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 […]
Archives for April 2014
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, […]
Frontotemporal dementia – funding renewed
We are delighted to report that the Wellcome Trust will renew James Rowe’s Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science. This prestigious award will support James and his team at over the next five years, to develop his highly innovative research program into the causes and treatment of Frontotemporal dementia. The studies bring together the CBU […]