MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitThe BBSRC have released 5 short promotional videos about the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) – a pan-Cambridge project on healthy ageing, funded by the BBSRC, that brings together the MRC CBU, MRC Biostatistics Unit and the University Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Engineering and Public Health. This project includes detailed cognitive and neuroimaging […]
Your brain – the advanced prediction machine
Why is a child so much better at catching a moving ball than the most advanced robot? Why do we find unexpected or ambiguous language amusing? How are we so good at attending to the world around us, and yet fall for visual illusions and magic? Latest neuroscience research suggests that this is because the […]
Tim Dalgleish wins BPS Presidents' Award
Tim Dalgleish, Senior scientist at the CBU, has recently been awared the British Psychological Society’s Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge. The award is given to “a mid-career researcher currently engaged in research of outstanding quality in recognition of exceptional contributions to psychological knowledge”. Tim joins several previous winners with CBU connections, including current […]
Tim Dalgleish wins BPS Presidents’ Award
Tim Dalgleish, Senior scientist at the CBU, has recently been awared the British Psychological Society’s Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge. The award is given to “a mid-career researcher currently engaged in research of outstanding quality in recognition of exceptional contributions to psychological knowledge”. Tim joins several previous winners with CBU connections, including current […]
Sue Gathercole gives keynote talk at BPS annual conference
In her talk on ‘Working memory and education’ Professor Susan Gathercole, Director of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit spoke on how whenever we need to hold multiple items of information in mind for further processing or imminent retrieval, it’s our working memory that we depend on. In her keynote address at the BPS annual […]
Are people really staring at you?
In a new article in Current Biology, Andy Calder from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, together with researchers at The Vision Centre, University of Sydney reveal that, when in doubt about the direction of another person’s gaze, we are more likely to think that the person is staring at us, even when they aren’t. […]
CBU Open Day – Saturday June 22nd 10am-4pm
CBU Open Day – Saturday June 22nd 10am-4pm As part of the MRC Centenary celebrations the CBU will be holding an Open Day at our site in Chaucer Road on Saturday 22nd June 10am-4pm. The event is free and open to the public, and there is no need to book in advance. See exhibits on […]
Emily Holmes wins Humboldt Foundation award
Emily Holmes, senior scientist at the CBU, has recently been awarded €45,000 as a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. The award is given in recognition of Emily’s past accomplishments in research and teaching. We are delighted to congratulate Emily on this award.
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