These seminars take place on Wednesdays in the Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, from 12.30pm until 1.30pm unless otherwise stated. Please note – all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis, and we have an H&S limit of 90 attendees

 

Michaelmas Term 2025

08 Oct Gabriela Epihova (MRC CBU)

Gradients of neurogenesis across the human foetal cortex

Charlotte Garcia (MRC CBU)

Precision medicine for bionic ears: Characterising the brain-computer interface of cochlear-implants

15 Oct Keita Tamura (U. of Cambridge, Physiology Dept)

Deconstructing primate visual cognition by light

Beyza Ustun-Elayan (U. of Cambridge, Psychology Dept)

From womb to world: Prenatal foundations of sensory and learning processes

22 Oct Aaron Kaltenmaier (UCL)

Tracking temporal structure: A concert of sensory and motor simulation

Lidea Shahidi (MRC CBU)

Speech perception with sparse cochlear implant stimulation patterns

29 Oct Half Term break – no talk scheduled

05 Nov Máté Aller (MRC CBU)

Neural dynamics of audio-visual spatial representations in working memory

Tanvi Rao (U. of Cambridge, Radiology Dept)

Talk title tbc

12 Nov Kayson Fakhar (MRC CBU)

Self-organising cortical networks reveal a communication-computation trade-off in the human brain

Payton Kang (MRC CBU)

Humans-robots interactions

19 Nov Research Culture: Collaboration across scales

Julia Beker (MRC CBU)

Collaboration within an international team working on Dissociative Identity Disorder

Duncan Astle (MRC CBU)

Collaboration within the CALM team

26 Nov Kamila Maria Jóźwik (U. of Cambridge, Psychology Dept)

Five animacy dimensions and the CLIP model explain complementary components of visual

representational dynamics and similarity judgments

Mahek Kirpalani (MRC CBU)

Prefrontal-thalamic pathways in retrieval suppression: The role of the Nucleus Reuniens

03 Dec Lihua Xia (MRC CBU)

The Cam-CAN bilingualism project

Joe Worth (MRC CBU)

Grants and external funding processes at MRC CBU