Clea Warburton University of Bristol, UK
Clea Warburton is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol. She gained her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Reading, and received a PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. On completion of her PhD, Clea went on to conduct post-doctoral research with Barry Everitt and Trevor Robbins (Cambridge University) and John Aggleton (Cardiff University). Her research is concerned with uncovering the neural mechanisms of learning and memory. More specifically, her studies combine complementary behavioural, molecular and pharmacological techniques to investigate the distributed networks of brain regions and mechanisms by which recognition memory information, is acquired and stored.