Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Susan Gathercole for her election as a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science. Fellows are APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology . Sue said “I’m delighted to become a Fellow of the APS, it’s a great organisation that serves an important international role in […]
Working memory training involves learning new skills
It has long been a puzzle why the benefits of intensive cognitive training are so limited. In a new study, Professor Susan Gathercole and colleagues from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit put forward a new theory that training in unfamiliar working memory tasks involves acquiring new cognitive routines rather than improving existing working […]
A retrieval-specific mechanism of adaptive forgetting in the mammalian brain
Our ability to selectively forget distracting memories is shared with other mammals, suggests new research from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), University of Cambridge. The discovery that rats and humans share a common active forgetting ability – and in similar brain regions – suggests that the capacity to forget plays a […]
Mindfulness training shown to be effective for improving the mental health outcomes of children and adolescents when using the gold-standard research methodology
Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are an increasingly popular way of attempting to improve the behavioural, cognitive and mental health outcomes of children and adolescents, though there is a suggestion that enthusiasm has moved ahead of the evidence base. Most evaluations of MBIs are either uncontrolled or non-randomised trials. This meta-analysis aims to establish the efficacy […]
Cambridge team develops technique to ‘listen’ to a patient’s brain during tumour surgery
Surgeons could soon eavesdrop on a patient’s brain activity during surgery to remove their brain tumour, helping improve the accuracy of the operation and reduce the risk of impairing brain function. Patients with low-grade gliomas in their brains – a slow-spreading, but potentially life-threatening tumour – will usually receive surgery to have the tumour removed. […]
Transforming continuous experience to discrete memories
As we go about our lives, we experience a continuous stream of information. Yet when thinking about the past, we remember it as discrete events – ‘I attended a meeting’; ‘I went to see a movie’. How is our continuous experience transformed into these separate memories? Research has shown that people naturally segment experience into […]
New study on spontaneous cognition in dysphoria: reduced positive bias in imagining the future during mindwandering
We spend approximately a third of our waking life mind wandering away from the present moment. New research shows that the healthy mind tends to imagine positive rather than negative aspects of the future when mind wandering. However, the presence of depression symptoms disrupts this positive bias during mind wandering. Critically, this depression-linked disruption was […]
‘Talking therapy’ for depression
The best psychological ‘talking therapy’ for depression is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – commonly referred to as ‘CBT’. Although CBT helps with depression, around half of people who complete a course of CBT still have depressive symptoms. It is therefore vitally important that we improve psychological therapies like CBT so that more people can beat depression. […]
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