Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age.

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In a new analysis of a US cohort of older adults, Lihua Xia and colleagues find evidence that bilingualism supports cognitive reserve in aging, in that the baseline cognition of bilinguals was less dependent on their brain structure: doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2026.09.008

What happens in the brain when we attend to an object? New paper shows neural processes driving inter-region coherence are most salient during a period of cued object selection, despite comparable local information representation during other task phases:
doi.org/10.17863/CAM.134424

Another exciting start of our annual two-week summer school #COGNESTIC (Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge) at @mrccbu.bsky.social! Here, 60 excited attendees attentively follow @dcdace.bsky.social's session "MRI Image Handling & BIDS".

In four behavioural experiments, we show that the effects of prior knowledge on episodic memory depend on the type of memory test, further revealing inadequacies of theories like SLIMM.
https://rdcu.be/nCksGGx7iosa

A new study by Drs Guangting Mai, Emily Upton, Matt Davis and Holly Robson, reveals how cortical tracking of speech envelopes at multi-syllable and syllable levels reflects a combination of lesion and symptom profiles in post-stroke aphasia: doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcag261

doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001864

This study demonstrates the efficacy of using Electrical Field Imaging measures in Cochlear Implant users for identifying the presense and number of extra-cochlear electrodes using a non-invasive, fast technique.

This technique is already in use clinically at Addenbrookes!

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