DR. DEBORAH TALMI
Deborah is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a director of studies in Psychology at Lucy Cavendish College.
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Studied in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Here's a little personal note about my mentor at the programme.
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M.A. in cognitive psychology at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Yonatan Goshen-Gottstein.
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Ph.D. with Morris Moscovitch at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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Post-doctoral training with Ray Dolan and Chris Frith at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in UCL.
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Senior lecturer at the University of Manchester until 2019, then moved to the University of Cambridge.
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A member of the Experimental Psychology Society, International Society for Research on Emotion, and the Memory Disorders Research Society.
EMILIE DE MONTPELLIER
Emilie is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and her dual Master’s degree in Brain and Mind Science at University College London (UCL; London), Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS; Paris) and Sorbonne Université (Paris).
Emilie’s PhD project is funded by the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Programme (MRC-DTP in Neuroscience and Mental Health). Her project focuses on having a clearer view of how emotion impacts episodic memory to better understand posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Episodic memory refers to a memory system in which our experienced everyday events are stored within a coherent spatiotemporal context. Episodic memories often include memory for multiple details, such as the people we interacted with, the location and context of the event, the objects encountered, as well as temporal information for when it occurred. Yet, it is not clear how emotion affects memory for these elements and their associations. Emilie’s research has translational relevance as greater understanding of the interaction between emotion and memory would enable deeper comprehension of PTSD symptoms.
Emilie has attended various conferences and symposiums. She was selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit 2022 (GYSS), and she received a scholarship from the University of Arizona to attend the Memory, Space and Time Workshop organised by Prof Lynn Nadel in November 2022 in Tucson, Arizona. Additionally, Emilie presented her work at various conferences such as the Medical Research Council (MRC) Student Symposium 2022 and at the Society for Affective Science (SAS) 2022 annual conference.
Dr Hannah Bernhard
Hannah investigates the mechanisms underlying human episodic memory and how they are influenced by emotional experience. Prior to joining the Emotion Cognition Lab, Hannah completed her PhD at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her PhD research focused on using movie clips to assess episodic memory under naturalistic conditions. She used a combination of behavioural measures, eye tracking and functional MRI to probe brain processes relevant for memory encoding.
When she’s not in the lab, Hannah likes to read, write fiction and knit sweaters.
Anastasiya Shulhan
Anastasiya is an MPhil student studying the relationship between trait-anxiety, similarity perception, and war experience. She previously attended the University of Florida, where she worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention. Here, with the guidance of Dr. Andreas Keil she completed her senior thesis and graduated in 2022. Originally dawning from Ukraine, she took up an interest in refugee health and trauma recovery after witnessing the harrowing and lasting impacts conflict related trauma had on her family and countrymen. She hopes to gain greater insight into how anxiety disorders relate to aberrant emotional similarity perception to ultimately help at risk populations, like refugees, overcome their past traumas and adapt to their new environments.
Juliette Dupertuys
Juliette is currently completing an MPhil in Biological Science at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal in 2022. Currently, she is studying the contributions of emotional and semantic similarity on memory recall dynamics at the Cambridge Emotional Cognition Lab.”
Qiying Liu
Qiying (Kelly) is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Toronto. She is currently investigating the influence of emotion on temporal memory. In her spare time, she enjoys playing with her cat and travelling.
LAB ALUMNI
Former postdoctoral fellows:
ROBERT HOSKIN
Former PhD students:
KAROLINA CZARNA
GEMMA BARNACLE
Former Mphil students: