Talks by Rik Henson

Cognitive Neuroscience of Ageing and Dementia

• Summary of recent findings about age, brain and cognition from the CamCAN project. A 40 min talk, January 2021, covering brain functional connectivity, genetics and lifestyle factors.

 

• The importance of mid-life activities and late-life cardiovascular health for late-life cognition (or for a shorter, 15 min subset as part of the British Neuroscience Association Festive Symposium, December 2020, see: here).

 

• BioFIND MEG dataset for dementia. A 2 min poster talk as part of the ARUK meeting, March 2022.

 

Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

• Review of group's research on memory, July 2023. A 35 min online talk to Monthly Memory Meeting, July 2023.

 

• Neural models of fMRI repetition effects. A 15 min talk, March 2022, for local workshop on modelling.

 

• Revisiting neuroimaging and neuropsychological dissociations of Hippocampus and Perirhinal cortex in Recollection and Familiarity. A 40 min talk as part of the MRC CBU Wednesday Lunchtime Seminars, covering functional localisation in the brain, state-trace analysis to dissociate functions of brain regions, and comparison of categorical versus continuous analyses of relationship between brain damage and memory performance.

 

Methods

• Bayesian Sequential Designs. A ~40 min talk as part of a CBU Methods Meeting, Jan 2022.

 

• Bayes Factors in R. A 22 min talk as part of the BNA Festival 2021 R workshop, Apr 2021, with theory and demo of Bayes Factors in R.

 

• The use of MEG to study healthy and unhealthy ageing. A 45 min talk for the MEGIN "MasterClass" series.

 

• fMRI Connectivity. A 60 min talk as part of the CBU COGNESTIC summer school, Sep 2022, focusing on functional and effective connectivity with fMRI.

 

• M/EEG Connectivity. A 30 min talk as part of the CBU COGNESTIC summer school, Sep 2022, focusing on functional and effective connectivity with M/EEG (but not DCM).

 

• Multimodal Integration. A 45 min talk as part of the MRC CBU Methods Training, Feb 2021, focusing on combining fMRI and M/EEG data.

 

• Optimal estimation of single-trial fMRI responses. A 20 min talk as part of the MRC CBU Methods Day, Dec 2020, comparing LSA and LSS estimators for MVPA and Beta-series Regression.

 

Open Science

• Open (Cognitive Neuro)science. A 70 min talk as part of the CBU COGNESTIC summer school.

 

• Human Data Sharing. A 10 min talk about data sharing as part of University of Cambridge session on data re-use.

 

• MRC CBU Open Science Committee. A 10 min talk about achievements of CBU's Open Science Committee, Mar 2021, focusing on data sharing.

 

• Pre-Registration Posters. A 10 min talk as part of the BNA's Credibility in Science Webinars, June 2020, introducing the idea of pre-registration posters for scientific conferences.