Applied Cognitive Research (ACR)

Professor Eef Hogervorst

Professor Eef Hogervorst examines potentially modifiable risk factors for age-related cognitive decline and dementia and is an internationally recognized expert in psychoneuroendocrinology (hormones and cognitive function). More...

Dr Stephan Bandelow

Dr. Stephan Bandelow is a lecturer of Human Memory and Cognition and works on computerized cognitive test development, learning disability and sports performance and computer models of human cognition. More...

Dr Louisa Edwards

Dr Louisa Edwards is a lecturer in Psychology. Her research is broadly in the area of behavioural neuroscience, and focuses on how cognitive function and sensation can be affected by both chronic and acute changes in blood pressure. More...

Dr Deborah Wallis

Dr Deborah Wallis is an experimental psychologist with research interests in all aspects of eating behaviour. The core themes of her research are associated with the cognitive and emotional controls of appetite and food intake. She has particular interests in the following areas:

• Stress and eating
• Dieting and cognitive function
• Social cognition, emotion processing, and attentional biases in the eating disorders.

In addition to these core issues, she has emerging research interests in the effects of cancer treatment on cognitive and emotional functioning. More...

Dr Fehmidah Munir

Dr Fehmidah Munir is a senior lecturer in health psychology and examines the effects of cancer treatment on cognitive function and subsequent functional /work ability (with her PhD student). Her previous work invloved delineating the pattern of cognitive impairment in children with genetic disorders (Fragile X syndrome, of whom a third of carriers develop premature ovarian failire). More...

Academic Visitors:

Dr. Henry Susanto

Ken Black

Research Students:

Angela Clifford

Veronica Van-Der-Walt