Former ART Members

Kim Corbett

Alongside being the Deputy Head teacher of a Primary School, Kim is studying part-time on the MSc in Forensic Psychology. Kim has a particular interest in, and passion for, the challenges faced by children who have experienced early trauma. Next year, Kim used the Jansari assessment of Executive Functions for Children (JEF-C©), as well as other measures, in children who have experienced early trauma to help better understand their difficulties and how they can be better supported in an educational context.

Catarina Rosa

Originally from Portugal, Catarina is in the MSc Forensic Psychology programme at Goldsmiths. Before starting the MSc, she completed her Bachelor’s in Psychology. Alongside her Masters, she is involved in a child protection project as a volunteer at Circles South East. Currently, she worked on a project with Ashok on the connection between traumatic brain injury on executive functions of ex-offenders that may contribute to criminal behaviour. Catarina used JEF© to conduct her research.

Elika Esmailzadeh

Elika is a MSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience student. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Under the supervision of Dr Jansari, she worked on a project investigating accelerated forgetting, looking at the differences between age groups and the level of head injury on memory performance. This was done using the Verbal Associative Learning and Memory Task (VALMT). She hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology and specialise in neuropsychology.

Denisa-Mihaela Tancou

Denisa is a MSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience student at Goldsmiths. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Lucian Blaga University in Romania. Her previous research investigated the causes of somatic symptom disorder in adolescents. Her interest in neuroscience was driven by her previous contact with psychiatric patients and raised her interest in finding neurobiological causes for mental and neuropsychological conditions. Her research with ART, conducted under the supervision of Dr Jansari, investigated the contribution of facial recognition stages to the development of prosopagnosia. The focus of her research is single case studies of patients with acquired prosopagnosia due to brain injury.

Chrystel Mendoza

Chrystel is a MSc Student in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. Originally from Ecuador, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Beloit College in America. She joined ART and exploreed the link between executive functions and emotion regulation in teenagers using JEF-A© under the supervision of Dr Jansari.

Niamh Mitchell

Niamh is a MSc Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience student. She completed her Undergraduate degree in BSc Psychology at London South Bank University. Her interest in Neuropsychology began during a placement at Great Ormond Street Hospital on their Paediatric Neurology and Craniofacial unit. Niamh’s research project focused on gender differences, in the impact of concussions on the memory, of rugby Union players. She used the Verbal Associative Learning and Memory Task (VALMT) to complete her research.

James Dixie

James is completing his Master’s degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience at Goldsmiths. He will be supervised by Ashok and PhD student Terry McGibbon working on the Verbal Associative Learning and Memory Task (VALMT) with American Football players. James has a Bachelor’s in Psychology with a Queer Studies Concentration from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and studied abroad at Arcadia University’s campus in London Fall 2019 and worked as one of Ashok’s research assistants alongside Claudia Pulcini. After graduating, James plans to work in the healthcare industry as a research coordinator and attend graduate school specialising in Clinical Psychology.

Abbie Furniss

Abbie is an MSc student on Goldsmith’s Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience course. Her previous research had a focus on altered states of consciousness using virtual reality. Her current research under Dr Jansari uses the VALMT to understand the potential implications of head injuries on non-professional sports players (focussing on medieval battle reenactors – a fairly novel sample!). Her goals post-MSc are to pursue a PhD in clinical neuroscience, potentially with a focus on neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Outside of her studies, she works as a disability support worker in universities.

Sydney Baker

Sydney is a MSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience student from the USA supervised by Dr Ashok Jansari. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado (USA) and her Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Bradford (UK). Sydney’s research interests focus on neurobiological causes of bipolar disorder, psychopharmacology and factors affecting executive functions. Her work in ART sought to investigate the potential interaction effects of nicotine and caffeine on executive constructs by utilising Dr Jansari’s ecologically-valid virtual reality tool. The aim is to gain insight into the effects of stimulants on executive functioning in individuals with bipolar disorder by assessing healthy controls and bipolar patient case studies. After graduating, she plans to work in affective disorder research and pursue a PhD in psychological medicine.

Andrea Furuly

Andrea Furuly is a MSc student in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. Before starting the MSc, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Currently she is working on a project with Ashok Jansari related to his test VALMT, to look at differences in healthy age-related memory loss in the elderly population. The test has been able to identify Accelerated Long-term Forgetting, and the current project is looking to further explore the sensitivity and validity of the test. Accelerated Long-term Forgetting is a form of rapid forgetting of newly leaned information over a period of hours. After graduating Andrea is hoping to work in research related to memory.

Jeramey Mason

Jeramey is a student in the MSc Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience programme. He completed his Bachelor’s in Psychology in the United States at Purdue University. While there he worked under Dr Margo Monteith focusing on racial implicit bias primarily, however during his undergraduate he undertook an internship abroad in Sydney, Australia at The Brain & Mind Research Institute of University of Sydney. There he was exposed to neuropsychology and cognitive psychology and developed an interest in these areas working closely with the practitioners and patients. His current research proposal is looking at the effects of a traumatic brain injury on ex-offenders and how those who’ve experienced this sort of injury have a greater likelihood of reoffending. The research will be conducted using the Jansari Assessment of Executive Functions (JEF©).

Elanur Altunbas

Elanur is completing her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Sociology at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. She is currently studying abroad at Arcadia’s campus in London. She is doing a research internship with Dr Jansari until the end of March because of her interest in neuropsychology. After graduating, she hopes to attend medical school.

Francesco Innocenti

Francesco completed his BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience in 2021 at Goldsmiths, University of London. He helped Dr Jansari develop The Goldsmiths Unfamiliar Face Memory Test and did his thesis on evolutionary models of perception, supervised by Dr Terhune. Now he is a PhD student at the University of Sussex, working with Professor Anil Seth and collaborators on various projects including the brain dynamics underlying different conscious states and biologically-inspired computational models of vision. Francesco is passionate about open science and is developing a number of resources for the cognitive computational neuroscience community. Github: (https://github.com/FrancescoInnocenti).

Caroline Daily (Former Research Assistant)

Caroline is a third-year undergraduate student studying psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is studying abroad for one term at Goldsmiths and is doing a research assistantship with Dr Jansari for the term. She is very interested in the human brain and how it works and would like to attend medical school after she graduates.

Olivia Jarvis (Former Research Assistant)

Olivia is completing her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. She is currently working as a research assistant with Ashok while studying abroad in London until the end of April. Her interests include social psychology and executive functions. She hopes to pursue a PhD in neuropsychology and return to London in the future.