2008-12-04 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2008-12-04 16:15: Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRI (Christian Ruff (University College London))

2008-12-08 11:30: Navigating ethical and compliance issues in developing causal conclusions from randomized field trials: A case study (Professor Brain Junker, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)

2008-12-11 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-01-06 13:00: The Perception of Colour Seen in Context (Dr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago)

2009-01-12 13:00: What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it? (Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University)

2009-01-13 13:00: Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Movement (Brady Wagoner (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-13 16:30: The hierarchical model of achievement motivation: Conceptual and applied issues (Andrew Elliot, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, USA)

2009-01-14 12:30: Behavioural and imaging investigations of spatial exploration or awareness in patients with unilateral neglect (Margarita Sarri (MRC CBU))

2009-01-15 16:15: Back to the future: memories for making predictions and decisions (Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge))

2009-01-16 16:30: Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatry (Professor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-01-19 13:00: Perception, action and uncertainty (Prof. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU)

2009-01-19 13:00: Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist (Alison Wood (King's College London))

2009-01-21 12:30: MEG in older controls: counterparts of 1) semantic & episodic memory & 2) speech perception (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBU))

2009-01-21 12:30: The structure of the parietal VSTM representation   features, objects and space (Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky (MRC CBU))

2009-01-22 16:15: Decoding the listening brain with human neuroimaging and machine learning (Elia Formisano  (Maastricht University))

2009-01-23 16:30: What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanations (Professor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain)

2009-01-28 12:30: Pitch matching between acoustic and electric hearing: what cochlear implant scientists can learn from Christopher Poulton (Olivier Macherey (MRC CBU))

2009-01-28 13:00: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences (Prof. Jay Belsky (Institute for the Study of  Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London))

2009-01-29 16:15: An a priori model of biased perceptual choice (Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford))

2009-01-30 16:30: Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward system (Dr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-02 13:00: The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation (Marionne Cronin (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2009-02-04 12:30: Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam (Georgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's))

2009-02-05 16:15: The role of human prefrontal cortex in hierarchical decision making (John O’Doherty  (Trinity College Dublin))

2009-02-06 16:30: Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge (Dr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2009-02-09 13:00: Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth (Becky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-02-10 13:00: "Only You Can Tell Me What Happened": Innovative Techniques for Interviewing Child Alleged Victims of Sexual Abuse (Dr. Carmit Katz (University of Cambridge))

2009-02-11 12:30: Recurrent activity supports the construction of meaningful object (Alex Clarke  (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology))

2009-02-13 16:15: Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris))

2009-02-13 16:30: Signatures of conscious access:  Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-02-16 13:00: JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world (Andy Hammond (University College London))

2009-02-19 16:15: Prefrontal cortex and top-down control: ablation studies (David Gaffan  (University of Oxford))

2009-02-20 16:30: From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral stream (Professor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-23 13:00: Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae' (Jessica Hughes (Open University))

2009-02-24 13:00: Deception Detection (Dr. Eunkyung Jo (Hallym University, Korea))

2009-02-24 16:30: Games, learning and the brain's reward system (Dr Paul Howard-Jones, Co-ordinator, Centre for Psychology & Learning in Context, University of Bristol)

2009-02-25 12:30: Early linguistic access: rapid, parallel and automatic? (Yury Shtyrov (MRC CBU))

2009-02-26 16:15: What are illusions and why do we see them? (Beau Lotto  (University College London))

2009-02-27 16:30: Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from development (Dr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2009-03-02 13:00: 'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20 (Eric Ash (Wayne State University, USA))

2009-03-04 12:30: Prefrontal cortex and representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC CBU)	)

2009-03-05 16:15: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Robert Rogers (University of Oxford))

2009-03-06 13:00: The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far? (Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University)

2009-03-06 16:30: How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans? (Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-03-09 13:00: Distancing animals in medieval chronicles (Brigitte Resl (University of Liverpool))

2009-03-11 12:30: Understanding speech with an ageing brain: perception, cognition, and compensation (Jonathan Peelle (MRC CBU))

2009-03-12 13:00: The Art Image as Foundation for a Science of Mind: The Life Work of Susanne K. Langer (Dr. Ivan Ellingham (Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust))

2009-03-12 16:15: From a face to its category via a few information states in the brain (Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow))

2009-03-17 13:00: Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations (Professor József Fiser, Brandeis University)

2009-03-30 13:00: What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world (Prof. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester)

2009-04-20 13:00: Talking about the past, present and future: Effects on children's memory and knowledge (Prof. Mel Pipe (Brooklyn College, CUNY))

2009-04-20 13:00: Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children (Bernard Lightman (York University, Canada))

2009-04-24 16:30: Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning? (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

2009-04-27 13:00: Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man' (Efram Sera Shriar (University of Leeds))

2009-04-28 16:30: Thinking Together in culturally diverse classrooms in the Netherlands (Ed Elbers, Professor of Communication, Cognition and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

2009-04-29 12:30: Lateral prefrontal cortex and the representation of task relevant information (Natasha Sigala (MRC-CBU))

2009-04-29 14:00: Applying Psychology in multiple learning contexts: the role of an Educational Psychologist (Frank Murphy, Senior Educational Psychologist, Cambridgeshire LA)

2009-04-30 13:00: Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina (Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2009-04-30 16:15: Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why? (Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford))

2009-05-01 16:30: The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addiction (Dr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-04 13:00: 'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London (Christopher Plumb (University of Manchester))

2009-05-05 13:00: Nostalgia as a social support repository: The role of attachment-related avoidance (Dr. Tim Wildschut (University of Southampton))

2009-05-06 12:30: Temporal grouping effect in verbal short term memory (Kristjan Kalm (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-06 12:30: The neural basis of frustration: an fMRI study (Jacky Yu (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-07 16:15: Auditory processing in singing and walking crickets (Berthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-08 16:30: Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism (Professor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria)

2009-05-11 13:00: Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London (Richard Coulton (Queen Mary, University of London))

2009-05-13 12:30: Emotion effects on memory and conceptual priming (Cristina Ramponi (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-13 13:00: Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos (Dr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2009-05-14 16:15: Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRI (Jenny Coull (University of Provence))

2009-05-15 16:30: How we come to experience that we own our body (Dr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

2009-05-18 13:00: Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration (Philip Kerrigan (University of York))

2009-05-19 13:00: Sex differences in spatial navigation and spatial IQ tasks (Dr. Lucie Salwiczek (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2009-05-19 16:30: What can neuroeducational research tell us about student motivation? (Sung-il Kim, Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Brain & Motivational Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University)

2009-05-20 12:30: DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension (John Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology))

2009-05-21 16:15: The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and disease (Matthew Jones (University of Bristol))

2009-05-25 13:00: Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew (Katie Zimmerman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-05-27 12:30: Sometimes angry, but always afraid: Differential effects of anxiety on the neural response to facial signals of threat (Michael Ewbank (MRC-CBU))

2009-05-28 16:15: Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortex (Etienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris))

2009-06-01 17:30: Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences (Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)

2009-06-04 16:15: Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorder (Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford))

2009-06-08 16:30: Religion and self-regulation (Prof. Michael McCullough (University of Miami))

2009-06-09 16:30: Learnable Intelligence (Michael E. Martinez, Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine)

2009-06-10 12:30: The effect of attention on illusory vowel perception and sound onset: an fMRI study (Antje Heinrich (Department of Linguistics))

2009-06-11 13:00: Nonconscious processes in goals and their pursuit (Prof. Henk Aarts (University of Utrecht))

2009-06-11 16:15: The social brain (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London))

2009-09-28 16:30: Mediating Meaning Making: The rationale for dialogic inquiry (Professor Gordon Wells, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2009-10-07 12:00: Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality (Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre))

2009-10-08 11:00: The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power (Ian Nimmo-Smith  (MRC CBSU))

2009-10-08 15:30: The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks (Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL))

2009-10-09 16:30: Licking & liking in rodents (Dr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2009-10-12 13:00: Fungi in history (Nick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-13 13:00: Psychometrics ancient and modern: From Classical Test Theory to Item Response Theory (Prof. John Rust (Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-14 12:30: Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks (David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge))

2009-10-15 10:30: Psychometrics at the University of Cambridge (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-15 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU))

2009-10-16 13:00: Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination (Professor Galina Paramei, Hope University)

2009-10-16 16:30: Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexia (Professor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-10-19 13:00: 'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930 (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-21 12:30: Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity (Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-10-22 10:30: Ready Steady Cook (book): Cooking up a psychometric treat in 20 minutes - live, hot and tasty! (Dr Tim Croudace ( University of Cambridge))

2009-10-22 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson  (MRC CBSU))

2009-10-22 15:30: Syntax in the human brain (Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany))

2009-10-23 16:30: The neurodynamics of cognitive integration (Professor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London)

2009-10-27 13:00: The development of sex differences in mental rotations in human infants (Prof. David Moore (Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate School, USA))

2009-10-29 10:30: Poseurs, tricksters and loafers - how to recognize them among your participants? (Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-29 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Ian Nimmo-Smith  (MRC CBSU))

2009-10-29 15:30: The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions (Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada))

2009-10-30 16:30: Neurobiological basis of music and dance skills (Professor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2009-11-02 13:00: Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars (Anne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-11-03 16:00: Adolescence in Today's Society: The brain, cognition and social development (*Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Soc. University Research Fellow & Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience,  and  *Dr John Coleman, Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence & Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford)

2009-11-04 12:30: Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special (Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-05 10:30: Identifying key drivers of item variance in your questionnaire data: an introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (Jan Stochl)

2009-11-05 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Ian Nimmo-Smith  (MRC CBSU))

2009-11-05 15:30: Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation (Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France))

2009-11-06 16:30: Risks, Emotions & Decisions (Professor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London)

2009-11-09 13:00: After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon (Jamie Lorimer (King's College London))

2009-11-10 13:00: Measuring unconscious response tendencies in adults and children (Dr. Dénes Szücs (Department of Education, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-11 12:30: The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system (Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-12 10:30: Introduction to Item Response Theory (Uli Reininghaus)

2009-11-12 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson  (MRC CBSU))

2009-11-12 15:30: Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models (Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-13 16:30: Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairment (Dr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-16 13:00: Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture (Toby Musgrave)

2009-11-17 13:00: Daily well-being is about thoughts as well as feelings:  Extending the day reconstruction method (Dr. Mathew White (University of Plymouth))

2009-11-17 16:30: Taking Executive Functions to School (Dr Michelle Ellefson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-18 12:30: Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations (Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-11-19 10:30: Understanding how people think through means and ends: An introduction to laddering (Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-19 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC CBSU))

2009-11-19 13:00: Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging (Dr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool)

2009-11-19 15:30: Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm (Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL))

2009-11-20 16:30: Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuits (Dr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2009-11-23 13:00: Lyell's plots (Adelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group))

2009-11-24 13:00: The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human? (Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh))

2009-11-25 12:30: Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation (Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-25 13:00: Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a (Dr. Patricia Jusuf)

2009-11-26 10:30: Measurement of Influence Factors in a Decision Making Process: An Application of Conjoint Analysis (Farrah Arif  (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge))

2009-11-26 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Ian Nimmo-Smith  (MRC CBSU))

2009-11-26 15:30: Navigating in a 3-d world (Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL))

2009-11-27 13:00: Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance (Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL)

2009-11-27 16:30: Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography (Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2009-11-30 13:00: Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy (Martin Rudwick (University of California, San Diego))

2009-12-02 12:30: Diffusion MRI and tractography (Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2009-12-03 10:30: Introduction to Mokken scaling (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2009-12-03 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson  (MRC CBSU))

2009-12-03 15:30: Decoding memories in the human hippocampus (Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL))

2009-12-04 13:00: The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry (Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University)

2009-12-08 13:00: We think we understand: When empathic accuracy and perceptions diverge (Prof. Sara D. Hodges (University of Oregon))

2009-12-10 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Ian Nimmo-Smith  (MRC CBSU))

2009-12-10 15:30: Action and Language (Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy))

2009-12-17 15:30: Analysing and communicating uncertainty (Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge))

2010-01-08 11:00: Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging (Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA))

2010-01-11 16:30: Becoming Symbol-Minded (Professor Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia)

2010-01-13 12:30: Tuuut...   Puff.  Tuuut...   Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-14 15:30: Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories (Dr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-01-15 16:30: Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits (Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University)

2010-01-18 13:00: The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor (Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge))

2010-01-20 12:30: Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception (Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-20 12:30: Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted (Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU))

2010-01-21 15:30: Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology (Prof Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford))

2010-01-22 16:30: The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and  implications for studies of infants and non-human animals (Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2010-01-25 13:00: The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology (Raf de Bont (Universities of Leuven & Cambridge))

2010-01-27 12:30: EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection (Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology))

2010-01-28 15:30: Fetal testosterone in mind (Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge))

2010-01-29 15:30: Positive psychology and positive education (Prof. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania; former president, American Psychological Association))

2010-01-29 16:30: Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe (Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2010-02-01 13:00: Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology (Kelley Swain (Poet in Residence, Whipple Museum))

2010-02-02 16:30: Specifying brain function involved in number processing. Insights from interindividual differences (Dr Anja K. Ischebeck, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University Graz, Austria)

2010-02-03 12:30: Task modulation in visual word recognition: a parametric EEG/MEG and fMRI study (Yuanyuan Chen (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-03 12:30: Investigating object and feature processing in human audition (Annika Linke (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-04 15:30: V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past (Dr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology))

2010-02-05 13:00: Facial expressions and moral transgressions: What can facial affect tell us about moral judgments? (Dr. Peter Cannon (University of Cambridge))

2010-02-05 16:30: Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear (Dr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2010-02-08 13:00: Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s (Joe Cain (University College London))

2010-02-10 12:30: Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex (Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-11 15:30: Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning (Prof Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge))

2010-02-12 16:30: Mapping the parts of higher level cortex (Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London)

2010-02-15 13:00: Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-02-17 12:30: The syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates (Jeff Hanna (RCEAL))

2010-02-17 12:30: Processing lexical complexity in Polish (Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-18 15:30: FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language (Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford))

2010-02-19 13:00: How do we learn to read? An artificial orthography paradigm (Dr. Jo Taylor (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-02-19 16:30: Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia (Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London)

2010-02-22 13:00: Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion (Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge))

2010-02-24 12:30: What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it? (Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU))

2010-02-24 13:00: “Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time” (Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg)

2010-02-25 10:30: MyPersonality: how to utilize social networks for social research (David Stillwell (University of Nottingham))

2010-02-26 13:00: Networking to charisma or inspiring to centrality?  Comparing models of how leaders affect team performance (Prof. Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge))

2010-02-26 16:30: Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors (Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany)

2010-02-26 16:30: Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors (Prof Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany))

2010-03-01 13:00: William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm (David Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-03 12:30: Differentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks (Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU))

2010-03-04 15:30: Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain (Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany))

2010-03-05 13:00: CANCELLED -Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-understanding (Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University))

2010-03-05 16:30: Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioning (Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2010-03-08 13:00: English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century (Jackie Mountain (The London Consortium – Birkbeck))

2010-03-09 16:30: CANCELLED EVENT: Social, educational and new media engagement in adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment (Professor Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde)

2010-03-10 12:30: Does motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception? (Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU))

2010-03-11 10:30: Modern Answers for a Classic Question: Sex Differences in General Intelligence? (Emily Savage-McGlynn, Cambridge University)

2010-03-11 15:30: Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation (Prof Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge))

2010-03-12 13:00: Why are the Big Five personality dimensions still important? (Prof. Oliver John (UC Berkeley))

2010-03-12 16:00: The ethical brain (Prof. MIchael Gazzaniga (UC Santa Barbara))

2010-03-18 15:30: Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of  subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ? (Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London ))

2010-03-19 19:30: Explore the science of personality research (Dr Jason Rentfrow (Dept of Social and Developmental Psychology))

2010-04-21 12:30: Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach (Su Li	(MRC CBSU))

2010-04-22 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland))

2010-04-23 13:00: Investigating reading in low I.Q. children (Sarah Kuppen (Department of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire))

2010-04-23 16:30: Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiology (Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex)

2010-04-26 13:00: Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur' (Ralph O'Connor (University of Aberdeen))

2010-04-28 12:30: Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales (John Griffiths (CSLB))

2010-04-28 12:30: Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI (Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU))

2010-04-29 15:30: What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language? (Dr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford))

2010-04-30 13:00: Helping divorced fathers help their children (Prof. Sanford L. Braver (Department of Psychology, Arizona State University))

2010-04-30 16:30:  How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychology (Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham)

2010-05-05 12:30: Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex (Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-05 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-06 15:30: Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalising (Dr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham))

2010-05-07 13:00: The psychology of the imagination and social development: Reflections from Rio's favelas (Dr. Sandra Jovchelovitch (Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics))

2010-05-07 16:30: Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurred (Dr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2010-05-10 10:00: EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium 2010: Motivation to Learn in Social Contexts (10th-14th May) (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-10 13:00: Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity (Chitra Ramalingam (CRASSH))

2010-05-12 12:30: Investigating the assembly of task sets (Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-12 12:30: Connectivity in face processing (Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU)	)

2010-05-12 16:00: PNE Book Launch Event (Professor Christine Howe, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-13 15:30: When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia (Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London))

2010-05-14 13:00: Children's memories for repeated events: Helping them to recall individual episodes and unique details (Sonja Brubacher (Department of Psychology, Wilfred Laurier University))

2010-05-14 16:30: Making Decisions without Values (Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London)

2010-05-17 13:00: Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science (Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-05-18 16:30: The cognitive underpinnings of different mathematical skills (Dr Fiona Simmons, School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University)

2010-05-19 12:30: Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population 	 (Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-20 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital))

2010-05-21 13:00: Conversations sell: How dialogical judgements and goals underpin the success of viral videos (Dominic Yeo (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-21 16:30: Brain-Based Values (Professor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA)

2010-05-24 13:00: The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science (John Parker (Cambridge University Botanic Garden))

2010-05-26 12:30: Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation (Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-26 12:30: The neural basis of human moral decision-making:  A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self (Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU))

2010-05-26 13:00: Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning (Prof. Maurice Smith, Harvard University)

2010-05-27 10:00: Confidence intervals for IRT models: three new exact approaches meeting different criteria of optimality (Anna Doebler - WWU Münster)

2010-05-28 13:00: Dialogical knowing and believing (Prof. Ivana Markova (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling))

2010-06-01 16:30: The psychology of number: developmental, evolutionary and cognitive-neuroscientific considerations (Dr Claudia Uller, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-02 12:30: Discreteness: The essence of language?	 (Friedmann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-03 15:30: Hemispheric lateralisation for auditory processing – does the brainstem play a role? (Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research))

2010-06-04 13:00: Secrecy versus disclosure within families created by gamete donation: Effects on parent-child relationships and children's psychological well-being (Lucy Blake (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge))

2010-06-09 12:30: The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception (Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-09 12:30: Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (Davy Evans (MRC CBSU))

2010-06-10 15:30: Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology (Dr Emily Holmes  (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford))

2010-06-15 16:30: Psychometric versus Dynamic Assessment for identification of dual exceptional learners (Dr Anies Al-Hroub, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon)

2010-06-17 15:30: Language processing in the musician brain (Dr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience))

2010-06-18 13:00: Psychological essentialism and the concept of the soul (Prof. Rebekah Richert (Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside))

2010-06-24 15:30: A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structure (Dr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit))

2010-06-25 13:00: Scientific study of forgiveness: Status (Prof. Everett L. Worthington (Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA))

2010-09-28 16:45: Successful Educational Actions (SEA): guaranteeing educational success for all in Europe (Rocío Garcia Carrion (University of Barcelona))

2010-10-06 12:30: Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-07 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-10-07 15:30: Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language (Ritta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland))

2010-10-08 16:30: Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity? (Professor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2010-10-11 13:00: Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration (Carl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-11 17:00: The Flynn Effect, intelligence, and US Black/White IQ (Professor James Flynn, University of Otago)

2010-10-13 12:30: Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-14 15:30: Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces (Sarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland))

2010-10-15 13:00: Personality Reconsidered:  Personal Projects, Free Traits and the Shape of a Life (Prof. Brian R. Little)

2010-10-15 16:30: How the brain makes decisions (Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org))

2010-10-18 13:00: Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-10-19 16:30: In what way is literacy ‘parasitic upon language’? The roles of speech and language in literacy development. (Dr Julia Carroll, University of Warwick)

2010-10-20 12:30: If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state (Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-10-21 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-10-21 15:30: Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity (Tor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA))

2010-10-22 13:00: Challenges for parents:  understanding infant communication (Dr. Joanna Hawthorne, Brazelton Centre UK)

2010-10-22 16:30: Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substrates (Professor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-26 11:00: Festival of Ideas - Faculty of Education Event (Events run by: Dr Claudia Uller; Dr Michelle Ellefson; Amy Devine & Alison Nobes)

2010-10-27 12:30: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus (Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology))

2010-10-28 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-10-28 14:00: A brief introduction to neuropsychological tests (Luning Sun (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-28 15:30: Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production (Anne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France))

2010-10-29 13:00: Resilience, regulation, and adaptation - British children's first school experiences (Anni Yang, PPSIS)

2010-10-29 16:30: Epigenetics, brain development and behaviour (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-01 13:00: Politeness and the ethical force of natural history (Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-03 12:30: Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata (Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-04 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-11-04 15:30: Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledge (Richard Morris (Edinburgh University))

2010-11-05 13:00: Towards a Psychological understanding of Extremism (Shahzad Shafqat, Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-05 16:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disorders (Professor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2010-11-08 13:00: Victorian palaeontology and serial publication (Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester))

2010-11-09 16:30: Cognitive control and brain function in children and adolescents (Professor Eveline Crone, Leiden University)

2010-11-10 12:30: What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep (Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-11 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-11-11 14:00: Computerized Adaptive Testing - The State of the Art (Philipp Doebler (University of Muenster, Germany))

2010-11-11 15:30: 'Why Eyes' (Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University))

2010-11-12 13:00: Morals and taboos in cyberspace: Do we play by the same rules? (Dr. Monica Whitty, Nottingham Trent University)

2010-11-12 16:30: Natural Geometry (Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA)

2010-11-15 13:00: The human automatism debate in the late 19th century (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-17 12:30: Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners (Lucy McGregor  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-18 14:00: Mind reading by machine learning: a doubly Bayesian method for inferring mental representations (Máté Lengyel  (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-19 13:00: The adolescent brain: vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders (Dr. Jennifer Lau, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2010-11-19 16:30: Illusions in the real world (Dr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2010-11-22 13:00: The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape (Hilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-11-23 16:30: The Pedagogical Use of the Long Past of Science: Positivism, Historicism, and Beyond (Professor Lewis Pyenson, Western Michigan University)

2010-11-24 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-11-25 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-11-25 15:30: Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under Load (Nilli Lavie (University College London))

2010-11-26 13:00: Effective Intergroup Relations in Experimental and Field Settings (Dr. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge))

2010-11-26 16:30: The Evolution of shopping lists (Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-29 13:00: Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain (Nils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2010-12-01 12:30: Individual object representations in individual people (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-12-01 12:30: Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation (Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2010-12-02 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2010-12-02 15:30: Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysis (Ken Norman (Princeton University))

2010-12-03 13:00: TBC (Dr. Pasco Fearon, University of Reading)

2010-12-09 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-01-18 13:00: 'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light' (Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

2011-01-20 15:30: Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interactions (Uri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA))

2011-01-21 13:00: Using Triangulation in Qualitative Research in Times of Mixed Methods (Dr. Uwe Flick (University of Applied Sciences, Berlin))

2011-01-21 16:30: The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy (Professor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London)

2011-01-24 13:00: The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting (Valentina Pugliano (University of Oxford))

2011-01-26 12:30: Individual differences in visual short term memory (Michele Veldsman (CBSU))

2011-01-26 12:30: Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results) (Sinéad  Hynes(CBSU))

2011-01-26 14:00: Psychometrics in Context (Professor John Rust, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-27 15:30: Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex? (Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA))

2011-01-28 13:00: How musical is Homo Sapiens? Investigating perceptual and emotional components of musicality (Dr. Marcel Zentner (University of York))

2011-01-28 16:30: Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memory (Dr Mark Good, University of Cardiff)

2011-01-31 13:00: The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history (Simon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-02-02 12:30: The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU))

2011-02-02 14:00: Psychometric Test Construction (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-03 15:30: Timing attention in the human brain (Kia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford))

2011-02-04 13:00: What children know about groups, and why it matters: The development of intergroup and intragroup relations (Dr. Dominic Abrams, University of Kent)

2011-02-04 16:30: The Neuroscience of moral judgement (Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)

2011-02-07 13:00: Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers (Clare Roche (Birkbeck, University of London))

2011-02-09 12:30: Articulatory contributions to speech perception (Matt Davis (CBSU))

2011-02-09 14:00: Classical Psychometric Test Theory (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-10 15:30: The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition (Frank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA))

2011-02-11 13:00: Conserved principles of movement generation (Mark Churchland, Stanford University)

2011-02-11 13:00: Exploring the Role of Executive Functions in School Achievement (Dr. Michelle Ellefson (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge))

2011-02-11 16:30: Do birds believe in magic (Dr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary,  University of  London)

2011-02-14 13:00: Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya (Ruth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies))

2011-02-16 12:30: Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex (Ben Crittenden (CBSU))

2011-02-16 12:30: Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning? (Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU))

2011-02-16 14:00: Applications of Item Response Theory (IRT) (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-17 15:30: Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project (Russ Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA)

2011-02-18 13:00: Living fast and dying young: Variation in life history across English neighbourhoods (Dr. Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University))

2011-02-18 13:00: Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs (Dr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham)

2011-02-18 16:30: Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition (Professor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter)

2011-02-21 13:00: The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life (Shana Worthen (University of Arkansas at Little Rock))

2011-02-23 12:30: Individual object representation in individual people (Ian Charest (CBSU))

2011-02-24 15:30: fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic  research to clinical applications (Rainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands)

2011-02-25 13:00: Theorising bystander behaviour: challenges and responses (Dr Rachel Manning (University of the West of England))

2011-02-25 16:30: That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation (Professor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee)

2011-02-28 13:00: Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants (Susannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-02 12:30: Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content (Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology))

2011-03-03 15:30: Parsing the stream of behaviour (Jeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA))

2011-03-04 13:00: Emotional awareness, rational action, and self-knowledge (Dr. John Lambie (Anglia Ruskin University))

2011-03-04 16:30: Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition (Dr Christian Fullgrabe, University of Nottingham)

2011-03-07 13:00: 'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East (Mirjam Brusius (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-08 16:30: Reflections  on the concept and potentials  of Developmental Education (open talk) (Bert van Oers, Prof. Cultural-Historical Theory of Education, VU University Amsterdam)

2011-03-09 12:30: Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception (Daniel Mitchell (CBSU))

2011-03-10 15:30: A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents (Rosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee))

2011-03-11 13:00: The reluctant collaborator? How developing social understanding shapes knowledge (Patrick J. Leman (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2011-03-11 16:30: Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and children (Dr Amanda Seed, University of  St Andrews)

2011-03-14 13:00: Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900 (Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-16 12:30: Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia (Laura Hughes (CBSU))

2011-03-17 15:30: The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex (Kalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA))

2011-03-18 13:00: Strong versus the weak: A meta-analysis of tie strength and individual effectiveness (Dr. Martin Kilduff (Cambridge Judge Business School))

2011-03-18 16:30: Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness (Dr Nicholas Humphrey)

2011-03-25 17:00: 'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect' (Professor Steve Shevell)

2011-05-04 12:30: Now, Sometime, Never?  Equality for Women in Science (Paul Walton (York University))

2011-05-04 13:00: Navigational guidance systems in the human brain (Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience)

2011-05-04 16:00: The social side of social attention (Giovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova)

2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto)

2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto)

2011-05-06 13:00: Adverse future outcomes of children involved in school bullying: Synthesizing data from longitudinal studies. (Dr. Maria Ttofi, University of Cambridge (Institute of Criminology))

2011-05-11 12:30: I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam (Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU))

2011-05-12 15:30: Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation (William Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology,  University of Cambridge))

2011-05-13 13:00: The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development (Dr. Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-05-13 16:30: Emotions, Intuitions and Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-16 13:00: The fairy-tales of science (Melanie Keene (Homerton College))

2011-05-18 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Max Garagnani (CBSU))

2011-05-18 13:00: Sacred values, sacred terror: Motivation and religious terrorism (Dr. James W. Jones (Rutgers University; John Jay College of Criminal Justice))

2011-05-19 13:00: Understanding and optimizing human motor learning (Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute)

2011-05-19 15:30: Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection (Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology,  University of Cambridge))

2011-05-20 13:00: Creating contexts that enable behaviour change: towards a fourth generation of approaches to health promotion. (Dr. Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics)

2011-05-20 16:30: Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health)

2011-05-23 13:00: Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy (Donald Opitz (DePaul University, Chicago))

2011-05-23 13:00: The effects of early visual deprivation (Dr Ione Fine, University of Washington)

2011-05-25 12:30: Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control (Chelan Weaver (CBSU))

2011-05-25 14:00: Using R for Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Easier than it seems (Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-27 13:00: Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception (Dr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging)

2011-05-27 13:00: Toward a Psychology of Atheism: Dimensions and Types of Non-Religiosity (Dr. Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-31 13:00: Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them? (Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology)

2011-06-01 12:30: How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI (Joanne Taylor (CBSU))

2011-06-02 15:30: The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memory (Emrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2011-06-03 13:00: Discussing the development of Executive Functions in brazilian children (Dr. Rosinda Martins Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

2011-06-06 13:00: The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum (Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London))

2011-06-08 12:30: Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex (Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU))

2011-06-09 15:30: esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity (Nikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology,  Max Planck Institute))

2011-06-15 12:30: Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI) (Olaf Hauk (CBSU))

2011-06-15 16:30: Size, numbers and the numerical core system (Professor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2011-06-16 15:30: Improving cognition (John Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan))

2011-06-21 11:00: Word Recognition in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts (Brendan Weekes, University of Hong Kong*)

2011-09-12 13:00: Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern (Professor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto)

2011-10-05 13:00: The Problem with Colour (Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne)

2011-10-06 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-10-06 15:30: Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories (Professor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York))

2011-10-07 13:00: Rewriting the Rules? Non-monogamies and other adventures in non-normative relationships (Dr. Meg Barker, Open University)

2011-10-07 16:30: Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas (Professor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh)

2011-10-10 13:00: 'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence (Philippa Hardman (Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge))

2011-10-12 12:30: Heart and brain (Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-10-13 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-10-13 15:30: Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels (Professor Julie Bierer (University of Washington))

2011-10-14 13:00: Collective efficacy and violence in London (Dr. Alex Sutherland, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-14 16:30: Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults (Professor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany)

2011-10-17 13:00: Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900 (A. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-17 13:00: Impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease (Dr Valerie Voon, BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry)

2011-10-19 12:30: Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention (Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-10-20 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-10-20 15:30: Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain (Professor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley))

2011-10-21 13:00: Risk factors for adolescent violence across cultures: comparing data from Ghana with the Cambridge Study in Delinquency Development and the Pittsburgh Youth Study (Dr. Kofi E. Boakye, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-21 16:30: Visual sensitivity explained (Professor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science,  New York University)

2011-10-25 13:00: Seeing in the dark:  single-photon signals in the retina (Professor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College)

2011-10-25 16:30: Communication, Collaboration and Creativity: How Musicians Negotiate a Collective ‘Sound' (Professor Karen Littleton, The Open University)

2011-10-28 13:00: Psychological outcomes in parents of children diagnosed with disorders of sex development (DSD) (Dr. Vickie Pasterski, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-28 15:00: Challenges to test standardization in the 21st century (Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-28 16:30: Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges (Dr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-31 13:00: Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic (Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-10-31 13:00: Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds? (Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe)

2011-11-02 12:30: Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials (Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-03 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-11-03 14:00: Demonstration of Neuropsychological Assessment Tools (Kerry Rough, Pearson Assessment)

2011-11-03 15:30: Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligence (Professor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-04 13:00: Representations of the past, present and future of Intercommunal Relations in Cyprus: A social-psychological analysis of the Cyprus issue (Dr. Charis Psaltis, Assistant Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cyprus)

2011-11-04 16:30: Causal models in evidential reasoning (Dr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London)

2011-11-07 13:00: Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal (Philip Howell (Department of Geography))

2011-11-07 13:00: An aged view of schizophrenia (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry)

2011-11-08 16:30: 'Dialogic Teaching-and-Learning': Educational Implications (Professor Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2011-11-09 12:30: Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex (Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-10 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-11-10 15:30: Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy? (Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff))

2011-11-11 13:00: Restrictive Parenting and the Unintended Consequences of Moral Prohibitions (Dr. Sana Sheikh, University of St. Andrews)

2011-11-11 15:00: How do you like 'Likes'? (and some other cool projects from the Psychometrics Centre) (Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-11 16:30: When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomena (Professor Mark Haggard, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2011-11-14 13:00: Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s (Katey Anderson (York University, Toronto))

2011-11-16 12:30: Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech (Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-17 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-11-17 15:30: Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSD (Professor Chris Brewin (University College London))

2011-11-18 13:00: Identifying Perpetrators with Distinctive Features (Dr. Dora Zarkadi, University of Bedfordshire)

2011-11-18 13:00: How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1? (Professor Alex Wade, University of York)

2011-11-18 16:30: fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex (Professor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2011-11-21 13:00: Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker (Tim Boon (Science Museum))

2011-11-23 12:30: Does working memory training work? (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-24 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-11-24 15:30: Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair (Professor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit))

2011-11-25 13:00: Meaning making between socially anxious mothers and their children regarding starting school (Dr. Lynne Murray, University of Reading)

2011-11-25 15:00: To Lie or Not to Lie - Do Self-Monitoring and Impression Management Go Hand in Hand? (Iva Cek (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-25 16:30: Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London)

2011-11-28 13:00: Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics (Christine Aicardi (Wellcome Library and UCL))

2011-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies in pathological gambling; similarities and differences with alcohol dependence (Dr Ruth van Holst)

2011-11-29 14:00: The interplay between non-symbolic number and its continuous visual properties. (Titita Gebuis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

2011-11-30 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-11-30 12:30: White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease (Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2011-12-01 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-12-01 15:30: Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh))

2011-12-02 13:00: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Dr. Mark Johnson, Birkbeck College)

2011-12-02 15:00: On Latent Change Model Choice in Longitudinal Studies (Dr. Tenko Raykov, Michigan State University)

2011-12-08 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2011-12-08 15:30: Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain? (Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London))

2011-12-09 17:00: A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-01-11 10:00: One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius ( G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon,  M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg.)

2012-01-12 15:30: Information gathering and impulsivity (Professor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health))

2012-01-17 13:00: Colour Categories in Language and Thought (Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex)

2012-01-18 12:30: Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans (Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health))

2012-01-19 15:30: Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games (Professor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London))

2012-01-19 16:00: Book Launch: Developmental Psychology & Early Childhood Education (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2012-01-20 16:30: Thinking aloud about mental voices (Dr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University)

2012-01-23 13:00: Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone' (Caitlin Wylie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-01-25 12:30: Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-01-26 15:30: Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework (Professor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2012-01-27 13:00: Crowdsourcing Contests (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research)

2012-01-27 16:30: Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences (Dr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster)

2012-01-30 13:00: Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited (Dominic Berry (University of Leeds))

2012-01-30 13:00: Differential metabolic profile in first episode psychosis supports the glutamate theory for schizophrenia (Dr Linda Scoriels  - POSTPONED)

2012-02-01 12:30: Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-02 15:30: Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons (Dr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School))

2012-02-03 13:00: Control versus chaos: differences in advertisements for non-psychiatric and psychiatric medication in professional journals (Dr. Juliet Foster ( University of Cambridge))

2012-02-03 16:30: Against Qualia (Professor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-06 13:00: Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man (Miruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City))

2012-02-07 16:30: Vital Communities: a longitudinal action research study aiming to measure the impacts of participating in the arts (Susan Potter, MEd, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-08 12:30: Neurophysiology of speech act processing (Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-08 12:30: Executive function in children with reading difficulties (Shinmin Wang (University of York))

2012-02-10 13:00: Psychological correlates of smoking, drinking and drug-taking use and dependency from a large online sample (David Stillwell)

2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet (Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet (Professor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin))

2012-02-13 13:00: Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis (Karin Ekholm (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-13 13:00: Stuck in a rut:  Cognitive inflexibility in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Dr Natalia Lawrence)

2012-02-17 13:00: Rhetoric and standardization in Milgram's obedience experiments (Stephen Gibson, York St John University)

2012-02-17 16:30: The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation (Dr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-02-20 13:00: Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06 (Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-02-22 12:30: Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal (Michael Ewbank  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-02-23 12:30: Hubris syndrome – an acquired personality disorder? (Rt Hon David Owen)

2012-02-23 15:30: Components of working memory in task control (Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York))

2012-02-24 13:00: The case for the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment in the study of parental discipline practices (Christina Moses Passini, Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent)

2012-02-24 16:30: The Adolescent Brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-02-27 13:00: Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany (Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway))

2012-02-27 13:00: The spatiotemporal dynamics of source recollection (Dr Zara Bergstrom)

2012-02-28 16:30: Examining developmental changes in the skills underlying reading development (Dr Laura Shapiro is Lecturer on the Psychology Teaching Programme, Aston University)

2012-02-29 12:30: Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis (Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-03-01 12:30: Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's Disease (Dr Valerie Voon, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Department f Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-01 15:30: Imagining other people (Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London))

2012-03-02 13:00: I Am, Therefore I Buy - Measuring How Personality Influences Consumer Preferences in a Digital Age (Sanna Balsari-Palsule, Psychometrics Centre)

2012-03-02 16:30: Basic number representations and their neural basis (Dr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-03-05 13:00: Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe (José Ramón Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-03-07 12:30: Fast cortical mapping:  a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults (Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-03-08 12:30: Endophenotypes for Drug Addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-08 14:00: State of the art in psychometric modelling of forced-choice questionnaire data (Dr. Anna Brown)

2012-03-08 15:30: Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain (Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2012-03-09 13:00: "Genetic correlates of visual biases" (Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University)

2012-03-09 16:30: Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory. (Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2012-03-12 13:00: Thomas Bewick, engraving the world (Jenny Uglow)

2012-03-14 12:30: A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data (Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-03-15 12:30: GP commissioning for Mental Health (postponed from last term) (Dr Paul Zollinger-Read, Medical Adviser and Clinical Lead on Primary Care, The King's Fund, London)

2012-03-16 13:00: The Mental Representation of Social  Values: From System to Instantiation (Greg Maio, Cardiff University)

2012-03-22 12:30: Better management of co-morbid major depression  in patients with chronic medical conditions (Professor Michael Sharpe, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2012-03-22 14:00: Identifying and Preventing Careless Survey Responses (Dr. Adam Meade, North Carolina State University)

2012-04-12 12:30: CPD: Basic Life Support (June Jumaily)

2012-04-19 12:30: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies –  a Primary Care Perspective (Dr John Hague, GP Clinical Lead, IAPT Programme, NHS East of England)

2012-04-19 15:30: Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement (Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh))

2012-04-20 16:30: Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior (Professor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada)

2012-04-25 12:30: New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective (Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry))

2012-04-26 12:30: Functional Neurological Symptoms (Dr Alan Carson, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine,  University of Edinburgh)

2012-04-26 15:30: How memory guides perception (Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford))

2012-04-27 13:00: Mastering Uncertainty (Stephen Reid, Stephen Reid and Spring Business Innovation Ltd)

2012-04-27 16:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits:  Genetic and brain imaging findings (Dr Essi Viding, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London)

2012-04-30 13:00: "Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia " (Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London)

2012-04-30 13:00: Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel (Flavio Häner (Pharmacy Museum, University of Basel))

2012-05-01 13:00: "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli" (Eero Simoncelli, New York University)

2012-05-01 16:30: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice in education (Dr. Robert White is Senior Lecturer; Community, Health and Educational Studies Research Centre)

2012-05-02 12:30: Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account (Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-03 12:30: Mental health, austerity and economics (Professor Martin Knapp, Economist & policy analyst, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, NIHR School for Social Care Research)

2012-05-03 14:00: Effects of ignoring clustered data structures in factor analysis and item response theory (Dr. Jan Stochl, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-03 15:30: Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state (Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany))

2012-05-04 13:00: Outsmarting the liars: Towards a cognitive lie detection approach (Aldert Vrij, University of Portsmouth)

2012-05-04 16:30: Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control (Dr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-05-09 12:30: Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism (Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-09 12:30: Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission (Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-10 12:30: The RAID project (Professor George Tadros, Professor of Mental Health and Ageing, Staffordshire University.)

2012-05-10 14:00: Automatic Rule-Based Generation of Items for Intelligence Tests and Probability Word Problems (Prof. Dr. Heinz Holling, University of Muenster)

2012-05-10 15:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more (Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London))

2012-05-11 13:00: The developmental antecedents of political preference: Re-examining parental influence (Lori Bougher (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-11 16:30: Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour (Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-05-14 13:00: Tourette's syndrome: the self under siege (Professor Jim Leckman, Yale School of Medicine)

2012-05-14 13:00: An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell (Alistair Sponsel (Harvard University))

2012-05-14 17:00: Insights from memory research for maximising exam performance (Jon Simons Department of Experimental Psychology)

2012-05-16 12:30: Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly (John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-17 12:30: Frontotemporal dementia – a neuropsychiatric perspective (Professor John Hodges, Principal Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia)

2012-05-17 15:30: Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour (Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University))

2012-05-18 13:00: Mediators of the sex difference in aggression: An evolutionary approach (Anne Campbell, Durham University)

2012-05-18 16:30: The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval (Dr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-05-21 13:00: Weighted and spatial network characterization of the human functional connectome (Dr Mika Rubinov, BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry)

2012-05-21 13:00: 'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously (Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent))

2012-05-23 12:30: The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience (Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-24 12:30: Facing life-threatening physical illness – a patient's perspective (Guy Opperman MP, Barrister & Member of the House of Parliament)

2012-05-24 14:00: The mediating effect of career decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between pressure on employment and vocational selection anxiety (Zhonghua Liu, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2012-05-24 15:30: Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders (Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester))

2012-05-25 13:00: Interacting without Touch. (Dr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS))

2012-05-25 13:00: Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed (Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley)

2012-05-28 13:00: 'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era (Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-05-28 15:30: Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition (Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition))

2012-05-30 12:30: Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases (Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-30 12:30: Comparing models of contour in music and speech (Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-05-31 12:30: Research Updates (Dr Howard Ring)

2012-06-01 13:00: Value From Hedonic Experience and Engagement (Tory Higgins, Columbia University)

2012-06-06 12:30: An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data (Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity))

2012-06-07 12:30: Medical Leadership (Dr Robert Winter, Director of the Academic Health Science Centre for Cambridge University Health Partners)

2012-06-07 15:30: Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception? (Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology))

2012-06-08 15:00: Understanding (Dis)honesty. (Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School)

2012-06-11 13:00: Using optimised fMRI to investigate prediction errors in the human midbrain (Ms Eve Limbrick-Oldfield, BCNI, Dept of Experimental Psychology)

2012-06-12 16:30:  Exploring the potential of a multi-touch classroom to develop adaptive expertise in primary mathematics (Prof. Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University)

2012-06-12 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-13 12:30: The neural basis of speech intelligibility (Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-06-14 12:30: Update on ECT (Dr Neil Hunt)

2012-06-14 15:30: Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias (Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia))

2012-06-15 13:00: The Social Regulation of Activity and Inactivity (Dolores Albarracin, University of Illinois)

2012-06-19 13:00: A new look at human motor control (Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-06-19 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-21 11:00: Building the supramodal language brain (Professor Donald Shankweiler, Haskins Laboratories)

2012-06-21 13:00: The wonder of hue:  the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness (Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan)

2012-06-26 13:00: A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics (Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford)

2012-06-28 13:00: Vision for reading (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2012-07-03 13:00: Reconsolidation: a long way from crabs to humans (Dr Maria Pedreira, Univ of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2012-07-09 13:00: Psychiatric case registers - the next generation? (Professor Rob Stewart - Institute of Psychiatry King's College, London and South London & Maudsley NHS Trust)

2012-07-20 15:00: IQ Gains in the 21st Century (Prof Dr James Flynn, University of Otago, New Zealand)

2012-07-25 13:00: Perception of motion blur during eye movement (Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry)

2012-10-03 12:30: Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts) (Roland Benoit  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-04 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-10-04 12:30: Cognitive theories of autism: impressive or impressionistic? (Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-04 15:30: New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation (Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland))

2012-10-05 16:30: Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition. (Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh)

2012-10-08 13:00: Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin (Jim Moore (Open University))

2012-10-09 13:00: "Listen to me, because I'm your mother"-Chinese mothers' parental authority and children's compliance (Soar Huang, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-10 12:30: Machine learning for auditory neuroscience (Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2012-10-11 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-10-11 12:30: Imaging the interface between craving and cognition in opiate users (Dr Rebecca Elliott -  University of Manchester)

2012-10-11 15:30: Person identification and speech recognition in human communication (Dr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany))

2012-10-12 16:30: Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling (Dr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-10-15 13:00:  The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish! (Nicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2012-10-16 16:00: The future of myPersonality and research using Online Social Networks (David Stillwell, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-17 12:30: Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory  (Kristjan Kalm  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-18 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-10-18 12:30: 22q11 Deletion Syndrome - genes, brains and psychiatric risk (Dr Kate Baker, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-18 13:00: Emotion, Cognition, and “Rational” Embodiment. (Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego)

2012-10-18 15:30: Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning (Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2012-10-19 16:30: Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling (Dr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter)

2012-10-22 13:00: Genetic investigation of longitudinal phenotypes in cognition (Dr Linda Scoriels and Dr Kate Xu - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry )

2012-10-23 13:00: Sex, Love, and Goodness (Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-23 13:30: Multimodal contribution to spatial navigation and reward expectation (Professor Mayank Mehta)

2012-10-24 12:30: Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway (Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-24 12:30: Face space in the primate visual system (Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-10-25 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-10-25 12:30: Neuroimaging endophenotype research in autism: The Cambridge Family Study of Autism (Dr Mike Spencer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-25 15:30: Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news) (Dr Tali Sharot (University College London))

2012-10-26 16:30: The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory (Professor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London)

2012-10-29 13:00: Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America (Sophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-29 13:00: Molecular aspects of the transition from reconsolidation to extinction of fear memory (Dr Emiliano Merlo - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2012-10-30 16:00: Aggregating Minds (Dr Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2012-10-31 12:30: Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states (Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-01 12:30: Neural substrates of distorted cognition in gambling addiction (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-01 13:00: How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see? (Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC))

2012-11-02 16:30: Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks (Dr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-05 13:00: Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age (Helen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-05 13:00: Time-dependent changes in alturistic punishment following stress (Dr Tobias Kalenscher - Comparative Psychology, Heinrich Heine University )

2012-11-06 13:00: Optimising eyewitness testimony by matching witness chronotype and time of interview (Katrin Mueller-Johnson, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-07 12:30: Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe (Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-08 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-11-08 12:30: Targeting automatic processes to change behaviour in populations (Professor Theresa Marteau, Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-08 15:30: Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making (Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford))

2012-11-09 16:30: Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-12 13:00: 'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843) (Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-12 13:00: Response inhibition and control: an exploration of compulsivity (Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry)

2012-11-13 16:00: The Differential Effects of Different Categories of War Events, Age at Capture, and Duration in Captivity on Depression in a Ugandan Cohort of War-affected Youth - The WAYS Study (Dr Kennedy Amone-P'Olak (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-14 12:30: Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition (Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-15 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-11-15 12:30: What determines individual vulnerability to the harms of cannabis? (Professor Val Curran, University College London)

2012-11-15 15:30: Interactions between form and meaning in language processing (Dr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester))

2012-11-16 13:00: Some social logics of sharing: From Web 2.0 to the therapeutic narrative (Nicholas John, Ben-Gurion University, Israel & The London School of Economics and Political Science)

2012-11-16 16:30: ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits. (Dr Elizabeth Milne, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2012-11-19 13:00: Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park (Megan Barford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-19 13:00: Mechanisms in disorders of energy balance (Dr Tony Coll - Department of Clinical Biochemistry)

2012-11-20 16:30: Patterns in student learning and teacher learning: how do they relate? (Jan Vermunt Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education)

2012-11-21 12:30: The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning (Moos Peeters  (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-21 12:30: Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features (Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-22 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-11-22 12:30: Understanding the inattentive and impulsive brain (Professor Masud Husain, University of Oxford)

2012-11-22 15:30: Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor system (Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford))

2012-11-23 16:30: A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior (Professor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular  Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh)

2012-11-26 13:00: Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history (Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-26 13:00: Early detection of dementia in Parkinson's disease patients (Dr Cristina Nombela Otero - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry)

2012-11-27 16:00: Online Personality Trends in Love and Friends - A Big-Five Facebook Study (Koen De Couck, Ghent University)

2012-11-27 16:30: Individual differences in cognitive development  (Sara Baker )

2012-11-28 12:30: Recent research updates (CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2012-11-29 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-11-29 12:30: Neuropsychological and biological studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (Professor Jeremy Hall, University of Cardiff)

2012-11-29 15:30: Representation of motor skills in cortical networks (Dr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London))

2012-12-05 11:00: Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action (Fred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin)

2012-12-06 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2012-12-06 12:30: Postgraduate psychiatry training - present and future (Christopher O'Loughlin, Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust)

2013-01-07 13:00: Individual differences in human perception (Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA)

2013-01-14 13:00: Disturbing vision:  neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2013-01-14 13:00: Alcohol dependence: Reinforcement, feeding, and nutrition mechanisms (Professor Michael Lewis, Psychology, Hunter College and CUNY)

2013-01-16 12:30: Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation  (Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard  (University College London))

2013-01-21 13:00: Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788 (Michael Bycroft (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-01-22 13:00: Mothers' depressive symptoms and young children's problem behaviours: The roles of executive function and emotion regulation (Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-22 16:30: Social and emotional learning: a critical appraisal (Neil Humphries  Professor of Psychology of Education University of Manchester)

2013-01-23 12:30: Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams (Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-23 12:30: Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments (Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-24 15:30: Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit?  (Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford))

2013-01-25 16:30: Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning (Professor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven)

2013-01-28 13:00: Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century (Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project))

2013-01-29 16:30: Combining micro and macro analyses to observe interaction in longitudinal studies: The case of children's emotion regulation in early childhood (Gabriela Roman, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-30 12:30: The consequences of intentional forgetting (Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-30 12:30: Depression and training positive future imagery  (Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-01-31 13:00: Intellectual and psychiatric outcomes in adult survivors of an early childhood cerebellar tumour (Dr Howard Ring, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-31 15:30: Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation  (Professor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre))

2013-02-01 16:30: Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents (Professor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of  Sussex)

2013-02-04 13:00: 'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) (Anne Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-04 13:00: Orbitofrontal cortex is required for behavioural report of perceptual decision confidence (Armin Lak - BCNI, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2013-02-05 13:00: Performances in psychiatric hospitals: a social psychological perspective (Dr. Juliet Foster (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-05 16:30: Children’s understanding of probability: an intervention study (Terezhina Nunes and Peter Bryant, Oxford University )

2013-02-06 12:30: Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech (Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-07 12:30: The Biology of Risky Behaviour (Dr John Coates, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-08 16:30: Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2013-02-11 13:00: When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Marie-Françoise Besnier (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-12 16:30: Applying principles of item response theory to produce efficient ultra-short form questionnaires (Prof. Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-13 12:30: Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory (Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-14 15:30: Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex (Professor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris))

2013-02-15 16:30: Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system (Professor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2013-02-18 13:00: Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history (Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Kent))

2013-02-18 13:00: Using diffusion tensor imaging to characterise acute and delayed disease progression in traumatic brain injury (Dr Virginia Newcombe - BCNI, Division of Anaesthesia, Cambridge)

2013-02-19 13:00: (How) does attentional control matter? (Dr. Gaia Scerif, University of Oxford)

2013-02-20 12:30: Decision-making with and without rules (Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-21 12:30: Estimating and managing suicide risks (Dr Matthew Large, Medical Superintendent of Mental Health, Prince of Wales Hospitals, University of New South Wales)

2013-02-21 15:30: Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions  (Professor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society))

2013-02-22 16:30: Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism (Professor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2013-02-25 13:00: Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science (Lesley Steinitz (Faculty of History))

2013-02-25 13:00: Unveiling the neural basis of autobiographical memory (Dr Heidi Bonnici - BCNI, Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-02-26 16:30: There is accounting for taste! Detecting Age and Gender Variations in Music Taste using MIMIC Model (Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-27 12:30: Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system (John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-02-28 12:30: New diagnostic criteria for dementia: the role of biomarkers (Prof John O'Brien, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-28 15:30: Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescence (Professor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden))

2013-02-28 16:00: Morality in the Body: Influences of Bodily Experience on Moral Judgments and Decisions (Dr. Chen-Bo Zhong, University of Toronto)

2013-03-01 16:30: All work and no play (Prof. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD  Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience,  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands)

2013-03-04 13:00: Development of Reward-driven decision-making in typical and atypical adolescence (Dr Anastasia Christakou - Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics, Reading)

2013-03-04 14:00: Part A: Humanitarian Work Psychology: Addressing Global Concerns through the Science of Work; Part B: Examining the Five Factor Model of Personality across Twenty-Seven Countries: The Influence of Development and Culture (Dr. Lori Foster Thompson and Dr. Adam W. Meade ( North Carolina State University) )

2013-03-05 13:00: From Research Setting to Parents: The Role of Parent Social Networks in the Choices they Make about Interventions for their Child with ASD (Katherine Pickard, Michigan State University)

2013-03-05 16:30: Reading irregular words - the role of word knowledge (Janet Vousden)

2013-03-06 12:30: Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex (Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-07 12:30: Translational research in dementia - progress in bridging the gap between bench and bedside (Dr Ben Underwood, Consultant Psychiatrist, Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-03-07 15:30: Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory  (Professor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA))

2013-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London)

2013-03-11 13:00: Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-03-11 13:00: What's new in limbic-striatal systems of 'wanting' & 'liking'? (Professor Kent Berridge - Psychology & Neuroscience, Michigan)

2013-03-12 16:30: Investigating Cognition using CANTAB (Dr. Charlotte Housden, Cambridge Cognition, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-13 12:30: Tinnitus and cochlear implants (Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-13 12:30: Representational geometry modelling (Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit))

2013-03-14 12:30: TBC (Dr Claire Lawton, Consultant Psychiatrist, Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-03-14 15:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effects (Professor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) )

2013-03-18 13:00: The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding (David Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-04-24 12:30: Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either (Arjen Alink  (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-04-25 15:30: The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approach (Dr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam))

2013-04-26 16:30: The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease (Dr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-04-29 13:00: Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy (Stephanie O'Rourke (Columbia University))

2013-04-29 13:00: Response control: ERP and EMG evidence for the use of different cognitive strategies across the lifespan (Dr Clare Killikelly - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2013-04-30 13:00: How Do Mindreaders Model Minds? (Dr. Stephen Butterfill, University of Warwick)

2013-04-30 16:30: What is "theory of mind" and can it be measured? (Professor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, Birmingham University)

2013-04-30 16:30: Using Rasch Analysis in Neurological and Community Rehabilitation -  The SARDINE Project (Secondary Analysis of Routine Data in Neurorehab Evaluations) (Dr Andrew Bateman (Dept of Psychiatry and Oliver Zangwill Centre, Ely))

2013-05-01 12:30: Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific? (Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-02 15:30: The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibility (Professor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent))

2013-05-03 16:30: Emotional disorders and mental imagery  (Professor Emily A.  Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,  Cambridge)

2013-05-06 13:00: The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge (Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2013-05-07 13:00: Molecular imaging of the brain serotonin system: implications for neuropsychiatric disorders  (Dr Katarina Varnas - Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden)

2013-05-08 12:30: Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results (Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-09 12:30: GHOSTS OF WOMEN PAST: WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE (Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-09 15:30: What can brain imaging tells us about psychology? (Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford))

2013-05-10 16:30: Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging (Professor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

2013-05-13 13:00: Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900 (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-13 13:00: Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene:  from molecules to anxiety via neural circuits (Dr Andrea M Santangela - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2013-05-14 13:00: 'Has multiculturalism failed?' Challenging representations of difference in schools. (Dr. Caroline Howarth, LSE)

2013-05-15 12:30: Using Bayes to get the most out of null results (Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex))

2013-05-16 12:30: Cognitive theories of Autism Spectrum Condition: Impressive or impressionistic? (Kate Plaisted-Grant, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-16 15:30: Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders (Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht))

2013-05-17 16:30: "Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making". (Dr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-05-20 13:00: Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820 (Simon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-20 13:00: Suppressing unwanted memories reduces their unconscious influence via targeted cortical inhibition (Dr Michael Anderson - Memory and Perception Group, MRC Cognition and brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2013-05-23 12:30: The Bayesian brain, free energy and psychopathology (Karl Friston, University College London)

2013-05-23 15:30: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span (Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit))

2013-05-28 13:00: Flourishing: from science to policy (Professor Felicia Huppert, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-28 16:30: Psychometric application of bifactor modelling for multidimensional mental health phenotype: a population based genotype‐trait association study (Dr. Kate M. Xu, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-29 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-05-30 12:30: EPO: from doping to depression research (Dr Kamilla Miskowiak, Department of Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital)

2013-05-30 15:30: MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases (Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-31 14:00: Fair testing in Web 2.0 – where psychometricians’ and candidates’ interests meet (Katharina Lochner, cut-e Group and Free University of Berlin)

2013-06-03 13:00: Neurocognitive insights in nicotine addiction (Dr Maartje Liujten - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2013-06-04 16:30: Learning to Interact with Humans (Dr. Pushmeet Kohli (Microsoft Research))

2013-06-05 12:30: Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control (Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-06-06 12:30: Mental imagery and emotion in psychopathology (Dr Emily Holmes, MRC Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit)

2013-06-06 15:30: Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies (Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2013-06-10 13:00: Interactions between a genetic polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and early childhood adversities on cognitive and emotional processing during adolescence (Dr Matthew Owens - CANCELLED )

2013-06-11 13:00: The role of temperament in attention, motor and language development (Dr. Kate Ellis-Davies, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-11 16:30: From situation to cognition --- A discovery process (Dr Wei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

2013-06-12 12:30: A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses (Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) )

2013-06-13 12:30: Sleeping with the Huntington's disease gene- what does it mean? (Dr Roger Barker, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2013-06-13 15:30: Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings (Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley))

2013-06-14 14:30: Geographical perspectives on personality and wellbeing (Dr. Markus Jokela, University of Helsinki)

2013-06-17 13:00: My fascination with punishment - it's to do with the fronto-striatal system honest... (Dr Liat Levita - Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2013-06-18 14:15: Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of maths (Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby)

2013-06-19 12:30: Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms? (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-06-25 12:00: The Effects of Attention and Visual Input on the Representation of Natural Speech in EEG (Dr Ed Lalor, Trinity College Dublin )

2013-06-26 12:30: The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE (Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) )

2013-07-03 12:30: Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing (Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-07-31 14:00: Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality (Richard Socher -  Stanford University)

2013-09-05 16:00: The story of what was hidden in our genes (Prof Dr James Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand))

2013-09-06 16:30: SOP and consumption microstructure (Dr Dominic M. Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & Visiting Fellow, School of Psychology, UNSW)

2013-09-13 14:00: Insights in the metabolic control of T cell migration and function: implications for immune inflammation in metabolic diseases (Dr Claudio Mauro, Queen Mary, University of London)

2013-10-03 12:30: Neurocognitive and clinical effects of ADHD medication - implications for the treatment of ADHD in adults (Ulrich Muller, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-09 12:30: High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T? (Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-10 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2013-10-10 12:30: What is poor  insight into illness in schizophrenia? (Dr Mads Gram Henriksen, Centre for Subjectivity Researcg, University of Copenhagen)

2013-10-10 15:30: Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) )

2013-10-11 16:30: Benefits and limitations of hearing aids (Professor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-14 13:00: Neurofunctional circuits of emotion processing in mood and anxiety disorders and in therapeutic approaches (Dr Annette Bruhl - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2013-10-14 13:00: The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672–99) (Scott Mandelbrote (Faculty of History))

2013-10-15 13:00: Visual and Audiovisual Perception in Adults with Autism (Professor Frank Pollick, University of Glasgow)

2013-10-15 13:00: Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system:  Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days  (Stephen Engel, University of Minnesota)

2013-10-17 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-17 12:30: Autism and sex/gender: why does it matter? (Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-17 15:30: Don't believe everything you read in the papers... (Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol)

2013-10-18 16:30: Re-contextualizing the hippocampus (Dr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA)

2013-10-21 13:00: Endocannabinoid modulation of impulsivity and motivated behaviour (Dr Tommy Pattij - Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam )

2013-10-21 13:00: Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940–65 (Kathryn Ticehurst (University of Sydney))

2013-10-22 12:00: Learning of a Formation Principle for the Secondary Phonemic Function of a Syllabic Orthography (Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Associate Professor, University of Otago, NZ)

2013-10-22 16:30: Improving patient reported outcome measures for use in primary care (Dr. Chris Gibbons, Centre for Primary Care: Institute of Population Health, CLAHRC, University of Manchester)

2013-10-23 12:30: Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback (Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge))

2013-10-24 12:30: At risk mental states; update on ARMS and results from CAMEO studies (Dr Jesus Perez, Consultant, CPFT, CAMEO)

2013-10-24 15:30: Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence? (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London))

2013-10-25 16:30: Economical brain networks (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-10-28 13:00: Performance monitoring and addiction: recent findings and clinical relevance (Professor Ingmar Franken - Department of Clinical Psychology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

2013-10-29 13:00: Exploring young children's understanding of their own peer-directed behaviour at school (Katie Rix, PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich)

2013-10-30 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-31 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-10-31 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge  )

2013-11-01 13:00: The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light (Dr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol)

2013-11-01 16:30: Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits (Professor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-04 13:00: Toward a neurobiological model of social learning: neural markers and pharmacological effects (Dr Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-11-04 13:00: Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science (Damian Hughes (De Montfort University))

2013-11-05 16:30: Nash and the degree heuristic in network games: An online experiment (Dr. Edoardo Gallo, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-06 12:30: Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected (Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-07 11:00: Categorical data analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-07 15:30: Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) )

2013-11-08 16:30: What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not' (Dr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.)

2013-11-11 13:00: Willi Hennig and philosophy (Charissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project))

2013-11-13 12:30: The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity  (Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-13 13:00: Psychology and Medicine: Critical friendship or uncomfortable bedfellows? (Dr Charlotte Paddison, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-14 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-14 12:30: Brain Maturation and the Emergence of Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Neuroimaging (Prof. John Suckling, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-15 16:30: Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices (Dr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2013-11-18 13:00: Boundaries and conditions for reconsolidation and extinction (Dr Gonzalo Urcelay - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2013-11-18 13:00: 'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections (Anna Maerker (King's College London))

2013-11-20 12:30: On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem (Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-21 11:00: Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-21 12:30: Clinician judgements and court judgments (Dr Susan Welsh, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-11-21 12:30: Clinician judgements and court judgments (Dr Susan Welsh, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-11-21 15:00: The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processing (Prof. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven)

2013-11-21 15:30: Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour (Professor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis))

2013-11-22 16:30: The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology (Dr Kevin J. Mitchell,  Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2013-11-25 13:00: The relationship between decision-making, serotonin and mood (Dr Paul Faulkner - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2013-11-25 13:00: Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century (Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-11-26 13:00: Eating disorders in the classroom: Designing and testing a new universal prevention programme for secondary schools (Dr Helen Sharpe, KCL)

2013-11-27 12:30: Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-28 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-11-28 12:30: Obesity and the Brain: What's happening with food Addiction? (Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, Department of Psychiatry)

2013-11-28 15:30: Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials (Professor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University))

2013-11-29 16:30: Hermann Lotze and Local Sign (Professor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London  and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne)

2013-12-02 13:00: The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-12-03 16:30: Multilevel Analysis: Application in Large Scale Assessments (Prof. Dr. Igor G. Menezes, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

2013-12-04 12:30: Working memory and Specific Language Impairment (Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-12-05 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2013-12-05 12:30: Pilot data with the CRIS system (Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Clinical Lecturer, Univ. Dept. Psychiatry)

2013-12-05 15:30: A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autism (Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University))

2013-12-11 13:00: Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain (Dr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht)

2013-12-12 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-01-13 13:00: The Impact of Visual Cues on the Judgment of Performance  (Dr Chia-Jung Tsay)

2014-01-14 16:30: Identifying key non-cognitive attributes of Initial Teacher Training candidates (Dr Robert Klassen York University)

2014-01-15 12:30: Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective (Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) )

2014-01-16 15:30: Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brain (Kate Watkins (University of Oxford))

2014-01-17 16:30: Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications (Professor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth.)

2014-01-20 13:00: Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837 (Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester))

2014-01-22 12:30: Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain (Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) )

2014-01-23 12:30: Depression in Pregnancy: Molecular and Psychosocial Consequences (Prof. Carmine Pariante, Head of the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory and of the Section of Perinatal Psychiatry, IoP)

2014-01-23 15:30: The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMS (Beth Jefferies (University of York) )

2014-01-24 16:30: Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience (Professor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior)

2014-01-27 13:00: The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature (Cassandra Gorman (Faculty of English))

2014-01-28 13:00: Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2014-01-28 16:30: Differential Item and Bundle Functioning in Educational Testing Contexts (Josip Sabic, National Centre for External Evaluation of Education, Croatia)

2014-01-29 12:30: Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception (Matthias Treder  (MRC CBSU))

2014-01-30 12:30: Non-suicidal self-injury: an important transdiagnostic symptom cluster? (Dr Paul Wilkinson, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2014-01-30 15:30: Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulation (David Linden (Cardiff University))

2014-01-31 16:30: Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing  (Professor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency )

2014-02-03 13:00: The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together (Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln))

2014-02-05 12:30: The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming (Alex Billig )

2014-02-05 14:00: Reinventing Education (Anant Agarwal, President, edX,  Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)

2014-02-06 15:30: How do antidepressants work? (Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) )

2014-02-07 16:30: The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in   infants' goal attribution (Dr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL  and  Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition)

2014-02-10 13:00: Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India (Joydeep Sen (University of Kent))

2014-02-11 16:30: Automatic transcription of music using machine learning, and an study into privacy settings of users on Facebook. (Arman Idani, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-12 12:30: How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG (Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU))

2014-02-13 12:45: Applying for Clinical Psychology Training & Clinical Psychology Training at UEA (Professor Kenneth Laidlaw, University of East Anglia)

2014-02-13 15:30: Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction (Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-14 16:30: The role of the motor system in action perception (Dr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London	)

2014-02-17 13:00: Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy (Margaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-02-19 12:30: PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma (Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU))

2014-02-20 15:30: Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory (Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol) )

2014-02-21 16:30: Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies (Dr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands )

2014-02-24 16:30:  Do Teachers See Everything? How Experts and Novices Perceive Classroom Information  (Andreas Gegenfurtner)

2014-02-25 13:00: The assessment of sexual arousal and sexual orientation (Dr Gerulf Rieger, University of Essex)

2014-02-25 16:30: ‘Product-orientation’ among psychometric criteria in development and application (Professor Mark Haggard, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-26 12:30: Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations (Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2014-02-27 15:30: Hierarchical mechanisms of face processing  (Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) )

2014-02-28 16:30: Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal models  (Dr Emma Robinson, University of Bristol)

2014-03-03 13:00: What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction (Jon Agar (UCL))

2014-03-04 16:30: Why do people respond inconsistently? Low person-fit on a personality test reflects suspicion and imagination (Dr. David Stillwell, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-05 12:30: Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities (Adam Hampshire (Imperial) )

2014-03-06 13:00: Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization (Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

2014-03-06 15:30: Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environment (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2014-03-07 16:30: Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value (Dr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow,  Department of Psychology,  University of Cambridge )

2014-03-10 13:00: National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839) (James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-03-11 16:30: Everyday physics: New implications for psychological theory and educational practice (Professor Christine Howe, Fcaulty of Education, Cambridge University)

2014-03-12 12:30: Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury (Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge))

2014-03-12 13:00: How health beliefs influence the symptom experience and treatment decisions at menopause (Helena Rubinstein, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-13 15:30: Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidence (Michael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) )

2014-03-13 16:30: Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulation (Professor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University)

2014-03-18 16:30: Didactic Tutoring: a pedagogical proposal for Social Sciences and Humanities  curricula (Daniela Sideri)

2014-03-26 12:30: The configural processing hypothesis revisited:  The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition (Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

2014-04-14 17:00: Children’s Views about Learning to Write (Dr. Nora Scheuer, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina)

2014-04-22 13:00: We forgot forgetting: forgetting as the active erasure of long term memories (Professor Karim Nader - Department of Psychology, McGill University)

2014-04-23 12:30: Stimulating speech:  tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients (Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) )

2014-04-24 15:30: From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement (Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford))

2014-04-24 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr David Magis)

2014-04-24 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr David Magis)

2014-04-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (To be confirmed)

2014-04-28 13:00: William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history (Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2014-04-28 13:00: High performance computing for neuroscience applications (Dr Roger Tait - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2014-04-29 13:00: The daily behaviour of happy people (Dr Gillian Sandstrom, University of Cambridge)

2014-04-29 16:30: Crowd IQ: Weighting Votes in Crowdsourcing and Multi-Agent Systems using Item Response Theory (Dr. Michal Konsinski)

2014-04-30 12:30: How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people  (Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-04-30 13:00: Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects (Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL))

2014-05-01 15:30: Motor cortex and  perception - from speech to laughter (Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) )

2014-05-02 16:30: The Conscious Phenotype (Professor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London)

2014-05-05 13:00: Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics (Lee Jung (Needham Research Institute))

2014-05-07 12:30: Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-08 15:30: Life as we know it (Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London))

2014-05-09 16:30: The integration of sensory cues across development (Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London	)

2014-05-12 13:00: Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship (Mimi Winick (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey))

2014-05-12 13:00: Improving translation in neuropsychiatry: development and validation of novel touchscreen tests of cognition for rodents (Dr Adam Mar - BCNI, Department of Psychology)

2014-05-13 13:00: Factors that influence the sex difference in young children's physical aggression (Dr Debra Spencer, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-14 12:30: Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making  (Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France))

2014-05-15 15:30: Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me? (Sarah Byford)

2014-05-16 16:30: A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour (Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-19 13:00: Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire (Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2014-05-19 13:00: Neurobiological substrates of drug addiction: new insights from preclinical models (Dr David Belin - BCNI, Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge)

2014-05-21 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-22 15:30: Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways (Stephanie Van Goozen)

2014-05-23 14:00: Math anxiety:  who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it (Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago)

2014-05-26 13:00: The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning (Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-05-27 13:00: Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience (Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-27 13:00: Impulsivity-compulsivities relationship, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinson's disease (Dr Jean-Luc Houeto - Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy, University of Poitiers, France)

2014-05-27 16:30: 3D Thinking: Primary school children representing ideas and narratives within constructional and pretence play (Dr David Whitebread and Marisol Basilio)

2014-05-28 12:30: Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development  (Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-05-29 15:30: Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness  (Marie Smith (Birkbeck))

2014-06-02 13:00: Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830 (Thomas le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford))

2014-06-02 13:00: Fronto-subcortical circuits and anxiety behaviour (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2014-06-04 12:30: Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions (Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-06-04 13:00: Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything (Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota)

2014-06-05 15:30: Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood (Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden))

2014-06-09 13:00: POSTPONED  (Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry)

2014-06-10 08:30: Workshop: « What’s beyond Concerto: an introduction to the R package catR » (Dr. David Magis)

2014-06-11 12:30: Title to be confirmed (tbc  (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2014-06-12 13:00: A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception. (Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) )

2014-06-24 16:30: The Nature of Intellectual Styles: Challenges, Milestones and Research Agenda (Li-fang Zhang)

2014-06-30 13:00: Animal models of relapse after self-imposed asbtinence (Dr Yavin Shaham - Behavioural Neuroscience Branch, NIH, NIDA, Baltimore)

2014-09-09 16:00: Towards a science of intelligence:  Raven's reconsidered (Professor James Flynn)

2014-09-11 12:30: Disease Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: From Laboratory to Patient Bedside (Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research)

2014-09-18 12:30: CPD Meeting - Medicines update (Dr Neil Hunt, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clare Mundell, Chief Pharmacist, CPFT)

2014-09-25 12:30: Professor Jones will host a number of speakers (Hosted by Professor Jones, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge )

2014-09-29 13:00: Neural Systems for Resolving Mnemonic Interference (Professor David Smith - Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

2014-09-30 13:00: Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis (Wei Ji Ma (New York University))

2014-10-01 13:00: Color Transformations Across the Life Span:  Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light (Professor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis)

2014-10-02 12:30: Opportunities and Challenges of using Smartphones for Health Monitoring and Intervention (Dr Neil Lathia, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-07 12:00: The enemies without and the enemies within:  persistent neurotropic infection and risk for cognitive impairment. (Professor Vishwajit  Nimgaonkar)

2014-10-08 12:30: Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment (Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh))

2014-10-09 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-10-09 15:30: Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding (Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London))

2014-10-10 13:00: Cognitive effects of sex hormones in nonhuman primates (Dr Agnes Lacreuse - Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2014-10-10 15:00: Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other minds (Professor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT)

2014-10-13 13:00: Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island (Susannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-13 15:00: The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master it (Professor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA)

2014-10-14 13:00: Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle:  Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra)

2014-10-14 13:00: Evolutionary perspectives on sex differences in behaviour  (Dr Gillian Brown, University of St Andrews)

2014-10-15 12:30: The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools (Jon Quach (University of Melbourne))

2014-10-16 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-10-16 12:30: What is the role of health services in suicide prevention? (Professor Nav Kapur. Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health University of Manchester)

2014-10-16 15:30: Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex (Jennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL))

2014-10-17 15:00: Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression (Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D.  Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience,  Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology,  Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh  Pittsburgh, USA)

2014-10-20 13:00: Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s) (Christof Dejung (Faculty of History, Cambridge))

2014-10-20 13:00: Transitions of consciousness: how wakefulness modulates cognition (Dr Tristan Beckinschtein - Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2014-10-21 16:00: Using the Ekman 60 Faces Test to Detect Emotion Recognition Deficit in Brain Injury Patients (Luning Sun)

2014-10-22 12:30: Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis (Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) )

2014-10-23 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-10-24 15:00: Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognition (Professor Verity Brown, FRSE,  Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews)

2014-10-27 13:00: Prosocial and prosexual effects of gammahydroxybutyrate (Dr Oliver Bosch - Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich)

2014-10-27 13:00: Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework. (Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron)

2014-10-29 12:30: Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks (Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford))

2014-10-29 13:00: Fading and Filling-in (Professor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg)

2014-10-30 15:30: Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds (Stuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL))

2014-10-31 15:00: Neural Systems for Navigation (Dr. Hugo Spiers,  Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2014-11-03 13:00: The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900 (Jane Wess (University of Edinburgh))

2014-11-03 13:00: Cocaine and Heroin: Two Peas in Two Pods (Professor Aldo Badiani - Neuroscience, University of Sussex)

2014-11-05 12:30: Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help? (Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-05 13:00: The role of consciousness in cognitive control and decision making (Dr Simon Van Gaal - Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam)

2014-11-06 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-11-06 12:30: Autoimmune encephalitis for psychiatrists (Dr Michael Zandi, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-06 15:30: The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory (Eva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading))

2014-11-07 15:00: Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom? (Professor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London)

2014-11-10 13:00: Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666 (Christopher D. Preston (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology))

2014-11-10 13:00: POSTPONED  (Dr Yevheniia Mikheenko - BCNI, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2014-11-11 13:00: What is Happiness and What Determines it? Integrating Perspectives from Philosophy, Social Science, and Psychology (Professor Alex Wood, University of Stirling)

2014-11-11 16:00: Aspects of adversarial and defensive psychology in complex settings (Paul Britton, Consultant Psychologist)

2014-11-12 12:30: Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions  (Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-13 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-11-13 12:30: Music therapy for adults in psychiatry in the 21st century: case work and research (Dr. Helen Odell-Miller, Professor of Music Therapy, Anglia Ruskin University/Cambridge and Peterborough  Mental Health Trust)

2014-11-13 15:30: The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information (Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université)

2014-11-14 15:00: How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic Dementia (Dr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge)

2014-11-17 13:00: W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy (Emma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-11-17 13:00: The Eye Contact Effect: Mechanism and Development (Dr Atsushi Senju, Birkbeck, University of London)

2014-11-18 16:30: Pre-schooler’s Verbal and Behavioural Responses as Indicators of Scientific Curiosity and Exploration Abilities (Ornit Spektor Levy Bar Ilan University Israel)

2014-11-19 12:30: The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and  (Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-11-20 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-11-20 12:30: Do antipsychotics cause loss of brain volume? (Dr Graham Murray, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-20 15:30: Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for intervention (Lynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading))

2014-11-21 15:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and  policy-makers (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk )

2014-11-24 13:00: Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances' (Victoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London))

2014-11-24 13:00: Inflexible responses to threat in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and its neural underpinnings (Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry)

2014-11-25 13:00: ‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’ (Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington)

2014-11-25 16:00: Why latent varaibles in SEM do not always work well (Kasia Julia Doniec)

2014-11-26 12:30: Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments  (Michael Browning (University of Oxford) )

2014-11-27 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-11-27 12:30: Development of a Guided Self Help Programme to Treat PTSD (Professor Jonathan I Bisson, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine)

2014-11-27 15:30: The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs information (Simon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham))

2014-11-28 15:00: Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and Dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience,  Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge)

2014-12-01 13:00: Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice' (Alexi Baker (CRASSH and Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-12-03 12:30: The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function  (Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford))

2014-12-03 13:00: Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg)

2014-12-04 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-12-04 12:30: Alterations of brain function in pre-dementia Alzheimer’s disease: implications for early diagnosis (Dr Dennis Chan, University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, University of Cambridge, Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.)

2014-12-04 15:30: Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire (Jackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology))

2014-12-10 12:30: Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data (Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit))

2014-12-11 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2014-12-11 12:30: Decision making and social cognition in the adolescent brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Society Research Fellow, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2014-12-18 12:30: Paranoia: Advances in understanding and treatment (Professor Daniel Freeman, MRC Senior Clinical Fellow & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2015-01-08 12:30: Impulsivity and compulsivtiy; Neural substrates and neuropsychiatric implications. (Professor Trevor W. Robbins. Head of Department of Psychology,  Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-13 16:00: Aspects of Adversarial and Defensive Psychology in Complex Settings – Part Two (Paul Britton (Consultant Psychologist))

2015-01-14 12:30: Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors  (Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford))

2015-01-15 12:30: Managing Women with Mental Heath Problems in the Perinatal Period– Practice and Prescribing (Dr Fiona Blake, CPFT)

2015-01-15 15:30: Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T  (David Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen)

2015-01-16 15:00: The application of psychological theories to clinical practice (Professor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist)

2015-01-19 13:00: The Fathers' Affection Display in Contemporary Chinese Families (Xuan Li, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-19 13:00: Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia (Alexander Iosad (University of Oxford))

2015-01-19 13:00: Wakefulness modulates cognition: transition of consciousness in sleep and sedation (Dr Tristan Beckinschtein - Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-01-20 16:30: Play, language and social cognition in children with language and communication impairments (Dr Jenny Gibson , Lecturer in Psychology & Education , University of Cambridge)

2015-01-21 12:30: Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity  (Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-01-22 12:30: Implications of recent genetic findings for the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia (Professor Paul Harrison, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2015-01-22 16:00: How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings? (Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) )

2015-01-23 15:00: Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour (Professor John F. Cryan,  Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

2015-01-26 13:00: Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain (Allegra Fryxell (Faculty of History))

2015-01-26 13:00: Don't panic:  The endocannabinoid system as protective mechanisms again aversive stimuli (Dr Fabricio Moreira - Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-01-27 16:00: Therapeutic Assessment: When a Clinical Psychologist Stands at the Crossroads of Psychological Assessment and Psychotherapy (Chia-Chi Chang  (Clinical Psychologist; PhD. Candidate, Dept of Management, LSE))

2015-01-28 12:30: Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success  (Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford))

2015-01-29 12:30: What have we learnt about the causes of ADHD? (Professor Anita Thapar, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University)

2015-01-29 13:00: Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology)

2015-01-29 15:30: How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry  (Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) )

2015-01-30 15:00: How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment? (Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK)

2015-02-02 13:00: 'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth (Sophie Waring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-02 13:00: Compulsive alcohol-seeking behaviour is attenuated by inhibiting u-opioid receptors (Dr Chiara Giuliano - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-02-03 13:00: Imitation in Early Social and Cognitive Development (Dr Janine Oostenbroek, University of York)

2015-02-04 12:30: Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners  (Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-05 12:30: Computing with emotions (Professor Peter Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge )

2015-02-05 15:30: Variability in visual processing between and within individuals (Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) )

2015-02-06 15:00:  Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments  (Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-09 13:00: Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821) (Sophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London))

2015-02-09 13:00: Understanding the OCD brain: using new technologies to build bridges between humans and mice (Dr Susanne Ahmari - Translational OCD Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

2015-02-10 16:30: To the letter: Children’s developing trust in the written word (Shiri Einav,  Lecturer  Faculty of Science , University of Nottingham)

2015-02-12 12:30: Strategies for Biomarker Discovery in Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry (Dr Armin Raznahan, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda )

2015-02-12 15:30: Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory  (Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of  Anatomy) )

2015-02-12 16:00: An Evaluation of procedures to Assess Cognitive Effort in Malingering of Memory (Dr. Barry Tam (Clinical Psychologist; Hong Kong Hospital Authority; UCL) )

2015-02-13 15:00: The Evolution of Culture (Professor Kevin N. Laland,  School of Biology, University of St Andrews)

2015-02-16 13:00: Winner Take(s) All Society: The Self in Status Contests  (Dr Niro Sivanathan, London School of Business)

2015-02-16 13:00: Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720 (Alexander Wragge-Morley (University College London))

2015-02-16 13:00: Getting curvature straight - a review of cortical gyrification theory (Dr Lisa Ronan - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2015-02-18 12:30: Developmental differences  in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD (Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-19 15:30: Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory (Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) )

2015-02-20 15:00: Active Sensing and Brain oscillations (Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2015-02-23 13:00: Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature (Claire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-02-24 16:30: '6 Months' (John Oates, a Senior Lecturer in the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University, Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences)

2015-02-25 12:30: Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population  (Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-02-26 12:30: Molecular mechanisms linking brain response to peripheral inflammation (Professor Jonathan Cavanagh, Department of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow)

2015-02-26 15:30: Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity  (Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) )

2015-02-27 15:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2015-03-02 13:00: Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800 (Michael Bycroft (University of Warwick))

2015-03-02 13:00: CANCELLED (Dr Yevheniia Mikheenko - BCNI, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2015-03-03 13:00: Children's Perceptions of their Sibling Relationships: Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Comparisons (Naomi White, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-03 16:30: Studying the neural mechanisms of attention and memory in childhood (Dr Duncan Astle,Programme Leader Track, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Research Associate St. John’s College, Cambridge)

2015-03-04 12:30: Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex  (Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-03-05 12:30: Schizotypy: mild disease or personality dimension? (Professor Gordon Claridge, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-03-05 15:30: Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) (Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) )

2015-03-05 16:30: Generating social transformation and impact through successful actions in education (Marta Soler is Director of CREA, Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Ramon Flecha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara)

2015-03-06 15:00: Premembering Perception (Professor Kia Nobre,  Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-03-09 13:00: Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution (Petter Hellström (Uppsala University))

2015-03-09 13:00: Molecular imaging studies in schizophrenia (Dr Simon Cervenka - Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute)

2015-03-10 16:30: 'Finding the maths': Empowering parents to support children's out-of-school mathematics learning" (Dr Tim Jay , Reader in Education,Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. )

2015-03-11 12:30: The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) (Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-03-12 12:30: Deciphering Developmental Disorders (Dr Helen Firth, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust)

2015-03-12 15:30: Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG (Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) )

2015-03-16 11:00: Twitter, Demographics and Emotions: Inferring Perceived User Properties from Emotional Tone and User-Environment Emotional Contrast (Svitlana Volkova, PhD Candidate, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins)

2015-03-19 12:30: The role of the immune system in the dementia of Parkinson's disease (Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-24 16:30: Designing tools to facilitate teacher-led discussions in the digitalized school. (Dr Ingvill Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Oslo)

2015-03-26 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant, Director of Undergraduate Education,  Department of Psychology,  University of Cambridge)

2015-04-17 13:00: Perceptual Organization of Shape (Dr James Elder, York University, Toronto)

2015-04-22 12:30: Estimating representational dissimilarity measures  (Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2015-04-22 13:00: Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception (Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) )

2015-04-23 12:30: The CHRNA5-A3-B4 gene cluster: More than just smoking quantity? (Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2015-04-23 15:30: The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognition (Satu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki))

2015-04-24 15:00: Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity  ( Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of  Oxford)

2015-04-27 13:00: Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry (Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-04-27 13:00: Molecular Genetic Dissection of Psychiatric Phenotypes and Treatment Response (Professor James Kennedy - Neuroscience Research Department, Psychiatry, University of Toronto)

2015-04-27 16:00: Environment Enrichment, Striatal Maturation and Behaviour (Dr Angela O'Connor - Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Sydney)

2015-04-28 13:00: Thoughts on sex and violence - using indirect measures in Forensic Psychology (Professor Robert Snowden, Cardiff University)

2015-04-28 16:30: Teacher interventions in small group work in secondary mathematics and science lessons (Professor Neil Mercer & Dr Riikka Hofmann, University of Cambridge , Faculty of Education)

2015-04-29 12:30: Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex  (Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-04-30 12:30: Enhancing plasticity to restore function in CNS disorders (Professor James Fawcett, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-04-30 15:30: Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain  (Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-01 15:00: Adult age differences in social cognition (Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

2015-05-04 13:00: Studying the neural basis of sensory perception and decision-making using head-fixed behaviour, imaging and physiology in the mouse (Dr Dara Sosulski - University of Sydney)

2015-05-06 12:30: Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users  (Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-07 12:30: Latest findings on effective interventions to reduce stigma (Professor Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2015-05-07 15:30: Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning  (Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) )

2015-05-08 15:00: Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact (Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-05-11 13:00: The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France (José Beltrán (European University Institute, Florence))

2015-05-11 13:00: The neural basis of cognitive distortions in pathological gambling (Dr Eve Limbrick-Oldfield - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-05-12 13:00: How do infants learn from us? Investigating the neural mechanisms involved in infants' social learning (Dr Victoria Southgate - Birkbeck, University of London)

2015-05-12 16:30: Digital-Object Use in Developmental Disorders (Dr Will Farr & Dr Ian Male, Mid-Sussex Child Development Centre, Nightingale Primary Care Centre, Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow)

2015-05-13 12:30: An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-14 12:30: Unpicking the phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity underlying autism (Dr Caleb Webber, Programme Leader, Neurological Disease Genomics, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2015-05-14 15:30: JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears  (Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam))

2015-05-15 15:00: Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions (Dr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD)

2015-05-18 13:00: The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education (Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge))

2015-05-18 13:00: anhedonia (Dr Graham Murray - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2015-05-19 16:00:  Personalised Persuasion: Using preference-based predictions of personality for customised advertising on Facebook (Sandra Matz)

2015-05-20 12:30: The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel (Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests)

2015-05-21 12:30: A platform for studying treatment resistant schizophrenia: CPFT clozapine clinic experience (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, Visiting Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-05-21 15:30: Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear  (Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam))

2015-05-22 15:00: Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition (Dr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2015-05-27 12:30: Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods  (Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-27 13:00: Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression (Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-05-28 12:30: Defining Autism Since 1979: The Sciences of Social Impairment (Dr Bonnie Evans, School of History, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-05-28 15:30: Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes  (Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2015-06-01 13:00: The hippocampus, spatial memory and the diagnosis of pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease (Dr Dennis Chan - Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2015-06-03 12:30: Investigation of priming effects on associative memory (Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2015-06-04 15:30: Fast transient brain states  (Mark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) )

2015-06-08 13:00: NMDA receptor antagonism and schizophrenia risk genes: translational approaches for drug discovery (Professor Judith Pratt - Systems Neuroscience, University of Strathclyde)

2015-06-09 13:00: The MInT study: Effectively communicating about, and intervening with, overweight in young children (Dr Deirdre Brown, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2015-06-09 16:00: Big data for gender equality: digital records of gendered interests are associated with state-level gender equality in the US (Youyou Wu)

2015-06-09 16:30: Developing a toolkit for assessing children's spoken language skills in the classroom  (Paul Warwick and Ayesha Ahmed)

2015-06-10 12:30: Why do we jump the gun?  Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans (Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge))

2015-06-11 12:30: Geodesic Information Flows: Information propagation and its application to segmentation, fusion and data synthesis (Dr M Jorge Cardoso, Lecturer in Quantitative Neuroradiology, University College London)

2015-06-11 15:30: Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions  (Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota))

2015-06-12 15:00: Engram cells retain memory under retrograde amnesia (Tomas J Ryan Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. )

2015-06-15 13:00: Neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease (Ms Claire O'Callaghan - Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuRA, School of Medical Sciences, University of NSW)

2015-06-16 16:30: Some Studies on Desirable Difficulties (Dr Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Psychology)

2015-06-18 12:30: Medical Justice (Dr Naomi Hartree, Clinical Advisor, Medical Justice)

2015-06-22 13:00: Testing a Perceptual Theory of Amnesia with fMRI:  Perceptual Interference Disrupts Neural Signatures of Familiarity in Visual Cortex (Dr Rosie Cowell - Computational Memory & Perception Lab, Psychology, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)

2015-06-24 14:00: Lesson Study Seminar (Speakers to include a variety of UK and international speakers, Chaired by Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge )

2015-06-25 12:30: Understanding the neuropharmacology of addiction – is it informing pharmacotherapy?  (Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes, Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College, London; Consultant Psychiatrist, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust)

2015-06-29 13:00: Nicotine dependence, reward, impulsivity and attentional performance:  Taking a step back into the future (Dr Stella Vlachou - Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University )

2015-06-30 13:00:  Episodic Memory and Spatial Navigation in the Medial Temporal Lobe (Dr David E Huber - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2015-07-13 13:00: Novel genes associated with trait anxiety: from postmortem discovery to experimental and clinical validation (Professor Turhan Canli - Director, SCAN (Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) Center, Senior Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University)

2015-07-20 13:00: Flexible Adaptation in Perception and Action (Dr Anne-Marike Schiffer - Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-07-20 15:00: Structural, functional and neurochemical plasticity in memory systems (Professor Paula Croxson - Neuroscience Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA)

2015-08-21 13:00: Visual perceptual learning:  A new perspective (Professor Cong Yu, Peking University)

2015-08-28 15:00: Should there be limits to academic freedom? (Professor James Flynn)

2015-09-07 13:00: Early adversity, stress response, hippocampal development and risks of psychiatric and neurological diseases (Dr Veronique Bohbot - Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Quebec, Canada)

2015-09-07 15:00: Implicit learning: Cognitive consequences of human neuroplasticity (Professor Paul Reber - Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)

2015-09-10 12:30: POSTPONED - Evidence-based treatment of compulsivity: existing practice and new directions (Dr Sam Chamberlain, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-09-24 12:30: Acute mental health care - evidence and directions (Professor Sonia Johnson, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry. University College London)

2015-10-01 12:30: Physical activity and brain health: are we any closer to give practical advice? (Professor Nicola Lautenschlager, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Melbourne)

2015-10-08 12:30: Obesity: from genes to behaviour (Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow; Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-09 16:30: The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation (Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA)

2015-10-12 13:00: Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica (G.A. Cook (University of Hong Kong))

2015-10-13 13:00: How Sex Offenders Groom Minors on the Internet (Dr Evianne van Gijn, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-15 12:30: Inflammation and Immunity in Schizophrenia and Depression: from mechanisms to therapeutics (Dr Golam Khandaker, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-15 15:30: Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanisms (Marco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy)

2015-10-16 16:30: Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical Dimensions (Professor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA)

2015-10-19 13:00: Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change (Laura Jane Martin (Harvard University))

2015-10-21 12:30: News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory (Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2015-10-22 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-10-22 12:30: PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION  Imaging neuroinflammation in psychosis using PET: challenges and future directions (Dr Simon Cervenka, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)

2015-10-23 16:30: "Where" (Professor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France)

2015-10-26 13:00: Deconstructing Neuronal Targets of Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Parkinsonism (Dr Ilse S Pienaar - Centre for Neuroinflammation & Neurodegeneration, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2015-10-27 13:00: The Order of Gendered Words in a Phrase: When and Why It Constitutes Gender-Biased Language (Dr Selin Kesebir, London Business School)

2015-10-28 12:30: Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test (Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-10-30 16:30: Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading Acquisition (Professor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2015-11-02 13:00: Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France (Emma Spary (Faculty of History))

2015-11-02 13:00: Disrupted resting state brain network in obese subjects|: A data-driven graph theory analysis (Dr Kwangyeol Baek - Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-03 16:00: Testing for integrity in the workplace (John Rust, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-04 12:30: CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings (Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada)

2015-11-04 13:00: Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle (Anna Hughes, PDN Cambridge)

2015-11-05 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-11-05 12:30: NEW VENUE - BLOCK 14 IDA DARWIN Molecular and cellular signature of neuronal cells affected by genetic and environmental factors of major mental illnesses (Dr Eleonora Passeri, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)

2015-11-05 15:30: Neural systems for navigation (Hugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

2015-11-06 16:30: The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-09 13:00: Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800 (Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen))

2015-11-09 13:00: Genetic analysis of individual differences in the acquisition and extinction of fear (Dr Johanna Baas - Experimental Psychology, Social & Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University )

2015-11-10 13:00: Assembling cognitive moments across limbic-cortical circuits (Dr Matt Jones - Reader in Cognitive Neurophysiology & MRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol)

2015-11-10 13:00: Becoming a Viking:Processes of Identification with the Remote Past (Dr Marc Scully, Loughborough University)

2015-11-10 16:30: Do romantic partners or friends have similar personality after all? (Youyou Wu, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-11 12:30: Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning (Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel)

2015-11-12 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-11-12 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-11-12 12:30: Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon (Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges)

2015-11-12 12:30: Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon (Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.)

2015-11-12 15:30: The integrative self (Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford)

2015-11-13 16:30: Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG (Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2015-11-16 13:00: The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England (Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic))

2015-11-16 13:00: The role of tau in the pathological process and clinical expression of Huntington's disease (Dr Romina Vuono - Department of Clinical Neuroscience, John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge )

2015-11-17 16:30: Metacognition in speech and language therapy for children with social communication disorders (Jacqueline Gaile, University of Manchester)

2015-11-18 12:30: Gained in translation (Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-11-19 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-11-19 12:30: Genetic and environment influences on the development and treatment of anxiety. (Professor Thalia Eley, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics, King's College London)

2015-11-19 12:30: Genetic and environment influences on the development and treatment of anxiety. (Professor Thalia Eley, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics, King's College London.)

2015-11-19 15:30: The Dyslexia Debate (Joe Elliott, Durham)

2015-11-20 16:30: Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation (Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of  Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester)

2015-11-23 13:00: Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s (Dorit Brixius (European University Institute))

2015-11-23 13:00: Flexible or "leaky" attention in creative people?  Distinct patterns of attention for different types of creative thinking (Dr Darya Zabelina - Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, USA)

2015-11-24 13:00: What dancing robots might teach us about  the development of form and motion  understanding in the human brain  (Dr Emily Cross, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University  |    Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2015-11-24 13:00: Serotonergic markers and memory (Dr Aldredo Meneses - Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Mexico City)

2015-11-25 12:30: The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning (Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-11-26 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-11-26 12:30: Service User -- Clinician -- Academic Collaborations for Service Development, Research and Education (Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, Clinical Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2015-11-26 12:30: Service User -- Clinician -- Academic Collaborations for Service Development, Research and Education (Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, Clinical Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge.)

2015-11-26 13:00: Specular surfaces improve colour constancy (Dr. Robert Lee (Lincoln))

2015-11-26 15:30: Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSD (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge)

2015-11-27 16:30: Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain (Professor Masud Husain,  Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of  Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)

2015-11-30 13:00: From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924 (Emily Hayes (University of Exeter))

2015-11-30 13:00: Reorganisation of Striatal Connectivity After Cocaine Exposure (Dr Andrew MacAskill - Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London )

2015-12-02 12:30: The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all (Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit)

2015-12-03 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-12-03 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Fiona Gaughran, Lead Consultant Psychiatrist, National Psychosis Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Physical Health Lead, Psychosis Clinical Academic Group, Kings Health Partners; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL)

2015-12-03 12:30: Physical health and psychosis (Dr Fiona Gaughran, Lead Consultant Psychiatrist, National Psychosis Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Physical Health Lead, Psychosis Clinical Academic Group, Kings Health Partners; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL.)

2015-12-04 16:30: Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women (Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA                        )

2015-12-07 15:00: The identification and electrophysiological characterisation of neuronal ensembles encoding appetitive associations  (Dr Eisuke Koya - Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2015-12-10 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2015-12-10 12:30: Ethnic differences in mental health: does race matter? ( Professor Swaran P Singh  Head of Division, Mental Health and Wellbeing  Warwick Medical School)

2015-12-10 12:30: Ethnic differences in mental health: does race matter? (Professor Swaran P Singh Head of Division, Mental Health and Wellbeing Warwick Medical School.)

2015-12-16 12:30: P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think (Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health)

2015-12-17 12:30: What is to be done about community violence? (Dr Adrian Boyle, Consultant Emergency Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital and Honorary Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2015-12-17 12:30: What is to be done about community violence? (Dr Adrian Boyle, Consultant Emergency Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital and Honorary Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.)

2016-01-14 13:00: Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information (Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner)

2016-01-14 15:30: Human brain networks from functional MRI (Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2016-01-15 16:30: New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false. (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2016-01-18 13:00: 'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment (Andrew Wear (University College London))

2016-01-19 13:00: Forming Beliefs: information seeking, avoidance & integration in the human brain (Dr Tali Sharot, University College London)

2016-01-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Roberta Riccelli - University Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy)

2016-01-21 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Klaus Ebmeier, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2016-01-21 12:30: Risk, resilience and the brain – The Oxford MRI substudy of Whitehall II (Professor Klaus Ebmeier, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Oxford.)

2016-01-21 15:30: How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics (Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford)

2016-01-25 13:00: Olfactory processing and learning during human sleep (Dr Anat Arzi - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-25 13:00: Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century (Clare Hickman (University of Chester))

2016-01-25 14:15: Neural Adaptation Underlies Escalation in Dishonesty (Neil Garrett, University College London)

2016-01-28 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tom Burns, Chair of Social Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2016-01-28 12:30: Ask not what you can do for your CRN, ask what your CRN can do for you! (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, Senior Clinical Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge;  Dr Annabel Price, Consultant Psychiatrist, CPFT)

2016-01-28 15:30: Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language (Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL)

2016-01-29 16:30: Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics  (Professor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark )

2016-02-01 13:00: John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664 (Raffaella Bruzzone (University of Nottingham))

2016-02-01 13:00: Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI  (Dr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine)

2016-02-02 13:00: HIV and the "dirty" other: Living with a spoiled identity (Dr Poul Rohleder, University of East London)

2016-02-02 13:00: Using different phenotypes to dissect the genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder (Dr Gwyneth Zai - BCNI, Dept of Psychiatry, Univ of Cambridge and Inst of Medical Science & Dept of Psychiatry, Univ of Toronto)

2016-02-02 16:30: Money buys happiness when spending fits our personality (Sandra Matz, the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge )

2016-02-03 12:30: Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis (Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-04 12:30: Community Treatment Orders: Why can we not accept the evidence? (Professor Tom Burns, Chair of Social Psychiatry, University of Oxford.)

2016-02-04 15:30: Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption (Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-05 16:30: Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again) (Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University )

2016-02-08 13:00: Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical (Geoffrey Belknap (University of Leicester))

2016-02-08 14:15: A distributed, hierarchical and recurrent model of choice (Laurence Hunt, University College London)

2016-02-09 13:00: Family influences on the health risk behaviours and well-being of African American adolescents (Prof Cleopatra Howard Caldwell)

2016-02-10 14:00: Predicting Psychology from Social Media Data (Dr David Stillwell - Judge Management School, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-11 12:30: Early life experience and childhood cognitive ability (Professor Kathryn Abel, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Reproductive Psychiatry, University of Manchester)

2016-02-11 12:30: Early life experience and childhood cognitive ability - NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE (Professor Kathryn Abel, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Reproductive Psychiatry, University of Manchester.)

2016-02-11 15:30: Human neuroscience in the wild (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial)

2016-02-12 16:30: A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions. (Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University)

2016-02-15 13:00: Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics (Christopher McHugh (University of Sunderland))

2016-02-16 13:00: A discourse of ‘we’: gendered subjectivities and caregiving in UK ‘stay-at-home-dads’ (Dr Abigail Locke, University of Bradford)

2016-02-16 16:30: Assessment of enterprising personality in youth (Dr Javier Suárez-Álvarez; Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo)

2016-02-17 12:30: A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-02-17 13:00: Colour perception in synaesthesia (Professor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan)

2016-02-18 12:30: POSTPONED - Eye movements as Diagnostic Biomarkers in Psychiatry (Professor David St Clair, Professor in Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, NHS Grampian)

2016-02-19 16:30: How rational are we? (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London)

2016-02-22 13:00: Neurocognitive dynamics in the transition from wakefulness to sleep: EEG and TMS/EEG studies  (Dr Valdas Noreika – Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2016-02-22 13:00: Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century (Alice Marples (King's College London))

2016-02-22 14:15: Determinants of economic choice and information-seeking behavior (Caroline Charpentier, University College London)

2016-02-23 16:30: UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING INTEREST DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FORMAL EDUCATION (Dr Luke Fryer, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education)

2016-02-24 12:30: Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?  (Felix Hill (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-25 15:30: The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons (Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge)

2016-02-26 16:30:   New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain (Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL)

2016-02-29 13:00: Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) (Mariana Françozo (Leiden University))

2016-02-29 13:00: Effects of acute stress and anxiety on cognition (Dr Annette Bruhl - BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-29 16:00: Measuring impacts of the economic crisis on well-being in Europe using a comprehensive measure (Kai Ruggeri, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-02 12:30: Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli (Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-03-03 12:30: Innovation in community based treatment programs (Professor David Crompton, Executive Director, Metro South Addictions and Mental Health Services, Brisbane)

2016-03-03 15:30: The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies (Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne)

2016-03-04 16:30: The typical and atypical development of the social brain (Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.)

2016-03-07 13:00: Mentalising or Submentalising in Perspective-taking Tasks: Evidence from Behavioural and Brain Stimulation Studies (Dr Idalmis Santiesteban - Comparative Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge )

2016-03-07 13:00: The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking (Maria Avxentevskaya (Freie Universität Berlin))

2016-03-07 14:15: Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision-making (Konstantinos Tsetsos, Birkbeck, University of London)

2016-03-08 13:00: The role of stigma in the pursuit of personal projects:  Implications for the health and well-being of marginalized individuals (Dr David Frost, University of Surrey)

2016-03-09 12:30: The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2016-03-10 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Rachel Upthegrove, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham)

2016-03-10 12:30: The Challenge of a Dimensional Approach to Psychosis (Dr Rachel Upthegrove, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham.)

2016-03-10 15:30: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT (Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2016-03-11 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow)

2016-03-14 12:00: Latent Transition Profile Analysis: A person-centred model of Change (Dr Luke Fryer , Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-14 14:15: Measuring the Impact of Social Relationships: The Value of 'Oneness' (Fabio Tufano, University of Nottingham)

2016-03-17 12:30: The brain in flames: how microglia protect and damage neurons (Professor Guy Brown, Professor of Cellular Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-21 14:45: Inferring neural circuit mechanisms that underlie memory storage and decision making in the human brain   (Helen Barron, University of Oxford)

2016-04-06 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Simon Kyle, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Oxord)

2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

2016-04-07 15:30: Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming (Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

2016-04-14 13:00: Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss (Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University)

2016-04-18 14:15: Hierarchical Neural Computations in Decision, Action, and Belief (Daniel McNamee, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-20 12:30: The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition (Alpar Lazar, Cambridge)

2016-04-21 12:30: Evidence-based treatment of compulsivity: existing practice and new directions (Dr Sam Chamberlain, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-21 12:30: Evidence-based treatment of compulsivity: existing practice and new directions (Dr Sam Chamberlain, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-22 16:30: Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.   (Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford)

2016-04-25 13:00: Neurocognitive dynamics in the transition from wakefulness to sleep: EEG and TMS/EEG studies  (Dr Valdas Noreika – BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2016-04-25 14:15: How acute stress impairs self-control in goal-directed choice: Behavioral and neural evidence (Silvia Maier, University of Zurich)

2016-04-26 13:00: The Early Development of Joking and Pretending (Dr Elena Hoicka, Sheffield University)

2016-04-26 13:00: Flight, flow and gaze control:  Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes (Professor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London)

2016-04-27 12:30: Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency (Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit)

2016-04-28 12:30: POSTPONED - NEW DATE TO FOLLOW (Professor Ian Goodyer, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2016-04-28 15:30: Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory (Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham)

2016-04-29 13:00: Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and diptera (Dr Mike Perry, NYU)

2016-04-29 16:30: The Invention of Consciousness (Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-02 13:00: Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species (Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University))

2016-05-03 16:30:   The importance of testimony in children’s learning (Kathleen Corriveau)

2016-05-04 12:30: Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory (Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-05-05 12:30: Borderline or bipolar?  Vive les différences (Dr Guy Goodwin, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2016-05-05 12:30: Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning (Aiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston)

2016-05-05 15:30: Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula? (Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2016-05-06 16:30: An engineering approach to aversive learning. (Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-09 13:00: Motivation in Action - from decision neuroscience to neurorehabilitation (Dr Bettina Studer - Inst for Clinical Neuroscience & Medical Psychology, Univ of Dusseldorf, Germany)

2016-05-09 13:00: Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism (Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2016-05-09 14:15: Control of entropy in internal models (Jill O'Reilly, University of Oxford)

2016-05-10 13:00:  The construction of extremism in ‘The Trojan Horse’ affair: implications for identity and citizenship (Dr Caroline Howarth, London School of Economics)

2016-05-11 12:30: Cognitive control in affective contexts (Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit)

2016-05-12 12:30: Cannabis and psychosis: What are the links? (Dr Zerrin Atakan, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Section of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London )

2016-05-12 15:30: Helping the police with their enquiries (Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle)

2016-05-13 13:00: The neurophysiology of decision-making in the rat: implications for psychiatry and economics (Dr David Redish - Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota)

2016-05-13 16:30: Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder." (Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University)

2016-05-16 13:00: Novel primate model to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying genetic variation associated with affective behaviour (Dr Andrea M Santangela - BCNI, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2016-05-16 13:00: Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities (Chris Hunt (University of Warwick))

2016-05-18 12:30: Executive functions during abstract problem solving (Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-05-18 13:00: “Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”  (Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN))

2016-05-19 12:30: The emerging therapeutic landscape in Parkinson's Disease (Professor Roger Barker, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-19 15:30: Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects (Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol)

2016-05-20 12:00: Perception as a closed-loop convergence process (Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute))

2016-05-20 16:30: Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective (Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T)

2016-05-23 13:00: New insights into the psychopharmacology of cognitive flexibility (Dr Johan Alsio - BCNI, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2016-05-23 13:00: The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance (Viktoria von Hoffmann (University of Liège / University of Cambridge))

2016-05-23 14:15: Towards a whole brain account of decisions for actions using high precision MEG (Sven Bestmann, University College London)

2016-05-24 13:00: Choices and decisions in social and non-social tasks in mice: competing rewards, risk-taking and uncertainty (Dr Sylvie Granon - Inst of Neurosciences, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)

2016-06-01 12:30: High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain (Evelina Fedorenko, MIT)

2016-06-02 12:30: Microglia proliferation in health and disease (Dr Diego Gomez-Nicola, Career Track Lecturer and MRC NIRG Fellow, Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton )

2016-06-06 13:00: Listening to the brain:  sonification of EEGs (Dr Francesca Panin - Faculty of Medical Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge )

2016-06-08 12:30: Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network (Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge))

2016-06-09 12:30: Psychiatric Genetics - ready for the clinic? (Dr Anna Need, Lecturer in Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Imperial College London)

2016-06-09 15:30: The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience   (Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford)

2016-06-13 13:00: Measuring attention in rodent models of schizophrenia (Dr Karly Turner - Queensland Brain Institute, The Univ of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia)

2016-06-15 12:30: Developmental disorders of working memory (Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit)

2016-06-16 12:30:  An update on dementia in our older population (Professor Carol Brayne, Professor of Public Health Medicine, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge; Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health)

2016-06-16 15:30: Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia (Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester)

2016-06-20 14:15: Constructing and updating models of the world (Mona Garvert, University College London)

2016-06-22 14:15: Metacognitive control of reinforcement learning and causal inference (Sang Wan Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

2016-06-23 12:30: The Antisocial Brain in Young People (Dr Luca Passamonti, Clinical Research Fellow & Honorary Clinical Fellow, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-30 12:30: Adolescent hypermentalizing and the vulnerability to personality disorder  (Professor Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London)

2016-07-06 13:00: Wings inform:  mechanosensing in insect flight control. (Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA))

2016-07-07 12:30: A developmental perspective on human white matter disorders (Professor David Rowitch, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurological Surgery, Chief of Neonatology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Investigator, University of California, San Francisco)

2016-07-11 14:15: How habits become compulsions? Investigating habit perseveration in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (Paula Banca, University of Cambridge)

2016-07-14 12:30: Schizophrenia and antipsychotic action — from neurotransmitter pathology to epigenetics (Professor Gavin Reynolds, Honorary Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast)

2016-07-18 13:00: Attention filters for features (Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine)

2016-09-21 15:00: Reflections about intelligence over 30 years (Professor James Flynn ( University of Otago))

2016-09-22 12:30: Psychotic experiences and their significance (Professor Alison Yung, Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester)

2016-09-29 12:30: Disorganised infant attachment: a reappraisal (Dr Robbie Duschinsky, Primary Care Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2016-09-29 12:30: The burden of anxiety and its link with area deprivation (Dr Olivia Remes, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-05 12:30: Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2016-10-06 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-10-06 12:30: The voices in our heads (Professor Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, University of Durham)

2016-10-06 15:30: Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders (Cathy Creswell, University of Reading)

2016-10-07 16:30: The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies. (Dr David Belin)

2016-10-10 13:00: 'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history (Matthew Wale (University of Leicester))

2016-10-11 13:00: Dementia care through the lens of social representations: A discussion of anchoring and framing processes  (Nils Töpfer, University of Jena, Germany)

2016-10-12 12:30: Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression (Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University)

2016-10-13 11:00: Simple and multiple linear regression (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-10-13 12:30: Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: the role of cognitive processes in onset, maintenance and treatment (Dr Richard Meiser-Stedman, Clinical Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of East Anglia)

2016-10-13 15:30: Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics (Maria Wimber, Birmingham University)

2016-10-14 16:30: Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness (Professor Robert Kentridge)

2016-10-17 13:00: The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820 (Jessica Ratcliff (Cornell University and Yale-NUS College))

2016-10-17 13:00: The benefits and challenges of commissioning bespoke websites, apps and games for behavioural research (Dr Jo Evershed - CEO, Cauldron.sc)

2016-10-19 12:30: Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind (Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute)

2016-10-20 12:30: The Quest for Innovative Treatments in Psychiatry: a personal perspective (Dr Norman Rosenthal, Georgetown University School of Medicine)

2016-10-20 15:30: Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (Steve Kennerley, UCL)

2016-10-21 16:30: See what you hear  - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses - (Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK)

2016-10-24 13:00: Early insights from the BENEMIN trial (Benefit of minocycline on negative symptoms of psychosis) - Medication profiles and inflammation (Dr Christiane Riedinger - Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2016-10-25 13:00: Understanding radicalisation (Dr Noemie Bouhana, University College London)

2016-10-25 14:00: Perceiving and Remembering Objects and Faces (Viljami Salmela, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki)

2016-10-27 11:00: The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-10-28 16:30: Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations ( Philippe Peigneux, PhD,  Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016  Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec)

2016-10-31 12:30: Elucidating the neurobiology of problem gambling using a novel rodent slot machine task (Dr Paul Cocker - University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

2016-10-31 13:00: After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810 (Jordan Goodman (UCL))

2016-11-01 16:30: Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems (Dr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education)

2016-11-02 12:30: Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset (Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-03 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-11-03 12:30: Dementia Inpatient Study on The Recognition and Evaluation of Signs Signalling Emotional Distress - The DISTRESSED Study (Dr George Crowther, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds)

2016-11-03 15:30: Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control (Tim Behrens, Oxford)

2016-11-04 16:30: Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?  (Professor Gregor Thut,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2016-11-07 13:00: Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot (David Harris Sacks (Reed College))

2016-11-07 13:00: While you don't ask it's both a vase and a face:  Simultaneous neural processing of an inattentively viewed bistable stimulus (Professor Eugenio Rodriguez - Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile)

2016-11-08 13:00: The Reluctant Altruist (Prof Eamonn Ferguson)

2016-11-09 12:30: Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia (Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University)

2016-11-10 11:00: ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-11-10 15:30: Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Cambridge)

2016-11-11 16:30: The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition (Axel Cleeremans,  Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

2016-11-14 13:00: Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world (Anja-Silvia Goeing (Visiting Fellow, Harvard University))

2016-11-15 16:30: Face Anonymity-Perceptibility Paradigm and an Application in Online Dating Industry  (Dr. Shasha Lu, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-16 12:30: Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory (Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-17 11:00: Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-11-17 12:30: The Norfolk youth service: rationale, design and challenges of a novel mental health service (Dr Jon Wilson, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia;  Research Director, Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust)

2016-11-17 15:30: How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech    (Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario)

2016-11-18 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology,  University of Glasgow)

2016-11-21 13:00: The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer (Lisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum))

2016-11-22 13:00: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Prof Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany )

2016-11-22 14:30: How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images (Xingjie Wei, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge )

2016-11-22 17:00: Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan (Dr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter &  Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge,  Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University )

2016-11-23 12:30: Social rank processing in depression (Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2016-11-24 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-11-24 12:30: How to assess violence risk in psychiatry: new research & clinical implications (Professor Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

2016-11-24 14:30: Innovative approaches to mindfulness and new applications in the clinical field (Dr. Francesco Pagnin, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan)

2016-11-24 15:30: Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus? (David Baguley, University of Nottingham)

2016-11-25 16:30: Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity (Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2016-11-28 13:00: Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks (Daniel Simpson (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2016-11-28 13:00:  Dynamic shifts in large-scale network balance during stress (Professor Erno Hermans - Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

2016-12-01 11:00: Power analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-12-01 12:30: The power and pitfalls of ontologies in data integration (Dr Helen Parkinson, Head of Molecular Archival Resources at  the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

2016-12-01 15:30: On sensing what is not there (Andrew Welchman, Cambridge)

2016-12-02 16:30: Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain (Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University)

2016-12-08 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU))

2016-12-09 16:30: Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development (Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. )

2016-12-12 10:30: One day meeting on vision and neuroscience (One day meeting on vision and neuroscience)

2016-12-14 13:00: Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception (Dr Lynne Kiorpes  (NYU))

2016-12-15 12:30: Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe OCD (Professor Eileen Joyce, Institute of Neurology, University College London)

2016-12-16 13:00: When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding (Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania))

2016-12-16 16:30: ‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’ (Dr Rosalind Ridley)

2017-01-12 13:00: Ras-ERK signalling in dopamine mediated behavioural and synaptic plasticity: a translational perspective for cocaine addiction and related disorders (Professor Riccardo Brambilla - Neuroscience Degree Co-ordinator, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University )

2017-01-12 13:00: "Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing" (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2017-01-18 12:30: Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding (Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge))

2017-01-20 16:30: Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.  (Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.)

2017-01-23 13:00: Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books (Katrina Maydom (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-23 13:00: Beyond E/I balance: Inhibitory cell-type regulating circuit wide defects in Rett syndrome  (Dr Abhishek Banerjee - Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich)

2017-01-24 13:00: Social representations and political thought (Prof Christian Staerklé, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

2017-01-25 12:30: Unitization effects on memory (Roni Tibon (CBSU))

2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh))

2017-01-26 15:30: Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury (Alan Carson (Edinburgh))

2017-01-27 16:30: Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it) ( Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley)

2017-01-30 13:00: Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008 (Sara Peres (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-01-30 13:00: Stimulating OCD (Professor Damiaan Denys - Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam)

2017-02-01 12:00: Textual sentiment, option information and stock predictability (Cathy YH Chen, Yanchu Liu and Wolfgang Karl Härdle)

2017-02-01 12:30: Training working memory is learning to do something new (Sue Gathercole (CBSU))

2017-02-02 15:30: Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex (Matteo Carandini (UCL))

2017-02-03 16:30: Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex (Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London)

2017-02-06 13:00: Higher-order cognitive flexibility:  influences of catecholamines, tVNS and stress (Dr Klodiana-Daphne Tona - Cognitive Psychology Univt, Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition, and Leiden Medical Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2017-02-06 13:00: The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771 (Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-02-07 13:00: Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Women's leadership roles in times of crisis (Prof Michelle Ryan, University of Exeter and University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

2017-02-08 12:30: Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU (Bob Carlyon (CBSU))

2017-02-09 15:30: Confidence and adaptive decision making (Nick Yeung (Oxford))

2017-02-10 16:30: Learning to learn: lessons from action video games (Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva)

2017-02-13 13:00: Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School (Richard Bellis (University of Leeds))

2017-02-13 13:00: The promises and challenges of using transcranial current stimulation to modulate social perception (Dr Michael Banissy - Reader in Psychology, Head of Research at Goldsmiths, University of London)

2017-02-16 12:30: Psychotic Major Depression: Challenges in Clinical Practice and Research (Dr Margaret Heslin, Research Fellow, Health Services & Population Research, King's College London)

2017-02-17 16:30: Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making? (Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France)

2017-02-20 13:00: Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence (Ben Bradley (Charles Sturt University, NSW))

2017-02-20 13:00: Understanding the Long-Term Consequences of Marijuana Use by Adolescents:  A Psychobiological Perspective (Dr Alejandro Higuera Matas - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychobiology, School of Psychology, National University for Distance Learning (UNED), Madrid, Spain)

2017-02-21 13:00: Social Identity: The enactment and performance of religious identities (Dr Nicholas Hopkins, University of Dundee, Scotland)

2017-02-22 12:30: We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward (Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2017-02-23 12:30: Targeting negative repetitive thought as a transdiagnostic mechanism: translating cognitive science into innovative treatment  (Professor Edward Watkins,  Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter)

2017-02-24 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino)

2017-02-27 13:00: Natural history and the antiquarian (Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-02-28 13:00: Attitudinal Influences on Moral Judgments (Prof Bogdan Wojciszke, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)

2017-03-01 12:30: Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network (Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU))

2017-03-01 13:00: “How does melanopsin help us to see?“ (Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester)

2017-03-01 13:30: Multidimensional IRT models and their applications to psychological testing (Igor Menezes (University of Cambridge))

2017-03-02 12:30: Cognitive dysfunction in depression: testing the potential of modafinil as a treatment (Dr Muzaffer Kaser, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-02 13:00: Emergency psychiatry (Dr Caroline Meiser-Stedman, Consultant Psychiatrist, CPFT)

2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL))

2017-03-02 15:30: Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it? (Essi Viding (UCL))

2017-03-03 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London)

2017-03-06 13:00: James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy' (Charlie Jarvis (Natural History Museum))

2017-03-07 13:00: Developmental changes after early adversity: lessons from adoption research (Prof Jesus Palacios, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

2017-03-07 16:30: Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action (Professor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)

2017-03-08 12:30: New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression (Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU))

2017-03-09 15:30: Social brain development in adolescence (Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL))

2017-03-10 16:30: Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making (Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2017-03-13 13:00: Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873) (James Poskett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-03-15 12:30:  Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks (Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) )

2017-03-16 12:30: Mechanisms of Apathy in Health and Parkinson’s Disease (Kinan Muhammed, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires))

2017-03-16 15:30: Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction (Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires))

2017-03-17 16:30:  Observations from the Edge of Beauty (Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-21 13:00: "The koniocellular visual pathway" (Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2017-03-23 12:30: Rethinking psychosis (Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, Clinical Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry and Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge)

2017-03-30 12:30: Functional, genetic and in vitro studies in schizophrenia (Dr János Réthelyi, School of Mental Health Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest)

2017-04-06 12:30: Sleep and mental health (Dr Simon Kyle,Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

2017-04-12 12:30: Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry (Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain )

2017-04-26 12:30: Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry (Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham))

2017-04-27 15:30: Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction (Antonia Hamilton (UCL))

2017-04-28 16:30: Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction (Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria)

2017-05-01 13:00: When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals (Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University))

2017-05-02 13:00: Ritual, Community, and Conflict (Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford)

2017-05-03 12:30: Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process? (Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-03 13:00: Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man. (Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham)

2017-05-04 12:30: Reality discrimination deficits in hallucinations (Dr Jane Garrison, Director of Studies, Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, Robinson College, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-04 13:00: De-identified electronic mental health records for research and recruitment (Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Department of Psychiatry)

2017-05-04 13:00: De-identified electronic mental health records for research and recruitment (Dr Rudolf Cardinal, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry)

2017-05-04 15:30: I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains. (Jennifer Lau (KCL))

2017-05-05 16:30: Do we control language or does language control us? (Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.)

2017-05-08 13:00: Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly (Mark Wormald (Pembroke College))

2017-05-08 13:00: Behavioural measurements versus assessments of personality (Dr Jana Uher - Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2017-05-09 16:30:  Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know (Dr Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  )

2017-05-10 12:30: The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention (Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-10 16:00: A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex (Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento)

2017-05-11 12:30: What’s New in Lewy Body Disease? (Professor Ian McKeith, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Newcastle)

2017-05-11 15:30: CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind? (Mark Stokes (Oxford))

2017-05-11 16:30: Thinking about what might have been: the development of children's counterfactual thinking (Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham)

2017-05-12 16:30: The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour. (Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2017-05-15 13:00: Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4 (Christina Skott (Faculty of History))

2017-05-15 13:00: Structural brain connectivity in autism spectrum disorder (Dr Clare Gibbard - Visiting Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2017-05-16 13:00: Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives (Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France))

2017-05-16 13:00: International research networks in imaging genetics: Developing imaging predictors and neurobehavioural phenotypes of psychopathology (Professor Gunter Schumann)

2017-05-17 12:30: Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation (Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-18 12:30: Psychotic Experiences in Cambridge: Revisiting the Gold Mine (Professor Jesús Pérez, Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia;  Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMEO Early Intervention Services,  Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation NHS Trust)

2017-05-18 12:30: Psychotic Experiences in Cambridge: Revisiting the Gold Mine (Professor Jesús Perez, Honorary Professor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia; Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMEO Early Intervention Services, CPFT)

2017-05-18 15:30: Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity (Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford))

2017-05-19 16:30: Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system (Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands))

2017-05-22 13:00: Lateral septal interneurons broadcast hippocampal signals to calibrate fear responses (Dr Antoine Besnard - Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital)

2017-05-22 13:00: Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729) (Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum))

2017-05-23 16:30: Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning (Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education)

2017-05-24 12:30: Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI (Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-05-25 15:30: Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy  (Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham))

2017-05-31 12:30: A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain (Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-05 13:00: Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask (James Delbourgo (Rutgers University))

2017-06-05 13:00: Virtual reality based testing of entorhinal cortex function in mild cognitive impairment  (Dr Dennis Chan - University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, BCNI, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2017-06-07 12:30: Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating (Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-08 12:30: Exploring psychotic experiences in ‘non-need for care’ populations: Findings from the UNIQUE study (Dr Emmanuelle Peters, Reader in Clinical Psychology, King’s College, London)

2017-06-08 15:30: Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications (Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin))

2017-06-14 12:30: Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000) (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-15 12:30: Stimulant treatment and the developing brain in ADHD (Dr Lizanne Schweren, Research Associate, Developmental Psychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-15 15:30: The typical and atypical development of the human social brain (Mark Johnson (UoC))

2017-06-21 12:30: How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations? (Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2017-06-22 15:30: Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition (Kate Jeffrey (UCL))

2017-06-26 13:00: Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex (Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford))

2017-07-03 13:00: Cocaine-induced chromatin modifications associate with increased expression and three-dimensional looping of Auts2 (Dr Olivia Engmann, Senior Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Isabelle Mansuy, ETH/University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2017-07-05 12:30: Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain (Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire)

2017-07-06 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Andrea Reinecke, Research Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2017-07-06 12:30: From neuroscience to ultra-brief treatments for anxiety disorders (Dr Andrea Reinecke, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2017-07-12 13:00: Resilience vs Vulnerability to Compulsion: behavioral, neurochemical and psychopharmacological evidences in rats selected by Schedule-induced polidipsia (Dr Margarita Moreno, Tenured Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Almería, Spain)

2017-07-13 12:30:  University High Performance Hub for Informatics Q&A (Professor John Suckling, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2017-07-27 15:30: The 2017 Flynn Lecture: Male and Female IQ- A balance sheet (Professor James Flynn, Department of Politics, University of Orago)

2017-09-04 13:00: Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning (Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside)

2017-09-27 18:30: How to Deploy Psychometrics Successfully in an Organisation (David Stillwell)

2017-09-28 12:30: Trading places: understanding psychosis risk in migrant groups (Dr James Kirkbride, Reader in Epidemiology in the Division of Psychiatry, University College, London)

2017-10-02 13:00: Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision (Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University)

2017-10-04 12:30: Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events (Andrea Greve (MRC CBU))

2017-10-05 15:30: Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing (Rik Henson (MRC CBU))

2017-10-06 16:30: Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering  (Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-09 13:00: On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage (Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology))

2017-10-10 13:00: Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages (Jac Davis, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-11 12:30: Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory (Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge))

2017-10-12 12:30: A  dimensional approach to developmental impairments of learning (Professor Susan E. Gathercole, Director, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-12 15:30: Perspective taking during communication (Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York))

2017-10-13 16:30: The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status (Dr Pranjal Mehta,  University College London)

2017-10-16 13:00: 'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850 (Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History))

2017-10-18 12:30: Large scale network interactions in consciousness (Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-19 12:30: Depression and inflammation in the 21st century (Professor Carmine Pariante, Professor of Biological Psychiatry, King's College, London)

2017-10-19 15:30: How memory guides value-based decisions (Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia))

2017-10-20 16:30: How Power Affects Those Who Possess it:  Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation (Dr Ana Guinote,  University College London)

2017-10-24 13:00: Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse? (Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton)

2017-10-25 12:30: Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity (Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-26 15:30: Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health (Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie))

2017-10-27 16:30: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich)

2017-10-30 13:00: Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance (Andrew Lacey (Making & Knowing Project, Columbia University))

2017-11-01 12:30: Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions (Marieke Mur (MRC CBU))

2017-11-02 12:30: Computer assisted therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations: the AVATAR clinical trial (Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig, Emeritus Professor Social Psychiatry, IoP, King’s College, London)

2017-11-02 15:30: Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications  (Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel))

2017-11-03 16:30: Touch: The sensory scaffold of development? (Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London)

2017-11-06 13:00: What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox) (Catarina Madruga (Universidade de Lisboa))

2017-11-06 13:00: Associative vs hierarchical account of human cue-elicited responding (Dr Sara Garofalo - IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli (IS), and NEUROBIOTECH, Caserta, Italy)

2017-11-07 13:00: Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa (Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics )

2017-11-07 13:00: The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory (Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University)

2017-11-08 12:30: High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p (Peter Jones (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-09 15:30: The brain isn't porridge  (Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford))

2017-11-10 16:30: Information networks, truth and value.  (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)

2017-11-13 13:00: Iron holds the whale (Jenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2017-11-15 12:30: Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech  (Matt Davis (MRC CBU))

2017-11-16 12:30: Schizophrenia - therapy for cognition (Professor Dame Til Wykes, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London)

2017-11-16 15:30: Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease (Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge))

2017-11-17 16:30:  Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia  (Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience  King’s College London)

2017-11-20 13:00: From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism (Alex Aylward (University of Leeds))

2017-11-20 13:00: Developmental trajectories of ADHD symptoms from childhood to late adolescence (Dr Aja Murray - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2017-11-21 13:00: Spaces for citizen involvement in healthcare: an ethnographic study (Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2017-11-21 13:00: Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system (Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

2017-11-22 12:30: Learning and plasticity in adolescence (Delia Fuhrmann (UCL))

2017-11-23 12:30: Depersonalisation Disorder: from psychopathology to cognitive neuroscience (Professor Anthony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, King’s College, London)

2017-11-23 13:00: Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain (Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford)

2017-11-23 15:30: The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory (Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) )

2017-11-24 16:30: Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control    (Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2017-11-27 13:00: A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian (Katalin Pataki (Central European University, Budapest))

2017-11-27 13:00: The role of the dorsal striatum in skill learning (Dr Karly Turner - Post-doc Researcher, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2017-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates. (Dr Janine Mendola (McGill))

2017-11-30 12:30: Ketamine for treatment resistant depression: prospects and pitfalls (Dr Rupert McShane, Dementia Clinical Network Lead - Oxford Academic Health Science Network;  Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2017-11-30 15:30: Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention (David Shanks (UCL))

2017-12-01 16:30: Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory (Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton)

2017-12-07 12:30: **We regret that this lecture has been cancelled** (Professor Ian Goodyer, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2017-12-14 12:30: Retaining hope in the management of treatment resistant depression (Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams, Professor of Affective Disorders, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

2018-01-17 12:30: Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making (Fabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and  Neuroscience))

2018-01-17 13:00: Psychedelics: mechanisms of action and therapeutic potential (Dr Robin Carhart-Harris - Head of Psychedelic Research, Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2018-01-19 16:30: Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise (Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-01-22 13:00: Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century (Ádám Mézes (Central European University, Budapest))

2018-01-23 13:00: The role of attachment in cults and radicalization (Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London)

2018-01-24 12:30: Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives (Kamen Tsvetanov (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology) )

2018-01-25 15:30: Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language (Prof Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen))

2018-01-26 16:30: Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening (Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester)

2018-01-29 13:00:  The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63 (Meira Gold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-01-31 12:30: Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school (Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-02-01 15:30: Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities  (Karla Miller (U. of Oxford))

2018-02-02 17:00: A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter (Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University )

2018-02-05 13:00: Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world (Simon Werrett (UCL))

2018-02-06 13:00: What constitutes 'discrimination' in everyday talk? Argumentative lines and the social representations of discrimination (Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University )

2018-02-07 12:30: Value generalization during human avoidance learning (Agnes Nobury (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering))

2018-02-08 15:30: Attentional episodes and cognitive control (John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-02-09 16:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-02-12 13:00: Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees (Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet))

2018-02-15 12:30: Electrophysiological approaches in Lewy body dementia: helpful or not? (Dr John-Paul Taylor, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

2018-02-15 15:30: How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps” (Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison))

2018-02-16 13:00: Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech (Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht)

2018-02-16 16:30: From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis. (Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands )

2018-02-19 13:00: Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s (Caterina Schürch (LMU München))

2018-02-20 13:00: Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genetic social psychology  (Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia)

2018-02-21 12:30: MRI in large animals: a new imaging model (Arsene Ella (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-02-21 13:00: Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains (Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas)

2018-02-22 12:30: Using vision to understand dementia in Parkinson’s disease (Dr Rimona Weil, Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College, London)

2018-02-22 15:30: Finding meaning in English writing (Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway))

2018-02-23 16:30: : Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties (Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD  Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology,  Justus-Leibig University Giessen     )

2018-02-26 13:00: How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge (Justin Rivest (Faculty of History))

2018-02-28 12:30: Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing (Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences))

2018-03-01 15:30: CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action (Catherine Harmer (U. of Oxford))

2018-03-02 16:30: How is visual perception biased (Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2018-03-05 13:00: A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection (Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2018-03-06 13:00: Bringing Personality Theory Back to Life:   On Persons-in-Context, Idiographic Strategies, and Lazarus (Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA))

2018-03-07 12:30: UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results (Catarina Rua (U. of Cambridge, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre))

2018-03-08 12:30: 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)

2018-03-08 12:30: Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour  *** We regret that it has been necessary to cancel this talk *** (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)

2018-03-08 15:30: The persistence and transience of memory (Paul Frankland (U. of Toronto))

2018-03-09 13:00: Time-dependent regulation of memory retrieval by hippocampal clock (Professor Satoshi Kida - Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture (TUA))

2018-03-09 16:30: What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception? (Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2018-03-12 13:00: The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks (Genie Yoo (Princeton University))

2018-03-14 12:30: All-resolutions inference for brain imaging (Wouter Weeda (Leiden University))

2018-03-15 12:30: Advances in understanding and treatment of eating disorders ( Professor Ulrike Schmidt, Professor of Eating Disorders and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London)

2018-03-15 15:30: Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?  (Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-03-16 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University)

2018-03-19 13:00: Capturing the Full Spectrum of Repetitive Behaviour in Typical and Atypical Development (Professor David W. Evans - Psychology Program in Neuroscience, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA)

2018-03-22 12:30: Gambling Disorder in the UK:  an overview (Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London)

2018-04-12 12:30: Calcium signalling in bipolar disorder -  new twists to an old story (Professor Paul Harrison, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2018-04-19 12:30: Insights from genome wide association studies on depression (Dr Na Cai, European Bioinformatics Institute)

2018-04-19 13:00: Control over behaviour: corticolimbic mechanisms (Louk Vanderschuren - Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Utrecht)

2018-04-24 13:00: Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics (Mehrdad Jazayeri)

2018-04-25 12:30: Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits (Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience))

2018-04-26 12:30: What can we learn from the study of brain sulcal variability for cognition, mental health and illness (Professor Arnaud Cachia, Professeur en Neurosciences, Université Paris Descartes, Membre Junior, Institut Universitaire de France (spécialité neurosciences))

2018-04-30 13:00: Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade (Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University))

2018-05-01 13:00: Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania (Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2018-05-02 12:30: No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June  (Talk has been postponed until 20 June)

2018-05-03 12:30: Brain imaging and genetics in autism (Dr Richard Bethlehem, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre)

2018-05-03 13:00: Understanding the genetics of autism through the genetics of related traits (Varun Warrier, Autism Research Centre)

2018-05-03 15:30: What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?  (Gareth Gaskell (U. of York))

2018-05-04 16:30: Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex (Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science,  Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience,  Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2018-05-07 13:00: Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900) (Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris))

2018-05-09 12:30: Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy  cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study) (Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-09 13:00: You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity:  a biologically inspired and implemented motion model (Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute)

2018-05-10 12:30: The Oliver Zangwill Centre: 21 years and counting of Innovation in holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation (Dr Pieter du Toit, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Ely)

2018-05-10 15:30: Title TBC (Speaker TBC)

2018-05-11 16:30: Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking    (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2018-05-14 13:00: Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756) (László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest))

2018-05-15 13:00: Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory (Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent)

2018-05-16 12:30: Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds  (Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-17 12:30: The puzzle of adolescent depression (Professor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading)

2018-05-17 15:30: Remembering complex events (Chris Bird (U. of Sussex))

2018-05-18 16:30: Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms (Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London)

2018-05-21 13:00: Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869 (Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence))

2018-05-21 13:00: Flexible Drug-Seeking and the Development of Addiction-Like Behaviour (Dr Bryan Singer - School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes)

2018-05-23 12:30: Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system (Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-24 12:30: Admissions and early intervention: insights from newer approaches (Dr Matthew Taylor, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Bipolar Disorder, King's College, London)

2018-05-24 15:30: Why are we so bad at face recognition? (Mike Burton (U. of York))

2018-05-25 16:30: Metacognition of internally-generated processes (Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

2018-05-29 13:00: Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis (John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.)

2018-05-30 12:30: Re-thinking cognitive training research (Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2018-05-31 12:30: Tackling mental illness where it begins (Dr Andrea Danese, Senior Lecturer in Development Psychobiology and Psychiatry, MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre)

2018-05-31 15:30: The structure and function of visual working memory  (Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology))

2018-06-01 16:30: Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations (Professor Rafael Malach,  Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2018-06-06 12:30: Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it? (Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience))

2018-06-07 12:30: How can we improve and maintain child mental health; lessons from interventional epidemiology (Dr Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Exeter Medical School)

2018-06-07 15:30: The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients (Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) )

2018-06-13 12:30: The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline (James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney))

2018-06-14 15:30: Concept learning as compression (Bradley Love (UCL))

2018-06-20 12:30: Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach (Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) )

2018-06-21 12:30: How can we beat the government's 10% target for suicide prevention? (Professor Louis Appleby,  Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester;  Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness)

2018-07-05 12:30: Is clozapine really unique? (Dr James MacCabe, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Kings College London)

2018-09-20 12:30:  Can 24 months of high dose minocycline change disease course in mild Alzheimer's disease? (Professor Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College, London)

2018-09-24 13:00: Using Computational Models to Characterise and Engage and Putative Treatment Targets for Depression (Professor Michael Browning - Computational Psychiatry Lab, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Oxford)

2018-09-27 12:30: Barriers to reproducible research (and how to overcome them) (Dr Kirstie Whitaker, Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-03 12:30: From cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: Translational concerns for mental health research (Camilla Nord (MRC CBU) )

2018-10-04 15:30: The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disorders  (Matt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-10-05 13:00: New approaches to old problems in behavioral neuroscience: The role of locus coeruleus in anxiety and cognitive control (Andrea Bari, PhD - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA )

2018-10-05 16:30: Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging) (Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-08 13:00: The long-lost Paston Collection (Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge))

2018-10-10 12:30: The framework behind the Kymata Atlas: Mapping early sensory processing in the human brain and nervous system (Andrew Thwaites (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-10-11 12:30: An introduction to  Evolutionary  Psychiatry (Dr Riadh Abed, former Medical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist,  Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust )

2018-10-11 15:30: Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to intervention  (Alan Gow (Heriot-Watt University))

2018-10-12 16:30: How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour (Prof Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London)

2018-10-15 13:00: Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations (Dr Wei Wang)

2018-10-15 13:00: Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency (Emma Spary (Faculty of History))

2018-10-17 12:30: What cognitive mechanisms underlie multi-target search organisation in children and adults?  (Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU) )

2018-10-18 12:30: Delusions and Three Myths of Irrational Belief (Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham)

2018-10-18 15:30: Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control (Simon Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire))

2018-10-18 16:00: Optimal Design for Item Response Theory Models (Professor Heinz Holling, University of Muenster, Germany)

2018-10-19 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-24 12:30: Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts (Anaïs Rouanet (MRC Biostatistics Unit) )

2018-10-25 15:30: Interference and memory capacity limitations (Ansgar Endress (City University))

2018-10-26 16:30: Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences  (Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany)

2018-10-29 13:00: Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685 (Justin Rivest (Faculty of History))

2018-10-31 12:30: Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks (Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-11-01 12:30: Sailing close to the wind of psychotic fire-a dopaminergic journey (Dr Sameer Jauhar, Senior Research Fellow, King's College, London)

2018-11-02 16:30: Sleep for Systems Consolidation (Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor,  The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science   Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands)

2018-11-05 13:00: The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century (Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History))

2018-11-07 12:30: Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise (Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) )

2018-11-08 15:30: 'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream' (Becky Jackson and Tim Kietzmann (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-11-09 16:30: Social timing in autism spectrum disorders (Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich)

2018-11-12 13:00: Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century (Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History))

2018-11-14 12:30: Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load (John Duncan (MRC CBU) )

2018-11-15 12:30: Everything you wanted to know about treatment resistant depression but were afraid to ask (Professor Anthony Cleare, Professor of Psychopharmacology and Affective Disorders, King's College, London)

2018-11-15 15:30: Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via     EEG-fMRI fusion (Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow))

2018-11-16 16:30: Making sense of time in the Human mind (Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France )

2018-11-19 13:00: Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872 (Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-11-21 12:30: Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches (Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU))

2018-11-22 12:30: Making use of data from the UK Biobank cohort for mental health research (Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow)

2018-11-22 15:30: A Bayesian approach to internal models (Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge))

2018-11-23 16:30: Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know (Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

2018-11-26 13:00: Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle (Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen))

2018-11-28 12:30: CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) )

2018-11-28 13:00: Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms (Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2018-11-29 12:30: Cambridge Research on Mindfulness Training for Mental Health Promotion (Dr Julieta Galante, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-29 15:30: Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control (Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2018-12-06 12:30: Can we optimise the selection of an antidepressant for a specific patient? (Professor Andrea Cipriani,  Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford; Associate Director, Research and Development Department, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

2018-12-11 13:00: "Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision" (Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil)

2018-12-13 12:30: Understanding the genetic basis of growth, reproduction and behaviour (Dr Felix Day, Career Development Fellow, MRC Epidemiology Unit)

2019-01-16 12:30: Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting (Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-17 12:30: The origins of empathy and the impact of early disturbances: Evolutionary insights from our great ape relatives (Dr Zanna Clay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Durham)

2019-01-17 13:00: Visual categorization of simple stimuli  (Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University)

2019-01-17 16:00: The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health (David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge))

2019-01-18 16:30: Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life (Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona))

2019-01-21 13:00: Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums (Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge))

2019-01-23 12:30: Time course of memory updating in running span (Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-24 12:30: 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)

2019-01-24 15:30: Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques? (John Rothwell (UCL))

2019-01-25 13:00: Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies (Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen)

2019-01-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

2019-01-28 13:00: Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies (Genie Yoo (Princeton University))

2019-01-30 12:30: Mindfulness training for mental health promotion (Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge))

2019-01-31 12:30: Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster,  Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2019-01-31 13:00: How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient (Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel)

2019-01-31 15:30: The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery (Adam Zeman (University of Exeter))

2019-02-01 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York)

2019-02-04 13:00: Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire (Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-06 12:30: Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective (Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-07 12:30: Illness and Attitude: Characterizing Functional Disorders (Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-07 15:30: Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents (Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBU, U.of Cambridge))

2019-02-08 16:30: Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity (Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo)

2019-02-11 13:00: Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe (Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-13 12:30: The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection (Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-13 13:00: Adaptation Produces Change-Salience (Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London)

2019-02-14 12:30: Language learning and use as cognitive reserve? (Dr Thomas Bak, Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2019-02-14 15:30: Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing  (Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL))

2019-02-15 16:30: Animal models of episodic memory (Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University)

2019-02-18 13:00: Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century (Elena Romero-Passerin (University of St Andrews))

2019-02-20 12:30: CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment (Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-20 15:00: From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors (Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London)

2019-02-21 15:30: Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics (Thalia Eley (Kings College London))

2019-02-22 16:30: In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry (Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes)

2019-02-25 12:30: Serotonergic modulation of emotion and cognition: the search for specific functions and future research directions (Clark Roberts, The LeDoux Lab, Center for Neural Science, NY Univ)

2019-02-25 13:00: Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK (John Tweddle (Natural History Museum, London))

2019-02-27 12:30: You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance (Dr Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-02-28 12:30: Tracking neuroinflammation in the brains of depressed patients (Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester)

2019-02-28 15:30: The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs (Tamar Makin (UCL))

2019-03-01 16:30: 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)

2019-03-04 13:00: The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections (Anna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm))

2019-03-06 12:30: An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population (Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge))

2019-03-06 15:00: The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization (Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. )

2019-03-07 12:30: 100 years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: What can we learn from individual cases in psychiatry?  (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea )

2019-03-07 15:30: Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed? (Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) )

2019-03-08 16:30: 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)

2019-03-11 13:00: Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice (Patrick Anthony (Vanderbilt University))

2019-03-13 12:30: The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations (Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-03-13 15:00: Comparing nudges and boosts for financial decisions under uncertainty (Matija Franklin )

2019-03-14 13:00: "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)

2019-03-14 15:30: Far beyond the back of the brain (Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) )

2019-03-20 15:00: Persistent Topics - How persons shape language that is about to stay. (Peter Romero)

2019-03-25 13:00: A Computational Approach to Adolescent Brain Development in the Context of Schizophrenia (Dr Qiang Luo - BCNI/Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China)

2019-03-28 12:30: The role of technology in improving the accessibility and quality of mental healthcare and accelerating research (Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health)

2019-04-04 12:30: Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illnesses (Professor David Osborn, Department of Psychiatry, University College London)

2019-04-05 11:00: Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making (Professor Jason Mattingley)

2019-04-11 12:30: Infant feeding and post-natal depression: quantitative and qualitative evidence on the role of maternal aspirations and the management of childbirth (Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-24 12:30: Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions (Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-04-24 13:00: Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms (Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2019-04-24 15:00: Benefits of the collective: how the group protects individual members in costly decisions (Dr Marwa El Zein)

2019-04-25 15:30: Learning to read words: from novice to expert (Kate Nation (University of Oxford))

2019-04-26 12:00: Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making (Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2019-04-29 13:00: The politics of the potato in the 19th century (Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick))

2019-04-29 13:00: Re-evaluation of learned behaviour, changing memory - on the fly (Dr Johannes Felsenberg - Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Waddell Lab, University of Oxford)

2019-05-01 12:30: Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudoword (Carol Wang (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-01 13:00: Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University)

2019-05-02 12:30: History and Future of Psychiatry: Reflections on Kathleen Jones's "Asylums and after" (Professor George Ikkos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital)

2019-05-02 15:30: Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain (Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London))

2019-05-06 13:00: When is a cow not a cow? (Harriet Ritvo (MIT))

2019-05-07 13:00: Binocular vision and the control of hand movements (Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University)

2019-05-08 12:30: Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning (Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-09 15:30: Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people  (Alexa Morcom )

2019-05-10 12:00: Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice. (Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-13 13:00: Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867) (Luz Fernanda Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México))

2019-05-13 13:00: Affective biases and other cognitive disturbances in Major Depressive Disorder (Vibeke N. H. Dam - Cand.psych., PhD student, Neurobiology Research Unit, 6931 The Neuroscience Centre Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital)

2019-05-14 16:00: Machine Learning in Readability Assessment (Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-15 12:30: Talk 1. Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance     Talk 2. Multivariate approaches to understanding the brain-behaviour relationships in cognitive ability (Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-15 15:00: Why do we cry? (Dr Eric Vanman, University of Queensland)

2019-05-16 12:30: Narrative in neuroscience: evolutionary approach as a teaching tool (Dr Derek Tracy, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London;   Senior Lecturer, King's College, London)

2019-05-16 13:00: The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection (Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University)

2019-05-16 15:30: Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory (Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex))

2019-05-17 12:00: Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-20 13:00: Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England (James Ryan (Victoria & Albert Museum/University of Exeter))

2019-05-22 12:30: Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury   Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories (Andrea Kusec & Giulia Barsuola (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-22 15:00: Is the child the father of the political man? (Dr. Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway University of London)

2019-05-23 12:30: Primary and Secondary Prevention of Dementia: can we PROTECT our Cognitive Health? (Professor Clive Ballard, Professor of Age-related Diseases, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter)

2019-05-23 15:30: The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood (Rogier Kievit, MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-24 16:30: Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows (Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK)

2019-05-29 12:30: Visual nonlinearities (Alyse Brown (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-05-29 15:00: Inside-out:  How emotions are perceived in the face (Dr Eva Krumhuber, University College London)

2019-05-30 15:30: Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning (Milena Rabovsky (Freie University, Berlin))

2019-06-05 12:30: Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement (Giacomo Bignardi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-06-05 15:00: The Role of Social Media in Health Prediction and Prevention: Digital Methods in Public Health and Behavior Change (Dr Sophie Lohmann, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

2019-06-06 12:30: Risk and resilience in adolescent mental health (Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-06 15:30: Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning (Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, Cambridge))

2019-06-12 12:30: Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception (Christina Carlisi (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL))

2019-06-12 15:00: Digitally Distracted (Dr Duncan Brumby, University College London (UCL))

2019-06-13 12:30: Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study (Dr Timothy Matthews, King's College London)

2019-06-13 13:00: First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero (Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster)

2019-06-13 15:30: Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens (Lisa-Marie Henderson (University of York))

2019-06-19 15:00: Dr Heejung Kim & Dr David Sherman  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-06-20 12:30: The clinical effectiveness of sertraline in primary care and the role of depression severity and duration: The PANDA pragmatic randomised controlled trial. (Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London)

2019-07-01 13:00: Stimulus-driven behaviors in OCD: inhibition and action tendencies (Dr Gideon Anholt, Psychology Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

2019-07-01 13:00:  Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids (Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine))

2019-07-04 12:30: Understanding the parent-infant social connection through interpersonal neuroscience (Dr Victoria Leong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore);  Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-07-08 13:00: STaR (Stress Timing affects Relapse): A model of the effects of stress/glucocorticoids on extinction and relapse  (Dr Shira Meir Drexler - Department of Cognitive Psychology Ruhr-University Bochum Germany)

2019-07-11 12:00: Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime Solving story (Dr Tesh Goyal)

2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Lynne Cooper)

2019-07-15 15:00: Getting Your Work Published in Top Psychology Journals: Insights from 20+ Years of Editorial Experience (Dr Lynne Cooper)

2019-08-12 13:00: Determining the mechanism underlying retrieval-extinction: reconsolidation or extinction? (Eloise Kuijer - Masters Student, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2019-09-12 12:30: Ageing and dementia risk-related brain differences in the cognitively healthy: Evidence from multi-modal MRI (Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff University)

2019-09-26 12:30: Cognitive Remediation Therapy confers broad benefits to people with bipolar disorder (Dr Becci Strawbridge, post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London)

2019-10-03 12:30: Ablative surgeries for psychiatric disorders: The Vancouver capsulotomy and new insights into the neuroanatomy of depression (Professor Trevor Hurwitz, Medical Director, BC Neuropsychiatry Programme, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia)

2019-10-04 16:30: The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases (Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy)

2019-10-09 12:30: What's new in PsychoPy3? (Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham))

2019-10-10 12:30: Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies (Professor Alan Thomas, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Newcastle University)

2019-10-10 15:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Lorina Naci (Trinity College, Dublin))

2019-10-11 16:30: Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space (Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel    )

2019-10-14 13:00: Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis (Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen))

2019-10-16 12:30: The emotional modulation of memory (Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-10-17 15:30: The perceptual prediction paradox (Clare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences))

2019-10-18 00:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-21 13:00: The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800 (Paul Sampson (Rutgers University))

2019-10-23 12:30: The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A (Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College))

2019-10-23 15:00:  Life in a Zero-Sum Game: How implicit game theories can shape social and economic realities (Patricia Andrews Fearon)

2019-10-24 15:30: A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks (Andrew Saxe (U. of Oxford, Dept of Experimental Psychology) )

2019-10-25 16:30: How we remember and how we forget ( Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York)

2019-10-30 12:30: Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder (Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-10-31 15:30: The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making (Birte Forstmann (U. of Amsterdam))

2019-11-01 12:00: Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity (Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium )

2019-11-01 12:30: Understanding the transition from suicidal thoughts to suicidal attempts (Rory O’Connor (University of Glasgow))

2019-11-04 13:00: It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899) (Nathan Smith (Department of Zoology))

2019-11-06 12:30: Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments (Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London))

2019-11-07 15:30: Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress (James Rowe (U.of Cambridge, MRC CBU))

2019-11-08 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2019-11-11 13:00: Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur (Matt Holmes (CRASSH))

2019-11-12 16:30: Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way (Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

2019-11-13 12:30: A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2019-11-14 12:30: Video games in psychiatry: "a vicarious experience with a dazing, almost anaesthetic, effect on the mind"? (Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-14 15:30: Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence (Anna-Lena Schubert (U. of Heidelberg))

2019-11-15 16:30: The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight (Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

2019-11-18 13:00: 'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology (Joanne Green (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-11-20 12:30: When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory (Dr Athena Akrami (University College London))

2019-11-20 15:00: Low Self-Esteem Predicts Out-group Derogation via Collective Narcissism, but this Relationship Is Obscured by In-group Satisfaction (Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmith, University of London)

2019-11-21 12:30: The neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation (Dr Roland Zahn, Reader in the Neurocognitive Bases of Mood Disorders, King's College London)

2019-11-21 15:30: Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work (Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour))

2019-11-22 12:00: Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines (Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

2019-11-27 12:30: Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths (Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2019-11-27 15:00: Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why (Joseph Marks)

2019-11-28 15:30: Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain (Anthony Wagner (Stanford University))

2019-11-29 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2019-12-05 12:30: Food for health - food for thought (Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.)

2019-12-06 16:30: Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors (Gaia Scerif,  Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) )

2019-12-11 12:30: The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales (Alan Baddeley (U. of York, Dept of Psychology) )

2019-12-12 12:30: Motherhood and madness: bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis (Professor Ian Jones, Professor of Psychiatry, Cardiff University)

2020-01-09 13:00: Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making (Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University))

2020-01-15 12:30: Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks (Moataz Assem (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-01-15 15:00: Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making (Dr. Patricia Lockwood, MRC Fellow, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

2020-01-16 12:30: The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment (Dr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel  )

2020-01-16 15:30:  What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs? (Tim Rogers (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison))

2020-01-17 12:00: Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-20 13:00: 'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900 (Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast))

2020-01-22 12:30: The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration (Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-01-23 12:30: Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice. (André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website)

2020-01-23 15:30: Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences (Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf))

2020-01-24 16:30: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease (Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-01-27 13:00: Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925 (Tamara Fernando (Faculty of History))

2020-01-29 12:30: Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning  (Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford))

2020-01-29 16:00: Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science (Dr Cory Clark, Durham University)

2020-01-30 12:30: Epigenetics in ageing and dementia (Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-30 15:30: Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields (Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London))

2020-01-31 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2020-02-03 13:00: Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India (Sarah Qidwai (University of Toronto))

2020-02-05 12:30: Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination (Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-02-06 12:30: Predicting addiction: myth or reality? (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-06 15:30: Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits (Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL))

2020-02-07 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2020-02-12 12:30: Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment (Dr Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-02-12 16:00: Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality (Dr. Claudia Schneider)

2020-02-13 12:30: Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology? (Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham)

2020-02-13 15:30: How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry (Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL))

2020-02-14 12:00: Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment (Molly J Crockett,  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University)

2020-02-14 13:00: Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar (Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds))

2020-02-17 13:00: Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s (Chris Manias (King's College London))

2020-02-24 13:00: Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain (Laura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-02-26 12:30: Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science (Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) )

2020-02-27 12:30: The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial (Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-27 15:30: The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval (Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York))

2020-02-28 16:30: Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry (Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

2020-03-02 13:00: Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa (Chris Wingfield (University of East Anglia))

2020-03-04 12:30: Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them? (Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-05 12:30: Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems (Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-05 15:30: Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice  (Caitlin Hitchcock (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-06 16:30: Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake) (Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

2020-03-09 13:00: Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s (J'Nese Williams (Stanford University))

2020-03-11 12:30: Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation (Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-11 16:00: A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data (Dr David Stillwell)

2020-03-12 15:30: Predictive oscillations in speech perception  (Matt Davis (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge))

2020-03-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-18 12:30: An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts (Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) )

2020-04-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-07 12:30: CANCELLED - Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-05-14 12:30: Role of Inflammation in Depression: exciting therapeutic opportunity or fake news? (Dr Golam Khandaker, Lead, Inflammation and Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge  )

2020-05-15 16:00: The role of the ventral pallidum and globus pallidus in motivation and outcome evaluation (Dr Marcus Stephenson-Jones)

2020-05-21 12:30: Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine (Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London)

2020-05-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-28 12:30: A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression (Professor Jonathan Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2020-05-29 16:30: The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic  representation and its disorders (Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2020-06-04 12:30: The Truth about Suicide: the effect the death of a patient by suicide has on the clinician (Dr Rachel Gibbons, Director of Therapies for the Priory Group)

2020-06-05 16:30: Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement  (Brian D. Earp,  Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and  Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.)

2020-06-11 12:30: Integrating physical and mental health care in children's services (Professor Isobel Heyman, Psychological Medicine Team, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children)

2020-06-18 12:30: Symptoms of the Schizophrenia Treatment (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge)

2020-06-25 12:30: Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality (Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York)

2020-07-02 12:30: Psychiatric presentations of coronaviruses: past and present (Dr Jonathan Rogers, Division of Psychiatry, University College London)

2020-07-09 12:30:  Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days (Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University)

2020-07-16 12:30: Driving and Mental Health (Dr Eliott King, DVLA Doctor )

2020-09-24 12:30: What should we do to prevent dementia? (Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London )

2020-10-01 12:30: Autoimmune psychosis; is it a thing? (Professor Alasdair Coles, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-08 12:30: Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders (Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York)

2020-10-08 14:00: Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities (Eveline Crone (Leiden University))

2020-10-12 13:00: Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips (Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon))

2020-10-15 12:30: Social risk taking in adolescence (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge )

2020-10-15 14:00: Flexible redistribution in the language network (Dr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences))

2020-10-16 16:30: The case for formal methodology in scientific reform (Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.)

2020-10-19 13:00: Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany (Elaine Ayers (New York University))

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Dr Lasana Harris (UCL))

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-10-22 12:30: Values-based Practice in Psychiatry (Dr Robert Dudas, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust & Department of Psychiatry )

2020-10-22 14:00: How do our brains form maps of the world? (Alexandra Constantinescu (University College London))

2020-10-23 16:30: This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS  (.)

2020-10-26 13:00: Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830 (Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg))

2020-10-29 12:30: Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) (Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2020-10-30 16:30: Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.)

2020-11-02 13:00: Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes (Christopher Preston)

2020-11-04 16:00: Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others (Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-05 12:30: Don't go breaking my heart: antipsychotics and cardiometabolic health in schizophrenia (and what clinicians should be doing) (Dr Toby Pillinger, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience)

2020-11-05 14:00: Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins (Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) )

2020-11-06 16:30: Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents (Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires)

2020-11-09 13:00: 'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62 (Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-11-12 12:30: Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-12 14:00: Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening  (Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Carnegie Mellon University))

2020-11-13 16:30: Understanding Fallism (Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town)

2020-11-16 13:00: A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires (Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich))

2020-11-18 16:00: How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions (Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University))

2020-11-19 12:30: Alcohol and Older People. What's the Use? (Dr Tony Rao, King's College London)

2020-11-19 14:00: Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the    Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study (Damien Fair (University of Minnesota))

2020-11-23 13:00: Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC (Max Long (Faculty of History))

2020-11-26 14:00: The interpersonal function of emotional expressions (Julie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles))

2020-11-27 16:30: Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation (Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland)

2020-12-02 16:00: The Social and Political Implications of Moral Conviction (Professor Linda Skitka (University of Illinois at Chicago))

2020-12-03 14:00: Working Memory 2.0 (Earl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2020-12-04 16:30: Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism   (Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy)

2020-12-11 16:30: [NEW DATE:11th of December]  Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development (Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London )

2021-01-14 12:30: Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics (Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University)

2021-01-15 16:30: - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness (Prof Hakwan Lau)

2021-01-21 12:30: CANCELLED (Dr Kimberly Kendall, Cardiff University )

2021-01-21 14:00: Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development (Deanna Barch (Washington University, St. Louis))

2021-01-22 16:30: Social Minds in Joint Action (Professor Natalie Sebanz)

2021-01-27 16:00: Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration-policy preferences (Associate Professor Mina Cikara (Harvard University))

2021-01-28 12:30: The impact of suicide bereavement: what clinicians should know and what researchers should investigate next (Dr Alexandra Pitman, University College London )

2021-01-28 16:00: Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks (Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis))

2021-01-29 16:30: The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism (Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK)

2021-02-01 13:00: Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779) (Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews))

2021-02-03 16:00: Misinformation and the distinct psychologies of believing and sharing (Professor Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University))

2021-02-04 12:30: Can exposure to green space reduce the risk of anxiety and depression among young people aged 14-24 living in urban settings? (Dr Issy Bray, UWE Bristol)

2021-02-04 14:00: The human language system in the mind and brain (Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2021-02-11 12:30: Society, brains and mind research - insights from studies of ageing populations (Prof Carol Brayne, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-11 14:00: A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience (Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota))

2021-02-12 16:30: Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models (Dr. Roy Salomon)

2021-02-15 13:00: A natural history of evil (Alexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence))

2021-02-17 16:00: Quantifying and nudging collective intelligence (Associate Professor Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University))

2021-02-19 16:30:  Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences? (Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London)

2021-02-22 13:00: Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700 (Kaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal))

2021-02-24 15:00: How we know what not to think (3pm start) (Dr Fiery Cushman (Harvard University))

2021-02-25 13:00: Behavioral addictions: COVID-19 considerations and more (NOTE time: 1-2 pm) (Prof Marc Potenza, Yale University School of Medicine)

2021-02-25 14:00: Imaginative reinforcement learning (Sam Gershman (Harvard University))

2021-02-26 16:30: An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity (Emily BJ Coffey, PhD  )

2021-03-01 13:00: Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge (Edwin Rose (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-03 16:00: PhD Research Talks - Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (Sakshi Ghai and Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-04 12:30: Opportunities and Pitfalls from a Decade of Discovery in Functional Neurological Disorders (Conversion disorder) (Prof Mark Edwards, St George's University of London)

2021-03-04 16:00: Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression (Michelle Craske (UCLA))

2021-03-08 13:00: Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road (Chris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas))

2021-03-11 12:30: Going beyond 60 years of D2 blockers: what underlies psychosis and the implications for new treatments (Prof Oliver Howes, King's College London)

2021-03-11 14:00: Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex (Dora Hermes (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota))

2021-03-12 16:30: Rethinking food reward (Dr Dana Small   Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center)

2021-03-15 13:00: Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850 (Andreas Weber (University of Twente))

2021-03-17 16:00: Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? (Bharathy Premachandra (Cornell University))

2021-03-18 12:30: A digital revolution for mental health science (Dr Claire Gillan, Trinity College Dublin )

2021-03-18 14:00: The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory (Ed Awh (University of Chicago))

2021-03-25 12:30: Neurocognitive Predictors of Depression Relapse (Dr Quentin Huys, University College London)

2021-04-22 12:30: Psychedelics: brain mechanisms (Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, Imperial College London)

2021-04-28 16:00: Facing the epidemics of hate speech. (Professor Michal Bilewicz (University of Warsaw))

2021-04-29 12:00: Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings (Riki Matsumoto (Kobe University) )

2021-04-29 12:30: Striatal dopamine computations in learning about agency (Prof Michael Frank, Brown University)

2021-05-03 13:00: Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction (Amelia Urry (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-05 16:00: For better or worse: The role of social identity in the Pandemic (Dr Jay van Bavel (NYU))

2021-05-06 12:30: Challenges and Opportunities in Exploiting Reconsolidation to Treat Mental Health Disorders (Dr Amy Milton, University of Cambridge)

2021-05-06 14:00: The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks (Stefano Fusi (Columbia University))

2021-05-07 16:30: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors (Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami)

2021-05-10 13:00: Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants (Christoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2021-05-12 16:00: Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs (Dolores Albarracín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2021-05-13 12:30: What’s behind the trauma (Prof Helen Minnis, University of Glasgow)

2021-05-13 14:00: Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity (Silvia Bunge (UC Berkeley))

2021-05-14 16:30: Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge (Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin)

2021-05-17 13:00: Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland (Franziska Holt (University of York))

2021-05-20 12:30: Clinical Neuroscience and the Heart-Brain Axis (Prof Sarah Garfinkel, University College London)

2021-05-20 14:00: How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention (Mariam Aly (Columbia University))

2021-05-21 16:30: Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership ( Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2021-05-24 13:00: Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum (Ella Larsson (University of Westminster))

2021-05-27 12:30: Translational medicine in Alzheimer’s disease – taking the unfolded protein response as a therapeutic target in to clinical trials. (Dr Ben Underwood, Deputy Medical Director CPFT)

2021-05-27 14:00: Carving the world into useful task representations (Yael Niv (Princeton University))

2021-05-28 16:15: Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience (Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal)

2021-06-02 16:00: Having a Voice in Your Group: Field Experiments on Behavioral and Attitudinal Changes (Dr Sherry Wu (UCLA))

2021-06-04 16:30: Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections (Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

2021-06-10 12:30: Experts by Personal and Professional Experience: A Novel Anti-Stigma Intervention Targeting Healthcare Professionals and Students (Dr Ahmed Hankir, King's College London)

2021-06-10 14:00: A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression (Jonathan Roiser (UCL))

2021-06-17 14:00: Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research? (Katrin Amunts (Dusseldorf University))

2021-10-07 12:30: Personalized Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Dr Martijn Figee, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

2021-10-07 14:00: The function of spontaneous brain activity (Maurizio Corbetta (University of Padua))

2021-10-11 13:00: The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history (Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2021-10-13 15:00: Not born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think (Dr Hugo Mercier (Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS))

2021-10-14 12:30: Non-canonical ventral pallidal circuits and their relevance for treating addiction (Dr Meaghan Creed, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)

2021-10-15 16:15: Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect (David Bannerman (University of Oxford))

2021-10-18 13:00: The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832 (Patrick Anthony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München))

2021-10-20 16:00: Saying “No” Is Harder Than We Think: Implications for Compliance and Consent (Dr Vanessa Bohns (Cornell))

2021-10-21 12:30: Can we develop cost-effective interventions for youth mental health? Lessons from Kenya (Tom Osborn, Shamiri Institute)

2021-10-21 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory (Tim Buschman (Princeton University))

2021-10-22 16:15: Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking (Richard Holton (University of Cambridge))

2021-10-25 13:00: 'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus (Charlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology))

2021-10-28 10:00: The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge (Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne))

2021-11-01 13:00: Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica (Niklaas Görsch (University of Lübeck))

2021-11-04 12:30: Computational models of compulsivity - State learning and control in OCD and gambling disorder (Dr Frederike Petzschner, Brown University)

2021-11-04 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham))

2021-11-04 16:00: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them (Dr Jessica Kay Flake (McGill))

2021-11-05 16:15: Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour (Dominik Bach (University College London))

2021-11-08 13:00: The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain (João Joaquim (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2021-11-11 12:30: New paradigms for the negative symptoms (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-11 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University))

2021-11-12 16:15: Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) )

2021-11-15 13:00: The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America (Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Exeter University))

2021-11-17 16:00: Field Social Psychology (Dr Séamus A. Power, University of Copenhagen)

2021-11-18 14:00: Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories (Lila Davachi (Columbia University))

2021-11-19 16:15: Time perception as accumulation of salient events (Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex))

2021-11-22 13:00: Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy (Marieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences))

2021-11-25 12:30: Actionable analytics: harnessing electronic health record data to improve mental healthcare outcomes (Dr Rashmi Patel, King's College London)

2021-11-25 14:00: Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation (Chris Butler (Imperial College London/University of Oxford))

2021-11-26 16:15: What does magic tell us about free will?  (Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-11-29 13:00: Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories (Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa))

2021-12-01 16:00: Cognition in (social) context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena (Dr Alin Coman (Princeton))

2021-12-02 12:30: How local and global metacognition shape mental health (Dr Stephen Fleming, University College London)

2021-12-02 14:00: New models of human hearing via machine learning (Josh McDermott (MIT))

2021-12-03 14:45: The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations (Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology))

2021-12-09 12:30: What Makes Some Intelligent Agents Conscious (Dr Hakwan Lau, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)

2021-12-09 14:00: How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience (Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex))

2021-12-16 12:30: Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment Refractory Depression: re-emergence of a promising treatment (Prof Charles Conway, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)

2022-01-20 12:30: Why it’s inconceivable that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are one and the same: How emotion influences similarity perception (Dr Deborah Talmi, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-20 14:00: Neural dynamics of working memory  (Timothy Buschman (Princeton University) )

2022-01-21 16:30: Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research (Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova))

2022-01-24 13:00: Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories (Daniela Sclavo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2022-01-27 12:30: The phenotypic expression of neuropsychiatric copy number variants (Dr Kimberley Kendall, Cardiff University)

2022-01-27 14:00: The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought  (Jonathan Smallwood (Queen’s University) )

2022-01-28 16:30: Reading Scenes:  A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments (Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt))

2022-01-31 13:00: What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India (Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2022-02-03 12:30: Hacking aversive memory in humans: towards improved treatments for stress-related disorder (Prof Dominik Bach, University College London)

2022-02-03 14:00: Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models (Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham)   )

2022-02-04 16:30: Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior (Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus))

2022-02-07 13:00: Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800 (Sophia Spielmann (Technische Universität Berlin))

2022-02-10 12:30: Insights into emotional processing from intracranial recordings and their potential for biomarker discovery in affective disorders (Dr Saurabh Sonkusare, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-10 14:00: Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity (Carolyn McGettigan (UCL) )

2022-02-18 16:30: Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields (John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University))

2022-02-24 12:30: The impact of COVID-19 on young adolescent depression and behavioural problems: separating pandemic from age effects using repeated pre and post pandemic data (Dr Nicky Wright, Manchester Metropolitan University)

2022-02-24 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Lucina Uddin (UCLA) )

2022-02-25 16:30: Covid and Cognition (Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) )

2022-02-28 13:00: Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge (Huiyi Wu (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré))

2022-03-02 16:00: The Cooperative Animal (Michael Tomasello (Duke))

2022-03-03 12:30: Wellbeing and mental health: What is the right relationship? (Prof Anna Alexandrova, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-03 14:00: Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms  (Patricia Lockwood (University of Birmingham) )

2022-03-04 16:30:  A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird. (Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania))

2022-03-07 13:00: The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659) (Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana))

2022-03-08 09:30: Child Development Forum (March 2022) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-09 16:00: Reconsidering the relationship between personality and politics (Bert Bakker (Amsterdam))

2022-03-10 12:30: Can We Rewrite Maladaptive Memories? The Potential and Challenges of Harnessing Memory Reconsolidation as a Therapeutic Target in Mental Health (Dr Ravi Das, University College London)

2022-03-11 16:15: Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition  (Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL))

2022-03-14 13:00: The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology (Emiliano Cabrera Rocha (Department of Geography))

2022-03-16 15:00: Understanding the effects of repetition on belief (Lisa Fazio (Vanderbilt))

2022-03-17 12:30: Treating Gaming Disorder in the NHS: A two year overview (Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones (President of Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine))

2022-03-17 14:00: Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory (Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University))

2022-03-18 16:30: Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19  (Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-24 12:30: Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders (Prof Daniel Freeman, University of Oxford)

2022-03-25 16:30: Thinking the right thoughts (Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University))

2022-03-31 12:30: Lessons learned from neurobiological characterization studies of functional neurological disorder (Dr David Perez, Harvard Medical School)

2022-04-28 12:30: What can genetics tell us about depression? (Dr David Howard, King's College London)

2022-04-28 16:00: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time (Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) )

2022-04-29 16:30: Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development (Professor Pasco Fearon)

2022-05-05 12:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan (Dr Richard Bethlehem, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-05 14:00: Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS) (Cathy Price (UCL))

2022-05-06 16:30: Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition (Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University))

2022-05-09 13:00: Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution (J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame))

2022-05-11 16:00: Face and feeling: Examining the role of facial feedback in emotional feeling (Dr. Nicholas Coles, Stanford University,)

2022-05-12 12:30: Thoughts that go bump in the night: sleep-sensitive circuits in psychiatry (Prof Matt Jones, University of Bristol)

2022-05-13 16:30: Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles (Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex))

2022-05-16 13:00: Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580) (Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan))

2022-05-19 12:30: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Prof Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge)

2022-05-23 13:00: Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories (Anna Guasco (Department of Geography))

2022-05-26 12:30: What is a delusion? Results and implications of phenomenological research (Dr Jasper Feyaerts, Ghent University)

2022-05-26 14:00: Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings (Joel Voss (University of Chicago) )

2022-05-30 13:00: Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe (Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook))

2022-06-08 16:00: Publishing your work in Nature Human Behaviour and other Nature portfolio journals (Marike Schiffer, PhD (Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour))

2022-06-09 12:30: Multi-modal neuroimaging biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies: An overview (Dr Elijah Mak, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-09 14:00: Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control (Sven Bestmann (UCL))

2022-06-15 16:00: Misinformation: Subjective beliefs, Source credibility, and Social Networks (Jens Koed Madsen, London School of Economics)

2022-06-16 12:30: Computer-based trainings as an add-on to the treatment of alcohol addiction: Where are we, how did we get there, and where should we go? (Prof Mike Rinck, Radboud University)

2022-06-29 12:30: Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains (Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario))

2022-06-30 14:00: Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies (Karen Campbell (Brock University))

2022-09-07 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Prof Chris Hollis & Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham)

2022-10-06 14:00: Tidying up working memory (Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin))

2022-10-07 16:30: What kind of network is the brain? (John Mollon (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-10 13:00: The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices (Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University))

2022-10-11 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas 2022 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-13 12:30: Translational Biomarkers of Cognitive Control and Reward Responsivity (Dr James Cavanagh, University of New Mexico)

2022-10-13 14:00: Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning (Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford))

2022-10-14 16:30: Plastic brains for flexible decisions (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-17 13:00: 'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions (Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College))

2022-10-20 12:30: Identification of candidate neural biomarkers of OCD symptom intensity and response to Deep Brain Stimulation (Dr Nicole Provenza, Baylor College of Medicine)

2022-10-20 14:00: Neurocomputational basis of anxiety (Oliver Robinson (UCL))

2022-10-21 16:30: Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes (Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-24 13:00: Re-enacting past experiments: how and why (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2022-10-28 16:30: Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder (Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich))

2022-11-03 12:30: Huntington's disease, the Young Adult Study (HD-YAS) (Dr Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-03 14:00: Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits (Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris))

2022-11-04 16:30: Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation (Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2022-11-07 13:00: Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies (Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice))

2022-11-10 12:30: Digital Youth: understanding risk, building resilience and harnessing solutions with young people in the digital world (Prof Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham)

2022-11-10 14:00: Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition (Steve Fleming (UCL))

2022-11-11 16:30: Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing (Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington))

2022-11-14 13:00: From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy (Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2022-11-17 14:00: Talk title tbc (Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research))

2022-11-18 16:30: Disruption of Information in Working Memory (Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin))

2022-11-21 13:00: Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany (Madeline White (University of Oxford))

2022-11-24 14:00: The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity (Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC))

2022-11-25 16:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan. (Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge))

2022-11-28 13:00: Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750 (Lucy Havard (Faculty of History))

2022-12-01 12:30: Peeking Inside Black Boxes: New Insights Into Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI (Dr Christopher Rozell, Georgia Institute of Technology)

2022-12-01 16:00: Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss (Tamar Makin (MRC CBU))

2022-12-08 12:30: CANCELLED - Mild traumatic brain injury – a misnomer? (Dr Virginia Newcombe, University of Cambridge)

2022-12-15 12:30: Biological factors associated with the onset of psychosis (Dr Boris Chaumette, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris)

2023-01-19 14:00: Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex (Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge))

2023-01-20 16:30: Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet? (Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge))

2023-01-23 13:00: Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer (Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge))

2023-01-26 12:30: Genome-wide pharmacogenomic studies of clozapine (Antonio F Pardinas, Cardiff University)

2023-01-26 14:00: Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being (Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford))

2023-01-27 16:30: Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy (Peter John (King's College London))

2023-01-30 13:00: Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg (Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen))

2023-02-02 14:00: Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines (Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind))

2023-02-03 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-02-06 13:00: Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s (Jan Becker (European University Institute))

2023-02-09 12:30: Something is moving in Catatonia. (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)

2023-02-09 14:00: Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice (Helen Barron (U. of Oxford))

2023-02-10 12:00: Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality (Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge))

2023-02-13 13:00: Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century (Taylor E. Dysart (University of Pennsylvania))

2023-02-20 13:00: The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century (Lynn Berry (Open University))

2023-02-23 12:30: Improving mental heath care for self-harm (Rose McCabe, University of London)

2023-02-23 14:00: Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand (Ken Valyear (Bangor University))

2023-02-24 16:30: The Neuroscience of Reading:  Tracing words from the page through the brain (Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington))

2023-02-27 13:00: Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England (Xinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2023-03-02 12:30: TBA (Dr Virginia Newcombe (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-02 14:00: Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex (Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) )

2023-03-03 16:30: Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations (Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow))

2023-03-06 13:00: Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal (Francesco Bianchini (King's College, Cambridge))

2023-03-07 09:30: Child Development Forum (March 2023) (TBA)

2023-03-10 16:30: Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention (Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience))

2023-03-13 13:00: 'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain (Max Long (History, University of Cambridge))

2023-03-16 12:30: Development, diversity and data science: A transdiagnostic approach to neurodevelopment (Duncan Astle, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-16 15:30: “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” (Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley)  )

2023-03-17 16:30: Choice under Computational Complexity (Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge))

2023-03-23 12:30: Effort-Cost Decision-Making and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia (Adam Culbreth, University of Maryland)

2023-03-23 14:00: Somatosensory participation in human motor learning (David Ostry (McGill University) )

2023-04-26 15:00: Stereotypes as Shifting Standards: Implications for Social Judgment, Communication, and the Interpretation of Feedback (Monica Biernat (University of Kansas))

2023-04-27 14:00: Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from     working memory (Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde))

2023-04-28 16:30: What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa (Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York)

2023-05-03 15:00: Prejudice is Affect: Divorcing Prejudice from Propositional Representations? (Chris Crandall (University of Kansas))

2023-05-04 14:00: Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life     (Joseph Ledoux (New York University) )

2023-05-05 16:30: The DNA revolution and psychology (Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London))

2023-05-08 13:00: Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72 (Jacob Orrje (Uppsala University))

2023-05-10 15:00: When Is Morality Black and White? (Joshua D. Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania))

2023-05-11 14:00: The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour (Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London))

2023-05-12 16:30: Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts (Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews)

2023-05-15 13:00: The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment (Valentine Delrue (Ghent University & Ca' Foscari University))

2023-05-17 15:00: Civilians on Fire: Moral Injury and Associated Mental Health Symptoms in Ukrainians Under the Russian Invasion (Larysa Zasiekina (University of Cambridge; Ukrainka Volyn National University))

2023-05-18 14:00: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting  (Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign))

2023-05-19 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-05-22 13:00: Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I (Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University))

2023-05-24 15:00: Snacks & Drinks! (Postgrads & Postdocs) (Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room)

2023-05-25 14:00: Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts  (Mike Anderson (MRC CBU))

2023-05-29 13:00: The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century (Lynn Berry (Open University))

2023-05-31 15:00: Rational Belief Polarisation: A Bayesian Network Model of Bias Attributions (David Young (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-05 11:00: CENTRE FOR FAMILY RESEARCH SEMINAR: "Supporting the development of young children’s cognitive skills (Dr Andrew Ribner, University of Pittsburgh)

2023-06-07 15:00: Behavioural and Neural Dynamics of Learning in Social Interaction (Sara De Felice (University College London))

2023-06-08 14:00: Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia (Dan Bush (UCL)	)

2023-06-14 15:00: Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Social Power on Empathy for Pain (Ekim Luo (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-15 14:00: Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world (Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast))

2023-06-22 14:00: Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy (Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) )

2023-10-02 13:00: A new approach to understanding eye design (Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2023-10-05 12:30: Single session interventions: A scalable way to expand access to early help for adolescent depression?   (Dr Maria Loades)

2023-10-05 14:00: Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures (Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) )

2023-10-06 16:30: Decoding the neural processing of speech (Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg))

2023-10-12 12:30: Online Behavioural Research - Just a fad, or here to stay? (Jo Evershed, Founder CEO of Gorilla Experiment Builder)

2023-10-12 14:00: When language typology meets dementia (Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) )

2023-10-13 16:30: Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope (Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam))

2023-10-16 13:00: Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina (Silvia M. Marchiori (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2023-10-19 12:30: The impact of three major emergencies, namely: 1) COVID-19; 2) humanitarian crisis; and 3) prolonged conflict on Drug-Resistant and Drug-Susceptible TB prevalence in developing countries affected by conflict or natural disaster (Dr Haqmal Mohammad)

2023-10-19 14:00: How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view (Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College))

2023-10-20 16:30: Cortical gradients of functional integration (Dr Daniel Margulies )

2023-10-23 13:00: To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England (Daniel Gettings (University of Warwick))

2023-10-26 12:30: “Worrying trends in children and young people’s mental health: from descriptions of the problem to assessing potential causes (Dr Matthias Pierce)

2023-10-27 12:00: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-10-30 12:00: Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy (Marissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University))

2023-10-30 15:00: Approaching Sensorimotor Learning from Another Angle: How Cognitive Strategies Shape Skill Acquisition (Professor Jordan Taylor (Princeton University))

2023-10-31 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas I (Thomas Allen, Carly Hood, Alisa Anokhina)

2023-11-02 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Sarah Rae, Jon Wilson and Corinna Hackman)

2023-11-02 14:00: A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex  (Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford))

2023-11-03 12:00: Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity  (Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex)

2023-11-06 13:00: Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century (Rachel Feldberg (University of York))

2023-11-09 12:30: Disadvantageous Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder: Clinical Insights and Implications for Compulsive Disorders (Dr Ruth J. van Holst, Associate professor at Amsterdam UMC)

2023-11-09 14:00: Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control (Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa)   (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) )

2023-11-10 12:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge)

2023-11-13 12:30: A primer on relating Age, Brain and Cognition: As easy as “ABC”?  (Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit))

2023-11-16 14:00: Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside (Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School))

2023-11-17 12:00: Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation (Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL))

2023-11-20 13:00: Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History) (Erica Fischer (King's College London))

2023-11-21 16:00: Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts (Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo)

2023-11-23 12:30: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology (Dr Georgios Schoretsanitis, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Assistant Professor, The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY, USA.)

2023-11-23 14:00: Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy (Quentin Huys (UCL))

2023-11-24 12:30: TBA (Dr Rayyan Zafar)

2023-11-24 16:30: How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language (Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig))

2023-11-27 12:30: Brain geometry and dynamics (James Pang (Monash University))

2023-11-27 13:00: Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia (Phoebe McDonnell (King's College London))

2023-11-28 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas II  (Rachel Knight, Jean Heng, and Dianna Ilyka)

2023-11-28 10:30: Brain health and illness in a 15-year longitudinal, community based study of people living in precarious housing or homelessness (Prof William G. Honer, University of British Columbia, Canada)

2023-11-28 11:30: Development of an observational tool to measure executive function in Nigeria (Chika Ezeugwu, Faculty of Education, Cambridge.)

2023-11-30 12:30: Apathy in Huntingdon's disease (Akshay Nair, UCL)

2023-11-30 14:00: Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research (Essi Viding (UCL) )

2023-12-01 11:00: Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics (Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2023-12-04 09:30: Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day (Multiple)

2023-12-06 12:30: The linguistic foundations of verbal WM (Prof. Steve Majerus)

2023-12-07 12:30: COGNITIVE REMEDIATION IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (Rafael Penadés)

2023-12-07 14:00: Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants (Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison))

2023-12-12 12:45: The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved  (Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto))

2023-12-12 14:00: The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition (Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland))

2024-01-11 12:30: Decision making research (Dr Neil Garrett)

2024-01-16 11:00: Empowering parents to foster children's early executive function development, in two different contexts (Dr Alexandra Hendry, Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford)

2024-01-17 16:00: The failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine and Russian PsyOps ads on Facebook (Jon Roozenbeek (Cambridge), Tetiana Haiduchyk and Uliana Hresko (Trementum), Anton Dek (Judge Business School))

2024-01-18 14:00: Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children (Torsten Baldeweg (UCL))

2024-01-22 13:00: Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision (Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute))

2024-01-24 15:00: The paradox of virality  (Steve Rathje (New York University))

2024-01-25 12:30: Evaluating individual differences with neuroimaging in UK Biobank to guide reproducibility of personalised brain stimulation (Dr Ying Zhao)

2024-01-25 14:00: The finger of blame in depression and the brain (Roland Zahn (KCL))

2024-01-26 12:00: What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition (Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge))

2024-01-29 13:00: A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (Alex Aylward (University of Oxford))

2024-01-30 09:30: Child Development Forum Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-01-30 11:00: Promoting mental health in the early years: Identifying the golden threads of effective parenting programmes (Dr Christine O’Farrelly, Centre for Mental Health University of Cambridge)

2024-01-31 13:00: Re-enacting past experiments: how and why (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2024-01-31 16:00: Explaining regional mental health prescriptions in England through deprivation and aggregate personality profiles (Andrés Gvirtz (King’s College London))

2024-02-01 12:30: Disentangling depressive symptoms throughout development using network analyses: examples from looked-after children, adolescents vs older adults, and a psychological  intervention study (Dr Sharon Neufeld)

2024-02-01 14:00: Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems (Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) )

2024-02-02 16:30: When Art meets Psychology ( Prof. Clive Wilkins)

2024-02-05 12:30: BOLD & Non-BOLD Contrasts in Human fMRI (Sriranga Kashya (Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto))

2024-02-05 13:00: Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant (Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History))

2024-02-06 12:30: Foetal Behaviour and Development (Professor Nadja Reissland, Durham University & Dr Staci Weiss, University of Cambridge )

2024-02-07 15:00: Understanding and managing conspiracy beliefs (Mikey Biddlestone (University of Kent))

2024-02-08 12:30: Inference, psychosis, and insight (Dr Guillermo Hoga)

2024-02-08 14:00: Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments (Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) )

2024-02-09 16:30: Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts (Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-12 13:00: The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer (Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History))

2024-02-13 11:00: No Longer the One-Child Family: Parenting and Sibling Relationships in China (Professor Bin-Bin Chen, Fudan University. )

2024-02-13 13:00: Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep ( Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France))

2024-02-14 15:00: A closer look at testimony: Scope, challenges, and consequences (Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London) )

2024-02-15 12:30: Unlikely Allies: the approach of clinical Neuromusicology in Neonatal Intensive Care (Dr. Artur C. Jaschke)

2024-02-19 12:30: Resting State fMRI & Recent Advances (Marta Bianciardi (Harvard University))

2024-02-19 13:00: Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s (Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald))

2024-02-21 15:00: How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response? (Madalina Vlasceanu (New York University))

2024-02-22 12:30: In vivo mapping of pharmacologically induced functional reorganization onto the human brain’s neurotransmitter landscape (Andrea Luppi, Oxford University)

2024-02-22 14:00: Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations (Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth))

2024-02-23 16:30: Cortical interneurons in health and disease. (Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London)

2024-02-26 13:00:  Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838 (Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2024-02-27 09:30: Child Development Forum Lent II (Jiayin Zheng (Education@Cambridge), Kate Merritt (IMH@UCL), Ceci Qing Cai (ICN@UCL))

2024-02-27 11:00: Recognising and addressing the trauma-related mental health needs of young people in care (Professor Rachel Hiller, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-02-28 15:00: When Curiosity Gaps Backfire: Effects of Headline Concreteness on Information Selection Decisions (Marianne Simone Aubin Le Quere (Cornell University))

2024-02-29 12:30: Protecting the physical health of people with severe mental illness - what I've learnt from being a carer over the last 30 years (Prof David Shiers)

2024-02-29 14:00: Consolidation of memory and model-based planning  (Neil Burgess (UCL)

2024-03-01 12:00: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-04 12:30: Harnessing Visual Studio Code for Your Research (Máté Aller & Dace Apšvalka, MRC CBU)

2024-03-04 13:00: Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe (Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute))

2024-03-06 15:00: Student Spotlight: Yan Xia, James Ackland, and Nikolay Petrov (Yan Xia (Aalto University), James Ackland (Cambridge), and Nikolay Petrov (Cambridge))

2024-03-07 12:30: Psychedelics in psychiatry (Rayyan Zafar, Imperial College London)

2024-03-07 14:00: Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces (Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University))

2024-03-08 16:30: Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults. (Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2024-03-11 11:00: Psychological Intergroup Interventions: The Motivation Challenge (Eran Halperin (Hebrew University))

2024-03-11 13:00: Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum (Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University))

2024-03-12 11:00: The InCLUDE Project: Making Research in Foster and Kinship Care Inclusive and Accessible (Professor Nick Midgley, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-03-14 14:00: Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production (Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) )

2024-03-15 16:30: The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory (Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva)

2024-03-18 12:30: Studies with Single Subjects or Large Numbers of Volunteers - Why, & How? (Wietske van der Zwaag (Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam))

2024-03-20 16:00: Political Polarization, Social Norms, and Sorting: An Agent-based Social Sampling Model (Gordon Brown (University of Warwick))

2024-04-15 12:30: fMRI vs. Electrophysiology in Humans  (Patricia Figueiredo (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon) )

2024-04-22 12:30: Handling missingness in cognitive variables using multiple imputation (Peter Watson (MRC CBU))

2024-04-24 15:00: Social and political change in diverse societies: Insights from largescale panel studies (Nikhil Sengupta (University of Kent))

2024-04-25 12:30: The Bodily Self in Pain: The Role of Interoceptive Processing (Dr Jane Aspell, Anglia Ruskin University)

2024-04-25 14:00: Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation (Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth))

2024-04-26 12:00: Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers" (Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University))

2024-04-29 12:50: Brain age prediction using diffusion MRI data (James Bacon (University of Cambridge))

2024-04-29 13:00: Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century (Michael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas))

2024-04-30 09:30: Child Development Forum Easter I (Kelsey Graber (Education),  Eireann Attridge (Education),  Jessica van de Grint (Psychology))

2024-04-30 11:00: The Impact of AI on Language Acquisition Research (Dr Abdellah Fourtassi, Aix-Marseille University )

2024-05-01 15:00: Behavioural Science and Security: Informing Evidence-based Policy and Practice (Brooke Rogers (King's College London))

2024-05-02 12:30: Measuring outcomes in mental health (Dr Anju Keetharuth, University of Sheffield)

2024-05-02 14:00: Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust (Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford))

2024-05-03 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts (Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh)

2024-05-06 13:00: The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545) (Sheena McKeever (Department of History of Art))

2024-05-08 15:00: Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Trends, Drivers, Solutions (Julia Ebner (Oxford))

2024-05-09 12:30: Leveraging Longitudinal Population Data to Enhance Understanding of Depression Across the Lifecourse (Dr Alex Kwong University of Edinburgh)

2024-05-09 14:00: Learning and memory in developmental amnesia  (Rachael Elward (London South Bank University))

2024-05-10 16:30: Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders (Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2024-05-13 13:00: Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise (Aisha Alowais Alshamsi (Warburg Institute))

2024-05-14 11:00: Bridging Research & Policy: An Introduction to Centre for Science & Policy (Kavya Neeba and Nicola Buckley from the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge)

2024-05-16 12:30: TBA (Professor Mark Mapstone, Professor, Neurology School of Medicine Vice Chair for Research, Neurology School of Medicine Chief, Neuropsychology Division, Neurology School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine)

2024-05-16 14:00: Sleep to forget unwanted memories (Scott Cairney (U. of York))

2024-05-17 16:30: The Cognitive Biology of Language (Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University)

2024-05-20 12:30: ISMRM highlights  (Multiple)

2024-05-21 11:00: The Children of the 2020s Study: An overview of the first findings of a new birth cohort study on early childhood development. (Dr Laurel Fish & Dr Livia Bernardi, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-05-22 15:00: Tin Foil Confessions: Escaping The Cult Of Conspiracy (Brent Lee)

2024-05-23 12:30: The Cass review (Hilary Cass)

2024-05-23 14:00: How does the human brain recognize faces? (Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine))

2024-05-29 15:00: Cambridge Overcoming Polarisation Initiative (Ceejay Hayes (Cambridge) )

2024-05-30 12:30: IT’S ALL A Show. Fairground Showmen, identity, and mental health (Sheldon Chadwick)

2024-05-30 14:00: The problem with mental health awareness (Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford))

2024-06-03 12:30: Advances in fMRI Data Acquisition Techniques (Benedikt Poser (Maastricht University))

2024-06-03 15:00: The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain (Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley))

2024-06-04 11:00: Parenting and the intergenerational transmission of inequality (Dr Jasmin Wertz, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2024-06-05 15:00: Social robots: an experimental apparatus in fundamental psychological research and a support tool in healthcare (Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology))

2024-06-06 12:30: Guided digital self-help interventions for PTSD and Complex PTSD (Prof Jonathan Bisson, Cardiff University)

2024-06-06 14:00: The role of reward in language learning (Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway))

2024-06-10 12:30: Preregistration: When great ideas meet reality (can we avoid the hiccups?)  (Roni Tibon (University of Nottingham))

2024-06-11 09:30: Child Development Forum Easter II (Abigail Agyemang (Psychology), Irena Tetkovic (Psychiatry), Keith Liang (Psychology))

2024-06-12 15:00: Large Language Models or Large Models of the Human Mind? (Michal Kosinski (Stanford University))

2024-06-13 12:30: Experimental medicine trials (Riccardo Da Giorgi, Oxford University)

2024-06-20 15:00: Tackling global social issues: Understanding what shapes and motivates pro-environmental behaviour  (Claudia R Schneider (University of Canterbury))

2024-07-08 12:30: Estimating across-site PAC, delays, and complex network properties under source mixing (Stefan Haufe (Technical University of Berlin))

2024-07-15 12:30: Therapeutic ultrasound to treat and modulate against brain diseases (Sophie Morse (Imperial College London))

2024-07-22 12:30: FSL-MRS as an alternative to MRspa for 1H MRS processing (Carina Graf)

2024-10-09 15:00: Sleepless and Alone: The Impact of Sleep Loss on Human Social Behavior (Eti Ben Simon, The Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California Berkeley)

2024-10-10 12:30: TBA (Andrea Cipriani, Oxford University)

2024-10-10 14:00: Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control (Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) )

2024-10-11 16:30: Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering (Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada)

2024-10-14 13:00: A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England (Tom Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2024-10-17 12:30: Understanding CAMHS care pathways using electronic health record data (Dr Johnny Downs & Dr Alice Wickersham)

2024-10-17 14:00: The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events (Adrian Horner (U. of York) )

2024-10-18 16:30: Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics. (Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2024-10-21 12:30: Determining the direction of communication between the hippocampus and neocortex with layer-specific fMRI. (Oliver Warrington (UCL) )

2024-10-21 13:00: Re-enacting past experiments: how and why (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2024-10-22 16:00: The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on children's outcomes. (Dr Sarah Cattan, Institute for Fiscal Studies)

2024-10-23 15:00: What does psychology have to do with climate change? Challenges, evidence, and opportunities (Jacob Rode (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-24 12:30: Using Observational Data and Genetic Information to Improve Treatment in Psychiatry (Dr Kate Liu)

2024-10-24 14:00: Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition (Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience))

2024-10-25 16:30: Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights (Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2024-10-28 13:00: 'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt (Anna Simon-Stickley (Max Planck Institute))

2024-10-31 12:30: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD): a research priority for suicide and self-harm prevention (Dr Lynsay Matthews)

2024-10-31 14:00: Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions (Tim Denison (U. of Oxford))

2024-11-01 16:30: The Atomic Human (Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-05 16:00: Do children’s education-linked genetic propensities influence the way they are parented and educated? (Dr Chloe Austerberry, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-07 12:30: Clozapine, mortality and other lies (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea)

2024-11-07 14:00: Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity (Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University))

2024-11-08 16:30: Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions (Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway)

2024-11-11 13:00: 'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850 (Grace Exley (University of Leeds and Oxford Natural History Museum))

2024-11-13 15:00: The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions (Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-14 14:00: Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust (Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol))

2024-11-18 12:30: How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub (Máté Aller (CBU))

2024-11-18 13:00: The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it (William McMahon (Department of Earth Sciences))

2024-11-19 16:00: Empathy during infancy: Assessment, development, parenting predictors, and developmental outcomes.  (Professor Maayan Davidov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2024-11-21 12:30: Youth mental health: economic considerations and challenges (Professor Martin Knapp)

2024-11-21 14:00: Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present (Avital Hahamy (University College London)	)

2024-11-22 16:30: Deconstruction of the social brain (Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)

2024-11-25 13:00: The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire (Jens Amborg (Uppsala University))

2024-11-27 15:00: Quantifying the persuasive impact of ad-targeting using an archive of real campaigns’ ad experiments (Ben Tappin (London School of Economics))

2024-11-28 12:30: Predicting Risk of Serious Mental Disorders Within Adolescent Psychiatry Services – Results From Nationwide Register-Based Studies (Dr. Ulla Lång)

2024-11-28 14:00: 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) )

2024-11-29 16:30: From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination (Professor Peter Ulric Tse,  Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA)

2024-12-02 09:00: Cognitive Neuroscience Methods Day (Multiple)

2024-12-02 13:00: Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection (Fiona Roberts (Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales))

2024-12-03 16:00: Mapping developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions. (Professor Emily Jones, Birkbeck)

2024-12-05 12:30: The SORTS project: A co-produced training resource for secondary school staff to provide a supportive response to students who self-harm. (Dr Anne-Marie Burn)

2024-12-05 14:00: Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex (Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) )

2024-12-06 16:30: Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies (Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London)

2025-01-16 14:00: Cognitive-Motor Borderlands (Sam McDougle (Yale University))

2025-01-23 12:30: From Multi-omic Data to Whole Brain Modelling in Brain Disorders (Professor Jianfeng Feng, Warwick University, Fudan University)

2025-01-23 14:00: Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments (Emma Holmes (UCL))

2025-01-27 12:30: Detectability and cortical depth dependence of stimulus-driven high-frequency BOLD oscillations in the human primary somatosensory and motor cortex (Dr Shota Hodono, Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands.)

2025-01-29 13:00: CANCELLED: How do we protect the democratic information environment in an AI-powered world? Tackling online harms with computational social science and AI (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford))

2025-01-30 14:00: Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy (Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool))

2025-01-31 16:30: Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs (Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.)

2025-02-03 12:30: Rethinking Academic Recruitment: Exploring the Potential of Narrative CVs  (Dr Noam Tal-Perry, Research Strategy Office & Bennett Institute for Public Policy, UK)

2025-02-03 13:00: Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge (Benjamin Hegarty (Kirby Institute))

2025-02-04 16:00: Starting Big: the importance of whole-to-part learning in language acquisition  (Professor Inbal Arnon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem )

2025-02-05 15:00: Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationships (Daniel Toribio Florez (University of Kent))

2025-02-06 12:30: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Adaptation in Emerging adulthood: The FACE Project (Jeanette Brodbeck University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, University of Bern)

2025-02-06 14:00: Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving (John Duncan (MRC CBU))

2025-02-10 12:30: Revealing the Spatial Pattern of Brain Hemodynamic Sensitivity to Healthy Aging through Sparse Dynamic Causal Model (Dr Giorgia Baron, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.)

2025-02-10 13:00: University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks (Various speakers)

2025-02-13 12:30: Evidence-based mental health and precision psychiatry: the example of antidepressants for depression (Professor Andrea Cipriani )

2025-02-13 14:00: Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue (Tessa Dekker (UCL))

2025-02-14 16:30: Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains. (Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain )

2025-02-17 13:00: Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century (Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research))

2025-02-18 16:00: From Womb to the World: Foetal sensory abilities and their post-birth effects  (Dr Beyza Üstün-Elayan, University of Cambridge )

2025-02-19 15:00: The Microtargeting Manipulation Machine (Almog Simchon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev))

2025-02-20 12:30: Half term break (no talk) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-02-24 12:30: Playing with dice: two unusual use cases for experimental randomisation in fMRI (Dr Matan Mazor, University of Oxford, UK)

2025-02-24 13:00: A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic (Justine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-02-27 14:00: Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample (Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge))

2025-02-28 12:00: Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts (Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK)

2025-03-03 12:30: Probabilistic Functional Modes: population-informed individual specific modelling of brain networks (Rezvan Farahibozorg, University of Oxford, UK)

2025-03-03 13:00: 'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004 (Isobel Newby (University of Leeds))

2025-03-04 16:00: The nature-nurture debate in education: implications for narrowing attainment gaps  (Professor Michael Thomas, Birkbeck)

2025-03-05 15:00: Encouraging sustainable food choices on food-delivery apps: which interventions work, when, and do consumers want them? (Paul Lohmann (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-06 12:30:  AI in basic and clinical neuroscience  (Professor Li Su, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-06 14:00: Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice? (Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) )

2025-03-07 16:30:  What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic (Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth)

2025-03-10 13:00: Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623 (Alexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-03-13 12:30: Constructing Cognitive Maps: Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Learning and Memory (Dr Deniz Vatansever)

2025-03-13 14:00: A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain (Nadine Dijkstra (UCL))

2025-03-14 12:00: : Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention (Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK)

2025-03-17 12:30: Model-free and model-based methods for estimating neural timescales (Roxana Zeraati, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)

2025-03-17 13:00: Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens (Jim Endersby (University of Sussex))

2025-03-17 15:00: The place to be? At the nexus of psychology and geography (Friedrich Goetz (University of British Columbia))

2025-03-18 16:00: Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs  (Professor Nikolaus Steinbeis, UCL)

2025-03-20 12:30: Neuromodulation therapy for psychiatric disorders (Professor Valerie Voon, University of Cambridge, Fudan University)

2025-03-20 14:00: Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices (Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London))

2025-03-24 12:30: Principles of intensive human neuroimaging (Dr. Eline Kupers, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States.)

2025-03-31 12:30: Artefacts in MEG data  (Dr Golan Karvat & Dr Olaf Hauk, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK)

2025-04-14 12:30: Analysing electrophysiology data with osl-ephys (Dr Mats van Es, University of Oxford, UK )

2025-05-01 12:30: History repeating: A critical perspective on psychedelic science (Michiel van Elk, Leiden University)

2025-05-01 14:00: From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences (Maria Chait (UCL))

2025-05-02 16:30: How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics (Professor Hugo Spiers)

2025-05-06 16:00: The challenges and rewards of pursuing real-word Developmental Science (Professor Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck)

2025-05-07 16:00: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Misinformation and Disinformation (Lee McIntyre (Boston University))

2025-05-08 12:30: Towards Precision in the Diagnostic Profiling of Patients: Leveraging Symptom Dynamics in the Assessment and Treatment of Mental Disorders (Omid Ebrahimi, University of Oxford)

2025-05-08 14:00: The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts (Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) )

2025-05-09 16:30: The Functions of Episodic Memory (Ali Boyle)

2025-05-12 13:00: 'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska (Ben Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2025-05-14 15:00: Strategic Climate Change Communication: The Questions Few are Asking (Matthew Goldberg (Yale University))

2025-05-15 12:30: Enactive psychiatry (Professor Sanneke de Haan, Erasmus School of Philosophy)

2025-05-15 14:00: Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements (Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) )

2025-05-16 16:30: How do (and don't) we take other perspectives? (Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. )

2025-05-19 13:00: Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica (Eleanor Stephenson (Faculty of History))

2025-05-22 12:30: Beyond diagnostic classification: Characterising clinical phenotype and outcomes using real-world healthcare datasets (Dr Rashmi Patel, University of Cambridge)

2025-05-22 14:00: A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry (Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford))

2025-05-23 16:30: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will (Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place  Davis, CA )

2025-05-26 13:00: Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900 (Katherine Enright (Faculty of History))

2025-05-28 15:00: The Long-Term Effectiveness of Gamified Inoculation: Mapping Decay, Booster Interventions, and Diffusion Messages (Rakoen Maertens (University of Oxford))

2025-05-30 16:30: "Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues” (Peter Godfrey Smith)

2025-06-02 12:30: Brain Digital Twins for Neurological Disorders (Dr. Nitin Williams, Department of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland)

2025-06-02 13:00: Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala (Christian Stenz (Heidelberg University))

2025-06-03 16:00: Social and emotional difficulties in adolescence (Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and Emily Towner, Blakemore Lab, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, Cambridge. )

2025-06-05 12:30: What we can learn from hunter-gatherers about child and maternal mental health? (Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, University of Cambridge)

2025-06-05 14:00: From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome (Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute))

2025-06-09 12:30: Robust and replicable effects of ageing on resting state brain electrophysiology measured with MEG (Dr. Andrew Quinn, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)

2025-06-09 13:00: Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones? (Chris Preston)

2025-06-09 15:00: Climate beliefs across borders: National patterns and digital interventions (Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland))

2025-06-12 12:30: Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life (Professor Barbara Sahakian & Dr Christelle Langley)

2025-06-12 14:00: Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function (Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa)

2025-06-17 16:00: On the promotion of Autistic flourishing. (Professor Elizabeth Pellicano, UCL)

2025-06-19 12:30: Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth (Dr Brian Pennie, Trinity College Dublin)

2025-06-19 14:00: Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology (Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.)  )

2025-06-23 12:30: How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing (Dr Nick Souter, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK)

2025-06-25 15:00: The Role of Voting Advice Applications in Combatting Misinformation (Clifton van der Linden (University of Oxford and McMaster University))

2025-07-21 12:30: Gentle introduction to causal inference and estimation of causal effects in the wild (Dr Yordan Raykov, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK)

2025-08-26 16:00: Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans. (Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)

2025-09-02 14:00: Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments (Anina Rich (Macquarie University, Sydney))

2025-09-17 12:00: LLM Social Simulation is a Promising Research Method (Tiancheng Hu (University of Cambridge))

2025-09-29 12:30: Relating age, brain and cognition: As easy as ABC! (Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.)

2025-10-07 12:00: Feedback Forensics: Measuring AI Personality By Comparing Observed Behaviour (Arduin Findeis, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-09 14:00: Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in     humans (Biyu He (NYU) )

2025-10-13 13:00:  Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940 (Mika Hyman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-10-16 12:30: Computational Mechanisms of Angry Face Processing in Depression: A Deep Neural Network Perturbation Approach (Professor Qiang Luo, Fudan University )

2025-10-16 14:00: Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing (Jim Magnuson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL))

2025-10-17 13:00: Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation (Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University)

2025-10-17 16:30: Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge (Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University)

2025-10-20 13:00: Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies (Ewa Zakrzewska (European University Institute))

2025-10-23 12:30: Holding pieces of the same puzzle: can we use linked routine data to identify adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and intervene earlier? (Katherine Parkin, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-23 14:00: Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts (Penny Pexman (Western University, Canada) )

2025-10-24 16:30: Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory (Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow)

2025-10-27 13:00: Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) (Bronte Evans Rayward (Department of Geography))

2025-10-30 12:30: Precision neuroimaging, neuropeptides and AI: decoding and regulating human emotion (Professor Ben Becker, University of Hong Kong)

2025-10-31 15:00: Do Contemporary Psychological Inoculation Interventions Psychologically Inoculate against Misinformation? (Dan Loughnan; Radboud University)

2025-10-31 16:30: Trust in “Moral” Machines (Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent)

2025-11-03 13:00: Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation (Nathan Cornish (University of Southampton))

2025-11-04 15:00: Partnering with adolescents and communities to strengthen perinatal mental health. (Dr Tatiana Salisbury, KCL )

2025-11-06 12:30: PPI: What, when, how and why? (Naomi Clements-Brod, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-06 14:00: A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism (Sarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2025-11-07 15:00: Behavioral research on climate change mitigation (Kristian Steensen Nielsen; Copenhagen Business School)

2025-11-07 16:30: Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language (Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford)

2025-11-10 13:00: Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections (Maya Juman (Department of Veterinary Medicine))

2025-11-13 12:30: “Finding strengths from within” – a global approach to utilising resources to overcome mental distress (Victoria Bird, University of Essex)

2025-11-13 14:00: How would I feel tomorrow: Towards a computational understanding of subjective pain    experiences (Deborah Talmi (U. of Cambridge) )

2025-11-14 16:00: The Causal Effects of Political Incivility in Social Media Discussions (Chris Bail (Duke University))

2025-11-14 16:30: Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks (Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua)

2025-11-17 12:30: How to version control your scientific code using Git and GitHub (Máté Aller (CBU))

2025-11-17 13:00: Who was Henslow? (Kate Hooper (Independent Researcher))

2025-11-18 16:00: Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs. (Professor Nikolaus Steinbeis, UCL)

2025-11-20 12:30: Immune alterations in first-episode psychosis and the effects of natalizumab: A neuroimaging study with concurrent CSF measures (Dr Yuya Mizuno, King's College London)

2025-11-20 14:00: Building efficient & useful knowledge systems (Tali Sharot (University College London)	)

2025-11-21 12:00: Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities (Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick)

2025-11-24 09:00: Cambridge Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day (multiple)

2025-11-24 13:00: Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture (Liz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-11-25 16:00: Intervening to Improve Sensitive Caregiving and Child Psychological and Physical Health.  (Dr Anne Rifkin-Graboi, National University of Singapore)

2025-11-27 12:30: Psychiatry Symposium (NA)

2025-11-27 14:00: The neurocognition of dance (Guido Orgs (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) )

2025-11-28 16:30: What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators? (Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London)

2025-12-01 13:00: Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil (Thomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-12-04 14:00: Reconnecting with the body: Repairing interoception in physical illness and mental health (Lauren Heathcote (Kings College London) )

2025-12-08 12:30: An Introduction to Psychtoolbox  (Celia Foster (CBU))

2025-12-09 16:00: Collaborative Childrearing Among Hunter-Gatherers: Implications for Maternal and Child Wellbeing in Industrialised Societies. (Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge)

2026-01-16 16:30: Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind (Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin)

2026-01-20 12:00: Beyond the Hype: Distinguishing LLM Agents from Generative AI Startups Through a Natural Experiment (Dequn Teng)

2026-01-22 12:30: How to put individual patient’s values back into EBM to improve treatments for our patients? (Dr Robert Dudas (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-22 14:00:  Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence (David Lagnado, UCL)

2026-01-23 16:30: Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view (Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven)

2026-01-28 15:00: AI and the Democratic Information Environment (Helen Margetts (University of Oxford))

2026-01-29 12:30: Competition, trust, and intelligence: synthesising evolutionary thinking with the social sciences (Dr Jonathan Goodman (University of Cambridge))

2026-01-29 14:00: Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning (Stefano Palminteri, Ecole Normale Superieure)

2026-02-02 12:30: Efficient fMRI design for activations and patterns (Rik Henson, MRC CBU, Cambridge, UK.)

2026-02-02 13:00: Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656) (Eszter Csillag (Hong Kong Baptist University))

2026-02-03 15:00: The results of a school-based transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescent mental health.  (Professor Pasco Fearon, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, Cambridge.)

2026-02-05 12:30: Bayesian brains, emotions and psychopathology (Dr Alje van Hoorn)

2026-02-05 14:00: Exploring high-level cognition through large language models (Ariel Goldstein, U. of Cambridge)

2026-02-06 16:30: BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness  (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg)

2026-02-09 12:30: Leveraging large-scale datasets in boutique MEG studies (Chetan Gohil, University of Oxford, UK.)

2026-02-09 13:00: Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium (Brad Scott (Queen Mary University of London))

2026-02-11 15:00: Behaviour change to achieve net zero (Lorraine Whitmarsh (University of Bath))

2026-02-12 12:30: Development and initial evaluation of a school-based intervention for ADHD -the Flex toolkit (Dr Abby Russell, University of Exeter)

2026-02-12 14:00: Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain (Sana Suri, U. of Oxford)

2026-02-13 12:00: Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on (Marcus Munafò, University of Bath)

2026-02-16 12:30: BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex (Samira M. Epp, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany)

2026-02-17 12:00: Novel Latent Variable Modeling and Methods for Complex Large-scale Assessments (Chun Wang)

2026-02-17 15:00: Interdisciplinary youth mental health research: bullying, phenomenology, and epistemic justice. (Professor Matthew Broome, University of Birmingham)

2026-02-18 15:00: Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain (Nicholas Wright (University College London; Georgetown University))

2026-02-20 16:30: Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine (Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-23 13:00: The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature (Hilbrand Wouters (University of Konstanz))

2026-02-25 15:00: Algorithm-mediated social learning (William Brady (Northwestern University))

2026-02-26 12:30: Re-Analysis of Three Network Meta-Analyses of Fluoxetine for Depression in Children and Adolescents: Clarifying Efficacy and Finding a Zombie (Dr Martin Plöderl, Dr Florian Naudet, and Dr Richard Lyus)

2026-02-26 14:00: Translational psychological science for youth mental health (Tim Dalgleish, U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU)

2026-02-27 12:00: A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics (Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL))

2026-03-02 12:30: Brain age prediction and early neurodegeneration detection using contrastive learning on brain biomechanics (Jakob Träuble, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-02 13:00: Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Emily Hughes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens))

2026-03-02 15:00: Can AI Out-Argue a World Champion? The Science of Superhuman Persuasion (Kobi Hackenburg (University of Oxford; UK AISI))

2026-03-03 15:00: Does IQ matter for the brain basis of reading skill? (Professor James Booth, Vanderbilt University)

2026-03-05 12:30: Neuroinflammation in dementia: a patient-centred multimodal approach (Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-05 14:00: Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics (Devin Terhune, KCL)

2026-03-06 12:00: The complexity of platform power  (Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

2026-03-09 12:30: MNE-RSA: Representational Similarity Analysis on EEG and MEG data (Marijn van Vliet, Aalto University, Finland)

2026-03-09 13:00: Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections (Kimberley Glassman (Fitzwilliam Museum))

2026-03-11 15:00: Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere (Manon Revel (Google DeepMind))

2026-03-12 12:30: Predicting a Timeline of Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Deterioration (Henry Musto, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-12 14:00: Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions (Jenni Rodd, UCL)

2026-03-12 15:00: Convergence Rate of Efficient MCMC with Ancillarity-Sufficiency Interweaving Strategy for Panel Data Models (Teruo Nakatsuma, Keio University)

2026-03-13 16:30: Emotions as Moral Character Trackers (Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury)

2026-03-16 13:00: Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection (Alice Wickenden (Faculty of English))

2026-03-17 15:00: When Research Challenges Conviction: Surrogacy Families in the Political Crossfire. (Professor Susan Golombok, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-19 12:30: Mental health, memory and menopause: the role of sex steroids and lifestyle (Professor Eef Hogervorst)

2026-03-19 14:00: The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions (Peter Kok, UCL)

2026-03-20 16:30: Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning (Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford)

2026-03-23 12:30: A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology (Niels Van Santen, Ghent University, NL)

2026-03-30 12:50: Data-Driven Approaches for Addressing Head Motion Bias in Structural MRI Brain Morphometry (Ruben Klinger, Technical University of Munich)

2026-03-31 12:00: Research and Assessment of Occupational Personality Scales Based on Large Language Models (Dr Chanjin Zheng, East China Normal University)

2026-04-28 12:00: Geometry and Generalization: The case of Grokking (Matthieu Tehenan, Department of Computer Sciences and Technology)

2026-04-29 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Shelley McKeown Jones (University of Oxford))

2026-04-30 12:30: The organisational management of traumatic stress (Professor Neil Greenberg, King's College London)

2026-05-07 12:30: Neighbourhoods as Thorny Matters: A Qualitative Analysis of How Local Conditions Shape Mental Health and Everyday Life in Palestine (Professor Hanna Kienzler, King's College London)

2026-05-12 15:00: Title to follow (Professor Philip Shaw, Kings College London)

2026-05-13 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics))

2026-05-14 12:30: The Play Paradox: How video games build better humans (Dr Rachel Kowert, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-15 12:00: TBC (Mohsen Mosleh, University of Oxford)

2026-05-21 12:30: Novel neuroimaging methods in Lewy body dementia (Dr Rohan Bhome, University College London)

2026-05-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Jens Madsen (London School of Economics))

2026-05-28 12:30: Precision psychiatry (Professor Karl J. Friston, University College London)

2026-06-04 12:30: Topic Film, TV shows for Medical Education, ‘The Wire’ as a case study (Dr Akeem Sule, University of Cambridge)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-05 16:30: Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond (Inbal Arnon, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & the University of Edinburgh)

2026-06-09 15:00: Title to follow (Dr Jack Andrews, Oxford)

2026-06-10 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Leor Zmigrod)

2026-06-11 12:30: Why people with schizophrenia die earlier? Mortality and accelerated ageing (Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)