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Last updated Sun Nov 22 09:44:28 2009
| November | |||
| Mon 23rd Nov 11:00am | Title to be confirmed Inference Group | Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge) | TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics |
| Mon 23rd Nov 1:05pm | TBC Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars Organised by Dr Amy Milton, Department of Experimental Psychology | TBC | Mondays (unless otherwise stated), 13.05 – 14.00 in the Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site |
| Mon 23rd Nov 1:05pm | Reduction of Fear Recovery after Experimental Extinction through Different Behavioral Manipulations Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars Organised by Dr Amy Milton, Department of Experimental Psychology | Dr Gonzalo Urcelay - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge | Mondays (unless otherwise stated), 13.05 – 14.00 in the Kenneth Craik Room, Craik Marshall Building, Downing Site |
| Mon 23rd Nov 4:00pm | The neuroscience of music Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences | Jessica Grahn (MRC CBSU) | Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room |
| Mon 23rd Nov 4:30pm | “How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience Annual Adrian Lecture | Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Mon 23rd Nov 4:30pm | Improving paper-and-pencil measures of God representations Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG) | Bonnie Poon Zahl (Dept. of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge) | Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity |
| Tue 24th Nov 1:00pm | The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human? Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series | Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh) | Arts School Room B, New Museums Site |
| Wed 25th Nov 12:00pm | Mechanisms underlying embryonic and adult DRG regeneration BRC Seminar Series | Dr Laura Gumy, BRC | Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way |
| Wed 25th Nov 12:30pm | Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series | Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Wed 25th Nov 1:00pm | Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a Craik Club | Dr. Patricia Jusuf | Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site |
| Wed 25th Nov 1:00pm | Genetic Testing in the Clinic for the APOE gene: A Cautionary Tale Neuroscience Seminars | Dr Margaret Lock. See: www.mcgill.ca/ssom/facultyinfo/lock/ | Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's site, small seminar room |
| Thu 26th Nov 11:00am | Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists | Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 26th Nov 3:30pm | Navigating in a 3-d world Chaucer Club PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM | Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 26th Nov 4:00pm | The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation Foster Talks | Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 27th Nov 1:00pm | Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance Craik Club Host: Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department | Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL | Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 27th Nov 1:15pm | Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system Developmental Biology Seminar Series | Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London | Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of |
| Fri 27th Nov 4:30pm | Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 30th Nov 11:00am | Title to be confirmed Inference Group | Ulrich Paquet (Imense) | TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics |
| Mon 30th Nov 4:00pm | The systems-level neuroscience of human memory Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences | Rik Henson (MRC CBSU) | Department of Experimental Psychology Seminar Room |
| December | |||
| Wed 2nd Dec 12:00pm | Environmental regulation of CNS remyelination BRC Seminar Series | Dr Mark Kotter, LRM, Cambridge | Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way |
| Wed 2nd Dec 12:30pm | Diffusion MRI and tractography Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series | Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Wed 2nd Dec 4:00pm | Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics Foster Talks | Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge | Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building Downing Site |
| Thu 3rd Dec 11:00am | Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists | Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 3rd Dec 3:30pm | Decoding memories in the human hippocampus Chaucer Club PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM | Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 3rd Dec 4:00pm | A systems approach to cellular shape and motion Foster Talks | Professor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 4th Dec 1:00pm | The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry Craik Club Host: Jenny Bosten, Department of Experimental Psychology | Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University | Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site |
| Tue 8th Dec 1:00pm | "The personalities of nonhuman primates: All too human?" les34's list | Dr. Alex Weiss (University of Edinburgh) | Arts School Seminar Room B, New Museums Site |
| Tue 8th Dec 1:00pm | We think we understand: When empathic accuracy and perceptions diverge Department of Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series | Prof. Sara D. Hodges (University of Oregon) | Arts School Room B, New Museums Site |
| Wed 9th Dec 12:00pm | Is there really a role for stem cells in regenerative neurology? BRC Seminar Series | Siddharthan Chandran, University of Edinburgh, Scotland | Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way |
| Thu 10th Dec 11:00am | Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists | Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 10th Dec 3:30pm | Action and Language Chaucer Club PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM | Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| Thu 17th Dec 3:30pm | Analysing and communicating uncertainty Chaucer Club PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM | Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge) | Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road |
| January | |||
| Fri 15th Jan 4:30pm | Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Thu 21st Jan 4:00pm | Title to be confirmed Foster Talks | Prof Lopez-Barneo | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 22nd Jan 4:30pm | The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and implications for studies of infants and non-human animals Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 25th Jan 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Jonathan Ashmore, UCL. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Thu 28th Jan 4:00pm | Title to be confirmed Foster Talks | Dr Emma Rawlins | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 29th Jan 4:30pm | Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| February | |||
| Tue 2nd Feb 4:30pm | Specifying brain function involved in number processing. Insights from interindividual differences Psychology and Neuroscience in Education | Anja K. Ischebeck, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University Graz, Austria | Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge |
| Fri 5th Feb 4:30pm | Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Thu 11th Feb 4:00pm | Title to be confirmed Foster Talks | Dr Miodownik- King's College London | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 12th Feb 2:00pm | Preprocessing of fMRI data and computational morphometry (VBM) Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) | Rik Henson (MRC CBSU) | Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre |
| Fri 12th Feb 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Fri 19th Feb 2:00pm | The General Linear Model for fMRI analysis Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) | Rik Henson (MRC CBSU) | Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre |
| Fri 19th Feb 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Steve Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 22nd Feb 4:30pm | “Steering decisions in axons controlled by subcellular changes in the local proteome”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Prof. Christine Holt, PDN. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Thu 25th Feb 4:00pm | Title to be confirmed Foster Talks | Dr Matthias Landgraf | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| Fri 26th Feb 1:00pm | Title to be confirmed ARClub Talks | Dr. Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London) | Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road |
| Fri 26th Feb 2:00pm | Experimental design, Efficiency and Connectivity in fMRI Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) | Rik Henson (MRC CBSU) | Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre |
| Fri 26th Feb 4:30pm | Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors Zangwill Club This is the special joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club presentation for 09-10. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| March | |||
| Mon 1st Mar 4:30pm | "Context is everything: how auditory-evoked responses in cortex are influenced by what came before". Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Fri 5th Mar 2:00pm | EEG and MEG analysis Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) | Rik Henson (MRC CBSU) | Experimental Psychology Lecture Theatre |
| Fri 5th Mar 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Tue 9th Mar 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Psychology and Neuroscience in Education | Professor Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde | GS4, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge |
| Thu 11th Mar 4:00pm | Title to be confirmed Foster Talks | Prof Carlos Belmonte | Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site |
| April | |||
| Tue 20th Apr 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Psychology and Neuroscience in Education | Dr Claudia Uller, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge | Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ |
| Fri 23rd Apr 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 26th Apr 4:30pm | “A core neural circuit mechanism of decision making”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Fri 30th Apr 4:30pm | New ways of thinking about how we read other people's mind Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| May | |||
| Mon 3rd May 4:30pm | “To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Angela Roberts, PDN. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Fri 7th May 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Speaker to be confirmed | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 10th May 4:30pm | “Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Kate Jeffery, UCL. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Fri 14th May 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
| Mon 17th May 4:30pm | “Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”. Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience | Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology. | Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience |
| Fri 21st May 4:30pm | Title to be confirmed Zangwill Club Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm | Speaker to be confirmed | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology |
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