Tom Hartley
Senior Lecturer

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

• Andrews, Timothy , University of York
• Colin Lever, Durham University
• Graham Hitch, University of York
• Mark Hurlstone, Lancaster University

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

• Tavakol S, Lil Q, Royer J, Vos de Waell, R, Larivière S, Lowe A, Paquola C, Jefferies E, Hartley T, Bernasconi A, Bernasconi N, Smallwood J, Bohbot V, Caciagli L, Bernhardt B. (2021) A structure–function substrate of memory for spatial configurations in medial and lateral temporal cortices. Cerebral Cortex 31(7):3213–3225, DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhab001
• Heywood-Everett E, Baker DH, Hartley T (2020) Testing the precision of spatial memory representations using a change-detection task: Effects of viewpoint change. Journal of Cognitive Psychology DOI:10.1080/20445911.2020.1863414
• Coggan DD, Giannakopoulou A, Ali S, Goz B, Watson DM, Hartley T, Baker DH, Andrews TJ, (2019) A data-driven approach to stimulus selection reveals an image-based representation of objects in high-level visual areas. Hum Brain Mapp 16(40):4716-4731
• Vestner T, Tipper SP, Over H, Hartley T, Rueshemeyer S-A. (2019) Bound together: social binding leads to faster processing, spatial distortion and enhanced memory of interacting partners. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148(7):1251-1268
• Poulter S, Hartley T, Lever C (2018) The neurobiology of mammalian navigation. Current Biology 28(17): R1023-R1042
• Watson DM, Andrews TJ, Hartley T (2017) A data driven approach to understanding the organization of high-level visual cortex. Scientific Reports 7: 3596 DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-03974-5
• Watson DM, Hartley T, Andrews TJ (2017) Patterns of response to scrambled scenes reveal the importance of visual properties in the organization of scene selective cortex. Cortex92:162–174
• Sormaz M, Jefferies E, Bernhardt B, Karapanagidtis T, Mollo G, Bernasconi N, Bernasconi A, Hartley T, Smallwood J (2017) Knowing what from where: differential left-right and anterior-posterior hippocampal connectivity describe individual variation in semantic and topographic memory. Neuroimage 152: 400-1410.
• Gilbert RA, Hitch GJ, Hartley T, (2016) Temporal Precision and the Capacity of Auditory-Verbal Short-Term Memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1239749
• Chan, D, Bottomley, L, Moodley, K, Minati, L, Burgess, N., Hartley, T. (2016) The 4 Mountains Test: a short test of spatial memory with high sensitivity for the diagnosis of pre-dementia Alzheimer’s disease. J Vis Exp. 116: 54454
• Hartley T, Hurlstone MJ, Hitch GJ (2016) Effects of rhythm on memory for spoken sequences: a model and tests of its stimulus-driven mechanism. Cognitive Psychology, 87, 135-178.
• Watson DM, Hymers M, Hartley T, Andrews TJ (2016) Patterns of neural response in scene-selective regions of the human brain are affected by low-level manipulations of spatial frequency. Neuroimage, 124, 107-117.
• Andrews TJ, Watson DM, Rice GE, Hartley T (2015) Low-level properties of natural images predict topographic patterns of neural response in the ventral visual pathway. Journal of Vision 17(7), 3
• Vernon RJW, Sutherland CM, Young AW, Hartley T (2014) Modeling first impressions from highly variable facial images. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA
• Watson DM, Hartley T, Andrews TJ (2014) Patterns of response to visual scenes are linked to low-level properties of the image. Neuroimage
• Rice GE, Watson DM, Hartley T, Andrews TJ (2014) Low-Level image properties of visual objects predict patterns of neural response across category selective regions of the ventral visual pathway. J Neurosci
• Hartley T, Lever C (2014) Know your limits: the role of boundaries in the development of spatial representation. Neuron 82(1) 1-3. [Preview of Bjerknes et al., 2014 describing development of boundary cells]
• Levita L, Bois C, Healey A, Smyllie E, Papakonstantinou E, Hartley T, Lever C (2014) The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population. Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders
• Hartley T, Lever C, Burgess N, O’Keefe J (2014) Space in the Brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition. Phil Trans Roy Soc B. 369 [Part of a special issue co-edited by the authors]
• Hartley T, Harlow R  (2012) An association between human hippocampal volume and topographical memory in healthy young adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience  6:338.
• 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 and Google Scholar profile.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Brain & Behaviour II (Teaching Block 10 - Principles of Neural Representation, Practical)

Postgraduate

• Research Design and Analysis in Neuroimaging
• Basic Principles 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