Charlotte Russell
Lecturer
Psychology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University College London
- BSc in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex
Personal Biography
After a BSc in Experimental Psychology at Sussex University, I worked with Jon Driver and Nilli Lavie at University College London as a research fellow. I completed my PhD, examining visual perception without awareness, at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL) with Jon Driver in 2002. I was then awarded an MRC Research Fellowship with Masud Husain. This fellowship, held at the ICN and Institute of Neurology, examined deficits in attention, spatial perception and integration across eye movements in patients with right parietal lobe brain damage. At the start of 2005 I took up a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to continue patient research at the Neuropsychology Laboratory of the Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome. In 2007 I commenced a Lectureship in Psychology at Brunel University.
Research
Research Overview
I study visual attention with behavioural studies on healthy individuals, neuropsychological studies on patients with brain damage and in neuroimaging (fMRI) investigations of both these groups. Interest in the neuropsychology of attention has led to a focus on the parietal cortex and recent projects examining the role of these regions in memory for personal experiences (episodic memory). My current research in episodic memory concerns the use of spatial representation in this form of memory and how this changes across the lifespan: from infants to old age.
Member, Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
Member, Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies
Current Projects
Bial Foundation
Memory for personal experience and the parietal cortex
£20,000
June 2011 – May 2013
Charlotte Russell (PI) with Adrian Williams (CI), Brunel University and Paresh Malhotra (CI), Imperial College London. Research Assistant: Anna Sofia Musil
Departmental Bursary Scheme
Modulation of attention capacity by reward and positive motivation in older adults
£2,200
May 2012 – August 2012
Charlotte Russell (PI). Bursary student: Sarah Davies
The Leverhulme Trust
The development of episodic memory
£210,000
September 2010 - September 2013
Charlotte Russell (CI) with James Russell (PI) and Nicola Clayton (CI), University of Cambridge
Collaboration at Imperial College London and Charing Cross Hospital
Modulation of visuo-spatial neglect by reward and incentive
2011 –
Charlotte Russell (CI) with David Soto (CI) and Paresh Malhotra (PI), Imperial College London
Recently Completed Projects
Brunel BRIEF Award
Role of the parietal cortex in episodic memory
£15,000
November 2008 - May 2010
Charlotte Russell (PI)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
Spatial remapping in Constructional Apraxia after right hemisphere stroke
£100,000
January 2005 – January 2007
Charlotte Russell (PI) with Luigi Pizzamiglio
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Brain and Cognition
Module contributor
- Undergraduate Dissertations
Postgraduate Programmes
Module contributor
- Visual Neuroscience
- MRes project supervisor
External Activity
- Honorary Neuropsychology Researcher at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Russell, C., Malhotra, P., Deidda, C. and Husain, M., Dynamic attentional modulation of vision across space and time after right hemisphere stroke and in ageing, Cortex
(2012) Malhotra, PA., Soto, D., Li, K. and Russell, C., Reward modulates spatial neglect, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Forthcoming Download publication
(2010) Russell, C., Deidda, C., Malhotra, P., Crinion, JT., Merola, S. and Husain, M., A deficit of spatial remapping in constructional apraxia after right-hemisphere stroke, Brain 133 (4) : 1239- 1251 Download publication
(2005) Russell, C. and Driver, J., New indirect measures of "inattentive" visual grouping in a change-detection task, Perception & Psychophysics 67 (4) : 606- 623
(2004) RUSSELL., Husain, Masud. and Malhotra, Paresh., Attention modulates the visual field in healthy observers and parietal patients, Neuroreport 15 (14) : 2189- 2193
(2003) RUSSELL., Lavie, Nilli. and Ro, Tony., The role of perceptual load in processing distractor faces, Psychological Science 14 (5) : 510- 515
(2001) Driver, J., Davis, G., Russell, C., Turatto, M. and Freeman, E., Segmentation, attention and phenomenal visual objects, Cognition 80 (1-2) : 61- 95
(2001) Ro, T., Russell, C. and Lavie, N., Changing faces: A detection advantage in the flicker paradigm, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 12 (1) : 94- 99
(1999) Rees, G., Russell, C., Frith, CD. and Driver, J., Inattentional blindness versus inattentional amnesia for fixated but ignored words, Science 286 (5449) : 2504- 2507
(1999) George, N., Dolan, RJ., Fink, GR., Baylis, GC., Russell, C. and Driver, J., Contrast polarity and face recognition in the human fusiform gyrus., Nat Neurosci 2 (6) : 574- 580 Download publication
Conference Papers
(2009) Malhotra, P., Russell, C. and Soto, D., Anticipated monetary reward can reduce spatial neglect, 13th Congress of the European-Federation-of-Neurological-Societies, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY (16) : 458- 458
(2009) Russell, C., Deidda, C. and Husain, M., Spatial remapping impairments underlie Constructional Apraxia after right hemisphere stroke, 13th Congress of the European-Federation-of-Neurological-Societies, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY (16) : 463- 463
(2009) Russell, C., Deidda, C., Malhotra, P., Merola, S. and Husain, M., Failure of spatial remapping underlies constructional apraxia after right hemisphere stroke, , COGNITIVE PROCESSING (10) : S161- S161
(2005) Parton, A., Russell, C., Coulthard, E. and Husain, M., Visuo-spatial attention and search in parkinsonism, 12th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive-Neuroscience-Society, JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 55- 55 Download publication
