Name: Nima Khalighinejad
University of Oxford
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/nima-khalighinejad

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 19 October 2021

BEACON Seminar: The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex
Date: 19 October 2021, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Roozbeh Kiani (New York University)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

BEACON Seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 December 2021

BEACON Seminar: The biology of novelty seeking and uncertainty reduction
Date: 14 December 2021, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ilya Monosov (Washington University)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

BEACON Seminar - Title TBD
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 15 February 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 March 2022

BEACON Seminar: Has brain imaging discovered anything new about the brain?
Date: 15 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 July 2022

Reading and writing wirelessly in the non-human primate brain
Date: 18 July 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sébastien Tremblay (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Cortical and striatal circuit dynamics during natural and learned actions
Date: 24 November 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Andreas Klaus (Champalimaud, Portugal)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Nick Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making
Date: 9 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dan Bang (University College London)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Nick Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 March 2021

BEACON Seminar: Robust Encoding of Abstract Rules by Distinct Neuronal Populations in Primate Visual Cortex
Date: 9 March 2021, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tirin Moore (Stanford)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Alon Baram (University of Oxford)
Host: Alon Baram (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

BEACON Seminar: Hippocampal-prefrontal hierarchical representations guide generalization and inference
Date: 18 May 2021, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Alison Preston (University of Texas)
Venue Details: via zoom
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Nick Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Alon Baram (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory
Date: 25 May 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Matthias J. Gruber (Cardiff University)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Nick Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 June 2021

Competition and control in working memory
Date: 15 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anastasia Kiyonaga (UC San Diego)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Nick Myers (University of Oxford)
Host: Nick Myers (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

BEACON Seminar: The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex
Date: 19 October 2021, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Roozbeh Kiani (New York University)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

BEACON Seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 December 2021

BEACON Seminar: The biology of novelty seeking and uncertainty reduction
Date: 14 December 2021, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ilya Monosov (Washington University)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

In search of adaptability
Date: 18 January 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth College)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

A computational perspective on NMDA receptor antagonism in psychiatry
Date: 1 March 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Lilian Weber (WIN, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Rethinking the target template in visual search: the role of learned expectations
Date: 26 April 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Joy J Geng (University of California Davis)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

BEACON Seminar: Naturalistic approaches for studying social cognition in animals and humans
Date: 24 May 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Ziv Williams (Harvard Medical School)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Can we use MRI to measure how neurons and glia change their shape?
Date: 7 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Clemence Ligneul (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 June 2022

Neural coding of space: from 3D grid cells to object × place
Date: 20 June 2022, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Gily Ginosar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Alon Baram (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 June 2022

BEACON Seminar: Striatal dopamine and the costs and benefits of cognitive effort
Date: 21 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrew Westbrook (Brown University)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 July 2022

Reading and writing wirelessly in the non-human primate brain
Date: 18 July 2022, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sébastien Tremblay (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 September 2022

Predictive neural representations during vision and naturalistic listening
Date: 13 September 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Floris de Lange (Radboud University in Nijmegen)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Updating goal-directed actions: A role for orbitofrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus
Date: 18 October 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Shauna Parkes (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: 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.
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

Enhancing the symbiosis between substantive and quantitative research: from antagonism to mutualism
Date: 8 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ethan McCormick (Leiden University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

From Computation to Large-scale Neural Circuitry in Belief
Date: 22 November 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Tobias Donner (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Manipulation of striatal temperature produces bidirectional and dose dependent temporal scaling of population activity and decision-making, but not moment by moment movement execution.
Date: 6 December 2022, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Joe Paton (Champalimaud Foundation)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

Programmable Attractors in the Mouse Frontal Cortex: a Natural Algorithm for Encoding New Sequences
Date: 31 January 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mohamady El-Gaby (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 February 2023

Protection and Removal of Information in Working Memory
Date: 9 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas, Austin)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

BEACON Seminar: Shining a light on dopamine signalling during inference guided choice
Date: 7 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Blanco-Pozo (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 March 2023

BEACON Seminar: Gender bias in academia: a lifetime problem that needs solutions
Date: 14 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Anaïs Lllorens (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kia Nobre (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 April 2023

BEACON Seminar: Exploring the Neural and Behavioural Signatures of Protein Appetite
Date: 18 April 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James E McCutcheon (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Sherrington Library, the Sherrington Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 April 2023

BEACON Seminar: Gene-environment interactions modulating brain function within and between generations
Date: 21 April 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Anthony Hannan (The University of Melbourne)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: The Sherrington Library, the Sherrington Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

BEACON Seminar: Following the Cues - How do Sound and Light Cues impact risky Decision Making?
Date: 2 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Catharine Winstanley (The University of British Columbia)
Venue Details: Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology. For those without keycard access to Pharmacology, use the call button at reception.
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

BEACON Seminar: Space as a scaffold for temporal generalisation
Date: 16 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

BEACON Seminar: Neural Replay Mechanisms Associated With Planning And Memory In Humans
Date: 6 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Elliott Wimmer (The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Marco Wittmann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

BEACON Seminar: Tethered Rationality: A Model of Behavior for the Real World
Date: 13 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Vinod Goel (York University, Toronto)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 July 2023

Exploring Relevant Scales for Human Brains in Society
Date: 11 July 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rei Akaishi (RIKEN Centre for Brain Science)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 August 2023

BEACON Seminar: Some neuro-computational models of social decision-making and learning
Date: 22 August 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Christoph Korn (Heidelberg University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 September 2023

BEACON Seminar: Optically tuned ultrasound neuromodulation for remote control of walking, anxiety, and vasodynamics
Date: 20 September 2023, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Miriam Klein-Flugge (Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Title TBC
Date: 31 October 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

TBC
Date: 21 November 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar Room, New Radcliffe House (2nd Floor), Department of Experimental Psychology, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)