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Research on Human Memory and Perception at the CBU

[fig]The aim of the Memory & Perception Group research programme is to develop comprehensive theoretical accounts of various aspects of human memory and perception, and to explore ways in which these accounts might inform, and be informed by, clinical practice and rehabilitation.

[fig]Our main research interests include: Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying memory control (MP1); The neural bases of conscious and unconscious memory and perception (MP2); Object recognition as transformation of population-code representational similarity (MP3). Read more about these projects.

To study these areas, we combine the techniques of Cognitive Neuropsychology (study of individuals with memory impairments, e.g., in the context of dementia, encephalitis, stroke), Structural Neuroimaging (the use of volumetric measurement techniques to assess damage to particular brain structures), Functional Neuroimaging (methods like fMRI and MEG/EEG that allow measurement of activity in the brain, both in healthy controls and patients, during cognitive processing) and Computational Modelling (computer models of memory function based on behavioural data). We also have strong links with clinical scientists at Addenbrookes Hospital with an interest in memory and dementia (see people page), with memory researchers at the Department of Experimental Psychology, and with the Cambridge Neurocognition of Ageing project, to examine effects of ageing on memory.

Here is a powerpoint introduction to the systems neuroscience of human memory.

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