EMAIL rnah1@cam.ac.uk

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Clinical Medicine

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Research Theme Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing Adaptive Brain Computations Brains and Machines

Research Focus

Keywords

Memory

Perception

Ageing

Cognition

Clinical Conditions

Amnesia

Dementia

Equipment & Techniques

Behavioural analysis

Computational modelling

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Statistical analysis

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Professor Richard (Rik) Henson

(he/him/his)

University Position

Professor

Professor Richard (Rik) Henson is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Interests

My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to remember things in the laboratory. Even more specifically, I am interested in the neural bases of both explicit (conscious) memory and implicit (unconscious) memory, particularly the relationship between recollection, familiarity and priming. A deeper knowledge of these different expressions of memory is important for understanding the memory impairments associated with neurological damage or disease, or with healthy ageing, and the rehabilitation thereof.

Multimodal brain imaging

Collaborators

Cambridge

Key Publications

Distinct roles for the anterior temporal lobe and angular gyrus in the spatiotemporal cortical semantic network.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab501
Journal: Cereb Cortex
E-pub date: 8 Oct 2022
Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, RN Henson, AM Woollams, O Hauk

Brain charts for the human lifespan

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.08.447489
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
Authors: RAI Bethlehem, J Seidlitz, SR White, JW Vogel, KM Anderson, C Adamson, S Adler, GS Alexopoulos, E Anagnostou, A Areces-Gonzalez, DE Astle, B Auyeung, M Ayub, G Ball, S Baron-Cohen, R Beare, SA Bedford, V Benegal, F Beyer, J Bin Bae, J Blangero, M Blesa Cábez, JP Boardman, M Borzage, JF Bosch-Bayard, N Bourke, VD Calhoun, MM Chakravarty, C Chen, C Chertavian, G Chetelat, YS Chong, JH Cole, A Corvin, M Costantino, E Courchesne, F Crivello, VL Cropley, J Crosbie, N Crossley, M Delarue, R Delorme, S Desrivieres, G Devenyi, MA Di Biase, R Dolan, KA Donald, G Donohoe, K Dunlop, AD Edwards, JT Elison, CT Ellis, JA Elman, L Eyler, DA Fair, E Feczko, PC Fletcher, P Fonagy, CE Franz, L Galan-Garcia, A Gholipour, J Giedd, JH Gilmore, DC Glahn, I Goodyer, PE Grant, NA Groenewold, FM Gunning, RE Gur, RC Gur, CF Hammill, O Hansson, T Hedden, A Heinz, RN Henson, K Heuer, J Hoare, B Holla, AJ Holmes, R Holt, H Huang, K Im, J Ipser, CR Jack, AP Jackowski, T Jia, KA Johnson, PB Jones, DT Jones, R Kahn, H Karlsson, L Karlsson, R Kawashima, EA Kelley, S Kern, K Kim, MG Kitzbichler, WS Kremen, F Lalonde, B Landeau, S Lee, J Lerch, JD Lewis, J Li, W Liao, C Liston, MV Lombardo, J Lv, C Lynch, TT Mallard, M Marcelis, RD Markello, SR Mathias, B Mazoyer, P McGuire, MJ Meaney, A Mechelli, N Medic, B Misic, SE Morgan, D Mothersill, J Nigg, MQW Ong, C Ortinau, C Ortinau, R Ossenkoppele, M Ouyang, L Palaniyappan, L Paly, PM Pan, C Pantelis, MM Park, T Paus, Z Pausova, D Paz-Linares, A Pichet Binette, K Pierce, X Qian, J Qiu, A Qiu, A Raznahan, T Rittman, A Rodrigue, CK Rollins, R Romero-Garcia, L Ronan, MD Rosenberg, DH Rowitch, GA Salum, TD Satterthwaite, HL Schaare, RJ Schachar, AP Schultz, G Schumann, M Schöll, D Sharp, RT Shinohara, I Skoog, CD Smyser, RA Sperling, DJ Stein, A Stolicyn, J Suckling, G Sullivan, Y Taki, B Thyreau, R Toro, N Traut, KA Tsvetanov, NB Turk-Browne, JJ Tuulari, C Tzourio, É Vachon-Presseau, MJ Valdes-Sosa, PA Valdes-Sosa, SL Valk, T van Amelsvoort, SN Vandekar, L Vasung, LW Victoria, S Villeneuve, A Villringer, A Villringer, PE Vértes, K Wagstyl, YS Wang, SK Warfield, V Warrier, E Westman, ML Westwater, HC Whalley, AV Witte, N Yang, B Yeo, H Yun, A Zalesky, HJ Zar, A Zettergren, JH Zhou, H Ziauddeen, A Zugman, XN Zuo, ET Bullmore, AF Alexander-Bloch, 3R-BRAIN, AIBL, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Alzheimer’s Disease Repository Without Borders Investigators, UMN BCP, CALM Team, Cam-CAN, CCNP, COBRE, Developing Human Connectome Project, ENIGMA Developmental Brain Age working group, FinnBrain, Harvard Aging Brain Study, IMAGEN, KNE96, The Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, NSPN, POND, The PREVENT-AD Research Group, VETSA

Multi-dimensional connectivity: a conceptual and mathematical review.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117179
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Nov 2020
Authors: A Basti, H Nili, O Hauk, L Marzetti, RN Henson

Silent Expectations: Dynamic Causal Modeling of Cortical Prediction and Attention to Sounds That Weren’t.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1125-16.2016
Journal: J Neurosci
E-pub date: 10 Aug 2016
Authors: S Chennu, V Noreika, D Gueorguiev, Y Shtyrov, TA Bekinschtein, R Henson

Publications

No evidence of fast mapping in healthy adults using an implicit memory measure: failures to replicate the lexical competition results of Coutanche and Thompson-Schill (2014).

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2262188
Journal: Memory
E-pub date: 1 Nov 2023
Authors: K Gurunandan, E Cooper, R Tibon, RN Henson, A Greve

Path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.31.526473
Journal:
E-pub date: 3 Feb 2023
Authors: C Newton, M Pope, C Rua, R Henson, Z Ji, N Burgess, CT Rodgers, M Stangl, M-E Dounavi, A Castegnaro, I Koychev, P Malhotra, T Wolbers, K Ritchie, CW Ritchie, J O'Brien, L Su, D Chan, PREVENT Dementia Research Programme

Medial temporal lobe structure, mnemonic and perceptual discrimination in healthy older adults and those at risk for mild cognitive impairment.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.11.004
Journal: Neurobiol Aging
E-pub date: 1 Feb 2023
Authors: HM Gellersen, AN Trelle, BG Farrar, G Coughlan, SM Korkki, RN Henson, JS Simons

Modified MRI Anonymization (De-Facing) for Improved MEG Coregistration.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9100591
Journal: Bioengineering (Basel)
E-pub date: 21 Oct 2022
Authors: R Bruña, D Vaghari, A Greve, E Cooper, MO Mada, RN Henson

A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119344
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 1 Sep 2022
Authors: D Vaghari, R Bruna, LE Hughes, D Nesbitt, R Tibon, JB Rowe, F Maestu, RN Henson

Caveats and Nuances of Model-Based and Model-Free Representational Connectivity Analysis.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.755988
Journal: Front Neurosci
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
Authors: H Karimi-Rouzbahani, A Woolgar, R Henson, H Nili

Modified MRI anonymization (de-facing) for improved MEG coregistration

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.20.488466
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
Authors: R Bruña, D Vaghari, A Greve, E Cooper, M Mada, R Henson

Medial temporal lobe structure, mnemonic and perceptual discrimination in healthy older adults and those at risk for mild cognitive impairment

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.13.491810
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2022
Authors: H Gellersen, A Trelle, B Farrar, G Coughlan, S Korkki, R Henson, J Simons

Late combination shows that MEG adds to MRI in classifying MCI versus controls.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119054
Journal: Neuroimage
E-pub date: 15 May 2022
Authors: D Vaghari, E Kabir, RN Henson

Brain charts for the human lifespan

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04554-y
Journal: Nature
E-pub date: 1 Apr 2022
Authors: RAI Bethlehem, J Seidlitz, SR White, JW Vogel, KM Anderson, C Adamson, S Adler, GS Alexopoulos, E Anagnostou, A Areces-Gonzalez, DE Astle, B Auyeung, M Ayub, G Ball, S Baron-Cohen, R Beare, SA Bedford, V Benegal, F Beyer, J Bin Bae, J Blangero, M Blesa Cábez, JP Boardman, M Borzage, JF Bosch-Bayard, N Bourke, VD Calhoun, MM Chakravarty, C Chen, C Chertavian, G Chetelat, YS Chong, JH Cole, A Corvin, E Courchesne, F Crivello, VL Cropley, J Crosbie, N Crossley, M Delarue, S Desrivieres, G Devenyi, MA Di Biase, R Dolan, KA Donald, G Donohoe, K Dunlop, AD Edwards, JT Elison, CT Ellis, JA Elman, L Eyler, DA Fair, PC Fletcher, P Fonagy, CE Franz, L Galan-Garcia, A Gholipour, J Giedd, JH Gilmore, DC Glahn, I Goodyer, PE Grant, NA Groenewold, FM Gunning, RE Gur, RC Gur, CF Hammill, O Hansson, T Hedden, A Heinz, R Henson, K Heuer, J Hoare, B Holla, AJ Holmes, R Holt, H Huang, K Im, J Ipser, CR Jack, AP Jackowski, T Jia, KA Johnson, PB Jones, DT Jones, R Kahn, H Karlsson, L Karlsson, R Kawashima, EA Kelley, S Kern, K Kim, MG Kitzbichler, WS Kremen, F Lalonde, B Landeau, S Lee, J Lerch, JD Lewis, J Li, W Liao, DP Linares, C Liston, MV Lombardo, J Lv, C Lynch, TT Mallard, M Marcelis, RD Markello, B Mazoyer, P McGuire, MJ Meaney, A Mechelli, N Medic, B Misic, SE Morgan, D Mothersill, J Nigg, MQW Ong, C Ortinau, R Ossenkoppele, M Ouyang, L Palaniyappan, L Paly, PM Pan, C Pantelis, MM Park, T Paus, Z Pausova, A Pichet Binette, K Pierce, X Qian, J Qiu, A Qiu, A Raznahan, T Rittman, CK Rollins, R Romero-Garcia, L Ronan, MD Rosenberg, DH Rowitch, GA Salum, TD Satterthwaite, HL Schaare, RJ Schachar, AP Schultz, G Schumann, M Schöll, D Sharp, RT Shinohara, I Skoog, CD Smyser, RA Sperling, DJ Stein, A Stolicyn, J Suckling, G Sullivan, Y Taki, B Thyreau, R Toro, KA Tsvetanov, NB Turk-Browne, JJ Tuulari, C Tzourio, É Vachon-Presseau, MJ Valdes-Sosa, PA Valdes-Sosa, SL Valk, T van Amelsvoort, SN Vandekar, L Vasung, LW Victoria, S Villeneuve, A Villringer, PE Vértes, K Wagstyl, YS Wang, SK Warfield, V Warrier, E Westman, ML Westwater, HC Whalley, AV Witte, N Yang, BTT Yeo, HJ Yun, A Zalesky, HJ Zar, A Zettergren, JH Zhou, H Ziauddeen, A Zugman, XN Zuo, AF Alexander-Bloch, AIBL, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Alzheimer’s Disease Repository Without Borders Investigators, ASRB, CALM Team, Cam-CAN, CCNP, 3R-BRAIN, COBRE, ENIGMA Developmental Brain Age working group, FinnBrain, Harvard Aging Brain Study, IMAGEN, KNE96, NSPN, OASIS-3, OpenPain Project, POND, The PREVENT-AD Research Group, VETSA, Bullmore, E.T

A morphometric double dissociation: cortical thickness is more related to aging; surface area is more related to cognition

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.30.462545
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Oct 2021
Authors: GS Borgeest, RN Henson, TC Kietzmann, CR Madan, T Fox, M Malpetti, D Fuhrmann, E Knights, JD Carlin, RA Kievit

Caveats and nuances of model-based and model-free representational connectivity analysis

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.10.455841
Journal:
E-pub date: 11 Aug 2021
Authors: H Karimi-Rouzbahani, A Woolgar, R Henson, H Nili

Late Combination shows that MEG adds to MRI in classifying MCI versus Controls

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.20.21257522
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
Authors: D Vaghari, E Kabir, R Henson

A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.19.21257330
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
Authors: D Vaghari, R Bruna, L Hughes, D Nesbitt, R Tibon, J Rowe, F Maestu, R Henson

Executive function and high ambiguity perceptual discrimination contribute to individual differences in mnemonic discrimination in older adults.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104556
Journal: Cognition
E-pub date: 1 Apr 2021
Authors: HM Gellersen, AN Trelle, RN Henson, JS Simons

Correcting for Superficial Bias in 7T Gradient Echo fMRI

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.20.392258
Journal:
E-pub date: 22 Nov 2020
Authors: P Huang, MM Correia, C Rua, CT Rodgers, RN Henson, JD Carlin

Executive function and high ambiguity perceptual discrimination contribute to individual differences in mnemonic discrimination in older adults

DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/84vzc
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2020
Authors: H Gellersen, A Trelle, R Henson, J Simons

Neural evidence for age-related differences in representational quality and strategic retrieval processes.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.07.012
Journal: Neurobiol Aging
E-pub date: 1 Dec 2019
Authors: AN Trelle, RN Henson, JS Simons

Perceptual and conceptual processing of visual objects across the adult lifespan.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50254-5
Journal: Sci Rep
E-pub date: 24 Sep 2019
Authors: R Bruffaerts, LK Tyler, M Shafto, KA Tsvetanov, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, A Clarke

Multimodal Integration and Vividness in the Angular Gyrus During Episodic Encoding and Retrieval.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2102-18.2018
Journal: J Neurosci
E-pub date: 29 May 2019
Authors: R Tibon, D Fuhrmann, DA Levy, JS Simons, RN Henson

Neurophysiological signatures of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: pathology versus phenotype.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy180
Journal: Brain
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2018
Authors: S Sami, N Williams, LE Hughes, TE Cope, T Rittman, ITS Coyle-Gilchrist, RN Henson, JB Rowe

Declines in representational quality and strategic retrieval processes contribute to age-related increases in false recognition.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000412
Journal: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
E-pub date: 1 Dec 2017
Authors: AN Trelle, RN Henson, DAE Green, JS Simons

No effect of hippocampal lesions on stimulus-response bindings.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.024
Journal: Neuropsychologia
E-pub date: 31 Aug 2017
Authors: RN Henson, AJ Horner, A Greve, E Cooper, M Gregori, JS Simons, S Erzinçlioğlu, G Browne, N Kapur

Adaptive Cortical Parcellations for Source Reconstructed EEG/MEG Connectomes

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/097774
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2017
Authors: S-R Farahibozorg, R Henson, O Hauk

The effects of hippocampal lesions on MRI measures of structural and functional connectivity.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22621
Journal: Hippocampus
E-pub date: 1 Nov 2016
Authors: RN Henson, A Greve, E Cooper, M Gregori, JS Simons, L Geerligs, S Erzinçlioğlu, N Kapur, G Browne

Identifying age-invariant and age-limited mechanisms for enhanced memory performance: Insights from self-referential processing in younger and older adults.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/a0039116
Journal: Psychology and Aging
E-pub date: 1 Jun 2015
Authors: AN Trelle, RN Henson, JS Simons