Departmental external seminars

Exploring the mechanisms of language learning and generalization through learning experiments with children and adults

Tuesday 10 January 2023

Dr Elizabeth Wonnacott, University of Oxford

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

Reflections on a career in Clinical Psychology: A black woman's story

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Dr Sharon Prince

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

Hearing in a social context – exploring multimodal conversation behaviours and their cognitive bases

Tuesday 1 February 2022

Title tbc

Humanise: How we bring things to life

Tuesday 25 January 2022

Humanise: How we bring things to life

Attachment and Caregiving: New Insights from 1st and 2nd Person Social Neuroscience

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Attachment and Caregiving: New Insights from 1st and 2nd Person Social Neuroscience

Towards interpretable personal predictive models of neurological function

Tuesday 11 January 2022

Towards interpretable personal predictive models of neurological function

Dehumanization and Violence: New Perspectives and Current Debates

Tuesday 30 November 2021

Dr Johannes Lang, Danish institute for international studies

Using cognitive psychology to improve neuropsychological assessment

Tuesday 23 November 2021

Dr Todd Horowitz, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Science

Emotional aftereffects of ignoring and forgetting: Are they driven by inhibition?

Tuesday 9 November 2021

Professor Ana Vivas, City College

Mechanisms of transfer: From music training to improved attention and working memory

Tuesday 2 November 2021

Dr Ted Zanto, UCSF

Title tbc

Tuesday 26 October 2021

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Everything is cool when you’re part of a team

Tuesday 19 October 2021

Professor Lisa Debruine, University of Glasgow

"Butterfly effects" in Perceptual development

Tuesday 12 October 2021

Professor Pawan Sinha, MIT

Mapping neurodegeneration and circuit dysfunction in Parkinson´s disease

Tuesday 5 October 2021

Professor Hartwig Siebner, Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance

Title tbc

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Professor Gina Poe, UCLA

Bringing to mind the best and worst: The role of emotion in memory and imagination

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Bringing to mind the best and worst: The role of emotion in memory and imagination

Aging-related changes to EEG markers of recognition: theoretical and forensic implications

Tuesday 11 May 2021

Aging-related changes to EEG markers of recognition: theoretical and forensic implications

Dissociation and Functional Specialization for Taxonomic and Thematic Relation

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Dissociation and Functional Specialization for Taxonomic and Thematic Relation

What does the human eye tell the human circadian clock?

Tuesday 27 April 2021

What does the human eye tell the human circadian clock?

Multiple Identities = Multiple Sources of Threat & Belonging

Tuesday 20 April 2021

Title tbc

Social learning and motivation: Lifespan changes and neural mechanisms

Tuesday 16 March 2021

Social learning and motivation: Lifespan changes and neural mechanisms

Racism: A Developmental Story

Tuesday 9 March 2021

Racism: A Developmental Story

Context-based object recognition

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Context-based object recognition

Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders

Tuesday 23 February 2021

Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders

Getting to know you: how familiar face representation emerges in the brain  

Tuesday 16 February 2021

Title tbc

Honour and goal pursuit: How honour can interfere with one’s own and others’ goal-directed behaviours

Tuesday 2 February 2021

Title tbc

Measuring unconscious visual processing

Tuesday 19 January 2021

Measuring unconscious visual processing

Week 4 of the Becoming Mothers Series: Postnatal Bodies

Wednesday 16 December 2020

Nicola Spark (York Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Catherine Preston (University of York) and Dr Elizabeth Kirk (Anglia Ruskin University)

Week 3 of the Becoming Mothers Series: Self, Social and Cultural Influences

Thursday 10 December 2020

Dr Shuby Puthussery (University of Bedfordshire) and Rosie Drysdale (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Week 2 of the Becoming Mothers Series: Postnatal Support

Wednesday 2 December 2020

Professor Amy Brown (Swansea University) and Dr Andrew Mayers (Bournemouth University)

Putting working memory into attention

Tuesday 1 December 2020

Professor Notger Müller, DZNE

Week 1 of the Becoming Mothers Series: Bonding with Baby

Thursday 26 November 2020

Professor Liz Meins (University of York), Dr Elizabeth Kirk (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Catherine Preston (University of York)

Reading in adolescence: skills, practice and outcomes

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Dr Jessie Ricketts, Royal Holloway University London

How much does the behaviour of others influence what we do? Or the story of a psychologist who needs two pairs of hands, two heads, and to be in two places at once.

Tuesday 17 November 2020

Professor Emma Flynn, Queen's University Belfast

Recognition of one's own and others' interoceptive states in those with and without eating disorders

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Dr Rebecca Brewer, Royal Holloway University London

Prediction, action and awareness

Tuesday 3 November 2020

Dr Daniel Yon, Goldsmiths

The Turing Way: Making Reproducible Research "Too Easy Not To Do"

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Dr Kirstie Whitaker, University of Cambridge