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Professor Madeline Eacott

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Professor (R)
Department of Psychology
Professor Madeline Eacott

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Biography

Madeline Eacott is Professor of Psychology at Essex University and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education). She is a member of the University Steering Group (USG) and also currently USG Inclusion Champion for Race. Madeline joined Essex University in January 2018 from the University of Durham where she had a variety of roles including Head of the Department of Psychology, Deputy Dean of Science with responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate education, Chair of Education Committee and Chair of Senate Disciplinary Committee. Madeline has a first class BSc in Psychology from Reading University (1984) and a DPhil from Oxford (1988).

Qualifications

  • DPhil Oxford University,

  • BSc. Psychology University of Reading,

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, University of Essex (1/2018 - present)

Publications

Journal articles (75)

Samuel, S., Cole, GG. and Eacott, MJ., (2023). It's Not You, It's Me: A Review of Individual Differences in Visuospatial Perspective Taking.. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 18 (2), 293-308

Samuel, S., Cole, GG., Eacott, MJ., Edwardson, R. and Course, H., (2023). Evidence for a Weak but Reliable Processing Advantage for False Beliefs Over Similar Nonmental States in Adults.. Cognitive Science. 47 (10), e13364-

Samuel, S., Eacott, M. and Cole, GG., (2022). Visual perspective taking without visual perspective taking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 48 (7), 959-965

Samuel, S., Salo, S., Ladvelin, T., Cole, G. and Eacott, M., (2022). Teleporting into walls? The irrelevance of the physical world in embodied perspective taking. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 30 (3), 1011-1019

Eacott, M., Cole, G. and Samuel, S., (2022). A return of mental imagery: The pictorial theory of visual perspective-taking.. Consciousness and Cognition. 102, 103352-103352

Samuel, S., Hagspiel, K., Eacott, MJ. and Cole, GG., (2021). Visual perspective-taking and image-like representations: We don’t see it.. Cognition. 210, 104607-104607

Ameen-Ali, KE., Sivakumaran, MH., Eacott, M., O’Connor, AR., Ainge, JA. and Easton, A., (2021). Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 182, 107439-107439

Samuel, S., Hagspiel, K., Cole, GG. and Eacott, MJ., (2021). 'Seeing’ proximal representations: Testing attitudes to the relationship between vision and images. PLoS One. 16 (8), e0256658-e0256658

Cole, GG., Millett, AC., Samuel, S. and Eacott, MJ., (2020). Perspective-Taking: In Search of a Theory.. Vision. 4 (2), 30-30

Eacott, M., Easton, A., Ameen-Ali, KE. and Cockcroft, JP., (2020). Impaired episodic simulation in a patient with visual memory deficit amnesia. Brain and Neuroscince Advances. 4, 239821282095438-239821282095438

Samuel, S., Cole, G. and Eacott, M., (2020). Two independent sources of difficulty in Perspective-taking/theory of mind tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 27 (6), 1341-1347

Seel, S., Easton, A., Mcgregor, A., Buckley, M. and Eacott, MJ., (2019). Walking through doorways differentially affects recall and familiarity. British Journal of Psychology. 110 (1), 173-184

Chan, M., Austen, JM., Eacott, MJ., Easton, A. and Sanderson, DJ., (2019). The NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 fails to impair long-term recognition memory in mice when the state-dependency of memory is controlled. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 161, 57-62

Samuel, S., Cole, G. and Eacott, M., (2019). Grammatical gender and linguistic relativity: A systematic review. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 26 (6), 1767-1786

Seel, SV., Eacott, MJ., Langston, RF. and Easton, A., (2018). Cholinergic input to the hippocampus is not required for a model of episodic memory in the rat, even with multiple consecutive events. Behavioural Brain Research. 354, 48-54

Chan, M., Eacott, MJ., Sanderson, DJ., Wang, J., Sun, M. and Easton, A., (2018). Continual Trials Spontaneous Recognition Tasks in Mice: Reducing Animal Numbers and Improving Our Understanding of the Mechanisms Underlying Memory. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 12, 214-

Ameen-Ali, KE., Norman, LJ., Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2017). Incidental context information increases recollection. Learning and Memory. 24 (3), 136-139

Ameen-Ali, KE., Easton, A. and Eacott, MJ., (2015). Moving beyond standard procedures to assess spontaneous recognition memory. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 53, 37-51

Robertson, B-A., Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2015). Putting memory in context: Dissociating memories by distinguishing the nature of context. Behavioural Brain Research. 285, 99-104

Grisdale, E., Lind, SE., Eacott, MJ. and Williams, DM., (2014). Self-referential memory in autism spectrum disorder and typical development: Exploring the ownership effect. Consciousness and Cognition. 30, 133-141

Davis, KE., Easton, A., Eacott, MJ. and Gigg, J., (2013). Episodic-Like Memory for What-Where-Which Occasion is Selectively Impaired in the 3xTgAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 33 (3), 681-698

Davis, KE., Eacott, MJ., Easton, A. and Gigg, J., (2013). Episodic-like memory is sensitive to both Alzheimer's-like pathological accumulation and normal ageing processes in mice. Behavioural Brain Research. 254, 73-82

Easton, A. and Eacott, MJ., (2013). Cholinergic mechanisms of episodic memory: What specific behavioural tasks can tell us about specific neural mechanisms. Brain Research Bulletin. 92, 21-28

Easton, A., Webster, LAD. and Eacott, MJ., (2012). The episodic nature of episodic-like memories. Learning & Memory. 19 (4), 146-150

Ameen-Ali, KE., Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2012). A new behavioural apparatus to reduce animal numbers in multiple types of spontaneous object recognition paradigms in rats. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 211 (1), 66-76

Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2012). Remembering the past and thinking about the future: Is it really about time?. Learning and Motivation. 43 (4), 200-208

Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2012). Remembering the future: The influence of past experience on future behavior. Learning and Motivation. 43 (4), 167-168

Easton, A., Douchamps, V., Eacott, M. and Lever, C., (2012). A specific role for septohippocampal acetylcholine in memory?. Neuropsychologia. 50 (13), 3156-3168

Easton, A., Fitchett, AE., Eacott, MJ. and Baxter, MG., (2011). Medial septal cholinergic neurons are necessary for context‐place memory but not episodic‐like memory. Hippocampus. 21 (9), 1021-1027

Jones, EJH., Pascalis, O., Eacott, MJ. and Herbert, JS., (2011). Visual recognition memory across contexts. Developmental Science. 14 (1), 136-147

Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2010). Episodic memory in animals: Remembering which occasion. Neuropsychologia. 48 (8), 2273-2280

Easton, A. and Eacott, MJ., (2010). Recollection of episodic memory within the medial temporal lobe: Behavioural dissociations from other types of memory. Behavioural Brain Research. 215 (2), 310-317

Easton, A., Zinkivskay, A. and Eacott, MJ., (2009). Recollection is impaired, but familiarity remains intact in rats with lesions of the fornix. Hippocampus. 19 (9), 837-843

Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2007). On familiarity and recall of events by rats. Hippocampus. 17 (9), 890-897

Eacott, MJ. and Easton, A., (2007). Mental time travel in the rat: Dissociation of recall and familiarity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 30 (3), 322-323

Crawley, RA. and Eacott, MJ., (2006). Memories of early childhood: Qualities of the experience of recollection. Memory & Cognition. 34 (2), 287-294

Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, EA., (2005). The Roles of Perirhinal Cortex, Postrhinal Cortex, and the Fornix in Memory for Objects, Contexts, and Events in the Rat. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B. 58 (3-4b), 202-217

GREENBERG, D., EACOTT, M., BRECHIN, D. and RUBIN, D., (2005). Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. Neuropsychologia. 43 (10), 1493-1502

Norman, G. and Eacott, MJ., (2005). Dissociable Effects of Lesions to the Perirhinal Cortex and the Postrhinal Cortex on Memory for Context and Objects in Rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 119 (2), 557-566

Eacott, MJ., Easton, A. and Zinkivskay, A., (2005). Recollection in an episodic-like memory task in the rat. Learning & Memory. 12 (3), 221-223

Eacott, MJ. and Norman, G., (2004). Integrated Memory for Object, Place, and Context in Rats: A Possible Model of Episodic-Like Memory?. The Journal of Neuroscience. 24 (8), 1948-1953

Gaffan, EA., Healey, AN. and Eacott, MJ., (2004). Objects and Positions in Visual Scenes: Effects of Perirhinal and Postrhinal Cortex Lesions in the Rat.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 118 (5), 992-1010

Norman, G. and Eacott, MJ., (2004). Impaired object recognition with increasing levels of feature ambiguity in rats with perirhinal cortex lesions. Behavioural Brain Research. 148 (1-2), 79-91

Eacott, MJ., Norman, G. and Gaffan, EA., (2003). The Role of Perirhinal Cortex in Visual Discrimination Learning for Visual Secondary Reinforcement in Rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 117 (6), 1318-1325

Norman, G., Brooks, SP., Hennebry, GM., Eacott, MJ. and Little, HJ., (2002). Nimodipine prevents scopolamine-induced impairments in object recognition. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 16 (2), 153-161

Eacott, M., (2001). Elemental and configural visual discrimination learning following lesions to perirhinal cortex in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research. 124 (1), 55-70

Gaffan, EA., Eacott, MJ. and Simpson, EL., (2000). Perirhinal cortex ablation in rats selectively impairs object identification in a simultaneous visual comparison task.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 114 (1), 18-31

Gaffan, EA., Eacott, MJ. and Simpson, EL., (2000). Perirhinal cortex ablation in rats selectively impairs object identification in a simultaneous visual comparison task. BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE. 114 (1), 18-31

Gaffan, EA., Eacott, MJ. and Simpson, EL., (2000). Perirhinal cortex ablation in rats selectively impairs object identification in a simultaneous visual comparison task.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 114 (1), 18-31

Eacott, MJ. and Crawley, RA., (1999). Childhood Amnesia: On Answering Questions About Very Early Life Events. Memory. 7 (3), 279-292

Eacott, MJ., (1999). That old familiar feeling: On uniquely identifying the role of perirhinal cortex. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22 (3), 448-449

Machin, PE. and Eacott, MJ., (1999). Perirhinal cortex and visual discrimination learning in the rat. Psychobiology. 27 (4), 470-479

Crawley, RA. and Eacott, MJ., (1999). Memory for Early Life Events: Consistency of Retrieval of Memories Over a One-year Interval. Memory. 7 (4), 439-460

Eacott, MJ., (1999). Memory for the Events of Early Childhood. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 8 (2), 46-48

Eacott, MJ. and Crawley, RA., (1998). The offset of childhood amnesia: Memory for events that occurred before age 3.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 127 (1), 22-33

Simpson, EL., Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, MJ., (1998). Rats' object-in-place encoding and the effect of fornix transection. Psychobiology. 26 (3), 190-204

Eacott, MJ., (1998). Acquisition and retention of visual discrimination learning after ablation of perirhinal cortex in the rat. Psychobiology. 26 (1), 36-41

Eacott, MJ. and Crawley, RA., (1998). The offset of childhood amnesia: Memory for events that occurred before age 3.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 127 (1), 22-33

Parker, A., Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, D., (1997). The Recognition Memory Deficit Caused by Mediodorsal Thalamic Lesion in Non‐human Primates: A Comparison with Rhinal Cortex Lesion. European Journal of Neuroscience. 9 (11), 2423-2431

Rushworth, MFS., Nixon, PD., Eacott, MJ. and Passingham, RE., (1997). Ventral Prefrontal Cortex Is Not Essential for Working Memory. The Journal of Neuroscience. 17 (12), 4829-4838

Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, MJ., (1997). Spatial memory impairment in rats with fornix transection is not accompanied by a simple encoding deficit for directions of objects in visual space.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 111 (5), 937-954

Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, MJ., (1997). Spatial memory impairment in rats with fornix transection is not accompanied by a simple encoding deficit for directions of objects in visual space.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 111 (5), 937-954

Gaffan, D. and Eacott, MJ., (1995). Visual Learning for an Auditory Secondary Reinforcer by Macaques is Intact after Uncinate Fascicle Section: Indirect Evidence for the Involvement of the Corpus Striatum. European Journal of Neuroscience. 7 (9), 1866-1871

Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, MJ., (1995). A computer-controlled maze environment for testing visual memory in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 60 (1-2), 23-37

Gaffan, D. and Eacott, MJ., (1995). Uncinate fascicle section leaves delayed matching-to-sample intact, with both large and small stimulus sets. Experimental Brain Research. 105 (1), 175-180

Eacott, MJ. and Heywood, CA., (1995). Perception and memory: Action and interaction. Critical Reviews in Neurobiology. 9 (4), 311-320

Eacott, MJ., Gaffan, D. and Murray, EA., (1994). Preserved Recognition Memory for Small Sets, and Impaired Stimulus Identification for Large Sets, Following Rhinal Cortex Ablations in Monkeys. European Journal of Neuroscience. 6 (9), 1466-1478

Eacott, MJ., Heywood, CA., Gross, CG. and Cowey, A., (1993). Visual discrimination impairments following lesions of the superior temporal sulcus are not specific for facial stimuli. Neuropsychologia. 31 (6), 609-619

Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, D., (1992). Inferotemporal‐frontal Disconnection: The Uncinate Fascicle and Visual Associative Learning in Monkeys. European Journal of Neuroscience. 4 (12), 1320-1332

Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, D., (1991). The role of monkey inferior parietal cortex in visual discrimination of identity and orientation of shapes. Behavioural Brain Research. 46 (1), 95-98

Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, D., (1990). Interhemispheric transfer of visuomotor conditional learning via the anterior corpus callosum of monkeys. Behavioural Brain Research. 38 (2), 109-116

EACOTT, MJ. and GAFFAN, D., (1989). REACHING TO A REWARDED VISUAL STIMULUS: INTERHEMISPHERIC CONFLICT AND HAND USE IN MONKEYS WITH FOREBRAIN COMMISSUROTOMY. Brain. 112 (5), 1215-1230

Eacott, MJ. and Gaffan, D., (1989). Interhemispheric transfer of visual learning in monkeys with intact optic chiasm. Experimental Brain Research. 74 (2), 348-352

Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, M., (1986). Memory for Feeding in Rats’ Spatial and Visual Choice Behaviour. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B. 38 (3), 285-311

Gaffan, EA. and Eacott, M., (1986). Memory for feeding in rats' spatial and visual choice behaviour.. The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. B, Comparative and physiological psychology. 38 (3), 285-311

Books (1)

Easton, A. and Eacott, MJ., (2008). Chapter 2.3 A new working definition of episodic memory: replacing “when” with “which”. Elsevier. 9780444531742

Conferences (1)

Machin, PE. and Eacott, MJ., (1998). Retrieval of object discriminations is impaired but acquisition is intact following perirhinal ablation in the rat

Contact

m.j.eacott@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 874055

Location:

Colchester Campus