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, University of Durham
• Graham Hitch, University of York
• Mark Hurlstone, University of Western Australia

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

• 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