Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge

MRC (Medical Research Council) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), Cambridge, UK, is a European and international leader in Cognitive Neuroscience research. MRC CBU employs over one hundred staff working in the following main areas: Attention, Emotion, Speech and Language, Memory and Knowledge, and Neurological Rehabilitation. The particular strengths at the MRC CBU are functional imaging (including fMRI and positron emission tomography, PET), multi-sensor high density EEG and MEG recordings, statistical data analysis and methods development. The Unit has been and remains a hotbed for scientific and methodological advances in all aforementioned areas and employs a great number of top international scientists.