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27 Apr 2023: Research Interests. . Our research investigates the cognitive and brain mechanisms of human memory, focusing particularly on the subjective experience of remembering and how we use mental experiences to make sense of the world. This work involves

4 Apr 2018: in people whose ability to remember may be disrupted.

15 Oct 2019: Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. The Memory Laboratory offices are based in the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), which is marked on this map of the Downing science site in central Cambridge. Parking is

29 Oct 2021: However, he added that, for the majority of people, a "reality monitoring function" acted as a filter for imagined scenarios. ... In the people who did not remember correctly, activation in brain area 10 was reduced.

9 Jan 2020: Consultancy Services. Based at thewe conduct research aimed at understanding how learning and memory processes operate in the human brain. Members of the laboratory are happy to engage in consultancy projects as an effective way for our research to

29 Oct 2021: Interestingly, there is evidence that this region may be one area of the brain that shows changes in people with schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder in which people often have difficulty discriminating ... Generally, we design our tasks to be

29 Oct 2021: Cambridge Memory Meeting 2013. Thursday, 21 February 2013, 9.30am - 3pm. Venue: The Old Library, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. The aim of this Cambridge-wide memory meeting is to encourage more interaction between the many local groups

22 Jan 2024: Publications. . In the interests of open science, manuscripts are freely available under a CC-BY open access license, allowing unrestricted distribution and re-use, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original authors. Source data, tasks,

13 Jul 2018: Teaching. B.A. Natural Sciences Tripos, University of Cambridge. Part 1B Experimental Psychology (Higher Cognition module). This module offered in the Michaelmas Term will cover a number of the theoretical concepts and methodological approaches used

12 Sep 2023: PsyArXiv. An increasing number of real-world interventions aim to preemptively protect or "inoculate" people against misinformation.

29 Oct 2021: We examined whether people could use retrieval suppression to conceal neural evidence of incriminating memories as indexed by Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). ... When people were motivated to suppress crime retrieval, their memory-related ERP effects

29 Oct 2021: An effect of semantic knowledge on recognition memory became apparent only when perceptually different photographs of the famous people were used at study and test.

29 Oct 2021: in press). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 667-679. People can employ adaptive strategies to increase the likelihood that previously encoded information will be successfully retrieved.

29 Oct 2021: The present study examined the effects of aging on specific source memory (e.g., remembering which of four people spoke a word) and "partial" source memory (e.g., remembering the gender

29 Oct 2021: People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit subtle deficits in recollection, which have been proposed to arise from encoding impairments, though a direct link has yet to be demonstrated.

29 Oct 2021: Research links the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) with a number of social cognitive processes that involve reflecting on oneself and other people.

29 Oct 2021: 2017). Cortex, 91, 197-207. ( joint first-authors). People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources)

22 Feb 2012: In three weeks, over 27,000 people took part. ‘It was great funcollaborating with The Guardian,’ Simons told us. ... Thanks to lots of publicity by them,and hundreds of people sharing and re-tweeting the weblink around the world, we hadan

5 Nov 2018: Their behavioural recruitment. is powered by live social data. on two billion people in over. ... Dr Simons says there are many reasons people hate scary situations such as watching horror.

19 Jun 2019: One example includes evidence of categorical differ-ences within people presenting with psychosis-like expe-riences in the general population. ... Another challenge is to understand the therapeutic needs of people with different hallucination subtypes so