Previous lectures
2021
Cancelled (Covid-19)
2020
Cancelled (Covid-19)
2019
Professor Mike Burton, University of York
Face Perception: Recognising Friends and Checking Passports
2018
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, University College
London Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Social Brain Development
2017
Michael W. Eysenck, Royal Holloway, University of London
Cognitive Neuroscience: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
2016
Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge
The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism
2015
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Leeds University
A Pathway to Impact: Figure Skating Judging, Sex Education, and Beyond
2014
Professor David Shanks, University College London
The Replication Crisis in Psychology
2013
Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Developmental Dyslexia and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Distinct Syndromes or Part of Normal Variation?
2012
Andrew R. Mayes, University of Manchester
Memory, Brain and Genes – and Some Educational Recommendations
2011
Nicholas J. Mackintosh, University of Cambridge
Sex differences in intelligence?
2010
Sir Michael Rutter, Kings College London
Testing Causal Inferences: Naturalistic Studies, ‘Natural Experiments’, Planned Experiments and Animal Models
2009
Trevor W. Robbins, University of Cambridge
From Impulsivity to Compulsivity
2008
Anthony Dickinson, University of Cambridge
Mental Time Travel by Animals
2007
Aubrey Manning, University of Edinburgh
The Animals and Ourselves
2005
Rufus Johnstone, University of Cambridge
The Evolution of Personality: An Adaptive View of Individual Differences in Behaviour
2004
Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council
Whither Psychology: Wither Psychology?
2003
Nick Chater, University of Warwick
Simplicity as a Fundamental Cognitive Principle
2002
Adrian Furnham, University College London
Music While You Work
2001
John Sloboda, University of Keele
Engaging with Music: Emotion, Motivation and Action
2000
Jeffrey Gray, Institute of Psychiatry
The Repair of Brain Damage and Cognitive Functioning Using Conditionally Immortalised Neural Stem Cells
1999
Richard Gregory, University of Bristol
Reflections on Mirrors
1998
Jan B. Deregowski, University of Aberdeen
The Perceptual Bounds of Artistic Portrayal
1996
Robert Hinde, St Johns College, Cambridge
Violence and War
1995
Patrick Rabbitt, University of Manchester
Models for the Ageing Mind
1994
Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
Minds and Machines: Forty Years On
1993
Kacper Miklaszewski, Institute for Research in Music Education, Poland
Learning Music: Psychological Research in Poland and Eastern Europe
1992
Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh
Infant Communicative Behaviour
1991
Patrick Bateson, King’s College, Cambridge
Early Learning in Animals