Cognitive & Behavioural
There are a number of groups working on the neural and neurochemical basis of cognitive and emotional behaviour in humans and other species, including studies of stress, anxiety, depression, and language. This includes the examination of morphological deficits and genetic polymorphisms. The neural systems involved in drug seeking, the reward system and reinforcement are also an important focus of research, as are the mechanisms of decision making. These areas, together with studies into the neural basis of learning, memory and perception, are the subject of techniques ranging from neuroimaging to computational modelling. The MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit provide important channels for cross-disciplinary interactions in this area.
Principal investigators
Dr Julio Acosta-Cabronero
In developing novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods of acquisition and analysis to elucidate the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in very early dementia.
Dr Mike Aitken
My research interests include human associative learning, and the role of this learning in intuitive and reflective decision-making systems. Much of my research has involved causal and categorical judgments, with more recent work looking at mechan...
Dr José Ignacio Alcántara
I am a founding member of the Laboratory for Autism Research (LaRA) and co-investigator in the Laboratory of Auditory Perception. My research interests include the mechanisms underlying the psychoacoustic abilities of normal and hearing-impaired ...
Dr Michael Anderson
Dr. Anderson focuses on fundamental mechanisms of memory, attention, and cognitive control, and their interaction. A central observation is that memory, like other aspects of cognition and behaviour, poses problems of control. Dr. Anderson uses ...
Dr John Apergis-Schoute
The psychological link between appetite and emotions is clear. Often enough food consumption is powerfully influenced by emotional cues that are unrelated to energy requirements. As the amygdala and hypothalamus, two neural regions that code for a...
Dr Duncan Astle
My research uses EEG and MEG with children and adults to explore the neural and cognitive mechanisms of top-down attentional control. In particular, I am interested in how these control mechanisms interact with our ability to store information in ...
Dr Bonnie Auyeung CPsychol
Bonnie Auyeung is a researcher at the University's Autism Research Centre, where her primary research examines the effects of prenatal hormones on psychological and neural postnatal development.
Dr Michelle Baddeley
Current research focuses on blending economic theories about herding and social learning with psychological and neuroscientific evidence. Results so far have indicated that herding in financial decision making reflects an interaction of cognitive...
Dr David Baguley
Tinnitus remains a clinical enigma. My research considers mechanisms of tinnitus, and optimising interventions for troublesome tinnitus in the clinical population. I am based within the Departments of Audiology and Otolaryngolgy at Addenbrooke's ...
Dr Sara Baker
I am interested in the role of pre-frontal functions (i.e., impulse control) in the formation and expression of beliefs especially during early childhood. I use behavioral and physiological measures (eye-tracking) to examine how children learn to...
Horace Barlow
I measure human visual performance using tasks for which the necessary computations are likely to be performed in primary visual cortex. These measurements point to conclusions about the computational goals of early vision and how well these goal...
Dr Philip Barnard
My programme of work focuses mainly on Executive Control and Emotional Meanings in Cognitive and Neural systems. Current work is organised under four project headings: [a] Core Theoretical work on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems - a macro-theory...
Professor Jean-Claude Baron
My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC): (a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing); (b) Neu...
Dr Andrew Bateman
Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation has a research strategy that has three themes: i) development of assessments, ii) development of innovative therapeutic interventions and iii) evaluation of neuro-rehabilitation. My...
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein
I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
Dr Alan Blackwell
I construct and apply models of human behaviour when interacting with technology. These models take a variety of forms, not all drawing on neuroscience, but I have a particular interest in neuroeconomic models of abstraction formation and use. Thi...
Professor Carol Brayne
My research programme is based around longitudinal population based studies of people aged 65 and above, running since 1985. They include collections of blood, and are linked to the Cambridge Brain Bank. Opportunities exist for translation from la...
Dr Peter Bright
1. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations of object processing (with an emphasis on the role of medial temporal lobe structures). 2. Disease progression and cognitive decline in semantic dementia. 3. Retrograde amnesia in brain dama...
Professor Donald Broom
Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare. Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
Dr Tim Bussey
We are interested in the neurobiology of visual learning, memory and perception. Our research is conducted at two different levels of brain organisation, the anatomical systems and neural network levels. The former is concerned with brain structur...
Dr Andy Calder
I am interested in all aspects of face perception, but particularly the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of facial expressions and other social cues (e.g. eye gaze). A second aspect of my research addresses the neural basis of emotional...
Dr Rudolf Cardinal
I am interested in computational models of attentional selection and cognition.
Dr Bob Carlyon
My research has spanned a wide range of topics in human hearing, but has most recently focused on the problem of how we can listen to one voice in the presence of interfering sounds, such as other speakers. It incorporates behavioural and electrop...
Professor Roger Carpenter
I work on the brain mechanisms of human decision. The most common decision we make - two or three times every second - is what to look at next, and the measurement of the time taken to choose to look at a visual target - the saccadic latency - ha...
Dr Isabel Clare
I am a clinical and forensic psychologist in services for people with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities, working with one of the clinical research themes of the NIHR's CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. My ...
Dr Luke Clark
My research is directed at the broad interface between psychological disorders and cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on the brain mechanisms underlying gambling decisions. Gambling is a popular recreational activity that can also bec...
Professor Nicky Clayton, FRS
Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition, and the questions are informed by an understanding of biology and psychology. Nicky’s work is mainly with members of the crow family (including jackdaws, rooks and jays), as well as compari...
John Coates Ph.D.
Physiology and financial risk taking. The waves of irrational exuberance and pessimism that destabilise the financial markets may be driven by physiological changes taking place within traders as they make or lose money and as market volatility ...
Dr Phil Corlett
Delusions are odd beliefs. They accompany many psychiatric illnesses, notably schizophrenia. A major challenge is to understand delusions in terms of changes in brain function. I attempted to meet this challenge by investigating the neural basis o...
Dr Hannah Critchlow
In 2011 I joined the multi award-winning Naked Scientists team (http://www.thenakedscientists.com), who are based at the University of Cambridge where they produce science and medicine radio programmes and podcasts that are broadcast international...
Professor Ian Cross
My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms underlying the capacity for achievement and maintenance of inter-individual synchrony of behaviour, those underlying the experience of meani...
Dr Tim Croudace
Having trained as an experimental (B.Sc., PhD) and applied psychologist (Dip.App.Psych.) and in Health Services Research / Health Technology Assessment (M.Sc.) I am principally involved in a quantitative role in the design and analysis of epidemio...
Dr Tim Dalgleish
I am broadly interested in affective neuroscience in relation to clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I am particularly interested in mental control and emotion regulation in these conditions and the psychological and neu...
Dr Jeff Dalley
Primary research interests include behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology and neuromodulation of limbic cortico-striatal brain circuitry. Specific interests include behavioural and neurobiological endophenotypes in experimental...
Dr Matt Davis
My work is interdisciplinary, combining diverse methodologies from Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in spoken and written language comprehension. I work on a range of topics, including speech perception, lexical...
Dr Greg Davis
Consciousness, 'Free Will' Visual attention, visual cognition, abnormalities of precortical vision in autism and schizophrenia
Professor Anthony Dickinson
My primary research interests concern learning, memory, motivation, and future planning in both humans and animals. My interest in learning and memory is focussed on the distinction between goal-directed and habitual instrumental behaviour as asse...
Dr Robert Dudas
I have carried out research projects on cognitive impairment in the context of progressive-degenerative dementias and affective symptomatology. My current research focuses on the neurobiology of emotional dysregulation and self-harm in the affect...
Professor John Duncan
Brain basis for attention, intelligence and cognitive control; including studies of normal cognition and behaviour, impairments following brain damage, functional brain imaging, and single cell electrophysiology. For John Duncan's popular science...
Dr Michelle Ellefson
Dr. Ellefson is a lecturer in the Psychology & Neuroscience in Education with the Faculty of Education. Her work integrates cognition, neuroscience, child development, and education into a multi-disciplinary research programme aimed at improving m...
Dr Karen Ersche
My research focuses on the neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and the translation of this knowledge into therapeutic interventions. This work involves a combination of approaches including neur...
Dr Mark Evans
My group are interested in (1) how brain detects changes in blood glucose and how this glucose-sensing interacts with peripheral metabolism; (2) how defences against hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) may become abnormal in diabetes; (3) the short an...
Professor Barry Everitt Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci.
My research is concerned with the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learning, memory, motivation and reward especially related to drug addiction. A major research theme is the impact of learning on drug addiction - both its developmen...
Dr Sadaf Farooqi
Using a candidate gene approach in patients with severe, early onset obesity recruited to the Genetics Of Obesity Study (GOOS), we have identified patients with mutations in genes encoding leptin, the leptin receptor and targets of leptin action ...
Professor Paul Fletcher
I am interested in psychosis. I agree with the long tradition of clinical psychiatric research which suggests that, during a psychotic illness, the world is a strange place because strange associations are formed and inconsequential stimuli are as...- Dr David Franklin
I am interested in how we are able to develop models of the external world and use these to adapt our movements to new experiences. I am currently studying the adaptation of humans to novel force fields generated with a 2 degree-of-freedom robotic... 
Professor Susan Gathercole
I am the Honorary Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. My background is in cognitive psychology, and for the past 30 years I have been interested in how cognitive systems can become impaired in developmental disorders and, increa...
Dr Christos Genakos
My core neuroscience interests are in consumer and firm responses and behaviour in different product markets. How consumers behave in different competitive environments? How firms adopt their strategies to gain an advantage? Do consumers actions m...
Dr Dervila Glynn
I have recently been appointed as the Cambridge Neuroscience Coordinator. If you have any neuroscience related news that you would like to publicise on the website, please let me know. My research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underl...
Professor Ian Goodyer
I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at Cambridge University pursuing research into the connections between human development and psychopathology. My studies are centred on adolescents in the community as well as current patients. Our re...
Professor Usha Goswami
I am the Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education. The Centre uses EEG and fNIRS to explore the developing brain. Key research projects include the neural basis of developmental dyslexia, the neural basis of speech and language impairm...- Dr Fergus Gracey
My research themes relate to assessment, recovery and rehabilitation following brain injury. I am especially interested in identity and emotional adjustment following acquired brain injury, self-regulation, cognitive rehabilitation and service del... 
Professor Seth Grant FRSE
The Genes to Cognition programme (G2C) established a framework for studying genes, brain and behaviour in order to link basic molecular research from genomes and experimental genetic organisms with human clinical studies of cognition. The G2C fra...- Dr Donna Harris
Using an interdisciplinary approach of experimental economics, social psychology, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), my research examines the impact of group membership on individual decision-making and behaviour, particularly the e... 
Dr Olaf Hauk
I use a multi-modal imaging approach to problems in the neuroscience of language and cognition. Reading: How are the complex computations underlying reading behaviour implemented so efficiently and flexibly in our brains? I address this question ...
Dr Berthold Hedwig
I analyse acoustic communication in insects like crickets or grasshoppers which produce species-specific sounds for mate attraction. I use behavioural, neurophysiological and optical imaging techniques with the aim to understand: 1. The neural me...
Dr Lora Heisler
We aim to elucidate the neuroendocrinology of energy homeostasis and neural influences on peripheral metabolism, in order to define novel therapeutic targets for obesity and type 2 diabetes. There is significant genetic and pharmacological evidenc...
Dr Richard Henson
My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to reme...
Dr Stefan Hetzer
- High-Resolution Echo-Planar Imaging at Ultra-Short Echo Times - Multi-echo and 3D EPI - Quantitative Perfusion fMRI - RF Coil Development
Professor Melissa Hines
I study gender development, and am particularly interested in how prenatal influences (e.g., gonadal hormones) interact with postnatal experience to shape brain development and behaviour. My current research programme includes studies of individu...
Professor Tony Holland
The focus of our interdisciplinary research is on learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities/mental handicap) from different perspectives. Research to date has had the following main themes. First, the relationship between specific genetical...- Dr Joni Holmes
I am interested in the overlap between working memory, attention and executive function processes in children and adults. My research has focussed on the role of working memory in children's mathematical skills, and on understanding the cognitive ... 
Dr Ayla Humphrey
As a Lead Psychologist (Children's Division, CPFT) & Affiliated Lecturer in Developmental Psychiatry, I am interested in developing clinical services for children & families. Recent service initiatives include: co-founder of first UK holistic neur...
Professor Felicia Huppert
The principal themes of my research are psychological well-being or positive mental health, and the relationship between emotion and cognition. Two distinct methodologies are used: experimental and epidemiological. Experimental research includes ...
Dr Napoleon Katsos
I am interested in how developmental research can inform theoretical linguistic inquiry and vice versa. My particular focus is in the area of semantics and pragmatics, and in language learning by monolingual and bilingual children as well as child...
Professor Keith Kendrick
I am a Systems and Behavioural Neuroscientist using behavioural, neurophysiological and computational approaches to understand how neural networks are organised to control recognition and responses to social and emotional cues. l am investigating ...
Professor Barry Keverne
Professor Keverne has long standing experience in behavioural neuroscience and has, in the past 10 years, brought molecular genetic techniques to focus on brain development and investigate how genetic perturbations of the brain influence brain fun...
Dr James Kirkbride Ph.D.
I am a psychiatric epidemiologist interested in the causes of schizophrenia and other major psychotic disorders from an environmental perspective. I am a member of the EpiCentre group within the Department of Psychiatry. I am particularly interest...
Dr Aleksandr Kogan
My lab investigates the prosociality and well-being from biological, psychological, and cross-cultural perspectives. In particular, we are highly interested in cooperation, trust, altruism, positive emotions, close relationships, happiness, physic...
Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
- visual object recognition - pattern-information fMRI - computational modelling - species relationships
Dr Dina Kronhaus
My research is focused on studying connectivity and neural re-organisation, in the human brain, using theoretical modelling techniques to complement analysis of experimental data. I aim to identify overlapping yet distinct neural circuits implicat...
Dr Joff Lee
I am interested in the mechanisms of memory formation and persistence at the neural systems and molecular neurobiological level. In particular, a primary focus of research relates to the phenomenon of memory reconsolidation, the process that resta...
Dr Máté Lengyel
I study learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. I also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippo...
Dr Belinda Lennox
My interest is in the biological basis of psychosis. I have used fMRI to capture the neural activation associated with auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia, and associated abnormalities in auditory processing. I have undertaken studies to...
Dr Darren Logan
Our research interest is in understanding the molecular and genetic basis of olfaction, and how that influences behaviour. Our wider aim is to characterise the neural circuits that instruct stereotyped hard-wired behaviours, and investigate how th...
Dr Michael Lombardo
My research deals with the neural systems of social cognition/behavior and autism spectrum conditions.
Dr Tom Manly
Our research relates to understanding impairment and rehabilitation in attentional and executive function. Our work with stroke patients mainly focuses on spatial neglect and its relationship to executive/frontal impairment. Our work with patients...
Dr William Marslen-Wilson
My research interests are in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of spoken language in the mind and the brain using interdisciplinary techniques aimed at identifying the neural processing streams that supp...
Dr Fiona Matthews
Drawing on the data resource of the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing study, but additionally using other population based studies; my programme provides methodologically sound estimates of health and ill health for populations. The methodological...
Dr Brian McCabe
The neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly imprinting in the domestic chick. The young of many species, when exposed to a conspicuous object, rapidly learn the object's characteristics and subsequently narrow their social preferenc...
Professor David Menon
The research program of the University Division of Anaesthesia has aimed to understand regional cerebral pathophysiology to advance the care of critically ill patients after brain injury, from initial ictus, through recovery from coma and rehabili...
Dr Amy Milton
Memory is a critical function of the brain, but little is known about the mechanisms by which memories are modified, adapted, and persist. Memories are known to 'reconsolidate' undergoing updating and strengthening following their destabilisation ...- Professor John Mollon
My research interests are in the visual perception of colour, motion, form and depth; the genetic basis for individual variations in perception; the nature of the information carried by the cerebral bus; and the history of neuroscience and of colo... 
Professor Brian Moore
Mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; fitting of hearing aids to suit the individual; electrical stim...- Professor Jenny Morton
Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease. We are also interes... - Dr Nicholas Mundy
We study the evolutionary genetics of sensory systems in primates. In particular, we are interested in the evolution and selection of colour vision polymorphisms in New World monkeys and lemurs, and the evolution of olfactory and vomeronasal recep... 
Dr Graham Murray
My research investigates the brain basis of particular neuropsychiatric symptoms - namely delusions, hallucinations and anhedonia. It's already known that brain systems involving the neurotransmitter dopamine are disturbed in psychotic illnesses s...
Dr Ulrich Müller
My major research interest is the neurotransmitter modulation of cognitive and emotional processes, with a focus on the role of dopamine and noradrenaline in frontostriatal functions. I use fMRI, radioligand imaging with PET, pharmacological chall...
Pradeep Nathan
I am a clinical pharmacologist with research interests in the neuropharmacology and neural substrates of cognition and emotion and psychiatric and neurological endophenotypes. I use cognitive, functional and molecular neuroimaging techniques (i.e....
Dr Peter Nestor
To relate the neuropsychological and behavioural profiles of degenerative dementias, such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, to regional brain damage through neuroimaging (MRI and PET) and histopathological analysis. A particular ...
Professor John T O'Brien
My research interests in dementia include the role of biomarkers, especially MRI, SPECT and PET imaging, in the differential and early diagnosis of dementia, including identifying those ‘at risk’ of future cognitive decline and developing markers ...
Dr Cahir O'Kane
We use Drosophila as a model organism to study synapse function. Questions of major interest include the mechanisms of synaptic vesicle trafficking, and the roles of cellular trafficking pathways in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. Rec...
Professor Adrian Owen
In January 2011, my research team and I moved to the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where I have taken up the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. Although I continue to maintain strong collaborati...
Dr Roy Patterson
We have developed a computational model of the auditory signal processing that transforms a sound wave into the auditory image you hear in response to that sound wave. We investigate how the cochlea and neural centres in the auditory pathway proce...
Dr Karalyn Patterson
I study language and memory in adults, mainly from the perspective of the patterns of disruption to these cognitive functions that occur as a result of brain damage or disease. Linking both the location of structural/functional lesions in the pati...
Dr Jesus Perez
My research activity is mainly focused on early detection and intervention in psychosis and the history of psychiatry. I am particularly interested in the epidemiological apects of young people at high-risk of developing psychosis and with first-e...
Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant
My research interest in autism was sparked by the fascinating cognitive strengths shown by many individuals with autism. These include exceptional abilities to process fine details, better discrimination abilities compared to typical individuals a...
Dr Howard Ring
My research covers three main areas. My work in epilepsy is largely concerned with studying the management and behavioural correlates of treatment-resistant epilepsy in people with developmental or acquired brain damage. In the field of Autism res...- Dr Patrick Riss
My research is focussed on radiochemistry with short lived positron emitting radionuclides. This includes the development of efficient methods for radiolabelling of small molecules as well as the synthesis and validation of radiotracers for Positr... 
Professor Trevor Robbins
Research interests span the areas of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Main work focuses on the functions of the frontal lobes of the brain and their connections with other regions. These brain systems are re...
Professor Angela Roberts
I am interested in the brain networks underlying cognitive and emotional behaviour. In particular, my research focuses on the executive control functions of the prefrontal cortex and related brain structures, including the basal ganglia and the am...
Professor Peter Robinson
I am a computer scientist with an interest in neuroscience. My research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and...
Dr James Rowe BA BM BCh PhD
Characterisation and optimisation of prefrontal cortical functions in health and disease. The functions of the prefrontal cortex remain controversial yet they are of great importance to our everyday life, thoughts, actions and self expression. I ...
Mikail Rubinov
I conceptualize large-scale human brain anatomy and activity as a complex network of brain regions and interregional associations. I use brain-imaging -- such as magnetic-resonance-imaging -- data sets and computer simulations to model healthy and...
Professor John Rust
The development, evaluation and implementation of psychometric tests and psychometric testing procedures. As Director of The Psychometrics Centre I have been responsible for the UK standardisation of many of the most widely used psychometric tests...
Professor Aldo Rustichini
My research is focused on neuroeconomics, and in particular on the neural foundation of Decision Theory and the neural basis of dominance and competition.
Professor Barbara Sahakian
My research is aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in order to develop more effective pharmacological and psychological treatments. The focus of my lab is on early detection, differential dia...
Dr Lisa Saksida
We are working toward a better understanding of the psychological processes underlying memory and perception through a programme of theoretically-driven experimental research using both healthy subjects and brain-damaged populations. Research in m...
Dr William Schafer
The fundamental nature of mental phenomena such as perception, learning and memory is one of the remaining scientific mysteries. Since the neuroanatomy of mammalian nervous systems is exceedingly complex and incompletely characterized, it is diffi...
Professor Wolfram Schultz
Please see http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/news/article.php?permalink=a8feeeff87 for details of current available positions. Our group is interested to relate the mechanics of brain activity to measurable behaviour. We combine neurophysiological...
Dr Yury Shtyrov
My main focus is on the processing of spoken language in the brain using modern neuroimaging tools (MEG, EEG, fMRI). This includes neural mechanisms and timecourse of language processing in the brain, from phonology to syntax and semantics. Par...
Dr Jon Simons
Our research investigates the role of brain regions such as the frontal, medial temporal, and parietal lobes in human memory. This work involves inter-relating cognitive hypotheses with evidence from functional neuroimaging of healthy volunteers ...
Dr Michael Spencer
I am interested in the scientific investigation of psychiatric disorders, particularly through the integration of clinical research methods together with brain imaging. I led a team of researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, that ...- Professor Peter St George-Hyslop
My laboratory focuses upon understanding the causes and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Fronto-Temporal Dementia. We and others have shown that these diseases are frequently c... 
Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis
My research interests fall into two distinct categories. One involves investigating brain function/structure in a more integrative manner with structural/functional connectivity analyses. The second involves the evaluation of lesions in patients a...
John Suckling
Neuroimaging is a major contributor to the renaissance of experimental psychiatry and psychology. Drawing on the extensive infrastructure of Cambridge Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry’s close links between research and clinical practice, ...
Dr Denes Szucs
Szucs is a cognitive neuroscientist doing research on the representaiton of mathematics in the brain and on perceptual/motor integration and conflict detection/resolution. He is using behavioral methods, electro-physiology (EEG) and functional mag...
Dr Hannah ter Hofstede
I study the sensory ecology of predator-prey relationships using bats and their insect prey as a study system. Ears have evolved in many groups of insects to detect the ultrasonic echolocation calls of bats and trigger evasive behaviour. Using ele...
Professor Lorraine Tyler
I head an interdisciplinary research group working on the neurobiology of language in healthy and brain-damaged populations. We combine data from a variety of imaging techniques (fMRI, MEG, EEG) and relate patterns of activity in healthy people wi...
Dr Gonzalo P. Urcelay
I am interested in learning theories and the neurobiological substrates of acquired behaviour. I am currently conducting studies to assess the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in the transition from goal-directed to habitual behaviours and its...
Dr Bert Vaux
--grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory. --phonological cognition. --implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production ef...
Dr Valerie Voon
I am an Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Wellcome Trust Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry. I focus on mechanisms underlying impulsive and compulsive disorders such as substance and behavioural addictions and obsessive compulsive d...
Dr Joyce Whittington
Early research on specific learning disabilities - dyslexia - and associated cognitve deficits. For the last 10 years research has focussed on various prevalence, cognitive and behavioural aspects of Prader-Willi syndrome. Most of the latter is d...
Dr Paul Wilkinson
My main research interest is the intermediate biology and cognitions of adolescent depression, in particular how such intermediate variables mediate associations between genotype, environment and disorder. The main intermediate variable I study i...
Professor Daniel Wolpert
The group uses engineering approaches to understand how the human brain controls movement. The work includes both computational modelling and experimental approaches using robotic and virtual reality interfaces. Research areas include motor planni...
Dr John Xuereb
The neuropathological basis of dementia with a special interest in clinicopathological correlation of Frontotemporal Syndromes.
Professor Steve Young
My primary interest is in adaptive learning in spoken dialogue systems. This currently involves modelling human machine dialogues using the framework of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs). The research issues addressed incl...- Dr Shahid Zaman
The main theme of our research is to understand the role of amyloid and mitochondrial dysfunction in the genesis of cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Down's syndrome.
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