Dr Aidan Horner, a former PhD student of the CBU, was recently awarded the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Frith Prize for 2013, which is given for outstanding PhD research. Aidan, now at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, said: “I am honored and humbled. I have always admired the EPS, a society that sparked my […]
January 2013: Listen up! CBU researchers at the Science Museum in London
January 2013: Listen up! CBU researchers at the Science Museum in London What’s the difference between a bear and a pear? Knowing which one is hiding at the bottom of your fruit bowl is clearly important in everyday life! Being able to hear the small acoustic differences between spoken words is just as important. Listeners […]
Emily Holmes – recipient of Suffrage Science award
Earlier this year ten women scientists and communicators, featured in the MRC publication Suffrage Science, passed their jewellery heirlooms on at an event on International Women’s Day at the Dana Centre in London. One of the women receiving this recognition was the CBU’s Emily Holmes and MRC has now released a short film in which […]
BBC featuring work of CBU scientists
The work of Adrian Owen and his team, ex of CBU and now at University of Western Ontario, focussing on their MRI work attempting to help communicate with vegetative state patients will be featured in an hour long BBC Panorama programme being shown on Tuesday 13th November. Much of the early work was conducted at […]
Take part in our research
Research at the CBU is dependent on members of the public who volunteer to take part in our studies. We welcome volunteers of all ages and always need more people for our participant panel. Volunteers take part in our psychological, behavioural and imaging experiments and many return year after year to help us with new […]
Future of scientific publishing discussed
The current system of scientific publishing has lately received increasing scrutiny and criticism. One essential innovation that has received broad attention in the past decade is open access (OA). OA is now beginning to become a owreality. Hever, in addition to access, a scientific publication system also needs to provide evaluation of papers. Evaluation steers the […]
Suppression and Substitution: helping us forget
A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) has discovered that the human brain can intentionally forget unwanted memories via two distinct and opposite processes. By improving our understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying these processes, known as ‘memory suppression’ and ‘memory substitution’, these findings may help explain why people can have problems […]
Emily Holmes at Royal Society Women in Science event
Emily Holmes, who has recently joined the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit from Oxford University, will be speaking at the Royal Society’s Women in Science event being held on Friday 19 October 2012. Emily serves on the Royal Society’s EDAN (Equality and Diversity Advisory Network) committee and will take part in the panel discussion […]
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