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Special Online Talk Series<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Talks take place Via Zoom on Thursdays at 5.00pm London Time.<\/p>\n

Below you can see a list of speakers we have coming up in our seminar series this term.<\/p>\n

Jump to: Previous Talks<\/a><\/p>\n

Email valentina.vellani.19@ucl.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list for our seminar announcements<\/p>\n

First Term 2021\/22<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Join the talks<\/strong> via this recurrent Zoom Link:\u00a0https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/94199846757<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Thursday 30 September <\/td>Gordon Pennycook (University of Regina)<\/td>Intuition, reason, and social media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7 October<\/td>Huri Hertz (University of Haifa)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 14 October<\/td>Niv Reggev (University of the Negev)<\/td>The reward value of having our social expectations confirmed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 21 October<\/td>Aya Ben-Yakov (The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences)<\/td>The when and what of episodic encoding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 28 October<\/td>Morteza Dehghani (University of Southern California)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 4 November<\/td>Anat Arzi (Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re Hospital)<\/td>The nose knows: Olfactory sniffing signals consciousness in unresponsive patients with brain injuries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 11 November<\/td>Nitzan Shahar (Tel-Aviv University)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18 November<\/td>Alberto Prati (University of Oxford)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25 November<\/td>Munir Gunes Kutlu (Vanderbilt University)<\/td>Information encoding in the nucleus accumbens by dopamine and single cell clusters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 2 December<\/td>Jean Daunizeau (Paris Brain Institute)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9 December<\/td>Roxane Cohen Silver (University of California)<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16 December<\/td>TBS<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

All Speakers are joining us online<\/p>\n

Below you can see a list of speakers we have had previously.<\/p>\n

Previous Talks<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Third Term 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Thursday 15th April<\/td>Ziv Epstein (MIT)<\/td>Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 22th April<\/td>Dan Bang (Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging)<\/td>Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 29th
\nApril<\/td>		Pierre-Yves Oudeyer ( Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)\t<\/td>Computational theories of curiosity-driven learning: mechanisms and roles in cognitive development
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 6th
\nMay<\/td>		Casper Hesp (University of Amsterdam)
\n<\/td>		The future of psychiatry: real-time tracking and forecasting of each individual's affective states<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 13th
\nMay<\/td>		Keno Juchems (Oxford University)<\/td>Exploiting structure across actions, dynamics, and tasks <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 20th May<\/td>Philippe Domenech (Henri Mondor teaching Hospital)<\/td>mPFC and AI trigger hierarchically nested reset signals
\nwhen solving exploitation-exploration dilemmas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 27th May<\/td>Denise Croote (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)<\/td>Thinking forward and backwards: mental representations of time and their neural correlates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 3rd June<\/td>Patricia lockwood (University of Birmingham)<\/td>Prosocial learning and motivation: lifespan changes and neural mechanisms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 10th June<\/td>Bj\u00f6rn Lindstr\u00f6m(VUamsterdam)<\/td>A computational reward learning account of social media engagement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Second Term 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Thursday 21th January<\/td>Caroline Charpentier (Caltech )<\/td>Arbitration between strategies during observational and experiential learning: computational mechanisms and individual differences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 28th January<\/td>Karin Roelofs (Radboud University)<\/td>Human defensive reactions and their role in decision making<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 4th
\nFebruary<\/td>		Tor Wager (Dartmouth College)\t<\/td>The neuroscience of placebo effects:
\nCan changing your beliefs improve your health?
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 11th
\nFebruary<\/td>		Ralph Hertwig (Max Planck Institute for
\nHuman Development, Berlin)<\/td>		Experimenting with rationality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18th
\nFebruary<\/td>		Tobias Hauser\u00a0(Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research)<\/td>When brain juices make you noisy: The role of
\ncatecholamines in choice inconsistencies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25th February<\/td>
\nMark Orloff (Virginia Tech)<\/td>		Risky Decision-Making Under Social Influence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 4th March<\/td>Lucina Uddin (University of Miami)<\/td>Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 11th March<\/td>Maxime Taquet ( Harvard Medical School)<\/td>From Brain Imaging to Digital Phenotyping<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18th March<\/td>Tomas Paus (University of Toronto)<\/td>Population Neuroscience of the Developing Brain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25th March<\/td>Susann Fiedler (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)<\/td>What to consider, when making strategic social decisions? An Eye-tracking investigation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

First Term 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Title<\/th>Zoom Link<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Thursday 1rst
\nOctober<\/td>		Livia Tomova (MIT)<\/td>fMRI signals of social craving following acute social isolation in the human brain<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 8th
\nOctober<\/td>		no talk due to SNE conference<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 15th
\nOctober<\/td>		Ruonan Jia<\/td>From Value to Saliency: Neural Computations of Subjective Value under Uncertainty in Combat Veterans.
\n<\/td>		https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/98580854839<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 22th
\nOctober<\/td>		Nir Moneta (MPI for Human Development)<\/td>Parallel processing of contextually-relevant and -irrelevant values in ventro-medial prefrontal cortex<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/99377842974<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 29th
\nOctober<\/td>		Romy Lorenz\u00a0(Stanford University)<\/td>Neuroadaptive Bayesian Optimization<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/91468213947<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 5th November<\/td>Yaara Yeshurun (Tel Aviv University)<\/td>Brain mechanisms underlying shared understanding<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/94108486103
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 12th November<\/td>Rachit Dubey (Princeton University)<\/td>Understanding exploration by formalizing the function of curiosity<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/97537406771
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 19th November<\/td>Emily Liquin (Princeton University)<\/td>The role of curiosity and satisfaction in learning from inquiry<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/92832257185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 26th November<\/td>Cristian Buc Calderon (Gent University)<\/td>Extracting spatiotemporal structure through feedback-driven clustering in RNNs.<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/98405879159
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 3th December<\/td>Andrew Westbrook (Brown University)<\/td><\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/91380601772
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 10th December<\/td>Kate Nussenbaum (NYU)<\/td>Developmental change in learning and using causal knowledge<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/95004342780
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 17th December<\/td>Davide Folloni (Oxford University)<\/td>Behavioural and neural impact of TUS in subcortical and deep cortical areas of the primate brain<\/td>https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/j\/96852869329
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Spring Term 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

ddd<\/span><\/td>\n

Speaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Tobias Kalenscher*-University D\u00fcsseldorf<\/td>\nTo give or not to take \u2013 framing effects boost
\ngenerosity during social discounting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Danielle Bassett*-University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\nThe Curious Human<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 23th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Phil Corlett*<\/td>\nPredicting to Perceive and Learning When to Learn: Explaining Hallucinations and Delusions through computational neuroimaging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 30th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Eugene Caruso*-UCLA Anderson School of Management<\/td>\nWhen the Future Looms Larger Than the Past: Some Empirical Tests of the Bias Toward the Future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 6th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Kenji Kobayashi*-University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\nNeural representations of value of instrumental information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 13th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Alan Sanfey-Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour<\/p>\n
<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
Social motivations in choice: insights from decision neuroscience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 20th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mairska kret*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nEmotion Processing in\u00a0Homo<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Pan<\/i><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 27th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Oren Forkosh<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 5th March<\/td>\nTamir Diana*-Princeton University<\/td>\nMaking\u00a0predictions\u00a0in the\u00a0social\u00a0world<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ddd<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Fall Term 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 26th
\nSeptember<\/td>\n		Rafael Polania*
\n(ETH Zurich)<\/td>\n		Efficient coding of subjective value<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday 2nd
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Roshan Cools*
\n(Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)<\/td>\n		Chemistry of the adaptive mind<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 10th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Annika Boldt
\n(UCL)<\/td>\n		Distinct and overlapping neural correlates of metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 17th October<\/td>\nArno Riedl*\u00a0(Maastricht University)<\/span><\/td>\nNeighborhood Choice in Cooperation and Coordination Games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 24th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Tatiana Lau (Royal Holloway)<\/td>\nSocial Structure Learning in Anterior Insula<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 31st
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Jennifer Lerner*\u00a0(Harvard University, Kennedy School)<\/span><\/td>\nThe Sadness Trap: How experiences of loss precipitate future financial loss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Michael Koenigs*
\n(University Of Wisconsin\u2013Madison)<\/td>\n		Neuroeconomics in the clinic and courtroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 14th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Cameron Brick\u00a0(University of Cambridge)<\/span><\/td>\nPresenting a list of free, large-scale psychological datasets: research and teaching opportunities and examples about pro-environmental behaviour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 21st
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Valeria Gazzola*\u00a0(Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam)<\/span><\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 28th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Rani Moran\u00a0(UCL)<\/span><\/td>\nModel Based Retrospective Inference in Reinforcement Learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 5th
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Jessica McFadyen\u00a0(UCL)<\/span><\/td>\nRapid neural circuits for aversive sensory processing and decision-making<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 12
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Mael Lebreton*\u00a0(Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/td>\nContextual biases in confidence judgments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Summer Term 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25th
\nApril<\/td>\n		Daniel Sznycer*
\n(University of Montreal)<\/td>\n		Architectural invariances in shame and pride<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 2nd
\nMay<\/td>\n		Steve Sloman*
\n(Brown University)<\/td>\n		Collective Cognition: Collaboration, Outsourcing, and Emergent Knowledge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Stefano Palminteri*
\n(\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure)<\/span><\/td>\n		Behavioural and neural characterization of optimistic reinforcement learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16th May<\/td>\nMatthew Apps
\n(Oxford)<\/td>\n		How statistical information about costs and benefits are processed in the brain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 23rd
\nMay<\/td>\n		Niko Steinbeis (UCL)<\/td>\nUnderstanding the role of top-down behavioural control in the regulation of socio-affective processes, decision-making, and learning across child- and adolescent development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 30th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Anna van Duijvenvoorde (Leiden University)*<\/td>\nAdolescent’s learning in social contexts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Spring Term 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 17th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Jens Koed Madsen
\n(Oxford)<\/td>\n		\u00a0Implementing cognitive models in complex agent-based systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 24th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Susan Fiske*
\n(Princeton)<\/td>\n		Navigating the Social World: The Case for Universal Dimensions of Evaluation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 31st
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Mina Cikara*
\n(Harvard)<\/td>\n		Criminality racializes, achievement homogenizes: Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration policy preferences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7th\u00a0February<\/td>\nDavid Garcia*
\n(Complexity Science Hub – Vienna)<\/td>\n		Collective Emotions and Social Resilience in the Digital Traces After a Terrorist Attack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 14th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Tobias Donner* (Hamburg)<\/td>\n\u00a0Understanding Variability in Brain and Behavior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 21st
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Amy Orben (Oxford)<\/td>\n\u00a01 billion correlations: quantifying the link between social media use and adolescent wellbeing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 28th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Arno Reidl*
\n(Maastricht University)<\/td>\n		Neighborhood Choice in Cooperation and Coordination Games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Ben Tappin
\n(Royal Holloway \/ MIT)<\/td>\n		Social incentives in political belief formation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 14th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Uma Karmarkar
\n(UC San Diego)<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 21st
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Neil Garrett (Princeton\/Oxford)<\/td>\n\u00a0Keeping Track: How Humans Evaluate Their Environment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 28th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Sander van der Linden (Cambridge)<\/td>\nA psychological vaccine against misinformation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Michaelmas\u00a0Term 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 27th
\nSeptember<\/td>\n		Jay Van Bavel*<\/a>
\n(New York University)<\/td>\n		The Partisan Brain: A value-based model of political belief<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday\u00a04th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Sarah Garfinkel<\/a>
\n(Sussex University)<\/td>\n		Interoceptive mechanisms underlying emotion and self-integration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 11th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Filip G\u0119siarz<\/a>
\n(UCL)<\/td>\n		To Work or not to Work? How Inequality Affects Motivation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18th October<\/td>\nYaacov Trope*<\/a>
\n(New York University)<\/td>\n		Expansive and Contractive Regulatory Scope<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Valerie Reyna<\/a>* (Cornell)<\/td>\nA Fuzzy Trace Theory of Risky Decision Making: Healthy, Unhealthy, and Downright Criminal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 1st
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Kara Weisman<\/a>* (Stanford)<\/td>\nConcepts of mental life: Continuity and variability across development and cultures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 8th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Jennifer Lerner<\/a>*
\n(Harvard Kennedy School)<\/td>\n		The Sadness Trap<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 15th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Katherine Milkman<\/a>*
\n(Wharton School of Business)<\/td>\n		How can we use insights from economics and psychology to change behaviour for good?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday\u00a022nd
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Bastien Blain<\/a>
\n(UCL)<\/td>\n		Focused cognitive fatigue and impulsivity: behavioural evidence, neural mechanisms\u00a0and\u00a0pathological insights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 29th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Joseph Dunsmoor*
\n<\/a>(University of Texas at Austin)<\/td>\n		How Pavlovian conditioning can shape episodic memory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 6th
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Ming Hsu<\/a>* (UC Berkeley)<\/td>\nUnderstanding human sociality: From brain to behavior to society<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 13th
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Jukka-Pekka Onnela* <\/a><\/p>\n

(Harvard School of Public Health)<\/td>\n

\u00a0Smartphone-based Digital Phenotyping<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Summer Term 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 26th
\nApril<\/td>\n		Eva Hudlicka*
\n(UMassAmherst)<\/a><\/td>\n		Computational models of emotion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 3rd
\nMay<\/td>\n		Stephen Fleming
\n(UCL)<\/a><\/td>\n		Why people don’t change their minds: metacognitive failures and radical beliefs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 10th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Yuan Chang Leong*
\n(Stanford)<\/a><\/td>\n		\u00a0Motivated seeing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 17th May<\/td>\nAlexander Todorov*
\n(Princeton)<\/a><\/td>\n		Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 24th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Nichola Raihani
\n(UCL)<\/a><\/td>\n		The effects of paranoia on social cognition and behaviour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 31st
\nMay<\/td>\n		Micah Allen
\n(UCL)<\/a><\/td>\n		Gut Feelings? Visceral and Autonomic Influences on Metacognitive Decision-Making<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7th
\nJune<\/td>\n		Toby Pilditch
\n(UCL)<\/a><\/td>\n		Zero-sum reasoning and Dependency Aversion: How simple structures can lead us astray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Spring Term 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Alison Gopnik*
\n(UC Berkeley)<\/a><\/td>\n		Life History and Learning: Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit trade-offs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 1st
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Todd Braver*
\n(Washington University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Motivation and Cognitive Control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 8th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Rosalind Picard*
\n(MIT)<\/a><\/td>\n		What can we learn about anxiety, stress, and brain activity from a wristband?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 15th
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Rebecca Lawson
\n(University of Cambridge)<\/a><\/td>\n		Modelling cortical gain in autism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 22nd
\nFebruary<\/td>\n		Tom Griffiths*
\n(Princeton University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Linking heuristics and rationality through\u00a0bounded\u00a0optimality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 1st
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Lasana Harris
\n(UCL)<\/a><\/td>\n		Facial emotion expression categorization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 8th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Fiery Cushman*
\n(Harvard University)<\/a><\/td>\n		How we know what not to think<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 15th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Elinor Amit*
\n(Brown University)<\/a><\/td>\n		The distinct roles of visual and verbal processing in social cognition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Michaelmas Term 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 5th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Irma Kurniawan
\n(Brain & Spine Institute, Paris)<\/a><\/td>\n		Past actions shape our future preferences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 12th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Floris de Lange
\n(Radboud University, Nijmegen)<\/a><\/td>\n		How is visual perception biased?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 19th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Bojana Kuzmanovic
\n(Max Planck Institute, Cologne)<\/a><\/td>\n		Computational components and causal mechanisms of the optimism bias in belief updating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 26th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Rebeccah Slater
\n(University of Oxford)<\/a><\/td>\n		Measuring and modulating infant pain in early human development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 2nd
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Andrew Westbrook
\n(Washington University, St. Louis)<\/a><\/td>\n		Dopamine and proximity effects in cognitive control<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Oded Berger-Tal
\n(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)<\/a><\/td>\n		Confronting novel environments: the trade-off between exploration and exploitation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Keno Juechems
\n(University of Oxford)<\/td>\n		How internal context shapes value representation in the human brain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 30th
\nNovember<\/td>\n		Oliver Robinson
\n(University College London)<\/a><\/td>\n		Modelling avoidance in mood and anxiety disorders using reinforcement-learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 7th
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Thomas Gilovich
\n(Cornell University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Enemies of Gratitude<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 14th
\nDecember<\/td>\n		Florian Zimmermann
\n(University of Zurich)<\/a><\/td>\n		Dynamics of motivated beliefs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Spring Term 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 12th
\nJanuary<\/td>\n		Jennifer Logg
\n(UC Berkeley)<\/a><\/td>\n		Theory of Machine: When do people rely on algorithms?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 19th January<\/td>\nMichael Sanders
\n(Behavioural InsightsTeam)<\/a><\/td>\n		Social contagion and social licensing in charitable giving and beyond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 26th January<\/td>\nCleotilde Gonzalez
\n(Carnegie Mellon University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Adaptation to Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 2nd February<\/td>\nErin Rich
\n(UC Berkeley)<\/a><\/td>\n		Dynamic encoding of choice in the orbitofrontal cortex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9th February<\/td>\nEmilio Ferrara
\n(University of South Carolina)<\/a><\/td>\n		Human behavior in techno-social systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16th February<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNo Affective Brain Seminar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 23rd February<\/td>\nAlex Peysakhovich
\n(Facebook Artificial Intelligence)<\/a><\/td>\n		Fixing the Replication Crisis with Machine Learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 2nd
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Pablo Barber\u00e1
\n(University of South California)<\/a><\/td>\n		How Social Media Reduces Mass Political Polarization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 9th
\nMarch<\/td>\n		Alexandra Constantinescu
\n(Oxford University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a grid-like code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 16th March<\/td>\nKiyohito Iigaya
\n(University College
\nLondon)<\/a><\/td>\n		Favouring Savouring: How Prediction Error Boosts Appetitive Anticipation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 23rd March<\/td>\nSonia Bishop
\n(UC Berkeley)<\/a><\/td>\n		TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 27th
\nApril<\/td>\n		Hal Hershfield
\n(University of California, Los Angeles)<\/a><\/td>\n		When does the present end and the future begin?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 4th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Jane Wang
\n(Deep Mind)<\/a><\/td>\n		TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 11th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Kenway Louie
\n(New York University)<\/a><\/td>\n		Reward statistics, adaptive value coding, and efficient choice behavior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 18th
\nMay<\/td>\n		TBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 25th
\nMay<\/td>\n		Corey White
\n(Syracuse University)<\/a><\/td>\n		TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 1st
\nJune<\/td>\n		Birte Forstmann
\n(University of Amsterdam)<\/a><\/td>\n		TBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Michaelmas Term 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 6th
\nOctober<\/td>\n		Louisa Egan
\n(University of Portland)<\/a><\/td>\n		Moral Licensing Effects as Acquired Behavior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 13th October<\/td>\nChristian Ruff
\n(University of Zurich)<\/a><\/td>\n		Social decision making: Distinct causal brain mechanisms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 20th October<\/td>\nAnna Schapiro
\n(Harvard)<\/a><\/td>\n		Complementary learning systems
\nwithin the hippocampus: A neural
\nnetwork modeling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 27th October<\/td>\nAmit Sharma
\n(Microsoft Research)<\/a><\/td>\n		The limits of social influence in online social networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 3rd November<\/td>\nKeith Chen
\n(UCLA, Uber)<\/a><\/td>\n		Flexible Work: How Drivers Respond to Dynamic Pricing and Work Flexibility on the Uber Platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 17th November<\/td>\nJustin Rao
\n(Microsoft Research)<\/a><\/td>\n		Understanding Charitable Giving Choices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 24th November<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 1st December<\/td>\nFilippo Menczer
\n(Indiana University)<\/a><\/td>\n		The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 8th December<\/td>\nDaniel Bennett
\n(University of Melbourne)<\/a><\/td>\n		The intrinsic value of information in decision making<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday 15th December<\/td>\nJessica Bodford
\n(Facebook & Arizona State)<\/a><\/td>\n		Cyberpsychology: Human interaction in the digital age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"Seminar<\/p>\n

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\"Seminar<\/p>\n

Michaelmas<\/b>\u00a0Term 2013<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Seminar<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Seminar\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Term 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Seminar<\/p>\n

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