On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Orben (@OrbenAmy) has been appointed as a Programme Leader Track Scientist at @mrccbu. She will commence her role on 1 Nov 2021.
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
@mrccbu
The MRC CBU (Uni of Cam) is a leading research Unit for advancing understanding of human cognition such as memory, attention, perception, language & emotion.
- A neuroimaging meta-analysis providing a new perspective on the way language is organised in the brain doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… @vicki_h1854 @beckyJ_1989
- We are delighted that @camillalnord has been awarded a £1.5 million Wellcome Career Development Award at @mrccbu and @psychiatry_ucam to investigate the neural mechanisms of bodily symptoms in neuropsychiatric conditions @wellcometrust. ow.ly/mSch50NFHca
- On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Dr Camilla Nord (@camillalnord) has been appointed as a new Programme Leader Track Scientist at the @mrccbu from 15 October 2021.🎉1/5
- On behalf of the Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge, we are delighted to announce that Prof. Tamar Makin @PlasticityUCL has been appointed as a new Programme Leader at @mrccbu, and will commence her role on 1 June 2022
- Also, many congratulations to @mrccbu's Rogier Kievit (@rogierK) on being named as a Rising Star in Nature’s Top Ten world-wide life sciences institutions. Very well deserved!🎉 nature.com/articles/d4158…
- Huge congratulations to @mrccbu’s Prof. Sue Gathercole who has been elected as a fellow of the highly prestigious Association for Psychological Science (@PsychScience). Very well deserved!
- Many congratulations to @mrccbu’s Amy Orben (@OrbenAmy) who has been honoured with the British Psychological Society’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research.🎉 mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/blog/2020/03/a… @CamNeuro @BPSOfficial
- MRC CBU scientist @DuncanAstle receives a prestigious Opportunity Award from the @JSMF, along with collaborators @SueReviews and @DanAkarca. They will use the award to build an evidence base, alongside new formal models, that captures complexity in child development.
- Congratulations to @mrccbu's @rikhens, who has been elected this year as a Fellow of the British Academy 👏
We are delighted to welcome 85 leading academics to our Fellowship, including a record number of women representing a range of specialisms from education and social stratification to the interface of law and technology. See the full list: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/record-nu… - New paper - Good Scientific Practice in MEEG Research: Progress and Perspectives: ow.ly/S7uX50ItLuj @NeuroImage_EiC
- Stopping unwanted thoughts and actions share a common inhibitory control mechanism in the brain: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… ow.ly/Z42l50HxNN2
- An fMRI/MEG study using RSA & representational connectivity analyses suggests that semantic information makes a rapid & distinct contribution to visual object recognition that is linked to feedback activity from the anterior temporal lobes: nature.com/articles/s4200…
- The MRC CBU looking as beautiful as ever, with the smattering of snow this morning! 🌨 ☃ ❤️ #snow #cambridgesnow #cambridge
