Archive
The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research presents a weekly, academic term time, computational psychiatry seminar series. The seminar series covers topics ranging from theoretical and basic neuroscience/psychology, to clinical and translational studies. Talks are typically on a Thursday at 2PM UK time and hosted in a hybrid format. Zoom links are available for remote audiences.
This is the schedule of previous years.
You will find the schedule of current year and term under UpcomingTalks.
September 2024-December 2024
12 Sep 2024, 2:00 PM
Emerson Harkin, MPI for Biological Cybernetics
*A prospective code for value in the serotonin system
3 Oct 2024, 2:00 PM
Bernhard Staresina, University of Oxford
*Memory consolidation during sleep: mechanisms and representations
10 Oct 2024, 2:00 PM
Lilian Weber, University of Oxford
*A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry
17 Oct 2024, 2:00 PM
Kobe Desender, KU Leuven
*Neurocomputational underpinnings of confidence in the context of prior beliefs
24 Oct, 2:00 PM
Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge
*Dynamics of neural representation
31 Oct 2024, 2:30 PM
Nicolas Schuck, Universitaet Hamburg
*Learning of successor representations through on-task replay in the visual cortex
7 Nov 2024 , 2:00 PM
William Orwig, Harvard University
*Cognitive neuroscience of creativity
21 Nov 2024, 2:00 PM
Max Rollwage, Limbic
Safe and effective generative clinical AI in mental healthcare
28 Nov 2024, 2:00 PM
Mona Garvert, Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Hippocampal and prefrontal representations underlying flexible decision-making
5 Dec 2024, 2:00 PM
Benjamin Kubit, Princeton University
*Earworms, memory consolidation, and neural replay for recently heard music
12 Dec 2024, 2:00 PM
Sebastijan Veselic, University of Oxford
*The neural code underlying flexible choice and compositional reasoning
January 2024 - June 2024
25 Jan 2024, 2:00 PM
David Lagnado, University College London
*Causality in Mind: Learning, Reasoning and Blaming
1 Feb 2024, 2:00 PM
Fabien Vinckier, Université de Paris
*Moodeling: A neuro-computational assessment of mood fluctuations and their impact on decision-making
8 Feb 2024, 2:00 PM
Mathias Sable-Meyer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre UCL
*Human cognition of geometric shapes: a window into the mental representation of abstract concepts
15 Feb 2024, 2:00 PM
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Columbia University
*Computational network models for flexible decision making in health and disease
22 Feb 2024, 2:00 PM
Charley Wu, University of Tuebingen
*Steering by the torch of chaos and doubt
7 Mar 2024, 2:00 PM
Marcelo Mattar, New York University
*A recurrent network model of planning predicts hippocampal replay and human behaviour
21 Mar 2024, 2:00 PM
Francesco Vigano, Imperial College London
*Spectral graph theory: an introduction and some applications
18 Apr 2024, 2:00 PM
Neil Bramley, The University of Edinburgh
*Staying afloat on Neurath's Boat
25 Apr 2024, 2:00 PM
Elvisha Dhamala, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
*Leveraging brain-based predictive models to understand the neural underpinnings of psychiatric risk
2 May 2024, 2:00 PM
Brenden Lake, New York University
*Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with AI
9 May 2024, 2:00 PM
Paolo Rossini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
*Functional and dynamic characteristics of neuronal assemblies explored via EEG and graph theory: from healthy aging to neurodegenerative dementias
23 May 2024, 2:00 PM
Shervin Safavi, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
*Approaching perceptual choices as internal actions
30 May 2024, 2:00 PM
Keir Yong, University College London
*Progressive disturbances of vision and space perception: insights from posterior cortical atrophy
6 Jun 2024, 2:00 PM
Daniel Reznik & Roey Schurr, Harvard University
*Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition
September 2023 - December 2023
28 Sep 2023, 2:00 PM
Neguine Rezaii, Harvard Medical School
*Natural Language Processing Enables a Paradigm Shift in Understanding Aphasia: Introducing the Information Restoration Paradigm
12 Oct 2023, 2:00 PM
Mohamady El-Gaby, University of Oxford
A cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure
19 Oct 2023, 2:00 PM
Peter Boasserts, University of Cambridge
*Human decision-making under computational complexity
26 Oct 2023, 2:00 PM
Kenneth Norman
*Computational principles of real-world memory
2 Nov 2023, 2:00 PM
Nadia Said, Universitaet of Tuebingen
Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence
16 Nov 2023, 2:00 PM
Lei Zhang, University of Birmingham
*Attenuated flexible behaviour through the lens of reinforcement learning across diagnoses
23 Nov 2023, 2:00 PM
Paolo Ossola, University of Parma
*Investigating complex dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Cyberball game in Borderline Personality Disorder
30 Nov 2023, 2:00 PM
Avshalom Caspi, King’s College London
Mental health across the life course
14 Dec 2023, 2:00 PM
Angela Radulescu
Towards naturalistic representation learning in health and disease
January 2023 - August 2023
26 Jan 2023, 2:00 PM
Helen Zhou, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
*Brain network phenotype in neuropsychiatric disorders: targeting early stage
9 Feb 2023, 2:00 PM
Ondrej Zika, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
*Trait anxiety is associated with hidden state inference during aversive reversal learning
16 Feb 2023, 2:00 PM
Evan Russek, Princeton University
*Measuring intelligent use of cognitive resources in online chess
23 Feb 2023, 4:00 PM
Payam Piray, University of Southern California
*How does anxiety impair computing uncertainty?
2 Mar 2023, 2:00 PM
Amitai Shenhav, Berkeley School of Education
*Decomposing the motivation to exert mental effort
9 Mar 2023, 2:00 PM
Monika Schönauer, Princeton University
*Imaging memory consolidation in wakefulness and sleep
16 Mar 2023, 2:00 PM (1.5 Hrs)
Neir Eshel, Stanford University, & Nicholas Neufeld, University of Toronto
*Behavioural economics of striatal dopamine release / Neurobiological effects of antipsychotic medication in psychotic depression
23 Mar 2023, 2:00 PM
Alana Jaskir
*Reward-predictive state abstractions in human reinforcement learning
29 Mar 2023, 2:00 PM
Paolo Fusar-Poli, Brown University
*Artificial intelligence-based screening of Electronic Health Records to detect individuals at risk of psychosis
20 Apr 2023, 2:00 PM
Roeland Heerema, University College London
*A computational account of how affective states influence economic decisions
27 Apr 2023, 2:00 PM
Konstantinos Tsetsos, University of Bristol
*Irrational decision-making through inhibitory competition within multiple stages of processing
4 May 2023, 2:00 PM
Leo Chi Seak, University College London
*Neural mechanism of value-based economic decisions: examples from humans and monkeys
11 May 2023, 2:00 PM
Anastasia Christakou, University of Reading
*Towards an explanatory empirical programme in developmental cognitive neuroscience
18 May 2023, 2:00 PM
Giles Story, University College London
*Self-other representation in borderline personality disorder
1 Jun 2023, 2:00 PM
Matt Somerville, University College London
*Emotion regulation, emotion beliefs, and adolescent mental health
15 Jun 2023, 2:00 PM
Vinod Goel, York University
*Tethered Rationality: A model of behavior for the real world
31 Aug 2023, 12:00 PM
Peiyuan Zhang, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin
The dynamic nature of procrastination
September 2022- December 2022
22 Sep 2022, 2:00 PM
Raphael Köster, Google DeepMind
*Behavioural mechanism design using neural network models of human behaviour
29 Sep 2022, 2:00 PM
Ruth van Holst, Amsterdam UMC
*Confidence biases and self-belief in compulsive disorders
5 Oct 2022, 4:00 PM
Melissa Sharpe
*Why and when is dopamine valuable?
13 Oct 2022, 2:00 PM
Maël Lebreton, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris
*Affective and motivational biases on confidence judgments
20 Oct 2022, 2:00 PM
Helen Pushkarskaya, Yale School of Medicine
*Peeling the Onion: What drives neurocognitive difficulties in OCD?
27 Oct 2022, 2:00 PM
Gonzalo Urcelay, University of Nottingham
*Competition and facilitation in human learning
3 Nov 2022, 2:00 PM
Michael Ewbank, ieso
*Understanding the association between psychotherapy content and clinical outcomes: A deep learning approach
10 Nov 2022, 2:00 PM
Tor Wager, Dartmouth College
*Attribution, belief formation, and self-fulfilling prophecies
17 Nov 2022, 2:00 PM
Uri Hertz, University of Haifa
*Social learning and advice giving
24 Nov 2022, 2:00 PM
Michael Anderson, University of Cambridge
*Amnesia in healthy people via hippocampal inhibition: A new forgetting mechanism
1 Dec 2022, 2:00 PM
Robert Whelan, Trinity College Dublin
*Scaling up cognitive neuroscience for improved predictions of real-world behaviour
8 Dec 2022, 2:00 PM
Eric Schulz, Max PIanck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
*Do transformers dream of electric boogeymen?
15 Dec 2022, 2:00 PM
Isabel Berwian, Princeton University
Using computational models of learning to develop predictors of response to psychotherapy