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• Dr Johan Alsiö
  Cognitive flexibility is required to respond to changes in the environment and behavioural inflexibility can reduce functioning in everyday life. Brain disorders such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease are linked to impaired cognitive flexib...
• Dr Anat Arzi
  Consciousness is a central aspect of our experience of the world. The neural fingerprint of this experience, however, remains one of the least understood aspects of the human brain. No agreement has yet emerged on which aspects of brain function u...
• Dr Adam Attaheri
  Language is a rhythmic stimulus made up of multiple sound waves occurring at multiple timescales. In a similar fashion, our brains are continually producing multiple waves of electricity at different frequencies and we call these brain waves ‘cort...
• Dr Paula Banca
  My research is aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms underlying action control with the purpose of developing more effective treatments in psychiatric diseases. I am interested in compulsive disorders, particularly Obsessive-Compulsive Diso...
• 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...
• Professor Paul Bays
  In order to interact with the world, our brains construct and sustain their own internal representations of it. Our aim is to understand the nature of these representations and the computations the brain performs on them to achieve behavioural goa...
• Dr Tristan Bekinschtein
  I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness. I have wide Interests in Cognition and neurophysiology. In the last few years I have been mainly concentrating in describing different states of con...
• Dr David Belin
  Our research is interested in the neural, cellular and molecular substrates of inter-individual vulnerability to develop impulsive/compulsive disorders such as drug addiction, Obsessive / Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, pathological gamb...
• Dr Aude Belin-Rauscent
  My research is interested in the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological substrates of compulsive disorders such as drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.
• Richard Bethlehem
  I am director of neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre and will be joining the department of psychology as an assistant professor of neuroinfomatics in 2023. My work focuses on understanding lifespan changes in brain development and ageing fr...
• Dr Giacomo Bignardi
  I'm a developmental scientist working in the The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) Group. I'm broadly interested in how the environment influences the brain, behaviour and cognition, and in adolescent health. I'm also ...
• Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
  Our research focuses on the development of social cognition, peer influence and decision making in adolescence, and adolescent mental health. We run large scale behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with a...
• Dr Daniel Bor
  My current main research focus is on the effects of drowsiness and conscious level (both measured neurally) on cognition, and how this is modulated by age and disease (Alzheimer's). I am using MEG, fMRI and structural imaging techniques to examine...
• Dr Mirjana Bozic
  I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension. Using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques, I investigate how different properties of the speech input...
• Professor 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...
• Michael Burkhart
  Within Zoe Kourtzi's Adaptive Brain Lab, I study the application of machine learning techniques to improve the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease, specifically Alzheimer's. Previously, I worked with the BrainGate project to develop Bayes...
• Simon Butler
  Puberty is associated with a period of psychological change concomitant with structural changes in the brain. An endocrinological association has been proposed. In the context of education, the effects on executive function, particularly the socia...
• Dr Andres Canales-Johnson
  I investigate the brain dynamics of several ‘internally generated’ conscious phenomena such as perceptual ambiguity, mental imagery, learning during sleep, hypnotic hallucinations, visceral consciousness, and the brain dynamics of vegetative patie...
• Dr Lucy Cheke
  I research Learning and Memory in Health and Disease, with a particular emphasis on sub-clinical learning and memory deficits and how to measure and model them. As part of this I research memory deficits associated with particular disorders (suc...
• Dr Alex Clarke
  How does the brain make sense of the world? We can recognise tens of thousands of objects, but despite this vast number, our recognition is remarkably quick and accurate, completed within a few hundred milliseconds. My research ask what are the ne...
• Professor Nicky Clayton, FRS
  Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition in members of the crow family (including jackdaws, rooks and jays) and humans. Her work has challenged many of the common-held assumptions that only humans can plan for the future and remini...
• Mr Jan Cross-Zamirski
  I am interested in applying artificial intelligence to neuroimaging (and other biological) data in a way which uses state of the art machine learning techniques on large, longitudinal data sets while retaining maximum interpretability, predictive...
• Professor 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 and their trans...
• Dr Greg Davis
  Visual attention, Visual search, Unconscious processing, Security Applications, Autism
• Sara De Felice
  Sara is interested in how people learn from and with others. Her work aims at understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human learning as it occurs in the real-world. She is particularly interested in naturalistic social interaction and...
• Dr Daniel De Haan
  I am a postdoctoral research associate in the TWCF Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences Project: Neuroscience Strand, Faculty of Divinity, and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Cambridge Unive...
• 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 Felippe Espinelli Amorim
  My research interests comprise behavioral neuroscience and computational neuroscience. Currently, I study phenotypical characteristics of obssesive-compulsive disorder using translationally relevant animal models. For that, I am using different te...
• 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...
• Ms Georgia Feltham
  Our research has previously found developmental links between children’s awareness of rhythm in speech and their progress in reading. The Botnar project is testing the efficacy of educational interventions based on this research, including a poetr...
• Dr Sheila Flanagan
  The possibility that shared neural mechanisms for processing language and music exist is an area of increasing interest. Anecdotal evidence that musical exposure or training leads to improvements in literacy and working memory is now gaining supp...
• Mr Maxime Fouyssac
  My research project in David Belin’s lab at the department of Pharmacology and within the BCNI of Cambridge is to characterize the functional contribution of the astrocytes to the development of habitual and compulsive cocaine self-administration ...
• Mrs Fiona Gabrielczyk
  I am a Research Assistant at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, working on the 'Listening to Rhythm in Children' project (Developing Prototype Assistive Listening Technology for Remediating Developmental Dyslexia). The purpose of the study ...
• Jane Garrison
  Investigating reality testing failures in hallucinations, including in schizophrenia
• Dr Brian Glasberg
  My research focuses on the perception of sound in both normally hearing and hearing-impaired people and relates to the psychophysics of hearing.
• 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 Andrea Greve
  I am an Investigator Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. My research focuses on investigating theories of learning by using behavioral and functional brain imaging techniques (MRI and EEG/MEG) with the aim to understand the cog...
• Miss Alex Griffin
  Research assistant working with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, looking at adolescent cognitive and social development. Particular personal interest in neurodiversity, particularly autism, and how it impacts adolescent cognitive development.
• Mr Lukas Gunschera
  My primary research interests surround human learning and habitual behaviour. Current projects examine formal computational modelling approaches to social media use, the role of automatic behaviour in social media use, and cognitive correlates of ...
• Panyuan Guo
  I work with Dr Lucy Cheke in the Cognition and Motivated Behaviour Lab. I’m interested in exploring the factors that affect episodic memory development in children. While previous research has concentrated on the emergence of episodic memory in th...
• Dr Chris Heath
  I am interested in understanding how pathology-related molecular and cellular changes in defined neuronal circuits affect behaviour and cognition in neurodegenerative diseases.
• 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...
• Dr Nicole Horst
  I am interested in investigating the role of cortico-striatal circuits in flexible behaviour in order to understand how disruption of these circuits and their modulation by various neurotransmitters may underpin the inflexible behaviours observed ...
• Sridhar rajan Jagannathan
  The aim of this research is to generate a body of work capable of characterizing the neural and computational dynamics of consciousness during arousal(alertness) transitions. I do this by developing new mathematical tools for the analysis of compl...
• Nazia Jassim
  I am a Parke-Davis Research Fellow at the Prediction and Learning (PaL) lab. I use experimental psychology, ultra high-resolution 7T neuroimaging, and computational modelling to investigate the neurocomputational basis of sensory learning in adult...
• Professor Mark Johnson FBA
  Johnson has published over 360 papers and 10 books on brain and cognitive development in human infants, children and in other species. His laboratory currently focuses on typical, at-risk and atypical functional brain development in human infants ...
• Dr Kamila Jozwik
  Broadly I'm interested in the following questions: How does the primate brain process visual information? More specifically - how does the primate brain recognise objects? What are the underlying computations of visual processing? I use fMRI, ...
• Mr Onno Kampman
  Computational neuroscience, using machine learning approaches to understanding the brain and human behaviour.
• Dr Laura Katus
  My main research interest lies in understanding how the early environment shapes the developing brain. I am particularly interested in how early adversity, as is frequently experienced by children in low- and middle-income countries, affects their...
• Mahmoud Keshavarzi
  My research involves designing paradigms for EEG and MEG experiments, programming them, and analysing the data, as well as testing children using both kinds of brain imaging equipment.
• Dr Manfred Kitzbichler
  Having a physics background, I am applying general concepts to the analysis of brain activation. This involves both fMRI and MEG, resting state as well as task related data. In particular I am interested in understanding the spatio-temporal dynami...
• Professor Zoe Kourtzi
  My work aims to understand the role of learning and experience in enabling humans of all ages to translate sensory experience into complex decisions and adaptive behaviours. Adaptive cognitive abilities are critical for survival and social interac...
• Dr Alexandra Krugliak
  I am interested how the human brain processes natural objects: Are there any, and if so what are the stages of objects processing? How is information from different sensory modalities combined into a multisensory object experience? How and when is...
• Dr Rebecca Lawson
  We all have expectations about how the how the world should look, feel, smell, taste and sound. These expectations act as predictions to guide us when we are uncertain, and signal when something out of the ordinary is happening. My work uses com...
• Dr Victoria Leong
  I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in the interpersonal neural dynamics of mother-infant interactions. Right now, I am studying the phenomenon of oscillatory coupling or synchronisation between mother and infant brains...
• Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock
  Dr Lewis-Peacock is passionate about understanding how human memory works. His research uses a combination of behavioural methods, functional neuroimaging, and computational approaches to study how people think, remember, and act. The Lewis-Peacoc...
• Dr Yuanxi Li
  Research topics: 1. Cognitive flexibility, cognitive plasticity, learning 2. Novel MRI analysis methods (i.e., gradient analysis) 3. Multimodal data analysis (structural and functional MRI, MRS, gene expression, behaviour, etc.) 4. Applying AI-gu...
• Dr Sarah LLloyd-Fox
  My research focuses on the investigation of core early cognitive and neural mechanisms in infancy and how contextual and environmental factors influence these. Currently, a major focus of my work is to develop field-friendly neuroimaging and behav...
• Mary-Ellen Lynall
  I am a psychiatrist investigating the neuroimmunology of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with Prof Ed Bullmore and Dr Menna Clatworthy. There is an increasing appreciation that interactions between the immune system and the brain are clinical...
• Miss Annabel MacFarlane
  Neural landmarks for Developmental Dyslexia through auditory entrainment tasks
• Dr Kanad Mandke
  I am a Research Associate at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology. My research interests include the analysis of brain networks and understanding the neurophysiological basis of speech processing in children. To this ...
• Dr Giorgio Marinato
  My Phd investigated the role of object-based auditory attention in naturalistic soundscapes, exploiting the Magnetoencephalography(MEG) signal through univariate and multivariate analysis techniques. Currently I am working in Lorraine Tyler's lab...
• Dr William Marslen-Wilson
  My research interests are in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of human language in the mind and the brain using interdisciplinary neuroimaging and multivariate analysis techniques aimed at identifying ...
• Mr Colin McKenzie
  I am in charge of the Neurobiology Labs in the Department of Psychology
• Dr Staci Meredith weiss
  My objective as a postdoctoral fellow within the Perinatal Imaging Partnership is to reconcile neural indicators of body maps, such as the somatosensory mismatch negativity and social body fNIRS, with behavioral profiles of infant spontaneous move...
• Professor 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...
• Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir
  My research integrates approaches from experimental psychology, psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience to enable more effective interventions and ultimately prevention of mental health conditions relating to compulsivity and impulsivity. I study pe...
• Dr Victoria Nicholls
  My PhD investigated the role of visual attention in naturalistic, dynamic scenes, in this case road crossing scenes. As well as how changes in visual attentional control through development and ageing impact on road crossing decisions. Currently...
• Dr Maria Niedernhuber
  I am a cognitive neuroscientist fascinated by how we come to have conscious experiences in this world. My research aims to bridge sensory/bodily and cognitive levels of analysis to uncover the neural and cognitive underpinnings of conscious conten...
• Dr Amy Orben
  Amy’s research uses large-scale data to examine how digital technologies affect adolescent psychological well-being and mental health. She uses innovative and rigorous statistical methodology to shed new light on pressing questions debated in poli...
• Claudia Pama
  Currently I am based at the Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in the lab of Dr Karadottir, investigating the pattern of developmental cortical myelination as well as the function of myelin in learning - under...
• Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer
  I study the role of social connectedness on self-cognitive processing and mental health difficulties in adolescents in the UK and Spain
• 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 Jasper Poort
  I want to understand how we selectively process behaviourally relevant visual input. How does the brain turn a constant overflow of sensory information into selective representations of our environment that can optimally guide our actions? Studyin...
• 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...
• Mr Harry Robson
  I am currently a student on the MPhil in Basic and Translational Neuroscience. My project is based in the department of psychology and is looking at the molecular correlates of memory destabilisation using rodents.
• Dr Kai Ruggeri
  Dr Kai Ruggeri is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychology as well as Research Associate specialising in methods, research design and analysis in the Engineering Design Centre. He works on a variety of projects, typically related to ...
• 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...
• Júlia Sala-Bayo
  I am interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie executive functions and cognitive control. The main aim of my research is to gain understanding of the neural circuit involved in cognitive flexibility. Specifically, how dopamine in stratal...
• Dr Marina Salorio-Corbetto
  Marina's research interests are related to the evaluation of hearing aids for people with high-frequency hearing loss, including those with extensive high-frequency dead regions. She has conducted trials using frequency-lowering prototype and comm...
• Dr Lorena Santamaria
  EEG and non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tACS),vision, sleep, creativity....
• Dr Stephen Sawiak
  I am a physicist working with MRI. My primary research interest has been in morphometry, with structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging and spectroscopy. I am particularly focussed on preclinical applications.
• Professor Jon Simons
  Our research investigates the cognitive and brain mechanisms responsible for the subjective experience of remembering, and how we use mental experiences to make sense of the world, helping us to keep a grip on reality. This work involves inter-re...
• Cecilia Steinwurzel
  I'm currently studying the underlying mechanisms of learning using behavioural and neuroimaging data. We are particularly interested in the interplay between expectations and learning, and in the role played by thalamic nuclei in shaping these exp...
• Dr Denes Szucs
  Dénes Sz?cs has background in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. He has used electro-encephalography (EEG), electro-myography (EMG), functional near infrared imaging (fNIRS), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioural methods. ...
• Dr CHIE TAKAHASHI
  I have a multi-disciplinary background in cognitive neuroscience, physics and engineering, and considerable research experiences in both academic and industrial environments. My research interests encompass various perspectives of vision science a...
• Dr Deborah Talmi
  Our research aim is to understand memory and feelings mechanistically, and to be able to predict mathematically, how an individual would feel and which one of their past experiences would come to mind. We have developed a theoretical framework fo...
• Dr Joana Taylor Tavares
  I am currently working at research coordinator at the Adaptive Brain Lab. My PhD used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate oversensitivity to negative feedback in both Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. The work was ...
• Andrew Thwaites
  Information processing in the human brain
• Dr Livia Tomova
  I am interested in how stress, loneliness and social isolation affect the brain and mind, especially during adolescence. My PhD research in Psychology at University of Vienna (supervised by Claus Lamm) focused on the effects of acute stress on so...
• Adam Triabhall
  My research interests lie in computational mechanisms of visual working memory retrieval, changes of mind (as dynamic decision updating), visual feature binding, perceptual biases, and visual adaptation.
• Professor Lorraine Tyler
  The interdisciplinary research in my lab combines cognitive models with multi-modal imaging to understand the neurobiological substrate for language functions, and the extent to which they are adaptive and capable of reorganisation following eithe...
• Dr Delshad Vaghari
  I am a post-doctoral research associate at the Adaptive Brain Lab (Prof Zoe Kourtzi's Lab). My primary interest concerns how to leverage the use of machine learning to study neurodegenerative diseases. I use neuroimaging techniques such as electro...
• Dr Sander van der Linden
  Dr. Sander van der Linden is a University Lecturer in Psychology, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and a Fellow of Churchill College. His research interests include social perception, normative influence, the “wisdom of crowds”...
• Mr Konstantinos Voudouris
  I am interested in the cognitive evaluation of machine learning systems. I work on understanding how and why they behave the way they do, particularly with reference to physical common-sense reasoning, in an effort to build safer, more robust, and...
• Dr Mengxin Wang
  We are currently using high-field, laminar imaging techniques to investigate mechanisms of visual plasticity.
• Dr Varun Warrier
  My team works on social and genetic factors that influence neurodevelopment, and mental health. We have a particular interest in investigating heterogeneity in outcomes to develop targeted support and therapy for those who need it. This publicat...
• Ms Livia Wilod Versprille
  My research is to investigate the effect of dopamine on attention and cognitive flexibility by testing behavioural constructs in rodents.
• Natalia Zdorovtsova
  My research focuses on establishing links between attributes of brain structure, brain function, and behaviour in children with neurodevelopmental conditions like ADHD and autism. I am interested in applying complex systems approaches - such as Co...
• Dr Leor Zmigrod
  Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formatio...
• Dr Katharina Zühlsdorff
  I am interested in the neural basis of reinforcement learning and cognitive flexibility in relation to depression and other psychiatric disorders. I use multimodal neuroimaging and behavioural datasets in my research and aim to translate findings ...

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