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      Dr Emma Ward

      PhD
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Psychology
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Psychology
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6329
      EMAIL: E.Ward@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

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

        Qualifications:

        BSc, MSc, PhD, PGCHE

         


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        PSY1016 Research methods and Design in Psychology (Co-Module leader)
        PSY2013 Biological and Cognitive Psychology

        PSY3016 Affective Science and Neuropsychology
        PSY3330 Psychology Dissertation

        Programme Leader for BSc Psychology with Education and BSc Psychology with Marketing

         

        Supervision / Dissertation interests:

        Human memory, particularly the distinction between explicit (conscious, declarative) and implicit (unsoncsious, nondeclarative) memory. Factors influencing memory encoding / retrieval (e.g., attention, context).

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Dr Ward's research interests surround human memory, particularly the distinction between explicit (e.g., recognition) and implicit (e.g., repetition-priming) memory. Her doctoral thesis focussed on changes in explicit and implicit memory as a function of normal ageing, but she is broadly and generally interested in the relationship between these memory phenomena, as well as specific memory processes and factors that influence them.

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

        Current projects:

        • Factors affecting explicit and implicit memory (e.g. aging; attention; temporal encoding; study-test delay, context reinstatement, study duration)
        • Aging and memory for task irrelevant information
        • Context reinstatement effects on item and associative memory
        • Effects of music and rhythm on short and long term memory 
        • Aging, wellbeing, and cognition (e.g., frailty assessment, geriatric depression, dementia [in humans and other species])

        Other roles:

        Member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)

        Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cognition.

         

        Publication Feed

        Reduced recognition and priming in older relative to young adults for incidental and intentional information

        Ward, Emma V. (2018) Reduced recognition and priming in older relative to young adults for incidental and intentional information. Consciousness and Cognition, 57 . pp. 62-73. ISSN 1053-8100

        λPredictors of treatment outcome in depression in later life: a systematic review and meta-analysis

        Tunvirachaisakul, Chavit and Gould, Rebecca L. and Coulson, Mark and Ward, Emma V. and Reynolds, Gemma and Gathercole, Rebecca L. and Grocott, Hannah and Supasitthumrong, Thitiporn and Tunvirachaisakul, Athicha and Kimona, Kate and Howard, Robert J. (2018) λPredictors of treatment outcome in depression in later life: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227 . pp. 164-182. ISSN 0165-0327

        Does study duration have opposite effects on recognition and repetition priming?

        Berry, Christopher J. and Ward, Emma V. and Shanks, David R. (2017) Does study duration have opposite effects on recognition and repetition priming? Journal of Memory and Language, 97 . pp. 154-174. ISSN 0749-596X

        A benefit of context reinstatement to recognition memory in aging: the role of familiarity processes

        Ward, Emma V. and Maylor, Elizabeth A. and Poirier, Marie and Korko, Malgorzata and Ruud, Jens C. M. (2017) A benefit of context reinstatement to recognition memory in aging: the role of familiarity processes. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 24 (6). pp. 735-754. ISSN 1382-5585

        Editorial: The aging decision-maker: advances in understanding the impact of cognitive change on decision-making

        Ward, Emma V. and Dhami, Mandeep K. (2016) Editorial: The aging decision-maker: advances in understanding the impact of cognitive change on decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 . ISSN 1664-1078

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        Impact

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