Rogier Kievit of the CBU has been awarded a four year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rogier did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Denny Borsboom, developing psychometric models to relate measures of brain structure to cognitive abilities, and is currently a postdoc on the BBSRC funded Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for […]

Researchers at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit have discovered that specific mental abilities – such as problem-solving or multi-tasking – decline with age at different rates because individuals’ brains age differently. This challenges the previously held idea that, as we get older, these types of mental abilities all decline at the same rate.  Given […]