• Type: Seminar Series
• Web Address: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/events

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
  Professor Courtney Norbury (Royal Holloway University of London)
• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective”
  TBA

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Can we teach machines to think
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
  TBA

Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Motor system involvement in the perception of time: music, rhythm, and the brain
  TBA

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Developing Visual Brain - from Newborns to Numeracy
  Professor Oliver Braddick (University of Oxford), Professor Jan Atkinson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Why does dopamine encode the value of future rewards?
  Dr Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Working memory training does not improve performance on measures of intelligence or other measures of far transfer: Evidence from a meta-analytic review.
  Professor Monica Melby-Lervag (University of Oslo)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Moral Disgust Responds to Bad Character
  Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla (University of Kent)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Nostalgia Potentiates a Positive and Attainable Future
  Professor Constantine Sedikides (University of Southampton)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Cognitive gadgets: the cultural evolution of thinking
  Please note change of venue
  Professor Cecelia Heyes (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Compulsivity: Neuropsychological substrates and neuropsychiatric implications
  Please note there will be a change of venue
  Professor Trevor Robbins (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry: the contribution of functional neuroimaging
  TBA

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - All memory is presence and future: insights from trauma research
  TBA

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman lecture: tracking memory traces in the human brain
  Professor Eleanor Maguire

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Brain Isn't Porridge
  Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Attentional episodes and cognitive control
  Professor John Duncan (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Semantic representation and its disorders
  Professor Matthew A. Lambon Ralph (University of Manchester)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Beyond heritability – Have studies of the effects of institutional deprivation changed how we conceptualise neuro-development?
  Edmund Sonuga-Barke (Kings College London)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Ethnic diversity and prejudice: Impacts of positive and negative contact experiences
  Professor Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Avoiding social risk in adolescence: implications for education and public health
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - EP Department seminar: Mental imagery and mental health
  Professor Emily Holmes (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Avoiding social risk in adolescence: implications for education and public health
  Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The impact of context on emotion communication
  Professor Ursula Hess (Humboldt University Berlin)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Annual Anne Treisman Lecture: Implicit Social Cognition
  Professor Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - New approaches to volition and agency
  Professor Patrick Haggard (University College London)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Enhancing causal perception: The search for ‘Empty Time’ effects with the rapid streaming procedure
  Robin Murphy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Should we stop looking for genetic biomarkers for psychological traits and disorders?
  Professor Dorothy Bishop (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mindfulness Unpacked
  Professor Willem Kuyken (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Dopamine and decisions about cognitive control
  Professor Roshan Cools (Donders Institute, Radboud UMC)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - The neurobiology of speech production systems: why do we sound the way we do?
  Prof Sophie Scott (University College of London)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Contours & Explanations
  Professor Michael Martin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Looking back to look forward: changes in the concept of autism, and implications for research
  Prof Francesca Happe (Kings College London)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in children: implications for increasing access to effective treatments
  Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces
  Professor Christian Doeller (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Why all p-values should be banned (and other norms you can ignore)
  Dr Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - The visual prefrontal cortex of primates: Availability, desirability and arousal
  Dr Betsy Murray (NIMH)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Departmental Seminar: Experimental Psychology Early Career Researcher ‘firetalks’
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Shape from shading in nature: Does it provide optimal camouflage?
  Prof Julie Harris (University of St Andrews)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Bullying and mental health: prevention and intervention
  Professor Lucy Bowes (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Writing systems, text experience and instruction in reading acquisition
  Porf Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Arabic digit knowledge and its relation to mathematical performance in primary school children
  Dr Silke Goebel (University of York )

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Inaugural Watts Lecture: Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical circuits for learning and decision making
  Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory (ONLINE SEMINAR)
  Professor Jon Simons (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: Realising the mass public benefit of psychological therapies: the 12 years of the IAPT programme (online via zoom)
  Professor David Clark (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - ECR Firetalks (via Zoom)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Skills underlying maths: The role of executive functions in the development of maths proficiency
  Online via Zoom
  Prof Lucy Cragg (University of Nottingham)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Departmental Seminar: The challenges and opportunities of reproducible research; the perspectives of a scientist who wears many hats
  Online via Zoom
  Dr Emily Sena (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Brain dynamics in the primate audiomotor system during rhythmic timing
  Online via Zoom
  Dr Hugo Merchant

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - How superior temporal cortex processes “the sound image of words”
  Via Zoom
  Professor Eddie Chang (University of California)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Explaining emotional convergence: Contagion, social appraisal and beyond
  Via Zoom
  Brian Parkinson (Department of Experimental Psychology)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders
  Via Zoom
  Dr Duncan Astle (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Attention shapes perception
  Via Zoom
  Marisa Carrasco (New York University)

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Building blocks for rewards, decisions, and social interactions in primate amygdala neurons
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Fabian Grabenhorst (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Introducing the 'Oxford Brain Health Clinic: infrastructure for translational neuroscience'
  Via Zoom
  Professor Clare Mackay (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: Science, Politics, Economics and Practice
  Via Zoom
  Professor David Clark (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ECR Fire Talks - various speakers
  Via Zoom
  Dr Esther Beierl (University of Oxford), Alessandro Bongioanni (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Wolff (University of Oxford), Dr Tessa Reardon (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Behaviour and the COVID pandemic: Science matters
  This will be a hybrid event.
  Professor Susan Michie (University College London)

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Relational Moral Psychology
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Brian Earp (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Explicit knowledge of task structure is a primary determinant of human model-based action
  If you would like to chat with the speaker on the day, please do get in touch with Lauren Burgeno at Lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Understanding children's learning in the real world
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Monday 5 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roots and Branches of Right and Wrong: Three Insights from a Developmental Moral Psychology
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Audun Dahl (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Development of Values in Middle Childhood
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Ella Daniel (Tel Aviv University)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Thinking the right thoughts
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - How do antidepressant drugs work?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Monday 17 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: Dyslexia Reconsidered: Multiple Pathways from Language to Reading?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Maggie Snowling (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ECR Fire Talks - various speakers
  This is a hybrid event.
  TBA

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Algorithms in clinical decision making
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Olga Kostopoulou (Imperial College London)

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Establishing psychological universals
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Melissa Võ (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Harnessing sleep pressure to treat insomnia
  Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Paranoia: My Life Understanding and Treating Extreme Mistrust
  Professor Daniel Freeman (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Why do people experience uncontrollable worry – and what can we do about it?
  This is a hybrid event.
  Dr Frances Meeten (King's College London)

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Department Seminar: ECR Fire Talks
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Unmasking the effects of inequality: How are people affected and when will they rise to address the divide?
  Dr Tabea Hässler (University of Zurich)