Lab members
Carl Hodgetts
Principle Investigator
Profile
Carl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He completed an EU-funded PhD in Experimental Psychology at Cardiff University. After this, he joined Kim Graham’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher, where he trained in neuroimaging methods. In 2016, I was awarded a Wellcome ISSF fellowship to study the role of hippocampal subfields in scene perception using 7T MRI at the University of Oxford. This led to Research Fellow position at the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). He joined Royal Holloway as a lecturer of cognitive neuroscience in 2019, where he uses neuroimaging and behavioural approaches to understand how the brain forms representations of space and events in more naturalistic contexts.
Kavishini Apasamy
PhD student
Profile
Kavishini's research interest lies in understanding the neuroanatomy underlying cognition and how different brain networks might be impacted throughout ageing and pathology. She completed her BSc in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2022. In 2021, after her second year, she was awarded the ‘Outstanding Student Research Bursary’ to pursue a six-week research placement investigating how written and spoken memories affect autobiographical narrative coherence. In 2022, she started her PhD, supervised by Dr Carl Hodgetts and Prof Narender Ramnani, investigating the connectivity between the hippocampus and the cerebellum in humans, and role of this connection in spatial navigation.
Eleanor Alderman
PhD student
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Eleanor's research interests involve understanding how visual perception influences episodic memory – the recollection of personal past events. Her PhD research explores how our eye movements and direction of visual attention within naturalistic environments affects the accuracy and detail of our memory for both real-world scenes and episodic experiences. By integrating eye tracking, virtual reality, and functional neuroimaging approaches, she aims to understand how visual exploration across a variety of everyday scenes influences memory formation and retrieval processes, with the aim of finding ways to improve memory by guiding visual attention within real-world spaces.
Ben Stallard
PhD student
Profile
Carl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He completed an EU-funded PhD in Experimental Psychology at Cardiff University. After this, he joined Kim Graham’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher, where he trained in neuroimaging methods. In 2016, I was awarded a Wellcome ISSF fellowship to study the role of hippocampal subfields in scene perception using 7T MRI at the University of Oxford. This led to Research Fellow position at the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). He joined Royal Holloway as a lecturer of cognitive neuroscience in 2019, where he uses neuroimaging and behavioural approaches to understand how the brain forms representations of space and events in more naturalistic contexts.
Lab alumni
Postdoctoral scientists
Lucie Read
Data scientist
Office of National Statistics
Sam Berry
Postdoctoral scientist
Royal Holloway
PhD students
Rikki Lissaman
Lecturer
Royal Holloway
Sam Ridgeway
Principal medical writer
HH Global
Rotation student and undergraduate RAs
Xanthe Bradford (BBSRC LIDo rotation student)
Ellie Carre (Undergraduate research assistant)
Isabella Jacques (Undergraduate research assistant)
Harsimran Suri (Undergraduate research assistant)
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