Talks take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm, in Room 313 at the UCL Psychology Department (26 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AP).
Below you can see a list of speakers we have coming up in our seminar series this term. Some speakers for this term will be joining us online. Please note that, unfortunately, we cannot accept an online audience.
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Summer Term 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 26th April |
Eva Hudlicka* (UMassAmherst) |
Computational models of emotion |
| Thursday 3rd May |
Stephen Fleming (UCL) |
Why people don’t change their minds: metacognitive failures and radical beliefs |
| Thursday 10th May |
Yaacov Trope* (NYU) |
Expansive and Contractive Regulatory Scope |
| Thursday 17th May | Alexander Todorov* (Princeton) |
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions |
| Thursday 24th May |
Nichola Raihani (UCL) |
The effects of paranoia on social cognition and behaviour |
| Thursday 31st May |
Micah Allen (UCL) |
TBC |
| Thursday 7th June |
Toby Pilditch (UCL) |
Zero-sum reasoning and Dependency Aversion: How simple structures can lead us astray |
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Previous Talks
Spring Term 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 18th January |
Alison Gopnik* (UC Berkeley) |
Life History and Learning: Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit trade-offs |
| Thursday 1st February |
Todd Braver* (Washington University) |
Motivation and Cognitive Control |
| Thursday 8th February |
Rosalind Picard* (MIT) |
What can we learn about anxiety, stress, and brain activity from a wristband? |
| Thursday 15th February |
Rebecca Lawson (University of Cambridge) |
Modelling cortical gain in autism |
| Thursday 22nd February |
Tom Griffiths* (Princeton University) |
Linking heuristics and rationality through bounded optimality |
| Thursday 1st March |
Lasana Harris (UCL) |
Facial emotion expression categorization |
| Thursday 8th March |
Fiery Cushman* (Harvard University) |
How we know what not to think |
| Thursday 15th March |
Elinor Amit* (Brown University) |
The distinct roles of visual and verbal processing in social cognition |
Michaelmas Term 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 5th October |
Irma Kurniawan (Brain & Spine Institute, Paris) |
Past actions shape our future preferences |
| Thursday 12th October |
Floris de Lange (Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
How is visual perception biased? |
| Thursday 19th October |
Bojana Kuzmanovic (Max Planck Institute, Cologne) |
Computational components and causal mechanisms of the optimism bias in belief updating |
| Thursday 26th October |
Rebeccah Slater (University of Oxford) |
Measuring and modulating infant pain in early human development |
| Thursday 2nd November |
Andrew Westbrook (Washington University, St. Louis) |
Dopamine and proximity effects in cognitive control |
| Thursday 9th November |
Oded Berger-Tal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
Confronting novel environments: the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. |
| Thursday 16th November |
Keno Juechems (University of Oxford) |
How internal context shapes value representation in the human brain |
| Thursday 30th November |
Oliver Robinson (University College London) |
Modelling avoidance in mood and anxiety disorders using reinforcement-learning |
| Thursday 7th December |
Thomas Gilovich (Cornell University) |
Enemies of Gratitude |
| Thursday 14th December |
Florian Zimmermann (University of Zurich) |
Dynamics of motivated beliefs |
Spring Term 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 12th January |
Jennifer Logg (UC Berkeley) |
Theory of Machine: When do people rely on algorithms? |
| Thursday 19th January | Michael Sanders (Behavioural InsightsTeam) |
Social contagion and social licensing in charitable giving and beyond |
| Thursday 26th January | Cleotilde Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Adaptation to Change |
| Thursday 2nd February | Erin Rich (UC Berkeley) |
Dynamic encoding of choice in the orbitofrontal cortex |
| Thursday 9th February | Emilio Ferrara (University of South Carolina) |
Human behavior in techno-social systems |
| Thursday 16th February | No Affective Brain Seminar | |
| Thursday 23rd February | Alex Peysakhovich (Facebook Artificial Intelligence) |
Fixing the Replication Crisis with Machine Learning |
| Thursday 2nd March |
Pablo Barberá (University of South California) |
How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization |
| Thursday 9th March |
Alexandra Constantinescu (Oxford University) |
Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code |
| Thursday 16th March | Kiyohito Iigaya (University College London) |
Favouring Savouring: How Prediction Error Boosts Appetitive Anticipation |
| Thursday 23rd March | Sonia Bishop (UC Berkeley) |
TBC |
| Thursday 27th April |
Hal Hershfield (University of California, Los Angeles) |
When does the present end and the future begin? |
| Thursday 4th May |
Jane Wang (Deep Mind) |
TBC |
| Thursday 11th May |
Kenway Louie (New York University) |
Reward statistics, adaptive value coding, and efficient choice behavior |
| Thursday 18th May |
TBC | TBC |
| Thursday 25th May |
Corey White (Syracuse University) |
TBC |
| Thursday 1st June |
Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam) |
TBC |
Michaelmas Term 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday 6th October |
Louisa Egan (University of Portland) |
Moral Licensing Effects as Acquired Behavior |
| Thursday 13th October | Christian Ruff (University of Zurich) |
Social decision making: Distinct causal brain mechanisms |
| Thursday 20th October | Anna Schapiro (Harvard) |
Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: A neural network modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning |
| Thursday 27th October | Amit Sharma (Microsoft Research) |
The limits of social influence in online social networks |
| Thursday 3rd November | Keith Chen (UCLA, Uber) |
Flexible Work: How Drivers Respond to Dynamic Pricing and Work Flexibility on the Uber Platform |
| Thursday 17th November | Justin Rao (Microsoft Research) |
Understanding Charitable Giving Choices |
| Thursday 24th November | No Seminar | |
| Thursday 1st December | Filippo Menczer (Indiana University) |
The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media |
| Thursday 8th December | Daniel Bennett (University of Melbourne) |
The intrinsic value of information in decision making |
| Thursday 15th December | Jessica Bodford (Facebook & Arizona State) |
Cyberpsychology: Human interaction in the digital age |
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