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Prediction error computations explain the speed of speech understanding
Human listeners are impressively successful at recognising words and understanding speech. The speed and accuracy of word recognition has been explained as due to Bayesian Inference; listeners use prior knowledge or predictions for upcoming speech sounds to identify words quickly and accurately. Recent work from MRC CBU scientists Ed Sohoglu (now at University of Sussex), […]
Matt Rouse awarded 2024 Milo Keynes Thesis Prize
Congratulation to Matt Rouse from the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit (MRC CBU), who has been awarded the 2024 Milo Keynes Prize by the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, for the outstanding quality of his PhD thesis. Matt’s thesis is titled “Social-semantic knowledge and behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia”. Matt said: “I am delighted […]
MRC CBU Methods Day 2024
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) are happy to announce the next Methods Day will take place on Monday 2 December 2024. This year’s Methods Day will feature 18 short talks, primarily from researchers in and around Cambridge, covering recent innovations and applications in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research, and web-based […]
Social-semantic knowledge degrades following bilateral anterior temporal lobe atrophy: new evidence from frontotemporal dementia
A new study by Rouse and colleagues addressed several important clinical knowledge gaps in frontotemporal dementia (FTD); (1) how is social-semantic knowledge impaired in FTD? (2) how distinct is social-semantic memory from general conceptual knowledge? and (3) What is the division of labour between the left and right anterior temporal lobes for social-semantic knowledge? The […]
Geoffrey Hinton awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hinton (King’s 1967) and Hopfield were awarded the prize ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.’ Hinton, who is known as the ‘Godfather of AI’ is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to […]
Research Culture Celebration 2024
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 […]
Big Biology Day
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), will be exhibiting at Hills Road Sixth Form College’s Big Biology Day on Saturday 12 October 2024. This is a free fun packed educational event all about biology! Join researchers from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit to learn about the human brain […]
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