MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a branch of the

The CBSU has its own magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, 3T) scanner on-site, as well as a 306-channel magnetoencephalography (MEG) system and a 128-channel electroencephalography (EEG) laboratory.

The CBSU has close links to

The unit was established in 1944 as the MRC Applied Psychology Unit.[1] In June 2001, the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group held a witness seminar to gather information on the unit's history.^[1]

On 1 July 2017, the CBU was merged with the University of Cambridge. Coming under the Clinical School, the unit is still funded by the British government through Research Councils UK but is managed and maintained by Cambridge University.

List of directors

• Kenneth Craik, 1944–1945
• Frederic Bartlett, 1945–1951
• Norman Mackworth, 1951–1958
• Donald Broadbent, 1958–1974
• Alan Baddeley, 1974–1997
• William Marslen-Wilson, 1997–2010^[2]
• Susan Gathercole, 2011–2018
• Matthew Lambon Ralph, 2018–

References

External links

• MRC CBU Home Page

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