Dr Richard Henson

Richard Henson

University position

MRC Programme Leader

Dr Richard Henson is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Institutes

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Home page

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~rh01/ (personal home page)

Research Themes

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Systems and Computational Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

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.

Multimodal Imaging: MRI, MEG, EEG, fMRI
Multimodal Imaging: MRI, MEG, EEG, fMRI
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Research Focus

Keywords

memory

priming

recollection

familiarity

perception

Clinical conditions

Alzheimer's disease

Amnesia

Cognitive impairment

Dementia

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Computational modelling

Electroencephalography (EEG)

functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

Cambridge

Mike Anderson

Tim Bussey

Paul Fletcher

Niko Kriegeskorte

James Rowe

Lisa Saksida

Jon Simons

United Kingdom

Karl Friston Web: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Friston/

David Shanks Web: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/david.s...

International

Michael Rugg Web: http://www.cnlm.uci.edu/rugg.htm

Timothy Shallice Web: http://www.sissa.it/cns/neu...

Key publications

Henson RN, Gagnepain P (2010), “Predictive, interactive multiple memory systems.” Hippocampus 20(11):1315-26 PDF Details

Henson RNA (2005), “What can functional imaging tell the experimental psychologist?” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A 58:193-233 PDF

Henson RN (2003), “Neuroimaging studies of priming.” Prog Neurobiol 70(1):53-81 PDF Details

Publications

2012

Barense MD, Groen II, Lee AC, Yeung LK, Brady SM, Gregori M, Kapur N, Bussey TJ, Saksida LM, Henson RN (2012), “Intact memory for irrelevant information impairs perception in amnesia.” Neuron 75(1):157-67 Details

Berry CJ, Shanks DR, Speekenbrink M, Henson RN (2012), “Models of recognition, repetition priming, and fluency: exploring a new framework.” Psychol Rev 119(1):40-79 Details

Staresina BP, Fell J, Do Lam AT, Axmacher N, Henson RN (2012), “Memory signals are temporally dissociated in and across human hippocampus and perirhinal cortex.” Nat Neurosci 15(8):1167-73 Details

van Kesteren MT, Ruiter DJ, Fernández G, Henson RN (2012), “How schema and novelty augment memory formation.” Trends Neurosci 35(4):211-9 Details