Events - Centre for Human Brain Health

Thursday 22 February 2024

13:00-14:00

Professor Usha Goswami CBE, University of Cambridge

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

CHBH Hosts: Prof Ole Jensen / Dr Hyojin Park

Thursday 30 November 2023

13:00-14:00

Dr Elsa Fouragnan, Brain Research Imaging Centre, University of Plymouth

Inducing short to medium neuroplastic effects with Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation

CHBH Host: Dr Joe Galea

Thursday 12 October 2023

14:00-15:00

Professor Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia

From controlled environments to complex realities: Exploring the interplay between perceived minds and attention 

CHBH Host: Dr Wieske Van Voest

Friday 7th July 2023

13:00-14:00

Professor Radoslaw Martin Cichy, Free University of Berlin 

Deep neural networks as scientific models of vision

CHBH Host: Prof Ole Jensen

Thursday 29 June 2023

13:00-14:00

Professor Martin Vinck, Ernst Strügmann Institute for Neuroscience

Cortical dynamics and inter-areal interactions in attention and prediction

CHBH Host: Prof Ole Jensen

Friday 16 June 2023

14:00-15:00

Professor Giorgio Coricelli, University of Southern California

Brain, emotion and decision-making: Learning from regret and envy

CHBH Host: Dr Clayton Hickey

Friday 26 May 2023

13:00-14:00

Professor Sebastian Gluth, University of Hamburg

Information search in simple and multi-attribute value-based decisions

CHBH Host: Dr Arkady Konovalov

Wednesday 10 May 2023

13:00-14:00 

Professor Friedhelm Hummel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 

Non-invasive deep brain stimulation to modulate human behaviour

Catch-up on this Seminar by accessing the recording

CHBH Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

Thursday 26 January 2023       

13:00-14:00

Professor Clare Press, Birkbeck, University of London / Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (UCL)

The interdependence of learning and perception

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

Friday 13 January 2023

13:00-14:00

Dr Lukas Rier, University of Nottingham

Finding markers of mild Traumatic Brain Injury using Magnetoencephalography

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

Friday 2 December 2022

12:00-13:00

Professor N. Jon Shah, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich

Applications of Echo Planar Imaging with Keyhole (EPIK) to Layer-Specific fMRI and Oxygen Extraction Fraction

CHBH Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

Tuesday 1 November 2022

13:00-14:00

Professor Stefan Van der Stigchel, Utrecht University

Evidence for the world as an external memory: A trade-off between internal and external visual memory storage

CHBH Host: Dr Wieske Van Zoest / Dr Clayton Hickey

Thursday 1 July 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and consciousness

CHBH Host: Dr Damian Cruse

Thursday 27 May 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Nicole Tang, University of Warwick

Coffee, orange juice, or both? Hybrid cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic pain and insomnia

CHBH Host: Dr Isabel Morales-Muñoz

Thursday 29 April 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Eduardo M Moraud, Lausanne University Hospital

Towards closed-loop neuromodulation of brain and spinal circuits to alleviate gait and balance deficits in Parkinson's disease

CHBH Host: Dr John-Stuart Brittain

Thursday 4 March 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Rebecca Hirst, Trinity College Dublin & Open Science Tools Ltd

Big multisensory data in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

CHBH Host: Dr Ali Mazaheri

Thursday 28 January 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Matias Ison, University of Nottingham

Combining methodologies to understand the brain: Insights from EEG, eye movements, and human single neuron recordings

CHBH Host: Dr Bernhard Staresina

Thursday 10 December 2020

13:00-14:00

Professor Cathy Price, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (UCL)

Predicting and explaining speech and language outcome and recovery in adult stroke survivors

CHBH Host: Dr Pia Rotshtein

Friday 20 November 2020 

15:00-16:00

Professor Sam McDougle, Yale University

Strategic processes in human motor skill learning

CHBH Host: Dr Joe Galea

Thursday 29 October 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Katja Kornysheva, Bangor University

Neural organization of movements for skilled sequence control

CHBH Host: Dr Joe Galea

Thursday 24 September 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Richard Addante, Florida Institute of Technology

Memory, Metacognition, & Mars: Contributions of Cognitive Neuroscience for Martian Habitats

CHBH Host: Dr Ali Mazaheri

Thursday 30 July 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Patricia Lockwood, University of Birmingham

How do we learn which of our actions help ourselves and others? How willing are people to put in effort to help themselves and others? And how does social learning and decision-making change across the lifespan and in psychiatric and neurological disorders?

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

Thursday 30 July 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Matthew Apps, University of Birmingham

Why do we find things effortful? Why does this effect our motivation to keep doing activities? and how does this change during social interactions? 

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

Thursday 25 June 2020

13:00-14:00

Professor Nathan Weisz, University of Salzburg

Predictive listening as double-edged sword

CHBH Host: Dr Ali Mazaheri

Thursday 28 May 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Massieh Moayedi, University of Toronto

Understanding the neural mechanisms of individual differences in pain using a translational framework

CHBH Host: Dr Ali Mazaheri

Thursday 12 March 2020

13:00-14:00

Professor Sen Cheng, Ruhr-University Bochum

The temporal organization of episodic memory

CHBH Host: Dr Maria Wimber

Thursday 27 February 2020

13:00-14:00

Professor Anne Roefs, Maastricht University

The dynamic nature of food reward processing in the brain

CHBH Host: Professor Suzanne Higgs

Friday 31 January 2020

13:00-14:00

Dr Gemma Bale, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (UCL)

lluminating metabolism in sickness and in health

CHBH Host: Professor Hamid Dehghani

Thursday 5 December 2019

13:00-14:00

Dr Dennis Chan, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL)

In with the new: the changing environment of Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis

First Tuesday of the month

12:30-13:30

Multimodal Imaging Lunchtime Meetings

For further details please contact: Dr Katja Kornysheva.

Second Thursday of the month

12:00-13:00

CHBH Project Proposal Meetings 

For further details please contact: Dr Arkady Konovalov and/or chbh@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Third Thursday of the month

13:00-14:00

CHBH Research Discussion Meetings

For further details please contact chbh@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Wednesday 11 September - 

Sunday 15 September 2024

fNIRS 2024 - VIII Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (SfNIRS) 

Saturday 18 March 2023

Brain Awareness Week 2023 #UoBBAW

Thursday 13 October 2022

 Quantum Neuroscience: Inauguration of the OPM facility at the CHBH

Sunday 28 August - 

Thursday 1 September 2022

The 22nd International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2022)

Tuesday 24 May -

Wednesday 25 May 2022

Saturday 19 March 2022

Sunday 20 March 2022

Brain Awareness Week 2022 #UoBBAW

• Saturday Programme
• Sunday Programme 

Wednesday 31 March 2021

Let's talk about Autism: Diversity & Inclusion #U21Autism2021

Monday 15 March -

Sunday 21 March 2021

Brain Awareness Week 2021 #UoBBAW - Online Only due to COVID-19

• Online showcase of research from the University of Birmingham in celebration of #UoBBAW 2021
• Dr Andrea Krott: Does language learning make you smarter?

December 2020

The CHBH & IMH Outreach Workshop: Overcoming self/other affective boundaries

November 2020

The CHBH & Birmingham Brazil Forum: Sleep Medicine and Research at the São Paulo Sleep Institute

July 2020

MMIN Lunchtime Early Career Researcher Careers Series