News
December 2011
Carien van Reekum has been awarded a £480K BBSRC award for her proposal "Emotion regulation and well-being as we age: Implications of cognitive decline and prefrontal atrophy for corticolimbic function."
November 2011
Slawomir Nasuto and Eduardo Miranda (Univ. Plymouth) have been awarded a 54-month EPSRC grant entitled "Brain Computer Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States".
August 2011
Bhismadev Chakrabarti was awarded a Medical Research Council New Investigator Grant (2012-2015) to investigate reward and empathy in autism.
July 2011
Bhismadev Chakrabarti's research on genetic differences in eyegaze behaviour was featured widely on national and international media, including the BBC, and NPR.
23 December 2010
CINN organised the first meeting of the GRUP (Gpu Reading User grouP).
November 2010
BBC coverage on CINN's research on decision making using complex and conflicting information, with high-profile business leaders. More on the BBC website, and pictures on the UoR Flickr account.
16-18 September 2010
First international conference on neural field models. More at:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/cinn/news/cinn-progressneuralfield.aspx
August 2010
Douglas Saddy, Slawek Nasuto, Peter Grindrod and Mark Baker are awarded a grant from the EPSRC for their project "Neurocloud" (GPU-based cloud computing for neuroscience).
7-16 July 2010
Second CINN Summer School on Neurodynamics. More at:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/cinn/news/cinn-summerschool.aspx
January 2010
Dr Tom Johnstone was awarded a 3y BBSRC grant: "Using fMRI and TMS to probe the functional connectivity of prefrontal cortex and amygdala in top down regulation of emotion."
January 2010
Dr. Chris Pringle (Univ. Bristol) and Dr. Etienne Roesch (Imperial College London) join the CINN as postdocs on the EPSRC project "Towards an integrated neural field computational model of the human brain".
September 28, 2009
Douglas Saddy, together with Peter Grindrod, Slawek Nasuto and Roland Potthast, have today been awarded a grant from the EPSRC for their project “Towards an integrated neural field computational model of the human brain.” The award of £201,131 will fund the one-year project which starts in January 2010. This group (together with Peter beim Graben) currently hold an EPSRC Bridging the Gaps award for Cognitive Systems Science which has had quite a bit of success in stimulating research in computational neuroscience here at Reading.
September 25, 2009
CINN hosted a Neuroscience Sandpit today at the Innovations Work on the University of Reading’s London Road campus. This was a very successful day of brainstorming by 20 researchers from Psychology, Mathematics, Systems Engineering, Chemistry, Food Biosciences, Pharmacy and Clinical Language Sciences. The day was designed to facilitate multi-disciplinary dialogue and bring expertise from many different perspectives to bear on particular issues in the neurosciences. Over the course of the day the various research teams developed 13 separate projects. CINN will be targeting the best of these for follow-up and hope to bring many of them to fruition.
September 14, 2009
Today CINN hosted a workshop on Neuroscience Research at Reading. The workshop was organized by Judi Ellis and Marcus Rattray and featured a range of talks highlighting the work being done on campus in the areas of molecular, cellular and cognitive neuroscience. It also featured a talk by Dr Warren Hirst of Wyeth Research, Princeton, USA on drug discovery in Alzheimer’s disease.