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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
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Markus Ullsperger (Max Planck Institute, Cologne): Title TBA
Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 1pm to 2pm
Neuroscience Seminar Series: David Ostry (McGill University): "Sensory Plasticity in Human Motor Learning"
Monday, 20 October 2014, 2pm to 3pm
Neuroscience Seminar Series: Antonio Rangel (Caltech): "The neuroeconomics of self-control"
Monday, 08 September 2014, 5pm to 6pm
Departmental Seminar - Luis Fuentes - Network Interactions in the Attentional System: Inhibition in the Spatial and Semantic Domains
Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 1pm to 2pm
Host: Gaia Scerif
Departmental Seminar - Adam Gazzaley - Video Games and the Future of Cognitive Enhancement
Monday, 12 May 2014, 1pm to 2pm
Host: Kia Nobre
Anne Treisman Lecture – Prof Jenny Saffran (Infant Learning Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Tuesday, 27 May 2014, 1pm to 2pm
Beyond Nature versus Nurture: Changing views of infant language development