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Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain

User Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

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

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

User Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

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

Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?

User Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

User Mark Johnson (UoC).

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

Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)

User Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications

User Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

User Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain

User Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

User Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI

User Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

User Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

User Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?

User Mark Stokes (Oxford).

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

User Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

User Jennifer Lau (KCL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

User Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction

User Antonia Hamilton (UCL).

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

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

User Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

User Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

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

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

User Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

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

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

User Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

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

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks

User Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) .

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Social brain development in adolescence

User Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL).

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

Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression

User Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

User Essi Viding (UCL).

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

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

User Essi Viding (UCL).

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

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network

User Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward

User Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Confidence and adaptive decision making

User Nick Yeung (Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU

User Bob Carlyon (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex

User Matteo Carandini (UCL).

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

Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training working memory is learning to do something new

User Sue Gathercole (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

User Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

User Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Unitization effects on memory

User Roni Tibon (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

User Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

User Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 08 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

User Andrew Welchman, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?

User David Baguley, University of Nottingham.

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

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social rank processing in depression

User Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech

User Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario.

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

User Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes

User Richard Turner, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

User Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University.

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control

User Tim Behrens, Oxford.

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

Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

User Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning

User Steve Kennerley, UCL.

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

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind

User Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute.

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

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics

User Maria Wimber, Birmingham University.

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

Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression

User Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University.

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

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders

User Cathy Creswell, University of Reading.

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

Thursday 06 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

User Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia

User Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester.

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

Thursday 16 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental disorders of working memory

User Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

User Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford.

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

Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network

User Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain

User Evelina Fedorenko, MIT.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

User Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol.

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Executive functions during abstract problem solving

User Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Helping the police with their enquiries

User Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle.

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

Thursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive control in affective contexts

User Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

User Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

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

Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory

User Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory

User Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham.

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

Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency

User Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition

User Alpar Lazar, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

User Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

User Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT

User Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

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

Thursday 10 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory

User Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

User Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne.

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

Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli

User Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

User Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?

User Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

User Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Human neuroscience in the wild

User Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial.

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

Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

User Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis

User Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

User Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL.

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

Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

User Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford.

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

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Human brain networks from functional MRI

User Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

User Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

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

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 10 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 03 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

User Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSD

User Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning

User Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The Dyslexia Debate

User Joe Elliott, Durham.

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gained in translation

User Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The integrative self

User Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford.

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

Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 12 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 12 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning

User Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neural systems for navigation

User Hugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

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

Thursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 05 November 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings

User Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test

User Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 22 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory

User Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanisms

User Marco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions

User Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why do we jump the gun? Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans

User Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Fast transient brain states

User Mark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigation of priming effects on associative memory

User Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes

User Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression

User Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods

User Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

Chaucer Club

Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear

TALK CANCELLED

User Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

User Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears

User Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more

User Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning

User Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) .

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

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users

User Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain

User Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex

User Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognition

User Satu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki).

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

Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception

User Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Estimating representational dissimilarity measures

User Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:30-13:00

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

User Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) .

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

Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)

User Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

User Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex

User Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

User Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

User Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

User Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

User Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

User Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

User Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

User Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry

User Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) .

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

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success

User Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings?

User Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) .

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

Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity

User Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T

User David Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen.

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

Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors

User Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 11 December 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data

User Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire

User Jackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology).

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

Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 04 December 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function

User Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs information

User Simon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 27 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

User Michael Browning (University of Oxford) .

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

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for intervention

User Lynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading).

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

Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 20 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and

User Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information

User Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université.

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

Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 13 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions

User Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory

User Eva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading).

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

Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 06 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help?

User Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds

User Stuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL).

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

Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks

User Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 23 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis

User Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex

User Jennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL).

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

Thursday 16 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 16 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools

User Jon Quach (University of Melbourne).

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

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding

User Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 09 October 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment

User Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

User tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood

User Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden).

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions

User Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness

Cancelled - please accept our apologies

User Marie Smith (Birkbeck).

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

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development

User Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways

User Stephanie Van Goozen.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me?

User Sarah Byford.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making

User Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Life as we know it

User Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London).

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

Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking

User Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter

User Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) .

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

Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people

User Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement

User Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulating speech: tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients

User Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) .

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

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The configural processing hypothesis revisited: The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition

User Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.

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

Wednesday 26 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidence

User Michael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) .

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

Thursday 13 March 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury

User Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environment

User Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities

User Adam Hampshire (Imperial) .

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

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical mechanisms of face processing

User Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) .

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

Thursday 27 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations

User Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory

User Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol) .

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

Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

User Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

User Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 13 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG

User Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How do antidepressants work?

User Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming

User Alex Billig .

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

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulation

User David Linden (Cardiff University).

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

Thursday 30 January 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception

User Matthias Treder (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMS

User Beth Jefferies (University of York) .

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

Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain

User Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) .

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

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brain

User Kate Watkins (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective

User Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) .

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

Wednesday 15 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 12 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autism

Cancelled - please accept our apologies

User Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University).

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

Thursday 05 December 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 05 December 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory and Specific Language Impairment

User Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials

User Professor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University).

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

Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 28 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

User Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

User Professor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis).

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

Thursday 21 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 21 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem

User Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 14 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity

User Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

User Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) .

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

Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 07 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected

User Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies, we will reschedule next term

User Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge .

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

Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 31 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies

User Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence?

User Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London).

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

Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

User Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Don't believe everything you read in the papers...

User Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol.

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

Thursday 17 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 17 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains

User Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) .

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

Thursday 10 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T?

User Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing

User Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE

User Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) .

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

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms?

User Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings

User Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses

User Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies

User Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control

User Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

User Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span

User Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit).

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

Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders

User Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht).

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

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

User Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

User Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results

User Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibility

User Professor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent).

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

Thursday 02 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific?

User Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approach

User Dr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 25 April 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either

User Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effects

User Professor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) .

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

Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

User Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational geometry modelling

User Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

User Professor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA).

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

Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex

User Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescence

User Professor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden).

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

Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system

User John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions

User Professor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society).

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

Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision-making with and without rules

User Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex

User Professor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris).

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

Thursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory

User Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech

User Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation

User Professor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre).

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

Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The consequences of intentional forgetting

User Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Depression and training positive future imagery

User Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit?

User Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams

User Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments

User Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Volition and Agency

Joint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture

User Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London).

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

Thursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation

User Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 06 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Representation of motor skills in cortical networks

User Dr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London).

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

Thursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 29 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recent research updates

User CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor system

User Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 22 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 22 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

Two short talks today

User Moos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

Two short talks today

User Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Interactions between form and meaning in language processing

User Dr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 15 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition

User Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making

User Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 08 November 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe

User Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states

User Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news)

User Dr Tali Sharot (University College London).

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

Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway

Two short talks today

User Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face space in the primate visual system

Two short talks today

User Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning

User Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London).

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

Thursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 18 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory

User Kristjan Kalm (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Person identification and speech recognition in human communication

User Dr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany).

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

Thursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 11 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

User Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation

User Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland).

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

Thursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 04 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts)

User Roland Benoit (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias

User Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia).

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

Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

User Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?

User Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology).

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

Thursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

User Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity).

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

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases

User Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Comparing models of contour in music and speech

User Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition

Talk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies

User Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition).

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

Monday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders

User Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 24 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience

User Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour

User Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University).

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

Thursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly

User John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more

User Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London).

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

Thursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism

User Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission

User Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state

User Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany).

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

Thursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account

User Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

How memory guides perception

User Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective

User Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry).

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

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement

User Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data

User Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

CANCELLED - please accept our apologies

User Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fast cortical mapping: a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults

User Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

User Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

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

Thursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis

User Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

User Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

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

Thursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal

User Michael Ewbank (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

User Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Executive function in children with reading difficulties

User Shinmin Wang (University of York).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons

User Dr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School).

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

Thursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations

User Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework

User Professor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

User Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games

User Professor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London).

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

Thursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans

User Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health).

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

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Information gathering and impulsivity

User Professor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health).

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

Thursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain?

User Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London).

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

Thursday 08 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 08 December 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition

CANCELLED, to be rearranged for the new year

User Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh).

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

Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 01 December 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

User Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease

User Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair

User Professor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 24 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 24 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does working memory training work?

User Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSD

User Professor Chris Brewin (University College London).

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

Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 17 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech

User Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy?

User Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff).

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

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 10 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex

User Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligence

User Professor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 03 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials

User Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain

User Professor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 20 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 20 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention

User Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels

User Professor Julie Bierer (University of Washington).

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

Thursday 13 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 13 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Heart and brain

User Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories

User Professor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York).

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

Thursday 06 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 06 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Improving cognition

User John Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan).

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

Thursday 16 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI)

User Olaf Hauk (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 15 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity

User Nikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute).

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

Thursday 09 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex

User Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 08 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memory

User Emrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 02 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI

User Joanne Taylor (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control

User Chelan Weaver (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection

User Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Max Garagnani (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation

User William Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 12 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam

User Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future

User Professor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto.

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

Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Now, Sometime, Never? Equality for Women in Science

User Paul Walton (York University).

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

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex

User Kalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA).

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

Thursday 17 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia

User Laura Hughes (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents

User Rosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee).

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

Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception

User Daniel Mitchell (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Parsing the stream of behaviour

User Jeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA).

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

Thursday 03 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content

User Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applications

User Rainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 24 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representation in individual people

User Ian Charest (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project

User Russ Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA.

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

Thursday 17 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex

User Ben Crittenden (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning?

User Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition

User Frank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA).

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

Thursday 10 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Articulatory contributions to speech perception

User Matt Davis (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Timing attention in the human brain

User Kia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford).

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

Thursday 03 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study

User Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex?

User Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA).

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

Thursday 27 January 2011, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual differences in visual short term memory

User Michele Veldsman (CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results)

User Sinéad Hynes(CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interactions

User Uri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA).

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

Thursday 20 January 2011, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 09 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysis

User Ken Norman (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 02 December 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representations in individual people

CANCELLED - REPLACED BY JUSTIN HULBERT. WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM

User Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

User Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under Load

User Nilli Lavie (University College London).

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

Thursday 25 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 25 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR WEDS 1ST DEC

User Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners

User Lucy McGregor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

'Why Eyes'

User Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University).

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

Thursday 11 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep

User Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledge

User Richard Morris (Edinburgh University).

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

Thursday 04 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 04 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata

User Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production

User Anne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).

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

Thursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 28 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus

User Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 27 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity

User Tor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA).

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

Thursday 21 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 21 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state

User Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

User Sarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland).

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

Thursday 14 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns

User Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

User Ritta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

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

Thursday 07 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 07 October 2010, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation

User Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structure

User Dr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit).

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

Thursday 24 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Language processing in the musician brain

User Dr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience).

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

Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology

User Dr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 10 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception

User Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

User Davy Evans (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Hemispheric lateralisation for auditory processing – does the brainstem play a role?

User Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research).

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

Thursday 03 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discreteness: The essence of language?

User Friedmann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation

User Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of human moral decision-making: A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self

User Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies, we will try to reschedule later in the year

User Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital).

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

Thursday 20 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population

User Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia

User Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London).

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

Thursday 13 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigating the assembly of task sets

User Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Connectivity in face processing

User Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU) .

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

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalising

User Dr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham).

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

Thursday 06 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex

User Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language?

User Dr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 29 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales

User John Griffiths (CSLB).

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

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI

User Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

Cancelled due to travel disruption - Apologies and we hope to reschedule in the autumn!

User Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

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

Thursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach

User Su Li (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ?

User Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London ).

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

Thursday 18 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation

User Prof Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 11 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception?

User Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies for the short notice

User Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany).

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

Thursday 04 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks

User Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it?

User Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

User Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 18 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates

User Jeff Hanna (RCEAL).

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

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Processing lexical complexity in Polish

User Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning

User Prof Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 11 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex

User Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past

User Dr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology).

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

Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Task modulation in visual word recognition: a parametric EEG/MEG and fMRI study

User Yuanyuan Chen (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigating object and feature processing in human audition

User Annika Linke (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Fetal testosterone in mind

User Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection

User Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology).

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

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

User Prof Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 21 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception

User Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted

User Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

User Dr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 14 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tuuut... Puff. Tuuut... Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut

User Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU).

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

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging

Please note change of date & time for this talk only - Friday 11am-12noon

User Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA).

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

Friday 08 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Analysing and communicating uncertainty

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Action and Language

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy).

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

Thursday 10 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 10 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Decoding memories in the human hippocampus

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

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

Thursday 03 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 03 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Diffusion MRI and tractography

User Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Navigating in a 3-d world

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL).

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

Thursday 26 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 26 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation

User Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL).

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

Thursday 19 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 19 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations

User Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 12 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 12 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system

User Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France).

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

Thursday 05 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 05 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special

User Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

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

Thursday 29 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 29 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Syntax in the human brain

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany).

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

Thursday 22 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 22 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity

User Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 15 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks

User David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

User Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

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

Thursday 08 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU).

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

Thursday 08 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality

Please note change of time for this talk only - 12pm-2pm. This talk is a joint event with Developmental Psychiatry (UoC) and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, with light refreshments available after the talk.

User Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre).

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

Wednesday 07 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The social brain

User Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London).

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

Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorder

User Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortex

User Etienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris).

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

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and disease

User Matthew Jones (University of Bristol).

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

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRI

User Jenny Coull (University of Provence).

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

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Auditory processing in singing and walking crickets

User Berthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why?

User Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

From a face to its category via a few information states in the brain

User Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

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

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

CANCELLED due to illness

User Robert Rogers (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

What are illusions and why do we see them?

User Beau Lotto (University College London).

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

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Prefrontal cortex and top-down control: ablation studies

User David Gaffan (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

The role of human prefrontal cortex in hierarchical decision making

User John O’Doherty (Trinity College Dublin).

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

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

An a priori model of biased perceptual choice

User Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Decoding the listening brain with human neuroimaging and machine learning

User Elia Formisano (Maastricht University).

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

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Back to the future: memories for making predictions and decisions

User Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 11 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Top-down influences on visual processing studied with TMS and fMRI

User Christian Ruff (University College London).

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

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 04 December 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Reward and choice

User Ray Dolan (University College London).

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

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 27 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Mirror-touch: A remarkable form of synaesthesia

User Jamie Ward (University of Sussex).

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

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 20 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation in health and disease

User Irene Tracey (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 13 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning

User Bruno Averbeck (University College London).

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

Thursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 06 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Causal functional interactions between cortical areas

User Wim Vanduffel (Catholic University of Leuven).

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

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 30 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Remapping attention

User Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes).

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

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 23 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Perception and production of speech - a view from functional imaging

User Sophie Scott (University College London).

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

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power

User Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Thursday 16 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

User Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 10 October 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Imaging the relationship between structure, function and behaviour in the human brain

User Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Conflict, competition and cognitive control

User Nick Yeung (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Chaucer Club

Resting-state functional connectivity: Principles and applications in cognitive neuroscience

User Michael Greicius (Stanford University School of Medicine).

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

Thursday 25 September 2008, 16:15-17:15

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Count nouns and the semantics of counting

User Professor Susan Rothstein, Bar Ilan University.

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

Tuesday 08 April 2008, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems

This is a special joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC-CBU Chaucer Club. Please note recent venue change to MRC-CBU

User Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA.

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

Friday 07 December 2007, 16:30-18:00

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Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain

👤 Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire 📅 Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

👤 Kate Jeffrey (UCL) 📅 Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?

👤 Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

👤 Mark Johnson (UoC) 📅 Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)

👤 Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications

👤 Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin) 📅 Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

👤 Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain

👤 Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

👤 Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham) 📅 Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI

👤 Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

👤 Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford) 📅 Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

👤 Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?

👤 Mark Stokes (Oxford) 📅 Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

👤 Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

👤 Jennifer Lau (KCL) 📅 Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

👤 Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction

👤 Antonia Hamilton (UCL) 📅 Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

👤 Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham) 📅 Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

👤 Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain 📅 Wednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

👤 Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires) 📅 Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

👤 Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires) 📅 Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks

👤 Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 15 March 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Social brain development in adolescence

👤 Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL) 📅 Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression

👤 Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 08 March 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

👤 Essi Viding (UCL) 📅 Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

👤 Essi Viding (UCL) 📅 Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network

👤 Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward

👤 Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Confidence and adaptive decision making

👤 Nick Yeung (Oxford) 📅 Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU

👤 Bob Carlyon (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex

👤 Matteo Carandini (UCL) 📅 Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training working memory is learning to do something new

👤 Sue Gathercole (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

👤 Alan Carson (Edinburgh) 📅 Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

👤 Alan Carson (Edinburgh) 📅 Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Unitization effects on memory

👤 Roni Tibon (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

👤 Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

👤 Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 08 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

👤 Andrew Welchman, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?

👤 David Baguley, University of Nottingham 📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social rank processing in depression

👤 Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech

👤 Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario 📅 Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

👤 Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes

👤 Richard Turner, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

👤 Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control

👤 Tim Behrens, Oxford 📅 Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

👤 Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning

👤 Steve Kennerley, UCL 📅 Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind

👤 Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics

👤 Maria Wimber, Birmingham University 📅 Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression

👤 Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders

👤 Cathy Creswell, University of Reading 📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 15:30-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

👤 Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 05 October 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia

👤 Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester 📅 Thursday 16 June 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental disorders of working memory

👤 Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 15 June 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

👤 Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford 📅 Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network

👤 Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain

👤 Evelina Fedorenko, MIT 📅 Wednesday 01 June 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

👤 Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol 📅 Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Executive functions during abstract problem solving

👤 Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Helping the police with their enquiries

👤 Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle 📅 Thursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive control in affective contexts

👤 Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

👤 Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL 📅 Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory

👤 Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 04 May 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory

👤 Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham 📅 Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency

👤 Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 27 April 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition

👤 Alpar Lazar, Cambridge 📅 Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

👤 Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands 📅 Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

Chaucer Club

The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT

👤 Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL 📅 Thursday 10 March 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory

👤 Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

👤 Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne 📅 Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli

👤 Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

👤 Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?

👤 Felix Hill (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

👤 Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Human neuroscience in the wild

👤 Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial 📅 Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

👤 Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis

👤 Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2016, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

👤 Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL 📅 Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

👤 Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford 📅 Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Human brain networks from functional MRI

👤 Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

👤 Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health 📅 Wednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 10 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 03 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

👤 Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSD

👤 Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge 📅 Thursday 26 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 26 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning

👤 Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The Dyslexia Debate

👤 Joe Elliott, Durham 📅 Thursday 19 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 19 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gained in translation

👤 Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The integrative self

👤 Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford 📅 Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 12 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 12 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning

👤 Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neural systems for navigation

👤 Hugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL 📅 Thursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 05 November 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings

👤 Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test

👤 Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit 📅 Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 22 October 2015, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory

👤 Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanisms

👤 Marco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy 📅 Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions

👤 Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota) 📅 Thursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why do we jump the gun? Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans

👤 Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 10 June 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Fast transient brain states

👤 Mark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigation of priming effects on associative memory

👤 Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 03 June 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes

👤 Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 28 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression

👤 Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods

👤 Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 27 May 2015, 12:30-13:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear

⚠️ TALK CANCELLED

👤 Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam) 📅 Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

⚠️ Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

👤 Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests 📅 Wednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears

👤 Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam) 📅 Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more

👤 Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning

👤 Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) 📅 Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users

👤 Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 06 May 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain

👤 Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex

👤 Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognition

👤 Satu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki) 📅 Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception

👤 Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Estimating representational dissimilarity measures

👤 Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:30-13:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

👤 Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) 📅 Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)

👤 Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

👤 Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) 📅 Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex

👤 Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

👤 Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) 📅 Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

👤 Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

👤 Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

👤 Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

👤 Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) 📅 Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

👤 Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) 📅 Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

👤 Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry

👤 Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham) 📅 Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive and neurobiological markers of anxiety and treatment success

👤 Andrea Reinecke (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 28 January 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings?

👤 Jennifer Rodd (Experimental Psychology, UCL) 📅 Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decoding face exemplar representations across visual cortex: from shape to identity

👤 Johan Carlin (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 January 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T

👤 David Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen 📅 Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Threat, or mere distraction? Anxiety-related attentional vigilance to threat distractors

👤 Susannah Murphy (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 14 January 2015, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 11 December 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision processes and decision deficits: Insights from response time data

👤 Jiaxang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 10 December 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire

👤 Jackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology) 📅 Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 04 December 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of the APOE genotype on brain function

👤 Nicola Filippini (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 03 December 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations for episodic memory – Association vs information

👤 Simon Hanslmayr (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham) 📅 Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 27 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

👤 Michael Browning (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 26 November 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Specificity of effects of early parent-infant interactions in the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and implications for intervention

👤 Lynne Murray (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading) 📅 Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 20 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The search for neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia using MEG and

👤 Laura Hughes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 19 November 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information

👤 Pascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université 📅 Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 13 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Motivated forgetting: Insights from patients with focal brain lesions

👤 Shanti Shanker (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 12 November 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory

👤 Eva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading) 📅 Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 06 November 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Rebuilding spatial awareness following stroke, can home-based training help?

👤 Polly Peers (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 05 November 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds

👤 Stuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL) 📅 Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prefrontal neuronal activities reflecting capacity constraints and emergent flexibility of cognition in varying-load working memory tasks

👤 Kei Watanabe (University of Oxford) 📅 Wednesday 29 October 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 23 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Top-down visual processing and feature extraction in healthy observers and early psychosis

👤 Christoph Teufel (University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex

👤 Jennifer Bizley (Ear Institute, UCL) 📅 Thursday 16 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 16 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Memory Maestros study – addressing working memory problems at a population-level in primary schools

👤 Jon Quach (University of Melbourne) 📅 Wednesday 15 October 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding

👤 Fred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London) 📅 Thursday 09 October 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 09 October 2014, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Ageing, memory and altered cortical recruitment

👤 Alexa Morcam (University of Edinburgh) 📅 Wednesday 08 October 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

⚠️ Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

👤 tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood

👤 Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden) 📅 Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions

👤 Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness

⚠️ Cancelled - please accept our apologies

👤 Marie Smith (Birkbeck) 📅 Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development

👤 Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways

👤 Stephanie Van Goozen 📅 Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me?

👤 Sarah Byford 📅 Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding fronto-polar function: An intracranial EEG study of flexibility in human decision-making

👤 Philippe Domenech (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, France) 📅 Wednesday 14 May 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Life as we know it

👤 Karl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London) 📅 Thursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Joint determinants of prefrontal ageing: Selective frontal grey and white matter differentially mediate age-related changes in fluid intelligence and multitasking

👤 Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 07 May 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter

👤 Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) 📅 Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How the brain uses information from face and voice to recognize other people

👤 Helen Blank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 April 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

From cortical inhibition and excitation to cognitive enhancement

👤 Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulating speech: tDCS in the healthy brain and as an adjunct to anomia treatment in aphasic stroke patients

👤 Jenny Crinion (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 📅 Wednesday 23 April 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The configural processing hypothesis revisited: The role of shape and reflectance in familiar face recognition

👤 Stefan R. Schweinberger DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 📅 Wednesday 26 March 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Subcortical contributions to cognition and behaviour: human imaging and lesion model evidence

👤 Michael Hornberger (University of New South Wales, Australia) 📅 Thursday 13 March 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury

👤 Virginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 12 March 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Strategic offloading of prospective memory to the external environment

👤 Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 📅 Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Deconstructing inhibitory control and general intelligence - a functional network perspective on the organisation of human abilities

👤 Adam Hampshire (Imperial) 📅 Wednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical mechanisms of face processing

👤 Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University) 📅 Thursday 27 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations

👤 Ronald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 26 February 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Rehearsal and the development of verbal short-term memory

👤 Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol) 📅 Thursday 20 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

👤 Richard Meiser-Steadman (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 19 February 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

👤 Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 13 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How things are adding up: The neural dynamics of arithmetic problem solving as revealed by fMRI and EEG-MEG

👤 Nadja Tschentscher (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 12 February 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How do antidepressants work?

👤 Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The roles of linguistic knowledge and attention in auditory streaming

👤 Alex Billig 📅 Wednesday 05 February 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Brain control: new developments in neurofeedback and neuromodulation

👤 David Linden (Cardiff University) 📅 Thursday 30 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-computer interfaces: applications in communication, mental-state monitoring, and perception

👤 Matthias Treder (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The neural basis of semantic cognition: Convergence of neuropsychology, fMRI, MEG and TMS

👤 Beth Jefferies (University of York) 📅 Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional connectivity changes in the ageing brain

👤 Linda Geerligs (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 22 January 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cortical specialisation for language and auditory processing in the congenitally-blind (anophthalmic) brain

👤 Kate Watkins (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Language, intelligence and the brain - a developmental perspective

👤 Fiona Richardson (Anglia Ruskin) 📅 Wednesday 15 January 2014, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 12 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

A spectrum of sociability: Discussing social attention, social cognition and social behaviours in Williams syndrome and autism

⚠️ Cancelled - please accept our apologies

👤 Dr Debbie Riby (Durham University) 📅 Thursday 05 December 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 05 December 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory and Specific Language Impairment

👤 Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 04 December 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials

👤 Professor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University) 📅 Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 28 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Memory control deficits in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

👤 Ana Catarino (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

👤 Professor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis) 📅 Thursday 21 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 21 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

On the Frequency Following Response, a measure of phase locking in the auditory brainstem

👤 Hedwig Gockel (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 20 November 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 14 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The brain of the beholder – inferior temporal representations of visual objects are individually unique and predict perceived similarity

👤 Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 November 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

👤 Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) 📅 Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 07 November 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Intellectual disability of known genetic origin - new journeys toward the unexpected

👤 Kate Baker (Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 06 November 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

⚠️ CANCELLED, please accept our apologies, we will reschedule next term

👤 Dr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge 📅 Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 31 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

⚠️ CANCELLED, please accept our apologies

👤 Richard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence?

👤 Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London) 📅 Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

👤 Annette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Don't believe everything you read in the papers...

👤 Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol 📅 Thursday 17 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 17 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains

👤 Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) 📅 Thursday 10 October 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High Resolution fMRI – Is it worth it at 3T?

👤 Marta Correia (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 09 October 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Changes in functional and structural connectivity across adult lifespan: implications for neurocognitive ageing

👤 Rogier Kievit (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The manuscript selection process at SCIENCE

👤 Peter Stern (Senior Editor SCIENCE) 📅 Wednesday 26 June 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fancy some PIMMS? Or want to stay SLIMM? Memory theories worthy of their acronyms?

👤 Rik Henson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 19 June 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cortical mechanisms of cognition: A view from direct brain recordings

👤 Professor Bob Knight (University of California, Berkeley) 📅 Thursday 13 June 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A smörgåsbord of data on the inhibitory control of memory: Connectivity- and meta-analyses

👤 Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 12 June 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Sources of variation in developmental language disorders: Evidence from eye-tracking studies

👤 Dr Courtenay Norbury (Royal Holloway, University of London) 📅 Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why is work with infants and young children important in translational neuroscience? Attention outside the scanner: individual differences in the micro-dynamics of naturalistic attentional control

👤 Sam Wass (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 05 June 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

👤 Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 Taylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of age-related changes in memory across the adult life span

👤 Professor Lars Nyberg (Umeå Universit) 📅 Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Heterogeneity in the biology of developmental disorders

👤 Professor Sarah Durston (University of Utrecht) 📅 Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

👤 Zoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex) 📅 Wednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

👤 Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurofeedback using real-time fMRI: implementation and results

👤 Tibor Auer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 08 May 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive control: From implementing instructions to cognitive flexibility

👤 Professor Marcel Brass (University of Ghent) 📅 Thursday 02 May 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Activity in the multiple demand network during word and pseudoword reading: Domain general or domain specific?

👤 Joanne Taylor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 01 May 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of the subthalamic nucleus in strategic decision-making: A model-based approach

👤 Dr Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam) 📅 Thursday 25 April 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Globally coherent forms are reflected in global V1 patterns, but fMRI orientation decoding does not require either

👤 Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of ADHD: disorder-specificity and medication effects

👤 Professor Katya Rubia (King's College, London) 📅 Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

👤 Phil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational geometry modelling

👤 Alex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

👤 Professor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) 📅 Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Flexible coding of object images and words in visual and multiple-demand cortex

👤 Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 06 March 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive and social-affective development in adolescence

👤 Professor Eveline Crone (University of Leiden) 📅 Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Things I don't understand about task difficulty and the multiple-demand system

👤 John Duncan (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 27 February 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions

👤 Professor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society) 📅 Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision-making with and without rules

👤 Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex

👤 Professor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris) 📅 Thursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Exploring the relationship between attention and short-term memory

👤 Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 February 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prior knowledge, expectations and the perception of speech

👤 Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 06 February 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation

👤 Professor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre) 📅 Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The consequences of intentional forgetting

👤 Jonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Depression and training positive future imagery

👤 Simon Blackwell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Is specific language impairment a procedural learning deficit?

👤 Professor Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Pattern signatures of spatial and object-based attention in the dorsal and ventral visual streams

👤 Johan Carlin (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mix & Match, two tools that can help you create better experiments

👤 Maarten van Casteren (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 23 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Volition and Agency

⚠️ Joint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture

👤 Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London) 📅 Thursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental health and mental imagery: from experimental psychopathology to treatment innovation

👤 Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 16 January 2013, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 06 December 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Representation of motor skills in cortical networks

👤 Dr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London) 📅 Thursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 29 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recent research updates

👤 CBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating learning and recovery in the human motor system

👤 Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 22 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 22 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

⚠️ Two short talks today

👤 Moos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

⚠️ Two short talks today

👤 Seyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Interactions between form and meaning in language processing

👤 Dr Anna Woollams (University of Manchester) 📅 Thursday 15 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical contributions to social cognition

👤 Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 14 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making

👤 Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 08 November 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face perception and functional pathways in the temporal lobe

👤 Nick Furl (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 07 November 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Subjective experiences and cognition in unresponsive states

👤 Valdas Noreika (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 31 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Asymmetric Belief Formation (or why humans discount bad news)

👤 Dr Tali Sharot (University College London) 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Testing orientation information for different category exemplars in the human visual pathway

⚠️ Two short talks today

👤 Hamed Nili (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face space in the primate visual system

⚠️ Two short talks today

👤 Jonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning

👤 Professor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London) 📅 Thursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 18 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bayesian modelling of the interaction between long- and short-term memory

👤 Kristjan Kalm (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 17 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Person identification and speech recognition in human communication

👤 Dr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany) 📅 Thursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 11 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

👤 Richard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation

👤 Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland) 📅 Thursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 04 October 2012, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Routes to forgetting unwanted memories (and worrying future thoughts)

👤 Roland Benoit (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit) 📅 Wednesday 03 October 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias

👤 Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia) 📅 Thursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

⚠️ Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

👤 Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?

👤 Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology) 📅 Thursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

⚠️ Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

👤 Hamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity) 📅 Wednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases

👤 Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Comparing models of contour in music and speech

👤 Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition

⚠️ Talk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies

👤 Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition) 📅 Monday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders

👤 Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester) 📅 Thursday 24 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience

👤 Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 23 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour

👤 Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University) 📅 Thursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly

👤 John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 16 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more

👤 Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London) 📅 Thursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism

👤 Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission

👤 Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state

👤 Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany) 📅 Thursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account

👤 Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 02 May 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

How memory guides perception

👤 Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective

👤 Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry) 📅 Wednesday 25 April 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement

👤 Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh) 📅 Thursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A novel framework for modelling ERP/ERF data

👤 Nitin Williams (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 14 March 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

⚠️ CANCELLED - please accept our apologies

👤 Professor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fast cortical mapping: a potential mechanism that supports novel word-picture associations in healthy adults

👤 Andrea Greve (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 07 March 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

👤 Dr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London) 📅 Thursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Alertness Modulates spatial attention: Evidence from EEG Analysis

👤 Corinne Bareham (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 29 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

👤 Professor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York) 📅 Thursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms underlying repetition suppression in the face and body-processing network: all effects are not created equal

👤 Michael Ewbank (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 22 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

👤 Natalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Executive function in children with reading difficulties

👤 Shinmin Wang (University of York) 📅 Wednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons

👤 Dr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School) 📅 Thursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Human object-similarity judgments reflect and transcend IT categorical object representations

👤 Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 01 February 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework

👤 Professor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

👤 Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 25 January 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games

👤 Professor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London) 📅 Thursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Auditory working memory and long-term memory in humans

👤 Katrin Schulze (UCL Institute of Child Health) 📅 Wednesday 18 January 2012, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Information gathering and impulsivity

👤 Professor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health) 📅 Thursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain?

👤 Professor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London) 📅 Thursday 08 December 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 08 December 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition

⚠️ CANCELLED, to be rearranged for the new year

👤 Professor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) 📅 Thursday 01 December 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 01 December 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neuronal networks of mental calculation: Evidence from fMRI data

👤 Nadja Tschentscher (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

White matter pathology in Parkinson’s disease

👤 Charlotte Rae (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 30 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair

👤 Professor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 24 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does working memory training work?

👤 Joni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 23 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Experimental and neuroimaging studies of memory for trauma and PTSD

👤 Professor Chris Brewin (University College London) 📅 Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated measures and mixed model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 17 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigation of the sequential aspects of concurrent speech perception using Zebra Speech

👤 Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 16 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Reconsidering Papez circuit and memory: Is it all about the anatomy?

👤 Professor John Aggleton (University of Cardiff) 📅 Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 10 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Minding object category increases category distinctness of response patterns in ventral temporal cortex

👤 Arjen Alink (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 09 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Corvid mentality: Implications for the evolution of human intelligence

👤 Professor Nicky Clayton (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 03 November 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical data analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 03 November 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tagging memories using steady-state visually evoked potentials

👤 Maria Wimber (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 02 November 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain

👤 Professor Jack Gallant (University of California, Berkeley) 📅 Thursday 20 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including analysis of covariance

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 20 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention

👤 Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 19 October 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels

👤 Professor Julie Bierer (University of Washington) 📅 Thursday 13 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 13 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Heart and brain

👤 Francesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 12 October 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories

👤 Professor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York) 📅 Thursday 06 October 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 06 October 2011, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Improving cognition

👤 John Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan) 📅 Thursday 16 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can I have a quick word? The speed of single-word reading determined by behavioural and EMEG data (and maybe a bit of fMRI)

👤 Olaf Hauk (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 15 June 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity

👤 Nikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute) 📅 Thursday 09 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Flexible representation of task-relevant information in frontoparietal cortex

👤 Alexandra Woolgar (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 08 June 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of dopamine for the persistence of human long-term memory

👤 Emrah Duzel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) 📅 Thursday 02 June 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does the brain learn to read words and name objects? Evidence from artificial language learning and fMRI

👤 Joanne Taylor (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 01 June 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Is all stopping the same? Assessing inhibition in action control

👤 Chelan Weaver (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 25 May 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection

👤 Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 Max Garagnani (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 18 May 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation

👤 William Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 12 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

I remember, therefore I forget: bringing memory inhibition to life using the SenseCam

👤 Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 11 May 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future

👤 Professor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto 📅 Thursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Now, Sometime, Never? Equality for Women in Science

👤 Paul Walton (York University) 📅 Wednesday 04 May 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex

👤 Kalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA) 📅 Thursday 17 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Frontal deficits in Parkinson’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia

👤 Laura Hughes (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents

👤 Rosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee) 📅 Thursday 10 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Quantity and quality of visual object representations during memory and perception

👤 Daniel Mitchell (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 09 March 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Parsing the stream of behaviour

👤 Jeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA) 📅 Thursday 03 March 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Informational masking of speech produced by speech-like sounds without linguistic content

👤 Jing Chen (Dept of Experimental Psychology) 📅 Wednesday 02 March 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applications

👤 Rainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands 📅 Thursday 24 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representation in individual people

👤 Ian Charest (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 23 February 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Toward a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project

👤 Russ Poldrack (University of Texas at Austin), USA 📅 Thursday 17 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving the definition of multiple demand cortex

👤 Ben Crittenden (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Crossmodal perceptual enhancement of degraded speech: a pathway to long-term learning?

👤 Ediz Sohoglu (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition

👤 Frank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA) 📅 Thursday 10 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Articulatory contributions to speech perception

👤 Matt Davis (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 09 February 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Timing attention in the human brain

👤 Kia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford) 📅 Thursday 03 February 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of consolidation on the learning of novel spoken words: an MEG study

👤 Pierre Gagnepain (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 02 February 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex?

👤 Nancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA) 📅 Thursday 27 January 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual differences in visual short term memory

👤 Michele Veldsman (CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive training in a healthy older population (preliminary results)

👤 Sinéad Hynes(CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 26 January 2011, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Face to Face, Brain to Brain: Exploring the Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Interactions

👤 Uri Hasson (Dept of Psychology, Princeton, USA) 📅 Thursday 20 January 2011, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 09 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Tracking memory retrieval using multivariate pattern analysis

👤 Ken Norman (Princeton University) 📅 Thursday 02 December 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representations in individual people

⚠️ CANCELLED - REPLACED BY JUSTIN HULBERT. WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM

👤 Ian Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

👤 Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Attention, Distraction and Cognitive Control under Load

👤 Nilli Lavie (University College London) 📅 Thursday 25 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 25 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

⚠️ CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR WEDS 1ST DEC

👤 Justin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 24 November 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effects of disfluencies in speech on listeners

👤 Lucy McGregor (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 17 November 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

'Why Eyes'

👤 Vicki Bruce (Newcastle University) 📅 Thursday 11 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What did you just say? Cognitive processing while falling asleep

👤 Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 10 November 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Memory consolidation: the impact of novelty and prior knowledge

👤 Richard Morris (Edinburgh University) 📅 Thursday 04 November 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 04 November 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Analysing neuronal networks using communicating automata

👤 Su Li (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 03 November 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production

👤 Anne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) 📅 Thursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 28 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus

👤 Pedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology) 📅 Wednesday 27 October 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity

👤 Tor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA) 📅 Thursday 21 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 21 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

If you're conscious and you know it, squeeze your hand: detecting awareness in the vegetative state

👤 Damian Cruise (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 20 October 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

👤 Sarah Gonzales-Andino (Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland) 📅 Thursday 14 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning-dependent plasticity: evidence from fMRI multi-voxel patterns

👤 Jiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 13 October 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

👤 Ritta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) 📅 Thursday 07 October 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC-CBU) 📅 Thursday 07 October 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Introducing Zebra Speech: from bleep-blop streaming to concurrent speech segregation

👤 Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 06 October 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

A new paradigm to uncover regions involved in parsing language into constituent structure

👤 Dr Christophe Pallier (CNRS INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit) 📅 Thursday 24 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Language processing in the musician brain

👤 Dr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) 📅 Thursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology

👤 Dr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 10 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The face isn't everything: examining the influence of visual and auditory cues in emotion perception

👤 Raliza Stoyanova (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Emotional self regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

👤 Davy Evans (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 09 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Hemispheric lateralisation for auditory processing – does the brainstem play a role?

👤 Dr Katrin Krumbholtz (MRC Institute of Hearing Research) 📅 Thursday 03 June 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discreteness: The essence of language?

👤 Friedmann Pulvermuller (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 02 June 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gaining control: The effects of cognitive training on emotion regulation

👤 Susanne Schweizer (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of human moral decision-making: A look into the disparity between the idealised and actual moral self

👤 Oriel Feldmanhall (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 26 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

⚠️ TALK CANCELLED - Apologies, we will try to reschedule later in the year

👤 Dr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital) 📅 Thursday 20 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Autism Spectrum characteristics and their relationship to brain structure and function in the typical population

👤 Elisabeth von dem Hagen (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 19 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia

👤 Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London) 📅 Thursday 13 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigating the assembly of task sets

👤 Apoorva Bhandari (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Connectivity in face processing

👤 Daniel Wakeman (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 12 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Comprehension of human action in a hierarchical framework for mirroring and mentalising

👤 Dr Antonia Hamilton (School of Psychology, University of Nottingham) 📅 Thursday 06 May 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Taskplan hierarchy and the prefrontal cortex

👤 Ausaf Farooqui (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

👤 Lisa Brindley (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 05 May 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language?

👤 Dr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 29 April 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Measuring axon diameters with diffusion MRI and other tales

👤 John Griffiths (CSLB) 📅 Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning to read an artificial orthography and adaptations for fMRI

👤 Jo Taylor (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 28 April 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

⚠️ Cancelled due to travel disruption - Apologies and we hope to reschedule in the autumn!

👤 Prof Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) 📅 Thursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Modulation of emotion: A computational and real-time functional MRI approach

👤 Su Li (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 21 April 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Does prefrontal cortex contain a variety of subsystems with separable functions: the neuropsychological perspective ?

👤 Prof Tim Shallice (SISSA Trieste and ICN, UCL, London ) 📅 Thursday 18 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation

👤 Prof Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 11 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does motor cortex necessarily contribute to speech perception?

👤 Gayaneh Szenkovits (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain

⚠️ TALK CANCELLED - Apologies for the short notice

👤 Prof Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany) 📅 Thursday 04 March 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differentiating lexical complexity in fronto-temporal language networks

👤 Mirjana Bozic (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 03 March 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

What the heck is priming and what's a shoebox got to do with it?

👤 Aidan Horner (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 24 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

👤 Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 18 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The syntactic mismatch negativity (sMMN) in second language speakers and potential behavioural correlates

👤 Jeff Hanna (RCEAL) 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Processing lexical complexity in Polish

👤 Zanna Szlachta (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 17 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning

👤 Prof Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 11 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex

👤 Roland Benoit (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 10 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past

👤 Dr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology) 📅 Thursday 04 February 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Task modulation in visual word recognition: a parametric EEG/MEG and fMRI study

👤 Yuanyuan Chen (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigating object and feature processing in human audition

👤 Annika Linke (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 03 February 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Fetal testosterone in mind

👤 Prof Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 28 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection

👤 Zara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology) 📅 Wednesday 27 January 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

👤 Prof Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 21 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Multivariate pattern approaches to gaze perception

👤 Johan Carlin (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bored & frustrated? Your ego might be depleted

👤 Theresa Dahm (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 20 January 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cognitive and Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

👤 Dr Michael Anderson (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 14 January 2010, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tuuut... Puff. Tuuut... Puff. Unconscious patients learn to respond after tuut

👤 Tristan Bekinschtein (MRC CBSU) 📅 Wednesday 13 January 2010, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging

⚠️ Please note change of date & time for this talk only - Friday 11am-12noon

👤 Prof Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA) 📅 Friday 08 January 2010, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Analysing and communicating uncertainty

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 17 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Action and Language

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy) 📅 Thursday 10 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

👤 Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 10 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Decoding memories in the human hippocampus

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL) 📅 Thursday 03 December 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

👤 Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 03 December 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Diffusion MRI and tractography

👤 Eleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 02 December 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Navigating in a 3-d world

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL) 📅 Thursday 26 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

👤 Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 26 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation

👤 Chris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 25 November 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Dr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL) 📅 Thursday 19 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 19 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inverse mapping the neuronal substrates of face categorizations

👤 Marie Smith (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 18 November 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Dr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Thursday 12 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

👤 Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 12 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The future of scientific publishing - Ideas for an open, transparent, independent system

👤 Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 11 November 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France) 📅 Thursday 05 November 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Categorical Data Analysis

👤 Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 05 November 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special

👤 Clara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 04 November 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada) 📅 Thursday 29 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

👤 Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 29 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Syntax in the human brain

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) 📅 Thursday 22 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

👤 Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 22 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Spoken word priming and its role in subsequent recollection and familiarity

👤 Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit) 📅 Wednesday 21 October 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

👤 Peter Watson (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 15 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks

👤 David Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 📅 Wednesday 14 October 2009, 12:30-13:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

👤 Prof Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL) 📅 Thursday 08 October 2009, 15:30-16:30 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

The anatomy of statistical methods: models, hypotheses, significance and power

👤 Ian Nimmo-Smith (MRC CBSU) 📅 Thursday 08 October 2009, 11:00-12:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality

⚠️ Please note change of time for this talk only - 12pm-2pm. This talk is a joint event with Developmental Psychiatry (UoC) and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, with light refreshments available after the talk.

👤 Ilina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre) 📅 Wednesday 07 October 2009, 12:00-14:00 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The social brain

👤 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London) 📅 Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Cognitive neuroscience of attention: insights from developmental disorder

👤 Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Motivation and executive control in human prefrontal cortex

👤 Etienne Koechlin (INSERM-ENS, Paris) 📅 Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

The humble rat has a cognitive moment: coordinating limbic-cortical networks in cognition, sleep and disease

👤 Matthew Jones (University of Bristol) 📅 Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Dissociating timing from temporal attention with fMRI

👤 Jenny Coull (University of Provence) 📅 Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Auditory processing in singing and walking crickets

👤 Berthold Hedwig (University of Cambridge) 📅 Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Lateralisation of brain functions: what and why?

👤 Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

From a face to its category via a few information states in the brain

👤 Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow) 📅 Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

⚠️ CANCELLED due to illness

👤 Robert Rogers (University of Oxford) 📅 Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:15-17:15 📍 Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road

Chaucer Club

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