Dr Polly Peers

University Position

MRC Career Development Award Fellow

Interests

My current work is focused on understanding the relationship between attentional and memory deficits following stroke, and examining whether training of these cognitive functions can improve outcome for patients.

Key Publications

Publications

Prefrontal control of attention to threat.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00024
Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2013
Authors: PV Peers, JS Simons, AD Lawrence

Dissociation between memory accuracy and memory confidence following bilateral parietal lesions.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhp116
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 1 Feb 2010
Authors: JS Simons, PV Peers, YS Mazuz, ME Berryhill, IR Olson

Parietal contributions to recollection: electrophysiological evidence from aging and patients with parietal lesions.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.026
Journal: Neuropsychologia
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2008
Authors: BA Ally, JS Simons, JD McKeever, PV Peers, AE Budson

Is the parietal lobe necessary for recollection in humans?

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.07.024
Journal: Neuropsychologia
E-pub date: 7 Mar 2008
Authors: JS Simons, PV Peers, DY Hwang, BA Ally, PC Fletcher, AE Budson