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Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience
Thursday 28th September:
09:25 Welcome – Masud Husain
Reproducibility in science
09:30 – 10:00 Introduction to the morning: why and how of reproducible science – Dorothy Bishop
10:10 – 10:40 Selfish reasons to work reproducibly – Florian Markowetz
10:50 – 11.20 Break
11:20 – 11:50 Practical tools for a reproducible workflow – Laura Fortunato
12:00 – 12:30 Practical tools for open and reproducible neuroimaging – Tom Nichols
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
Motivation and disorders of motivation
13.30 – 14.15 Apathy and impulsivity in neurological disease: a case of Burke and Hare – James Rowe
14.15 – 15.00 Why don’t you try harder? Computational phenotyping of motivation disorders – Mathias Pessglione
15.00 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.15 The impact of physical effort on value-based decision making – Miriam Klein-Flügge
16.15 – 17.00 Motivation and the energisation of movement – Sanjay Manohar
Friday, September 29
Pushing the boundaries of fMRI: new applications for old questions
09.00 – 09.45 The human brain through monkey eyes – Lennart Verhagen
09.45 – 10.30 Computational models: a way to link diverse findings across species in cognitive neuroscience – Laurence Hunt
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.45 Towards causality: combining non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroimaging to understand neuroplasticity – Charlotte Stagg
11.45 – 12.30 Women are from Mars… why sex is important for neuroimagers – Katy Vincent
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
Neural mechanisms of attention and perception
13.30 – 13.45 Introduction – Kerry Walker
13.45 – 14.30 Task-related adaptive plasticity in auditory cortex – Shihab Shamma
14.30 – 15.00 Break
15.00 – 15.45 Listening in crowded environments: How attention shapes human brain responses to attended and unattended sounds – Maria Chait
15.45 – 16.30 Attentional modulation in primate sensory cortex – Alexander Theile
16.30 – 16.45 Concluding thoughts and general discussion – Kristine Krug
Date:
28 September 2017, 9:25
Venue:
Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details:
Sherrington Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser:
Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-autumn-school-in-cognitive-neuroscience-2017-september-28-29-tickets-36058321410
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Janice Young
