Paul Dockree
Associate Professor,
School of Psychology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Paul Dockree is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Paul is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in mechanisms of attention, memory and awareness through investigation with neuropsychological and electrophysiological methods. His work has a clinical emphasis to understand changes in functioning caused by brain injury and aging but also a strong interest in developing rehabilitation techniques to improve patient recovery from cognitive disabilities.
Research Interest
Our research investigates mechanisms of attention, memory, executive control and awareness using novel cognitive paradigms combined with neuropsychological and electrophysiological methods. This work has a clinical emphasis to understand changes in functioning caused by traumatic brain injury and focal brain lesions but also a strong interest in developing rehabilitation techniques to improve patient recovery from cognitive disabilities. For example, a recent project has the objective of alleviating attentional filtering problems in patients with brain injury where paying attention in the context of distracting noise from the environment can be extremely challenging. We are also interested in age-related individual differences in cognitive function. A recent project has explored variation in episodic memory in the elderly and identified different neural signatures of preserved and impaired episodic memory in older age. A new multi-centre research program funded under the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'INDIREA', and coordinated by Prof Glyn Humphreys, aims to employ non-invasive brain stimulation and biofeedback as an approach to enhance different facets of cognition in elderly people with memory difficulties. Finally, we are also investigating individual differences in the experience of bilingualism and how managing two or more languages in mind can strengthen cognitive flexibility and improve neural efficiency.
Publications
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O Brien, F. & Gormley, M., The role of risk-perception in dangerous driving among young people: Outcome- and Behavior-focused Questions Yield Opposite Results. , Journal of Adolescence, 52, 2016, p89 - 94
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Brennan, S., Dockree, P., Sobolowski, R. and Robertson, I.H. , Contribution of alpha to memory failures in healthy elderly, Irish Journal of Medical Sciences, 179, 2010, ppS105 - S105
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Dundon, N., Korpelainen, S.P., Merriman, N. Clarke, S, Robertson, I. H. & Dockree, P. M., Training Attentional Filtering in Traumatic Brain Injury, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, 2011
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Paul M. Dockree, Ian H. Robertson, Electrophysiological markers of cognitive deï¬cits in Traumatic Brain Injury: A review, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 82, (1), 2011, p53-60
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Coen, R., Dockree, P., Sexton, G., Cronin, H., O Regan, C., Lawlor, B., & Kenny, R. A., The Irish longitudinal study of ageing (TILDA): preliminary data on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in community dwelling Irish older adults, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 180, 2011, pS333 - S334
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O Connell RG, Dockree PM, Kelly SP, A supramodal accumulation-to-bound signal that determines perceptual decisions in humans., Nature neuroscience, 15, (12), 2012, p1729 - 1735
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FitzGerald, M.C., Carton, S., O Keeffe, F., Coen, R.F., Dockree P.M. , Impaired self-awareness following acquired brain injury: current theory, models and anatomical understanding. , The Irish Journal of Psychology, 33, (2-3), 2012, p78 - 85
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Salomone S, Robertson IH, Lynch T, Balsters JH, Fearon C, Marnane M, Pender NP, Dockree PM, The effects of immunologic brainstem encephalopathy on cognitive function following awakening from a progressive autoimmune coma., Neurocase, 20, (5), 2014, 569-580
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Dockree PM, Brennan S, O Sullivan M, Robertson IH, O Connell RG, Characterising neural signatures of successful aging: Electrophysiological correlates of preserved episodic memory in older age., Brain and cognition, 97, 2015, p40-50
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Dockree PM, Tarleton YM, Carton S, FitzGerald MC, Connecting Self-Awareness and Error-Awareness in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury., Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 21, (7), 2015, p473-82
