As any parent will have noticed, cognitive abilities such as language, reasoning and memory develop at a remarkable pace during childhood and adolescence. One of the most striking findings in psychology is that almost all such cognitive abilities are positively related – That is, on average, people who are better at skill A (e.g. reasoning) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Age-related delay in visual and auditory evoked responses is mediated by white- and grey- matter differences Many aspects of human behaviour slow down with age, which are thought to reflect a reduction of information processing speed in the brain. To measure the speed of simple visual and auditory processing delays study participants are typically presented […]

  The largest meta-analysis so far of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression has found that MBCT is an effective treatment option that can help prevent the recurrence of major depression in those who are currently in remission. The paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): Psychiatry and co-authored by […]