People @ Memory Lab

Principal Investigator

Donna Rose Addis, Ph.D.

Donna Rose is a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in the neural networks mediating memory and future thinking using both neuroimaging and neuropsychological approaches. Originally from New Zealand, she completed her BA and MA at The University of Auckland under the supervision of Dr. Lynette Tippett. She then undertook a PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Toronto, where she worked with Drs. Mary Pat McAndrews and Morris Moscovitch. She then spent 3 years at Harvard University as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Daniel Schacter. She has been at The University of Auckland since April, 2008. She was recently awarded an inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand to continue her research on the constructive nature of memory.

Graduate Students

Victoria Martin

Victoria completed her honours degree in Psychology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Most recently, she has worked as a research assistant in the lab of Joanne Rovet at Sick Kids Hospital (Toronto, Canada). She is now working on her PhD in the Memory Lab, using fMRI to examine the role of the hippocampus in encoding imagined future events.

Valerie van Mulukom

Valerie has joined our lab from the Netherlands after completing a MPhil in Linguistics at Utrecht University. She will be completing her PhD in the Memory Lab, investigating the role of the hippocampus in imagining novel future events. Valerie is also interested in examining the links between mental time travel, flexible generativity and creativity, and their evolutionary aspects.

Peter Bull

Peter completed a BSc in computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland, prior to embarking on a career in computer networking. Recently he returned to the university to study toward a Postgraduate Diploma in Science. He is currently working on a research project under the supervision of Dr. Donna Rose Addis, utilising EEG to investigate emotional processing and memory.

Research Assistants

Reece Roberts

Reece is currently completing his PhD at The University of Auckland with Drs. Corballis and Lambert. His research focuses on visual working memory. In the Memory Lab, he is analyzing fMRI studies that investigate remembering and imagining.

Gayle Radley

Collaborators

Michael C. Corballis: Dept. of Psychology, The University of Auckland.

Kelly S. Giovanello: Dept. of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth Kensinger: Dept. of Psychology, Boston College.

Mary Pat McAndrews: Neuropsychology, Toronto Western Hospital.

Morris Moscovitch: Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto.

Daniel L. Schacter: Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University.

Lynette J. Tippett: Dept. of Psychology, The University of Auckland.

Lab Alumni

Dr Sharon Buxton, PhD Clinical Psychology Intern

Dr Heidi Koschwanez, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Psychology

Dr Sandra Meier, PhD Clinical Psychology Intern

Katie Knapp MSc candidate at the University of Western Ontario

Melissa Inger University of Otago School of Dentistry

Jessica Mitchell Clinical Psychology Honours Programme, The University of Auckland

Ryan Hunt Trainee Audiologist at University of Auckland

Memory Lab @ The University of Auckland | Dept. of Psychology | Rooms HSB 332/331/330 | Ph. 64.9.373.7599 x 83072 or 88552 | Fax. 64.9.373.7000