Neurobiology, behaviour and cognition seminars and events
Friday 6th July 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Corina Logan, University of Cambridge
What corvids do after they fight.
Friday 8th June 2012 (New Date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Elodie Briefer, Queen Mary University of London
Deciphering goat vocalizations: cues to physical characteristics and emotional states.
Friday 11th May 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Geoff Cole, University of Essex
What can animal aposematism tell us about phobia in humans?
Friday 04th May 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Eugene Subbotsky, University of Lancaster
The magic of today: The irrational lining of the rational mind.
Friday 20th April 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Adam Powell, UCL
Demography and the evolution of cultural variation.
Friday 02nd March 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Andrew Young, University of Exeter
Reproductive conflict in cooperative mammals: mechanisms and evolutionary implications.
Friday 17th February 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Paul Ibbotson, University of Manchester / Max Planck Institute
Social-cognitive perspectives on constructing grammar.
Friday 03rd February 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Sana Sheikh, University of St Andrews
The moralization of restrained eating practices: An embodied understanding.
Friday 27th January 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Erica van de Waal, University of St Andrews
Social learning experiments in wild vervet monkeys.
Friday 20th January 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Ian Philips, University of Oxford
Postdiction and Iconic Memory.
Thursday 12th January 2012
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Thomas Preatt, ESPCI, Paris
Dopamine controls memory phase dynamics in Drosophila.
Friday 09th December 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Rachel Kendal, Durham University
Social learning strategies and cumulative culture in human and non-human animals.
Friday 18th November 2011 (New!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Bjorn Meder, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Evolution of information search: from statisticians, to psychologists, to honeybees.
Friday 04th November 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Charles Efferson, University of Zurich and Ryan Mckay, Royal Holloway
The evolution of shared delusions.
Friday 07th October 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.28 at 12pm (NOTE: room change)
Linnaea Stockall, QMUL
Irregular verbs and the language / vision interface.
Friday 23 September 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Christantha Fernando, QMUL
Darwinian Neurodynamics.
Friday 15 July 2011 (new date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Neeltje Boogert, McGill University
Mate choice for cognitive traits.
Friday, 17 June 2011 (new date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Bancroft Road, BR 3.01 at 12pm
Chris Olivola, University College London
The Martyrdom Effect: When Pain and Effort Increase Prosocial Contributions.
Friday 20 May 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Bancroft Road, BR 3.01 at 12pm
Kevin Staras, University of Sussex
Synaptic vesicle pool dynamics in hippocampal neurons.
Friday 13 May 2011 (new date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Bancroft Road, BR 3.01 at 12pm
Shakti Lamba, University College London
The evolution of large-scale cooperation in human populations.
Friday 6 May 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Bancroft Road, BR 3.01 at 12pm
Victoria Southgate, Birkbeck College
Evidence for mind reading in infancy
Monday 18 April 2011 (new date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Bancroft Road, BR 3.02 at 12pm
Justin Blau, Department of Biology, New York University
How flies time: Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock
Friday 8 April 2011 (new date!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Paul Chapple, Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Molecular chaperones in neurodegeneration: a role for the ataxia protein sacsin in mitochondrial dynamics?
Friday 1 April 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Roger Giner-Sorolla , University of Kent
Unreasoning disgust, rationalizing anger: Cognitive characteristics of moral emotions.
Friday 18 March 2011 (Note: new talk!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Patricia Kanngiesser, University of Bristol
The psychology of ownership and possession - evolutionary and developmental perspectives
Friday 11 March 2011 (Note date change!)
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Alexandra de Sousa, Queen Mary University of London
Human brain evolution: histometric and volumetric perspectives
Friday 18 February 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Giorgio F Gilestro, Imperial College London
Sleep in Drosophila
Friday 11 February 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Vivek Nityananda, Queen Mary University of London
Animal acoustic communication in noisy social environments.
Wednesday 9 February 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room G23 at 12pm
Professor Mike Mendl, University of Bristol
An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood.
Friday 4 February 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Megan Wyman, University of Sussex
Exploring the role of vocal communication in deer hybridization.
Friday 14 January 2011
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London
Sell-sol
Friday 10 December 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, BR 3.02 at 12pm
Melissa Bateson, Newcastle University
An evolutionary approach to anxiety in humans and other animals.
Friday 05 November 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Nathan Emery
Do Birds Believe in Magic?
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Venue/ time: Physics Building, G.O. Jones Lecture Theatre at 12pm
Keith Jensen, Queen Mary University of London.
The development and evolution of social concern.
Friday 08 October 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room BR 3.02 at 12pm
Andrew King
Collective behaviour of social groups: The example of baboon troops in the Namib Desert.
13 July 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC, room 204 at 12pm
Dr Jovana Vukovic
Individual differences in vocal and facial attractiveness.
9 June 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room BR 3.01 at 12pm
Dr. Mathieu Amy
Communication networks in songbirds.
4 June 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC, room 204 at 12pm
Dr Elli Leadbeater
The evolution of helpful wasps: drivers of eusociality in a primitively eusocial system.
1 June 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fog Building, room BR 3.02 at 12pm
Dr Ben Pitcher
Multi-modal mother-pup recognition: the sounds, smells and sights of Australian sea lion communication
25 May 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC, room 204 at 1pm
Dr Amanda Seed
More than meets the eye: Casual knowledge in apes and infants
21 May 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC, room 204 at 12pm
Dr Jeremy Kendal
TBA (Social learning in fish)
14 May 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room BR 3.01 at 12pm
Dr Matt Parker
Neurobiology of stereotypic behaviour and associated learning differences in horses
9 April 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Geography Building, room 2.20 at 12pm
Dr Myrto Denaxa
Towards a transcriptional network for the development and function of cortical interneurons
30 March 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Francis Bancroft Building, room FB 3.26 at 1pm
Dr Oliver Burman
Using vocalisations to determine emotional states in animals
5 March 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Geography Building, room Geog 2.20 at 12pm
Dr Alexander Logvinenko
Spherical representation of object colours
26 February 2010
One day symposium
Integrating genetic and cultural evolutionary approaches to language evolution
23 February 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC Building, room 204 at 1pm
Dr Ilias Kazanis
The social life of a neural stem cell
5 February 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Geography Building, room Geog 2.20 at 12pm
Dr Rob Knell
The evolution of intrasexual aggression
26 January 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, IRC Building, room IRC 204 at 1pm
Dr Jamie Ward
Mechanisms of synaesthesia and its relationship to typical perception
15 January 2010
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Geography Building, room Geog 2.20 at 12pm
Dr Will Brown
Static and dynamic indicators of mate quality in humans
4 December 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Paul Morrison
The pro- and anti-psychotic effects of cannabinoid molecules in humans
24 November 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 1pm
Dr Irene Miguel-Aliaga
Stomatogastric nervous system
13 November 2009
One day symposium
The Darwinian Renaissance in the Humanities and Social Science
Speakers and programme: Alex Bentley (Durham); Mhairi Gibson (Bristol); Dominic Johnson (Edinburgh); Stephen Lycett (Kent); Alex Mesoudi (QMUL); Daniel Nettle (Newcastle); Ian Penton-Voak (Bristol) and Rebecca Sear (LSE)
6 November 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Christoph Grüter (University of Sussex)
Decision-making in ants and bees facing multiple information sources
27 October 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 1pm
Dr Alex Thornton (University of Cambridge)
Cultural transmission in meerkats
9 October 2009
Venue/ time: Francis Bancroft Building, room 1.02.6 at 12pm
Dr Adrian Dyer (Monash University)
Face recognition by bees: non-specialised brains demonstrate an ability to both bind and integrate image features
2 October 2009
Venue/ time: Francis Bancroft Building, room 1.02.6 at 12pm
Dr Larissa Conradt (University of Sussex)
Collective animal decisions: How best to pool information if there are conflicts of interest
4 September 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Elva Robinson (University of Bristol)
Searching, finding and forgetting: collective decision-making in ants
14 July 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Candy Rowe (University of Newcastle)
Dietary cognition in predators and the evolution of animal coloration
3 July 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Aurelio Malo (Imperial College London)
Determinants of sperm quality and effects on reproductive success
23 June 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Elodie Briefer (QMUL)
Vocal communication in groups of neighbouring skylarks: importance of song syntax
15 June 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 1pm
Professor Ritch Savin-Williams (Cornell University)
Who's gay?
5 June 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Yazhu Ling (University of Newcastle)
A quantitative system of human colour preference: biological factors, sensory encoding and sex differences
1 June 2009
Venue/ time: 102.6 Francis Bancroft Building, at 4pm
Professor Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
How universal principles are processed in children's brains
20 May 2009
Venue/ time: Skeel Lecture Theatre, at 6:30pm
Professor David Adger (QMUL)
The Grammar of love and hate
12 May 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Professor Dai Stephens (University of Sussex)
The emotional and cognitive effects of binge drinking
1 May 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Geraldine Wright (University of Newcastle)
Olfactory learning and odour perception by honeybees
3 April 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 12pm
Dr Nicholas Pound (Brunel University)
Physiological and behavioural responses of males to intrasexual competition
2 April 2009
Venue/ time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 4pm
Dr Uli Steiner(Stanford University)
Neutral theory of life histories
6 February 2009
Venue/ time: Computer Sciences department, room CS 445 at 1pm
Dr Julia Lehmann (Roehampton University) [new window]
Friend or foe? Social complexity in primates
9 January 2009
Venue/time: Geography, room 126 at 12pm
Dr Rebecca Sear (London School of Economics) [new window]
Nothing but mammals? Applying evolutionary ecology to our own species: a case study in the Gambia
12 December 2008
Venue/ time: Francis Bancroft Building, Clinical Medical Lecture Theatre (CMLT) at 12.30pm
Dr Alex Mesoudi (Queen Mary, University of London) [new window]
The experimental study of human cultural evolution
21 November 2008
Venue/ time: Francis Bancroft Building, Clinical Medical Lecture Theatre (CMLT) at 12.30pm
Dr Michael Proulx (Queen Mary, University of London) [new window]
Seeing with the eyes and ears: visual attention and 'visual' object recognition
3 October 2008
Venue/time: Francis Bancroft Building, Clinical Medical Lecture Theatre (CMLT) at 12.30pm
Dr Claudia Uller (University of Essex) [new window]
Developmental and evolutionary considerations on the non-verbal representation of number
5 September 2008
Venue/time: Francis Bancroft Building, Clinical Medical Lecture Theatre (CMLT) at 12pm
Professor Etienne Danchin (University of Toulouse) [new window]
Inclusive heritability: Behaviour as a major vector of information inheritance
4 June 2008
Venue/time: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Fogg Building, room 3.15 at 2pm
Dr Rainer Klages (School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London) [new window]
Modeling the migration data of cells, flies and foraging animals
30 May 2008
Venue/time: Francis Bancroft Building, Clinical Medical Lecture Theatre (CMLT) at 4.30pm
Professor Verity Brown (University of St. Andrews) will give a lecture entitled:
Absent and lost minds: what is missing?
Most of us have experienced episodes of ‘absent mindedness'… probably fewer might have experienced a ‘lost mind'. What do we know about what is missing when the mind is absent or lost? This is the topic of a talk that will consider the limits of attention – in particular, asking why does it sometimes fail us and what can we learn from these failures. I will talk about schizophrenia, a mental illness in which normal ‘filtering' is impaired and people can no longer make sense of the world. In considering both mild and catastrophic failures of attention, we can learn how the mind normally processes information. We will then be in a better position to seek ways to treat illnesses such as schizophrenia. I will discuss the methods of pre-clinical research aimed at finding new treatments for psychiatric illness and describe some recent progress we have made. The talk is intended to be accessible and of interest to a general audience, including undergraduates with either an arts or science background… anyone who can locate their mind in fact!