Professor Ed Wilding - BSc Sheff MSc Edin PhD St Andrews
Overview
Research Group:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Location: Tower Building, Park Place
Email: WildingE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75048
Research Summary
My research interests are in human long term memory. I conduct research to develop and refine psychological models of human memory, linking the processes described in these models to the brain regions that support them. A central question is how we can successfully extract specific bits of information from memory from amongst many other highly similar bits. In pursuing these research questions, I acquire measures of neural activity using several brain imaging modalities. When combined with behavioural assessments of memory, these measures of brain function help us to understand how our memories work, and how our brains support our memories.
Selected Publications (2008 onwards)
2013
Skavhaug, I., Wilding, E. L. and Donaldson, D. I. (2013). Immediate judgments of learning predict subsequent recollection: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39(1), 159-166. (10.1037/a0028885)
2012
Elward, R. L., Evans, L. H. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). The role of working memory capacity in the control of recollection. Cortex (10.1016/j.cortex.2012.07.003)
Evans, L., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). Electrophysiological insights into control over recollection. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(3-4), 168-173. (10.1080/17588928.2012.662217)
Evans, L. H., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). Electrophysiological insights into control over recollection. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(3-4), 168-173. (10.1080/17588928.2012.662217)
Evans, L. H. and Wilding, E. L.
(2012).
Recollection and familiarity make independent contrbutions to recognition memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(21), 7253-7257.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6396-11.2012)
Watson, H. C., Wilding, E. L. and Graham, K. S.
(2012).
A role for perirhinal cortex in memory for novel object-context associations. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(13), 4473-4481.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5751-11.2012)
Wilding, E. L. and Ranganath, C. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of episodic memory processes. In: Luck, S. and Kappenman, E. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 373-396.
Wilding, E. L. and Evans, L. H. (2012). Familiarity and priming: Comment on data points highlighted by Voss and colleagues. Cognitive Neuroscience
2011
Cruse, D. and Wilding, E. L. (2011). Temporally and functionally dissociable retrieval processing operations revealed by event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49(7), 1751-1760. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.053)
Greve, A., Evans, C. J., Graham, K. S. and Wilding, E. L. (2011). Functional specialisation in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex during the encoding of verbal associations. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2746-2754. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.002)
2010
Bridger, E. K. and Wilding, E. L. (2010). Requirements at retrieval modulate subsequent memory effects: An event-related potential study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(4), 254-260. (10.1080/17588928.2010.484882)
Elward, R. L. and Wilding, E. L. (2010). Working memory capacity is related to variations in the magnitude of an electrophysiological marker of recollection. Brain Research, 1342, 55-62. (10.1016/j.brainres.2010.04.040)
Evans, L. H., Wilding, E. L., Hibbs, C. S. and Herron, J. E. (2010). An electrophysiological study of boundary conditions for control of recollection in the exclusion task. Brain Research, 1324, 43-53. (10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.010)
Greve, A., Doidge, A. N., Evans, C. J. and Wilding, E. L.
(2010).
Functional neuroanatomy supporting judgments of when events occurred. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(20), 7099-7104.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0345-10.2010)
Mohseni, H. R., Ghaderi, F., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2010). Variational Bayes for Spatiotemporal Identification of Event-Related Potential Subcomponents. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57(10), 2413-2428. (10.1109/TBME.2010.2050318)
Skavhaug, I., Wilding, E. L. and Donaldson, D. I. (2010). Judgments of learning do not reduce to memory encoding operations: Event-related potential evidence for distinct metacognitive processes. Brain Research, 1318, 87-95. (10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.047)
2009
Bridger, E. K., Herron, J. E., Elward, R. L. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Neural correlates of individual differences in strategic retrieval processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(5), 1175-1186. (10.1037/a0016375)
Bridson, N. C., Muthukumaraswamy, S. D., Singh, K. D. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Magnetoencephalographic correlates of processes supporting long-term memory judgments. Brain Research, 1283, 73-83. (10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.093)
Cruse, D. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Prefrontal cortex contributions to episodic retrieval monitoring and evaluation. Neuropsychologia, 47(13), 2779-2789. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.003)
Grove, K. L. and Wilding, E. L.
(2009).
Retrieval processes supporting judgments of recency. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3), 461-473.
(10.1162/jocn.2009.21040)
Mohseni, H. R., Nazarpour, K., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2009). The application of particle filters in single trial event-related potential estimation. Physiological Measurement, 30(10), 1101-1116. (10.1088/0967-3334/30/10/010)
2008
Mohseni, H. R., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2008). Single trial estimation of event-related potentials using particle filtering. 2008 Ieee International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 465-468. (10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517647 )
Mohseni, H. R., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2008). Sequential Monte Carlo techniques for Eeg dipole placing and tracking. Presented at: 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 21-23 July 2008. (10.1109/SAM.2008.4606832)
Yick, Y. Y. and Wilding, E. L. (2008). Material-specific neural correlates of memory retrieval. NeuroReport, 19(15), 1463-1467. (10.1097/WNR.0b013e32830ef76f)
Publications
Online Publications
Online information about my publications can be obtained via Google Scholar or ResearcherID:
Full List of Publications
2013
Skavhaug, I., Wilding, E. L. and Donaldson, D. I. (2013). Immediate judgments of learning predict subsequent recollection: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39(1), 159-166. (10.1037/a0028885)
2012
Elward, R. L., Evans, L. H. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). The role of working memory capacity in the control of recollection. Cortex (10.1016/j.cortex.2012.07.003)
Evans, L., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). Electrophysiological insights into control over recollection. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(3-4), 168-173. (10.1080/17588928.2012.662217)
Evans, L. H., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2012). Electrophysiological insights into control over recollection. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(3-4), 168-173. (10.1080/17588928.2012.662217)
Evans, L. H. and Wilding, E. L.
(2012).
Recollection and familiarity make independent contrbutions to recognition memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(21), 7253-7257.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6396-11.2012)
Watson, H. C., Wilding, E. L. and Graham, K. S.
(2012).
A role for perirhinal cortex in memory for novel object-context associations. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(13), 4473-4481.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5751-11.2012)
Wilding, E. L. and Ranganath, C. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of episodic memory processes. In: Luck, S. and Kappenman, E. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 373-396.
Wilding, E. L. and Evans, L. H. (2012). Familiarity and priming: Comment on data points highlighted by Voss and colleagues. Cognitive Neuroscience
2011
Cruse, D. and Wilding, E. L. (2011). Temporally and functionally dissociable retrieval processing operations revealed by event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49(7), 1751-1760. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.053)
Greve, A., Evans, C. J., Graham, K. S. and Wilding, E. L. (2011). Functional specialisation in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex during the encoding of verbal associations. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2746-2754. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.002)
2010
Bridger, E. K. and Wilding, E. L. (2010). Requirements at retrieval modulate subsequent memory effects: An event-related potential study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(4), 254-260. (10.1080/17588928.2010.484882)
Elward, R. L. and Wilding, E. L. (2010). Working memory capacity is related to variations in the magnitude of an electrophysiological marker of recollection. Brain Research, 1342, 55-62. (10.1016/j.brainres.2010.04.040)
Evans, L. H., Wilding, E. L., Hibbs, C. S. and Herron, J. E. (2010). An electrophysiological study of boundary conditions for control of recollection in the exclusion task. Brain Research, 1324, 43-53. (10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.010)
Greve, A., Doidge, A. N., Evans, C. J. and Wilding, E. L.
(2010).
Functional neuroanatomy supporting judgments of when events occurred. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(20), 7099-7104.
(10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0345-10.2010)
Mohseni, H. R., Ghaderi, F., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2010). Variational Bayes for Spatiotemporal Identification of Event-Related Potential Subcomponents. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57(10), 2413-2428. (10.1109/TBME.2010.2050318)
Skavhaug, I., Wilding, E. L. and Donaldson, D. I. (2010). Judgments of learning do not reduce to memory encoding operations: Event-related potential evidence for distinct metacognitive processes. Brain Research, 1318, 87-95. (10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.047)
2009
Bridger, E. K., Herron, J. E., Elward, R. L. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Neural correlates of individual differences in strategic retrieval processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(5), 1175-1186. (10.1037/a0016375)
Bridson, N. C., Muthukumaraswamy, S. D., Singh, K. D. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Magnetoencephalographic correlates of processes supporting long-term memory judgments. Brain Research, 1283, 73-83. (10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.093)
Cruse, D. and Wilding, E. L. (2009). Prefrontal cortex contributions to episodic retrieval monitoring and evaluation. Neuropsychologia, 47(13), 2779-2789. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.003)
Grove, K. L. and Wilding, E. L.
(2009).
Retrieval processes supporting judgments of recency. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(3), 461-473.
(10.1162/jocn.2009.21040)
Mohseni, H. R., Nazarpour, K., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2009). The application of particle filters in single trial event-related potential estimation. Physiological Measurement, 30(10), 1101-1116. (10.1088/0967-3334/30/10/010)
2008
Mohseni, H. R., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2008). Single trial estimation of event-related potentials using particle filtering. 2008 Ieee International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 465-468. (10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517647 )
Mohseni, H. R., Wilding, E. L. and Sanei, S. (2008). Sequential Monte Carlo techniques for Eeg dipole placing and tracking. Presented at: 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 21-23 July 2008. (10.1109/SAM.2008.4606832)
Yick, Y. Y. and Wilding, E. L. (2008). Material-specific neural correlates of memory retrieval. NeuroReport, 19(15), 1463-1467. (10.1097/WNR.0b013e32830ef76f)
2007
Fraser, C. S., Bridson, N. C. and Wilding, E. L. (2007). Controlled retrieval processing in recognition memory exclusion tasks. Brain Research, 1150, 131-142. (10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.094)
Ranganath, C., Heller, A. S. and Wilding, E. L. (2007). Dissociable correlates of two classes of retrieval processing in prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage, 35(4), 1663-1673. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.020)
2006
Azimian-Faridani, N. and Wilding, E. L. (2006). The influence of criterion shifts on electrophysiological correlates of recognition memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7), 1075-1086. (10.1162/jocn.2006.18.7.1075)
Bridson, N. C., Fraser, C. S., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2006). Electrophysiological correlates of familiarity in recognition memory and exclusion tasks. Brain Research, 1114(1), 149-160. (10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.095)
Dzulkifli, M. A., Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2006). Memory retrieval processing: neural indices of processes supporting selective episodic retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 44(7), 1120-1130. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.10.021)
Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2006). Brain and behavioural indices of retrieval mode. NeuroImage, 32(2), 863-870. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.046)
Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2006). Neural correlates of control processes engaged before and during recovery of information from episodic memory. Neuroimage, 30(2), 634-644. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.10.003)
Wilding, E. L. and Herron, J. E. (2006). Electrophysiological measures of episodic memory control and memory retrieval. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 37(4), 315-321. (10.1177/155005940603700409)
Wilding, E. L. (2006). The practice of rescaling scalp-recorded event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 72(3), 325-332. (10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.12.002)
2005
Dzulkifli, M. A. and Wilding, E. L. (2005). Electrophysiological indices of strategic episodic retrieval processing. Neuropsychologia, 43(8), 1152-1162. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.11.019)
Herron, J. E. and Wilding, E. L. (2005). An electrophysiological investigation of factors facilitating strategic recollection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(5), 777-787. (10.1162/0898929053747649)
Wilding, E. L., Fraser, C. S. and Herron, J. E. (2005). Indexing strategic retrieval of colour information with event-related potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 25(1), 19-32. (10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.04.012)
2004
Azimian-Faridani, N. and Wilding, E. L. (2004). An event-related potential study of the revelation effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(5), 926-931. (10.3758/BF03196723)
Dzulkifli, M. A., Sharpe, H. L. and Wilding, E. L. (2004). Separating item-related electrophysiological indices of retrieval effort and retrieval orientation. Brain and Cognition, 55(3), 433-443. (10.1016/j.bandc.2004.03.004)
Wilding, E. L. and Sharpe, H. L. (2004). The influence of response-time demands on electrophysiological correlates of successful episodic retrieval. Cognitive Brain Research, 18(2), 185-195. (10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.10.011)
2002
(2002). The cognitive neurosicence of memory: encoding and retrieval. Studies in Cognition. London: Psychology Press.
Donaldson, D. I., Allan, K. and Wilding, E. L. (2002). Fractionating episodic memory retrieval using event-related potentials. In: Parker, A., Wilding, E. and Bussey, T. eds. The Cognitive Neurosicence of Memory: Encoding and Retrieval. London: Psychology Press, pp. 39-58.
Wilding, E. L. and Sharpe, H. L. (2002). Episodic memory encoding and retrieval: Recent insights from event-related potentials. In: Zani, A. and Mado Proverbio, A. eds. The Cognitive Electrophysiology of Mind and Brain. New York: Academic Press, pp. 169-196. (10.1016/B978-012775421-5/50009-1)
Wilding, E. L. and Herron, J. E. (2002). Event-related potentials and mental chronometry. In: Nadel, L. ed. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Weinheim: Wiley, pp. 36-39. (10.1002/0470018860.s00528)
2001
Wilding, E. L. (2001). Event-related functional imaging and episodic memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 25(6), 545-554. (10.1016/S0149-7634(01)00033-1)
Wilding, E. L. and Nobre, A. C. (2001). Task-switching and memory retrieval processing: Electrophysiological evidence. NeuroReport, 12(16), 3613-3617. (10.1097/00001756-200111160-00048)
2000
Rugg, M. D. and Wilding, E. L. (2000). Retrieval processing and episodic memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(3), 108-115. (10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01445-5)
Wilding, E. L. (2000). Event-related potential studies of long-term memory. In: Proverbio, A. and Zani, A. eds. Psicofisiologia Cognitiva: I substrati neuro-funzionali della mente umana [Cognitive Psychophysiology: The neuro-functional substrates of human mind]. Rome: Carocci, pp. 327-366.
Wilding, E. L. (2000). In what way does the parietal ERP old/new effect index recollection?. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 35(1), 81-87. (10.1016/S0167-8760(99)00095-1)
1999
Miniussi, C., Wilding, E. L., Coull, J. T. and Nobre, A. C. (1999). Orienting attention in time: Modulation of brain potentials. Brain, 122(8), 1507-1518. (10.1093/brain/122.8.1507)
Wilding, E. L. (1999). Separating retrieval strategies from retrieval success: an event-related potential study of source memory. Neuropsychologia, 37(4), 441-454. (10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00100-6)
1998
Allan, K., Wilding, E. L. and Rugg, M. D. (1998). Electrophysiological evidence for dissociable processes contributing to recollection. Acta Psychologica, 98(2-3), 231-252. (10.1016/S0001-6918(97)00044-9)
Parker, A., Wilding, E. L. and Akerman, C. (1998). The von Restorff effect in visual object recognition memory in humans and monkeys: the role of frontal/perirhinal interaction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(6), 691-703. (10.1162/089892998563103)
1997
Wilding, E. L. and Rugg, M. D. (1997). An event-related potential study of memory for words spoken aloud or heard. Neuropsychologia, 35(9), 1185-1195. (10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00048-1)
1996
Wilding, E. L. and Rugg, M. D. (1996). An event-related potential study of recognition memory with and without retrieval of source. Brain, 119(3), 889-905. (10.1093/brain/119.3.889)
Wilding, E. L. and Rugg, M. D. (1996). Event-related potentials and the recognition memory exclusion task. Neuropsychologia, 35(2), 119-128. (10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00076-0)
1995
Wilding, E. L., Doyle, M. C. and Rugg, M. D. (1995). Recognition memory with and without retrieval of context: An event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia, 33(6), 743-767. (10.1016/0028-3932(95)00017-W)
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Research
Research Topics and Related Papers
I study human long-term memory. The majority of my research has been on memory retrieval, although more recently I have been involved with work on memory encoding (e.g. Bridger & Wilding. Cognitive Neuroscience, in press). One research strand that has been ongoing for the past fifteen years concerns the appropriate model for the processes that support recognition memory.
The debate about the adequacy of various single- and dual-process models is ongoing, and event-related potential (ERP) studies have been influential in suggesting that two distinct processes do contribute to recognition memory decisions (e.g. Wilding, 2000; Azimian-Faridani & Wilding, 2006). The question of whether these processes operate independently or in conjunction remains controversial, and we are currently using magnetoencephalographic (MEG) measures of memory retrieval to attempt to adjudicate between competing accounts (for our first MEG study of memory retrieval, see Bridson et al., 2009). Our approach in both the EEG and MEG studies is to identify neural markers of specific cognitive processes and then to use changes in the size of these markers to infer the extent to which their associated cognitive operations are engaged. We do this by taking measures of mean signal strength and comparing these meaures across conditions of interest, as the figure to the right illustrates (taken from Azimian-Faridani & Wilding, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006).
In other work, I am investigating memory control operations. A key event at the time of memory retrieval is the interaction between a memory cue (or probe) and a memory trace. Memory control operations operate before as well as after this interaction. I have been involved in several strands of research in which we have used ERPs to identify and characterise retrieval control processes that operate at different stages (for reviews, see Rugg & Wilding, 2000; Wilding & Herron, 2006). A feature of this work is that the use of ERPs in these studies has provided insights into models of how retrieval control is implemented that could not be obtained via behavioural data alone (for one recent example showing how individual differences in the application of retrieval strategies influence the accuracy of memory judgments, see Bridger & Wilding, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 2009).
A recent new direction in my research is a focus on the psychological processes and brain regions that support judgments about when events occurred. There are good theoretical reasons to believe that the appropriate model for the processes that support these kinds of judgments is not the same as that which supports other kinds of judgments about elements of prior events (such as where something happened, or who was present). We have recently published ERP (Grove & Wilding, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009) and fMRI (Greve et al., Journal of Neuroscience, 2010) data which is consistent with this view, and we intend to employ both of these imaging modalities in subsequent studies to develop a process model of ‘when’ judgments and link the model to the neural system that supports it. The figures below provide illustrations of how brain activity changes over time (Figure 2) and in different brain regions (Figure 3) when people have to decide how many items intervened (the lag) between the first and second presentation of the same item.
Funding
Graham, K., Butler, C., Davies, Rafal, R. & Wilding, E.L. (2012-2015). Testing for material-specific effects in long-term memory: evidence from amnesia and functional neuroimaging. Funded by a MRC Research Grant (£900K).
Wilding, E. (2011-2013). Refining models of memory via real-time measures of neural activity. Funded by a BBSRC Research Grant. (£200K).
Wilding, E. (2011-2012). Psychophysiological investigations of interference during memory retrieval. Funded by a Bial Foundation Research Grant. (£37K).
Greve, A. & Wilding, E.L. (2011-2012). A psychophysiological investigation of semantic contributions to episodic retrieval. Funded by a Bial Foundation Research Grant. (£37K).
Wilding, E. (2006-2010). Multi-modal brain imaging studies of memory control processes. Funded by a BBSRC Research Grant. (£295K).
Wilding, E. (2006-2010). The role of inhibition in age-related changes in cognitive performance. Funded by a BBSRC Targeted Priority Studentship (£80K).
Wilding, E. (2005-2008). An investigation of the relationship between remembering, forgetting and inhibition in episodic retrieval. Funded by a BBSRC Research Grant. (£165K).
Wilding, E. (2005-2008). Inhibitory processes in attention and memory in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's Disease. Funded by a MRC Capacity Building Studentship (£56K).
Wilding, E. (2005-2006). Selecting a past to remember: Psychophysiological studies of selective retrieval. Funded by a Bial Foundation Research Grant (£30K).
Wilding, E. (2002-2005). Event-related potential studies of retrieval sets and their sequelae. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Research Grant (£117K).
Wilding, E. (2001-2004). An investigation of episodic memory retrieval processes using event-related potentials. Funded by a BBSRC Research Grant (£118K).
Wilding, E. (1998-2000). MRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. Event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of memory retrieval processes (£95K).
Wilding, E., Iversen, S.D., Nobre, A.C. & S.M. Oxbury. (1997-1999). Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in temporal-lobectomy patients and controls. Funded by the Epilepsy Research Foundation (£12.5K).
Research Group
Lisa Evans (Research Fellow)
Aime Doidge (Psychology Postgraduate)
Research Collaborators
Charan Ranganath (Centre for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis)
Kim Graham (Psychology, Cardiff University)
Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Research Interests
I am interested in supervising PhD research broadly within the area of human long-term memory. The majority of projects would involve brain imaging studies of memory encoding and/or retrieval (some combination of electroencephalography [EEG], functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI] and magnetoencephalography [MEG]). Areas of particular interest at present include: (i) research into psychological and neuroanatomical models of memory for when events occurred, (ii) MEG studies of psychological models of recognition memory, and (iii) research into task-switching during memory retrieval.
If you are interested in applying for a PhD, or for further information regarding my postgraduate research, please contact me directly (contact details available on the 'Overview' page), or submit a formal application here.
Previous Students
Rachael Elward. Rachael investigated how cognitive control over memory retrieval is exerted, using measures including neuropsychological batteries, EEG and fMRI. She is now a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Texas, Dallas.
Hilary Watson. Using fMRI, Hilary investigated the memory processes that are supported by supported by sub-regions of the human medial temporal lobe. She is now a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psycholgy at Oxford University.
Ida-Maria Skavhaug. Ida-Maria was based at Stirling University. I supervised her in collaboration with Professor David Donaldson. She used behavioural and ERP measures to study how people make prospective judgments about how likely they are to remember experiences at later points in time. Ida-Maria is now a post-doctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Davis.
Emma Bridger. Emma studied individual differences in the engagement of memory control operations using ERPs. She is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Saarbrucken, Germany.
Damian Cruse. Damian completed a series of ERP studies on the roles played by the pre-frontal cortex in memory for context. He is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Brain and Mind at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Hamid Mohseni .(supervised jointly with Saeid Sanei, Engineering, Cardiff University). Hamid developed a series of algorithms to improve the resolution of source-localisation single-trial extraction routines for real-time measures of neural activity. He is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering, Oxford University.
Yee (Belle) Yick. Belle studied the processes supporting recognition memory for faces using ERPs. She is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the School of Psychology, University of Durham.
Mariam Dzulkifli. Mariam studied competing accounts for ways in which contrl of memory retrieval can be exerted. She is currently a Lecturer in Psychology, International University of Islam, Malaysia.
Giles Greene. Giles investigated the processes underpinning the auditory attentional blink. He is currently a Scientific Research Officer in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University.
Nazanin Azimian-Faridani. Nazanin studied the sensitivity of ERPs to the process of item familiarity. She is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.
Nicole Bridson. Nicole studied how people can prioritise remembering some kinds of information at the expense of other kinds, using ERPs and ERFs (the magnetic counterpart to ERPs).
Kerrie Grove. Kerrie studied how people make judgments about when events occurred, using ERPs and questionnaire studies. She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University.
Biography
Undergraduate Education
BSc Psychology (First Class Honours), University of Sheffield
Postgraduate Education
MSc Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, St Andrews University
Employment
1996-1999: MRC Research Fellow, University of Oxford
1999-2007: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2007-2010: Reader, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2010-2012: Professor (Personal Chair), Cardiff University
2012-present: Professor and Head of School, School of Psychology, Cardiff University