Neuroscience Seminars

Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.

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July
Wed 12th Jul 1:00pm	Resilience vs Vulnerability to Compulsion: behavioral, neurochemical and psychopharmacological evidences in rats selected by Schedule-induced polidipsia Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Seminars	Dr Margarita Moreno, Tenured Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Almería, Spain	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
October
Wed 18th Oct 12:30pm	Large scale network interactions in consciousness Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 19th Oct 11:00am	Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning Machine Learning @ CUED	Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen	CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering
Thu 19th Oct 11:00am	The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 19th Oct 12:30pm	Depression and inflammation in the 21st century Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Carmine Pariante, Professor of Biological Psychiatry, King's College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 19th Oct 3:30pm	How memory guides value-based decisions Chaucer Club	Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 20th Oct 1:15pm	Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 20th Oct 4:30pm	How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation Zangwill Club	Dr Ana Guinote, University College London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 23rd Oct 12:30pm	Phase-coupling Resting-State Networks (RSNs) from human intra-cranial recordings comprise functionally related, spatially contiguous regions Imagers Interest Group	Nitin Williams, University of Helsinki	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Mon 23rd Oct 4:00pm	Visual cognition Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Tue 24th Oct 1:00pm	Researching social problems: Putting the cart before the horse? Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Apurv Chauhan, University of Brighton	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Wed 25th Oct 12:30pm	Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 26th Oct 11:00am	Categorical Data Analysis Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 26th Oct 3:30pm	Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health Chaucer Club	Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 27th Oct 1:15pm	Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 27th Oct 4:30pm	An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory Zangwill Club	Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 30th Oct 4:00pm	Mechanisms of forgetting Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Mon 30th Oct 4:30pm	Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	David Rowitch, University of Cambridge	The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
November
Wed 1st Nov 12:30pm	Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Marieke Mur (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 2nd Nov 11:00am	ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 2nd Nov 12:30pm	Computer assisted therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations: the AVATAR clinical trial Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Thomas Jamieson-Craig, Emeritus Professor Social Psychiatry, IoP, King’s College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 2nd Nov 3:30pm	Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications Chaucer Club	Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 3rd Nov 1:15pm	Detecting death and damage: understanding macrophage migration in Drosophila Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Will Wood, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 3rd Nov 4:30pm	Touch: The sensory scaffold of development? Zangwill Club	Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 6th Nov 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Imagers Interest Group	Sofie Meyer, UCL	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge
Mon 6th Nov 4:00pm	Emotion Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Haakon Engen (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Mon 6th Nov 4:30pm	Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - Corinne Houart "Modulation of embryonic signalling activities controls forebrain size and complexity" Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	Corinne Houart, King's College London	The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Tue 7th Nov 1:00pm	Women, Depression and 'collective' action: possibilities for 'social change' within primary mental health care settings in South Africa Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Rochelle Burgess, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Tue 7th Nov 1:00pm	The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory Craik Club The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays	Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Wed 8th Nov 12:30pm	High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Peter Jones (University of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 9th Nov 3:30pm	The brain isn't porridge Chaucer Club	Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 9th Nov 4:00pm	Foster Talk: "Evolution of olfactory receptors, circuits and behaviours" Professor Richard Benton Foster Talks	Professor Richard Benton, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 10th Nov 1:15pm	Cartilage by 3D bioprinting of iPS cells Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Stina Simonsson, Institute of Biomedicine, Göteborg (Sweden)	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 10th Nov 4:30pm	Information networks, truth and value. Zangwill Club	Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 13th Nov 4:00pm	Consciousness Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Tristan Bekinschtein (University of Cambridge)	Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Wed 15th Nov 12:30pm	Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Matt Davis (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 16th Nov 11:00am	Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 16th Nov 3:30pm	Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease Chaucer Club	Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 17th Nov 1:15pm	Decoding the Notch signal Developmental Biology Seminar Series	Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge	Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of
Fri 17th Nov 4:30pm	Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia Zangwill Club	Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 20th Nov 4:00pm	How to give good talks Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Tom Manly (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Tue 21st Nov 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Alicia Renedo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Tue 21st Nov 1:00pm	Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system Craik Club The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays	Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Wed 22nd Nov 12:30pm	Cardiovascular problems predict poorer white matter health in the Cam-CAN adult lifespan cohort Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Delia Fuhrmann (UCL)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 23rd Nov 11:00am	Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 23rd Nov 12:30pm	Depersonalisation Disorder: from psychopathology to cognitive neuroscience Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Anthony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, King’s College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 23rd Nov 1:00pm	Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain Craik Club	Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Thu 23rd Nov 3:30pm	The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory Chaucer Club	Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 23rd Nov 4:00pm	Foster Talk: "How my brain is getting me the best reward" Professor Wolfram Schultz Foster Talks	Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge	Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Fri 24th Nov 4:30pm	Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control Zangwill Club	Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 27th Nov 4:00pm	Functional MRI: physics and physiology Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge
Mon 27th Nov 4:30pm	Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - ANNUAL LECTURE "Neural correlates of orienting behaviors and latent action biases" Rachel Wilson Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School	Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Tue 28th Nov 1:00pm	Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates. Craik Club The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi	Dr Janine Mendola (McGill)	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Thu 30th Nov 11:00am	Power analysis Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 30th Nov 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Rupert McShane, Dementia Clinical Network Lead - Oxford Academic Health Science Network	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 30th Nov 3:30pm	Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention Chaucer Club	David Shanks (UCL)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
December
Fri 1st Dec 4:30pm	Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory Zangwill Club	Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Thu 7th Dec 11:00am	Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 7th Dec 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Ian Goodyer, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Wed 13th Dec 10:30am	Binocular vision and Autism Spectrum Disorder ARClub Talks	Dr Jan Skerswetat, Lecturer in Vision Science at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Vision and Hearing Science, Anglia Ruskin University	Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road
Thu 14th Dec 12:30pm	Retaining hope in the management of treatment resistant depression Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams, Professor of Affective Disorders, University of Newcastle upon Tyne	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
January
Tue 23rd Jan 1:00pm	The role of attachment in cults and radicalization Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Alexandra Stein, Mary Ward Centre, London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
February
Tue 6th Feb 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Katy Greenland, Cardiff University (Wales)	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Thu 15th Feb 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr John-Paul Taylor, Senior Clincial Lecturer, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Tue 20th Feb 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Dr Charis Psaltis, University of Cyprus, Nicosia	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Thu 22nd Feb 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Rimona Weil, Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
March
Tue 6th Mar 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Prof Daniel Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Thu 15th Mar 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	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	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
Thu 22nd Mar 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
April
Thu 12th Apr 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Professor Paul Harrison, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
May
Tue 1st May 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Speaker to be confirmed	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Tue 15th May 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Speaker to be confirmed	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site

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