Researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge have shown that playing a visual computer game reduces the intrusiveness of emotional memories of events seen the day before. In two experiments, participants viewed films with traumatic content, such as public information films of the dangers of drink driving. A day later, one group watched […]
Vicki Bruce becomes Dame Commander of the British Empire
Professor Vicki Bruce of Newcastle University was announced as Dame Commander of the British Empire, for services to Higher Education and Psychology in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Vicki spend three years at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (now the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) studying for a PhD completed in 1977, supervised by […]
New child trauma study published
When a child experiences trauma, it can sometimes lead to emotional difficulties. We know that social support can be helpful in minimising emotional problems after trauma, but exactly how this works is not well explored. Results from this study, authored by Caitlin Hitchcock of the CBU, suggested that social support may reduce negative appraisals a […]
Rogier Kievit awarded Wellcome Fellowship
Rogier Kievit of the CBU has been awarded a four year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rogier did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Denny Borsboom, developing psychometric models to relate measures of brain structure to cognitive abilities, and is currently a postdoc on the BBSRC funded Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for […]
Anne Cutler appointed FRS
Congratulations to Professor Anne Cutler who has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Anne worked at the CBU for 10 years during the 80s and 90s before leaving the Unit to become director of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She is currently back in her native Australia where she […]
CBU gains Athena SWAN Bronze Award
We are delighted that the Equality Challenge Unit announced on April 23rd that the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit had received a Bronze Athena SWAN award. The Athena SWAN Charter has been developed to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in STEMM research and academia. The award recognizes actions taken by […]
Brain changes in children following working memory training
Researchers at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit have shown that the attention networks in the brains of children become more coordinated following intensive practice of working memory, the ability to hold in mind and manipulate information which is vital for learning. Jessica Barnes and Duncan Astle used magnetoencephalography – a technique for measuring electrical […]
Does being left-handed help you keep a balanced view of the world?
New results reported by Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and University of Cambridge researchers raise interesting questions about possible benefits of left-handedness. Approximately 1 in 10 of us are left-handed. Whilst the brains of left- and right- handed people are generally organized along similar lines, one reported difference is in a Ventral […]
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