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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 one of the group leaders of the Memory 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...
- Inspect some publications
- Examine a CV
- Check out some webpages about fMRI/EEG/MEG analysis
- None of the above
Current Post-Docs (people who know better than me):
Jason Taylor: Relation between recollection, familiarity and fluency, using behavioural, EEG and MEG methods.
Morgan Barense: Role of medial temporal lobe in perception, using data from patients with focal lesions and dementia, and from fMRI.
Doris Eckstein: Subliminal priming as indexed with sandwich or mirror masking, using behavioural and EEG data.
Oleg Korzyukov: Methodological development for MEG.
Chris Berry (UCL): A single-process model of recognition memory and priming (ESRC research fellow).
Current Doctoral Students (people beginning to realise they know better than me):
KarenTaylor: Role of medial temporal lobes in recognition memory for faces vs scenes.
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.
Lisa Brindley: Clinical applications of MEG.
Past Post-docs/Students (people who definitely know better than me):
Audrey Duarte: Effects of ageing on recognition memory.
Michael Hornberger (UCL): EEG and fMRI investigations of retrieval orientation