The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) are happy to announce the next Methods Day will take place on Monday 4 December 2023. The Methods Day will consist of 16 short talks from researchers around Cambridge, on methodological innovations and new application in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research and web-based experiments. This […]

More than 40 volunteers and companions attended the Cochlear Implant Volunteer Appreciation Day at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) on a warm (ish) Saturday in October. They enjoyed learning more about how our research aims to improve hearing in people with severe and profound hearing loss, plus a chance to swap […]

Anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and depression dramatically increased worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic. People with these conditions experience distressing intrusive thoughts yet conventional therapies often urge them to avoid suppressing their thoughts because intrusions might rebound in intensity and frequency, worsening the disorders. In contrast, Zulkayda Mamat and Michael Anderson from the MRC CBU, hypothesized that […]

MRC CBU PostDocs and Cambridge Hearing Group members Dorothée Arzounian, Dakota Bysouth-Young, Evelien de Groote, François Guérit, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre, and Lidea Shahidi are running the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London on Sunday 8 October. The team are fundraising for the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), the UK’s national charity for people […]

A new resource to help schools plan inclusive education policies and support neurodivergent pupils will launch this September, as the final output from the Belonging in School impact project. This small-scale project is a collaboration between Duncan Astle, Natalia Zdorovtsova, and visitor Alyssa Alcorn from the MRC CBU.   Belonging in School builds on and extends […]

Our ability to understand speech, especially in noisy environments, is significantly improved by cross-modal cues such as lip reading and subtitles.  How the brain creates these predictions, and reconciled them against what was actually heard is highly controversial. In this study led by scientists and neurologists from the MRC CBU, patients with a rare speech […]

You can now pre-register your interest to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Skills Training In Cambridge (COGNESTIC) at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge on 18-29 September 2023. The COGNESTIC summer school will provide researchers with training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. We will use a variety of […]

We are pleased to announce the workshop for Structural Equation Modelling for Longitudinal Data will take place on 27 and 28 March 2023, at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The workshop will be tutored by Ethan McCormick from the University of Leiden. The workshop is free to attend but registration is required. To […]