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Predicting and preparing for the future

Many parts of the brain are involved in prediction, so what makes the cerebellum special?

Engram neuron

Searching for the engram

FitzFest musicians

Public Engagement

Orchestrating the brain

Attentional episodes and cognitive control

Professor John Duncan recently gave a seminar at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre on attentional episodes and cognitive control. In the following interview he answers questions on how the brain responds to diverse cognitive demands including the age-old question: what is intelligence?

Towards a canonical computation in basal ganglia for the vigorous pursuit of reward

In the following interview Dr Dudman outlines his research on purposive behaviour and the techniques his lab use to try to understand the neural circuits underlying learning.

SWC Building Waves

Understanding the control of instinctive behaviour

Vision in Brain

Short- and long-range visual circuitry

Selective attention: what is the parts list?

Through an amusing analogy to the components left over after building an item of flat pack furniture, Professor Krauzlis explained that despite knowing a lot about parts of the brain involved in selective attention, there are still areas we don’t fully understand, and particularly the question of where they fit in.

Zebra finch

How can the songbird model system help us understand the production of speech?

Have we misunderstood fear and anxiety?

This was the question Professor Joseph E LeDoux, New York University and Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, posed in a recent seminar at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

SWC Colonnade

Targeting memories as a new therapeutic approach to psychopathologies

Model brains

Brain Bee competition at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre inspires school students