cognition

Tomas Folke (Department of Psychology) and Julia Ouzia (Anglia Ruskin University) discuss the cognitive disadvantages that may be associated with...

When you’re prey, being able to spot and assess the threat posed by potential predators is of life-or-death importance. In a paper published today in...

What’s the point of a brain? This fundamental question has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how and why the brain...

Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, has been researching cognitive enhancers for over a...

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos”, at a critical transition point between randomness and...

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition...