Latest Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging Stories

A study published on Sunday in the journal Nature Neuroscience reveals that people who are optimistic about the outcome of events tend to learn only from information that reinforces their point-of-view in the world. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at University College London studied 19 volunteers, showing them a series of negative life events while the team scanned brain activity using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The participants...

Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research, conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), provides further insight into how our memories are recorded.Professor Eleanor Maguire led this Wellcome Trust-funded study, an extension of work published last year which showed how spatial memories "“ in that case, where a volunteer...