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Ms Katya Woollett

  • Extension:

    25498

  • Email:

    k.woollett@ucl.ac.uk

  • Appointments:

    Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Div of Psychology & Language Sciences
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Research Activities

  • Neural bases of human long-term memory
  • Neuropsychology, cognitive psychology and functional imaging of executive functions and memory.
  • The neural basis of spatial and episodic memory
  • experience-dependent cortical plasticity, circuits underlying sensory processing and behaviour

Recent Publications

Displaying 7 most recent publications. For the full list please visit UCL Discovery

  1. Woollett K,Maguire EA (2011) Acquiring "the Knowledge" of London's layout drives structural brain changes. Curr Biol, 21(24), 2109 - 2114. 10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.018.
  2. Woollett K,Spiers HJ,Maguire EA (2010) Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise., 89 - 103.
  3. Woollett K,Maguire EA (2010) The effect of navigational expertise on wayfinding in new environments Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(4), 565 - 573. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.03.003.
  4. Woollett K,Spiers HJ,Maguire EA (2009) Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364(1522), 1407 - 1416. 10.1098/rstb.2008.0288.
  5. Woollett K,Maguire EA (2009) Navigational expertise may compromise anterograde associative memory Neuropsychologia, 47(4), 1088 - 1095. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.036.
  6. Woollett K,Glensman J,Maguire EA (2008) Non-spatial expertise and hippocampal gray matter volume in humans Hippocampus, 18(10), 981 - 984. 10.1002/hipo.20465.
  7. Maguire EA,Woollett K,Spiers HJ (2006) London taxi drivers and bus drivers: A structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis Hippocampus, 16(12), 1091 - 1101. 10.1002/hipo.20233.

Qualifications

  • 2005: Master of Science, Institute of Neurology
  • 2004: Bachelor of Science, Birkbeck College