Simon Baron-cohen

Biography

Tim simon is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Pembroke College. His work aims to understand cognition – learning, memory, attention etc. --  and how the brain does it, what goes wrong in things like Alzheimer’s disease or schizophrenia, and possible ways to fix it. He initiated the #SheBlindedMeWithScience project, a musical collaboration – tapping into his previous career as a full-time musician -- with ScienceGrrl to celebrate and support women in science.

Research Interest

Professor simon’s work has involved several different converging methods of enquiry. His experimental work and theoretical ideas have been published and discussed in journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Current Opinion in Biology, Science, PNAS and Annual Reviews in Neuroscience. Dr Bussey’s achievements include the development of a computer-automated cognitive testing method. Professor Bussey’s theoretical work has challenged prevailing views regarding the organisation of brain function, and has recently been substantiated by a number of studies carried out in his own and several independent laboratories. In another stream of research he has elucidated the neural mechanisms underpinning object recognition memory and related cognitive functions. He is currently using the methods developed in these studies to investigate psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, and is testing potential therapeutic agents.