We are very pleased to announce that Dr Ajay Halai  from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, has been announced as the winner of the Elizabeth Warrington Prize 2022, by the British Neuropsychological Society.  The Elizabeth Warrington Prize is awarded annually on the basis of distinguished work in neuropsychology by a […]

Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists. In a study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers, led by Dr Amy Orben, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, show that, in […]

Congratulations to Tamar Makin on receiving her ERC Consolidator Award. The funding supports mid-career researchers and helps them consolidate their teams and conduct pioneering research on topics and with methods of their choosing. Tamar said: “Robotic motor augmentation is a new research domain that employs methodologies originally designed for purely restorative purposes (e.g., prosthetic limbs) […]

On behalf of the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Prof. Tamar Makin has been appointed as a new Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU) from 1st June 2022. Tamar is the leader of the Plasticity Lab, which aims to understand how […]

A team from the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit and Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that the ‘multiple demand’ network for general intelligence is responsible for co-ordinating the response of sensory brain regions when the environment changes. This represents a decade-long effort led by Dr Thomas Cope and Dr Laura […]

Congratulations to MRC CBU’s Camilla Nord who has been named as an APS rising star. The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. An example of Camilla’s research can be read here: Camilla’s research The full list of APS rising stars can be […]

Congratulations to Mike Anderson from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), who has been awarded the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Mid-Career Award. Mike’s nomination was confirmed at the EPS Annual General Meeting in January 2020 and he is the 19th recipient of the Mid-Career award. Whilst Mike is the 2021 recipient, the […]