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    Professor Richard (Rik) Henson

    (he/him/his)
    University Position
    Professor
    Professor Richard (Rik) Henson is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

    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 brain imaging

    Key Publications

    Distinct roles for the anterior temporal lobe and angular gyrus in the spatiotemporal cortical semantic network.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab501
    Journal: Cereb Cortex
    E-pub date: 8 Oct 2022
    Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, RN Henson, AM Woollams, O Hauk

    Brain charts for the human lifespan

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.08.447489
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
    Authors: RAI Bethlehem, J Seidlitz, SR White, JW Vogel, KM Anderson, C Adamson, S Adler, GS Alexopoulos, E Anagnostou, A Areces-Gonzalez, DE Astle, B Auyeung, M Ayub, G Ball, S Baron-Cohen, R Beare, SA Bedford, V Benegal, F Beyer, J Bin Bae, J Blangero, M Blesa Cábez, JP Boardman, M Borzage, JF Bosch-Bayard, N Bourke, VD Calhoun, MM Chakravarty, C Chen, C Chertavian, G Chetelat, YS Chong, JH Cole, A Corvin, M Costantino, E Courchesne, F Crivello, VL Cropley, J Crosbie, N Crossley, M Delarue, R Delorme, S Desrivieres, G Devenyi, MA Di Biase, R Dolan, KA Donald, G Donohoe, K Dunlop, AD Edwards, JT Elison, CT Ellis, JA Elman, L Eyler, DA Fair, E Feczko, PC Fletcher, P Fonagy, CE Franz, L Galan-Garcia, A Gholipour, J Giedd, JH Gilmore, DC Glahn, I Goodyer, PE Grant, NA Groenewold, FM Gunning, RE Gur, RC Gur, CF Hammill, O Hansson, T Hedden, A Heinz, RN Henson, K Heuer, J Hoare, B Holla, AJ Holmes, R Holt, H Huang, K Im, J Ipser, CR Jack, AP Jackowski, T Jia, KA Johnson, PB Jones, DT Jones, R Kahn, H Karlsson, L Karlsson, R Kawashima, EA Kelley, S Kern, K Kim, MG Kitzbichler, WS Kremen, F Lalonde, B Landeau, S Lee, J Lerch, JD Lewis, J Li, W Liao, C Liston, MV Lombardo, J Lv, C Lynch, TT Mallard, M Marcelis, RD Markello, SR Mathias, B Mazoyer, P McGuire, MJ Meaney, A Mechelli, N Medic, B Misic, SE Morgan, D Mothersill, J Nigg, MQW Ong, C Ortinau, C Ortinau, R Ossenkoppele, M Ouyang, L Palaniyappan, L Paly, PM Pan, C Pantelis, MM Park, T Paus, Z Pausova, D Paz-Linares, A Pichet Binette, K Pierce, X Qian, J Qiu, A Qiu, A Raznahan, T Rittman, A Rodrigue, CK Rollins, R Romero-Garcia, L Ronan, MD Rosenberg, DH Rowitch, GA Salum, TD Satterthwaite, HL Schaare, RJ Schachar, AP Schultz, G Schumann, M Schöll, D Sharp, RT Shinohara, I Skoog, CD Smyser, RA Sperling, DJ Stein, A Stolicyn, J Suckling, G Sullivan, Y Taki, B Thyreau, R Toro, N Traut, KA Tsvetanov, NB Turk-Browne, JJ Tuulari, C Tzourio, É Vachon-Presseau, MJ Valdes-Sosa, PA Valdes-Sosa, SL Valk, T van Amelsvoort, SN Vandekar, L Vasung, LW Victoria, S Villeneuve, A Villringer, A Villringer, PE Vértes, K Wagstyl, YS Wang, SK Warfield, V Warrier, E Westman, ML Westwater, HC Whalley, AV Witte, N Yang, B Yeo, H Yun, A Zalesky, HJ Zar, A Zettergren, JH Zhou, H Ziauddeen, A Zugman, XN Zuo, ET Bullmore, AF Alexander-Bloch, 3R-BRAIN, AIBL, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Alzheimer’s Disease Repository Without Borders Investigators, UMN BCP, CALM Team, Cam-CAN, CCNP, COBRE, Developing Human Connectome Project, ENIGMA Developmental Brain Age working group, FinnBrain, Harvard Aging Brain Study, IMAGEN, KNE96, The Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, NSPN, POND, The PREVENT-AD Research Group, VETSA

    Multi-dimensional connectivity: a conceptual and mathematical review.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117179
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2020
    Authors: A Basti, H Nili, O Hauk, L Marzetti, RN Henson

    Publications

    Path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526473
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 3 Feb 2023
    Authors: C Newton, M Pope, C Rua, R Henson, Z Ji, N Burgess, CT Rodgers, M Stangl, M-E Dounavi, A Castegnaro, I Koychev, P Malhotra, T Wolbers, K Ritchie, CW Ritchie, J O'Brien, L Su, D Chan, PREVENT Dementia Research Programme

    Medial temporal lobe structure, mnemonic and perceptual discrimination in healthy older adults and those at risk for mild cognitive impairment.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.11.004
    Journal: Neurobiol Aging
    E-pub date: 1 Feb 2023
    Authors: HM Gellersen, AN Trelle, BG Farrar, G Coughlan, SM Korkki, RN Henson, JS Simons

    Modified MRI Anonymization (De-Facing) for Improved MEG Coregistration.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9100591
    Journal: Bioengineering (Basel)
    E-pub date: 21 Oct 2022
    Authors: R Bruña, D Vaghari, A Greve, E Cooper, MO Mada, RN Henson

    A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119344
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Sep 2022
    Authors: D Vaghari, R Bruna, LE Hughes, D Nesbitt, R Tibon, JB Rowe, F Maestu, RN Henson

    Modified MRI anonymization (de-facing) for improved MEG coregistration

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.20.488466
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: R Bruña, D Vaghari, A Greve, E Cooper, M Mada, R Henson

    Medial temporal lobe structure, mnemonic and perceptual discrimination in healthy older adults and those at risk for mild cognitive impairment

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.13.491810
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: H Gellersen, A Trelle, B Farrar, G Coughlan, S Korkki, R Henson, J Simons

    Caveats and Nuances of Model-Based and Model-Free Representational Connectivity Analysis.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.755988
    Journal: Front Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
    Authors: H Karimi-Rouzbahani, A Woolgar, R Henson, H Nili

    Late combination shows that MEG adds to MRI in classifying MCI versus controls.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119054
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 15 May 2022
    Authors: D Vaghari, E Kabir, RN Henson

    Brain charts for the human lifespan

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04554-y
    Journal: Nature
    E-pub date: 6 Apr 2022
    Authors: RAI Bethlehem, J Seidlitz, SR White, JW Vogel, KM Anderson, C Adamson, S Adler, GS Alexopoulos, E Anagnostou, A Areces-Gonzalez, DE Astle, B Auyeung, M Ayub, G Ball, S Baron-Cohen, R Beare, SA Bedford, V Benegal, F Beyer, J Bin Bae, J Blangero, M Blesa Cábez, JP Boardman, M Borzage, JF Bosch-Bayard, N Bourke, VD Calhoun, MM Chakravarty, C Chen, C Chertavian, G Chetelat, YS Chong, JH Cole, A Corvin, E Courchesne, F Crivello, VL Cropley, J Crosbie, N Crossley, M Delarue, S Desrivieres, G Devenyi, MA Di Biase, R Dolan, KA Donald, G Donohoe, K Dunlop, AD Edwards, JT Elison, CT Ellis, JA Elman, L Eyler, DA Fair, PC Fletcher, P Fonagy, CE Franz, L Galan-Garcia, A Gholipour, J Giedd, JH Gilmore, DC Glahn, I Goodyer, PE Grant, NA Groenewold, FM Gunning, RE Gur, RC Gur, CF Hammill, O Hansson, T Hedden, A Heinz, R Henson, K Heuer, J Hoare, B Holla, AJ Holmes, R Holt, H Huang, K Im, J Ipser, CR Jack, AP Jackowski, T Jia, KA Johnson, PB Jones, DT Jones, R Kahn, H Karlsson, L Karlsson, R Kawashima, EA Kelley, S Kern, K Kim, MG Kitzbichler, WS Kremen, F Lalonde, B Landeau, S Lee, J Lerch, JD Lewis, J Li, W Liao, DP Linares, C Liston, MV Lombardo, J Lv, C Lynch, TT Mallard, M Marcelis, RD Markello, B Mazoyer, P McGuire, MJ Meaney, A Mechelli, N Medic, B Misic, SE Morgan, D Mothersill, J Nigg, MQW Ong, C Ortinau, R Ossenkoppele, M Ouyang, L Palaniyappan, L Paly, PM Pan, C Pantelis, MM Park, T Paus, Z Pausova, A Pichet Binette, K Pierce, X Qian, J Qiu, A Qiu, A Raznahan, T Rittman, CK Rollins, R Romero-Garcia, L Ronan, MD Rosenberg, DH Rowitch, GA Salum, TD Satterthwaite, HL Schaare, RJ Schachar, AP Schultz, G Schumann, M Schöll, D Sharp, RT Shinohara, I Skoog, CD Smyser, RA Sperling, DJ Stein, A Stolicyn, J Suckling, G Sullivan, Y Taki, B Thyreau, R Toro, KA Tsvetanov, NB Turk-Browne, JJ Tuulari, C Tzourio, É Vachon-Presseau, MJ Valdes-Sosa, PA Valdes-Sosa, SL Valk, T van Amelsvoort, SN Vandekar, L Vasung, LW Victoria, S Villeneuve, A Villringer, PE Vértes, K Wagstyl, YS Wang, SK Warfield, V Warrier, E Westman, ML Westwater, HC Whalley, AV Witte, N Yang, BTT Yeo, HJ Yun, A Zalesky, HJ Zar, A Zettergren, JH Zhou, H Ziauddeen, A Zugman, XN Zuo, AF Alexander-Bloch, AIBL, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Alzheimer’s Disease Repository Without Borders Investigators, ASRB, CALM Team, Cam-CAN, CCNP, 3R-BRAIN, COBRE, ENIGMA Developmental Brain Age working group, FinnBrain, Harvard Aging Brain Study, IMAGEN, KNE96, NSPN, OASIS-3, OpenPain Project, POND, The PREVENT-AD Research Group, VETSA, Bullmore, E.T

    A morphometric double dissociation: cortical thickness is more related to aging; surface area is more related to cognition

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.30.462545
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2021
    Authors: GS Borgeest, RN Henson, TC Kietzmann, CR Madan, T Fox, M Malpetti, D Fuhrmann, E Knights, JD Carlin, RA Kievit

    Caveats and nuances of model-based and model-free representational connectivity analysis

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.10.455841
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 11 Aug 2021
    Authors: H Karimi-Rouzbahani, A Woolgar, R Henson, H Nili

    A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.19.21257330
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
    Authors: D Vaghari, R Bruna, L Hughes, D Nesbitt, R Tibon, J Rowe, F Maestu, R Henson

    Correcting for Superficial Bias in 7T Gradient Echo fMRI

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.20.392258
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 22 Nov 2020
    Authors: P Huang, MM Correia, C Rua, CT Rodgers, RN Henson, JD Carlin

    Perceptual and conceptual processing of visual objects across the adult lifespan.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50254-5
    Journal: Sci Rep
    E-pub date: 24 Sep 2019
    Authors: R Bruffaerts, LK Tyler, M Shafto, KA Tsvetanov, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, A Clarke

    Multimodal Integration and Vividness in the Angular Gyrus During Episodic Encoding and Retrieval.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2102-18.2018
    Journal: J Neurosci
    E-pub date: 29 May 2019
    Authors: R Tibon, D Fuhrmann, DA Levy, JS Simons, RN Henson

    Neurophysiological signatures of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: pathology versus phenotype.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy180
    Journal: Brain
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2018
    Authors: S Sami, N Williams, LE Hughes, TE Cope, T Rittman, ITS Coyle-Gilchrist, RN Henson, JB Rowe

    Declines in representational quality and strategic retrieval processes contribute to age-related increases in false recognition.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000412
    Journal: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2017
    Authors: AN Trelle, RN Henson, DAE Green, JS Simons

    No effect of hippocampal lesions on stimulus-response bindings.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.024
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    E-pub date: 31 Aug 2017
    Authors: RN Henson, AJ Horner, A Greve, E Cooper, M Gregori, JS Simons, S Erzinçlioğlu, G Browne, N Kapur

    Adaptive Cortical Parcellations for Source Reconstructed EEG/MEG Connectomes

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/097774
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2017
    Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, R Henson, O Hauk

    The effects of hippocampal lesions on MRI measures of structural and functional connectivity.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22621
    Journal: Hippocampus
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2016
    Authors: RN Henson, A Greve, E Cooper, M Gregori, JS Simons, L Geerligs, S Erzinçlioğlu, N Kapur, G Browne

    Distinct aspects of frontal lobe structure mediate age-related differences in fluid intelligence and multitasking.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6658
    Journal: Nat Commun
    E-pub date: 18 Dec 2014
    Authors: RA Kievit, SW Davis, DJ Mitchell, JR Taylor, J Duncan, Cam-CAN Research Team, RNA Henson, Cam-CAN Research Team

    Did I turn off the gas? Reality monitoring of everyday actions.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-013-0189-z
    Journal: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2014
    Authors: VC Brandt, ZM Bergström, M Buda, RNA Henson, JS Simons

    Multimodal imaging reveals the spatiotemporal dynamics of recollection.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.030
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2013
    Authors: ZM Bergström, RN Henson, JR Taylor, JS Simons

    The Scale of Functional Specialization within Human Prefrontal Cortex.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3220-09.2010
    Journal: J Neurosci
    E-pub date: 27 Jan 2010
    Authors: SJ Gilbert, RNA Henson, JS Simons

    Separable forms of reality monitoring supported by anterior prefrontal cortex.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20036
    Journal: J Cogn Neurosci
    E-pub date: 1 Mar 2008
    Authors: JS Simons, RNA Henson, SJ Gilbert, PC Fletcher