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Melanie Rose Burke

University of Leeds

Position

Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)

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Saccadic and pursuit eye movements, transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, functional neuroimaging, healthy ageing, eye and motor control in the brain.

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leeds.ac.uk

I am a Cognitive Neuroscientist currently interested in understanding how plasticity can be optimised in the brain for the potential benefits of improving cognition and addressing the impact of neurodegeneration in pathological ageing. I use eye-tracking and motor responses to monitor behaviour, alongside transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to induce plasticity, and functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to record brain activity. My previous research has focused on investigating at eye-movement networks in the brain using fMRI and eye-tracking technology.