Dr Matteo De Marco
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 132
- Email: matteo.demarco@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267642
Summary
I work as senior lecturer within the Department of Psychology, contributing to teaching and research activities.
I am part of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) and my area of research is the study of cognitive functioning (semantic memory in particular) in ageing and early-stage neurodegeneration.
Qualifications
- PG Cert. Teaching and Learning, University of Sheffield, 2020;
- FHEA, 18th December 2019;
- PhD, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, 2012;
- PG Cert. Research Training, Psychology, University of Hull, 2011;
- M.Sc, Neuropsychology, University of Trieste (Italy) - 2009;
- BSc, Psychology, University of Trieste (Italy) - 2006;
Responsibility
I am the departmental Senior Tutor
Newest selected publications
De Marco, M., Chauhan, S., Bocchetta, M. and Venneri, A. (2025) 'Semantic distances of WAIS Similarities word pairs in non-demented adults: An item-level index of semantic memory granularity'. Brain Research Bulletin, 229. pp. 111439 - 111439. ISSN: 0361-9230
De Marco, M., Wright, LM. and Makovac, E. (2025) 'Item-Level Analysis of Category Fluency Test Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies of Normal and Neurologically Abnormal Ageing'. Neuropsychology Review, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 44. ISSN: 1040-7308 Open Access Link
De Marco, M., Wright, LM., Valera Bermejo, JM. and Ferguson, CE. (2024) 'APOE ε4 positivity predicts centrality of episodic memory nodes in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A cohort-based, graph theory-informed study of cognitive networks'. Neuropsychologia, 192. pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 0028-3932 Open Access Link
De Marco, M., Bocchetta, M. and Venneri, A. (2023) 'Item-Level Scores on the Boston Naming Test as an Independent Predictor of Perirhinal Volume in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment'. Brain Sciences, 13 (5). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 2076-3425 Open Access Link
Wright, LM., De Marco, M. and Venneri, A. (2023) 'Current Understanding of Verbal Fluency in Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence to Date'. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 16. pp. 1691 - 1705. ISSN: 1179-1578 Open Access Link