Department of Experimental Psychology Seminars
Talks:

Friday 3 October 2025

Title TBC
Date: 3 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Seng Bum Michael Yoo (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
Venue Details: Venue: Lecture Theatre 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mohamady El-Gaby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans
Date: 7 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Biyu He (New York University, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL. https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)

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: TBA

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Yuya Mizuno (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 October 2025

Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
Date: 20 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

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)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Belinda Lennox (University of Oxford)

Characterizing salience signals in the insula
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Philippe Tobler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 October 2025

Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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 (York 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 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)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

Neural population geometry and neuroeconomics
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Hayden (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

Anne Treisman Lecture 2025: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (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)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (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)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Oxford Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics Symposium
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Naomi Wray (Univerity 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)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 December 2025

What do “Look but Fail to See” errors tell us about awareness and/or consciousness
Date: 11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7/8 (Lower ground floor) Life and Mind Building South Parks Road, OX1 3EL https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sage Boettcher (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

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)

Thursday 22 January 2025

Dementia risk prediction and prevention: value of observational studies
Date: 22 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Thomas Littlejohns (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (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)

This list contains talks from the following series:
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars