Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience 2026
This is a scientific conference suitable for active researchers and students. We will not be able to provide certificates of attendance.
Thursday 8th October
09.15 Welcome: Associate Professor Miriam Klein-Flügge, Chair Autumn School in Neuroscience
The Predictive Cortex: From Sensation to Strategy
Chair: Professor Abhishek Banerjee, Department of Pharmacology, QMUL & University of Oxford
09.30 - 10.10 Professor Randy Bruno, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Cellular mechanisms for (re)shaping perception
10.10 - 10.50 Dr Zilu Liang, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Distinct roles of hippocampus and neocortex in symbolic compositional generalisation
10.50 - 11.30 Professor Sonja Hofer, The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
Neural circuit mechanisms of visual predictive processing
11.30 - 12.10 Professor Mriganka Sur, The Picower Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The computation and expression of reward prediction error
12.10 - 13.30 Break
The dynamics of spatial attention
Chair: Professor Ole Jensen, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
13.30 - 14.10 Dr Marieke Schölvinck, Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt
Catching cognition in the act - new ways to track attentional dynamics across species
14.10 - 14.50 Professor Ayelet Landau, University College London, Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rhythmic attention along the visual hierarchy and beyond
14.50 – 15.30 Professor Nilli Lavie, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London
Attention, perception, and cognitive control: Testing the limits
15.30 - 16.10 Professor Ole Jensen, Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Covert attention and parafoveal processing in reading and visual search
Friday 9th October
Causal manipulation of brain states for understanding behaviour and mental health
Chair: Assoc Prof Miriam Klein Flügge, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
09.30 - 10.10 Dr Rosemary Bagot, Ludmer Centre, McGill University
Neural circuit mechanisms of affective processing
10.10 - 10.50 Samuel Winiarski, Department of Experimental Psychology and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
Ultrasound-mediated neuromodulator delivery reveals serotonergic control of context-dependent motivation in primates
10.50 - 11.30 Dr Laith Alexander, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London
Determining the effects of non-invasive deep brain stimulation of the limbic system using multimodal functional MRI
11.30 - 12.10 Professor Charlotte Stagg, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Using transcranial ultrasound stimulation for high-precision neuromodulation in humans
12.10 - 13.20 Break
Sex and Gender as a Research Variable in Neuroscience
Chair: Dr Kamila Szulc-Lerch, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
13.20 - 14.00 Professor Arthur Arnold, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
A general theory of sexual differentiation
14.00 - 14.40 Dr José Prius Mengual, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Sex differences in a genetic mouse model of epilepsy
14.40 - 15.20 Professor Armin Raznahan, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Multiscale Mapping of Sex Differences in Brain Organization
15.20 - 16.00 Dr Kamila Szulc-Lerch, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
Sex Differences in Stroke Recovery: Insights from Sry-Modified Rat Mode
16.00 - 16.15 Closing remarks
Location
Blakemore Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building, Sherrington Rd, Oxford, OX1 3PT