Our work

Publications

Research spanning learning, memory, generalisation, spatial representations and the factors that shape cognition across the lifespan.

20 results

  1. 01
    2025

    Lancaster, C. L., Berens, S. C., Daly, J., Rusted, J. M., & Bird, C. M. (2025). Perceptual discrimination of complex objects: APOE e4 gene-dose effects in mid-life. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21(6), e70246. DOI

  2. 02
    2025

    Greenhouse-Tucknott, A., Wrightson, J. G., Berens, S. C., Dekerle, J., & Harrison, N. A. (2025). Perceived fatigue does not alter effort-based decision making, but does undermine confidence in the ability to perform physical actions. Physiology & Behavior, 291, 114792. DOI

  3. 03
    2024

    Budden, E., Atkinson, S., Berens, S. C., Stanton, A., King, S. L., Minihane, A. M., … & Lancaster, C. L. (2024). Do the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy during menopause differ by APOE genotype? Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 20(S8), e095240. DOI

  4. 04
    2024

    Daly, J., De Luca, F., Berens, S. C., Field, A. P., Rusted, J. M., & Bird, C. M. (2024). The effect of apolipoprotein E genotype on spatial processing in humans: a meta-analysis and systematic review. Cortex, 177, 268–284. DOI

  5. 05
    2024

    Mojescik, K. M., Berens, S. C., De Luca, F., Ritchey, M., & Bird, C. M. (2024). The Relationship Between Subjective Memory Experience and Objective Memory Performance Remains Stable Across the Lifespan. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 116195. DOI

  6. 06
    2024

    Joensen, B. H., Ashton, J. E., Berens, S. C., Gaskell, M. G., & Horner, A. J. (2024). An Enduring Role for Hippocampal Pattern Completion in Addition to an Emergent Nonhippocampal Contribution to Holistic Episodic Retrieval after a 24 h Delay. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(18), e1740232024. DOI

  7. 07
    2022

    Berens, S. C., & Bird, C. M. (2022). Hippocampal and medial prefrontal cortices encode structural task representations following progressive and interleaved training schedules. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010566. DOI

  8. 08
    2022

    Joensen, B. H., Harrington, M., Berens, S. C., Cairney, S., Gaskell, M. G., & Horner, A. J. (2022). Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories. Learning & Memory, 29(11), 401–411. DOI

  9. 09
    2022

    Cockcroft, J. P., Berens, S. C., Gaskell, M. G., & Horner, A. J. (2022). Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information. Cognition, 227, 105203. DOI

  10. 10
    2022

    Horner, A. J., & Berens, S. C. (2022). Précis of Berens, Richards, and Horner (2020): Dissociating memory accessibility and precision in forgetting. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 7, 7–11.

  11. 11
    2021

    Berens, S. C., Joensen, B. H., & Horner, A. J. (2021). Tracking the emergence of location-based spatial representations in human scene-selective cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(3), 445–462. DOI

  12. 12
    2021

    Knowland, V. C., Berens, S. C., Gaskell, M. G., Walker, S. A., & Henderson, L. M. (2021). Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study. Journal of Child Language, 1–23. DOI

  13. 13
    2020

    Berens, S. C., Bird, C. M., & Harrison, N. A. (2020). Minocycline differentially modulates human spatial memory systems. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 2162–2169. DOI

  14. 14
    2020

    Berens, S. C., Richards, B. A., & Horner, A. J. (2020). Dissociating memory accessibility and precision in forgetting. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 866–877. DOI

  15. 15
    2018

    Berens, S. C., Horst, J. S., & Bird, C. M. (2018). Cross-situational learning is supported by propose-but-verify hypothesis testing. Current Biology, 28(7), 1132–1136.e5. DOI

  16. 16
    2017

    Berens, S. C., & Horner, A. J. (2017). Theta Rhythm: Temporal Glue for Episodic Memory. Current Biology, 27(20), R1110–R1112. DOI

  17. 17
    2017

    Oedekoven, C. S., Keidel, J. L., Berens, S. C., & Bird, C. M. (2017). Reinstatement of memory representations for lifelike events over the course of a week. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 14305. DOI

  18. 18
    2017

    Berens, S. C., & Bird, C. M. (2017). The role of the hippocampus in generalizing configural relationships. Hippocampus, 27(3), 223–228. DOI

  19. 19
    2015

    De Visscher, A., Berens, S. C., Keidel, J. L., Noël, M. P., & Bird, C. M. (2015). The interference effect in arithmetic fact solving: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 116, 92–101. DOI

  20. 20
    2014

    Bird, C. M., Berens, S. C., Horner, A. J., & Franklin, A. (2014). Categorical encoding of color in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(12), 4590–4595. DOI

This record follows Sam Berens’s academic CV and is presented in reverse chronological order. Last updated August 2026.