Neuroscience Seminars

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Issues in Interpreting Cluster-Based Permutation Tests

User Jona Sassenhagen, Goethe-University Frankfurt.

Monday 20 January 2020, 12:30-14:00

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

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

User Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU).

Monday 20 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration

User Dr Máté Aller (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Blogs, social media and gamification: how elves and humans can close the gap between research and practice.

chair: Dr Christopher O'Loughlin

User André Tomlin, Minervation Ltd, coordinator of the Mental Elf website.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences

User Simon Eickhoff (Institute of Systems Neuroscience, U. of Dusseldorf).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing

User Steve Harridge, King's College London.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

User Zack Lipton, CMU.

House Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

User Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

The exposome in psychiatry: Using environmental data to understand variability in developmental psychopathology

User Dr. Ran Barzilay, University of Pennsylvania.

Monday 27 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

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

Intelligence and the frontal lobes

User John Duncan (MRC CBU).

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

User Dr Stefanie Schelinski, Visiting Researcher, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 10:30-11:30

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

Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning

User Dr Joost Haarsma (U. of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideological epistemology and its significance for modern social science

User Dr Cory Clark, Durham University.

House TBC.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Epigenetics in ageing and dementia

chair: Prof John O'Brien

User Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields

User Nir Grossman (Dept. of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis

User Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

User Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

How to make good scientific figures

User Matthew Davis (MRC CBU).

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination

User Dr Jane Garrison (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting addiction: myth or reality?

chair: Dr Karen Ersche

User Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits

User Nilli Lavie (Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency

User Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells

User Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

User Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands World_link.

Friday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

How to write good papers

User Michael Anderson (MRC CBU).

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Feeling good, doing good: The potential of positive self-directed emotions to motivate prosociality

User Dr. Claudia Schneider.

House Lecture Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mood Instability: a possible transdiagnostic construct in psychopathology?

chair: Prof Jesus Perez

User Professor Matthew Broome, Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry

User Maria Chait (The Ear Institute, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

User Molly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

The mechanical regulation of brain development

User Kristian Franze, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Olaf Dimigen, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Monday 17 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Consciousness

User Tristan Bekinschtein, (Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Dissecting tissue mechanics in the early chicken embryo

User Fengzhu Xiong, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

User Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

The use of multi-parametric maps (MPMs) in ageing research

User Wiktor Olszowy, CHUV Lausanne.

Monday 24 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Computational Psychiatry of Autism

User Rebecca Lawson (Dept of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Autism prevalence, social deprivation and access to services in England: A big data approach

User Dr. Andres Roman-Urrestarazu .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

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

Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science

User Dr Anne Marthe van der Bles (U. of Groningen) .

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The promise of early intervention: testing a video-feedback intervention (ViPP) to prevent mental health problems in childhood in a randomised trial

chair: Dr Paul Wilkinson

User Professor Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval

User Beth Jefferies (Dept. of Psychology, U. of York).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Formation and activation of ovarian follicles using germline stem cells

User Evelyn Telfer, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Haematopoietic stem cell-niche interactions change during ageing and age-related myeloproliferative disorders

User Simón Méndez-Ferrer, Welcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and NHSBT.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

User Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition

User Matthew Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU).

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?

User Dr Ellie Smith (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Transdiagnostic approaches to common mental health problems

User Dr Melissa Black, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

User Julie Grezes (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) .

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Towards predicting gene expression from DNA sequence

User Jussi Taipale, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-13:55

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

User Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Conceptual and methodological advances in laminar fMRI

User David Norris, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University.

Monday 09 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

User Bob Carlyon (MRC CBU).

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:30

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

Language development in exceptional circumstances: effects of permanent childhood hearing loss

User Dr Lorna Halliday (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

A zero-item personality test? Predicting personality traits from social media data

User Dr David Stillwell.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Trauma, Stress and Biomarkers in Somatic Symptom Disorders

chair: Prof Peter Jones

User Professor Christina Van Der Feltz-Cornelis, Chair of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, University of York.

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

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

Broca’s region: cytoarchitecture, transmitter receptors and brain mapping

User Katrin Amunts (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich).

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

3D Genomics in development and disease

User Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts

User Dr Rocco Chiou (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Sleep and Mental Health: better nights for better days

chair: Dr Muzaffer Kaser

User Dr Kirstie Anderson, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University.

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

Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

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

How do our brains form maps of the world?

User Alexandra Constantinescu (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Thursday 19 March 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Prof Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Smoking cessation in mental health services: from rhetoric to reality

chair: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea

User Professor Simon Gilbody, Director of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group, University of York.

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

Thursday 26 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression

chair: Dr Rudolf Cardinal

User Professor Jonathan Roiser, Department of Psychiatry, University College London.

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

Thursday 02 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Girls and women on the autism spectrum

User Dr William Mandy, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Jessica Bird, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 30 April 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

The role of sensory inputs in generating and sustaining cognitive maps

User Francesca Cacucci, UCL.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Rafael Romero-Garcia, BCNI, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Morality in the Body: From Intuitions to Moral Judgments and Prosocial Behaviour

User Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 07 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos

User Kathy Niakan, Francis Crick Institute, London.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Mechanobiology of cell shape control

User Ewa Paluch, PDN Department, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 10:30-11:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Minimal clinically important differences: a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine

User Professor Glyn Lewis, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.

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

Thursday 21 May 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Elena Boto, University of Nottingham.

Monday 01 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

House Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18B, Trumpington Road.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Title to be confirmed

User Robin Ince, University of Glasgow.

Monday 15 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The common link between schizophrenia and diabetes

User Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, consultant psychiatrist and associate lecturer, Clozapine Clinic Cambridge and University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 18 June 2020, 12:30-13:30