Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

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Type: Seminar Series
Web Address: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/events
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology

Talks:

Friday 11 April 2025

Neural basis of self-control
Date: 11 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Veit Stuphorn (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (ground floor), Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Fabian Grabenhorst (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Editors: Nicole Harris, Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa, Nicholas Irving, Stephanie Mcclain, Tracy Tompkins, David Fernandez Clavero, Halley Cohen