Our research focuses on brain mechanisms involved in directing attention, retaining memories and driving motivation. We study how attention, memory and motivation work in healthy people and how they break down in patients with Parkinson's disease,
Alzheimer's disease, stroke and vascular dementia.
To find out more about our research, click on the subject tabs at the top of the page
Talk at Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, 2021
Seminar Iowa Neuroscience series, 2021
RECENT MEDIA
Financial Times newspaper | August 2022
Guardian | August 2022
CNN | August 2022
BBC WORLD interview | April 2021
Financial Times | April 2021
Times newspaper | April 2021
Independent newspaper | April 2021
CNN | April 2021
Guardian newspaper | September 2020
Featured paper | The computational cost of active information sampling before decision-making under uncertainty
Featured attention paper | Visual Attention: What Inattention Reveals about the Brain Current Biology (2019)
Featured memory paper | Neural mechanisms of attending to items in working memory Neurosci Biobehav Rev (2019)
Featured paper on motivation | Distinct effects of apathy and dopamine on effort-based decision-making in Parkinson’s disease Brain (2018)
Attention and Inattention
Short-term memory
Apathy and Impulsivity
Masud Husain’s Tweets
Why do we sometimes fail to pay attention or forget things over seconds? Why do some people make impulsive decisions whereas others simply can't be bothered to act? We study attention, memory and motivation in health and disease.
In stroke and vascular dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, these cognitive functions can go awry, leading to devastating effects. Our aim is to understand the mechanisms underlying these problems and develop treatments for them. If you want to learn more, click on one of the headings at the top.