| Post: | Research Fellow (Clinical Medicine) |
| Other posts: | School Associate (Psychology) |
| Location: | Cisc Office 10 |
| Email: | bsms2939@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8584 |
| UK: | (01273) 678584 |
| International: | +44 1273 678584 |
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Biography
Research Fellow in Emotion and Neuroscience, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, 2011–present
Research Staff, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, 2011–present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, 2007–2011
Role
A fellow at BSMS investigating the mechanisms underlying learning and memory, using psychopharmacology, psychophysiology and fMRI to gain insight into the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying distinct memory processes, with a particular interest in the impact of stress on memory. Research focuses on different memory phenomena, specifically memory distortion, memory facilitation and memory inhibition. Recent research centres on the impact of the heart on memory and emotion.
Guest lecturer, Forensic and Applied Cognitive Psychology, a second year course at the University of Sussex
Garfinkel, Sarah N and Critchley, Hugo D (2013) Interoception, emotion and brain: new insights link internal physiology to social behaviour. Commentary on: "Anterior insular cortex mediates bodily sensibility and social anxiety" by Terasawa et al. (2012). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8 (3). pp. 231-234. ISSN 1749-5024
Garfinkel, Sarah, Barrett, Adam, Minati, Ludovico, Dolan, R J, Seth, Anil and Critchley, Hugo (2013) What the heart forgets: cardiac timing influences memory for words and is modulated by metacognition and interoceptive sensitivity. Psychophysiology. ISSN 0048-5772 (In Press)
