Rik Henson: Personal Homepage

My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to remember things in the laboratory. Even more specifically, I am interested in the neural bases of both explicit (conscious) memory and implicit (unconscious) memory, particularly the relationship between recollection, familiarity and priming. A deeper knowledge of these different expressions of memory is important for understanding the memory impairments associated with neurological damage or disease, or with "healthy" ageing, and the rehabilitation thereof.

I am an MRC Programme Leader, and a group leader of the Memory & Perception Group.

You can contact me by:

Tel: +44 (0)1223 355 294 x522
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359 062
Email: rik.henson AT mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
MRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK

You could...

• Read more about my Research
• Peruse some Publications
• Examine a CV
• Check out some web pages about fMRI/EEG/MEG analysis
• None of the above

Current Post-Docs (people who know better than me):

Jason Taylor: Relationship between recollection, familiarity and fluency, using behavioural, EEG and MEG methods.
Pierre Gagnepain: Relationship between recollection, familiarity and priming, using behavioural and fMRI methods.
Marie Smith: Effects of sleep-deprivation and drugs on cognitive performance as assayed by MEG (in collaboration with GSK)
Chris Berry (UCL): A single-process model of recognition memory and priming (ESRC research fellow).

Current Doctoral Students & RAs (people beginning to realise they know better than me):

Elias Mouchlianitis: Hemispheric asymmetries in face processing.
Aidan Horner: The role of response learning in priming.
Lorina Naci: The role of semantics in object perception.
Daniel Wakeman: Effective connectivity in face perception as measured by MEG.
Lisa Brindley: Clinical applications of MEG.
Tina Emery/Sharon Davies: Neurocognition of ageing.

Past Post-docs/Students (people who definitely know better than me):

Morgan Barense: Role of medial temporal lobe in perception.
Doris Eckstein: Subliminal priming as indexed with sandwich or mirror masking, using behavioural and EEG data.
Karen Taylor: Role of medial temporal lobes in recognition memory for faces vs scenes.
Audrey Duarte: Effects of ageing on recognition memory.
Michael Hornberger (UCL): EEG and fMRI investigations of retrieval orientation