CBU vision night: looking at the brain As part of the 2020 Cambridge Science Festival (09 – 22 March), the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) will be hosting another in-house Science Night event, exploring parts of the various research programmes being carried out at the Unit. This will be held on: Wednesday […]

Congratulations to Caitlin Hitchcock who has been awarded a Rising Star prize by the Association for Psychological Science. The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. This designation recognises researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for […]

The Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar programme for Lent term 2020 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: WLTS No parking is available at the MRC Cognition and […]

The Chaucer Club seminar schedule for Lent term 2020 is now available. Talks are free to attend and are open to all. Please note – spaces are limited and all seats are allocated on first-come, first-served basis. You can find the programme and further details here: Chaucer Club No parking is available at the MRC Cognition […]

Many congratulations to MRC CBU’s Camilla Nord who has won one of the highly competitive AXA Fellowships for her project “A neurocomputational framework for mental health maintenance.” Camilla said “I am delighted to have been awarded the AXA Fellowship, which will fund experiments looking at the neural and computational mechanisms of reward learning and their […]

Cambridge-based clinician and researcher, Prof James Rowe, takes the spotlight in an inspiring new charity film exploring the impact dementia has on the brain and the power of research to overcome it. The film is part of Alzheimer’s Research UK and Ricoh’s joint campaign, Dementia Uncovered, which highlights the many physical diseases that cause dementia, as […]

Dynamic connectivity in functional brain networks is a fundamental aspect of cognitive development, but we have little understanding of the mechanisms driving variability in these networks. Genes are likely to influence the emergence of fast network connectivity via their regulation of neuronal processes, but novel methods to capture these rapid dynamics have rarely been used […]

Deafness in early childhood is known to lead to lasting changes in how sounds are processed in the brain, but new research published today in eLife shows that even mild-to-moderate levels of hearing loss in young children can lead to similar changes. Researchers say that the findings may have implications for how babies are screened for hearing […]