School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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The other side of the coin – Semantic dementia as a lesion model for understanding recollection and familiarity
Published 2019-09-18The syndrome of semantic dementia represents the “other side of the coin” to Alzheimer’s disease, offering convergent evidence to help refine Bastin et al.’s Integrative Memory Model. By considering the Integrative Memory ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
"Truth be told” – Semantic memory as the scaffold for veridical communication
Published 2018-01-22Theoretical accounts placing episodic memory as central to constructive and communicative functions neglect the role of semantic memory. We argue that the decontextualized nature of semantic schemas largely supersedes the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Age-related changes in the temporal focus and self-referential content of spontaneous cognition during periods of low cognitive demand
Published 2019-09-18An intriguing aspect of human cognition is the unique capacity to mentally retreat from our immediate surroundings to consider perspectives distinct from the here and now. Despite increasing interest in this phenomenon, ...Open AccessArticle -
Exploring the contribution of visual imagery to scene construction – evidence from Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Published 2018-09-01Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a rare neurodegenerative syndrome characterised by profound visuoperceptual processing disturbances, attributable to focal parieto-occipital cortical atrophy. Despite relative sparing ...Open AccessArticle -
"All is not lost” - Rethinking the nature of memory and the self in dementia
Published 2019-09-18Memory and the self have long been considered intertwined, leading to the assumption that without memory, there can be no self. This line of reasoning has led to the misconception that a loss of memory in dementia necessarily ...Open AccessArticle