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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sebastien Bouret (ICM Paris): "Multiple aspects of effort in monkeys, and their brain"
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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Hans op de Beeck (KU Leuven): "Object representations and visual expertise: Putting the modules back into the map"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Sven Bestmann (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL): "Uncertainty, neuromodulation and action"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rafal Bogacz (NDCN, Oxford): "Overcoming indecision by changing decision criterion"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Benedetto de Martino (Dept. Experimental Psychology, Cambridge): "The unbearable lightness of value: how social signals and uncertainty mould value computation"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC CBU Cambridge): "The geometry of high-level visual representations"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dave Redish (Dept. Neuroscience, University of Minnesota): "Mechanisms of decision-making in rats: planning, deliberation, and regret"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Joe Paton (Champlimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon): "A Neural population code for time in the striatum"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Marco Tamietto (University of Turin): "Neural correlates of sensory and attentional unawareness for emotional stimuli"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ivan Toni (Donders Institute, Nijmegen): "Creation and control of mind-oriented movements"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dante Mantini (Dept. Experimental Psychology, Oxford): "Novel analytical methods to investigate correspondences between brain networks in human and non-human primates"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Tobias Andersen (Technical University of Denmark): "Computational models of attention and and perception"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Michael Banissy (Dept. Psychology, Goldsmiths): "Modulating social abilities using transcranial electric stimulation"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dr. James Marshall (Dept. Computer Science, University of Sheffield): "From house-hunting honeybees to Weber's law and speed-accuracy trade-offs"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Charlotte Stagg (Oxford Centre for Functional Imaging of the Brain): "Studying the role of inhibition in motor plasticity using multimodal approaches""
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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Josh Berke (Dept. Neuroscience, University of Michigan): "The roles of dopamine in adaptive decision-making"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Ami Tsuchida (National Institute of Health): "Functional Fractionation of the frontal lobe"
    • Departmental Seminar - Tom Shultz - Computational modeling of human learning and cognitive development
    • Departmental Seminar - Adam Gazzaley - Video Games and the Future of Cognitive Enhancement
    • Departmental Seminar - Marius Usher - We See More Than We Can Report: Cost-Free Color Phenomenality Outside Focal Attention
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    • Anne Treisman Lecture – Prof Jenny Saffran (Infant Learning Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Antonio Rangel (Caltech): "The neuroeconomics of self-control"
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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Redmond O'Connell (Dept. Psychology, Trinity College Dublin): "Neural mechanisms for first- and second-order decision making"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Marc Guitart-Masip (Karolinska Institute, Sweden): Dopamine and decision-making, revisited
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Prof. Emrah Düzel (Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg & Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL): Functional organization and plasticity of hippocampal memory networks
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Richard Ivry (UC Berkeley): " Embodied Decision Making: System interactions in sensorimotor adaptation and reinforcement learning"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Hanneke Den Ouden (Nijmegen): Knowing when to go: Serotonin (and dopamine) in learning and behavioural control
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Quentin Huys (ETH Zürich and University of Zürich): How to think a plan: Hierarchical fragmentation, stochastic memorization and pruning in decision-making
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Mike Cohen (Amsterdam University): "Midfrontal Cortex Theta Oscillations: Causes and Consequences"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: David Ostry (McGill University): "Sensory Plasticity in Human Motor Learning"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Markus Ullsperger (Max Planck Institute, Cologne): Title TBA
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Laurence Hunt (University College London): Bridging microscopic and macroscopic choice dynamics in prefrontal cortex
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Lennart Verhagen (University of Oxford): "Using representations: the temporal lobe in action selection and decision making"
    • The contribution of primate frontopolar cortex to cognition
    • Departmental Seminar Series: Development of Literacy in Children at High-Risk of Dyslexia
    • Departmental Seminar Series: Adolescent (Anti)Social Networks
    • Departmental Seminar Series. Gastrophysics: The new science of the table
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series Double Bill: William Stauffer and Armin Lak (University of Cambridge): "Reward and decision signals in dopamine neurons"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Daniel Margulies (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): The convergence of cortical structure and network topography
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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jonathan Roiser (Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL): Bonsai trees in the brain: the neural basis of reflexive pruning of decision trees
    • Aphasia: advances in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Neil Stewart (University of Warwick): "Eye movements, lab choices, and big data approaches to decision making research"
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    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Uta Noppeney (Birmingham): See what you hear: Constructing a representation of the world across the senses
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rik Vandenberghe (University of Leuven, Belgium) : "Language, ageing and neurodegeneration: a translational imaging approach"
    • Departmental Seminar: Towards a unified framework for action perception and execution in health and disease
    • 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
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Hakwan Lau (UCLA) : A Prefrontal Theory of Conscious Perception & Its Application in Fear Extinction via Neurofeedback
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Professor Carlo A Marzi "Interhemispheric Interactions and Blindsight"
    • Interacting memory systems: From memory-based behaviour to psychiatric disorders
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Professor Jamie Campbell & Professor Valerie Thompson
    • Are most findings in psychology false? An activist’s perspective
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dr Marios Avraamides (University of Cyprus) "The Organizational structure of spatial memory"
    • Are most findings in psychology false? An activist’s perspective
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Rei Aikishi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institue of Medical Sciences): "What visual fixations reveal about evidence accumulation during decision making"
    • Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity
    • Sleep- and time-dependent learning in infants and young children
    • The impact of exercise and physical activity on executive functions in children with and without developmental disorders” .
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Professor Paul Whalen. Neural Responses to Facial Expressions of Emotion Predict Attention, Bias and Personality
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Nils Kolling (University of Oxford): "Neural signals in human foraging and dynamic choice"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Nijmegen): "Mental maps for memories and space"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jeremy Skipper (UCL): "Echoes of the spoken past: How the brain 'hears' context during spoken language comprehension"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Javier Caballero (University of Manchester): "Brain-scale decision-making: from spikes to behaviour"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Eleanor Simpson (Columbia University) "Pharmacological Enhancement of Goal-Direct Behaviour in Mice"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Hiro Nakahara (RIKEN BSI): "Neurocomputational primitives for deciding with others' reward and choice"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Bob Rafal (University of Bangor): "Connectivity between the superior colliculus and the amygdala in humans and macaque monkeys: Virtual dissection with probabilistic DTI tractography"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Kadharbatcha Saleem (NIH): "Monkey Connectome: 3D interactive anatomical connectivity atlas of the macaque brain"
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL): "Neural Systems for Navigation"
    • Departmental Seminar: Mirror Neurons: Past, Present and Future
    • Departmental Seminar: Psychopathology in an Interpersonal Context: Emotion Regulation and Implications for the Inclusion of Partners in Treatment
    • Departmental Seminar: Early executive function: social origins and social consequences
    • Departmental Seminar: Pathologies and Remedies in Sustaining Attention
    • Departmental Seminar: How specific is 'specific' language impairment? Evidence from a population study
    • Departmental Seminar: Emotions and Social Decisions: An Interpersonal Perspective
    • Departmental Seminar: "Can we teach machines to think?"
    • Stroke Awareness Event
    • Neuroscience Seminar Series: Zach Mainen (Champlinaud Centre, Lisbon): "Serotonin and the regulation of adaptive behaviour"
    • PsyNAppS Talk - Do Babies Feel Pain?
    • Everything you ever wanted to know about the hippocampus but were afraid to ask!
    • Light, Clocks and Sleep: Neuroscience to Therapy
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Memory of time facilitates retrieval of visual events
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Jumping the gun: Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Coding scheme and precision of probabilistic inference as critical source of suboptimality in human decision-making
    • Neuroscience Seminar : "Mechanisms of adaptation in inferior temporal cortex"
    • Neuroscience Seminar : The reflective mind: neural building blocks of metacognition
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Anxiety across adaptive and pathological states: from unpredictable shocks to anxiety disorders
    • Neuroscience Seminar : An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory
    • Neuroscience Seminar : The Representation of Actions in the Human Brain
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Neuroendocrine control mechanisms in social emotional action
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice.
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Speech Representation, Learning and Plasticity: Insights from Multi-Modal Imaging
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Neural signatures of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning
    • Neuroscience Seminar : A computational account of the role of dopamine in model-free learning and exploration modulation
    • Neuroscience Seminar : From sensory processing to conscious perception
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Value-based decision making by populations of probabilistic neurons
    • Departmental seminar: Disease Biomarkers for Schizophrenia - from laboratory to patient beside
    • Departmental seminar: Positive Psychology: Measuring and building well-being in schools, corporations and nations
    • Annual Anne Treisman Lecture: Kernel of truth in the indigo myth?
    • Neuroscience Seminar : The Cingulate Cortex in Autism: Anatomy, connectivity, and perturbed social decision making
    • Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Neural Substrates of Joint-Action in Primates
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Signatures of time-dependent urgency during human perceptual choice
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Human interaction with artificial agents
    • Neuroscience Seminar : The treachery of images: Why the brain responds differently to real objects than photos
    • Departmental Seminar: Motor system involvement in the perception of time: music, rhythm, and the brain
    • Neuroscience Seminar : New insights into the mechanisms of human observational learning
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
    • Neuroscience Seminar : A representation of effort in decision making and movement control
    • Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
    • Neuroscience Seminar : The cognitive demands imposed by noisy, masked or otherwise degraded speech
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Applying Perceptual Learning to produce broad-based benefits to vision
    • Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition and Decision Making
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Cell signalling in the amygdala and the reactivation of a fear memory
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Investigating neuropsychological mechanisms in depression
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Pure alexia and visual word recognition
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Functional gradients in the prefrontal cortex can be predicted from individual sulci morphology
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Constructing and updating models of others and the world
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : New Approaches to Volition
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Adaptive cognitive control over different timescales: beta oscillations, feedback and dopamine.
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Representations of task relevant information in orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus: mental maps of decision spaces?
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Forgetting: Sources, Modulation, and Benefits
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar : Exploring the neural computations of episodic and semantic memory
    • How Can Psychology Make Healthcare Safer?: A half-day Interdisciplinary Seminar for Early Career Researchers.
    • Moral Disgust Responds to Bad Character
    • Cognitive gadgets: the cultural evolution of thinking
    • EP Departmental Seminar: Compulsivity: Neuropsychological substrates and neuropsychiatric implications
    • EP Departmental Seminar: Childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry: the contribution of functional neuroimaging
    • EP Departmental Seminar: All memory is presence and future: insights from trauma research
    • EP Anne Treisman Lecture: Tracking memory traces in the human brain
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Simultaneous EEG - fMRI: Spatiotemporal characteristics of reward-based learning and value-based decision making
    • Neuroscience Seminar : On the adaptive fitness of the social sense: lessons from Bayesian Decision Theory
    • Neuroscience Seminar : Integration of magnitude information in human working memory and decision making
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Banishing the shifty homunculus from frontal cortex: attentional set-shifting deficits re-examined
    • Neuroscience Seminar : What does the assumed light source bias tell us about the nature of perceptual representations?
    • Neuroscience Seminar: The psychological and neural basis of incentive habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Dr Helen Barron; Storage and use of memory: can we infer the underlying circuit level processes in humans?
    • Neuroscience Seminar: The power of brain plasticity: Insights from the ageing brain
    • Nostalgia Potentiates a Positive and Attainable Future
    • Neuroscience Seminar: A self-organising model of face and object recognition.
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Targeting space and time in the human hand knob
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Discovering and exploiting structure in the face of changing tasks
    • Neuroscience Seminar: It's the thought that counts. Progress in understanding the brain basis of theory of mind
    • EP Language and Development Seminar: Modeling influences of home environment and assessing intervention effects on Filipino children’s early language and literacy skills
    • EP Language and Development Seminar: fNIRS in Africa and the UK: Studying infants at risk for compromised development
    • EP Language and Development Seminar: Nurturing the development of executive attention
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Precision in metacognition: a global mechanism for perceptual confidence?
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Targeting hippocampus with MEG
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Neural and pharmacological modulation of adaptive learning and choice
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Ignoring White Bears: Distinct mechanisms for distractor suppression and target facilitation
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Contextualising “context”: uncertainty in autistic perception
    • Neuroscience Seminar: The adaptive nature and temporal dynamics of memory reactivation
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Meta-RL and non-spatial sequences
    • Examining the relationship between visual statistical learning and word reading ability in developing readers
    • Neuroscience Seminar: Emergence of deviance detection along the auditory neuroaxis: A neuronal correlate for predictive coding?
    • Departmental seminar: Attentional episodes and cognitive control
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Probing Predictive Models in the Mind with Dynamic Causal Modelling
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Planning under cognitive limitations
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Learning and Action in Uncertain Environments
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Modulating cortical signatures of motor imagery in younger and older adults
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Making Cell Assemblies: What can we learn about plasticity from spiking neural network models?
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Psychopathology and Plasticity of the Social Brain: From Emotion Regulation to Empathy and Theory of Mind
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Making sense of degraded speech: Auditory and cognitive factors
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Theta-rhythmic neuronal activity: a sampling mechanism for perception and attention?
    • ** CANCELLED **EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Towards a mechanistic understanding of the human subcortex
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Associative representations in the rodent lateral orbitofrontal cortex: Acting on your values
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Brain-heart interactions in emotion and memory
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Towards cross-species maps of brain organization
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Learning relative values through reinforcement learning: computational bases and neural evidence
    • EP Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Working Memory 2017: What is going on?
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Concept-based Word Learning in Infancy
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Audiovisual processing and reading: An exploration into the extent and nature of their association
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Spelling as Statistical Learning: Evidence from Children and Adults
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Tracking reading throughout primary school: How do phonological skills support early decoding, and do distinct profiles of fluent reading emerge?
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: From number words to Arabic digits and back again: predicting mathematical development and investigating linguistic influences
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Development and Assessment of Individual Differences in Executive Function in the First Years of Life
    • Language & Development Seminar: Executive Function in Autism: A Comparison Between the Lab and the Real World
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: The Composite Nature of Imitation: How Multiple Abilities Support Children's Social Learning
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Affective and Regulatory Processes Underpinning Reactive Aggression in Adolescence
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: What Counts for Early Mathematical Development?
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Title TBA
    • POSTPONED - EP Language & Development Seminar: The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the life span
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Simulating Children's Grammar Learning in the Lab with Adults and Artificial Languages
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Development of social behaviour – from mechanisms to interventions
    • Social Brain and Behaviour Club
    • Ageing, Brain and Cognition: Results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN)
    • EP Department seminar: Beyond heritability – Have studies of the effects of institutional deprivation changed how we conceptualise neuro-development?
    • EP Department seminar: Ethnic diversity and prejudice: Impacts of positive and negative contact experiences
    • EP Department seminar: Avoiding social risk in adolescence: implications for education and public health
    • EP Department seminar: Mental imagery and mental health
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Prefrontal circuits underlying anxiety and anhedonia in a primate.
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Using artificial orthographies as a window onto how the brain learns to read
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Reduced reactivity to food cues: New insights on the role of intrinsic excitability alterations on nucleus accumbens neuronal ensembles
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Multimodal Studies of Human Motor Plasticity
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    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Dissociating Social and Non-Social Learning: Influences of Social Nature Versus Informational Status.
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Rewrite or Repress? Parsing The Mechanisms of Retrieval-Extinction
    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Lying brains: neuroimaging and deception research
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    • 2018 Oxford Neuroscience Symposium - Registration Now Open
    • The Promise and Peril of Emotionally Intelligent Machines
    • Enhancing Brain and Cognition Through Cognitive Training
    • EP Department seminar: The impact of context on emotion communication
    • EP Anne Treisman Lecture - Implicit Social Cognition
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    • Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience: Choice and Consequence in Eye Movements and Beyond
    • EP Language & Development Seminar: Title TBA
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    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Intact action-outcome knowledge dissociates from excessive behavioural responses in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBA
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Title TBA
    • Testing the core properties of the Brain Valuation System: an Intracranial EEG investigation
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    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Finding meaning in the noise: The functional role of spontaneous brain activity
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    • Social Brain and Behaviour Club
    • Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience
    • Departmental Seminar - Enhancing causal perception: The search for ‘Empty Time’ effects with the rapid streaming procedure
    • Departmental Seminar: Should we stop looking for genetic biomarkers for psychological traits and disorders?
    • Departmental Seminar: Mindfulness Unpacked
    • Motor Planning and Motor Learning in Health and Disease
    • Mindfulness Taster Session
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Retrospective metacognition and reward in humans and social decision-making in humans and macaques
    • Oxford Reproducibility School: Kick start your reproducible research
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Neuroimaging of the catecholaminergic modulation of response inhibition using the stop signal task
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    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Diametric Changes in Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release Underlie Drug-Taking and Drug-Seeking Behaviors
    • Department of Experimental Psychology Open Day 2018
    • Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar: Forming beliefs about ourselves: encoding decision confidence in the human brain
    • Understanding emotional actions
    • Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease—imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing
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    • Oxford Alumni Weekend: Meeting Minds in Oxford
    • Language & Development Seminar: Comprehensive literacy instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders
    • Social Brain & Behaviour Club: Feeling in Seeing: Embodiment, Affect & Visual Politics (when News are Fake)
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    • DPhil Seminar: Investigating speech motor control in people who stutter using brain stimulation and vocal tract MRI
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    • Language & Development Seminar: Using Network Science to Understand the Mental Lexicon
    • Department Seminar: Series of talks from ECR's in Experimental Psychology
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    • Experimental Psychology - Learning and Development Seminar: The role of physiological arousal during the emergence of ASD symptomatology: From infancy to pre-school
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    • BEACON seminar - Marcel van Gerven - "AI meets Neuroscience"
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    • Language and Development Seminar: Plasticity in the developing brain: impact of focal lesions on language network
    • BEACON seminar - Vladislav Nachev - title TBC
    • BEACON seminar - Stress in Social Hierarchies
    • BEACON seminar - Paul Bays - title TBC
    • BEACON seminar - Animal models of episodic memory
    • BEACON seminar - Predicting action outcomes
    • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Nucleus accumbens circuits in reward and aversion
    • **CANCELLED**Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: How does recent experience impact perception and memory?
    • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Constructing, integrating, and navigating cognitive maps of social hierarchies
    • Just effort? How perceptions of justice shape the impact of emotion regulation on employee well-being
    • Experimental Psychology Social Brain and Behaviour Seminar: Social Decision-Making under Risk: When we Err on the Safe Side
    • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mapping the Evolution and Development of the Primate Brain by Neuroimaging Techniques
    • Departmental Seminar: Attempting to unravel surprisingly complex behaviour
    • Departmental Seminar: Experimental Psychology Early Career Researcher ‘firetalks’
    • Departmental Seminar: Shape from shading in nature: Does it provide optimal camouflage?
    • Departmental Seminar: Bullying and mental health: prevention and intervention
    • Departmental Seminar: Rewards, economic decisions, values and preferences
    • Inaugural Watts Lecture: Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical circuits for learning and decision making
    • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Mechanisms for Adaptive Learned Avoidance of Mental Effort
    • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (Beacon) Seminar: Motivation, Memory and Attractors
    • Language and Development Seminar: A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks
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