Students for Global Health Cambridge


2006-10-06 16:30: Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies (Professor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-13 16:30: Sex differences in intelligence? (Professor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-20 16:30: What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI (Professor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2006-10-27 16:30: Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? (Professor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire)

2006-11-03 16:30: Mood, memory & clinical depression (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-10 16:30: Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations (Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain)

2006-11-17 16:30: Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studies (Professor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2006-11-24 16:30: The origins of adult magical beliefs (Professor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2007-01-19 16:30: New family forms: Implications for parenting and child development (Professor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-26 16:30: Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory (Professor Graham Hitch, University of York)

2007-02-02 16:30: Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genes (Dr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA)

2007-02-09 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-02-16 16:30: Is theory of mind necessary for teaching (Dr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

2007-02-23 16:30: Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG (Professor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh)

2007-03-02 16:30: Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisions (Professor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA)

2007-03-09 16:30: Intuition and affect in decision-making (Dr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College)

2007-04-27 16:30: Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex (Professor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

2007-05-04 16:30: The role of action in directing attention (Professor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2007-05-11 16:30: Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memory (Dr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2007-05-18 16:30: Timing, memory and choice (Professor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA)

2007-10-05 16:30: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Dr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2007-10-12 16:30: The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviour (Dr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2007-10-19 16:30: Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol Connection (Professor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster)

2007-10-26 16:30: Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees (Professor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2007-11-02 16:30: Androgen and gender development (Professor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-09 16:30: Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events (Dr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham)

2007-11-16 16:30: Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotion (Professor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol)

2007-11-23 16:30: Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes (Dr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth)

2007-12-07 16:30: Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems (Professor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA)

2008-01-18 16:30: Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why? (Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2008-01-25 16:30: How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to response (Professor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2008-02-01 16:30: Functional MRI studies of memory and ageing (Dr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh)

2008-02-08 16:30: Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learning (Dr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2008-02-15 16:30: The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actions (Professor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2008-02-22 16:30: Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviour (Professor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)

2008-02-29 16:30: Cancellation in Auditory Scene Analysis (Dr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2008-03-07 16:30: Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled? (Dr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire)

2008-04-25 16:30: Attentional bias and craving in substance use (Dr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool)

2008-05-02 16:30: A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative! (Dr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-09 16:30: Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together (Joint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2008-05-16 16:30: Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography (Professor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2008-05-23 16:30: Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems? (Professor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-10 16:30: The spatial foundations of the conceptual system (Professor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA)

2008-10-17 16:30: Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzees (Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa)

2008-10-24 16:30: Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes (Professor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2008-10-31 16:30: The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder (Dr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-11-07 16:30: Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe (Dr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter)

2008-11-14 16:30: What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex? (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London)

2008-11-21 16:30: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought (Professor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull)

2008-11-28 16:30: The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function (Dr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2009-01-16 16:30: Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatry (Professor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-01-23 16:30: What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanations (Professor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain)

2009-01-30 16:30: Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward system (Dr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-06 16:30: Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge (Dr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2009-02-13 16:30: Signatures of conscious access:  Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality (Professor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-02-20 16:30: From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral stream (Professor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-27 16:30: Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from development (Dr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2009-03-06 16:30: How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans? (Dr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France)

2009-04-24 16:30: Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning? (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

2009-05-01 16:30: The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addiction (Dr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-08 16:30: Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism (Professor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria)

2009-05-15 16:30: How we come to experience that we own our body (Dr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

2009-10-09 16:30: Licking & liking in rodents (Dr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2009-10-16 16:30: Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexia (Professor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

2009-10-23 16:30: The neurodynamics of cognitive integration (Professor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London)

2009-10-30 16:30: Neurobiological basis of music and dance skills (Professor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2009-11-06 16:30: Risks, Emotions & Decisions (Professor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London)

2009-11-13 16:30: Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairment (Dr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-20 16:30: Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuits (Dr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2009-11-27 16:30: Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography (Professor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2010-01-15 16:30: Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits (Dr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University)

2010-01-22 16:30: The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and  implications for studies of infants and non-human animals (Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2010-01-29 16:30: Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe (Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2010-02-05 16:30: Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear (Dr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2010-02-12 16:30: Mapping the parts of higher level cortex (Professor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London)

2010-02-19 16:30: Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia (Dr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London)

2010-02-26 16:30: Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors (Professor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany)

2010-03-05 16:30: Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioning (Professor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2010-04-23 16:30: Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiology (Dr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex)

2010-04-30 16:30:  How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychology (Dr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham)

2010-05-07 16:30: Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurred (Dr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2010-05-14 16:30: Making Decisions without Values (Professor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London)

2010-05-21 16:30: Brain-Based Values (Professor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA)

2010-10-08 16:30: Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity? (Professor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2010-10-15 16:30: How the brain makes decisions (Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org))

2010-10-22 16:30: Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substrates (Professor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-29 16:30: Epigenetics, brain development and behaviour (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-05 16:30: Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disorders (Professor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

2010-11-12 16:30: Natural Geometry (Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA)

2010-11-19 16:30: Illusions in the real world (Dr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2010-11-26 16:30: The Evolution of shopping lists (Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-21 16:30: The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy (Professor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London)

2011-01-28 16:30: Hippocampal function: Re-considering configural memory (Dr Mark Good, University of Cardiff)

2011-02-04 16:30: The Neuroscience of moral judgement (Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)

2011-02-11 16:30: Do birds believe in magic (Dr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary,  University of  London)

2011-02-18 16:30: Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition (Professor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter)

2011-02-25 16:30: That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation (Professor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee)

2011-03-04 16:30: Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition (Dr Christian Fullgrabe, University of Nottingham)

2011-03-11 16:30: Thinking of things unseen: exploratory behaviour in chimpanzees and children (Dr Amanda Seed, University of  St Andrews)

2011-03-18 16:30: Soul Dust: the magic of consciousness (Dr Nicholas Humphrey)

2011-05-05 15:30: Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future (Professor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto)

2011-05-13 16:30: Emotions, Intuitions and Morality (Dr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-20 16:30: Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy (Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health)

2011-10-07 16:30: Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas (Professor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh)

2011-10-14 16:30: Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults (Professor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany)

2011-10-21 16:30: Visual sensitivity explained (Professor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science,  New York University)

2011-10-28 16:30: Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges (Dr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-04 16:30: Causal models in evidential reasoning (Dr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London)

2011-11-11 16:30: When experimentation meets limits, but simple correlation is uninformative: modelling developmental influences and other complex phenomena (Professor Mark Haggard, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2011-11-18 16:30: fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex (Professor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York)

2011-11-25 16:30: Adult neuropsychological models cannot be generalised to neurodevelopmental disorders (Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London)

2012-01-20 16:30: Thinking aloud about mental voices (Dr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University)

2012-01-27 16:30: Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences (Dr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster)

2012-02-03 16:30: Against Qualia (Professor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-10 16:30: Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet (Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2012-02-17 16:30: The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation (Dr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-02-24 16:30: The Adolescent Brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-03-02 16:30: Basic number representations and their neural basis (Dr Wim Fias, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-03-09 16:30: Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory. (Professor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2012-04-20 16:30: Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior (Professor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada)

2012-04-27 16:30: Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits:  Genetic and brain imaging findings (Dr Essi Viding, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London)

2012-05-04 16:30: Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control (Dr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium)

2012-05-11 16:30: Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour (Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-05-18 16:30: The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval (Dr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales)

2012-10-05 16:30: Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition. (Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh)

2012-10-12 16:30: Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling (Dr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2012-10-19 16:30: Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling (Dr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter)

2012-10-26 16:30: The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory (Professor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London)

2012-11-02 16:30: Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks (Dr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-09 16:30: Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

2012-11-16 16:30: ERP evidence of reduced perceptual filtering predicts superior visual search in individuals with high levels of autistic traits. (Dr Elizabeth Milne, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield)

2012-11-23 16:30: A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior (Professor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular  Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh)

2013-01-17 15:30: Volition and Agency (Professor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-01-25 16:30: Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning (Professor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven)

2013-02-01 16:30: Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents (Professor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of  Sussex)

2013-02-08 16:30: Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

2013-02-15 16:30: Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system (Professor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester)

2013-02-22 16:30: Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism (Professor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University)

2013-03-01 16:30: All work and no play (Prof. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD  Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience,  Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands)

2013-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London)

2013-04-26 16:30: The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease (Dr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-03 16:30: Emotional disorders and mental imagery  (Professor Emily A.  Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,  Cambridge)

2013-05-10 16:30: Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging (Professor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

2013-05-17 16:30: "Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making". (Dr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2013-10-11 16:30: Benefits and limitations of hearing aids (Professor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-18 16:30: Re-contextualizing the hippocampus (Dr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA)

2013-10-25 16:30: Economical brain networks (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust)

2013-11-01 16:30: Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits (Professor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-08 16:30: What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not' (Dr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.)

2013-11-15 16:30: Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices (Dr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2013-11-22 16:30: The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology (Dr Kevin J. Mitchell,  Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2013-11-29 16:30: Hermann Lotze and Local Sign (Professor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London  and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne)

2014-01-17 16:30: Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications (Professor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth.)

2014-01-24 16:30: Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience (Professor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior)

2014-01-31 16:30: Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing  (Professor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency )

2014-02-07 16:30: The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in   infants' goal attribution (Dr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL  and  Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition)

2014-02-14 16:30: The role of the motor system in action perception (Dr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London	)

2014-02-21 16:30: Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies (Dr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands )

2014-02-28 16:30: Investigating cognitive mechanisms in major depressive disorder using novel translational animal models  (Dr Emma Robinson, University of Bristol)

2014-03-07 16:30: Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value (Dr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow,  Department of Psychology,  University of Cambridge )

2014-03-13 16:30: Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulation (Professor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University)

2014-04-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (To be confirmed)

2014-05-02 16:30: The Conscious Phenotype (Professor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London)

2014-05-09 16:30: The integration of sensory cues across development (Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London	)

2014-05-16 16:30: A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour (Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-10 15:00: Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other minds (Professor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT)

2014-10-13 15:00: The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master it (Professor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA)

2014-10-17 15:00: Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression (Anthony A. Grace, Ph.D.  Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience,  Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology,  Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh  Pittsburgh, USA)

2014-10-24 15:00: Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognition (Professor Verity Brown, FRSE,  Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews)

2014-10-31 15:00: Neural Systems for Navigation (Dr. Hugo Spiers,  Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2014-11-07 15:00: Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom? (Professor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London)

2014-11-14 15:00: How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic Dementia (Dr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge)

2014-11-21 15:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and  policy-makers (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk )

2014-11-28 15:00: Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and Dyslexia (Professor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience,  Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-16 15:00: The application of psychological theories to clinical practice (Professor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist)

2015-01-23 15:00: Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour (Professor John F. Cryan,  Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

2015-01-30 15:00: How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment? (Professor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK)

2015-02-06 15:00:  Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments  (Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-13 15:00: The Evolution of Culture (Professor Kevin N. Laland,  School of Biology, University of St Andrews)

2015-02-20 15:00: Active Sensing and Brain oscillations (Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2015-02-27 15:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London)

2015-03-06 15:00: Premembering Perception (Professor Kia Nobre,  Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-04-24 15:00: Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity  ( Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of  Oxford)

2015-05-01 15:00: Adult age differences in social cognition (Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

2015-05-08 15:00: Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact (Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford)

2015-05-15 15:00: Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions (Dr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD)

2015-05-22 15:00: Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition (Dr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2015-10-09 16:30: The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation (Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA)

2015-10-16 16:30: Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical Dimensions (Professor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA)

2015-10-23 16:30: "Where" (Professor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France)

2015-10-30 16:30: Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading Acquisition (Professor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2015-11-06 16:30: The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-13 16:30: Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG (Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin)

2015-11-20 16:30: Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation (Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of  Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester)

2015-11-27 16:30: Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain (Professor Masud Husain,  Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of  Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)

2015-12-04 16:30: Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women (Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA                        )

2016-01-15 16:30: New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false. (Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2016-01-29 16:30: Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics  (Professor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark )

2016-02-05 16:30: Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again) (Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University )

2016-02-12 16:30: A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions. (Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University)

2016-02-19 16:30: How rational are we? (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London)

2016-02-26 16:30:   New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain (Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL)

2016-03-04 16:30: The typical and atypical development of the social brain (Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.)

2016-03-11 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow)

2016-04-22 16:30: Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.   (Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford)

2016-04-29 16:30: The Invention of Consciousness (Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-06 16:30: An engineering approach to aversive learning. (Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-13 16:30: Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder." (Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University)

2016-05-20 16:30: Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective (Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T)

2016-10-07 16:30: The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies. (Dr David Belin)

2016-10-14 16:30: Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness (Professor Robert Kentridge)

2016-10-21 16:30: See what you hear  - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses - (Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK)

2016-10-28 16:30: Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations ( Philippe Peigneux, PhD,  Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016  Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec)

2016-11-04 16:30: Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?  (Professor Gregor Thut,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow)

2016-11-11 16:30: The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition (Axel Cleeremans,  Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

2016-11-18 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series  (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director,  Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology,  University of Glasgow)

2016-11-25 16:30: Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity (Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2016-12-02 16:30: Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain (Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University)

2016-12-09 16:30: Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development (Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. )

2016-12-16 16:30: ‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’ (Dr Rosalind Ridley)

2017-01-20 16:30: Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.  (Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.)

2017-01-27 16:30: Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it) ( Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley)

2017-02-03 16:30: Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex (Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London)

2017-02-10 16:30: Learning to learn: lessons from action video games (Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva)

2017-02-17 16:30: Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making? (Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France)

2017-02-24 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino)

2017-03-03 16:30: Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise (Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London)

2017-03-10 16:30: Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making (Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2017-03-17 16:30:  Observations from the Edge of Beauty (Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-04-28 16:30: Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction (Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria)

2017-05-05 16:30: Do we control language or does language control us? (Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.)

2017-05-10 16:00: A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex (Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento)

2017-05-12 16:30: The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour. (Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex)

2017-05-19 16:30: Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system (Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands))

2017-10-06 16:30: Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering  (Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-13 16:30: The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status (Dr Pranjal Mehta,  University College London)

2017-10-20 16:30: How Power Affects Those Who Possess it:  Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation (Dr Ana Guinote,  University College London)

2017-10-27 16:30: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich)

2017-11-03 16:30: Touch: The sensory scaffold of development? (Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London)

2017-11-10 16:30: Information networks, truth and value.  (Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London)

2017-11-17 16:30:  Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia  (Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences  Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience  King’s College London)

2017-11-24 16:30: Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control    (Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2017-12-01 16:30: Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory (Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton)

2018-01-19 16:30: Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise (Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-01-26 16:30: Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening (Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester)

2018-02-02 17:00: A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter (Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University )

2018-02-09 16:30: Using narratives to understand human conscious experience (Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-02-16 16:30: From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis. (Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands )

2018-02-23 16:30: : Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties (Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD  Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology,  Justus-Leibig University Giessen     )

2018-03-02 16:30: How is visual perception biased (Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

2018-03-09 16:30: What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception? (Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2018-03-16 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University)

2018-05-04 16:30: Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex (Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science,  Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience,  Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2018-05-11 16:30: Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking    (Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2018-05-18 16:30: Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms (Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London)

2018-05-25 16:30: Metacognition of internally-generated processes (Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

2018-06-01 16:30: Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations (Professor Rafael Malach,  Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2018-10-05 16:30: Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging) (Dr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-12 16:30: How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour (Prof Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London)

2018-10-19 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-26 16:30: Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences  (Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany)

2018-11-02 16:30: Sleep for Systems Consolidation (Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor,  The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science   Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands)

2018-11-09 16:30: Social timing in autism spectrum disorders (Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich)

2018-11-13 18:30: Antimicrobial resistance: a global threat (panel event) (Professor Julian Parkhill, Dr Esmita Charani, Dr David Summers, Dr Hendrik van Veen)

2018-11-16 16:30: Making sense of time in the Human mind (Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France )

2018-11-23 16:30: Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know (Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

2019-01-18 16:30: Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life (Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona))

2019-01-25 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

2019-01-29 19:30: Non-communicable disease policy  (Dr Tollulah Oni)

2019-02-01 16:30: Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology (Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York)

2019-02-05 19:30: Climate Action: Climate Change and Global Health (Dr James Smith, Dr Isobel Braithwaite, Dr Alice McGushin, Rashmi Venkatraman, Dr. Diogo Correia Martins)

2019-02-08 16:30: Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity (Professor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo)

2019-02-12 19:30: Human Rights and Health (Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram)

2019-02-15 16:30: Animal models of episodic memory (Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University)

2019-02-22 16:30: In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry (Véronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes)

2019-03-01 16:30: From science to technology: the interaction between senses during the development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices. (Dr Monica Gori, Instituto Italiano di Techologia, Genoa, Italy)

2019-03-08 16:30: Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception (Heleen A. Slagter, PhD,  Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam)

2019-04-05 11:00: Attention modifies the weights of competing stimulus sources during integrated visual decision making (Professor Jason Mattingley)

2019-04-26 12:00: Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making (Dr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)

2019-05-01 13:00: Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations (Professor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University)

2019-05-10 12:00: Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice. (Dr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-17 12:00: Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project (Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-24 16:30: Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows (Professor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK)

2019-10-04 16:30: The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases (Professor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy)

2019-10-11 16:30: Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space (Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel    )

2019-10-18 00:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-25 16:30: How we remember and how we forget ( Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York)

2019-11-01 12:00: Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity (Dr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium )

2019-11-07 20:00: Health Impacts of Economic Inequalities (Professor Kate Pickett )

2019-11-08 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2019-11-12 16:30: Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way (Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)

2019-11-14 19:00: Nuclear Disarmament Panel Discussion (Frank Boulton, Jamie Kwong, Daniel Zeichner)

2019-11-15 16:30: The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight (Professor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

2019-11-18 18:00: Women in Global Health (Dr Jennifer Downs)

2019-11-20 18:30: Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Panel (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-11-22 12:00: Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines (Professor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

2019-11-29 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2019-12-06 16:30: Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors (Gaia Scerif,  Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2020-01-17 12:00: Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2020-01-24 16:30: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease (Professor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-01-29 19:30: The frontline of vaccine development (Professor Margaret Stanley; Professor Derek Smith; Professor Jonathan Heeney. University of Cambridge)

2020-01-30 18:30: Food Poverty and Health Inequalities Panel (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-31 16:30: Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression (Dr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading)

2020-02-05 19:30: Using patient experiences to improve care: maternal and neonatal health in Kenya (Dr Lisa Hinton, The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-07 16:30: Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.  (Professor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2020-02-12 19:30: The role of the media in global health  (Jacqui Thornton, Sarah Newey and more tbc - health journalists)

2020-02-14 12:00: Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment (Molly J Crockett,  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University)

2020-02-19 19:30: Global health leadership and action: what makes a difference?  (Professor Anthony Kessel, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2020-02-26 19:30: The changing field of global health: aid and international partnerships (Dr Neil Squires, Public Health England )

2020-02-28 16:30: Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry (Dr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

2020-03-04 19:30: Forced displacement, migration, and global health  (Dr Naures Atto, University of Cambridge)

2020-03-06 16:30: Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake) (Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

2020-03-13 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)

2020-04-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-22 13:30: Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts (Professor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting))

2020-05-29 16:30: The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic  representation and its disorders (Professor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2020-06-05 16:30: Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement  (Brian D. Earp,  Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and  Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.)

2020-10-13 16:00: Is the COVID-19 pandemic really causing mental illness?  (Professor Paul Fletcher)

2020-10-16 16:30: The case for formal methodology in scientific reform (Dr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho.)

2020-10-20 16:00: NeuroCOVID: Epidemiology, biomarkers, and pathophysiology (Professor David Menon)

2020-10-21 16:00: How is Human Social Cognition Special? (Professor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2020-10-23 16:30: This talk happens earlier this week. in a shared event between Zangwill and SPSS  (.)

2020-10-27 16:00: The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people. (Professor Tamsin Ford)

2020-10-30 16:30: Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Professor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA.)

2020-11-02 16:00:  Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2020-11-06 16:30: Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents (Professor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires)

2020-11-10 16:00: The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients’ mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK (Dr Rudolf Cardinal)

2020-11-13 16:30: Understanding Fallism (Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town)

2020-11-24 16:00:  Development of the social brain in adolescence and effects of social distancing  (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore)

2020-11-27 16:30: Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation (Professor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland)

2020-12-01 16:00: Generation Covid-19: Should the fetus be worried? (Dr. Topun Austin (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Dept. of Psychology) )

2020-12-04 16:30: Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism   (Hari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy)

2020-12-08 16:00: Social deprivation, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID-19 era: evidence from preclinical studies (Dr. David Belin)

2020-12-11 16:30: [NEW DATE:11th of December]  Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development (Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London )

2021-01-15 16:30: - Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness (Prof Hakwan Lau)

2021-01-22 16:30: Social Minds in Joint Action (Professor Natalie Sebanz)

2021-01-29 16:30: The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism (Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK)

2021-02-12 16:30: Being an I: Cognitive and Neurobiological processes of “Self” models (Dr. Roy Salomon)

2021-02-16 16:00: Recurrent problems in spinal-cord and cerebellar circuits (Dr Steve Edgley, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2021-02-19 16:30:  Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences? (Dr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London)

2021-02-23 16:00: Electronics on the brain (Professor George Malliaras, Department of Engineering)

2021-02-26 16:30: An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity (Emily BJ Coffey, PhD  )

2021-03-02 16:00: A developmental-cognitive perspective on the impact of adolescent social media use (Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-03-09 16:00: Organization of Midbrain Serotonin System (Dr Jing Ren, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2021-03-12 16:30: Rethinking food reward (Dr Dana Small   Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center)

2021-03-16 16:00: Data-driven Artificial Social Intelligence: From Social Appropriateness to Fairness (Dr Hatice Gunes, Computer Science and Technology)

2021-04-20 16:00: Learning in pain: probabilistic inference and (mal)adaptive control. (Dr Flavia Mancini, Engineering)

2021-04-27 16:00: Unpacking Nature from Nurture: Understanding how Family Processes Affect Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Professor Gordon Harold, Education)

2021-05-04 16:00: Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain? (Professor Roger Barker, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-05-07 16:30: Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors (Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami)

2021-05-11 16:00: Covid And Cognition (Dr Lucy Cheke, Psychology)

2021-05-14 16:30: Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge (Marie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin)

2021-05-18 16:00: Bedside to bench and back again, a path to translational pain research? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology)

2021-05-21 16:30: Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership ( Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2021-05-25 16:00: AI-guided solutions for early detection of neurodegenerative disorders (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology)

2021-05-28 16:15: Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience (Karim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal)

2021-06-01 16:00: Regenerative Neuroimmunology - a stem cell perspective (Professor Stefano Pluchino, Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-06-04 16:30: Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections (Dr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

2021-10-05 16:00: From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Brain: Understanding the Role of Inflammation in Vascular Health, Stroke, and Cerebrovascular Disease (Dr Nicholas Evans, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-10-12 16:00: Activity dependent myelination: a mechanism for learning and regeneration? (Dr Thóra Káradóttir, WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute)

2021-10-15 16:15: Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect (David Bannerman (University of Oxford))

2021-10-19 16:00: In vitro bioelectronic models of the gut-brain axis (Professor Róisín Owens, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)

2021-10-22 16:15: Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking (Richard Holton (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-02 16:00: The brain control of appetite: Can an old dog teach us new tricks? (Dr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs)

2021-11-05 16:15: Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour (Dominik Bach (University College London))

2021-11-09 16:00: Transdiagnostic approaches to understanding neurodevelopment (Dr Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

2021-11-12 16:15: Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies (Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) )

2021-11-16 16:00: Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together in bio-inspired robots (Dr Fumiya Iida, Department of Engineering)

2021-11-19 16:15: Time perception as accumulation of salient events (Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex))

2021-11-26 16:15: What does magic tell us about free will?  (Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2021-11-30 16:00: Mechanisms to medicines in neurodegeneration (Professor Giovanna Mallucci, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2021-12-03 14:45: The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations (Peter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology))

2022-01-18 16:00: Common elements: An innovative methodology for identifying effective interventions in early childhood education (Dr Sara Baker, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-21 16:30: Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research (Irene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova))

2022-01-28 16:30: Reading Scenes:  A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments (Melissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt))

2022-02-01 16:00: How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention  (Dr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-04 16:30: Individual Differences in (Dietary) Decision Making and Its Control: Connecting the Brain and Gut to Improve our Understanding of Behavior (Professor Hilke Plassmann (INSEAD Europe Campus))

2022-02-08 16:00: Why is the suprachiasmatic nucleus such a brilliant circadian time-keeper? (Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-02-15 16:00: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying prefrontal regulation of reward and threat responsivity in a primate (Professor Angela Roberts, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

2022-02-18 16:30: Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields (John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University))

2022-02-25 16:30: Covid and Cognition (Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-01 16:00: Cross-modality imaging of the neural systems that support executive functions (Dr Yaara Erez, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-03-04 16:30:  A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird. (Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania))

2022-03-11 16:15: Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition  (Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL))

2022-03-15 16:00: Network science and network medicine: New strategies for understanding and treating the biological basis of mental ill-health (Dr Petra Vértes, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-03-18 16:30: Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19  (Professor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) )

2022-03-25 16:30: Thinking the right thoughts (Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University))

2022-04-26 16:00: Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry)

2022-04-29 16:30: Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development (Professor Pasco Fearon)

2022-05-06 16:30: Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition (Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University))

2022-05-13 16:30: Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles (Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex))

2022-05-17 16:00: Exploring mechanisms of human brain expansion in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-05-24 16:00: Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease – cause, effect and treatment (Professor James Rowe)

2022-06-07 16:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-10-07 16:30: What kind of network is the brain? (John Mollon (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-11 16:00: Designing the BEARS (Both Ears) Virtual Reality Training Package to Improve Spatial Hearing in Young People with Bilateral Cochlear Implant (Dr Deborah Vickers, Clinical Neurosciences)

2022-10-14 16:30: Plastic brains for flexible decisions (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-18 16:00: Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built (Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

2022-10-21 16:30: Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes (Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge))

2022-10-28 16:30: Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder (Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich))

2022-11-04 16:30: Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation (Professor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL))

2022-11-08 16:00: Hypothalamic episode generators underlying the neural control of fertility (Professor Allan Herbison, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2022-11-11 16:30: Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing (Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington))

2022-11-18 16:30: Disruption of Information in Working Memory (Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin))

2022-11-23 16:00: Developmental disorders of presynaptic vesicle cycling - Synaptotagmin-1 and beyond (Dr Kate Baker, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2022-11-25 16:30: Brain charts for the human lifespan. (Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge))

2022-11-29 16:00: How can we treat visceral pain? (Dr David Bulmer, Department of Pharmacology)

2023-01-17 16:00: Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow? Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research (Dr Ben Underwood, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-01-20 16:30: Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet? (Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge))

2023-01-27 16:30: Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy (Peter John (King's College London))

2023-01-31 16:00: Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-03 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-02-07 16:00: Children-Agent Interaction For Assessment and Rehabilitation: From Linguistic Skills To Mental Well-being (Dr Micole Spitale, Department of Computer Science and Technology)

2023-02-10 12:00: Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality (Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge))

2023-02-14 16:00: Valentine’s Day for people with multiple sclerosis: promoting brain repair through remyelination (Professor Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-02-24 16:30: The Neuroscience of Reading:  Tracing words from the page through the brain (Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington))

2023-02-28 16:00: Fidelity and Replication: Modelling the Impact of Protocol Deviations on Effect Size (Professor Michelle Ellefson)

2023-03-03 16:30: Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations (Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow))

2023-03-07 16:00: Integrative Neuromodulation: from biomarker identification to optimizing neuromodulation (Dr Valerie Voon, Department of Psychiatry)

2023-03-10 16:30: Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention (Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience))

2023-03-14 16:00: Fragile minds in a scary world: trauma and post traumatic stress in very young children (Dr Tim Dalgleish, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2023-03-17 16:30: Choice under Computational Complexity (Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge))

2023-04-28 16:30: What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa (Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York)

2023-05-05 16:30: The DNA revolution and psychology (Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London))

2023-05-09 16:00: Targeting Maladaptive Emotional Memories to Treat Mental Health Disorders: Insights from Rodent Models (Professor Amy Milton, Department of Psychology)

2023-05-12 16:30: Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts (Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews)

2023-05-16 14:00: Feedback control in the nervous system: from cells and circuits to behaviour (Dr Timothy O'Leary, Department of Engineering)

2023-05-19 16:30: Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction (Dr David Dupret (Oxford University))

2023-06-06 16:00: Immunosuppression for Parkinson's disease - a new therapeutic strategy? (Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2023-10-06 16:30: Decoding the neural processing of speech (Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg))

2023-10-13 16:30: Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope (Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam))

2023-10-20 16:30: Cortical gradients of functional integration (Dr Daniel Margulies )

2023-10-27 12:00: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2023-11-03 12:00: Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity  (Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex)

2023-11-10 12:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge)

2023-11-17 12:00: Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation (Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL))

2023-11-24 16:30: How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language (Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig))

2023-12-01 11:00: Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics (Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2024-01-26 12:00: What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition (Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge))

2024-02-02 16:30: When Art meets Psychology ( Prof. Clive Wilkins)

2024-02-09 16:30: Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts (Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-23 16:30: Cortical interneurons in health and disease. (Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London)

2024-03-01 12:00: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-08 16:30: Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults. (Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2024-03-15 16:30: The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory (Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva)

2024-04-26 12:00: Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers" (Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University))

2024-05-03 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts (Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh)

2024-05-10 16:30: Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders (Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2024-05-17 16:30: The Cognitive Biology of Language (Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University)

2024-10-11 16:30: Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering (Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada)

2024-10-18 16:30: Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics. (Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2024-10-25 16:30: Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights (Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2024-11-01 16:30: The Atomic Human (Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-08 16:30: Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions (Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway)

2024-11-22 16:30: Deconstruction of the social brain (Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)

2024-11-29 16:30: From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination (Professor Peter Ulric Tse,  Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA)

2024-12-06 16:30: Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies (Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London)

2025-01-31 16:30: Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs (Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.)

2025-02-14 16:30: Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains. (Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain )

2025-02-28 12:00: Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts (Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK)

2025-03-07 16:30:  What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic (Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth)

2025-03-14 12:00: : Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention (Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK)

2025-05-02 16:30: How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics (Professor Hugo Spiers)

2025-05-09 16:30: The Functions of Episodic Memory (Ali Boyle)

2025-05-16 16:30: How do (and don't) we take other perspectives? (Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. )

2025-05-23 16:30: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will (Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place  Davis, CA )

2025-05-30 16:30: "Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues” (Peter Godfrey Smith)

2025-08-26 16:00: Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans. (Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)

2025-10-17 13:00: Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation (Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University)

2025-10-17 16:30: Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge (Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University)

2025-10-24 16:30: Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory (Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow)

2025-10-31 16:30: Trust in “Moral” Machines (Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent)

2025-11-07 16:30: Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language (Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford)

2025-11-14 16:30: Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks (Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua)

2025-11-21 12:00: Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities (Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick)

2025-11-28 16:30: What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators? (Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London)

2026-01-16 16:30: Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind (Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin)

2026-01-23 16:30: Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view (Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven)

2026-02-06 16:30: BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness  (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg)

2026-02-13 12:00: Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on (Marcus Munafò, University of Bath)

2026-02-20 16:30: Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine (Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-27 12:00: A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics (Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL))

2026-03-06 12:00: The complexity of platform power  (Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

2026-03-13 16:30: Emotions as Moral Character Trackers (Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury)

2026-03-20 16:30: Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning (Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford)