MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitCan we consciously influence our perception of the external world? Alex Billig, Matt Davis, & Bob Carlyon, from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), addressed this question in a recently published article in the Journal of Neuroscience. They did this by using sound sequences that can be heard either as coming from […]
Improving hearing by cochlear implant listeners
The Wellcome Trust has just awarded a major grant to MRC CBU Deputy Director Bob Carlyon, in collaboration with Professors John Middlebrooks and Jan Wouters, colleagues from the Universities of California and Leuven, respectively. The aim is to understand and overcome some of the limitations on hearing by deaf people who have been surgically fitted […]
Kate Baker joins the MRC CBU
We are delighted to announce that Kate Baker has joined the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) as a new Programme Leader Track scientist in February 2018. She will be leading a new programme investigating genomic disorders and cognitive development. Kate joins us from the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of […]
MRC CBU Science Night – 2018 Cambridge Science Festival
Making sense of the mind and brain As part of the 2018 Cambridge Science Festival (12th – 25th March), the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) will be hosting another in-house Science Night, exploring parts of the various research programmes being carried out at the Unit. This will be held on: Wednesday 14th […]
Official Opening of the South Pole
Today we take occupancy of the new extension to the MRC CBU, the South Pole! It has been designed to provide the space to take in even more talented researchers to investigate cognition and the brain, how it changes across the lifespan and how it can sometimes go wrong. The South Pole is a two-storey […]
Do we need language to think? Damage to executive brain regions causes fluid intelligence loss, but damage to language regions doesn’t
What is the neural basis for complex thought? Philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists have long argued over whether or not our ability to think depends on our language system. Fluid intelligence, measured by tests of novel problem solving, is proposed to depend on a set of frontal and parietal ‘multiple-demand’ (MD) brain regions which are […]
Successful workshop on state-of-the-art oscillatory brain stimulation held at the MRC CBU
Rhythmic brain activity (neural oscillations) may be a crucial part of how our brain processes sensory information, remembers and makes decisions. Nevertheless, there is relatively little evidence that demonstrates a causal rather than an epiphenomenal role for these oscillations. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) are two important methods for perturbing or […]
Brain oscillations causally modulate neural responses to speech
Rhythmic electrical activity in the brain (neural oscillations) has been shown to align to the rhythm of speech, particularly when listeners successfully understand sentences. However, it remains unknown whether these oscillations truly cause successful speech processing, or are only a commonly-associated epiphenomenon. In a recent publication in Current Biology, Benedikt Zoefel, Alan Archer-Boyd, and Matt […]
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