I study human memory (episodic and semantic) using the complementary approaches of neuroimaging (MRI, fMRI), magneto- and electroencephalography (MEG, EEG), and cognitive neuropsychological studies of impaired memory due to neurological disorders or dementia. I'm also interested in how changes in the ageing brain relate to changes in cognition over the adult lifespan, and how neuroimaging and statistical methods can be optimised to investigate these issues.

I'm Director of the EEG Lab in Zochonis Building, which supports grant-funded work, PhD student research, and master's and undergraduate projects. 

I'm Principal Investigator of the Multimodal Neuroimaging and Memory Lab (MNML). For volunteer participation opportunities, contact mnml.participation@manchester.ac.uk

See also research profile on Google Scholar / ResearchGate / ORCiD

Postdocs: 

• Steve Ball (EEG, tDCS, visual search, cognitive training)
• Mica Komarnyckyj (EEG, tDCS, visual search, cognitive training)

PhD Students (*=primary supervisor): 

• *Steve Ball (with Jennifer Thompson)
• *Hera (Youn ji) Baek (with Alex Kafkas)
• *Damla Alanbey (with Alex Kafkas)
• *Liling Jin (with Rebecca Elliott)
• *Rey Amsbury (with Sarah Clinch)
• Nayab Begum (with Anthony Jones and Chris Brown)
• Submitted! *Josie Kearney (Pamela Qualter)
• Submitted! Samantha Booth (with Gorana Pobric and Laura Brown)
• Completed: Kathy Ecsy (with Anthony Jones)
• Completed: Ashley Symons (with Sonja Kotz and Wael El-Deredy)
• Completed: Karolina Czarna (with Deborah Talmi and Rebecca Elliott)
• Completed: *Carmen Ionita (with Deborah Talmi)
• Completed: Emily Pegg (with Rajiv Mohanraj)
• Completed: Kyriaki Giannou (with Karen Lander)

Research Assistants

• Natalia Fernandez-Vinson (tDCS, EEG, visual search, cognitive training)
• Josie Kearney (EEG, visual search)
• Sam Roberts (EEG, tDCS, visual search, cognitive training)

Internal Collaborators not listed above:

• Gorana Pobric, Johan Hulleman: tDCS, EEG, cognitive training, visual search (MoD/HSSRC) 
• Anthony Jones, Alex Casson, Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, Chris Brown, Manoj Sivan, James Henshaw, et al.: Alpha oscillations and chronic pain: sensory entrainment and neurofeedback (MRC CiC, BBSRC NewMind, MAHSC Neuroscience, Dunhill)
• Shruti Garg, Gorana Pobric, Jonathan Green: tDCS & EEG study of NF1 (NewLife)
• Alex Kafkas & Daniela Montaldi: EEG study of context & memory (BA/Leverhulme)
• Bo Yao, Briony Banks, & Sonja Kotz: EEG study of inner speech in silent reading

External Collaborators:

• Michelle Phillips (Royal Northern College of Music)
• Rik Henson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
• Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN)
• Ken Paller (Northwestern University, USA)
• John Olichney (UC Davis, USA)
• Bill Heindel (Brown University, USA)

MSc Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience:

• Experiment Design & Optimisation
• Image Analysis
• Advanced Image Analysis (module lead)
• Project supervisions
• (Former Programme Co-Director)

BSc Psychology:

• 1st Year Intro to Cognition (Memory)
• 3rd Year Understanding Dementia
• 3rd Year Research Projects

I also often supervise projects on other courses:

• BSc Joint Hons Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
• MRes Experimental Psychology with Data Science
• MRes Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
• MSci Neuroscience

I also regularly teach on SPM M/EEG analysis courses

• MEG, EEG
• MRI, fMRI, DTI
• SPM, EEGLAB (ICA), Matlab

PhD Experimental Psychology (Brown University)

ScM Experimental Psychology (Brown University)

BA (Hons) Psychology (University of Manitoba)