MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitRik Henson, together with Jon Simons at the Cambridge University Psychology Department, have been awarded a BBSRC project grant to “characterise encoding and retrieval contributions to age-related memory impairment”. This 3-year grant (led by Jon Simons) will allow one post-doctoral researcher to run a number of MRI experiments at the CBU. This work will continue […]
Now suppressing memories may help
New research shows that, contrary to what was previously assumed, suppressing unwanted memories reduces their influence on behaviour, and sheds light on how this process happens in the brain. The team at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the University of Cambridge’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) have examined how suppression affects a […]
Five CamCAN films now on Youtube
The BBSRC have released 5 short promotional videos about the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) – a pan-Cambridge project on healthy ageing, funded by the BBSRC, that brings together the MRC CBU, MRC Biostatistics Unit and the University Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Engineering and Public Health. This project includes detailed cognitive and neuroimaging […]
What's been bugging Rik Henson? And is state-trace analysis the answer?
What precisely constitutes a “difference” in brain activity? The answer has implications for cognitive neuroscientists who use neuroimaging to test theories about whether different brain regions support different cognitive functions. In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Bernhard Staresina and colleagues introduce a new method called “state-trace analysis”, […]
What’s been bugging Rik Henson? And is state-trace analysis the answer?
What precisely constitutes a “difference” in brain activity? The answer has implications for cognitive neuroscientists who use neuroimaging to test theories about whether different brain regions support different cognitive functions. In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Bernhard Staresina and colleagues introduce a new method called “state-trace analysis”, […]
CBU part of MRC/EPSRC Partnership Grant for MEG in UK
The CBU is one of the eight UK sites to offer whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG), and CBU MEG scientists Richard Henson and Yury Shtyrov are part of a nationwide collaborative initiative (led by Professor Krish Singh at Cardiff University) that has recently been awarded £1.3M by the MRC and EPSRC, in order to bring together clinical […]
Have we met before?
We often recognise that a person is familiar before we recollect how we know them. In a recent publication in Nature Neuroscience, CBU scientists Bernhard Staresina, Rik Henson and colleagues in Bonn, Germany, combined functional magnetic resonance imaging of healthy volunteers with intrancranial electroencephalographic recordings from patients to reveal the time-courses of familiarity and recollection […]
Failing to forget? Or too much to remember?
Can some types of amnesia arise, ironically, from remembering too much? And can this excessive memory impair our ability to perceive things? In a paper in Neuron, a team led by Morgan Barense (formerly at CBU, now at University of Toronto), Rik Henson (CBU, seen left), Lisa Saksida and Tim Bussey (University of Cambridge) and colleagues […]
