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Dr Emma Ward

Associate Professor in Psychology

Emma Ward

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Psychology

  • Location London

Research activities

My research surrounds human memory and cognitive aging. I am particularly interested in the relationship between explicit (e.g., recognition) and implicit (e.g., priming) memory, and聽the effect of ageing on these forms of memory.听聽

I am also interested in factors that affect memory processing,聽including incidental versus intentional encoding, attention, processing, context reinstatement, and temporal expectation. I primarily use experimental behavioural methods to address mechanistic questions about the operations of memory, but employ EEG in collaboration with colleagues in the Jones, Silas, & Ward lab to examine the neural basis of effects on memory.

Enquiries from potential PhD or MSc by research applicants who wish to undertake research in one of these areas are welcome.

Other roles:

REF2021 Deputy Coordinator for UoA4

果冻传媒 Psychology Department Leadership Team: Director of Research, 2017-Present

External Examiner, Second Year BSc Psychology, UCL, 2019-2023

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)

Member of the European Cognitive Aging Society (EUCAS)

Specialist journal reviewer:聽Psychology and Aging;聽Memory; Journal of Alzheimer's disease; Memory and Cognition; Frontiers in Psychology; Journal of Memory and Language; Nature Scientific Reports

Associate聽 Editor,聽Frontiers in Cognition听(2014-2016)

Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychology of Aging听(2021-笔谤别蝉别苍迟)


Current Teaching

PhD Supervision:

I welcome enquires from prospective PhD students with an interest in undertaking research聽on memory or cognitive ageing. Of particular interest are topics around聽explicit (conscious, declarative) and implicit (unsoncsious, nondeclarative) memory, including changes in these forms of memory with age. I'm also interested in聽memory processing, and the聽effects of attention, processing, context, and temporal expectation.听

MSc by Research in Cognitive Neuroscience:

Operated through the Jones, Silas, & Ward Lab, we welcome enquiries from prospective students. Broad staff expertise and techniques mean that a range of topics are possible. Further information聽here.听

Current & Past Research Students:

Director of Studies for PhD student Shadi Shirazi (Effects of attention andprocessing style on memory encoding in aging: An EEG investigation)

  • Director of Studies for PhD student Maryam Al-Abdulla (Effects of aging and processing style on priming and recognition) (Completed 2024)
  • Director of Studies for MSc by Research student Nicola Lloyd (Effects of temporal structure on item and source recognition) (Completed 2023)
  • Supervisory panel for PhD student Murad Ali (A User-guided Personalization Methodology for New Smart Homes) (Completed 2022)
  • Director of Studies for MSc by Research student Petter Moller (Effects of temporal structure on recognition in aging) (Completed 2021)

    • Biography

    Dr Ward joined 果冻传媒 University in September 2013. Prior to this she was based at the University of York (2012-2013), and completed her PhD on the distinction between explicit and implicit memory at University College London (2009-2012).

    BSc, MSc, PhD, PGCHE

    Publications