MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitTim Dalgleish, Programme Leader at the CBU recently judged a national debating competition staged for local schools. The ‘Debating Matters’ scheme run by the Institute of Ideas and supported by the MRC provides a national debate platform for sixth form students to debate current topics and represent their schools. Tim judged one of the regional […]
Ivan Brown, 1927-2014
We have learned with great sadness and affection than our previous Assistant Director, Ivan Brown, died on 4 November. During many years at the Unit (1953 to 1994), Ivan was a mainstay of our scientific staff, leading our long-running programmes of research into driver behaviour, safety and human error. His affability and sense of enterprise […]
Modelling brains with cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology
Artificial intelligence has made great strides recently on the problem of visual object recognition. The latest generation of algorithms reaches performance levels similar to humans on some recognition tasks. This raises the question whether artificial intelligence can help us understand how biological brains perform visual recognition. In a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology, Seyed […]
Closing date fast approaching for graduate applications
Applications are now being accepted for our PhD and MPhil positions, starting in October 2015 – but be quick the deadline is at the end of this month.Full details on current research topics and potential supervisors are given on our website, and details on how to apply are given in our Postgraduate Study pages. We […]
Funding awarded for 7T MRI scanner
Dementia and neuroscience research at Cambridge receives major funding boost A major new collaboration between the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) and the University of Cambridge has been awarded £7m by the Medical Research Council to provide the most advanced brain scanning facilities for the next generation of dementia and neuroscience research. It is […]
Identifying Hidden Minds
Identifying Hidden Minds in Impaired Consciousness This study uncovers hidden signatures of brain networks that could support consciousness in patients who are unresponsive and seemingly vegetative, but who demonstrate signs of covert awareness. University of Cambridge researchers Dr Srivas Chennu, Dr Tristan Bekinschtein and their collaborators employ the science of networks to characterise the brain […]
RSA workshop announced, February 2015
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a two-day workshop on representational similarity analysis (RSA) at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit on February 16-17, 2015. The workshop will provide in-depth teaching of basic and advanced aspects of RSA. It will include (1) didactical introductions to this set of […]
Do you see what I see?
Researchers here at the CBU have revealed that the representations of objects we see in our environment are unique in each individual’s brain. CBU researchers Ian Charest and Nikolaus Kriegeskorte have just published a study which introduces the novel approach of individual representational similarity analysis based on neuroimaging data. In order to reveal the representations […]
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