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Departmental external seminars

Featuring academics from all areas of psychology from all over the world. These are open to all and pitched at an audience with an understanding of psychology.

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Archive of previous events

The Power of Us: How Our Shared Identities Foster Conflict and Cooperation

Tuesday 1 April 2025

Professor Jay van Bavel, New York University

Predicting language in difficult circumstances

Tuesday 25 March 2025

Professor Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh

Statistical issues with brain imaging localisation

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Dr Guillaume Rousselet, University of Glasgow

Causal contributions of frontoparietal cortex to flexible selective attention

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Dr Alexandra Woolgar, University of Cambridge

How to study language learning in the lab: It's best to act natural

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Professor Padraic Monaghan, Lancaster University

Inclusivity and cultural competence of community based social care for older LGBTQ+ adults

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Liz Wands-Murray, University of York

Three Lessons About the Brain

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University

How the reconstruction of simple event memories dynamically unfolds in human brain and behaviour

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Professor Maria Wimber, University of Glasgow

Athena Swan Talk: 'Evolutionary Origins of Leadership'

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Dr Zarin Machanda, Tufts University

Title TBC

Tuesday 29 October 2024

Dr Sylvia Perry, Northwestern University

Building internal models during periods of rest and sleep

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Dr Helen Barron, University of Oxford

The Evolution and Development of the Sense of Fairness

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Dr Jan Engelmann, UC Berkeley

A two-systems view of statistically-based language learning

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Dr Laura Batterink, Western University, Canada

Getting a head start: Children’s parafoveal pre-processing during reading

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Dr Hazel Blythe, Northumbria University

Atypical speech processing in dyslexia: what is and is not compensated

Tuesday 20 February 2024

Dr Anastasia Klimovich-Gray, University of Aberdeen

Open Science Talk: R is for Reproducibility

Tuesday 13 February 2024

Dr Emily Nordmann, University of Glasgow

Spatial associations (maybe) with non-symbolic representations of number.

Tuesday 9 January 2024

Dr Sandie Cleland, University of Aberdeen

Jamais vu: Research into the curiously common opposite of deja vu

Tuesday 21 November 2023

Dr Akira O'Connor, St Andrews University

Decoding Dynamic Facial Expressions Through Data-Driven Spatiotemporal Analyses

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Dr Hélio Cuve, University of Bristol

Limits of generalisation in categorical judgments

Tuesday 24 October 2023

Dr Nicholas Myers, University of Nottingham

Black History Month Talk - Black Women in Academia: Are we closing the gap?

Tuesday 17 October 2023

Professor Bertha Ochieng, De Montfort University, Leicester

Title TBC

Tuesday 10 October 2023

Professor Saloni Krishnan, Royal Holloway University of London

The neurocomputational basis of anxiety

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Professor Oliver Robinson, UCL

Mapping Responses in the Human Brain through Space and Time

Tuesday 13 June 2023

Professor Aude Oliva, MIT

Who has an expansive moral circle?

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Dr Matti Wilks, University of Edinburgh

Disparity processing in human visual cortex

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Professor Tony Norcia, Stanford University

Qualitative research methods in eating disorders research

Tuesday 14 March 2023

Dr Jaclyn Siegel, San Diego State University

Athena Swan Seminar: Warning signals in nature: what’s in a pattern

Tuesday 28 February 2023

Professor Julie Harris, St Andrews University

Ensemble perception and its application

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Professor Sang Chul Chong, Yonsei University, Seoul

How to speak backwards - genetic contributions to a complex language trait

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Dr Dianne Newbury, Oxford Brookes University

An oscillatory division of labour in service of episodic memory

Tuesday 29 November 2022

Dr Ben Griffiths, University of Birmingham

Exploring spatial context in memory and metacognition

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Dr Charlotte Russell, King's College London

The time course of person perception from voices

Tuesday 15 November 2022

Dr Nadine Lavan, Queen Mary University of London

Multivariate approaches to understanding risk in childhood and adolescent conduct disorder

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Dr Jack Rogers, University of Birmingham

How Plants Shape the Mind

Tuesday 11 October 2022

MPI for Human Development

Open Science Seminar - Priya in Wonderland: My open science journey

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Dr Priya Silverstein, Independent Researcher - Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education

Athena SWAN Seminar: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Dr Anna Schapiro, University of Pennsylvania

Title tbc

Tuesday 24 May 2022

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Chemistry of the adaptive mind: lessons from dopamine

Tuesday 10 May 2022

Professor Roshan Cools, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.

Is Autism Research Sloppy?

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Title tbc

The Nature and Function of Relief

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Title tbc

Developing a theory of mind: Insights from fMRI studies of children

Tuesday 22 February 2022

Developing a theory of mind: Insights from fMRI studies of children

Deep recurrent neural networks as a modelling framework for understanding the dynamic computations of human vision

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Deep recurrent neural networks as a modelling framework for understanding the dynamic computations of human vision

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