Programme
The workshop will span over two days, and will begin after lunch on day one and finish in the afternoon on day two, so that most participants will be able to travel to University of Kent in the morning of day one, stay over one night, and then travel back at the end of day two.
Below is an indicative schedule (note that this may be subject to change, except the start and end times).
Below is an indicative schedule (note that this may be subject to change, except the start and end times).
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Speakers
Professor Michael Anderson is professor of cognitive neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. After finishing his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994 and a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1995, where he formed the Memory Control Laboratory. Over the past 20 years, his group has been studying the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which people control unwanted memories, with a particular focus on the involvement of motivated inhibitory control. He is widely known internationally for his work on people’s ability to suppress memory retrieval, and the potential role that such mechanisms may play in inducing both incidental and motivated forgetting, with work appearing in Science, Nature, and Psychological Review. In 2007, he moved this group to the United Kingdom, first to Scotland, then Cambridge, where he has been since 2009. His current research focuses on developing a neurobiological model of how inhibitory control may contribute to memory regulation, in work that spans from cognition to synapses, with the objective of applying this basic science to helping those suffering from intrusive memories.
Dr Dace Apšvalka is a postdoctoral research fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. Together with Prof. Michael C. Anderson and his lab she is investigating fundamental mechanisms of memory control in humans. She started her career in computer science and information systems. However, after 10 years of professional and academic work in that field, she gave up her position to follow her increasing interest in neuroscience and neuroimaging applications in studies of the brain.
Dr Zara Bergstrom is a senior lecturer in cognitive psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Kent. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, and then worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Universities of Magdeburg, Germany, and Cambridge, UK, before joining Kent in 2012. Her research investigates the brain mechanisms underlying long-term memory retrieval, with particular focus on the cognitive control of memory and mechanisms of forgetting and memory distortion. Some of this research investigates implications of intentional forgetting and memory distortions on applications in the forensic domain, whereas other projects investigate the effects of healthy ageing on memory retrieval.
Dr Maite Crespo-Garcia is a Newton International Fellow funded by the Royal Society to develop the project “Voluntary Suppression of Unwanted Memories: The Medial Septal Pacemaker Hypothesis” at Michael Anderson’s Memory Control Lab. The goal of this multimodal project is to investigate whether voluntarily stopping retrieval may be accomplished via the suppression of the medial septum, a critical pacemaker for hippocampal theta oscillations. Her research has been dedicated to investigate how neural oscillations mediate different memory processes in humans. She has specialized on noninvasive electrophysiological techniques such as EEG/MEG and the application of beamformers to infer the sources of oscillatory activity. This methodology is combined with time-frequency spectral analyses to determine changes in regional brain activation, as well as phase-locking methods to investigate long-distance communication between brain regions.
Dr Catarina Ferreira is a postdoctoral researcher in the Memory and Attention group at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. She is interested in long-term memory retrieval, concretely in understanding how memories are retrieved, and why some memory representations become increasingly stronger while others fade out. On her postdoctoral grant, she aims to investigate how actively retrieving a representation (through testing, for instance) changes it, and what neural mechanisms modulate these changes and potentiate long-term retention.
Dr Robin Hellerstedt is a postdoctoral researcher at the university of Kent. His research investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying long-term memory retrieval. He is particularly interested in the consequences of long-term memory retrieval, for example how retrieval can induce updating of the retrieved memories and forgetting of other related memories. He is currently working on a project in which he uses a combination of behavioural, electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods to investigate how retrieval can change memories.
Dr Amir-Homayoun Javadi is a senior lecturer in cognitive neuroscience at the School of Psychology, University of Kent, an honorary research associate at Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London, and a visiting professor at School of Rehabilitation at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Prior to taking up his position at University of Kent he was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (UK), Dresden University of Technology (Germany) and Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). With a background in electrical engineering he finished his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Combining his engineering and scientific training, he aims at using different tools and methods to understand brain mechanisms underneath memory, learning and decision making. His ultimate goal is to develop innovative intervention methods to help healthy ageing and faster rehabilitation and recovery of individuals suffering from a form of brain injury, such as stroke.
Professor Mikael Johansson is professor of psychology at the Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden. His research involves the use of behavioral, electrophysiological (EEG/ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of memory and cognitive control, as well as how memory functions are affected in psychiatric conditions, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Research interests include interactions between memory systems; formation and retrieval of episodic memories; emotion regulation and emotional memory; mechanisms underlying incidental and intentional forgetting; relationship between eye-movements, mental imagery and memory.
Dr Louis Renoult is a lecturer in psychology at the School of Psychology, University of East Anglia. He completed his PhD at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 2010 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Rotman Research Institute (Baycrest, Toronto) and at the University of Ottawa from 2010 to 2013. His general interest is in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience of memory and more precisely in the characterization of similarities, differences, and interactions between the semantic and episodic memory systems. He uses behavioural as well as functional neuroimaging methods (ERPs, fMRI) in his research.
Dr Deborah Talmi is a senior lecturer at the Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester. She began her studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and subsequently completed her Ph.D. with Morris Moscovitch at the University of Toronto, Canada, investigating how cognitive mechanisms enhance memory for emotional material. Subsequently, she was a post-doctoral research fellow with Ray Dolan and Chris Frith at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in UCL, and joined Manchester as a lecturer in 2009. Her over-arching research aim is to understand why, and under what conditions, we remember emotionally-arousing information better than neutral information. A key strand of this research involves behavioural and neuroimaging investigations of memory encoding and retrieval, and the development of a theoretical framework that builds on retrieved context memory models.
Dr. Peggy L. St. Jacques obtained her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, USA, after completing an Honours BSc in Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She then conducted an NRSA funded post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, USA, before moving to the UK to as a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada where she is the director of the Memory for Events Lab. Her research investigates the construction of naturalistic event memories by employing behavioral and fMRI approaches. She was recently named an Association for Psychological Science Rising Star and elected to the prestigious Memory Disorders Research Society.