Dr Conor Thornberry is a cognitive neuroscientist and holds a B.A., M.Sc., and PhD in Psychology from Maynooth University (MU). He was awarded funding through the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Fellowship for his doctoral research at MU. His doctoral research focused on the neural underpinnings of human spatial navigation. Conor has previously been awarded the Research Mobility Fellowship Grant from Neuroscience Ireland and the Young Investigator Award from the European Brain & Behaviour Society for his work. He currently has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals including the European Journal of Neuroscience and Behaviour Research Methods and has presented at several international conferences including FENS and EBBS.
Conor has previously worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Psychology at MU. He has also worked as a lecturer in psychology at the Department of Adult & Community Education at MU and the Department of Psychology at Dublin Business School. He also previously held a visiting research placement at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
Conor is interested in how our brain constructs spatial representations and how it uses them to learn, remember and navigate. He is also interested in how these systems change with healthy ageing and age-related diseases such as dementia. He uses a range of methods including neuroimaging (EEG), OPM-MEG, neuropsychological testing, virtual reality and machine learning to understand the behavioural and neural properties of human spatial cognition.
I have received funding for my work from the following sources: