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 a member of the Andrew Mayes Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience.

I'm Director of the EEG Lab in Dover Street 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 [email protected]

See also research profile on Google Scholar / ResearchGate / ORCiD

PhD Students (*=primary supervisor): 

• *Steve Ball (with Jennifer Thompson)
  • Multimodal neuroimaging of semantic memory in ageing and Alzheimer's disease.
• *Hera (Youn ji) Baek (with Alex Kafkas)
  • Effects of perceptual and conceptual fluency on recognition memory.
• *Damla Alanbey (with Alex Kafkas)
  • Neural basis of false memory and prospective memory.
• *Rey Amsbury (with Sarah Clinch)
  • Augmenting episodic memory in older adults using lifelogging.
• *Sam Roberts (with Alex Casson and Nelson Trujillo-Barreto)
  • Augmenting episodic memory using EEG-neurofeedback.
• *Ana Pacheco Aguiar (with Luke Jones and Michelle Phillips at RNCM)
  • Memory for musical scores in expert musicians.
• Yisi Leng (with Alex Kafkas)
• Maryam Hussain (with Gorana Pobric and Johan Hulleman)
• Completed: Nayab Begum (with Anthony Jones and Chris Brown)
• Completed: *Josie Kearney (Pamela Qualter)
• Completed: Samantha Booth (with Gorana Pobric and Laura Brown)
• Completed: *Carmen Ionita (with Deborah Talmi)
• Completed: Emily Pegg (with Rajiv Mohanraj)
• Completed: Kyriaki Giannou (with Karen Lander)
• Completed: Karolina Czarna (with Deborah Talmi and Rebecca Elliott)
• Completed: Ashley Symons (with Sonja Kotz and Wael El-Deredy)
• Completed: Kathy Ecsy (with Anthony Jones)

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 - postdoc supervisor)
• Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN)
• Ken Paller (Northwestern University, USA)
• John Olichney (UC Davis, USA - postdoc supervisor)
• Bill Heindel (Brown University, USA - PhD supervisor)

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)