Professor Robert Honey

(he/him)

BSc (Sussex) DPhil (York)

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Research topics and related papers

Computational models of learning, memory and behaviour.  We are developing a new computational model of Pavlovian learning and performance.  The canonical model, HeiDI, was published in 2020, and Professor Dominic Dwyer and I have received funding from the BBSRC to support its development through iterative experimental research (Principal Investigator; BB/T004339/1).

Victor Navarro has recently published his calmr package, which allows simulations of HeiDI and other models:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/calmr/index.html 

Navarro, V., Dwyer, D.M., & Honey, R.C. (2024).  Variation in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement in generating different conditioned behaviors.  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 107915.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2024.107915

Navarro, V., Dwyer, D.M., & Honey, R.C. (2023).  Prediction error in models of adaptive behaviour.  Current Biology, 33, 4238-4243.

Honey, R.C., & Dwyer, D.M. (2022).  Higher-order conditioning: A critical review and a computational model.  Psychological Review, 129, 1338-1357.

Honey, R.C., Dwyer, D.M., & Iliescu, A.F. (2022).  Associative change in Pavlovian conditioning: A re-appraisal.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, 281-294.

Honey, R.C., & Dwyer, D.M.  (2021).  Higher-order conditioning: What is learnt and how it is expressed.  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 726218.

Honey, R.C., Dwyer, D.M., & Iliescu, A.F. (2020).  HeiDI: A model for Pavlovian learning and performance with reciprocal associations. Psychological Review, 127, 829-852.

Honey, R.C., Dwyer, D.M., & Iliescu, A.F. (2020).  Elaboration of a model of Pavlovian learning and performance: HeiDI.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 170-184.

Honey, R.C., Dwyer, D.M., & Iliescu, A.F. (2020).  Individual variation in vigor and form of Pavlovian conditioned responses: Analysis of a model system. Learning & Motivation, 72, 101658.

Iliescu, A.F., Dwyer, D.M., & Honey, R.C. (2020).  Individual differences in the nature of conditioned behavior across a conditioned stimulus: Adaptation and application of a model.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 460-469.  Dr Adela Iliescu won the 2020 American Psychological Association Early Career Contribution Award for this research.

Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory.  We also study the neural bases of learning and memory.  Most recently, Professor Kevin Fox, Dr Joseph O'Neill and I have been investigating texture processing using a combination of state-of-the-art neuroscientific techniques and behavioural tasks that enable texture learning to be studied in naturalistic settings.  This research was funded by the BBSRC (Co-Investigator; BB/T007028/1).

Pandey, A., Kang, S., Pacchiarini, N., Wyszynska, H., Grewal, A., Griffiths, A., Healey-Millet, I., Maserri, Z., Hardingham, N., O'Neil, J., Honey, R.C., & Fox, K. (2023). Interdependence of S1 and S2 for LTP, structural plasticity and texture discrimination learning. bioRxiv; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.25.538217.

Pacchiarini, N., Berkeley, R., Fox, K., & Honey, R.C. (2020).  Whisker-mediated texture discrimination learning in freely moving mice.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 40-46.

Pacchiarini, N., Fox, K., & Honey, R.C. (2017).  Perceptual learning with textures in rodents: Shaping the somatosensory system.  Learning & Behavior, 45, 107-114.

Silva, A.I., Haddon, J.E., Trent, S., Syed, Y., Lin, T-C, E., Patel, Y., Carter, J., Haan, N., Honey, R.C., Humby, T., Assaf, Y., Linden, D.E., Owen, M.J., Ulfarsson, M.O., Stefansson, H., Hall, J., & Wilkinson, L.S. (2019).  Cyfip1haploinsufficiency is associated with white matter changes, myelin thinning, reduction of mature oligodendrocytes and behavioural inflexibility.  Nature Communications, 10, 3455.

Murphy, R.A., & Honey, R.C. (2016).  The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Decision-making in the emergency services.   We investigate how learning and memory processes support decision-making in emergency settings.  This research is co-produced with the National Fire Chiefs Council and the UK Fire and Rescue Service.  It has been supported by the BBSRC, ESRC and the Fire Service Research and Training Trust (Principal Investigator with Professor Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Cardiff University Fellow and Chief Fire Officer at West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service).

Butler, P.C., Bowers, A., Smith, A.P., Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2023).  Decision making within and outside standard operating procedures: Paradoxical use of operational discretion in firefighters.  Human Factors, 65, 1422-1434.

Wilkinson, B., Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2021).  Variation in exploration and exploitation in group decision making: Evidence from immersive simulations of major incidents.  Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 30, 82-91.

Butler, P.C., Honey, R.C., & Cohen-Hatton, S.R. (2020).  Development of a behavioral marker system for incident command in the UK Fire and Rescue Service: THINCS.  Cognition, Technology & Work, 22, 1-12.

Wilkinson, B., Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2019).  Decision making in multi-agency groups at simulated major incident emergencies: In situ analysis of adherence to UK doctrine.  Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 27, 306-316.

Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2015).  Goal-oriented training affects decision-making processes in virtual and simulated fire and rescue environments.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 395-406.  Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton won the 2017 American Psychological Association (APA) New Investigator award for this research; and the paper received the APA Raymond S. Nickerson Prize, which recognizes an article as having the potential for enduring impact in the area of applied experimental psychology.

Cohen-Hatton, S.R., Butler, P.C., & Honey, R.C. (2015).  An investigation of operational decision making in situ: Incident command in the UK fire and rescue service. Human Factors, 57, 793-804.  The research reported in this paper was awarded the FIRE/Gore Research Excellence Award 2014.

External funding (personal)

Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad: Stimulus exposure effects and their implications for eating behaviour (EATING; 2023-2026; Dr Isabel de Brugada Sauras, PI; international Co-I with Professors Robert Boakes and Geoffrey Hall); value: TBA.

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account ((ES/M500422/1): Promoting THINCS nationally and internationally (2021; with Philip Butler and Sabrina Cohen-Hatton); value: £8700.

BBSRC project grant (BB/T004339/1): How knowledge affects behaviour in a model system (2020-2023; PI; with Dominic Dwyer, Co-I); value: £497479.  UKRI COVID-19 CoA funded extension; value: £25012.

BBSRC project grant (BB/T007028/1): Cortical pathways and synaptic mechanisms for texture discrimination learning in rodents (2020-2024; Co-I; with Kevin Fox, PI, and Joe O’Neill, Co-I); value: £902314.  UKRI COVID-19 CoA funded extension; value: £47124.

Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PGC2018-095965-B-I00): Analysis of learning by stimulus exposure: Theoretical and practical implications (2019-2021; Co-I; Isabel de Brugada, PI); value: €77077.

BBSRC SWBio DTP studentship: Integrative analysis of perceptual learning in rodents (2015-2019; joint supervisor with Kevin Fox); value: £93356; with an additional £20000 In Vivo Skills Award.

BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2018 prize: Behavioural neuroscience underpins new guidance for firefighters and the emergency services; with Sabrina Cohen-Hatton; total value: £20000; for Overall Winner and Social Impact Winner.

Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad:  Perceptual learning in animals and humans: Comparison and salience modulation (2017-2020; Isabel de Brugada Sauras, PI; international Co-I with Geoffrey Hall; local Co-Is: Marta Gil, Sergio Recio, and Ina Iliescu).

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (ES/M500422/1): Multi-agency decision making at major incidents (2018; with Byron Wilkinson, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, and Philip Butler); value: £6400.

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (ES/M500422/1): UK Fire and Rescue Service Behavioural Marker System Mobile App (2017-2018; with Philip Butler); value: £8852.

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (ES/M500422/1): Decision making at emergency incidents (2015-2016; with Sabrina Cohen-Hatton); value: £3662.

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: Common mechanisms in human and animal perceptual learning (2013-2016; Isabel de Brugada Sauras, PI; international Co-I with Geoffrey Hall; local Co-Is, Michelle Symonds and Marta Gil); value: €200000.

BBSRC project grant (BB/I014098): Retrieval-mediated learning: Analysis of a model system (2011-2015; PI, with Mark Good); value: £503023.

BBSRC project grant (BB/F000553/1): Similarity, learning and memory: A comparative analysis (2007-2010; PI); value: £450179.

BBSRC project grant (BBS/B/15635): The hippocampal formation: An examination and integration of spatial and non-spatial functions (2004-2007; with Simon Killcross and Mark Good at Cardiff University; and Kate Jeffery and Neil Burgess at UCL); value £704879.

BBSRC project grant (S19788): Conditional learning and stimulus selection: From neural networks to neural mechanisms (2002-2007; PI; with Simon Killcross); value £267476.

BBSRC project grant (72/S13307): Priming effects in animal memory: Conceptual analysis and neural substrates (2000-2003; PI; with Mark Good); value £194064.

Wellcome Trust grant (054172/Z/98/Z/JRS/MK/JAT): Understanding the contribution of the rostral thalamus to mnemonic processing (1998-2001; with John Aggleton, PI, and Janice Muir); value £158677.

BBSRC project grant (S05720): The role of the hippocampal system in perceptual learning (1996-1999; with Mark Good); value £138624.

Royal Society University Research Fellowship: Conceptual issues and brain mechanisms in animal recognition memory (1993-2001); approximate value £280000.

External funding (institutional)

BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme, SWBio3 (5 yearly cohorts from 2020); including core partners: Bristol (Lead Institution), Bath, Cardiff, Exeter, and Rothamsted Research.  Cardiff Lead; total value: £18.5M.

BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme, SWBio2 (5 yearly cohorts from 2015); including Bristol (Lead Institution), Bath, Cardiff, Exeter, and Rothamsted Research.  Cardiff Lead; total value: £8M.

Wellcome 1+3 PhD programme in Integrative Neuroscience (5 yearly cohorts of 5 students from 2007); co-developed with Professor John Aggleton (School of Psychology) and members of the Schools of Biosciences and Medicine; value £5M.  Extended for a further 2 yearly cohorts of 5 students from 2013; value £1.5M.

BBSRC application for quota PhD studentships (2006-2012; lead applicant); value £650 664.

Renewal of MRC co-operative group grant (G9724886): Learning, memory and neuronal plasticity in mammalian systems (2002-2007; co-applicant; with colleagues in the Schools of Psychology (John Aggleton, Mark Good, Peter Halligan, Simon Killcross, Janice Muir, John Pearce, and Ed Wilding) and Biosciences (David Carter, Steve Dunnett, Kevin Fox, and Frank Sengpeil); value: £628 663.

MRC co-operative group grant (G9724886): Learning, memory and neuronal plasticity in mammalian systems (1998-2001; co-applicant; with colleagues in the Schools of Psychology (John Aggleton, Mark Good, Janice Muir, and John Pearce) and Biosciences (David Carter, Paul Chapman, and Kevin Fox); value: £56 900.

Research group

Erik Kambarian (part-time PhD student)

Mordecai Otter (EPSRC DTP/Airbus PhD student)

Yan Shan Tai (EPSRC DTP PhD student)

Hanna Wyszynska (BBSRC SWBio PhD student)

Research collaborators

Philip Butler (Honorary Research Associate, Psychology, Cardiff University)

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton (Honorary Professor, Psychology, and Cardiff University Fellow)

Dominic Dwyer (Psychology, Cardiff University)

Isabel de Brugada Sauras (Universidad de Granada)

Kevin Fox (Biosciences, Cardiff University)

Mark Good (Psychology, Cardiff University)

Jacques Grange (Honorary Research Associate, Psychology, Cardiff University)

Geoffrey Hall (University of York)

Sungmin Kang (Edinburgh University)

Victor Navarro (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Cardiff University)

Joseph O’Neill (Psychology, Cardiff University)

Anurag Pandey (Biosciences, Cardiff University)

John Pearce (Psychology, Cardiff University)

Byron Wilkinson (Psychology, Cardiff University)

Biography

Undergraduate education

1983; BSc Experimental Psychology (First Class), University of Sussex.

Postgraduate education

1987; DPhil Psychology; dissertation title: Conditioning and discrimination after nonreinforced stimulus preexposure; SERC studentship, University of York.

Employment

2003-Present; Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University.

2001-2003; Reader, Cardiff University.

1993-2001; Royal Society University Research Fellow, Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff.

1991-1993; AFRC Research Associate, University of Cambridge.

1989-1991; MRC Research Associate, University of York.

1987-1989; SERC Research Associate, University of York.

Honorary positions

BBSRC Impact Ambassador (2018-2019).

Visiting Professor (2009, 2014), Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada.

Visiting Professor (2012), Faculty of Psychology, University of San Sebastian.

Honorary Professor of Experimental Psychology (2009-2012), Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham.

Academic Responsibilities and Affiliations

External examiner

University of Cambridge (2017-2019); Department of Psychology; Undergraduate.

University of Nottingham; School of Psychology; Postgraduate.

University of York; Department of Psychology; Postgraduate.

Editorial positions

Associate Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition (2019-2024).

Editor: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Section B; 2001-2005).

Associate Editor: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Section B; 1993-1997).

Professional bodies

President, Experimental Psychology Society (2024).

Officer of the EPS committee (2001-2005).

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS).

External committees

Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (2011-2017) for the 'Center for Excellence' grant (Generalization research in health and psychopathology: Transdiagnostic processes and transfer of knowledge (GRIP*TT)) from the K.U. Leuven Research Council awarded to the Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (value: €3.2M).

Ad Hoc and Deputy Chair of the BBSRC Committee A: Animal Systems, Health and Wellbeing (2009-2011).

Full member of the BBSRC Committee A: Animal Systems, Health and Wellbeing (2009-2011).

Full member of the BBSRC Animal Sciences Committee (from 2008).

Co-opted to the BBSRC Animal Sciences Committee (2007, 2008).

UK consultant for the BBSRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, MRC and Wellcome Trust; and international consultant for the Austrian Science Foundation, European Commission, Research Foundation Flanders, Israel Science Foundation, The German Israeli Foundation For Scientific Research and Development (G.I.F.), NIMH, NSF.

External appointments

Member of the Academic Reference Group for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (2020-present).

Member of newly founded Academic Collaboration, Evaluation and Research (ACER) Group of the National Fire Chiefs Council (2022-present).

Conference organization

Co-organizer, with John Pearce, of the Associative Learning Symposium at Gregynog, Wales (1997-2012).

Reviewing for journals

Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Animal Learning & Behavior, Behavioural Brain Research, Behavioral Neuroscience, Behavioural Processes, Biological Psychiatry, Biology Letters, Brain Research Bulletin, Cognition, Technology & Work, Current Biology, Ergonomics, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Learning & Behavior, Learning and Memory, Learning and Motivation, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, PLOS ONE, Psychology, Crime & Law, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Sections A and B), Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, Psychology, Crime and Law, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Royal Society Open Science, Scientific Reports, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Honours and awards

National and international

Finalist for the Welsh Government St David Awards 2022 in the category of Innovation, Science and Technology.  With Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Byron Wilkinson and Philip Butler.

BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2018; Overall Winner and Social Impact Winner for: Behavioural neuroscience underpins new guidance for firefighters and the emergency services.  With Sabrina Cohen-Hatton.

New Process Award; Business and Education Partnership Awards; Insider Media (2017).  With Sabrina Cohen-Hatton.

American Psychological Association Raymond S. Nickerson Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.  Awarded in 2017 for: Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2015).  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 395-406.  The prize recognizes an article as having the potential for enduring impact in the area of applied experimental psychology.

Elected to Fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association (USA) in recognition of “achievement in psychology” 2010.

Experimental Psychology Society Prize 1999.

University

Member of the REF 2021 team that received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding contribution to the University.

Cardiff REF 2021 Superstar Awards for “Went the country mile on environment” (runner-up) and “most meticulous environment checker” (winner).

Cardiff University, Innovation & Impact Awards 2017; Innovation in Policy Award for Decision making in the UK fire and rescue service; with Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, Philip Butler and CFOA (Chief Fire Officers Association).  Also received the ‘People’s Choice’ and overall winner at the Awards.

Cardiff University, Inaugural 3Rs Poster Prize Winner 2015; Annual Welfare and Research Symposium; for Increasing experimental power by reducing interfering behaviour: Sign-tracking points the way to refinement and reduction; with Eleonora Patitucci, Andrew Nelson, and Dominic Dwyer.

University of York, Kathleen Stott Prize for DPhil dissertation 1988.

Supervisions

Postgraduate research interests

My postgraduate students are engaged in a variety of research projects and have access to a broad range of state-of-the-art facilities and resources.  These include the Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratories, CUBRIC, and The Simulation Lab for the Cardiff University Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS).

If you are interested in applying for a PhD or you need further information about the areas or research in which I supervise postgraduate students, then please contact me directly (my contact details are available on the 'Overview'  page), or submit a formal application.

Current students

Hanna Wyszynska.  Memories for touch: The role of higher-order cortical areas in processing and remembering tactile textures.  BBSRC SWBio Studentship (supervised with Professor Kevin Fox and Dr Joseph O'Neill).

Yan Shan Tai.  Rapid information integration in support of situational awareness and spatial behaviour.  EPSRC DTP Studentship (supervised with Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and Dr Jacques Grange).

Erik Kambarian.  A comparison of firefighting cultures.  Externally funded (supervised with Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton).

Mordecai Otter.  EPSRC DTP/Airbus (supervised with Dr Eirini Anthi, Professor Phil Morgan and Professor Pete Burnap). 

Past projects

Past PhD students, PhD thesis titles, Funding sources, Current role/s:

Holly Kings (2022).  The effects of closed loop auditory stimulation on brain and behaviour in the short and long term.  BBSRC SWBio Case Studentship.  Clinical Scientist.

Philip C. Butler (2021).  Development and evaluation of a behavioural marker system for UK fire and rescue service incident commanders.  ESRC 1+3 ‘Type 2’ Studentship.  Lecturer at Cardiff University.  Finalist for the ESRC Outstanding Early Career Impact award in 2023, receiving a Special Commendation from the ESRC Impact panel plus a prize of £2500.  The commendation and prize were based on his internationally influential research with the National Fire Chiefs Council and UK Fire and Rescue Services.

Byron Wilkinson (2020).  Understanding how groups make strategic decisions in emergencies.  Self-funding/School of Psychology Studentship.  Emergency Planning Manager, Carmarthenshire County Council.

Adela Iliescu.  (2019).  Pavlovian conditioning: How excitation and inhibition determine ideomotion.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Won Prize for Early Promise and the Hadyn Ellis Prize for best PhD.  Also won the 2020 American Psychological Association Early Career Contribution Award for outstanding empirical contributions: Iliescu, A.F., Dwyer, D.M., & Honey, R.C. (2020).  Individual differences in the nature of conditioned behavior across a conditioned stimulus: Adaptation and application of a model.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 460-469; and Honey, R.C., Dwyer, D.M., & Iliescu, A.F. (2020).  Elaboration of a model of Pavlovian learning and performance: HeiDI. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 46, 170-184.  Office of National Statistics.  BBSRC Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Cardiff University.   Department of Justice.

Nicole Pacchiarini. (2019).  Tactile discrimination learning in mice.  BBSRC SWBio DTP Studentship.  Received a Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience.  Information Analyst and now Bioinformatician, NHS Public Health Wales Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.

Brice F. J. Dassy. (2015).  Adaptation to multiple radial optic flows.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Higher Statistical Officer, Department for Work and Pensions, London.

Natasha Dumigan.  (2015).  The role of the hippocampus in forming integrated memories for patterns of stimulation.  Staff Candidate/School of Psychology Studentship.  Trainee Clinical Scientist, University of Southampton.

Richard A. Inman. (2015).  The discrimination of magnitude.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Won the Hadyn Ellis Prize for best PhD.  Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Cardiff University.

Luke M. Montuori.  (2015).  Investigating perceptual learning with textural stimuli in rats.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Psychometrician, Central Test, London.

Katy V. Burgess.  (2013).  Associative analyses of reasoning-like behaviour in rats.  BBSRC/School of Psychology Studentship.  Won Prize for Early Promise.  Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Nottingham; Lecturer at University of Leicester, then the University of Bristol, and now Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University.

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton. (2013).  Understanding the origin of Pavlovian-instrumental interactions.  Part-time.  Self-funding/School of Psychology Studentship.  Won Junior Researcher of the Year Prize.  Also won the 2016 APA New Investigator award for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.  The award is based on: Cohen-Hatton, S.R., & Honey, R.C. (2015).  Goal-oriented training affects decision-making processes in virtual and simulated fire and rescue environments.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 395-406. Deputy Assistant Commissioner, London Fire Brigade; Assistant Commissioner, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS); Chief Fire Officer, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.

Tzu-Ching Esther Lin. (2010).  Encoding specific associative memories.  Self-funding/Staff Candidate.  Won the Hadyn Ellis Prize for best PhD.  Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Cardiff University.

 Dean Burnett. (2009).  The role of the hippocampus in configural memory.  BBSRC Committee Studentship.  Science Journalist (Guardian Online); Writer; Comedian; Part-time Lecturer (School of Medicine, Cardiff University); Honorary Research Associate, Cardiff University. Winner of the BNAs Public Engagement of Neuroscience Award 2019.

James Close. (2009).  Unsupervised categorization and cross-classification in humans and rats.  Staff Candidate/School of Psychology Studentship.  Won the Hadyn Ellis Prize for best PhD.  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; English Teaching Abroad, Thailand.

David Hockey. (2008).  Cognitive scripts in versatile and repeat offenders.  Self-funding.  Director, Own Company; Part-time Lecturer, UWE.

Christopher S. Grand. (2007).  Perceptual and functional categorisation in associative learning.  Staff Candidate/School of Psychology Studentship.  Not known.

Mia Schmidt-Hansen. (2007).  Evaluation of latent inhibition and learned irrelevance as assays of attentional abnormalities in schizotypy.  Danish Research Council Studentship.  Researcher/Systematic reviewer at National Collaborating Center for Cancer, NHS Wales.

Susan Wilkinson. (2007).  Strategies for time allocation across multiple on-line texts.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Matthew E. Mundy. (2006).  Perceptual learning in humans.  MRC Studentship.  Lecturer, Monash University.

Anna L. Saggerson. (2005).  Observational and imitative learning in rats and pigeons: Conditions and content.  School of Psychology Studentship.  Medical Writer; Public Relations and Communications.

Melissa J. Allman. (2004).  Analysis of the nature of the representations that mediate acquired equivalence and distinctiveness.  Staff Candidate/School of Psychology Studentship.  Lecturer, Michigan State University.

Catherine. J.P. Oswald. (2000).  Contribution of the hippocampal system to attentional processes.  MRC studentship.  Freelance Medical Writer.

Past MSc and MPhil Students:

Yousef Alhawli.  (2017).  An investigation of the potential causes of motorcycle accidents at road junctions.  Kuwait University Studentship.

Philip C. Butler.  (2016).  What are the non-technical skills of UK fire and rescue incident commanders?  ESRC 1+3 Type 2 Studentship.