First Year Theoretical Seminars programme
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit students are full members of the Cambridge Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, which has been jointly established by the Unit and the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. This consists of a weekly series of theoretical seminars presented by senior researchers from the MRC CBU and from the University. Lectures will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 3pm.
These are compulsory for MRC CBU first year graduate students.
Please note – this is a teaching course exclusively for first-year graduate students from the MRC CBU and the University Depts. of Psychology & Psychiatry. If you are not in these groups but would like to attend please contact the organiser.
Postgraduate Seminars 2023
These seminars take place on Tuesdays at 3-4:30pm in Lent Term and 3-5pm in Easter Term. Attendance is compulsory for all new students.
24 Jan: 1.30 – 3pm* note unusual time | Deborah Talmi | The psychology and neuroscience of emotion |
31 Jan: 3 – 4.30pm | Peter Jones | Psychiatric classification |
07 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Tobias Goehring | The sense of hearing: consequences of its loss and challenges to its restoration |
14 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Camilla Nord | Cognitive and computational approaches in neuropsychiatry |
21 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | TBC – Title to follow |
28 Feb: 3 – 4.30pm | Tristan Bekinschtein | Consciousness |
07 Mar: 3 – 4.30pm | John Duncan | Intelligence and the frontal lobes |
14 Mar: 3 – 4.30pm | Matt Lambon Ralph | Using a convergence of clinical and cognitive neuroscience methods – The case study of semantic cognition |
Location: Main Lecture theatre |
25 Apr: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Introduction – Overview of the course contents and aims |
2 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Replications |
9 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Questionable Resarch Practices |
16 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | TBC – Title to follow |
23 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Pre-registration and Registered Reports |
30 May: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Frand, Errors and Scientific Self-Correction |
6 June: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Journals, Publishing and Computational Reproducibility |
13 June: 3 – 5pm | Amy Orben | Psychology as a Robust Science |
Location: Main Lecture theatre |