About

Hi, I'm Rob! I'm a computational cognitive neuroscientist interested in how the brain organises information into mental representations for intelligent behaviour. I am interested concept learning, categorization, and the formation of long-term concepts in the brain. More generally, I'm interested in our capacity for complex tasks (task representation). Somehow, I got into spatial cognition and how neural representations of space may (or may not) related to abstract concepts. I use behavioural experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modelling to try to figure out how we learn, think, and represent things in the mind - and how it all comes together in the brain!

I am also interested in cognitive ageing and how learning and memory systems change as we age, especially how preserved versus declining brain systems might relate to new knowledge acquistion.

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Royal Holloway, University of London.

I will be (re-)starting my lab at the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet; https://cinet.jp/english/) in 2025, which is physically based at Osaka University.  Let me know if you are interested in joining as a PhD student or Postdoc and we can explore funding options!

Browse my site to learn a bit about our research, and check out my Blog!

Past: 

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge with John Duncan (and collaborating with Brad Love at UCL).

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Experimental Psychology at UCL (with Brad Love).

Investigator Scientist at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (with Niko Kriegeskorte, now at Columbia University). 

DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (Brain and Cognition lab headed by Kia Nobre, onw at Yale Unviversity).