Who We Are

Kim Graham

Scientist at Cardiff University

I undertook my undergraduate training at Edinburgh University, where I obtained a First Class BSc Honours Degree in Psychology. I also was awarded a Class Medal in 1998 and the Drever Prize for Psychology in 1990. My postgraduate education was at St John's College, Cambridge University and involved studies of semantic memory in dementia at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit. In collaboration with Professor John Hodges, I was subsequently funded for two years on a Wellcome Grant at the Cambridge University Neurology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, during which we reported novel patterns of remote memory loss in individuals with semantic dementia. In 1997, I was employed as a senior postdoctoral scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, prior to promotion to Programme Leader in June 2002. During this time, we published a series of studies demonstrating impairments in object and scene processing in amnesic individuals, and differential profiles of brain activity for object and scene processing in healthy individuals. These patterns are challenging to current views of human memory, and suggest the need for revisions to how we think human memory maps onto the brain. In March 2007 I took up a position as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff University. I have published over 85 publications on human memory, and was awarded the Paul Bertelson Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in 2005. I am a member of the Memory Disorders Research Society and consulting editor for the journal Neuropsychology.