Dr Matteo De Marco
Senior Tutor
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., Da Ronch, C., Venneri, A. and Gallucci, M. (2026) 'A cross-sectional study of category fluency serial recall order in Italian individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment from the TREDEM registry: The role of word length'. Neuropsychologia, 231. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0028-3932 Open Access Link
Wright, LM., De Marco, M. and Ferguson, CE. (2026) 'The effect of Alzheimer’s biomarker positivity on neuropsychological networks'. Brain Communications, 8 (1). pp. 1 - 48. ISSN: 2632-1297 Open Access Link
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. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0361-9230 Open Access Link
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 (in press, pre-proof). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 0028-3932 Open Access Link