CHBH Seminar Series: Dr Patricia Lockwood & Dr Matthew Apps
- Dates
- Thursday 30 July 2020 (13:00-14:00)
CHBH Seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University.
We are pleased to announce that the CHBH will welcome new CHBH Senior Research Fellows, Dr Patricia Lockwood and Dr Matthew Apps, who have recently moved to the CHBH from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, on Thursday 30th July 13:00-14:00 BST. They will each be presenting a CHBH seminar, along with members of their lab groups. If you wish to attend, you can register your interest using the link above.
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Dr Patricia Lockwood
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Dr Matthew Apps
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Abstract
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? Our lab studies the cognitive, computational and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making. In this talk, Dr. Patricia Lockwood will give an overview of recent projects in the lab including ageing related changes in the willingness to put in effort to help others and the neural mechanisms for how people learn to avoid actions that harm other people. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Jo Cutler, will then give an overview about how the capacity to learn what helps others changes in older compared to younger adults and is linked to individual differences in psychopathic traits.
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Abstract
Why do we find things effortful? Why does this effect our motivation to keep doing activities? and how does this change during social interactions? The Motivation and Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab uses a combination of novel behavioural tasks, computational modelling, neuroimaging, and psychopharmacology to understand the psychology and biology behind such questions. Today, Dr. Matt Apps will introduce you to his lab and some of their work, followed by short talks from lab members. Dr. Andrea Pisauro will tell you about the brain mechanisms that keep you from missing your deadlines, and Dr. Anthony Gabay will discuss how you go about deciding to leave a social interaction.
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Biography
Dr. Patricia Lockwood is a MRC Fellow and Senior Research Fellow joining the CHBH from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Patricia holds a PhD in Psychology from UCL and a BSc in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Bristol. Patricia has received a number of awards for her work including the Frith Prize for Exceptional Doctoral Contributions, the APS Rising Star Award and the Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award. Her future plans are to get to know everyone virtually and develop new projects to study social learning with multivariate approaches and hopefully MEG!
Patricia’s lab website can be found here.
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Biography
Dr. Apps is a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow and Senior Research Fellow who has just moved to the CHBH from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He did his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), followed by postdoc positions at RHUL and then Oxford. Matt has won a number of awards, including a BBSRC Future Leader Fellowship in 2015, the ESCAN society young scientist award in 2016, and the Society for Social Neuroscience early career award in 2018. More importantly, he is really excited to join and get to know everyone at the CHBH!
Matt’s lab website can be found here.
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CHBH Seminars are free to attend and are open to all, both within and outside the University.