Research Group: Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience
Biography
Rik Henson is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, with a special interest in the brain bases of memory, aging and dementia. His first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge was followed by a Masters in Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh, before returning to Cambridge for a PhD in cognitive psychology. He held postdoctoral fellowships at University College London, where he developed expertise in neuroimaging. In 2004, he returned to Cambridge, where he has led a research group at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), and has been Deputy and Acting Director over the years. He has been President of the British Neuroscience Association, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is also Director of the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN).
Publications
Vaghari, D., Kabir, E. & Henson, R.N. (2022) 'Late Combination shows that MEG adds to MRI in classifying MCI versus Controls.' Neuroimage, 152, 119054.
Taylor, J. R., Williams, N., Cusack, R. Auer, T. Shafto, M.A., Dixon, M., Tyler, L., Cam-CAN & Henson, R.N. (2017) 'The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) data repository: Structural and functional MRI, MEG, and cognitive data from a cross-sectional adult lifespan sample.' Neuroimage, 144, 262–269.
Van Kesteren, M.T.R., Ruiter, D.J., Fernández, G. & Henson, R.N. (2012) 'How schema and novelty augment memory formation.' Trends in Neurosciences, 35, 211-219.
Henson, R.N. (2005) 'What can functional imaging tell the experimental psychologist?' Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, A, 58, 193-233.
Henson, R.N., Shallice, T. & Dolan, R.J. (2000) 'Neuroimaging evidence for dissociable forms of repetition priming.' Science, 287, 1269-1272.