The development of information-processing and connectionist models of cognitive processes, particularly of executive functions, memory, knowledge, reading and writing and their application to understanding the cognitive consequences of brain damage
Elected 2013
Social and psychological factors related to physical health outcomes; epidemiology of ageing, cardiovascular disease, and dementia; health psychology and positive wellbeing
The experimental analysis of self and identity (including motivated self-enhancement and narcissism), sense of authenticity and the emotion of nostalgia
Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: component processes of memory and cognition, reality/source monitoring (eg, distinguishing real from imagined events), executive function, emotion and cognition, the 'self' and cognition, aging and memory