Cambridge Language Sciences

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

Talk 1. Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions Talk 2. Social status and mood: from evolutionary theory to neural signature

User Subbulakshmi Sankarasubramanian & Daisy Follett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Learning to read words: from novice to expert

User Kate Nation (University of Oxford).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

User Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

User Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30

Nuisance parameters

User Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

House MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

1. Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudowords 2. Phonological mismatch negativity, and its relation to language skills and environmental factors in children

User Carol Wang & Alexander Irvine (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

User Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

User Matt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

User Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

What else does researching with Haraway’s successor science make possible in childhood studies?

User Dr Jayne Osgood, Professor of Education, Middlesex University.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

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

Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning

User Sue Gathercole (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Talk title tbc

User Alexa Morcom .

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

User Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

User Kris Cao, DeepMind.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

User Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

House MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Second Language Education Group

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

User Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

House MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

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

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

User Alexander Quent & Ivan Simpson Kent (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Sense and Sensibility in Child Literature: Disinformation, Affect and the Literary Imagination

User Katharine Jones Sullivan, Committee Research Office, Canberra, Australia.

House MAB 104, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory

User Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Title to be confirmed

User Karina Vold, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

User Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30