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Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Marcus is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sleep, memory, and emotion. Marcus completed his PhD on the role of emotional memory consolidation during REM sleep in vulnerability to depression, before spending 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's research has included work on:
- The mechanisms of sleep-associated memory consolidation
- Emotional memory
- Psychiatric disorders (especially depression and PTSD)
- Memory control/ thought suppression
- Auditory stimulation during sleep
- Targeted memory reactivation
Teaching Interests
I currently teach on the 3rd year Undergraduate 'Psychology of Sleep' module.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Lincoln
Award Date: 12 Jul 2018
Keywords
- Cognition
- Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry
- Psychology (General)
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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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., Sep 2021, In: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 183, 107482.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phase-locked auditory stimulation of theta oscillations during rapid eye movement sleep
Harrington, M. O., Ashton, J. E., Ngo, H-V. V. & Cairney, S. A., 1 Apr 2021, In: Sleep. 44, 4, zsaa227.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sleep loss gives rise to intrusive thoughts
Harrington, M. O. & Cairney, S. A., Jun 2021, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25, 6, p. 434-436 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › peer-review
Open AccessFile9 Citations (Scopus)5 Downloads (Pure)