Congratulations to Dr Amy Orben, Programme Leader, and Saskia Frisby, Postdoc and former PhD student, from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), who were nominated for the Research Culture Celebration 2024 in recognition of their contributions to positive Research Culture among their colleagues. All the nominees, alongside colleagues who nominated them, friends […]

The anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) have become of interest to cognitive neuroscientists in recent years; they have been associated with various functions including (i) face recognition/person knowledge and (ii) general semantic memory. To generate a unified account of the ATLs, a new study by Rouse and colleagues tested the predictions from each literature and examined […]

Congratulations to Moataz Assem from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (MRC CBU), who has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. The award, totalling over £800k, is for five years to investigate working memory brain circuits at the MRC CBU. Moataz’s research aims to understand how we “actively” […]

By supporting research into dementia at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, you are enabling cutting-edge research to continue, building our understanding of the biological processes behind the earliest stages of neurodegeneration and ageing and enabling the development of effective new treatments that can stop, slow down or reverse dementia. Click here for more […]

The social world is inherently uncertain. Research suggests that we employ Bayesian inference to manage this. However, this work consistently overlooks how online environments (e.g., social media) modulate the social uncertainty we experience.  Researchers need to scrutinise the implications of this shift, as the online social environment, like social media, differs fundamentally from its offline […]

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 […]