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Cambridge Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
First Year Theoretical Seminars programme
CBSU students are full members of the Cambridge Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, which has been jointly established by the Unit and the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry. This consists of a weekly series of theoretical seminars presented by senior researchers from the CBSU and from the University. Lectures will be held on Mondays 4.00- 5.30pm and the venue is now split between CBSU and the Department of Experimental PSychology. CBSU seminars are held in the West Wing Seminar Room at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF (unless otherwise specified), Experimental Psychology lectures are held at their facility on the Downing Site in central Cambridge. All seminars are held during Michaelmas and Lent terms only. These are compulsory for CBSU first year graduate students.
Please note – this is a teaching course exclusively for first-year graduate students from the CBSU and the Depts. of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry. If you are not in these groups but would like to attend please contact the organiser.
Note that there is no parking available on site at Chaucer Raod. 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.
Details of the Seminar Programme will be updated on this page and any changes in the programme, as well as any other information of interest, will be communicated via e-mail - it is therefore important that you e-mail the seminar administrator to ensure that your name is on the "Camgrads+" mailing list.
All public talks are publicised on the University talks website, which also contains an archive of older lectures.
Schedule for Lent Term 2012
Lecturers often provide abstracts and examples of suggested reading; see the links below for each talk. The opportunity will be given for interested students to discuss this additional material at the end of the lecture.
Venue – MRC CBSU Seminar Room for first half of term:
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23 January |
John Duncan (MRC CBSU) A roadmap of the brain: Modules, gradients and systems For suggested further reading see here
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30 January |
Tony Holland (Dept of Psychiatry) From genes to behaviour: insights from people with neurodevelopmental syndromes associated with intellectual disabilities
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6 February |
Simon Baron-Cohen (Dept of Psychiatry) Sex differences in mind
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13 February |
Peter Jones (Dept of Psychiatry) Significance, power and replication: why statistical life gets harder as a post-doc
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Venue – Experimental Psychology Seminar Room for second half of term:
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20 February |
Danny Mitchell (MRC CBSU) Neuroimaging with MRI: combining physics and physiology to understand brain function
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27 February |
Tim Dalgleish (MRC CBSU) There's no point crying about it … or is there? Some thoughts on why we have emotions. For abstract and further reading see here
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5 March |
Jon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology) Cognitive neuroscience: Seeking convergence between neuroimaging and neuropsychology For abstract and further reading see here
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12 March |
Tim Bussey (Dept of Experimental Psychology) Strategies for cognitive translation from animal to human: Knock-outs, neurogenesis, and neuropsychiatric disease
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Lectures will be held on Mondays 4.00-5.30 pm – either in the West Wing Seminar Room at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road or at Experimental Psychology on the Downing Site. Lectures are held during Michaelmas and Lent terms only. Please check the venue carefully.