A study carried out last year by Melissa Wake (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) and her team including Professor Susan Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) has been awarded a place in the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Ten of the Best 2016 for ‘Achieving in the classroom’. The study tested the potential […]
Archives for 2017
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminars – Michaelmas Term 2017
The Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar (WLTS) programme for Michaelmas term 2017 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: Wednesday-Lunchtime-Seminars Please note there is no parking available […]
Chaucer Club Seminars – Michaelmas 2017
The Chaucer Club Seminar programme for Michaelmas term 2017 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: Chaucer-Club-Seminars There is very limited parking at the MRC […]
The emergence of cognitive abilities in adolescence
As any parent will have noticed, cognitive abilities such as language, reasoning and memory develop at a remarkable pace during childhood and adolescence. One of the most striking findings in psychology is that almost all such cognitive abilities are positively related – That is, on average, people who are better at skill A (e.g. reasoning) […]
6th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium | Neural Networks in Health and Disease
Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium will take place on the 7th and 8th September 2017 at West Road Concert Hall, University of Cambridge. The theme for this symposium is ‘Neural Networks in Health and Disease’ comprising seven sessions including ‘Building Circuits’, ‘Network Analysis and Functional Circuits’, ‘Ageing Circuits’, ‘Emotional Circuits’ and ‘Modulating Circuits’. The programme features many […]
Blue Dot Festival
Eight members of the MRC-CBU travelled to Jodrell Bank Observatory to engage the public with Cognitive Neuroscience for three days at an exciting new festival of science and music – the Blue Dot. The stall, which showcased thought-provoking Cognitive Neuroscience research, was located directly underneath the Lovell Telescope, and attracted more than a thousand members […]
CALM children’s summer party at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
On Saturday 24 June 2017 the Centre for Attention, Learning and Memory (CALM) hosted a children’s summer party at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (MRC CBU). Since opening in 2014, CALM has conducted assessments with over 500 families with the aim of identifying the cognitive, behavioural, neural and genetic dimensions […]
Brainstorm M/EEG analysis workshop success
From June 9-11, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) hosted a very popular Brainstorm workshop. Brainstorm is a collaborative software project dedicated to the analysis of electric brain activity using electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), as well as other types of brain signals. The EEG and MEG scanners at the MRC CBU are […]