MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitNew results reported by Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and University of Cambridge researchers raise interesting questions about possible benefits of left-handedness. Approximately 1 in 10 of us are left-handed. Whilst the brains of left- and right- handed people are generally organized along similar lines, one reported difference is in a Ventral […]
CBU at the Fringe
CBU Scientist Tom Manly will be performing science-based stand-up comedy at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Tom will be performing as part of Bright Club Scotland taking to the stage at the Stand in the Square (Venue 372) at 3:40 on August 13th. Other acts include Carla Washbourne (environmental science and public policy), Suzanne McEndoo (quantum […]
Where does the left half of the world go when we doze off?
Researchers from the CBU have discovered a remarkable shift in healthy people’s awareness of space as they fall asleep. In the study, published today in Nature Scientific Reports, volunteers relaxed in a deck chair with their eyes closed whilst they listened to sounds played on the left and right. The researchers measured changes in brain […]
Psychology: What’s the Next Big Thing?
What’s going to be the Next Big Thing in psychology – and how could current psychological research affect your life in the future? What are we discovering about how our minds influence our behaviour? During an entertaining evening at the Dana Centre, South Kensington you can meet scientists whose research could inform the future of […]
CBU help save Christmas!
The CBU’s Tom Manly joined a cast including comedians Howard Read (CBBC), Robin Ince (Radio 4), Tiernan Douieb, Sara Pascoe, Helen Arney, Michael Legge, George Egg, and scientists Andrea Sella and Sujata Kundu at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on Sunday 15th December for “The Santa Claus Science Experiment”. In the show magic has been banned from […]
CBU's Tom Manly features in Zombielab at the Science Museum
London’s Science Museum (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk) is this week holding a Zombie Festival, Zombielab – an event in which science and the ill tempered recently deceased finally clash. The CBU’s Tom Manly recently took part with the festival audience showing how the principles that allow inference on cognition from behaviour in people can equally be applied to […]
CBU’s Tom Manly features in Zombielab at the Science Museum
London’s Science Museum (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk) is this week holding a Zombie Festival, Zombielab – an event in which science and the ill tempered recently deceased finally clash. The CBU’s Tom Manly recently took part with the festival audience showing how the principles that allow inference on cognition from behaviour in people can equally be applied to […]
CBU at the British Science Festival
The CBU’s Tom Manly will be talking at the British Science Festival’s “Who are you? The Psychology of Consciousness” session in Aberdeen on Friday 7th September. This sold-out event, aimed at a general public audience, will examine the various ways that we use the term conscious, from basic registration of what is going on […]
