MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitThe CBU’s Tom Manly took to the stage at the Secret Garden Party festival this weekend alongside acts such as Orbital, Tim Minchin, Utah Saints, Robin Ince and ‘Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’. The four-day sold-out summer festival that last year saw 26,000 attendees is held near Cambridge each year, and Tom was taking part […]
Failing to forget? Or too much to remember?
Can some types of amnesia arise, ironically, from remembering too much? And can this excessive memory impair our ability to perceive things? In a paper in Neuron, a team led by Morgan Barense (formerly at CBU, now at University of Toronto), Rik Henson (CBU, seen left), Lisa Saksida and Tim Bussey (University of Cambridge) and colleagues […]
PhD student wins Neuroscience poster prize
Corinne Bareham, a second year PhD student won the Neuroscience Award for the best poster at The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) 16 Conference in Brighton last week. From around 300 posters in total, submitted by an international field of researchers from Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, Corinne was awarded the Best Poster […]
CBU scientist awarded British Academy fellowship
Dr Johan Carlin, previously a PhD Student and now a research associate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the British Academy. Johan will collaborate with Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, a programme leader at the Unit, in a project that explores how social information about a person shapes […]
Categorical, yet graded – the brain's response to individual objects
We live in a rich visual environment populated by many different kinds of objects. Categorisation of these objects is important for determining our actions towards them. Previous studies have shown that the human brain contains regions that respond selectively to images from a certain object category. The two most well-known category-selective regions are the fusiform […]
Categorical, yet graded – the brain’s response to individual objects
We live in a rich visual environment populated by many different kinds of objects. Categorisation of these objects is important for determining our actions towards them. Previous studies have shown that the human brain contains regions that respond selectively to images from a certain object category. The two most well-known category-selective regions are the fusiform […]
Making sense of noisy speech
Adding subtitles is a well known way to make difficult to hear speech easier to understand – e.g. TV subtitles provide a huge benefit to hearing impaired individuals and are commonly added to interviews with heavily accented speakers of English. However, these subtitles don’t only help speech understanding, they also provide an illusion that the […]
John Duncan appearance at Café Scientifique evening
Professor John Duncan recently appeared at a Café Scientique evening of informal science, a series hosted by the “Naked Scientists” of the University of Cambridge and sponsored by the MRC. In his lecture and Q&A session John explored human intelligence and the neurons and circuits in the brain that enable us to have the thoughts, […]
