Research Interests

I'm interested in how we draw details from our memories of past events to imagine things that might happen to us in the future, as well as how we store those imagined events in memory so that we can refer to them later on. The hippocampus is a brain structure that is more active when we imagine the future than when we remember the past, and it also has a known role in memory encoding, so I'm looking how the hippocampus might help us remember what we imagine.

Education

Ph.D. student, Psychology, University of Auckland (2009-present)
Supervisors: Dr. Donna Rose Addis and Dr. Michael Corballis

B.A.(Hons), Psychology Co-op, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (2003-2007)
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Peters

Scholarships

New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarship (February 2009-present)
University of Auckland International Doctoral Scholarship (February 2009-present)
University of Guelph Dean's Award (2004 and 2006)

Publications and Presentations

Martin, V.C., Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., & Addis, D.R. (submitted). Memory for the future: A role for the hippocampus in encoding future simulations.

Martin, V.C., Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., & Addis, D.R. (April 2011). Anterior and posterior hippocampal connectivity during the encoding of future simulations. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Click for PDF

Martin, V.C., Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., & Addis, D.R. (June 2010). Remembering the future: Hippocampal contributions to encoding future simulations. Poster presented at Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. Click for PDF

Teaching Experience

Tutor, Year 2 Perception and Cognition (University of Auckland, July 2010)
Tutor, Year 2 Biopsychology (University of Auckland, March 2010, March 2011)