Richard Henson (neurobiologist)

Rik Henson
Born	1970 (age 53–54)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh
Known for	Human memory, neuroimaging
Awards	BPS Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Research EPS Prize for Young Researcher President British Neuroscience Association Fellow of the British Academy
Scientific career
Institutions	MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (2004 onwards) Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (1997-2004)
Thesis	Short-term memory for serial order  (1997)
Website	mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal

Richard "Rik" Henson, FBA (born 1970) is a British cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where he works at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England. He studies the neural bases of human memory.^[1] From 2021 to 2023, he is also President of the British Neuroscience Association.^[2]

In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[3]

Publications

His most famous articles are:

• Henson, R.N. What can functional imaging tell the experimental psychologist? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A. 2005 58, 193–233. [1]
• Henson R.N. Neuroimaging studies of priming. Progress in Neurobiology. 2003 May 1;70(1):53-81. [2]
• Henson, R.N., Shallice, T. & Dolan, R.J. Neuroimaging evidence for dissociable forms of repetition priming. Science. 2000, 287, 1269–1272. [3]
• Henson R.N., Rugg M.D., Shallice T, Josephs O, Dolan R.J. Recollection and familiarity in recognition memory: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. The Journal of Neuroscience. 1999 May 15;19(10):3962-72. [4]
• Henson R.N. Short-term memory for serial order: The start-end model. Cognitive Psychology. 1998 Jul 1;36(2):73-137. [5]

References

1. Personal Website at University of Cambridge
2. "Our Governance & People". British Neuroscience Society.
3. "Professor Rik Henson FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 11 August 2022.