The Chaucer Club Seminar schedule for Lent term 2019 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: Chaucer Club No parking is available at the MRC Cognition […]
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Wednesday Lunchtime Seminars – Lent Term 2019
The Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar programme for Lent term 2019 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: WLTS No parking is available at the MRC Cognition and […]
Professor Susan Gathercole elected as a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science
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 […]
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