Carl Hodgetts

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Carl Hodgetts

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-2447

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Personal profile

Carl Hodgetts is an Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he leads the Connected Memory Lab. He gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at Cardiff University under the supervision of Ulrike Hahn and Nick Chater. Following a postdoctoral position with Kim Graham at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, he was awarded a Wellcome ISSF Fellowship to investigate the functional role of hippocampal subfields using 7-Tesla MRI at the University of Oxford. He joined Royal Holloway in 2019, where his lab applies advanced neuroimaging methods to explore how the human brain constructs representations of scenes and events — and how these representations support memory, perception, and navigation.

Research interests

I am interested in the brain networks and representations that underpin how we remember and navigate the world around us. What is the role of the hippocampus in memory? How does the brain carve continuous experience into distinct “events” or “episodes”? How do individual differences in memory relate to variations in brain network organisation? And how are these circuits affected by ageing or disease?

If you would like to learn more, or check out current opportunities in my lab, please visit the Connected Memory Lab website.

You can also find me on BlueSky at @cjhodgetts.bsky.social

Teaching

I currently coordinate PS2061 (Brain and Behaviour), and support teaching on PS3061 (The Ageing Brain) and PS5208 (Neuroscience in the Real World). In addition, I supervise final year projects and clinical MSc projects related to my interests in human memory, perception and navigation.  

 

Affiliations

I am an honorary senior research fellow at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

Cognitive Science, Ph.D, Cardiff University

Award Date: 1 Feb 2011

Psychology, BSc, Cardiff University

Award Date: 1 Jul 2006

External positions

Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, UK.

Keywords

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Episodic memory
  • Visual cognition
  • Functional imaging - fMRI
  • spatial navigation
  • individual differences
  • Diffusion-weighted imaging - dMRI
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