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Biography
Marcus is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sleep, memory, emotion, and mental health. Marcus completed his PhD at the University of Lincoln, where he investigated the interplay between REM sleep, emotional memory consolidation, and major depressive disorder. Marcus subsequently spent over five years as a Postdoc at the University of York studying thought suppression, sleep-associated memory consolidation, and sleep engineering.
Areas of Expertise
Marcus is a cognitive psychologist with expertise in sleep, memory, emotion, and mental health.
Teaching Interests
Module organiser: Psychology of Sleep (3rd-year BSc)
Dissertation project supervisor (MSc and 3rd-year BSc)
Co-tutor: Themes in Cognitive Neuroscience (MSc)
Co-tutor: Brain and Cognition (3rd-year BSc)
Co-tutor: Cognitive and Biological Psychology (2nd-year BSc)
Co-tutor: Research Methods and Statistics (1st-year BSc)
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, REM sleep and emotional memory in depression vulnerability, University of Lincoln
Award Date: 12 Jul 2018
Keywords
- Cognition
- Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry
- Psychology (General)
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Projects
- 1 Active
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Using auditory stimulation to investigate selectivity in sleep-associated memory processing
3/06/24 → 2/12/25
Project: Research
Research output
- 14 Article
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Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain
Harrington, M. O., Karapanagiotidis, T., Phillips, L., Smallwood, J., Anderson, M. C. & Cairney, S. A., 7 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 122, 1, e2400743122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How do the sleep features that characterise depression impact memory?
Harrington, M. O., Reeve, S., Bower, J. L. & Renoult, L., Dec 2023, In: Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 7, 5, p. 499-512 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories
Joensen, B. H., Harrington, M. O., Berens, S. C., Cairney, S. A., Gaskell, M. G. & Horner, A. J., 1 Nov 2022, In: Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). 29, 11, p. 401-411 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Losing control: Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
Harrington, M. O., Ashton, J. E., Sankarasubramanian, S., Anderson, M. C. & Cairney, S. A., Jan 2021, In: Clinical Psychological Science. 9, 1, p. 97-113 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No benefit of auditory closed-loop stimulation on memory for semantically-incongruent associations
Harrington, M. O., Ngo, H-V. V. & Cairney, S. A., Sept 2021, In: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 183, 107482.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile9 Citations (Scopus)10 Downloads (Pure)