Prof Madeline Eacott
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874055
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
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
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DPhil Oxford University,
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BSc. Psychology University of Reading,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, University of Essex (1/2018 - present)
Teaching and supervision
Current supervision
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
Conferences (1)
Machin, PE. and Eacott, MJ., (1998). Retrieval of object discriminations is impaired but acquisition is intact following perirhinal ablation in the rat