Seminars

Every week during term time, the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience invites an external speaker to present their work, discuss and mutually inspire. This series of seminars is open to all.

ICN Seminars are held on Mondays at 3.15pm.

Please note the venue for all these seminars is the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, B10, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AZ.

For further information, Contact: Rosalyn Lawrence, Tel: + 44 2076791164

20	Jan	Caswell Barry Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL A talk of two halves: Grid cell representations in an uncertain world and an AI approach to the discovery of neural representations Host: Benedetto de Martino
27	Jan	Riccardo Fusaroli School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark Towards a quantitative framework for conversational dynamics: backchannels, repair and alignment across contexts Host: Antonia Hamilton
03	Feb	Jo Taylor Language and Cognition, UCL Using artificial orthographies as a window onto how the brain learns to read Host: Mairead MacSweeney
10	Feb	Athena Akrami Learning, Inference and Memory Lab, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL Study of sensory “prior distributions” in rodent models of working memory and perceptual decision-making tasks Host: Benedetto de Martino
17	Feb	Vitoria Piai Donders Institute, Nijmegen Memory and control in spoken word production: evidence from electrophysiology and brain lesions Host: Jenny Crinion
24	Feb	Atsushi Senju Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck Development of spontaneous social attention Host: Antonia Hamilton
02	Mar	Gaia Scerif Dept Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors Host: Sarah White
09	Mar	Shane O’Mara Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin Title: to be announced Host: Vincent Walsh

Mar

Soren Krach

Social Neuroscience Lab, Lubeck University

Forming beliefs about the self: neuroscientific and clinical implications

Host: Antonia Hamilton