Cambridge Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
First Year Theoretical Seminars: Programme 2014-2015
Michaelmas Term 2014
Venue – MRC CBSU Lecture Theatre for first half of term:
13 Oct
Language processing in a neurobiological context
Mirjana Bozic (Department of Psychology)
20 Oct
How to design good experiments and analyse the results
Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
27 Oct
Intelligence and the frontal lobes
John Duncan (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
3 Nov
Emotion and mental imagery: from experiments to therapeutic
applications
Emily Holmes (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Venue – Department of Psychology Seminar Room for second half of term:
10 Nov
Sex Differences in the Mind and Brain
Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Psychiatry)
17 Nov
Motor control
Jörn Diedrichsen (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)
24 Nov
How to write good papers
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
1 Dec
Methods and math in Cognitive Neuroscience
Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Lectures will be held on Mondays 4.00-5.30 pm – either in the West Wing Lecture
Theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road or at the
Seminar Room in the Department of Psychology on the Downing Site. Lectures in this
series are held during Michaelmas and Lent terms only.
Details of the Seminar Programme will be updated on the talks.cam website
(http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/9469) and on our own CBSU website. Any
changes in the programme, as well as any other information of interest, will be
communicated via email - it is therefore important that you ensure that your name is on
the "Camgrads+" mailing list by mailing your details to [email protected] and specifying this series as your interest.