Dr Jean-Francois Delvenne
- Position: Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology
- Areas of expertise: Visual Short-Term Memory; Inter-hemispheric Communication; Visual Cognition; Ageing
- Email: J.F.Delvenne@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Room 2.15 Psychology Building
- Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
- I gained my degree in psychology from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium (graduating in 1999). During my studies, I have been actively involved in several research projects on face and object recognition, led Professors Xavier Seron and Bruno Rossion, using behavioural, electrophysiological, and neuropsychological methods.
- I then worked as a volunteer research assistant at the University of Birmingham, UK (1999-2000), with Professors Glyn Humphreys and Jane Riddoch, exploring mechnaisms underlying visual short-term memory.
- I then received a Ph.D. studentship from the Belgian Funding for Scientific Research (FNRS) for a period of four years (2000-2004). I completed my Ph.D. on the mechanisms of binding in visual short-term memory with Professor Raymond Bruyer at UCLouvain in 2004.
- Following my Ph.D., I was awarded two successive FNRS post-doctoral fellowships for a total period of three years (2004-2007). During that time, I worked at both UCLouvain and the University of Birmingham, UK, exploring further the mechanisms underlying visual short-term memory and inter-hemispheric communication of visual information.
- In June 2007, I joined the School of Psychology at Leeds as a lecturer and was promoted Associate Professor in 2017.
Responsibilities
- Academic Integrity Lead
Research interests
My research interests are related by a common focus on the severe limitations on our abilities to select, remember, and process visual information. I’m equally interested in understanding changes in cognitive processing across the lifespan
My research has mainly been focusing on visual short-term memory and on the capacity to process and remember visual information within and across hemifields. I’m aslo conducting research on the effects of ageing on the integrity of the corpus callosum and inter-hemispheric communication.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. Psychology
Professional memberships
- Experimental Psychology Society
- European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Student education
I teach at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels, I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, and I supervise doctoral theses.
Research groups and institutes
- Cognitive Neuroimaging
- Language and memory
- Successful ageing