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Wednesday Lunchtime Seminars

These seminars take place in term time only, in the Lecture Theatre, 15 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge, CB2 7EF. 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. Unless otherwise stated, they are all on Wednesdays, from 12.30 until around 2pm. 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 if you would like to join the e-mail list for information on any of our seminars please e-mail Mandy Carter.

All public talks are publicised on the University talks website, which also contains an archive of older talks.

Schedule for Easter Term 2012

25 April

Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry)

New directions for neuroimaging genetics studies: a molecular biological perspective

2 May

Noham Wolpe (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Seeing what you want to see: a Bayesian account

9 May

Rachel Moseley (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Brain and behavioural correlates of action-perception deficits in autism

Emma Hill (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Perspective broadening training with depressed individuals in remission

16 May

John Duncan, Pierre Gagnepain (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Biasing experimental settings to maximise empirical phenomena: the good, the bad, and the ugly
[Open Discussion on: Fiedler (2011). Perspectives on Psychological Science,6, 163-71 and Simmons et al. Psychological Science, 22, 1359-66]

23 May

Anna McCarrey (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

The ageing brain and its impact upon the gambling experience

30 May

Alex Billig (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Comparing models of contour in music and speech

Zubaida Shebani (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Semantic word category processing in degenerative brain diseases

6 June

Felix Dreyer (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Plausibility in brain responses: A combined EEG/MEG and eye tracking study

Andrew Bell (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

Neuroimaging of the non-human primate brain

13 June

Sam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)

The neural basis of speech intelligibility