Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mental Maps for Memories & Space
  Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Nijmegen)
• 16:30 - What Does the Internet Tell Us about Human Behaviour?
  Dr Taha Yasseri (OII)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Early Executive Fuction: Social Origins and Social Consequences
  There will be a light buffet lunch to follow the talk in the common area next to theatre A. Please join us there. If you are interested in meeting Claire separately, please do get in touch with Gaia (gaia.scerif@psy.ox.ac.uk ), as there are a small number of remaining slots in her schedule of meetings with staff and students on Thursday. Early Career Researchers are particularly encouraged to speak to her - she is a role model.
  Professor Claire Hughes (University of Cambridge)
• 16:00 - Serotonin and the Regulation of Adaptive Behaviour
  Zach Mainen (Champlinaud Centre, Lisbon)

Friday 20 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurocomputational primitives for deciding with others' reward and choice
  Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN BSI)

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Do Babies Feel Pain?
  Dr Caroline Hartley (Oxford Department of Paediatrics)

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neurocomputational mechanisms of moral decision-making
  Dr Molly Crockett (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Convergent & Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Complexity
  Saloni Krishnan (University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 16:30 - Devices That See & Learn
  Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event!
  Dr Bharath (Research Board Imperial Data Sciences Institute)

Tuesday 8 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - "Light, Clocks & Sleep: Neuroscience to Therapy"
  Professor Russell Foster (Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute)
• 13:00 - Pharmacological Enhancement of Goal-Direct Behaviour in Mice
  Eleanor Simpson (Columbia University)

Wednesday 13 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Cognitive Development as a Skill
  Professor Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institutet)

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Forming Beliefs: Information Seeking, Avoidance & Integration in the Human Brain
  Dr Tali Sharot

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Jumping the Gun: Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans
  Dr Valerie Voon (University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - Lexical-Semantic System Organisation: Semantic similarity effects during word recognition in 24-month-old mono- and bilingual toddlers
  If you would like to meet with Dr Sirri to talk about research, please email us.
  Dr Louah Sirri (Lancaster University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Effective Altruism: Why Don't We Do the Best We Can?
  Dr Hauke Hillebrandt (Director of Research at 'Giving What We Can')

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Pathologies and Remedies in Sustaining Attention
  Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBC
  Dr Nahid Zokaei (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - What Skills are Related to Bilingual Spelling Outcomes? Evidence from Grade 1 French Immersion Children
  Sheila Chung (University of Toronto)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory
  Professor Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich)
• 15:00 - Vocal Emotional Processing Across the Adult Life Span
  Dr Cesar Lima (University College London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBC
  Dr Valentin Wyart (Inserm, France)
• 16:00 - How Can We Use Psychology to Reduce Missed Hospital Appointments?
  Dr Michael Saunders (Head of Research, Behavioural Insights Team)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
  Professor Courtney Norbury (Royal Holloway University of London)
• 12:00 - How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
  Professor Courtney Norbury (Royal Holloway University of London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: Mechanisms of Adaption in Inferior Temporal Cortex
  Professor Rufin Vogels (K.U.Leuven)

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Barriers to Academic Success in 'Bright but Poor' Young People: Findings From the EPPSE Study
  Professor Kathy Sylva

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Bootstrapping Language Acquisition
  Professor Rushen Shi (University of Quebec)
• 13:00 - Memory of time facilitates retrieval of visual events
  Dr Vincent Van de Ven (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
• 15:00 - The Role of Attention in Explaining the Overlap Between ADHD and ASD
  Professor Maddie Groom (University of Nottingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Psychological Approaches to Reducing Alcohol Related Harms in Adolescents
  Dr Emma Davies

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective
  Professor Tony Manstead
• 12:00 - Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective”
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - How Can We Use Psychology to Promote Sustainable Consumption?
  Professor Janine Dermody

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroscience Seminar: The Reflective Mind: Neural Building Blocks of Metacognition
  If you are interested in talking to Dr Fleming before or after his talk, please contact Nils at nils.kolling@psy.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Steven Fleming (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Anxiety across adaptive and pathological states: from unpredictable shocks to anxiety disorders
  Dr Oliver Robinson (UCL)
• 15:00 - Keeping Grounded: A Longitudinal Study Exploring Immersive Strategies to Improve Children's Comprehension of Narrative Texts
  Molly Berenhaus (University of Sussex)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Epidemiology of Mental Disorders & Violence
  Professor Seena Fazel

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Can We Teach Machines to Think?
  Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Can we teach machines to think
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:30 - Neuronal Underpinnings of Social Interaction
  Keren Haroush (Harvard)

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice.
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroendocrine Control Mechanisms in Social Emotional Action
  Professor Karin Roelofs (Donders Institute for Brain Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University)

Tuesday 12 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Representation of Actions in the Human Brain
  Dr Angelika Lingnau (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A Computational Account of the Role of Dopamine in Model-Free Learning and Exploration Modulation
  Dr Mehdi Khamassi (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Disease Biomarkers for Schizophrenia - From Laboratory to Patient Bedside
  Professor Sabine Bahn

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From Sensory Processing to Conscious Perception
  Professor Heleen Slagter (University of Amsterdam)

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
  Professor Martin E.P.Seligman
• 12:00 - Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - PsyNAppS Symposium: Human Advancement in the 21st Century
  Professor Roi Cohen-Kadosh (University of Oxford), Dr Lennart Verhagen, Professor Mark Levine, Dr Chris Cocking, Dr Mark Burgess, Dr Jacqueline Scholl (University of Oxford), Dr Joao Fabiano

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Value-based decision making by populations of probabilistic neurons
  Professor Christian Ruff (University of Zurich)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Cingulate Cortex in Autism: Anatomy, connectivity, and perturbed social decision making
  Dr Josh Balsters (ETH Zurich)
• 15:00 - Neural Sex Differences, Hormones & Autism
  Amber Ruigrok
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:15 - Human interaction with artificial agents
  Dr Serge Thill (School of Informatics, University of Skövde)

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Acquisition of non-adjacent phonological dependencies: from speech perception to lexical acquisition
  Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Do autistic children really see details at the expense of the whole?
  Catherine Manning (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman Lecture: Kernel of truth in the indigo myth?
  Marian J.Bakermans-Kranenburg (Leiden University)

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - New Insights into the Mechanisms of Human Observational Learning
  Dr Wako Yoshida (ATR Institute International, Kyoto, Japan / Visiting Researcher, Cambridge)

Tuesday 14 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The treachery of images: Why the brain responds differently to real objects than photos
  Professor Jody Culham (Western University, London, Canada)
• 15:00 - Neuroimaging work on social interaction in both neurotypical adults and those with Autism
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kyle Jasmie
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Motor system involvement in the perception of time: music, rhythm, and the brain
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:00 - Motor System Involvement in the Perception of Time: Music, Rhythm and the Brain
  Dr Jessica Grahn

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
  Dr Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 16 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition and Decision Making
  Professor Michael Platt (Penn, University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 20 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Applying Perceptual Learning to produce broad-based benefits to vision
  Professor Aaron Seitz (University of California, Riverside)

Thursday 29 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Various Speakers

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cell signalling in the amygdala and the reactivation of a fear memory
  Dr Emma Cahill (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Making Sense of an Uncertain World: Probabilistic Computation in the Developing Brain
  Marko Nardini (Durham University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Developing Visual Brain - from Newborns to Numeracy
  Professor Oliver Braddick (University of Oxford), Professor Jan Atkinson (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Functional gradients in the prefrontal cortex can be predicted from individual sulci morphology
  Dr. Celine Amiez (INSERM, Lyon)

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring the neural computations of episodic and semantic memory
  Dr Martin Chadwick (UCL/Deepmind)
• 15:00 - Investigating the development of early executive function skills in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Alex Hendry
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Why does dopamine encode the value of future rewards?
  Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Forgetting: Sources, Modulation, and Benefits
  Professor Ralph Miller (Binghampton University)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Investigating neuropsychological mechanisms in depression
  Dr Emma Robinson (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Pure alexia and visual word recognition
  Dr Randi Starrfelt (University of Copenhagen)
• 15:00 - Neuroimaging of autistics and controls in spontaneous multimodal conversation
  Dr Kyle Jasmin (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Constructing and updating models of others and the world
  Dr Mona Garvert (University of Oxford/UCL)

Tuesday 29 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Longitudinal development of attention and executive function during the first year of life
  Dr Karla Holmboe (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Working memory training does not improve performance on measures of intelligence or other measures of far transfer: Evidence from a meta-analytic review.
  Professor Monica Melby-Lervag (University of Oslo)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 13:00 - New Approaches to Volition
  Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)

Tuesday 6 December 2016 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Adaptive cognitive control over different timescales: beta oscillations, feedback and dopamine
  Dr Charlie Wilson (INSERM, Lyon)

Tuesday 13 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Representations of task relevant information in orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus: mental maps of decision spaces?
  Dr Nico Schuck (Princeton)

Thursday 12 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - How can psychology make healthcare safer?: A half-day interdisciplinary seminar for early career researchers
  Advance booking essential
  Prof Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Prof Rebecca Lawton (University of Leeds), Dr Lucie Byrne-Davis (University of Manchester), Dr Joanne Hart (University of Manchester), Dr Lauren Morgan (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Simultaneous EEG - fMRI: Spatiotemporal characteristics of reward-based learning and value-based decision making
  Dr Elsa Fouragnan (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Moral Disgust Responds to Bad Character
  Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla (University of Kent)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Jean Daunizeau ((Brain & Spine Institute & INSERM Paris))
• 15:00 - Looking and learning: insights from atypical spontaneous gaze behaviour in autism
  Dr Mary Hanley (Durham University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Nostalgia Potentiates a Positive and Attainable Future
  Professor Constantine Sedikides (University of Southampton)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Integration of magnitude information in human working memory and decision making
  Dr Bernhard Spitzer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Banishing the shifty homunculus from frontal cortex: attentional set-shifting deficits re-examined
  Professor Verity Brown (University of St Andrews)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Charo Rueda (University of Granada)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cognitive gadgets: the cultural evolution of thinking
  Please note change of venue
  Professor Cecelia Heyes (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 28 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - What does the assumed light source bias tell us about the nature of perceptual representations?
  Dr Ayelet Sapir (Bangor University )

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The psychological and neural basis of incentive habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction
  Dr David Belin (University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Dr Josie Booth (University of Edinburgh)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Compulsivity: Neuropsychological substrates and neuropsychiatric implications
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Professor Trevor Robbins (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 14 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Storage and use of memory: can we infer the underlying circuit level processes in humans?
  Dr Helen Barron (University of Oxford )

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Bayesian Analysis for Big Data, Lecture
  Prof Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex)
  Big Data in Developmental Science
• 13:00 - Bayesian Analysis for Big Data, Workshop
  Prof Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex)
  Big Data in Developmental Science

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The study of Optical Topography and the trends in industry based on Brain Science
  Dr Atsushi Maki (Research & Development Group, Centre for Exploratory Research, Saitama, Japan)

Tuesday 21 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Marinella Cappelletti

Monday 27 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Bridging Brain and Behavioral Big Data, Lecture and Discussion
  Dr Duncan Astle (University of Cambridge), Dr Rogier Kievit (University of Cambridge)
  Big Data in Developmental Science

Thursday 30 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Multilevel and Longitudinal Big Data, Lecture
  Prof Courtenay Norbury (UCL)
  Big Data in Developmental Science
• 13:00 - Multilevel and Longitudinal Big Data, Workshop
  Prof Courtenay Norbury (UCL)
  Big Data in Developmental Science

Tuesday 4 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Discovering and exploiting structure in the face of changing tasks
  Chris Lucas (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Targeting space and time in the human hand knob
  Professor Hartwig Siebner (Copenhagen)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The benefits and challenges of commission bespoke websites, apps and games for behavioural research
  Jo Evershed (Cauldon)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Individual differences in the detection of incongruence: an eye-movement study of children’s pronoun processing
  Sarah Eilers (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry: the contribution of functional neuroimaging
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A self-organising model of face and object recognition
  Professor Guy Wallis (University of Queensland )
• 15:00 - Modeling influences of home environment and assessing intervention effects on Filipino children’s early language and literacy skills
  Katrina May Dulay (Chinese University of Hong Kong )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Micah Allen (UCL London )
• 15:00 - fNIRS in Africa and the UK: studying infants at risk for compromised development
  Sarah Lloyd-Fox
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Targeting Hippocampus with MEG
  Dr Sofie Meyer (UCL London )
• 15:00 - Nurturing the development of executive attention
  Professor Charo Rueda (University of Granada)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Meta-RL and Non-Spatial Sequences
  Dr Zeb Kurth-Nelson (Google DeepMind)

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - All memory is presence and future: insights from trauma research
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The adaptive nature and temporal dynamics of memory reactivation
  Dr Maria Wimber (Birmingham University )
• 15:00 - Examining the relationship between visual statistical learning and word reading ability in developing readers
  Professor Don Compton (Florida State University )

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural and pharmacological modulation of adaptive learning and choice
  Dr Rebecca Lawson (UCL London )

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman lecture: tracking memory traces in the human brain
  Professor Eleanor Maguire
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 20 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr MaryAnn Noonan (Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 27 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Jacqueline Scholl (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 July 2017 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neural and pharmacological modulation of adaptive learning and choice
  Professor Manuel Malmierca (University of Salamanca)

Thursday 27 July 2017 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Developing a network approach in using brain stimulation in healthy volunteers and patients
  Dr Giulio Ruffini

Tuesday 19 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Probing Predictive Models in the Mind with Dynamic Causal Modeling
  Dr Rosalyn Moran (University of Bristol )

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Mehdi Keramati (UCL)

Thursday 28 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:25 - Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Louise Marshall (UCL)

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making Cell Assemblies: What can we learn about plasticity from spiking neural network models?
  Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Brain Isn't Porridge
  Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Psychopathology and Plasticity of the Social Brain: From Emotion Regulation to Empathy and Theory of Mind
  Professor Phillip Kanske (TU Dresden )

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making sense of degraded speech: Auditory and cognitive factors
  Dr Jonathan Peelle (Washington University, St Louis)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Theta-rhythmic neuronal activity: a sampling mechanism for perception and attention?
  Dr Michael Schmid (University of Newcastle)
• 15:00 - Concept-Based Word Learning in Infancy
  Dr Gergely Csibra (Central European University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 15:00 - Concept-based word learning in infancy
  Dr Gergely Csibra (Central European University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Stopping and switching: what is the subthalamic nucleus doing?
  Professor Verity Brown (University of St Andrews )

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social Brain and Behaviour Club
  Robin Murphy (University of Oxford), Alex Sel (University of Oxford)
  Social Brain and Behaviour Club

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Associative representations in the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex: Acting on your values.
  Dr Marios Panagi (University of Oxford )
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Magriet Groen (Radbound University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 15:00 - Audiovisual processing and reading: An exploration into the extent and nature of their association
  Dr Margriet Groen (Radboud University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Attentional episodes and cognitive control
  Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Sarah Garfinkel (University of Sussex)
• 15:00 - Spelling as statistical learning: evidence from children and adults
  Dr Anna Samara (University of Liverpool )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Towards cross-species maps of brain organization
  Rogier Mars (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Simulating Children's Grammar Learning in the Lab with Adults and Artificial Languages
  Dr Fenna Poletiek (University of Leiden )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Semantic representation and its disorders
  Professor Matthew A. Lambon Ralph (University of Manchester)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 5 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Learning relative values through reinforcement learning: computational bases and neural evidence
  Dr Stefano Palminteri (ENS, Paris )
• 15:00 - Development of social behaviour – from mechanisms to interventions
  Dr Niko Steinbeis (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 12 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Working memory 2017: what is going on?
  Dr Eva Feredos (University of Reading)
• 15:00 - The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the life span
  Unfortunately, the Language & Development seminar scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed. Dr Olivia Afonso's talk 'The interaction between spelling & handwriting across the life span' has been rescheduled for Tuesday 30th January.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Olivia Alfonso (Oxford Brookes)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Prefrontal circuits underlying anxiety and anhedonia in a primate
  Professor Angela Robert (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multimodal studies of human motor plasticity
  Dr Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Tracking reading throughout primary school: How do phonological skills support early decoding, and do distinct profiles of fluent reading emerge?
  Dr Laura Shapiro (Aston University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Beyond heritability – Have studies of the effects of institutional deprivation changed how we conceptualise neuro-development?
  Edmund Sonuga-Barke (Kings College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Using artificial orthographies as a window onto how the brain learns to read
  Dr Joanne Taylor (Aston University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the life span
  Dr Olivia Afonso (Oxford Brookes)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reduced reactivity to food cues: New insights on the role of intrinsic excitability alterations on nucleus accumbens neuronal ensembles
  Dr Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - From number words to Arabic digits and back again: predicting mathematical development and investigating linguistic influences
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Social Brain and Behaviour Club
  Various Speakers
  Social Brain and Behaviour Club

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Ethnic diversity and prejudice: Impacts of positive and negative contact experiences
  Professor Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Causal explanation of individual differences in sensorimotor memory formation
  Dr Jacinta O'Shea (Oxford University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dissociating Social and Non-Social Learning: Influences of Social Nature Versus Informational Status
  Dr Jennifer Cook (University of Birmingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Development and Assessment of Individual Differences in Executive Function in the First Years of Life
  Dr Hanna Mulder (Utrecht University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Avoiding social risk in adolescence: implications for education and public health
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Promise and Peril of Emotionally Intelligent Machines
  Professor Jonathan Gratch (University of Southern California (USC))

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rewrite or Repress? Parsing The Mechanisms of Retrieval-Extinction
  Dear all, We're afraid to inform you that Amy Milton's seminar initially planned for tomorrow has now been postponed to a later date this year. Many thanks
  Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Lying brains: neuroimaging and deception research
  Dr Giorgio Ganis (University of Plymouth)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Enhancing Brain and Cognition Through Cognitive Training
  Professor Susanne Jaeggi (University of California, Irvine )

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Mental imagery and mental health
  Professor Emily Holmes (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Interplay Between Prediction and Perception In Post-Stroke Fatigue
  Dr Anna Kuppuswamy (University College London )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 20 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Learning, Inference and Cognitive Control: Various Faces of Adaptive Behaviour and their Neural Correlates
  Dr Adrian Fischer (Leiden University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Cognitive Control In Anxiety: Theme and Variations
  Dr Jason Moser (Michigan State University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 10 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emotion Processing in Homo and Pan
  Dr Mariska Kret (Leiden University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Choice and Consequence in Eye Movements and Beyond
  Dr Amelia Hunt (School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Affective and Regulatory Processes Underpinning Reactive Aggression in Adolescence
  Dr Cat Sebastian (RHUL )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Avoiding social risk in adolescence: implications for education and public health
  Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Context sensitivity of incentive value
  Francesco Rigoli (City University, London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Oxford Vision Group (OxVis) Seminar: The Interaction Between Vision and Eye Movements (Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen University)
  Refreshments served from 13:45 onwards.
  Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen University)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - What Counts for Early Mathematical Development?
  Dr Vicky Simms (Ulster University )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intact action-outcome knowledge dissociates from excessive behavioural responses in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  Matilde Vaghi (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The impact of context on emotion communication
  Professor Ursula Hess (Humboldt University Berlin)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Why do we need visual imagery?
  Juha Silvanto (University of Westminster)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The Composite Nature of Imitation: How Multiple Abilities Support Children's Social Learning
  Dr Joshua March (University of Dundee)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Executive Function in Autism: A Comparison Between The Lab and The Real World
  Lorcan Kenny (Institute of Education )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman Lecture: Implicit Social Cognition
  Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:00 - Object representations and the influence of learning : insights from single neurons and fMRI patterns.
  Leila Reddy (University of Toronto)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Testing the core properties of the Brain Valuation System: an Intracranial EEG investigation
  Alizee Lopez-Perem (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Tobias Bast (University of Nottingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Tessa Dekker (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - New approaches to volition and agency
  Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Finding meaning in the noise: The functional role of spontaneous brain activity
  Marieke Schölvinck (ESI, Frankfurt)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Rory Devine (University of Birmingham )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 3 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rewrite or Repress? Parsing the mechanisms of retrieval-extinction
  Date change - was orginally scheduled for 26th June, now rescheduled for 3rd July
  Dr Amy Milton
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Motor Planning and Motor Learning in Health and Disease
  Professor John Krakauer (John Hopkins University)

Thursday 20 September 2018 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:15 - Mindfulness Taster Session
  Oxford Mindfulness Centre (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Reproducibility School: Kick start your reproducible research
  Professor Marcus Munafò (MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol), Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford), Professor Chris Chambers (Cardiff University), Dr Stanley Lazic (AstraZeneca), Dr Laura Fortunato (University of Oxford), Professor Lisa DeBruine (University of Glasgow)

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cooperation: a social strategy?
  Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)
  Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
• 15:00 - Cooperation: A Social Strategy?
  Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 2 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Retrospective metacognition and reward in humans and social decision-making in humans and macaques
  Dr Igor Kagan (University of Goettingen)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Oxford Vision Group (OxVis) Meeting
  Various Speakers
  OxVis Meetings

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Enhancing causal perception: The search for ‘Empty Time’ effects with the rapid streaming procedure
  Robin Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Selective memory retention and updating schematic knowledge
  Dr Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroimaging of the catecholaminergic modulation of response inhibition using the stop signal task
  Professor Mitul Mehta (King's College London)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The Relationship Between Word Knowledge and Reading in L2 English
  Alexander Krebel (University of Amsterdam)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Action-selection under threat: algorithms and neural circuits for survival
  Professor Dominik Bach (University of Zurich)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 16:00 - Social Brain and Behaviour Club: Feeling in Seeing : Embodiment, Affect & Visual Politics (when News are Fake)
  Professor Manos Tsakiris (Lab of Action & Body, Dep of Psychology, Royal Holloway & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London )

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Should we stop looking for genetic biomarkers for psychological traits and disorders?
  Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An Introduction to Research Ethics for Researchers in the Medical Sciences Division
  Dr Helen Barnby-Porritt (Research Ethics Manager (Medical Sciences), Research Services)
• 13:00 - Using therapy apps and brain stimulation to improve reading in post-stroke aphasia
  Dr Zoe Woodhead (University of Oxford, UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - What drives the optimisation of vision in childhood?
  Dr Tessa Dekker (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Using Network Science to Understand the Mental Lexicon
  Dr Cynthia Siew (University of Warwick)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mindfulness Unpacked
  Professor Willem Kuyken (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Diametric Changes in Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release Underlie Drug-Taking and Drug-Seeking Behaviors
  Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Individual Differences in Executive Function in Early Childhood: Social correlates and consequences
  Due to unforeseen circumstances Dr. Devine’s seminar has unfortunately been postponed. The next seminar will be Dr. Carina de Klerk on Tues 27th Nov (on development of mimicry in infancy and toddlerhood).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Rory Devine (University of Birmingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dissecting the connection between dopamine, cue salience and reinforcement learning
  Dr Anna Huber (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forming beliefs about ourselves: encoding decision confidence in the human brain
  Dr Steve Fleming (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The development and modulation of mimicry in infancy and toddlerhood
  Dr Carina de Klerk (Birkbeck)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - When people err on the safe side: Social decision-making under uncertainty
  Anne-Marie Nussberger (University of Oxford)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Understanding Emotional Actions
  Dr Inge Volman (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Comprehensive literacy instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders
  Dr Jo Arciul (University of Sydney)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease—imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing
  Dr Claire O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Dopamine and decisions about cognitive control
  Professor Roshan Cools (Donders Institute, Radboud UMC)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Marcel Van Gerven (Nijmegen)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Intrinsic neuronal dynamics underlying working memory processes
  Dante Wasmuht (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
• 12:30 - The retinal mosaic, eye movements and colour vision
  Sarah Regan (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
• 14:00 - Mind the microbes! Toward an understanding of the human microbiota-gut-brain axis
  Dr Laura Steenbergen (Leiden University)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Did you spot the gorilla? Art Exhibition
  Sigune Hamann (Artist)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - The neurobiology of speech production systems: why do we sound the way we do?
  Prof Sophie Scott (University College of London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multiple neural mechanisms of knowledge acquisition and how specific amygdala connections can predict mental well-being
  Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - TBC
  Roger Kevit (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 15:00 - Mutualistic coupling supports development of cognitive abilities: Findings from three longitudinal cohorts
  Rogier A. Kievit (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Ethnic network segregation in schools
  Chloe Bracegirdle (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
• 12:30 - A novel method of detecting microsaccades in eye tracking data
  Anna Hauperich
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Working memory and distraction: evidence from smartphone games and Parkinson's Disease.
  Department of Experimental Psychology
  Dr Fiona McNab (University of York)
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Fiona McNab (University of York)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Plasticity in the developing brain: impact of focal lesions on language network
  Prof Torsten Baldeweg (UCL)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Denes Saucs (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Inconsistency in lateralisation of language functions: a risk factor for language impairment?
  Abigail Bradshaw (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
• 11:30 - Social curiosity: how subjective uncertainty informs social exploration
  Nadescha Trudel (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Predicting action outcomes
  Daniel Yon (Birkbeck)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Looking back to look forward: changes in the concept of autism, and implications for research
  Prof Francesca Happe (Kings College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 14:00 - Adolescent mental health resilience after child adversity
  Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Stress in Social Hierarchies
  Pranj Mehta (UCL)
• 15:00 - Exploring oral language, reading instruction, and literacy development in a computational model of reading
  Ya-Ning Chang (University of Cambridge)
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Ya-Ning Chang (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Computational and neural basis of prosocial decisions: a transdiagnostic approach
  Luis Sebastian (Oxford)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars
• 12:30 - Network changes during the transition to university
  Maria (Kempnich)
  Experimental Psychology DPhil Seminars

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A unifying perspective on working memory limits
  Dr Paul Bays (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 25 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Animal models of episodic memory
  Dr Jon Crystal (University of Indiana USA)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 2 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Reading and arithmetic: Distinct or related building blocks?
  Kiran Vanbinst (KU Leuven)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: The impact of learning multiple new real-world skills on cognitive abilities and functional independence in older adulthood
  Rachel Wu (University of California, Riverside)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in children: implications for increasing access to effective treatments
  Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Reward in the motor system
  Dr Joseph Galea (University of Birmingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: The surprising power of trial-and-error learning
  Dr Eliot Ludvig (University of Warwick )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Understanding variability in vocabulary consolidation across development and disorders
  Dr Lisa Henderson (University of York)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces
  Professor Christian Doeller (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Nucleus accumbens circuits in reward and aversion
  Dr Ana Rodrigues (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - The role of physiological arousal during the emergence of ASD symptomatology: From infancy to pre-school
  Tessel Bazelmans (Kings College)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Learning and consolidating patterns in experience
  Dr Anna Shapiro (UPenn (USA))
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Morphological decomposition within the ventral stream: a representational similarity approach
  Clare Lally (Royal Holloway)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Why all p-values should be banned (and other norms you can ignore)
  Dr Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Language and numerical cognition: The way numbers are named matters
  Dr Iro Xenidou-Dervou (Loughborough University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - The visual prefrontal cortex of primates: Availability, desirability and arousal
  Dr Betsy Murray (NIMH)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: White Matter plasticity and myelination in the adult brain in response to learning
  Dr Cassandra Sampaio-Baptista (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminar: Language intervention in Early Years education: a tale of two trials
  This talk has been cancelled.
  Gillian West (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Constructing, integrating, and navigating cognitive maps of social hierarchies
  Dr Erie Boorman (University of California, Davis)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Spectral fingerprints of large-scale neuronal interactions
  Dr Marcus Siegel (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Department of Experimental Psychology Language and Development Seminar: Towards embracing complexity to understand development: the case of Down syndrome
  Hana DeSouza (Birbeck)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Just effort? How perceptions of justice shape the impact of emotion regulation on employee well-being
  Dr. David Martinez Íñigo (Rey Juan Carlos University)

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: The Successor Representation in Choice Evaluation
  Dr Evan Russek (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 2 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: How we remember and how we forget
  Dr Aiden Horner (University of York )
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 3 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Experimental Psychology Social Brain and Behaviour: Social Decision-Making under Risk: When we Err on the Safe Side
  Anne-Marie Nußberger (Department of Experimental Psychology)
  Social Brain and Behaviour Seminar Club

Monday 8 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: A divisive model of evidence accumulation
  Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 9 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - **CANCELLED** Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: How does recent experience impact perception and memory?
  Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 23 July 2019 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Experimental Psychology - Learning & Development Seminar: Skilled readers' sensitivity to meaningful regularities in English writing
  Ana Ulicheva (Royal Holloway)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 10 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mapping the Evolution and Development of the Primate Brain by Neuroimaging Techniques
  We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday (10th September) Dr Tomoko Sakai from National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Japan will deliver a BEACON seminar. Tomoko works on brain anatomy of primates (chimps, marmoset, and humans) and is making a map visualising the evolution of primate brain. Dr Kentaro Miyamoto is hosting so if you would like to chat with Tomoko on the day, or join for drinks/dinner, please do get in touch with Kentaro.
  Dr Tomoko Sakai (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 8 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mechanisms for Adaptive Learned Avoidance of Mental Effort
  Asako Mitsuto Nagase (Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Motivation, Memory and Attractors
  Dr Sanjay Manohar
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Attempting to unravel surprisingly complex behaviour
  Prof Alex Kacelnik (Univerisity of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
  Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  Dr Lucie Charles (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 15:00 - Universal or Unique: The case of processing typologically distinct structures in Mandarin Chinese
  Jinman Li
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Experimental Psychology Early Career Researcher ‘firetalks’
  Various Speakers
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Parafoveal processing and transposed-letter effects in dyslexic reading
  Julie Kirkby (Bournemouth University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Exploration, individual traits and nicotine addiction
  Philippe Faure (CNRS, Paris)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Shape from shading in nature: Does it provide optimal camouflage?
  Prof Julie Harris (University of St Andrews)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Neural computations underlying the arbitration between multiple systems for behavioral control in humans
  John O'Doherty (Caltech)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - ECR Seminar: Insights into fellowship interviews
  Professor Karla Miller (University of Oxford)
  ECR Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Charting the lexicon across the lifespan
  Thomas Hills (Alan Turing Institute)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Bullying and mental health: prevention and intervention
  Professor Lucy Bowes (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value. Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar
  Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - ECR Seminar: How to get that professorship/ lectureship: what I wish I had known at the time of applying
  Dr Lennart Verhagen, Dr Saloni Krishnan (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  ECR Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neural Circuits of Cognition in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  David Freedman (University of Chicago)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 16 December 2019 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Emerging Minds Kick Off Event
  Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - ECR Seminar: 'Grant writing panel discussion: insights from the reviewers’ perspective on how to write the first grant application
  Professor Geoff Bird (University of Oxford), Professor Kate Nation (University of Oxford), Dr Matthew Apps (University of Oxford)
  ECR Lunchtime Seminars

Friday 17 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Career Pathways Talk: Growing up in Science: Wei Ji Ma's unofficial story
  Dr Wei Ji Ma (New York University)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Manipulating brain dynamics with non-invasive oscillatory electrical stimulation
  Dr Ines Violante (University of Surrey)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Writing systems, text experience and instruction in reading acquisition
  Porf Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milledge (University of Southampton)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 15:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milldge (University of Southampton)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Departmental Seminar: Rewards, economic decisions, values and preferences
  Professor Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Home environments, parental skills, and children’s literacy and numeracy skills: Insights from the Philippines
  Kay Dulay
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Arabic digit knowledge and its relation to mathematical performance in primary school children
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON) Seminar
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Dr Claire Gillan (Trinity College, oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Inaugural Watts Lecture: Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical circuits for learning and decision making
  Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 17 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON) Seminar CANCELLED
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Replay of Task State Representations in the Human Brain and How to Measure it with fMRI
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nico Schuck (Max Planck Institute)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory (ONLINE SEMINAR)
  Professor Jon Simons (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - **CANCELLED** New intervention insights for youth social anxiety: Effective treatment components and positive peer feedback
  Dr Anne Miers (Leiden University.)

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Managing Stress and Overcoming Anxiety (via Zoom)
  THIS EVENT IS FULL, BUT YOU CAN REGISTER TO JOIN THE WAITING LIST.
  Associate Professor Jennifer Wild (University of Oxford), Emeritus Professor Robin Dunbar (University of Oxford), Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Social Life of Voices: Studying the perception and production of vocal identity and traits
  If you would like to attend the meeting, please contact Zoe Woodhead at zoe.woodhead@psy.ox.ac.uk for the link.
  Professor Carolyn McGettigan (University College, London)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Realising the mass public benefit of psychological therapies: the 12 years of the IAPT programme (online via zoom)
  Professor David Clark (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Interactive workshop series: Sex differences in circadian rhythms and sleep – Session 1: Understanding differences
  Various Speakers

Monday 22 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Interactive workshop series: Sex differences in circadian rhythms and sleep – Session 2: Understanding impact
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 June 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Interactive workshop series: Sex differences in circadian rhythms and sleep – Session 3: Understanding change
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 August 2020 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Display Calibration for Internet and At-home Human Vision, Visual Perception and Color Research
  Tom Lianza (Portrait Displays), Daniel Coates (University of Houston), Sophie Wuerger (University of Liverpool), Jeff Mulligan (NASA), Hao Xie (Rochester Institute of Technology), Allie Hexley (University of Oxford), Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford), Manuel Spitschan (University of Oxford), Francisco Imai (Apple), Ali Özgur Yontem (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention
  Mariam (Aly)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Hippocampal Dysregulation Causes Transient Deficits in Decision-Making: Consequences for old age and Alzheimer’s disease
  The talk will be on Zoom (link to be circulated in due course).
  TBA
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Overcoming Sleep Problems (online via Zoom)
  Registration is now open!
  Professor Colin Espie (University of Oxford), Felicity Waite (University of Oxford ), Dimitri Gavriloff (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predictive Decision-Making During Exploration in Frontal Cortex
  The talk will be on Zoom (link to be circulated in due course).
  Nadescha Trudel (Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The coherence of the autism phenotype: Does the phenotype differ when selecting groups by neurodevelopmental versus genetic diagnosis?
  Registration is required for this Zoom event.
  Alexander Wilson (University of Oxford)
  Autism Seminar Series

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Managing Depression and Low Mood (online via Zoom)
  Registration is now open.
  Professor Willem Kuyken (University of Oxford), Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Cipriani (Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cortical and striatal circuit dynamics during natural and learned actions
  Please email the host if you wish to receive the Zoom joining link.
  Andreas Klaus (Champalimaud, Portugal)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 26 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Investigating attention to underlying mechanisms of language development: A prospective ASD and ADHD infant-sibling study
  This meeting will be held online via Zoom.
  Mary Agyapong (King’s College London)
  Autism Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Investigating attention to underlying mechanisms of language development: A prospective ASD and ADHD infant-sibling study
  Mary Agyapong (King’s College London)
  Autism Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - A role for autism genes in the developing cerebellum
  This event will be held online via Zoom. Registration is required.
  Esther Becker (University of Oxford (NDCN))
  Autism Seminar Series

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - ECR Firetalks (via Zoom)
  Various Speakers
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Skills underlying maths: The role of executive functions in the development of maths proficiency
  Online via Zoom
  Prof Lucy Cragg (University of Nottingham)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making
  Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the organisers to be added to the list of attendees.
  Dan Bang (University College London)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: The challenges and opportunities of reproducible research; the perspectives of a scientist who wears many hats
  Online via Zoom
  Dr Emily Sena (University of Edinburgh)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Dr Emily Sena (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - ECR Seminar: Resilience and conflict prevention training
  Registration for this virtual event is on a first-come, first-serve basis for a maximum of 30 attendees.
  Rachel Morris (University of Cambridge)
  ECR Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  This seminar has been postponed and will be re-scheduled.
  Matthias Gruber (University of Cardiff)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Our Mental Wellness: Understanding and Managing Eating Disorders
  Registration is now open.
  Dr Rebecca Murphy (University of Oxford ), Robin Murphy (University of Oxford), Deborah Waller (Oxford NHS practice)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: “I like the way you sing” – Neural systems for vocal perception
  Catherine Perrodin (University College London)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Brain dynamics in the primate audiomotor system during rhythmic timing
  Online via Zoom
  Dr Hugo Merchant
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - BEACON Seminar: Robust Encoding of Abstract Rules by Distinct Neuronal Populations in Primate Visual Cortex
  Tirin Moore (Stanford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 30 March 2021 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Getting a grip on cognitive flexibility
  Senne Braem (Ghent University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How superior temporal cortex processes “the sound image of words”
  Via Zoom
  Professor Eddie Chang (University of California)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Our Mental Wellness: Coping with Trauma
  Registration is now open.
  Professor Anke Elhers (Professor of Experimental Psychopathology & Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford ), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry), Dr Morten Kringelbach (Associate Professor, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar: Embracing complexity – understanding polytrauma through translational research
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Abigail Schindler (University of Washington)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Explaining emotional convergence: Contagion, social appraisal and beyond
  Via Zoom
  Brian Parkinson (Department of Experimental Psychology)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: Hippocampal-prefrontal hierarchical representations guide generalization and inference
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Alison Preston (University of Texas)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Our Mental Wellness: Overcoming Mistrust and Paranoia (online via Zoom)
  Registration is now open. (This talk was originally scheduled for 28 January, but has now been re-scheduled for 20 May.)
  Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Dr Matthias J. Gruber (Cardiff University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders
  Via Zoom
  Dr Duncan Astle (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Our Mental Wellness Webinar: Bullying and Anxiety
  Registration is open.
  Eleanor Leigh (University of Oxford), Dr Lucy Bowes (University of Oxford), Robert Hepach (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Attention shapes perception
  Via Zoom
  Marisa Carrasco (New York University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Competition and control in working memory
  via Zoom
  Anastasia Kiyonaga (UC San Diego)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Wednesday 30 June 2021 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - NeurotechEU - The Big Picture
  Find out more about NeurotechEU here https://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/about/neurotecheu
  Tansu Celikel (Radboud University)

Thursday 8 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Bridging the gap between basic, clinical, and population dementia research
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Building blocks for rewards, decisions, and social interactions in primate amygdala neurons
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Fabian Grabenhorst (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex
  Seminars this term will be held remotely on Zoom. Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the host if you would like to set up a remote meeting with a speaker. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), or Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Roozbeh Kiani (New York University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Our Mental Wellness: Overcoming Social Anxiety (via zoom)
  Professor David Clark (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar: Striatal dopamine waves as a mechanism for spatiotemporal credit assignment
  Via Zoom
  Arif Hamid (University of Minnesota)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Our Mental Wellness: Coping with grief after a bereavement (via zoom)
  When you register, please submit a question for the Q&A.
  Kirsten Smith (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding tau and Abeta biology in health and disease
  Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Circuit-based strategies for long-lasting motor recovery following dopamine depletion
  Via Zoom
  Aryn Gittis (Carnegie Mellon)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 14 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar: The biology of novelty seeking and uncertainty reduction
  Seminars this term will be held remotely on Zoom. Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the host if you would like to set up a remote meeting with a speaker. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), or Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Ilya Monosov (Washington University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - In search of adaptability
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth College)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Introducing the 'Oxford Brain Health Clinic: infrastructure for translational neuroscience'
  Via Zoom
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:00 - Seeking new words: Active word learning in infants and children
  This event will be held online.
  Martin Zettersten (Princeton University)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A survey on how preregistration affects workflow
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  TBA
  ReproducibiliTEA

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Too careful, too nice and trying too hard
  via Zoom.
  Professor Paul Salkovskis (Oxford Centre for Psychological Health)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Children’s Executive Functions
  This event will be held online. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list a week before the talk. Contact Emma James (emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emma Blakey (University of Sheffield)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Shifting the level of selection in science
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  TBA
  ReproducibiliTEA

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: Science, Politics, Economics and Practice
  Via Zoom
  Professor David Clark (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar - Title TBD
  Talk links will be sent to EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Clarifying the Brain Networks that Support Word Learning and Processing
  This event will be held online. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list a week before the talk. Contact Emma James (emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Jeffrey Malins (Georgia State University), Nikki Arrington (TRends)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Profitable publishing bad for science?
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  TBA
  ReproducibiliTEA

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ECR Fire Talks - various speakers
  Via Zoom
  Dr Esther Beierl (University of Oxford), Alessandro Bongioanni (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Wolff (University of Oxford), Dr Tessa Reardon (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A computational perspective on NMDA receptor antagonism in psychiatry
  Seminars this term will be held remotely on Zoom. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Lilian Weber (WIN, University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Words for wellbeing: emotional skills and mental health outcomes in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
  We hope to run this event in a hybrid format depending on COVID restrictions. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list a week before the talk. Contact Emma James (emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Dr Sarah Griffiths (UCL)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Data Index
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  TBA
  ReproducibiliTEA

Tuesday 15 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Has brain imaging discovered anything new about the brain?
  Talk links will be sent to EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking the target template in visual search: the role of learned expectations
  This talk will take place online and in person in the seminar room of New Radcliffe House. If you plan to attend online. talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Joy J Geng (University of California Davis)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Aligning clinical service and research infrastructure to accelerate translation of dementia research
  Prof Clare Mackay (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Memory recall in the human brain: evidence from fMRI, scalp EEG and intracranial EEG
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Bernhard Staresina (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:30 - Understanding the foundations of writing: Delineating spelling and handwriting skills in children
  This talk will take place in person in New Radcliffe House 20.05 Seminar Room 2, with an online option available. A remote access link will be circulated via the departmental epseminars mailing list during the week before the talk for those unable to attend in person. External guests are welcome, and can email emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk for the link.
  Cameron Downing (Leeds Trinity University)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Pervasive versus Situational ADHD: Mechanisms, impairment, and long-term outcomes
  This talk will take place in person in Seminar Room 2, New Radcliffe House, with an online option available. Registration is not required to attend in person, or to attend online if you are on the ep-seminars mailing list. If you'd like to attend online and are not on the ep-seminars mailing list, please email emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk for the link.
  Matilda Frick (Uppsala Universitet)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Dissecting the aetiology of Parkinson's disease and related Lewy body dementias: Lessons learned from the human brain (and periphery)
  Professor Laura Parkkinen (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: Naturalistic approaches for studying social cognition in animals and humans
  This talk will take place online. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Ziv Williams (Harvard Medical School)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Coding of space and time in cortical structures
  Registration is required to attend online or in person. For those attending in person, the event will take place in the Seminar Room on the second floor of New Radcliffe House, and there will be an informal reception afterwards with tea, coffee, biscuits and cake from 12 noon. Link to attend online: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuGrrDMvGt190XFp6dYe_HIMFrfN_3Sg Link to attend in person: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dwpwxQ1e
  Professor Michael Hasselmo (Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Boston University)

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution: age increases in this influence and an investigation into a potential source of this increase
  This talk will be held online only. A link will be circulated via the departmental ep-seminars mailing list during the week before the talk. If you'd like to attend online and are not on the ep-seminars mailing list, please email emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk for the link.
  Gillian Francey (Lancaster University)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Behaviour and the COVID pandemic: Science matters
  This will be a hybrid event.
  Professor Susan Michie (University College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Can we use MRI to measure how neurons and glia change their shape?
  This is a hybrid event. To attend in person, please come to New Radcliffe House, Department of Experimental Psychology. To attend online, talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Clemence Ligneul (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Understanding and managing troubling mental images
  This event will be held online via Zoom.
  Hannah Murray (University of Oxford)
  Our Mental Wellness Seminar Series

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Children’s knowledge of polysemous words: individual, psycholinguistic, and educational factors
  This event is online only. A link will be circulated via the departmental epseminars mailing list during the week before the talk. External guests are welcome and should email emma.james@psy.ox.ac.uk for the link.
  Sophie Booton (University of Oxford)
  Language and Development Seminar Series

Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Neural coding of space: from 3D grid cells to object × place
  Registration isn't required.
  Gily Ginosar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 21 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: Striatal dopamine and the costs and benefits of cognitive effort
  This talk will take place online. Talk links will be sent to the EP Seminars list the day before the talk. Contact Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk ) or Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you are not on the list and would like to join the seminar.
  Andrew Westbrook (Brown University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Wednesday 6 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Triumphs, Trials, Tribulations and Tomorrows re: Technology-delivered Interventions for Youth Anxiety
  Professor Susan Spence (Griffith University, Australia)

Monday 18 July 2022 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Reading and writing wirelessly in the non-human primate brain
  This is a hybrid event. If you are attending online, the zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85241891234?pwd=cXJ4S0xmNUhHV3FxREx1a1dUTzhxZz09 Meeting ID: 852 4189 1234 Passcode: 006723
  Sébastien Tremblay (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 21 July 2022 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Vascular and systemic factors in dementia and delirium risk
  Professor Sarah Pendlebury (NDCN, Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Tuesday 13 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Predictive neural representations during vision and naturalistic listening
  This talk will be held in person only. If you would like to chat with Floris on the day, please do get in touch with Jill O'Reilly at jill.oreilly@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  Floris de Lange (Radboud University in Nijmegen)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Relational Moral Psychology
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Brian Earp (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Updating goal-directed actions: A role for orbitofrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus
  If you would like to chat with Shauna on the day, please do get in touch with Lauren Burgeno at lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  Shauna Parkes (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Developments in dementia translation research
  Professor John Gallacher (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Explicit knowledge of task structure is a primary determinant of human model-based action
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please do get in touch with Lauren Burgeno at Lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Enhancing the symbiosis between substantive and quantitative research: from antagonism to mutualism
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please do get in touch with Dejan Draschkow dejan.draschkow@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  Ethan McCormick (Leiden University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Understanding children's learning in the real world
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From Computation to Large-scale Neural Circuitry in Belief
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please do get in touch with Ali Mahmoodi at ali.mahmoodi@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  Tobias Donner (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Monday 5 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roots and Branches of Right and Wrong: Three Insights from a Developmental Moral Psychology
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Audun Dahl (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 6 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Manipulation of striatal temperature produces bidirectional and dose dependent temporal scaling of population activity and decision-making, but not moment by moment movement execution.
  If you would like to chat with Joe on the day please do get in touch with Mark Walton mark.walton@psy.ox.ac.uk. The seminar will be held in the Sherrington Library, in the Sherrington Building. For those who don’t already have keycard access within the Sherrington, we will have delegates meet you in reception and escort you to the seminar room.
  Professor Joe Paton (Champalimaud Foundation)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study - updates and overlaps with the Dementia Mission
  Vanessa Raymont ( Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Development of Values in Middle Childhood
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Ella Daniel (Tel Aviv University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Programmable Attractors in the Mouse Frontal Cortex: a Natural Algorithm for Encoding New Sequences
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please email Lauren Burgeno at lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  Mohamady El-Gaby (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Protection and Removal of Information in Working Memory
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please email Hazel Kennedy at hazel.kennedy@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas, Austin)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - When the spark goes out. Apathy in neurodegenerative disease.
  Professor Masud Husain, Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford )
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Thinking the right thoughts
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - How do antidepressant drugs work?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Shining a light on dopamine signalling during inference guided choice
  Dr Marta Blanco-Pozo (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 14 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Gender bias in academia: a lifetime problem that needs solutions
  Dr Anaïs Lllorens (University of California, Berkeley)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 6 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study - updates and overlaps with the Dementia Mission
  Vanessa Raymont ( Department of Psychiatry, Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 17 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Emergence of functional modularity in the cortex built from repeated canonical local circuits
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 18 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Exploring the Neural and Behavioural Signatures of Protein Appetite
  Professor James E McCutcheon (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
  Professor Anthony Hannan (The University of Melbourne)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - BEACON Seminar: Following the Cues - How do Sound and Light Cues impact risky Decision Making?
  Professor Catharine Winstanley (The University of British Columbia)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Language Arts: books, comics, and language learning
  Sean McCarron (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Cognitive maps, cognitive control, and inference
  Professor Erie Boorman (University of California, Davis)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Dyslexia Reconsidered: Multiple Pathways from Language to Reading?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Maggie Snowling (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Space as a scaffold for temporal generalisation
  Dr Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Identifying risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study - CANCELLED
  Dr Sarah Floud (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ECR Fire Talks - various speakers
  This is a hybrid event.
  TBA
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Neural Replay Mechanisms Associated With Planning And Memory In Humans
  Dr Elliott Wimmer (The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Towards a molecular definition of the prodromal phase of Parkinson’s disease
  Dr George Tofaris (University of Oxford )
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - The Neuroscience of Laughter (Centre for the Creative Brain)
  Professor Sophie Scott (UCL)

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Tethered Rationality: A Model of Behavior for the Real World
  Professor Vinod Goel (York University, Toronto)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 11 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Exploring Relevant Scales for Human Brains in Society
  Dr Rei Akaishi (RIKEN Centre for Brain Science)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Tuesday 22 August 2023 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Some neuro-computational models of social decision-making and learning
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please do get in touch with Matthew Rushworth at matthew.rushworth@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  Christoph Korn (Heidelberg University)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Wednesday 20 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - BEACON Seminar: Optically tuned ultrasound neuromodulation for remote control of walking, anxiety, and vasodynamics
  This is an in-person only event
  TBA
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Thursday 28 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - AI genomics for target discovery and other applications
  Assoc Prof Alejo Nevado (Dept of Psychiatry University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Algorithms in clinical decision making
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Olga Kostopoulou (Imperial College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Pre-clinical modelling for drug discovery in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  In-person only event.
  Professor Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
• 13:00 - Mapping the striatal landscape of behaviourally relevant dopamine signals
  Professor Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Establishing psychological universals
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Melissa Võ (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - TBC
  In-person only event.
  TBA
  Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Complex perceptual decision making processes in humans
  Jozsef Fiser (Central European University)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Cortical-basal ganglia mechanisms underlying learning from gains and losses
  Dr Bruno Averbeck (National Institute of Mental Health)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Beyond accumulating evidence: hidden knobs that shape value-based decisions
  Dr Romy Froemer (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON - Using counterfactual self-simulation to investigate the self-model
  Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Friday 5 January 2024 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Precision imaging of the hippocampal memory system
  TBA
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Harnessing sleep pressure to treat insomnia
  Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : The Psychology of Global Catastrophic Risk & the Unilateralist's Curse
  Lucius Caviola (Oxford Global Priorities Institute)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Paranoia: My Life Understanding and Treating Extreme Mistrust
  Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Immersed Cognition: studying active vision and memory
  Sven Ohl & Felix Klotzsche (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Age-related genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease
  Prof. Valentina Escott-Price (Cardiff University)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Why do people experience uncontrollable worry – and what can we do about it?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Frances Meeten (King's College London)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Stable brains in dynamic worlds: a key role of cortico-cerebellar loops
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Precision imaging of the hippocampal memory system
  Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 13 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Single-neuron correlates of perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe
  Professor Florian Mormann (University of Bonn)

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Department Seminar: ECR Fire Talks
  Various Speakers
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Lewy body dementia: From the lab, to the clinic and the community beyond
  John-Paul Taylor (University of Newcastle)
  Dementia Research Oxford Seminars