MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitThe 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 […]
Decoding sounds of speech from the listening brain
Using 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 […]
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