MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitHow do people with mental health conditions experience bodily signals? Lydia Hickman and Gabriel Mackie’s new paper in eClinicalMedicine explores lived experiences and patient priorities for interoception research. Individuals with psychiatric disorders report differences in bodily experiences. However, formal priority setting by people with lived experience of mental health conditions has so far been overlooked […]
Inside Cambridge University – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Please enjoy this short video below, created by YouTuber and neuroscience blogger, Zachary Cortex, as he discovers the ‘Secrets of Cognitive Research at Cambridge’s MRC CBU’.
Prediction error computations explain the speed of speech understanding
Human listeners are impressively successful at recognising words and understanding speech. The speed and accuracy of word recognition has been explained as due to Bayesian Inference; listeners use prior knowledge or predictions for upcoming speech sounds to identify words quickly and accurately. Recent work from MRC CBU scientists Ed Sohoglu (now at University of Sussex), […]
MRC CBU Methods Day 2024
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) are happy to announce the next Methods Day will take place on Monday 2 December 2024. This year’s Methods Day will feature 18 short talks, primarily from researchers in and around Cambridge, covering recent innovations and applications in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research, and web-based […]
Social-semantic knowledge degrades following bilateral anterior temporal lobe atrophy: new evidence from frontotemporal dementia
A new study by Rouse and colleagues addressed several important clinical knowledge gaps in frontotemporal dementia (FTD); (1) how is social-semantic knowledge impaired in FTD? (2) how distinct is social-semantic memory from general conceptual knowledge? and (3) What is the division of labour between the left and right anterior temporal lobes for social-semantic knowledge? The […]
Big Biology Day
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), will be exhibiting at Hills Road Sixth Form College’s Big Biology Day on Saturday 12 October 2024. This is a free fun packed educational event all about biology! Join researchers from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit to learn about the human brain […]
Decoding sounds of speech from the listening brain
Using non-invasive brain imaging methods, such as electroencephalography (EEG), researchers can detect or “decode” neural activity that becomes time-locked to sensory signals in the environment, including speech sounds. It’s possible that neural decoding techniques could also be applied in clinical settings, for example, to assess a patient’s hearing health. Speech perception, however, involves the complex […]
Professor Tim Dalgleish elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
Many congratulations to Professor Tim Dalgleish, Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. Tim said he is “deeply honoured and humbled to be elected as a Fellow of the British Academy and is very much looking forward to taking an […]
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