These seminars take place in term time only, in the Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, 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.

Please note – all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis, and we have an H&S limit of 90 attendees which cannot be exceeded.

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

Schedule of upcoming talks:

Michaelmas Term 2019

09 Oct	Dr Jon Peirce (U. of Nottingham) What’s new in PsychoPy3?
16 Oct	Dr Deborah Talmi (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge) The emotional modulation of memory
23 Oct	Dr Hannah Critchlow (Magdalene College) The science of fate, and a science communication Q&A
30 Oct	Bronagh McCoy (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge) Reinforcement learning in disease and disorder
06 Nov	Dr Bianca De Haan (Brunel University London) Mechanisms and anatomy of selective attention in multi-target environments
13 Nov	Dr Denes Szucs (Dept. of Psychology, U. of Cambridge) A critique of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
20 Nov	Dr Athena Akrami (University College London) When the mind lingers – how sensory history impacts working memory
27 Nov	Dr Amy Orben (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge) Fear the Fork! Why we should all care about our analytical garden of forking paths