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
September
Wed 27th Sep 6:30pm	How to Deploy Psychometrics Successfully in an Organisation Business Briefing Series, Cambridge Judge Business School Registration essential	David Stillwell	BNY Mellon Centre, 160 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4V 4LA
Thu 28th Sep 12:30pm	Trading places: understanding psychosis risk in migrant groups Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series	Dr James Kirkbride, Reader in Epidemiology in the Division of Psychiatry, University College, London	Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.
October
Mon 2nd Oct 1:00pm	Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision Craik Club	Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University	Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site
Wed 4th Oct 12:30pm	Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Sebastian Scheegans (University of Cambridge)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 5th Oct 11:00am	Exploratory 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 5th Oct 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.
Thu 5th Oct 3:30pm	Deconstructing and reconstructing memory, and what this means for understanding dementia Chaucer Club	Kim Graham (U. of Cardiff)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 6th Oct 4:30pm	Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering Zangwill Club	Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 9th Oct 4:00pm	Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Robert Turner (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Unviersity of Cambridge, Cambridge
Mon 9th Oct 4:30pm	Adrian Seminar - Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience	Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas	The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Tue 10th Oct 1:00pm	Title to be confirmed Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series	Jac Davis, University of Cambridge	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site
Wed 11th Oct 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 12th Oct 11:00am	Simple and multiple linear regression Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists	Peter Watson (MRC CBU)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Thu 12th Oct 3:30pm	Perspective taking during communication Chaucer Club	Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road
Fri 13th Oct 2:00pm	Transfer Learning for NLP Machine Learning @ CUED	Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre	JDB Seminar Room, CUED
Fri 13th Oct 4:30pm	The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status Zangwill Club	Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London	Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology
Mon 16th Oct 4:00pm	Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)	Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Tue 17th Oct 11:00am	Spike timing in motor control Computational Neuroscience	Ilya Nemenman (Emory University)	Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
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	Title to be confirmed 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 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 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	Title to be confirmed 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 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
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	Title to be confirmed 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 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 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
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 Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Room (2nd floor) for attendees only.	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	Talk title TBC 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
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 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	Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series	Andrea Greve (MRC CBU)	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	Title to be confirmed 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
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
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.
Thu 14th Dec 12:30pm	Title to be confirmed 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
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
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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