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

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Prefrontal circuits underlying anxiety and anhedonia in a primate
  Professor Angela Robert (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Multimodal studies of human motor plasticity
  Dr Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Using artificial orthographies as a window onto how the brain learns to read
  Dr Joanne Taylor (Aston University )

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reduced reactivity to food cues: New insights on the role of intrinsic excitability alterations on nucleus accumbens neuronal ensembles
  Dr Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Causal explanation of individual differences in sensorimotor memory formation
  Dr Jacinta O'Shea (Oxford University )

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Dissociating Social and Non-Social Learning: Influences of Social Nature Versus Informational Status
  Dr Jennifer Cook (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rewrite or Repress? Parsing The Mechanisms of Retrieval-Extinction
  Dear all, We're afraid to inform you that Amy Milton's seminar initially planned for tomorrow has now been postponed to a later date this year. Many thanks
  Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge University )

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Lying brains: neuroimaging and deception research
  Dr Giorgio Ganis (University of Plymouth)

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Interplay Between Prediction and Perception In Post-Stroke Fatigue
  Dr Anna Kuppuswamy (University College London )

Tuesday 20 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Learning, Inference and Cognitive Control: Various Faces of Adaptive Behaviour and their Neural Correlates
  Dr Adrian Fischer (Leiden University )
• 13:00 - Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Cognitive Control In Anxiety: Theme and Variations
  Dr Jason Moser (Michigan State University )

Tuesday 10 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Emotion Processing in Homo and Pan
  Dr Mariska Kret (Leiden University )

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Choice and Consequence in Eye Movements and Beyond
  Dr Amelia Hunt (School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Context sensitivity of incentive value
  Francesco Rigoli (City University, London)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intact action-outcome knowledge dissociates from excessive behavioural responses in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  Matilde Vaghi (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Why do we need visual imagery?
  Juha Silvanto (University of Westminster)

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

• 15:00 - Object representations and the influence of learning : insights from single neurons and fMRI patterns.
  Leila Reddy (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Testing the core properties of the Brain Valuation System: an Intracranial EEG investigation
  Alizee Lopez-Perem (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Tobias Bast (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Finding meaning in the noise: The functional role of spontaneous brain activity
  Marieke Schölvinck (ESI, Frankfurt)

Tuesday 3 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Rewrite or Repress? Parsing the mechanisms of retrieval-extinction
  Date change - was orginally scheduled for 26th June, now rescheduled for 3rd July
  Dr Amy Milton

Monday 1 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cooperation: A Social Strategy?
  Dr Wei Song Ong (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 2 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Retrospective metacognition and reward in humans and social decision-making in humans and macaques
  Dr Igor Kagan (University of Goettingen)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Selective memory retention and updating schematic knowledge
  Dr Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neuroimaging of the catecholaminergic modulation of response inhibition using the stop signal task
  Professor Mitul Mehta (King's College London)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Action-selection under threat: algorithms and neural circuits for survival
  Professor Dominik Bach (University of Zurich)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Using therapy apps and brain stimulation to improve reading in post-stroke aphasia
  Dr Zoe Woodhead (University of Oxford, UCL)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Diametric Changes in Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release Underlie Drug-Taking and Drug-Seeking Behaviors
  Dr Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dissecting the connection between dopamine, cue salience and reinforcement learning
  Dr Anna Huber (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forming beliefs about ourselves: encoding decision confidence in the human brain
  Dr Steve Fleming (UCL)

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar - Understanding Emotional Actions
  Dr Inge Volman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease—imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing
  Dr Claire O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Marcel Van Gerven (Nijmegen)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Fiona McNab (University of York)

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A unifying perspective on working memory limits
  Dr Paul Bays (University of Cambridge)

Monday 25 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Animal models of episodic memory
  Dr Jon Crystal (University of Indiana USA)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Reward in the motor system
  Dr Joseph Galea (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: The surprising power of trial-and-error learning
  Dr Eliot Ludvig (University of Warwick )

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Nucleus accumbens circuits in reward and aversion
  Dr Ana Rodrigues (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Learning and consolidating patterns in experience
  Dr Anna Shapiro (UPenn (USA))

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: White Matter plasticity and myelination in the adult brain in response to learning
  Dr Cassandra Sampaio-Baptista (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Constructing, integrating, and navigating cognitive maps of social hierarchies
  Dr Erie Boorman (University of California, Davis)

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Spectral fingerprints of large-scale neuronal interactions
  Dr Marcus Siegel (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: The Successor Representation in Choice Evaluation
  Dr Evan Russek (UCL)

Tuesday 2 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: How we remember and how we forget
  Dr Aiden Horner (University of York )

Monday 8 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: A divisive model of evidence accumulation
  Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)

Tuesday 9 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - **CANCELLED** Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: How does recent experience impact perception and memory?
  Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)

Tuesday 10 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mapping the Evolution and Development of the Primate Brain by Neuroimaging Techniques
  We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday (10th September) Dr Tomoko Sakai from National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Japan will deliver a BEACON seminar. Tomoko works on brain anatomy of primates (chimps, marmoset, and humans) and is making a map visualising the evolution of primate brain. Dr Kentaro Miyamoto is hosting so if you would like to chat with Tomoko on the day, or join for drinks/dinner, please do get in touch with Kentaro.
  Dr Tomoko Sakai (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)

Tuesday 8 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mechanisms for Adaptive Learned Avoidance of Mental Effort
  Asako Mitsuto Nagase (Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Motivation, Memory and Attractors
  Dr Sanjay Manohar

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  Dr Lucie Charles (UCL)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Exploration, individual traits and nicotine addiction
  Philippe Faure (CNRS, Paris)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Neural computations underlying the arbitration between multiple systems for behavioral control in humans
  John O'Doherty (Caltech)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value. Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar
  Dr Armin Lak (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neural Circuits of Cognition in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: TBA
  David Freedman (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Manipulating brain dynamics with non-invasive oscillatory electrical stimulation
  Dr Ines Violante (University of Surrey)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON) Seminar
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Dr Claire Gillan (Trinity College, oxford)

Tuesday 17 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON) Seminar CANCELLED
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Athena Akrami (UCL)

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Replay of Task State Representations in the Human Brain and How to Measure it with fMRI
  Please contact the host if you would like to meet with a speaker or join for lunch/dinner on the day of their talk. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk), or Nick (nicholas.myers@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nico Schuck (Max Planck Institute)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention
  Mariam (Aly)

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar - Title TBD
  Talk links will be sent to 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.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Has brain imaging discovered anything new about the brain?
  Talk links will be sent to 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.
  Professor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mapping the striatal landscape of behaviourally relevant dopamine signals
  Professor Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Complex perceptual decision making processes in humans
  Jozsef Fiser (Central European University)

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Cortical-basal ganglia mechanisms underlying learning from gains and losses
  Dr Bruno Averbeck (National Institute of Mental Health)

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON seminar - Beyond accumulating evidence: hidden knobs that shape value-based decisions
  Dr Romy Froemer (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON - Using counterfactual self-simulation to investigate the self-model
  Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 January 2024 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Precision imaging of the hippocampal memory system
  TBA

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : The Psychology of Global Catastrophic Risk & the Unilateralist's Curse
  Lucius Caviola (Oxford Global Priorities Institute)

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Immersed Cognition: studying active vision and memory
  Sven Ohl & Felix Klotzsche (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Stable brains in dynamic worlds: a key role of cortico-cerebellar loops
  Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Precision imaging of the hippocampal memory system
  Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)