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Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series
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Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford),
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Timing: Mondays at 4pm
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology
Talks:
Monday 13 October 2025
The physiology of cognitive control
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Cortex Club (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Monday 20 October 2025
The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 27 October 2025
The Devil You Don’t Know: Threat and Uncertainty in Complex Environments
Date: 27 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Cade McCall (University of York)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 3 November 2025
Inaugural Lecture: Spatial Attention and Working Memory Mechanisms in Natural Language Processing
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Monday 17 November 2025
Youth in Divided Societies: Understanding and Promoting Positive Intergroup Relations and Constructive Societal Engagement
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 24 November 2025
Rethinking children’s agency in cultural adaptation
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Sheina Lew-Levy (Durham University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Monday 1 December 2025
ECR Firetalks
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford),
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 19 January 2025
Studying Navigation in Cities and on the Ocean
Date: 19 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 26 January 2025
Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making
Date: 26 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 2 February 2025
Psychology, Digital Data and the Study of Behaviour: A Golden Age for Social Psychology?
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Mark Levine (Lancaster Univeristy)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford)
Monday 9 February 2025
Where is my coffee cup? Spatial coding of objects in naturalistic environments
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler (University Giessen)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Dejan Draschkow (University of Oxford)
Monday 2 March 2025
Neural underpinnings of language abilities in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Kate Nation (University of Oxford)
Monday 9 March 2025
ECR - Fire Talks
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford),
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 27 April 2025
From perception and language to knowledge representation in primate brains
Date: 27 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Yanchao Bi (Peking University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Kate Watkins (University of Oxford)
Monday 18 May 2025
Anne Treisman Lecture 2026
Date: 18 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Susan Carey (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Robin Murphy (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Monday 8 June 2025
Confidence judgments of perceptual and motor decisions
Date: 8 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Pascal Mamassian (École normale supérieure)
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Monday 15 June 2025
ECR Fire Talks
Date: 15 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture room 2, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road
Organisers:
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford),
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Tsvetomira Dumbalska (University of Oxford),
Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
