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 […]

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 […]

An emerging area of future technology is motor augmentation – using motorised wearable devices such as exoskeletons or extra robotic body parts to advance our motor capabilities beyond current biological limitations. While such devices could improve the quality of life for healthy individuals who want to enhance their productivity, the same technologies can also provide […]

Professor Nita Forouhi from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit and Professor Susan Gathercole from the Department of Psychiatry and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit join an esteemed Fellowship of over 1,400 researchers who have been recognised for their remarkable contributions to advancing biomedical and health sciences, ground-breaking research discoveries and translating developments […]

On Friday 21 June 2024, Lewis Owens (Queens’ 1996) will be taking on a sponsored walk in Cambridge, stopping at all 31 Colleges on route. Lewis will be starting his walk at Cambridge University Hospitals, setting of at 9am, and finishing at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), University of Cambridge, by […]

Undergraduate Summer Placement Scheme at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge Monday 8 July – Friday 16 August 2024 The scheme offers 6-weeks research placements to four students who are studying at a UK or Republic of Ireland university for their undergraduate bachelor degree who are in their penultimate year of […]

Mind Matters – An Evening Looking into the Brain Date: Wednesday 20 March 2024 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Location: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF Science Night – Full details   As part of the Cambridge Festival 2024, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit are hosting a fun […]

Impaired social behaviour is a common manifestation of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disorder associated with atrophy in the frontal and temporal lobes. These social changes are commonly associated with the behavioural-variant of FTD (bvFTD) and prefrontal cortical atrophy, but occur in the semantic dementia subtype of FTD too, following anterior temporal lobe atrophy. Although […]