Many congratulations to Karalyn Patterson, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Karalyn is an international leader in the field of cognitive neuropsychology. She contributed much of her ground-breaking work in the areas of acquired dyslexia and semantic dementia during her 30 years as a programme leader at the MRC Cognition and […]
Archives for 2014
Turning words into actions – or not?
The mechanisms, through which our brain turns simple perceptions and acts into complex mental representations and ideas, are still unknown. One important question therefore is whether such complex human activities as language understanding are directly based on simple biological mechanisms controlling movements and perceptions. In an MRC-supported research, a group of scientists led by Dr […]
Has anyone seen the toolbox?
Hamed Nili, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, and collaborators have published a toolbox for representational similarity analysis and an accompanying paper in PLoS Computational Biology. The toolbox enables anyone familiar with Matlab to test computational theories of brain information processing. It also introduces three new features of the method. The first new feature is the linear-discriminant t value, […]
Frontotemporal dementia – funding renewed
We are delighted to report that the Wellcome Trust will renew James Rowe’s Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science. This prestigious award will support James and his team at over the next five years, to develop his highly innovative research program into the causes and treatment of Frontotemporal dementia. The studies bring together the CBU […]
CBU paper used as topic for science writing award
A CBU paper was the basis for an article by University of Sheffield student Elizabeth Kirkham which was the recent winning entry in the Access to Understanding science-writing competition for PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers organized by Europe PubMed Central in partnership with The British Library. Entrants were asked to explain to a […]
Now suppressing memories may help
New research shows that, contrary to what was previously assumed, suppressing unwanted memories reduces their influence on behaviour, and sheds light on how this process happens in the brain. The team at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) have examined how suppression affects a […]
2014 Cambridge Science Festival at the CBU
An entertaining and educational evening of demonstrations and lectures will be held at the CBU on Wednesday 12th March. Our annual science open evening, this year titled “Brains and building blocks” is given as part of the Cambridge Science Festival and features lectures from three of our leading scientists highlighting our varied research, plus the […]
Now hear this – Cambridge hearing event
From singing to arguing and watching a film to crossing a road, all are helped by a good sense of hearing. But can your ears can be fooled and what happens when your hearing gets damaged. Come along to get within ear shot of some amazing audio illusions, researchers and experiments. The Cambridge Science Centre […]