Prof Karalyn Patterson, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge, has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women in STEM. Prof Patterson will be honoured at a special event on Friday 6 November 2020, the sixth Suffrage Science awards celebration for women working in the […]
New study investigates brain representation of multi-step tasks: Default mode & multiple-demand systems show different preference for whole tasks and single steps
Achieving one’s goals requires knowing what to do and when. Tasks are typically hierarchical, with smaller steps nested within overarching goals. For effective, flexible behaviour, the brain must represent both levels. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to contrast response time-courses and information content of two major cortical systems – the multiple-demand (MD) […]
A unified model of post-stroke language deficits including discourse production and their neural correlates
Alyahya et al. proposed a unified model of post-stroke language deficits that captures the multidimensionality of connected speech production. The authors explored this using various discourse genres (a simple and commonly used picture description, storytelling narrative, and a naturalistic procedural discourse) in post-stroke aphasia patients and in neuro-typical controls. Connected speech metrics alongside an extensive […]
Integrated intelligence from distributed brain activity
How does organised cognition arise from brain activity? To produce even a single thought or one simple piece of behaviour, multiple cognitive fragments must be bound together with the correct roles and relationships. Buying a cup of coffee, logging into the internet, or producing a simple sentence require integration of goals, long-term knowledge, sensory data […]
Evelyn Trust grant awarded
The Evelyn Trust has awarded a Medical Research Grant to MRC CBU researchers Tobias Goehring and Bob Carlyon, to collaborate with Wiebke Lamping (PI) and Debi Vickers at Clinical Neurosciences, on the development of a novel sound processing strategy ‘TIPS’ for cochlear implants. Wiebke, the main achiever, previously worked at the MRC CBU for part […]
Ding et al generate a single unified model that captures the cognitive-behavioural variations in SD and map these to the patients’ atrophy
The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD). The purposes of this investigation are to generate a single unified model that captures the known cognitive-behavioural variations in SD and map these to the patients’ distribution of frontotemporal atrophy. Here […]
Vice-Chancellor Social Impact awardee 2020 – Andrea Kusec
Huge congratulations to MRC CBU’s Andrea Kusec, who is one of the winners of the 2020 University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award. The award, sponsored by Cambridge Hub and Stephen Toope, aims to recognise and celebrate exceptional achievement in social impact amongst Cambridge students. Andrea was nominated for her 3 years of volunteer work […]
Working for the future: Parentally deprived Nigerian children have enhanced working memory ability
The dominant view is that early adverse rearing generally impairs cognitive functions. However, recent empirical studies have shown that early life adversity can have adaptive benefits, especially when probed under stressful conditions. Tochukwu Nweze of MRC CBU and his colleagues examined parentally deprived Nigerian children (institutionalized and foster cared children) on a battery of executive […]
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