Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium will take place on the 7th and 8th September 2017 at West Road Concert Hall, University of Cambridge. The theme for this symposium is ‘Neural Networks in Health and Disease’ comprising seven sessions including ‘Building Circuits’, ‘Network Analysis and Functional Circuits’, ‘Ageing Circuits’, ‘Emotional Circuits’ and ‘Modulating Circuits’. The programme features many […]
Archives for July 2017
Blue Dot Festival
Eight members of the MRC-CBU travelled to Jodrell Bank Observatory to engage the public with Cognitive Neuroscience for three days at an exciting new festival of science and music – the Blue Dot. The stall, which showcased thought-provoking Cognitive Neuroscience research, was located directly underneath the Lovell Telescope, and attracted more than a thousand members […]
CALM children’s summer party at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
On Saturday 24 June 2017 the Centre for Attention, Learning and Memory (CALM) hosted a children’s summer party at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (MRC CBU). Since opening in 2014, CALM has conducted assessments with over 500 families with the aim of identifying the cognitive, behavioural, neural and genetic dimensions […]
Brainstorm M/EEG analysis workshop success
From June 9-11, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) hosted a very popular Brainstorm workshop. Brainstorm is a collaborative software project dedicated to the analysis of electric brain activity using electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), as well as other types of brain signals. The EEG and MEG scanners at the MRC CBU are […]
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit transfer to the University of Cambridge
Susan Gathercole, Unit Director, is pleased to announce that the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit has successfully transferred to the University of Cambridge as an MRC University Unit. The transfer took place on 1 July 2017. The unit will still be known as the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, but with […]