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Neuroscience Seminar: Ignoring White Bears: Distinct mechanisms for distractor suppression and target facilitation
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar: Contextualising “context”: uncertainty in autistic perception
Tuesday, 27 June 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar: Neural and pharmacological modulation of adaptive learning and choice
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar: Targeting hippocampus with MEG
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar: Precision in metacognition: a global mechanism for perceptual confidence?
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 1pm to 2pm
EP Language and Development Seminar: Nurturing the development of executive attention
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 3pm to 4pm
EP Language and Development Seminar: fNIRS in Africa and the UK: Studying infants at risk for compromised development
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 3pm to 4pm
Neuroscience Seminar: Banishing the shifty homunculus from frontal cortex: attentional set-shifting deficits re-examined
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar : What does the assumed light source bias tell us about the nature of perceptual representations?
Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar : Integration of magnitude information in human working memory and decision making
Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 1pm to 2pm
Please contact Annabelle Blangero at ablangero@gmail.com if you would like to get in touch.
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Nijmegen): "Mental maps for memories and space"
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig): Plasticity of the Social Brain: Effects of a One-Year Mental Training Study on Brain Plasticity, Social Cognition and Attention, Stress and Social Behavior
Friday, 12 June 2015, 1pm to 2pm
In the last decades, plasticity research has suggested that training of mental capacities such as attention, mindfulness and compassion is effective and leads to changes in brain functions associated with increases in positive affect, pro-social behavior, and better health. I will introduce the ReSource Project, a large-scale multi-methodological one-year secular mental training program. Participants were trained in three separate modules allowing us to distinguish effects based on a) attention and interoceptive body awareness training (Presence), b) care, compassion and emotion-regulation training (Affect), and c) Theory of Mind and meta-cognitive awareness training (Perspective). We assessed data from more than 300 training and control subjects, with over 90 measures including subjective measures, questionnaires, event-sampling data, a variety of behavioral, brain, physiological and biological data. I will present first evidence suggesting training-module specific changes in functional and structural brain plasticity, stress reduction, subjective well-being, mind-wandering, and different psychological as well as economic measures assessing changes in attention, Theory of Mind and compassion as well as prosocial behavior during monetary social exchange. These findings will be discussed in relation to their meaning for models of social cognition, plasticity research in general, and their importance to initiate societal change.
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Robb Rutledge (UCL):"A computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being"
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar Series Double Bill: William Stauffer and Armin Lak (University of Cambridge): "Reward and decision signals in dopamine neurons"
Tuesday, 24 February 2015, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Laurence Hunt (University College London): Bridging microscopic and macroscopic choice dynamics in prefrontal cortex
Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 1pm to 2pm