Professor Matthew Rushworth - Oxford Talks

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Professor Matthew Rushworth

University of Oxford

https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/matthew-rushworth

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 5 March 2020

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)

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 20 November 2015

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

Thursday 10 March 2016

15:30 - Neuronal Underpinnings of Social Interaction
Keren Haroush (Harvard)

Thursday 9 March 2017

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)

Thursday 16 May 2019

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)

Friday 7 June 2019

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)

Thursday 17 October 2019

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

Thursday 6 February 2020

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

Tuesday 9 February 2021

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)

Monday 9 May 2022

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)

Monday 17 April 2023

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 22 August 2023

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)

Monday 27 November 2023

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 5 December 2023

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)

Monday 19 February 2024

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

Monday 29 April 2024

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

Monday 3 June 2024

14:00 - The flexible control of motivational strategy: role of dopamine
Professor Roshan Cools (Radboud University Medical Centre)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 21 October 2024

14:00 - ECR Fire Taks
TBA
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

13:00 - The role of dopamine in decision making
Prof Robb Rutledge (Yale University)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 25 November 2024

14:00 - Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments
Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 17 February 2025

14:00 - Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 9 June 2025

15:00 - Modelling human planning with recurrent neural networks
Professor Marcelo Mattar (New York University, USA)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Monday 13 October 2025

16:00 - The physiology of cognitive control
Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 3 November 2025

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

Monday 24 November 2025

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

Monday 18 May 2025

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

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 17 October 2019

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

Thursday 6 February 2020

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

Monday 29 April 2024

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

Monday 3 June 2024

14:00 - The flexible control of motivational strategy: role of dopamine
Professor Roshan Cools (Radboud University Medical Centre)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 10 June 2024

14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture - Developmental Amnesia: From discovery to brain and behavioural phenotypes.
There will be a Tea and Cake event after the lecture by ticket only. Please contact hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk if you would like to attend. Tickets are limited so please register early.
Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 21 October 2024

14:00 - ECR Fire Taks
TBA
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 11 November 2024

14:00 - Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation
Professor Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 25 November 2024

14:00 - Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments
Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 27 January 2025

14:00 - Developmental risk for psychopathy
Professor Essi Viding (University College London)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 17 February 2025

14:00 - Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 3 March 2025

14:00 - ‘Crossing the Line’: A Dynamic, Dual Pathway Model of Resegregation
Professor John Dixon (Open University)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 12 May 2025

14:00 - Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 2 June 2025

14:00 - CANCELLED: Anne Treisman Lecture: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 16 June 2025

14:00 - Looking for meaning
Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)

Monday 13 October 2025

16:00 - The physiology of cognitive control
Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 20 October 2025

16:00 - The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Monday 27 October 2025

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

Monday 3 November 2025

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

Monday 10 November 2025

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

Monday 17 November 2025

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

Monday 24 November 2025

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

Monday 1 December 2025

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

Monday 19 January 2025

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

Monday 26 January 2025

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

Monday 2 February 2025

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

Monday 9 February 2025

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

Monday 2 March 2025

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

Monday 9 March 2025

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

Monday 27 April 2025

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

Monday 18 May 2025

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

Monday 8 June 2025

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

Monday 15 June 2025

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