Department of Experimental Psychology - Oxford Talks

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Department of Experimental Psychology part of: Medical Sciences Division

Monday 27 October 2025

15:00 - The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 3 November 2025

16:00 - Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

13:00 - Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
The seminar is to be held in the Lecture Theatre 2 (lower ground floor), not the usual seminar rooms (Seminar Room 7/8).
Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 10 November 2025

16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 13 November 2025

12:00 - Advancing therapy development in ALS
Professor Martin Turner
Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 17 November 2025

16:00 - Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 24 November 2025

16:00 - Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

16:00 - ECR Firetalks
Various Speakers
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 11 December 2025

13:00 - What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 19 January 2025

16:00 - Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Thursday 22 January 2025

12:00 - Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 26 January 2025

16:00 - Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 February 2025

16:00 - Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 February 2025

16:00 - Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2025

16:00 - Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 9 March 2025

16:00 - ECR - Fire Talks
Various Speakers
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 27 April 2025

16:00 - From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2025

16:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 8 June 2025

16:00 - Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 15 June 2025

16:00 - ECR Fire Talks
Various Speakers
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

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