Welcome to the Bangor Imaging Unit (BIU)

The Bangor Imaging Unit is an MRI and EEG facility in the Psychology department at Bangor University, UK.

If you wish to know more, please feel free to contact us.

How does the brain interpret dance?

New research by BIU memeber Dr. Emily Cross was the subject of a recent BBC news interview.

Recent grant success

Congratulations to Paul Downing for his recent BBSRC grant capture:

Differentiating the contributions of domain-specific regions within the medial temporal lobe and extrastriate cortex to perception

I remember you...you were angry...

A recent publication by Jackson et al. in the Proceedings of the National Library of Science (PLoS) One has garnered interest from the popular press. The paper, which aims to uncover the neural correlates of the angry faces benefit to working memory, where faces with an angry expression are remembered better than neutral or happy versions, has been picked up by both newspapers, local and international radio. Articles describing the work have already appeared in the Daily Post, and one interview with BBC Radio Wales' 'Good Evening Wales' program has already aired with a further interview on the BBC World Service's 'Science in Action' programme is scheduled for Friday 7th Nov.

Anyone who would like to here the Good Evening Wales interview click here.

Opening Event

The Imaging Unit would like to say a big thank you to all the people who helped organise what turned out to be a very successful opening event. In addition to the festivities we had the opportunity to see plenty of fascinating and entertaining presentations before the final opening ceremony.