The CBU recently ran an online experiment in cooperation with the BBC Radio 4 show The Human Zoo. “The Human Zoo explores the foibles, quirks and behaviour of that most fascinating of species – us!” Familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes. But psychologists say that repetition does something powerful to our appreciation of everything […]
Stroke Association grant awarded to evaluate new cognitive treatments in stroke
Polly Peers, Tom Manly, Duncan Astle, John Duncan and Andrew Bateman (Cambridgshire Community NHS Trust) have been awarded a Stroke Association grant to investigate the effectiveness of new on-line attention and working memory training packages for people who have had a stroke. Stroke, a temporary block to the brain’s blood supply, is the biggest single […]
BBSRC grant awarded to study ageing
Rik Henson, together with Jon Simons at the Cambridge University Psychology Department, have been awarded a BBSRC project grant to “characterise encoding and retrieval contributions to age-related memory impairment”. This 3-year grant (led by Jon Simons) will allow one post-doctoral researcher to run a number of MRI experiments at the CBU. This work will continue […]
Where does the left half of the world go when we doze off?
Researchers from the CBU have discovered a remarkable shift in healthy people’s awareness of space as they fall asleep. In the study, published today in Nature Scientific Reports, volunteers relaxed in a deck chair with their eyes closed whilst they listened to sounds played on the left and right. The researchers measured changes in brain […]
Rubicon Fellowship for CBU postdoc
Linda Geerligs has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Linda is a postdoc at the CBU working with Rik Henson on the CamCAN project on the ageing brain. During the two year fellowship, she will study how static and dynamic functional connectivity changes with age, and investigate how […]
Karalyn Patterson elected as FRS
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 […]
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, […]
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