National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Faculty Member, Department of Psychology

Lecturer

About

Dr Richard Roche graduated from his undergraduate degree in Psychology (1995-1999) with First Class Honours and as a Scholar of Psychology of Trinity College, Dublin. His PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (1999-2002) was carried out, also in Trinity College, under the supervision of Prof Shane O’Mara, and involved the study of visuomotor association learning using behavioural paradigms and human electrophysiology (EEG/ERP). Following this, his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2002-2005) with Prof O’Mara and Prof Ian Robertson involved memory training techniques in the elderly using rote rehearsal and MR Spectroscopy. In 2005, he was employed as a Junior Lecturer in NUI Maynooth, where he is in the process of establishing an independent research profile and laboratory. He was promoted to Lecturer in 2007. Since his appointment, he has established Ireland’s first high-density EEG laboratory, and has continued his research interests in memory, spatial representation, psychosis, stroke, decision-making and neuroeconomics. To date, he has published 16 research articles in such journals as Hippocampus, NeuroImage and Experimental Brain Research, has presented at international conferences including CNS, EBBS and FENS, and has acted as a reviewer for several neuroscience journals. His first book – Pioneering Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience - co-authored by Dr Sean Commins, was published in 2009. He has received over €900,000 to date in research funding, and currently collaborates with a number of national and international laboratories. In the recent years, his research has begun to move in more clinical and applied directions with the emerging collaboration between NUI Maynooth and the Stroke Unit of Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

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