Events

Centre for Clinical, Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Launch

11 June 2024, 13:00-17:30, Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre and Foyer

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You are warmly invited to attend the Launch Event for the new Research Centre for Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), City, University of London. The focus of the Centre's work is on cognitive and neural mechanisms that underpin mental health, well-being, psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurological disorders, social and affective interaction, and human cognition.

The event will set out CSCNs aims and give an overview of our research areas, expertise and collaborations in short talks by some of our experts, PhD students and collaboration partners, presenting work across our different research areas.

Programme

• 13.00-13.30 Arrival - Posters
• 13.30-13.50 Introduction to the event and CSCN - Professor Tina Forster & Dr Anne-Kathrin Fett, Centre Co-Directors
• 13.50-14.00 Welcome Address - Talks by our members
• 14.00-15.10 Talks about Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience at City
• 15.10-15.40 Research posters - Meet our members and PhD students
• 15.40-16.40 Research collaborators present -  Talk about projects in collaboration with Mind, Autistica, and others.
• 16.40-16.50 Concluding Remarks
• 16.50-17:30 Networking and poster session

In-person meeting over 2 full days in a fantastic central venue

• Registration fees start at £90 for students including lunch on both days; ALL fees frozen since 2020
• Poster sessions (including pre-registered studies), datablitz presentations, SIX symposia (in two parallel sessions), prize lectures, and more!
• Evening social event with food and entertainment!

Programme Highlights

• Keynote Address: Prof. Sophie Scott; ICN/UCL (Speech Communication Lab)
• Presentations by Early- and Mid-Career prize winners:
  Dr Patricia Lockwood (Birmingham University) and Prof. Tobias Egner (Duke University)

Symposia

• Investigating Neural Plasticity in the Healthy and Pathological brain with Advanced Non-invasive Brain Stimulation. A. Sel
• How Past and Present Interact with Working Memory. J. Kaiser, C. Haenschel
• Understanding Spatial Cognition in the Hippocampal Network through Behaviour, Intracranial Electrophysiology, Brain Imaging, Pathology, and Deep Neural Network models. R. Mok
• The Face in Emotion: An Embodied Perspective from EMG, EEG and Facial Stimulation. S. Korb
• New challenges and frontiers in the cognitive neuroscience of body perception. L. Crucianelli
• The Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Trust and Trustworthiness: From perception to Social Interaction. A.K. Fett, L. Garrido

Check out our speakers and abstracts at bacn.co.uk

Location

City is in the heart of London next to lively Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell, and Angel and close to major transport hubs (Farringdon, Kings X, Liverpool St). The meeting is organised in partnership with the new Centre for Clinical, Social & Cognitive Neuroscience.

Directions

Registration

Early-bird registration is open until 16 June. Registration covers attendance at the 2-day conference, lunch, and tea/coffee refreshments.

• Membership of BACN costs only £5 (students) or £10 (others) per annum.
• Our legendary social event (£30) will include buffet, dinner, music, and dancing (optional!).

We are pleased to offer two bursaries to support attendance from black and minority ethnic participants (see the BACN website for details.)

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Accommodation

We are able to offer budget accommodation at LSE Rosebery Hall (less than 5 mins walk away) for £65 per night (single), or £106 per night (twin double). Both include breakfast and shared bathrooms. Details to follow. There is also a wide variety of other accommodations in this region.