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Nima Khalighinejad
University of Oxford
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/nima-khalighinejad
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
14:00
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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)
Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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BEACON Seminar
Status
: This talk has been cancelled
Madalena Fonseca
(University of Oxford)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 14 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)
15:00
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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 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 15 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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)
Monday 18 July 2022 (13th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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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)
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
16:00
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BEACON Seminar: Robust Encoding of Abstract Rules by Distinct Neuronal Populations in Primate Visual Cortex
Tirin Moore
(Stanford)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
14:00
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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)
Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
16:00
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Competition and control in working memory
via Zoom
Anastasia Kiyonaga
(UC San Diego)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
14:00
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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)
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)
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
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In search of adaptability
This event will be held online via Zoom.
Alireza Soltani
(Dartmouth College)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
14:00
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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)
Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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)
Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
15:30
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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
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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)
Monday 18 July 2022 (13th Week, Trinity Term)
12:00
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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)
Tuesday 13 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 6 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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
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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)
Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
13:00
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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
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BEACON Seminar: Gender bias in academia: a lifetime problem that needs solutions
Dr Anaïs Lllorens
(University of California, Berkeley)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 18 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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
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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
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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)
Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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BEACON Seminar: Space as a scaffold for temporal generalisation
Dr Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau
(University of Oxford)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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)
Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
13:00
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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
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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
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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
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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)
Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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Title TBC
In-person only event.
Professor Ingo Willuhn
(Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
13:00
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TBC
In-person only event.
TBA
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
