MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitUsing non-invasive brain imaging methods, such as electroencephalography (EEG), researchers can detect or “decode” neural activity that becomes time-locked to sensory signals in the environment, including speech sounds. It’s possible that neural decoding techniques could also be applied in clinical settings, for example, to assess a patient’s hearing health. Speech perception, however, involves the complex […]
A neurocognitive framework of the anterior temporal lobes in face recognition and semantic knowledge
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 […]
Professor Tim Dalgleish elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
Many congratulations to Professor Tim Dalgleish, Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. Tim said he is “deeply honoured and humbled to be elected as a Fellow of the British Academy and is very much looking forward to taking an […]
Getting to grips with an extra thumb
An emerging area of future technology is motor augmentation – using motorised wearable devices such as exoskeletons or extra robotic body parts to advance our motor capabilities beyond current biological limitations. While such devices could improve the quality of life for healthy individuals who want to enhance their productivity, the same technologies can also provide […]
Cambridge Fellows announced as Medical Science Fellows
Professor Nita Forouhi from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit and Professor Susan Gathercole from the Department of Psychiatry and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit join an esteemed Fellowship of over 1,400 researchers who have been recognised for their remarkable contributions to advancing biomedical and health sciences, ground-breaking research discoveries and translating developments […]
Lewis Owens sponsored walk, raising funds for the MRC CBU
On Friday 21 June 2024, Lewis Owens (Queens’ 1996) will be taking on a sponsored walk in Cambridge, stopping at all 31 Colleges on route. Lewis will be starting his walk at Cambridge University Hospitals, setting of at 9am, and finishing at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), University of Cambridge, by […]
Moataz Assem awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award
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” […]
Undergraduate Summer Placement Scheme 2024
Undergraduate Summer Placement Scheme at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge Monday 8 July – Friday 16 August 2024 The scheme offers 6-weeks research placements to four students who are studying at a UK or Republic of Ireland university for their undergraduate bachelor degree who are in their penultimate year of […]
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