Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)

Seminars this term will be held remotely on Zoom. Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the host for a particular event 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).

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford) , Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Web Address: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/events/search?category=beacon-seminar-series
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology

Tuesday 23 February 2021

13:00 - BEACON Seminar
This seminar has been postponed and will be re-scheduled.
Matthias Gruber (University of Cardiff)

Tuesday 2 March 2021

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

Tuesday 9 March 2021

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

Tuesday 30 March 2021

13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Getting a grip on cognitive flexibility
Senne Braem (Ghent University)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

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)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

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)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

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)

Tuesday 15 June 2021

16:00 - Competition and control in working memory
via Zoom
Anastasia Kiyonaga (UC San Diego)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

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)

Tuesday 2 November 2021

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

Tuesday 16 November 2021

13:00 - BEACON Seminar
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 November 2021

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

Tuesday 14 December 2021

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)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

14:00 - In search of adaptability
This event will be held online via Zoom.
Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth College)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

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)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

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)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

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)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

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)

Monday 20 June 2022

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

Tuesday 21 June 2022

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)

Tuesday 13 September 2022

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)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

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)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

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)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

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)

Tuesday 6 December 2022

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)