Psychology talks and events

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

Time course of memory updating in running span

User Shraddha Kaur (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Psychology and Suicidal Behaviour

User 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.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 24 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?

User John Rothwell (UCL).

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

User Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Mindfulness training for mental health promotion

User Julieta Galante (Dept of Psychiatry, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Modelling human brain development and neural connectivity in cerebral organoids

User Dr Madeline Lancaster, Principal Investigator, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

User Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel.

House MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery

User Adam Zeman (University of Exeter).

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

User Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective

User Marc Bennett (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Richard Holton, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 07 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Testosterone and human gender development

User Melissa Hines (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

User Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection

User Grace Rice (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

User Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Languages as Cognitive Reserve

User Dr Thomas H.Bak.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing

User Gabriella Vigliocco (UCL).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Animal models of episodic memory

User Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment

User Rahia Mashoodh (Dept. of Zoology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

From Sinners to Saints: How Redemption Narratives Motivate Prosocial Consumer Behaviors

User Dr. Eric Levy, Queen Mary University of London.

House Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics

User Thalia Eley (Kings College London).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

User Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

Identifying the cognitive dimensions of learning problems in children who have been identified as struggling at school

User Joni Holmes (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Peter Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Manchester.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs

User Tamar Makin (UCL).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices.

User Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population

User Curtis Sharma (Cambridge Language Sciences, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

The social incentives hypothesis of political belief polarization

User Ben Tappin, Royal Holloway, University of London. .

House Nick Mackintosch Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

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

Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?

User Ian Robertson (Trinity College Dublin) .

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

User Heleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

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

The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations

User Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Gemma Lewis, Research Associate in Psychiatric Epidemiology, University College London.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 14 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

House Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

User Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

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

Far beyond the back of the brain

User Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Maria Iacovou, Reader in Quantitative Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

House Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:30-13:30