Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Rogier Kievit for being selected as an APS Rising star of 2017. ‘The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research careers post-PhD’. Rogier said: “It’s an honour to be selected for this award. APS has been at the forefront of improving […]

We are delighted to announce that Alex Woolgar will be joining the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) as a new Programme Leader Track scientist in April 2018. She will be leading a new programme investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in the flexible control of cognition. Alex is currently an Australian […]

Speech perception relies on integrating sensory information with predictions about which words are likely to be heard. Researchers from University of Cambridge Units; MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, with collaborators in Newcastle, have shown that regions of the frontal lobe allow listeners to use these predictions […]

A team of experts from the University of Cambridge’s MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) and Department of Psychiatry spent a day at Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, talking to Year 10 students about the teenage brain and how it works, what happens to the brain when it is under stress and […]

The next Cambridge Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience Day will take place on Tuesday 5 December 2017 in the Lecture Theatre at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. The day will consist of 20 short talks by cognitive neuroscientists from Cambridge grouped into five sessions: MRI I and II, EEG/MEG and Brain […]

In a recently published paper, in Frontiers in Phychology, titled “Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Outperform Feature-Based But Not Categorical Models in Explaining Object Similarity Judgments” (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01726/full), MRC CBU’s Kamila Jozwik, Niko Kriegeskorte, Kate Storrs and Marieke Mur worked together to find out if deep nets are good models for explaining human cognition. We perceive and recognise […]

The ability to control thoughts is fundamental to our wellbeing.  When this capacity breaks down, it causes some of the most debilitating symptoms of psychiatric diseases: intrusive memories, images, hallucinations, ruminations, and pathological worry. These debilitating symptoms are widely believed to reflect, in part, the diminished engagement of the prefrontal cortex to stop unwanted mental […]

Do you think of yourself as a curious person? Are you interested in how people interact with each other? Do you sometimes think about the impact that our friends and family have on our wellbeing? Have you ever wondered what the brain does when we feel included or rejected by others? If so, join our […]