External Seminar: "Does the reign of pain fall mainly in the brain?"

Tuesday 12 March 2019

Professor Chris Main - Keele University

CANCELLED /External Seminar: The early development of implicit theory of mind

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Dr Hannes Rakoczy - University of Göttingen

External Seminar: Forgetting in health and disease - CANCELLED

Tuesday 12 February 2019

Dr Nahid Zokaei - Oxford University

External Seminar: How curiosity and reward enhance hippocampus-dependent memory

Thursday 7 February 2019

Dr Matthias Gruber (Cardiff University)

External Seminar: Associative learning during human sleep - An Interplay between sleep stages, brain activity and behaviour

Tuesday 29 January 2019

Dr Anat Arzi - University of Cambridge

External Seminar: Neural signatures of body image perception

Tuesday 15 January 2019

Dr Valentina Cazzato - Liverpool John Moores University

External Seminar: Reading a language you can't hear: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children

Tuesday 27 November 2018

Dr. Mairead MacSweeney - UCL

External Seminar: Evolutionary Origins of Human False Belief Understanding

Tuesday 13 November 2018

Dr. Christopher Krupenye - University of St Andrews

External Seminar: Perceiving Social Interactions in the Social Brain

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Dr. Kami Koldewyn - Bangor University

External Seminar: Face recognition accuracy of forensic examiners, superrecognizers, and face recognition algorithms

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Dr Jonathon Phillips: NIST, USA

External Examiner: Understanding the multifaceted nature of Autobiographical Memory recollection

Tuesday 9 October 2018

Dr. Heidi Bonnici - University of East Anglia

External Seminar: Neural computations underlying episodic memory

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Dr. Martin Chadwick - UCL

External Seminar: The Psychology of Being Forgotten

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Dr Devin Ray - University of Aberdeen

External Seminar: The Integrative Self: what the properties of self- prioritisation tell us about the self

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Dr Jie Sui - University of Bath

External Seminar: Coping with challenging speech communication across the lifespan

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Professor Valerie Hazan, Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL

External Seminar: Deconstructing and reconstructing memory, and what it means for understanding dementia

Tuesday 8 May 2018

Professor Kim Graham, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

External Seminar: On the properties of the mental magnitude representation and how they interact with mental arithmetic

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Professor Andre Knops - Humboldt-Universität Berlin

External Seminar: Risk Factors for Offending Indicating Innovative Approaches to Treatment

Tuesday 13 March 2018

Professor Anthony Beech - University of Birmingham

CANCELLED - Athena Swan Annual Lecture: Reading a language you can't hear - The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children

Tuesday 27 February 2018

CANCELLED - Professor Mairéad MacSweeney - Director of the Deafness, Cognition & Language Research Centre, and Group Leader at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

External Seminar: Breaking the Fourth Wall of Cognitive Science: Real-World Social Attention

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Professor Alan Kingstone - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

External Seminar: Walking the walk: Adapting psychological interventions for the perinatal period in the UK and internationally

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Dr. Heather O’Mahen, Research Clinical Psychologist - Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter

External Seminar: Light, Clocks and Sleep: Biology to Therapeutics

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Professor Russell Foster - University of Oxford

External Seminar: Stability and change in child language disorders

Tuesday 16 January 2018

Courtenay Norbury - UCL

External Seminar: title tbc

Tuesday 28 November 2017

Dr Geoff Bird - University of Oxford

External Seminar: Brain networks in cognitive control

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Dr John Duncan - University of Cambridge

External Seminar: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - past, present and future

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Professor Anthony T. Barker - University of Sheffield Medical School

External Seminar: Tracking the neural footprints of memories across time

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Dr Maria Wimber - University of Birmingham

External Seminar: Brains growing on the tree of life: a phylogenetic approach to brain structure and function

Tuesday 3 October 2017

Professor Robert Barton - Durham University

External Talk: Weighting the past against the present: learning and uncertainty in autism

Friday 21 July 2017

Becky Lawson

External Talk: Translating cognitive neuroscience to the clinic: problems and possibilities

Friday 21 July 2017

Camilla Nord

External Seminar: Social-affective dimensions of tuning to natural faces within occipital-temporal cortex

Tuesday 27 June 2017

Sonia Bishop, Associate Professor, Dept. Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

External Seminar: “Put yourself into my shoes” - perspective taking, perspective tracking, and the embodied origins of mentalizing as revealed by MEG and TMS

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Professor Klaus Kessler - Aston University

External Seminar: "Interactive and dual interactive eye tracking with virtual avatars: What seeing the effect of my gaze on others can tell us."

Tuesday 6 June 2017

Dr Bert Timmermans - University of Aberdeen

External Seminar: "The body and the self in pathology and health: how signals from inside and outside the body contribute to self-consciousness”

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Dr Paul Jenkinson - University of Hertfordshire

External Seminar: Title tbc

Tuesday 9 May 2017

speaker tbc

External Seminar: 'Listening in crowded environments: How attention shapes brain responses to unattended sounds'

Tuesday 25 April 2017

Dr Maria Chait - UCL

External Seminar: "Mechanisms of Somatosensory Misperception"

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Dr Kirsten McKenzie, University of Lincoln

External Seminar: ‘Emotion processing and regulation in adolescents exhibiting reactive aggressive behaviour’

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Dr Catherine Sebastian, Royal Holloway - University of London

External Seminar: Deviant sexual interest - Assessment in the forensic context

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Professor Rainer Banse, University of Bonn

External Seminar: ʺWhat Does Semantic Tiling of the Cortex Tell Us About Semantics?ʺ

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Professor Lawrence Barsalou, University of Glasgow

External Seminar: “Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works”

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, University of Cambridge

Extra-External Seminar: "Brain decoding: Progress and challenges towards a general-purpose neural mind-reader"

Tuesday 13 December 2016

Professor Yuki Kamitani, Kyoto University

Extra-External Seminar: "Natural images, fractal distributions and modeling fMRI in early visual cortex"

Tuesday 6 December 2016

Dr Mark Schira - University of Wollongong, Australia

External Seminar: "Using Pragmatic Psychology in Forensic Research – from difficult to detect murder to crime analysis"

Tuesday 29 November 2016

Dr Terri Cole, Bournemouth University

External Seminar: "Learning and memory in color perception"

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Dr Maria Olkkonen, Durham University

External Seminar: Athena SWAN Annual Lecture "What the heart knows: brain-body mechanisms of emotion and memory"

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Speaker: Dr Sarah Garfinkel

Extra External Seminar: "Here’s looking at you?: Experience influences adults’ and children’s ability to learn new facial identities”

Monday 31 October 2016

Professor Cathy Mondloch - Brock University, Canada

Extra-External Seminar: Psychopathology of the Social Brain: From Emotion Regulation to Empathy and Theory of Mind

Monday 24 October 2016

Dr Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute

External Seminar: Title tbc

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Dr Lisa Genzel, University of Edinburgh

Public Lecture: The Criminal Brain - Implications for Prevention, Prediction and Punishment

Thursday 6 October 2016

Professor Adrian Raine - University of Pennsylvania