The Applied Cognition Lab led by Dr Mario A Parra Rodriguez advances research towards the development of solutions that can help tackle challenges posed by the rapid growth of the ageing population and disparities caused by socioeconomic and cultural barriers. It aims to equip novel methodologies such as cognitive assessments, neuroscience tools, and technology focused interventions, with knowledge drawn from various disciplines. The lab also aims to create translational opportunities via engagement with industry collaborators. The lab offers a stimulating context wherein students at different career stages can undertake research and training.
PsychologyApplied cognition lab
BioM-AD (Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease)
- Short-term memory binding: towards a novel biomarker of memory for Alzheimer's disease
- Electrophysiological biomarker of memory for Alzheimer's disease
- Eye-tracking technologies as potential biomarkers for dementia
UL-BCRN (UK-Latin America Brain Connectivity Research Network)
- Brain network dynamic during short-term memory binding: a study across the lifespan
- Electrophysiological assessment of interhemispheric transfer time
- Optimal Low-density EEG montage to detect mild cognitive impairment in ambulatory settings
- Enhancing memory binding abilities across age using tDCS
- Network Theory concepts to EEG signal data of patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI)
- Electrophysiological correlates of emotional processing in normal individuals and in those with neuropsychiatric, psychosocial, or developmental disorders.
VRAIS (Virtual Reality Assessment and Intervention System)
- Personalising Cognitive Intervention for Dementia via Intelligent Virtual Advisors
- A new health informatics framework to investigate the cognitive and physiological underpinnings of impairments in daily living functions in ageing and dementia
Tackling Challenges in Developing Societies (TCDS)
- Tackling cultural barriers in cognitive assessment and early detection of dementias
- Evaluation of a socio-emotional short training programme on the modulation of brain connectivity patterns in ex-combatants of the Colombian armed conflict
EuroLAD-EEG Consortium
- integrate knowledge across leading EEG labs
- develop protocols for rapid implementation and harmonisation
- allow access to data and methodologies and enable comparability and replicability of findings
- build capacity to expand the relevant community