MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitA team of experts from the University of Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) and Department of Psychiatry spent a day at Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, talking to Year 10 students about the teenage brain and how it works, what happens to the brain when it is under stress and […]
Archives for November 2017
Cambridge Methods Day in Cognitive Neuroscience
The next Cambridge Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience Day will take place on Tuesday 5 December 2017 in the Lecture Theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. The day will consist of 20 short talks by cognitive neuroscientists from Cambridge grouped into five sessions: MRI I and II, EEG/MEG and Brain […]
Deep convolutional neural networks outperform feature-based but not categorical models in explaining object similarity judgments
In a recently published paper, in Frontiers in Phychology, titled “Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Outperform Feature-Based But Not Categorical Models in Explaining Object Similarity Judgments” (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01726/full), MRC CBU’s Kamila Jozwik, Niko Kriegeskorte, Kate Storrs and Marieke Mur worked together to find out if deep nets are good models for explaining human cognition. We perceive and recognise […]
Researchers at the MRC CBU show that hippocampal GABA enables inhibitory control over unwanted thoughts
The ability to control thoughts is fundamental to our wellbeing. When this capacity breaks down, it causes some of the most debilitating symptoms of psychiatric diseases: intrusive memories, images, hallucinations, ruminations, and pathological worry. These debilitating symptoms are widely believed to reflect, in part, the diminished engagement of the prefrontal cortex to stop unwanted mental […]
