Jamie Murray

I graduated with a first class honours degree in Psychology at the University of Stirling in 2010. My undergraduate project was supervised by Prof. David Donaldson and investigated the interaction between mental imagery and episodic memory using Event Related Potentials (ERPs). I am currently doing a PhD at the University of Stirling under the principle supervision of Prof. David Donaldson and I am funded by the Horizon Studentship programme.

I have a general interest in episodic memory, mental imagery and consciousness. More specifically, I study the interaction between specific mnemonic techniques and episodic memory. Mnemonic techniques boost memory performance in healthy populations and attenuate memory impairments experienced by patients and the elderly suffering memory deficits. I use event related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how these mnemonic techniques influence neural activity during retrieval of information.

Pilgrim, K. L., Murray, G. J., Donaldson, I. D. (submitted). Characterising episodic memory retrieval: Electrophysiological evidence for diminished familiarity following unitization.

Pilgrim, K. L., Gray, M. C., Murray, G. J., Donaldson, I. D. (submitted). Unitization has costs as well as benefits for episodic memory: Electrophysiological evidence for familiarity in associative but not item recognition.