Events - Centre for Human Brain Health

The Centre hosts a mixture of monthly and annual events, the majority of which are held in hybrid format.

Upcoming Events 

Events & Meetings (past and present)

CHBH Seminar Series Programme (2023-2024)

Overview of the CHBH Seminar Series schedule for 2023-2024
 Date External Speaker Details

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

CHBH Seminar Series Programme (2022-2023)

 Date External Speaker Details

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

CHBH Seminar Series Programme (2021-2022)

 Date External Speaker Details
 

Friday 8 July 2022

14:00-15:00

 

Professor Ziv Williams, Harvard University

Studying social cognition in animals and humans at a single cellular scale

CHBH Host: Dr Patricia Lockwood

Thursday 7 July 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Hyungmin Kim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

Recent Updates in Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation

CHBH Host: Dr Sang-Hoon Yeo

 

Thursday 30 June 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Max Little, University of Birmingham

Causal bootstrapping - plug-in interventional machine learning

CHBH Host: Professor Hamid Dehghani

Tuesday 14 June 2022

13:00-14:00

Professor Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Aalborg University

Psychophysical and cortical effects in clinical and experimental musculoskeletal pain lasting for several days

CHBH Host: Dr Ali Mazaheri

 

Monday 30 May 2022

11:00-12:00

Professor Mark Bellgrove, Monash University

Update on the genetics of ADHD and the mechanistic insights offered by cognitive endophenotypes

CHBH Host: Dr Madgalena Chechlacz

 

Thursday 26 May 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Tom Nightingale, University of Birmingham

Spinal cord stimulation to treat haemodynamic instability and improve exercise capacity following spinal cord injury

CHBH Host: Dr Ned Jenkinson /  Dr Sam Lucas

  

Thursday 28 April 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Devika Narain, Erasmus University Medical Center

Neural dynamics underlying Bayesian inference of time intervals

CHBH Host: Dr Katja Kornysheva

 

Thursday 31 March 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Toby Wise, King's College London

The role of cognitive maps in flexible avoidance

CHBH Host: Dr Patricia Lockwood

 

Wednesday 23 February 2022

13:00-14:00

Dr Nils Kolling, University of Oxford

Planning, motivation and decision making during reward-guided choice and learning

CHBH Host: Dr Patricia Lockwood

 

Thursday 16 December 2021

13:00-14:00

Professor Marco Idiart, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (UFRGS)

Can AI help us to understand how the brain processes language?

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

 

Thursday 25 November 2021 

13:00-14:00

Dr Kyung-Min An, Kanazawa University

Study on Child Development and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using Child-customized Magnetoencephalography 

CHBH Host: Professor Ole Jensen

 

Thursday 28 October 2021

13:00-14:00

Dr Andrew Reid & Dr Olivier Mougin, University of Nottingham

Investigating locus coeruelus anatomy using 7T MRI

CHBH Host: Dr Madgalena Chechlacz

 

Thursday 30 September 2021

13:00-14:00

Professor Anna Schubö, University of Marburg

How prior selections determine what we attend

CHBH Host: Dr Clayton Hickey

CHBH Seminar Series Programme (2020-2021)

 Date  External Speaker Details
 

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

CHBH Seminar Series Programme (2019-2020)

 Date External Speaker Details

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

Internal Supra (Cross-Lab) Meetings

Please find below list of recurring CHBH Internal Supra (Cross-Lab) Collaborative Meetings. Each Lab within the CHBH holds their own regular meetings and coordination, for full list of Labs housed within and associated with the CHBH, please head over to the Labs, Groups & Networks page.

RecurrenceDetails

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.

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