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