Thu 16 Oct 14:00: Understandable language models
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Jim Magnusson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL)
- Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.
- Series: Chaucer Club; organiser: Vicky Collins.
Thu 09 Oct 14:00: Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Biyu He (NYU)
- Thursday 09 October 2025, 14:00-15:00
- Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.
- Series: Chaucer Club; organiser: Vicky Collins.
Tue 26 Aug 16:00: Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans.
Direct brain electrical brain stimulation offers a causal window on human brain function and a route to therapy. This talk contrasts open-loop perturbation, single pulses and short trains used to map effective connectivity and state dependence across wake, sleep and anaesthesia, with closed-loop paradigms that detect neural features in intracranial EEG in real time to trigger stimulation. I’ll show how closed-loop experiments can adjust stimulation based on estimated cognitive state, producing rapid changes in cortical dynamics and measurable effects on behaviour during ongoing tasks. I’ll also discuss high-frequency oscillations and ripples as candidate biomarkers for targeting, and outline opportunities and limits for translating these methods to precision neuromodulation in humans.
The Host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein, tb419@cam.ac.uk.
- Speaker: Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
- Tuesday 26 August 2025, 16:00-17:30
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: Adelaide Schiemer.