We are the Plasticity Lab, led by Prof Tamar Makin. We would like to understand how the brain adapts to technologies that are specifically designed to replace, assist and augment our bodies. To understand these processes better, we combine experimental models, performed on healthy participants, and related clinical populations. Our research seeks to define the boundaries of plasticity - our brain's ability to adapt how it processes inputs based on changed experience.

Our lab is a hub for pushing the boundaries of the human body in the brain. We welcome enthusiastic students and postdocs who are eager to contribute to these cutting-edge projects, helping to shape the future of how humans interact with assistive and augmentative technologies. We are based at the Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute (CMBI) at the University of Cambridge. The lab was previously hosted at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.