• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford) , Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
• Web Address: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/events/search?category=beacon-seminar-series
• Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Hippocampal Dysregulation Causes Transient Deficits in Decision-Making: Consequences for old age and Alzheimer’s disease
  The talk will be on Zoom (link to be circulated in due course).
  TBA

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predictive Decision-Making During Exploration in Frontal Cortex
  The talk will be on Zoom (link to be circulated in due course).
  Nadescha Trudel (Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cortical and striatal circuit dynamics during natural and learned actions
  Please email the host if you wish to receive the Zoom joining link.
  Andreas Klaus (Champalimaud, Portugal)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Sub-second dopamine and serotonin signalling in human striatum during perceptual decision-making
  Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the organisers to be added to the list of attendees.
  Dan Bang (University College London)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  This seminar has been postponed and will be re-scheduled.
  Matthias Gruber (University of Cardiff)

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: “I like the way you sing” – Neural systems for vocal perception
  Catherine Perrodin (University College London)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - BEACON Seminar: Robust Encoding of Abstract Rules by Distinct Neuronal Populations in Primate Visual Cortex
  Tirin Moore (Stanford)

Tuesday 30 March 2021 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar: Getting a grip on cognitive flexibility
  Senne Braem (Ghent University)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar: Embracing complexity – understanding polytrauma through translational research
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Abigail Schindler (University of Washington)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: Hippocampal-prefrontal hierarchical representations guide generalization and inference
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Alison Preston (University of Texas)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory
  Zoom link to join: https://zoom.us/j/99842872561?pwd=d3VvQ01KMkRvUGZNVkhrRjJybVZydz09
  Dr Matthias J. Gruber (Cardiff University)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Competition and control in working memory
  via Zoom
  Anastasia Kiyonaga (UC San Diego)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - BEACON Seminar: The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex
  Seminars this term will be held remotely on Zoom. Links for joining will be sent out before each seminar. Please contact the host if you would like to set up a remote meeting with a speaker. If you have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Lauren (lauren.burgeno@dpag.ox.ac.uk), or Nima (nima.khalighinejad@psy.ox.ac.uk).
  Roozbeh Kiani (New York University)

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar: Striatal dopamine waves as a mechanism for spatiotemporal credit assignment
  Via Zoom
  Arif Hamid (University of Minnesota)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Madalena Fonseca (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - BEACON Seminar
  Via Zoom.
  Aryn Gittis (Carnegie Mellon)

Tuesday 14 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - BEACON Seminar
  Via Zoom.
  Ilya Monosov (Washington University)