Profile

Biography

• Polytechnic of Central London
  BSc in Life Sciences
• University of London
  PhD in Psychology

Graduated from the Polytechnic of Central London (Life Sciences) and went on to do a PhD in Psychology at UCL. After postdoctoral posts at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL joined the Psychology Department at York in September 2005.

Research

Overview

• Spatial cognition: navigation, topographical memory, scene recognition.
• Verbal memory: learning new spoken words; remembering serial order.
• Neural representations and functional-anatomical organization: seeking, describing and explaining basic mechanisms and general organizational principles in the human brain.

Collaborators

• Timothy Andrews , University of York
• Colin Lever, University of Durham
• Liat Levita, University of Sheffield
• Graham Hitch, University of York
• Mark Hurlstone, University of Western Australia
• Neil Burgess, Chris Bird and colleagues, UCL

Available PhD research projects

Projects under my supervision could involve experimental psychology, neuroimaging or computational modelling or combinations of these.

Supervision

• Chris Racey
• Kartini Ghani 
• Becky Gilbert (with Graham Hitch)
• David Watson (with Tim Andrews)

Publications

Selected publications

• Hartley T, Harlow R  (2012) An association between human hippocampal volume and topographical memory in healthy young adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience  6:338.
  
• Brunton I, Hartley T (in press) Enhanced Thinking Skills and the association between executive function and antisocial behaviour in children and adult offenders: scope for intervention? British Journal of Forensic Practice
  
• Viard A Doeller C Hartley T Bird CM Burgess N (2011) Anterior hippocampus and goal directed spatial decision making. Journal of Neuroscience 31(12):4613-4621.
• Andrews TJ, Clarke A, Pell P & Hartley T (2010) Selectivity for low-level features of objects in the human ventral stream. Neuroimage 49(1) 703-711.
• Bird CM, Chan D, Hartley T, Pijnenburg YA, Rossor MN, Burgess N (2010). Topographical short-term memory differentiates Alzheimer's disease from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Hippocampus 20(10), 1154-1169.
  
• Hartley T, Bird CM, Chan D, Cipolotti L, Husain M, Vargha-Khadem F, Burgess N (2007). The hippocampus is required for short-term topographical memory in humans. Hippocampus 17:34-48.
• Barry C, Lever C, Hayman R, Hartley T, Burton S, O'Keefe J, Jeffery K, Burgess N (2006) The boundary vector cell model of place cell firing and spatial memory. Rev Neurosci 17(1-2):71-97.
• King JA, Hartley T, Spiers HJ, Maguire EA, Burgess N (2005) Anterior prefrontal involvement in episodic retrieval reflects contextual interference. Neuroimage 28(1):256-67.
• Hartley T, Burgess N (2005). Complementary memory systems: competition, cooperation and compensation. Trends in Neurosciences 28(4):169-170.
• Hartley T, Trinkler I, Burgess N (2004). Geometric Determinants of Human Spatial Memory. Cognition 94(1):39-75.
• King JA, Trinkler I, Hartley T, Vargha-Khadem F, Burgess N (2004). The hippocampal role in spatial memory and the familiarity-recollection distinction: a single case study. Neuropsychology 18(3):405-417.
• Hartley T, Maguire EA, Spiers HJ, Burgess N (2003). The well-worn route and the path less traveled: distinct neural bases of route following and wayfinding in humans. Neuron 37:877-888.
• Hartley T, Burgess N, Lever C, Cacucci F, O'Keefe J (2000). Modeling place fields in terms of the cortical inputs to the hippocampus. Hippocampus 10(4):369-79.
• Hartley T, Houghton G (1996). A linguistically constrained model of short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language 35(1):1-31.

Full publications list

A full list of publications can be found on Tom Hartley's web page.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• From Neurons to Behaviour

Postgraduate

• Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Research Design in Neuroimaging

External activities

Memberships

• Society for Neuroscience

Editorial duties

• Brain
  Reviewer
• Cognition
  Reviewer
• Cortex
  Reviewer
• Cerebral Cortex
  Reviewer
• Epilepsia
  Reviewer
• Hippocampus
  Reviewer
• Memory
  Reviewer
• Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  Reviewer
• Psychological Research
  Reviewer

Invited talks and conferences

• European Diploma in Cognitive and Brain Sciences (EDCBS)
  Invited lecturer on Cognitive Modelling Module