I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, working on projects within the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN) and the Memory Control Lab. Since my PhD, my research has focused on brain mechanisms underlying episodic memory, ageing, and memory control. I have developed methodological expertise across behavioural experimentation, intracranial and scalp EEG, MEG, fMRI, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), together with advanced analytical skills for multimodal data integration.

Bio
I earned my PhD in 2013 from the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain, under the supervision of Mercedes Atienza and José Luis Cantero. I then completed my first postdoctoral position at the University of Konstanz, where I worked in Sarang Dalal’s group and was a member of the Zukunftskolleg as a Marie Curie Fellow. In 2017, I moved to Cambridge to join the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Michael Anderson’s group, supported by a Newton International Fellowship from the Royal Society. Since 2021, I have held a position as Research Associate.

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Preprints

• • Crespo-García, M., Apšvalka, D., Demetriou, I., Attaheri, A., Bingham, T., Aller, M., Henson, R. Longitudinal versus Cross-sectional effects of Age on MEG Power Spectra Parameters: Implications for Normative Models and Brain Ageing. bioRxiv. [Link]
• • Demetriou, I., Attaheri, A., Bingham, T., Duckett, W., Bridge, L., Raykov, P., Tsvetanov, K. A., Correia, M., Apšvalka, D., Crespo-García, M., Campbell, K., Morcom, A., Mitchell, D. J., Rowe, J., Wolpe, N., Henderson, S. E., Cam-CAN, Henson, R. The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) longitudinal study protocol: Phase 4 (“Enrichment”) and Phase 5 (“Rescan”). medRxiv. [Link]

Publications

• • Karvat, G., Crespo-García, M., Vishne, G., Landau, A., Anderson, M. C. (2026) Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics. Nat Commun. [Link]
• • Khan A, Liu J, Crespo-García M, Yuan K, Hu CP, Ren Z, Ti CE, Oathes DJ, Tong RK. (2025) From Correlation to Causation: Understanding Episodic Memory Networks. Neurosci Bull. 41(8):1463-1486.
• • Anderson MC, Crespo-García M, Subbulakshmi S. (2025) Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought. Nat Rev Neurosci. 26(7):415-437. [Link]
• • Khan A, Ti CHE, Yuan K, Crespo-García M, Anderson MC, Tong RK. (2024) Medial Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation Reduces Retrieval-Induced Forgetting via Fronto-parietal Beta Desynchronization. J Neurosci. 44(37):e0189242024.
• • Crespo-García M, Wang Y, Jiang M, Anderson MC, Lei X. (2022) Anterior Cingulate Cortex Signals the Need to Control Intrusive Thoughts during Motivated Forgetting. J Neurosci. 42(21):4342-4359. [Link]
• • Ruzich E, Crespo-García M, Dalal SS, Schneiderman JF. (2019) Characterizing hippocampal dynamics with MEG: A systematic review and evidence-based guidelines. Hum Brain Mapp. 40(4):1353-1375. [Link]
• • Clausner T, Dalal SS, Crespo-García M. (2017) Photogrammetry-Based Head Digitization for Rapid and Accurate Localization of EEG Electrodes and MEG Fiducial Markers Using a Single Digital SLR Camera. Front Neurosci. 11:264. [Link]
• • Crespo-García M, Zeiller M, Leupold C, Kreiselmeyer G, Rampp S, Hamer HM, Dalal SS. (2016) Slow-theta power decreases during item-place encoding predict spatial accuracy of subsequent context recall. Neuroimage. 142:533-543. [Link]
• • Crespo-García M, Hartmann T. (2014) Does illusory flickering result from rhythmic sampling of visual stimuli? J Neurosci. 34(2):343-5. (Journal Club article)
• • Crespo-García M, Pinal D, Cantero JL, Díaz F, Zurrón M, Atienza M. (2013) Working memory processes are mediated by local and long-range synchronization of alpha oscillations. J Cogn Neurosci. 25(8):1343-57. [Link]
• • Crespo-García M, Cantero JL, Atienza M. (2012) Effects of semantic relatedness on age-related associative memory deficits: the role of theta oscillations. Neuroimage. 61(4):1235-48. [Link]
• • Gollo LL, Mirasso CR, Atienza M, Crespo-García M, Cantero JL. (2011) Theta band zero-lag long-range cortical synchronization via hippocampal dynamical relaying. PLoS One. 6(3):e17756.
• • Atienza M, Crespo-García M, Cantero JL. (2011) Semantic congruence enhances memory of episodic associations: role of theta oscillations. J Cogn Neurosci. 23(1):75-90. [Link]
• • Crespo-García M, Cantero JL, Pomyalov A, Boccaletti S, Atienza M. (2010) Functional neural networks underlying semantic encoding of associative memories. Neuroimage. 50(3):1258-70. [Link]
• • Crespo-García M, Atienza M, Cantero JL. (2008) Muscle artifact removal from human sleep EEG by using independent component analysis. Ann Biomed Eng. 36(3):467-75. [Link]