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Chaucer Club
Unless specifically signalled otherwise, all seminars are held in term time only on Thursday afternoons in the Lecture Theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, from 3.30pm.
All are welcome to attend and there is no need to pre-register, just come early enough to report to Reception and claim a visitor badge.
Note that there is no parking available on site. Please do not park illegally on the road outside - in particular do not park on the verges or blocking the footpaths. Cycle racks are available.
For further information, or to join the e-mail list for the Seminar Schedule and updates, please email Mandy Carter.
All public talks are publicised on the University talks website, which also contains an archive of older lectures.
Easter Term 2012
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19 April |
Professor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh) Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement
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26 April |
Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) How memory guides perception
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3 May |
Jonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany) Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state
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10 May
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Professor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London) Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more
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17 May |
Professor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University) Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour
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24 May |
Dr Roland Zahn (Divisions of Psychology & Psychiatry, The University of Manchester) Translational cognitive neuroscience of social knowledge and moral motivations: new clues for the understanding of affective disorders
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Monday 28 May |
Professor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition) Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition
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7 June |
Dr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology) Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?
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14 June |
Dr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia) Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias |