Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Paul Bays
11 Mar 2025 Paul Bays is a Professor of Computation and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He investigates the nature of...
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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Estherina Trachtenberg
24 Feb 2025 Estherina Trachtenberg is a Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge and is currently working...
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Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs
03 Apr 2023 Illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason as humans – it misdirects the expected outcomes of...
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Childhood mental health problems resulting from early-life adversity drive poorer cognitive performance in adolescence, study suggests
08 Feb 2023 Early-life adversity has long-term effects on children’s mental health, which in turn affects cognitive functioning as teenagers, say researchers...
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The psychiatrist who faced a dilemma but couldn’t turn his back on his people
23 May 2022 Children in West Africa with cognitive difficulties are going undiagnosed because the tests used to assess their mental health are based on Western...
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Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers
28 Apr 2022 Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much sleep associated with poorer...
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A mental health revolution
07 Oct 2021 Cambridge-led computerised cognitive assessments transform early detection and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Psychological ‘signature’ for the extremist mind uncovered
22 Feb 2021 Scientists have mapped an underlying “psychological signature” for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or religious...
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‘Mental rigidity’ at the root of intense political partisanship on both left and right – study
29 Aug 2019 Latest research shows that reduced cognitive flexibility is associated with more 'extreme' beliefs and identities at both ends of the political...
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