Interests

I am interested in individual differences in visual short-term memory capacity. I use behavioural experiments, fMRI and MVPA to try to understand the nature and precision of visual short-term memory representations and how these may differ between people and influence capacity. I am particularly interested in visual memory for complex and naturalistic objects.

Qualifications

I studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. I worked as a research assistant at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore before moving to Cambridge, where I worked on Dynamically Adaptive Imaging. I am currently studying for a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Contact:

michele.veldsman [at] mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Lab Publications

May, J. O. N., Calvo-Merino, B., Owen, A., Veldsman, M., Barnard, P. (2011) Points in mental space : an interdisciplinary study of imagery in movement creation. Dance Research 29(2), p. 402-430

Cusack, R. , Veldsman, M. , Naci, L. , Mitchell, D. J. , Linke, A. C. (2011) Seeing Different Objects in Different Ways: Measuring Ventral Visual Tuning to Sensory and Semantic Features With Dynamically Adaptive Imaging. Human Brain Mapping. pdf

Cusack, R. , Lehmann, M. , Veldsman, M. , Mitchell, D. J. (2009) Encoding strategy and not visual working memory capacity correlates with intelligence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 16(4), p. 641-647. pubmed, pdf