How does organised cognition arise from brain activity? To produce even a single thought or one simple piece of behaviour, multiple cognitive fragments must be bound together with the correct roles and relationships. Buying a cup of coffee, logging into the internet, or producing a simple sentence require integration of goals, long-term knowledge, sensory data […]

The Evelyn Trust has awarded a Medical Research Grant to MRC CBU researchers Tobias Goehring and Bob Carlyon, to collaborate with Wiebke Lamping (PI) and Debi Vickers at Clinical Neurosciences, on the development of a novel sound processing strategy ‘TIPS’ for cochlear implants. Wiebke, the main achiever, previously worked at the MRC CBU for part […]

The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD). The purposes of this investigation are to generate a single unified model that captures the known cognitive-behavioural variations in SD and map these to the patients’ distribution of frontotemporal atrophy. Here […]

Huge congratulations to MRC CBU’s Andrea Kusec, who is one of the winners of the 2020 University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award. The award, sponsored by Cambridge Hub and Stephen Toope, aims to recognise and celebrate exceptional achievement in social impact amongst Cambridge students. Andrea was nominated for her 3 years of volunteer work […]

The dominant view is that early adverse rearing generally impairs cognitive functions. However, recent empirical studies have shown that early life adversity can have adaptive benefits, especially when probed under stressful conditions. Tochukwu Nweze of MRC CBU and his colleagues examined parentally deprived Nigerian children (institutionalized and foster cared children) on a battery of executive […]

Many congratulations to MRC CBU’s Tobias Goehring who has been awarded an MRC Career Development Award (CDA), for his project ‘restoring the sense of sound: deep-learning based compensation strategies for the electro-neural transmission of sound by cochlear implants’. A career development award is a personal award that aims to support individuals seeking to transition to […]

In early March, the MRC CBU installed the latest EEG/MEG brain scanning technology, the new MEGIN Triux Neo EEG/MEG scanner. The CBU is one of only 10 sites in the UK to have this technology available. The scanner will support the CBU’s world-leading research into the fundamental mechanisms of underlying cognition in health and brain […]