The AGEING PLASTICITY project was an EU-funded Marie Curie fellowship awarded to Méadhbh Brosnan to investigate brain ageing, and to assess whether neurophysiological markers can be meaningfully improved in older adults through the manipulation of brain activity.
The AGEING PLASTICITY project used a combination of neuroimaging (MRI), neurophysiology (m/EEG), neuropsychological and lifestyle (cognitive reserve) assessments to understand the structures and processes underpinning resilience to cognitive decline.
This work was conducted at the Departmental of Experimental Psychology and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), led by Méadhbh under the mentorship of Anna C. (Kia) Nobre. Méadhbh was additionally supported by a junior research fellowship at Corpus Christi College
Conference Contributions
Emerging Results
New study in Brain Communications
Brosnan, M. B., Shalev, S., Ramduny, J., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Chechlacz, M. Right fronto-parietal networks mediate the neurocognitive benefits of enriched environments, Brain Communications, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2022, fcac080, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac080
New study in Cerebral Cortex Communications
Shalev, N., Brosnan, M. B., & Chechlacz, M. Right Lateralized Brain Reserve Offsets Age-Related Deficits in Ignoring Distraction, Cerebral Cortex Communications, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, tgaa049, https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa049
New feature in Horizon Magazine
New preprint at Biorxiv
Brosnan, M. B., O’Neill, M. H., Loughnane, G. M., Pearce, D. J., Fleming, B, Zhou, S.H., Chong, T. T.-J., Nobre, A. C., O’Connell, R. G., Bellgrove, M. A. Evidence accumulation rate moderates the relationship between enriched environment exposure and age-related response speed declines.