Frank Hezemans University positionPhD student Departments
InstitutesMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Frank.Hezemans@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Home pagehttp://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/... (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsI study the cognitive and neural mechanisms with which we plan and control action, in health and after the development of dementia. The control of action depends on the integration of predicted consequences of action with sensory information, modulated by experience. As the brain changes with normal ageing or disease (such as dementia), the essential sensorimotor integration and the use of experience are impaired. In addition to affecting learning and control of action, a consequence of these changes can be apathy. I use psychophysical and cognitive tools, in combination with modelling and neuroimaging, to develop a mechanistic account of apathy. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Pupillometry Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsHezemans FH, Wolpe N, Rowe JB (2020), “Apathy is associated with reduced precision of prior beliefs about action outcomes” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Publications2021Ye R, Rua C, O'Callaghan C, Jones PS, Hezemans FH, Kaalund SS, Tsvetanov KA, Rodgers C, Williams G, Passamonti L, Rowe JB (2021), “An in vivo Probabilistic Atlas of the Human Locus Coeruleus at Ultra-high Field” NeuroImage 2020Gillan CM, Vaghi MM, Hezemans FH, van Ghesel Grothe S, Dafflon J, Brühl AB, Savulich G, Robbins TW (2020), “Experimentally-induced and real-world anxiety have no demonstrable effect on goal-directed behaviour” Psychological Medicine Holland N, Jones PS, Savulich G, Wiggins JK, Hong YT, Fryer TD, Manavaki R, Milicevic-Sephton S, Boros I, Malpetti M, Hezemans FH, Aigbirhio FI, Coles JP, O'Brien J, Rowe JB (2020), “Synaptic loss in primary tauopathies revealed by [11C] UCB-J positron emission tomography” Movement Disorders Murley AG, Rouse MA, Jones PS, Ye R, Hezemans FH, O’Callaghan C, Frangou P, Kourtzi Z, Rua C, Carpenter TA, Rodgers CT, Rowe JB (2020), “GABA and glutamate deficits from frontotemporal lobar degeneration are associated with disinhibition” Brain Wolpe, N, Hezemans, FH, Rowe, JB (2020), “Alien limb syndrome: A Bayesian account of unwanted actions” Cortex 2019Savulich G, Hezemans FH, van Ghesel Grothe S, Dafflon J, Schulten N, Brühl AB, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2019), “Acute anxiety and autonomic arousal induced by CO2 inhalation impairs prefrontal executive functions in healthy humans” Translational Psychiatry |