Department of Imaging Neuroscience

To apply for fee waiver please e-mail ion.fil.reception@ucl.ac.uk with the subject “SPM 2026 fee waiver”. Please Include all supporting documentation. Graduate students registered at UCL may take the course for credits at no additional cost.

For enquiries, please email: ion.fil.reception@ucl.ac.uk

Places are limited, so early registration is encouraged. The registration fee is £200 for all attendee categories. Fee waivers are available for applicants based in low‑income countries:

The final programme will be released soon. Further information and the 2025 course schedule are available here:

We are pleased to announce that the SPM for MEG/EEG course hosted by University College London will take place from Monday, May 18th to Thursday, May 21st, 2026!

Registration is now open via the UCL Online Store:

This online course will provide instruction on the analysis of EEG and MEG data. The first 3 days will combine theoretical presentations with practical demonstrations of the analysis methods implemented in SPM. The 2026 programme will be released soon, the 2025 course schedule is available here:

For enquiries and applications for fee waivers please e-mail ion.fil.reception@ucl.ac.uk with the subject “SPM 2026 fee waiver” and include supporting documentation, such as a letter from your university. Graduate students registered at UCL may take the course for credits at no additional cost.

Places are limited, so early registration is encouraged. The registration fee is £200 for all attendee categories. Fee waivers are available for applicants based in low‑income countries:

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, March 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be James R Booth giving a talk entitled "Does IQ matter for the brain basis of reading skill?" In person or online.

Read more:
www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 27th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Roland Zahn giving a talk entitled "Translational cognitive neuroscience of mood disorders: implications for novel treatments and stratification" In person or online.

Read more:
www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events

The human brain reimagined: Eleanor Maguire, transforming understanding of neuroscience Eleanor Maguire transformed our understanding of human memory and how we approach neuroscience research, inspiring generations of scientists and paving the way for some of our biggest breakthroughs.

We are delighted to see departmental alumni Eleanor Maguire, and her former PhD student Sir Demis Hassabis, honoured in the UCL Faces project, as part of UCL’s bicentenary celebrations. Read about their valuable contributions on the UCL Faces webpage.

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Oiwi Parker Jones giving a talk entitled "Decoding speech non-invasively"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

Preprint alert!!! We recorded directly from the human ventral tegmental area (VTA), the principal source of cortical dopaminergic innervation, while patients performed an instrumental learning task. 🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 30th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Michael Browning giving a talk entitled "Mechanisms and actions of dopaminergic agonists in the treatment of depression"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 23rd, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Ayelet Landau giving a talk entitled "Rhythmic attention negotiates competition along the visual hierarchy"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

EU funding awarded to Imaging Neuroscience PI — Department of Imaging Neuroscience European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awarded to Peter Kok

We are pleased to share that Peter Kok has been awarded the Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)!

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, December 12th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Mathias Pessiglione giving a talk entitled "Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025!

⭐️🧠🌏🤩💫

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 7th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Simon Van Gaal giving a talk entitled "Linking global state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception in humans"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.

This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

Major dementia breakthrough could turbocharge UK diagnosis rates EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have found a way to dramatically accelerate one of the key tests used to diagnose the condition.

🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, October 17th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Prof Andreas Nieder giving a talk entitled "From Monkeys to Humans: The Neurons Behind Our Sense of Number"

All welcome, in person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!

This Friday, October 3rd, the brain meeting speaker will be Prof Li Su giving a talk entitled "Digital twin models that talk the talk and walk the walk"

All welcome, in person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano

In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social.

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Peter Bandettini notes SPM “catalyzed more progress towards understanding the human brain than perhaps any other discovery or methodological advance in neuroimaging”. He also urges continuous revisiting of assumptions and their validity. Excellent food for thought as our #SPM Homecoming kicks off!

Klaas Enno Stephan notes “Three decades is an unusually long period for a purely academic software to exist, enjoy enormous popularity, and stay at the top of the game”. Go #SPM, go #MethodsTeam members, past and present, from all around the world! 🧠🌏