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Current research projects in the Memory & Perception Group
The research environment at the CBU is dynamic, with new questions, technologies, and collaborations constantly emerging. The following projects provide a general summary of the Memory & Perception Group's research.
Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying memory control and forgetting (Anderson)
This project uses behavioural, haemodynamic (fMRI) and electrophysiological (EEG) neuroimaging to investigate the basic cognitive and neural mechanisms by which people control the influence of distracting memories. A key focus is on the hypothesis that memory control engages systems shared with perceptually focused attention and motor stopping, to down-regulate activity in neural structures that represent past experience. The project is thus concerned with the interface of cognitive control and long-term memory, and the contributions of such interactions to forgetting. The program studies healthy volunteers, young and older, and on patients with disordered control over memory, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Further information can be obtained at my personal web page at http://www.memorycontrol.net/
The neural bases of conscious and unconscious memory (Henson)![[multimodal]](./images/multimodal_full.jpg)
This project uses haemodynamic (fMRI) and electrophysiological (EEG/MEG) neuroimaging to investigate different forms of conscious memory (specifically recollection and familiarity), and differences between conscious and unconscious memory (specifically priming), in healthy volunteers, young and older. It also includes study of the relationship between priming and perception, concentrating on visual objects and faces and their representation in ventral and medial temporal lobes.
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