Bob Carlyon

Bob Carlyon serves as an MRC Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC CBU), University of Cambridge, and is affiliated with Cambridge Language Sciences, an interdisciplinary research center advancing language-related studies across the university.

His research focuses on cognitive neuroscience with specialization in auditory cognition and speech processing. Key areas include:

• Auditory scene analysis
• Speech-in-noise perception
• Neural mechanisms of hearing
• Hearing disorders and cognition
• Sound source separation
• Attention in auditory processing

Dr Carlyon operates within the MRC CBU, a premier research institution employing advanced neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG) and behavioral methodologies to investigate brain function in healthy and clinical populations.