Vicky Collins

Name:	Vicky Collins
Affiliation:	MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	23 Jan 2026, 11:58 a.m.

Public lists managed by Vicky Collins

• Cambridge Methods Day in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Chaucer Club
• Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences - Extra Seminars
• Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists
• Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Talks given by Vicky Collins

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Talks organised by Vicky Collins

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• The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions
• Building Word Meanings from Memories and Predictions
• Verbal suggestion and the modulation of perception: Implications for psychological science, psychopathology, and psychedelics
• Translational psychological science for youth mental health
• Understanding, predicting and reducing dementia risk: insights from the heart and brain
• Exploring high-level cognition through large language models
• Correcting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy sources with reinforcement learning
• Scales of injustice: Why a balance metaphor can be misleading when weighing evidence
• Reconnecting with the body: Repairing interoception in physical illness and mental health
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data
• The neurocognition of dance
• Power analysis
• Building efficient & useful knowledge systems
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• How would I feel tomorrow: Towards a computational understanding of subjective pain experiences
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments
• Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology
• Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function
• From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome
• A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry
• Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements
• The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts
• From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences
• Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices
• A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain
• Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?
• Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample
• Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue
• Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving
• Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy
• Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments
• Cognitive-Motor Borderlands
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data
• Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex
• Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today
• Power analysis
• Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• The role of reward in language learning
• The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain
• The problem with mental health awareness
• How does the human brain recognize faces?
• Sleep to forget unwanted memories
• Learning and memory in developmental amnesia 
• Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust
• Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation
• Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production
• Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces
• Consolidation of memory and model-based planning
• Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations
• Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments
• Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems
• The finger of blame in depression and the brain
• Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children
• The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition
• The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved
• Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants
• The linguistic foundations of verbal WM
• Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research
• Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
• Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy
• Power analysis
• Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• Approaching Sensorimotor Learning from Another Angle: How Cognitive Strategies Shape Skill Acquisition
• Categorical Data Analysis
• How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• When language typology meets dementia
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy
• Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world
• Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia
• Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts
• Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting
• The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour
• Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life
• Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory
• Somatosensory participation in human motor learning
• “The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”
• Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex
• Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand
• Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice
• Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines
• Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being
• Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex
• Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss
• The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity
• Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition
• Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits
• Neurocomputational basis of anxiety
• Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning
• Tidying up working memory
• Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies
• Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains
• Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control
• Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings
• Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)
• Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time
• Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory
• Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms
• Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors
• Perceiving and representing voice identity: effects of taker variability and listener familiarity
• Neural dynamics of natural speech perception via natural language processing (nlp) models
• The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought
• Neural dynamics of working memory
• How do signals from the body shape our actions (and our inactions)? Plus, a discussion on how we can green neuroscience
• New models of human hearing via machine learning
• Stimulating the brain with sound: low intensity ultrasound for neuromodulation
• Post-encoding persistence of encoding states strengthens individual memories, reorganizes those experiences based on shared features and biases the fate of new memories
• The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought
• Prosocial motivation, learning and intentions: age-related changes and neural mechanisms
• Neural dynamics of working memory
• The function of spontaneous brain activity
• Next-generation atlases of the human brain – how relevant for cognitive research?
• A computational approach to understanding motivational symptoms in depression
• Carving the world into useful task representations
• How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention
• Reasoning: neural underpinnings, development, and plasticity
• The geometry of neural representations in artificial and biological neural networks
• Physiology and pathology of the higher brain function: insights from intracranial EEG recordings
• The role of content-free pointers in online visual memory
• Mesoscale fMRI and electrophysiology in human visual cortex
• Neuroscience informed treatments for anxiety and depression
• Imaginative reinforcement learning
• A data-driven approach to advancing cognitive neuroscience
• Pushing the boundaries of episodic memory: Representation and segmentation of naturalistic events by cortico-hippocampal networks
• Early adversity, brain development, and risk/resilience for mental health across development
• Working Memory 2.0
• Cognitive neuroscience in the era of Big Data: Lessons learned from the Adolescent Cognition Brain Development Study
• Cognitive control networks involved in different kinds of listening
• Category selectivity in the ventral visual pathway: Computational models and developmental origins
• How do our brains form maps of the world?
• Flexible redistribution in the language network
• Adolescent brain development as a window of social-affective opportunities
• An investigation into the neural basis of self- and other-referential thoughts
• Predictive oscillations in speech perception
• Exploiting neural nonlinearity and temporal smoothing to measure the brain’s response to electrical stimulation
• Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)
• Translating basic science on autobiographical memory to improved clinical practice
• Infants’ learning & development: How can we influence them?
• Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition
• The neural basis of flexible semantic retrieval
• Communicating uncertainty around facts, numbers, and science
• Computational Psychiatry of Autism
• Consciousness
• How listeners track the changing statistics of rapidly unfolding auditory scenes – evidence from brain imaging and pupillometry
• Inheritance and adaptation within the family environment
• How to write good papers
• Attention, perception, and neural response: testing the limits
• Knowing what is real - mechanisms of reality discrimination
• How to make good scientific figures
• Non invasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields
• Dopamine, psychosis and the precision-weighting of prediction errors in the brain during learning
• Intelligence and the frontal lobes
• Combining brain mapping with machine-learning on individual differences
• The neural dynamics of audio-visual integration and recalibration
• Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis
• What accounts for the emergence and persistence of widespread false beliefs?
• Functional preferences of domain-general brain regions during executive function tasks
• Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
• The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales
• The Unit’s first 50 years: Some science, some history and some tales
• Power analysis
• How to give good talks
• Mechanisms of remembering: separation, replay, and integration in the human brain
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths
• Functional MRI: physics and physiology
• Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• When the mind lingers - how sensory history impacts working memory
• Emotion and memory
• Neurocognitive psychometrics of intelligence
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
• Frontotemporal dementia – challenges, opportunities, progress
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments
• Mechanisms of forgetting
• The anatomo-functional role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision making
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder
• Consciousness
• A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
• The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A
• Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught
• The perceptual prediction paradox
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• The emotional modulation of memory
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience
• Using narratives to understand human conscious experience
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• What's new in PsychoPy3?
• Sleep and vocabulary consolidation: Perspectives from typical and atypical development and sleep deprived teens
• Using evolutionary algorithms to study individual differences in facial emotion perception
• Computational neuropsychiatry: perception, prediction and learning
• Untangling the cognitive, behavioural and environmental ingredients for academic achievement
• Modeling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning
• Visual nonlinearities
• The emergence of cognitive ability in childhood
• Talk 1. Awareness in sight: Self and other appraisals of disability in acquired brain injury Talk 2. The regulation of intrusive autobiographical memories
• Heart-brain interactions in emotion and memory
• 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
• Getting the gist: memory confusability in young and older people
• Mechanisms of working memory training: not plasticity, but routines and fine-tuning
• Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain
• Neural competition accounts for differences in recognising and learning spoken words and pseudoword
• Learning to read words: from novice to expert
• Seeking the protective shield in the brain: the role of inhibitory control in regulating unwanted memories and actions
• How to write a Fellowship proposal
• Far beyond the back of the brain
• The neural basis of time-extended semantic cognition: evidence from fMRI and TMS investigations
• Cognitive training works: what are the mechanisms and why are so many experimental psychologists opposed?
• An effect for bilingualism on ADHD trait levels in the general child population
• Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods: The case study of semantic cognition
• The neural fingerprints of a missing hand: from phantoms to artificial limbs
• You literally cannot pay me to look at poop: The astounding lack of habituation to disgust as measured through oculomotor avoidance
• How to make good scientific figures
• Understanding mechanisms of anxiety: combining experimental psychology and genomics
• CANCELLED: Epigenetics, inheritance and adaption within the family environment
• Intelligence and the frontal lobes
• Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language learning and processing
• The status of semantic memory in patients with left vs. right anterior temporal lobe resection
• How to write good papers
• Shattered lives: Understanding and treating post traumatic stress in children and adolescents
• Studies on the acquisition, persistence and reduction of fear and avoidance: a life-span perspective
• How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?
• The Eye’s Mind – perspectives on visual imagery
• Mindfulness training for mental health promotion
• Computational Models—who needs them?
• Castles built on sand: can we trust non-invasive brain stimulation techniques?
• Time course of memory updating in running span
• Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)
• The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health
• Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting
• Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
• Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control
• Power analysis
• CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment
• Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis
• A Bayesian approach to internal models
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches
• How to give good talks
• Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load
• Functional MRI: physics and physiology
• 'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream'
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise
• Emotion
• Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks
• Mechanisms of forgetting
• Interference and memory capacity limitations
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Statistical methods for the study of heterogeneity in cognitive decline: applications to French and UK cohorts
• Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught
• Processing Multi-Constituent Units during Reading: Non-alphabetic languages, word segmentation, and serialism and parallelism in oculomotor control
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• What cognitive mechanisms underlie multi-target search organisation in children and adults?
• Consciousness
• Lifestyle factors and cognitive ageing: From observation to intervention
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• The framework behind the Kymata Atlas: Mapping early sensory processing in the human brain and nervous system
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience
• The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic representation and its disorders
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• From cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: Translational concerns for mental health research
• Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach
• Concept learning as compression
• The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline
• The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients
• Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?
• The structure and function of visual working memory
• Re-thinking cognitive training research
• Why are we so bad at face recognition?
• Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system
• Remembering complex events
• Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds
• Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)
• What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?
• Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits
• Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?
• All-resolutions inference for brain imaging
• Developmental cognitive neuroscience
• The persistence and transience of memory
• UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results
• Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis
• CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action
• Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing
• How to make good scientific figures
• Finding meaning in English writing
• MRI in large animals: a new imaging model
• Intelligence and the frontal lobes
• How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps”
• How to write good papers
• Attentional episodes and cognitive control
• Value generalization during human avoidance learning
• How does functional neuroimaging inform cognitive theory?
• Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities
• Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school
• Computational Models—who needs them?
• Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language
• Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives
• Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)
• Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making
• Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that
• Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention
• Power analysis
• Functional MRI: physics and physiology
• The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory
• Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions
• Learning and plasticity in adolescence
• How to give good talks
• Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease
• Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA
• Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech
• Consciousness
• The brain isn't porridge
• High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p
• Emotion
• Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications
• ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies
• Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions
• Mechanisms of forgetting
• Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity
• Visual cognition
• How memory guides value-based decisions
• The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance
• Large scale network interactions in consciousness
• Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught
• Perspective taking during communication
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience
• Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events
• Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain
• Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition
• How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?
• The typical and atypical development of the human social brain
• Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)
• Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications
• Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating
• A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain
• Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy
• Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI
• Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity
• Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation
• CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?
• The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention
• I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.
• Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?
• Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry
• Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction
• Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks
• Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis
• Social brain development in adolescence
• New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression
• Developmental cognitive neuroscience
• Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?
• Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network
• Intelligence and the frontal lobes
• We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward
• How to make good scientific figures
• Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences
• Confidence and adaptive decision making
• Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU
• Theory in the cognitive and brain sciences
• Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)
• Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex
• Training working memory is learning to do something new
• Functional MRI: physics and physiology
• Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury
• Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury
• Unitization effects on memory
• How to write good papers
• Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding
• Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding