Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a potential PhD or MSc project, or 4th year BSc (Hons) dissertation.
PhD Students
Project title: Improving walking patterns and obstacle negotiation in older people using noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS).
Co-supervised by Dr Magdalena Ietswaart & Dr Sandy Brownlee. Funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies scholarship, University of Stirling.
Hamzeh Norouzi
Project title: Using mobile brain imaging to understand the barriers Parkinson’s Disease patients experience accessing their environment.
Co-supervised by Dr Magdalena Ietswaart & Dr Jason Adair. Funded by an Institute for Advanced Studies scholarship, University of Stirling.
Project title: Development of electroencephalography based neurofeedback training protocols for the rehabilitation of neurological trauma. Co-supervised by Dr Aleksandra Vučković, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Funded by a University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) Scholarship.
Graduated PhD students:
Simon Hanzal. Project title: Investigating the suitability of neurofeedback to improve post-stroke fatigue. Co-supervised by Prof Monika Harvey & Prof Gregor Thut, University of Glasgow. Funded by ESRC.
Chris Turner. Project title: Impact of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation and Eye Movements on Attention-Based EEG Neurofeedback. Co-supervised by Dr Aleksandra Vučković, School of Engineering, and Alessio Fracasso, School of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow. Funded by EPSRC.
Amine Belabbes. Project title: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Information Overload. Co-supervised by Prof Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Computer & Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde.
Research Assistants
Jun – Aug 2024: Cameron Gunn won a Carnegie Trust Vacation Scholarship to work on a 12-week project titled “Left or right? Does an asymmetric seating position affect visuospatial attention and error rates during simulated driving?”.
Feb – Jun 2023: Ksenia Kotiusheva has been working on the ScotPEN Wellcome funded project “Aging with Impact”. Ksenia is carrying out focus groups and questionnaires to find out what older people understand about cognitive neuroscience research, and some of the barriers and facilitators to engaging older people with different types of research.
MSc and BSc (Hons) Students
2024-25
MSc Psychological Research Methods: Jack Pittendreigh is interested in heart rate variability, and is currently using an Oculus VR headset combined with an Attys HRV system to promote biofeedback control of heart rate (collaboration with Dr Bernd Porr, University of Glasgow).
2023-24
MSc Psychology (Conversion): Fridaous Omiata explored human and robot face categorisations in non-neurotypical populations.
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Gaja Živec used noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) to try to improve spatial navigation abilities.
2022-23
MSc Psychological Science: Mina Bakhtiari and Louis James worked on a study using multi-session EEG neurofeedback training combined with eye-tracking.
MSc Psychological Studies: Anshika Tawar ran a direct replication of one of our previous alpha neurofeedback studies to see whether the effects that we found are robust. Shimeng Zhao looked at whether pseudoneglect is affected by viewing urban and rural scenes.
MSc Brain Sciences: Eve Harrison used tRNS to modulate the motor cortex. She was also looking at sensory side-effects of random noise stimulation and whether we can confidently use placebo (or sham) blinding using this modality.
2021-22
BSc (Hons) Neuroscience: We carried out 2 meta-analyses: Anna Makova investigated line bisection biases in people with dyslexia, and Euan Findlay in people with dementia.
2020-21
BSc (Hons) Psychology: We carried out 2 meta-analyses this year: Lottie Wood looked at line bisection biases in people with ADHD, and Eva Cullen in people with Alzheimer’s disease.
2019-20
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Simon Hanzal investigated alpha oscillations using EEG during phasic alerting in young and older adults.
MSc Psychological Science: Danishta Kaul carried out a meta-analysis of pseudoneglect in children. Her work has now been published in Laterality here. Pritha Sen analysed ERPs from young and older adults during phasic alerting. Kallia Apostolou was interested in individual alpha frequency changes across the lifespan.
2018-19
MSc Psychological Science: Chris Turner and Catherine Jackson investigated whether sham-blinding is effective during transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Their project has now been published in European Journal of Neuroscience here.
MSc Research Methods in Psychology: Diana Dascalu performed voxel-based lesion mapping on the CT and MRI scans of patients with hemispatial neglect after stroke. The lesion mapping from her project was included in our recent paper in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation here.
2017-18
MSc Psychological Science: Robert Greinacher and Larissa Buhot were looking at sham-blinding in tDCS. Their completed project was published in the European Journal of Neuroscience here.
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Agata Olszewska’s project aimed to investigate the effects of increased task difficulty in young and older adults on the landmark task.
2016-17
MSc Research Methods in Psychology: Matt Checketts carried out an EEG project investigating the effects of increased task difficulty in young and older adults using the landmark task.
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Antonia Rooney was interested in finding out whether there was a relationship between spatial attention and sustained attention. For this she used the landmark task and the Test of Everyday Attention (TEA).
2015-16
MSc Psychological Science: Numaya Siriwardena and Francesca Felisatti’s project aimed to replicate one of our own tDCS papers that found different behavioural outcomes depending on current strength (1mA vs 2mA) and baseline performance (good vs poor performance). Their completed project was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience here.
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Pernilla Pellinen and Natasha McBride ran a spatial attention experiment using a driving simulator. Their findings were published in Plos One here.
2014-15
BSc (Hons) Psychology: Aodhan Gallagher and Jamie Gibson’s project was investigating intra- and inter-task correlations of 5 different spatial attention measures. Their project was published in Plos One here and here.
Dr Gemma Learmonth 