Dr Matt Johnson Arrives at UNMC

Dr Matt Johnson has joined the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

Dr Matthew R. Johnson received his undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science from Yale University. He worked for two years at a neuropsychiatry research centre before returning to Yale to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience, which he completed in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Marcia K. Johnson. His broad research interests are in the areas of visual attention and memory. More specifically, his dissertation research used a number of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and behavioural psychology studies to examine how attention can be utilized within working memory to enhance some memory representations and/or suppress others. At UNMC, his work will extend this line of research with studies examining how attention processes within working memory operate similarly or dissimilarly to analogous attention processes in the domain of visual perception.

Dr Johnson will be teaching C82COG (Cognitive Psychology 2) with Jessica Price during 1st semester and C81BIO (Intro To Cognitive Neuroscience And Biological Psychology 1) with Neil Mennie during 2nd semester.