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

 

Lent Term 2026

21 Jan
Kasia Lanucha (Intercultural Communication Educator, University of Cambridge & Kasia Lanucha Consulting)
Communication Across Cultures

Prof. Caroline Trotter (Cambridge-Africa; Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)
Communication Across Cultures

28 Jan
Alexa Mousley (CBU)
Topological Turning Points Across the Human Lifespan

4 Feb
Ido Shalev (CBU)
Mapping Psychological Reality with Self-Organising Maps

Estherina Trachtenberg (CBU)
Mapping Social Profiles Transdiagnostically in Children: Associations with Cognition and Brain Structure

11 Feb
Dace Apsvalka (CBU)
Exploring the Link Between Muscle Health and Brain Ageing

William Mills (CBU)
TBC

Half-Term break – no talk scheduled

25 Feb
Arash Dehdari (CBU)
Fine-grained Mapping of Category-Biased Patches Around the Multiple-Demand Network

Jordan Gunn (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
Same Item, Different Traces: Dissecting the Structure of Memory for Repeated Experience

4 March
Viktorija Smith (CBU)
A Transdiagnostic Approach to Disentangling Severity and Phenotype Across Dementia Syndromes

Kamila Maria Jóźwik (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
Five Animacy Dimensions and the CLIP Model Explain Complementary Components of Visual Representational Dynamics and Similarity Judgments

11 March
Polly Peers (CBU)
(Spatial) Attention in Primary School Children: Can We Detect Impairments and Improve Outcomes?

Stefania Vacaru (NYU Abu Dhabi)
How Early Environment Shapes Stress Biology and Health

18 March
Anastasia Giannakopoulou (University of Bedfordshire)
Virtual Reality and Tablet Cognitive Training Improve Attention and Academic Skills Without Dose Effects

Sean Tan Yong Wei (CBU)
Bridging Blood and Brain Biomarkers in Frontotemporal Dementia

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Easter Term 2026

Hosts: Francois Guerit & Tammar Truzman

22 April
Dr Jenny Zhang (Chemistry)
Prof Brendan Burchell (Work-Time Reduction Research Network)
RCWLTS 3: Communicating Expectations
Note: starts at 12pm

29 April
Dr Martyn Quigley (Swansea University)
Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Gambling Cues Using Pavlovian–Instrumental Transfer (PIT)

6 May
Tanay Katiyar (CBU)
The Cultural Evolution of Mental Health Diagnosis

Yi Li (CBU)
Neural Dynamics of Speech Processing: Evidence from EEG and MEG

13 May
Allie Williams (CBU)
Developing a Non-Invasive Wearable Biofeedback System to Support Pelvic Floor Motor Learning

Mohith Verma (CBU)
TBC

20 May
Emily Todd (CBU)
Examining synaptic, GABAergic and behavioural alterations in the FTLD spectrum

Maria Jelen (CBU)
A non-linear transdiagnostic map of mental health in young adolescents

Half-Term break – no talk scheduled

3 June
Ina Demetriou (CBU)
Age-related and genetic dissociation between cortical thickness and surface area: evidence from multiple longitudinal cohorts

Sean Tan Yong Wei (CBU)
Bridging blood and brain biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia

10 June
Annalise Whines (CBU)
A computational approach to understanding motivational decision-making across the menstrual cycle

Sarah Kaarina Crockford (Psychology)
Individual similarity and uniqueness in human cognition

17 June
MPhil 3m (CBU)
Final Project presentations

25 June
MPhil 3m (CBU)
Final Project presentations