MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitA report of the day can be found here The CBU hosted an ESRC Seminar on Cognitive Training in Children in January with over 70 delegates from academia, the health service and educationalists. Over two days they heard talks from an international line up of speakers including Torkel Klingberg and Edmund Sonuga-Barke. Films of the talks will […]
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We are seeking volunteers to help us with our studies on brain’s phenomenal capacities in language, memory, perception, reasoning and creativity. Volunteers can contribute to our studies by completing computerised experiments and taking part in various types of brain scanning studies in our Unit near to the centre of Cambridge. Increasingly we also use on-line tasks that […]
British Psychological Society lecture by Mike Anderson available online
A video of the annual joint British Psychological Society/British Academy lecture ‘Keeping a spotless mind: The neuroscience of motivated forgetting‘ presented by Michael Anderson is now available online. It was presented earlier this month at the British Academy in London. www.bps.org.uk/news/annual-bpsba-lecture-video-neuroscience-forgetting-available You can also read a report of the lecture in The Psychologist
Computer game play reduces intrusive memories
Researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge have shown that playing a visual computer game reduces the intrusiveness of emotional memories of events seen the day before. In two experiments, participants viewed films with traumatic content, such as public information films of the dangers of drink driving. A day later, one group watched […]
Vicki Bruce becomes Dame Commander of the British Empire
Professor Vicki Bruce of Newcastle University was announced as Dame Commander of the British Empire, for services to Higher Education and Psychology in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Vicki spend three years at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit (now the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) studying for a PhD completed in 1977, supervised by […]
New child trauma study published
When a child experiences trauma, it can sometimes lead to emotional difficulties. We know that social support can be helpful in minimising emotional problems after trauma, but exactly how this works is not well explored. Results from this study, authored by Caitlin Hitchcock of the CBU, suggested that social support may reduce negative appraisals a […]
Rogier Kievit awarded Wellcome Fellowship
Rogier Kievit of the CBU has been awarded a four year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rogier did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Denny Borsboom, developing psychometric models to relate measures of brain structure to cognitive abilities, and is currently a postdoc on the BBSRC funded Cam-CAN project (Cambridge Centre for […]
Anne Cutler appointed FRS
Congratulations to Professor Anne Cutler who has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Anne worked at the CBU for 10 years during the 80s and 90s before leaving the Unit to become director of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She is currently back in her native Australia where she […]
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