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

Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical circuits for learning and decision making.

Tuesday 9 June 2020

Professor Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford

The holistic gist of face processing

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Professor James Tanaka, University of Victoria

What does the human eye tell the human circadian clock?

Tuesday 26 May 2020

Dr Manuel Spitschan, University of Oxford

eSeminar: The development of decision-making across diverse cultural contexts

Tuesday 19 May 2020

Dorsa Amir (from Boston College, USA)

Athena SWAN Seminar: 'Using action video games to sharpen cognition'

Tuesday 3 March 2020

Professor Daphne Bavelier, Geneva

External Talk: 'What's good about our prisons?'

Wednesday 26 February 2020

Simon Shepherd, Director of the Butler Trust

External Seminar: 'Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking'

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Professor Cecilia Heyes, Oxford

York LGBT History Month Talk: How does public understanding of intersex matter?

Friday 7 February 2020

External Seminar: 'Bias and Blame: investigating implicit attitudes with open science methods'

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Dr Tom Stafford, Sheffield

External Seminar: Probing the regulation of semantic knowledge: Implications for healthy ageing and coherent speech

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Dr Paul Hoffman, Edinburgh

External Seminar: Automatic representation of self and other in children and great apes

Tuesday 3 December 2019

Dr Sophie Milward, University of Portsmouth

External Seminar: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive considerations for the embodiment of artificial limbs

Tuesday 26 November 2019

Dr Tamar Makin, UCL

External Seminar: 'Forgetting in health and disease'

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Dr Nahid Zokaei, Oxford University

External Seminar: Flexibility in the control of visual attention

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Dr Nancy Carlisle, Lehigh University (USA)

External Seminar: Ecological Language: a multimodal approach to language learning and processing

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, UCL

External Seminar: "Neuroscience, memory and the law"

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Professor Michael Kopelman, King's College London

External Seminar:'Working Memory for Perceptual Decision-Making'

Tuesday 4 June 2019

Dr Mark Stokes, University of Oxford

External Talk: The Emotional Mind: The affective roots of culture and cognition

Friday 24 May 2019

Dr Rami Gabriel & Dr Stephan Asma - Columbia College, Chicago

External Seminar: "Rethinking multisensory development"

Tuesday 21 May 2019

Dr Andy Bremner, University of Birmingham

External Seminar: "Sociolinguistic factors in word production: Dialects, registers, and accent"

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Dr Alissa Melinger, University of Dundee

External Seminar: "What's in it for me? Transparently organizing your research from start to finish"

Tuesday 23 April 2019

Dr Candice Morey, Cardiff University

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