Researchers at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit have discovered that specific mental abilities – such as problem-solving or multi-tasking – decline with age at different rates because individuals’ brains age differently. This challenges the previously held idea that, as we get older, these types of mental abilities all decline at the same rate. Given […]
Archives for 2014
Low working memory and ADHD: same or different?
Working memory is vital for holding information in mind in the course of many everyday activities. Children with weak working memory skills often fail to remember vital information in classroom activities, and are slow to learn in key areas of the curriculum such as reading and maths. To their teachers, these children often seem […]
Brain networks in childhood – they’re dynamic!
We have known for some time that the brain is composed of a set of highly integrated networks, with seemingly distant brain areas forming coordinated systems. These networks develop gradually throughout childhood, with those networks thought responsible for higher-order cognition (e.g. short-term memory, attention) showing the slowest development. Typically these networks have been studied using […]
CBU judge for Debating Matters
Tim Dalgleish, Programme Leader at the CBU recently judged a national debating competition staged for local schools. The ‘Debating Matters’ scheme run by the Institute of Ideas and supported by the MRC provides a national debate platform for sixth form students to debate current topics and represent their schools. Tim judged one of the regional […]
Ivan Brown, 1927-2014
We have learned with great sadness and affection than our previous Assistant Director, Ivan Brown, died on 4 November. During many years at the Unit (1953 to 1994), Ivan was a mainstay of our scientific staff, leading our long-running programmes of research into driver behaviour, safety and human error. His affability and sense of enterprise […]
Modelling brains with cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology
Artificial intelligence has made great strides recently on the problem of visual object recognition. The latest generation of algorithms reaches performance levels similar to humans on some recognition tasks. This raises the question whether artificial intelligence can help us understand how biological brains perform visual recognition. In a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology, Seyed […]
Closing date fast approaching for graduate applications
Applications are now being accepted for our PhD and MPhil positions, starting in October 2015 – but be quick the deadline is at the end of this month.Full details on current research topics and potential supervisors are given on our website, and details on how to apply are given in our Postgraduate Study pages. We […]
Funding awarded for 7T MRI scanner
Dementia and neuroscience research at Cambridge receives major funding boost A major new collaboration between the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) and the University of Cambridge has been awarded £7m by the Medical Research Council to provide the most advanced brain scanning facilities for the next generation of dementia and neuroscience research. It is […]
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