Jane Elsley

Dr. Jane Elsley is a Principal Academic in Psychology at Bournemouth University, specializing in cognitive psychology with a focus on working memory and feature binding processes. She holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth (2007) following an MSc in Psychological Research Methods (2003) and BSc in Psychology with Law (2002).

Her research examines feature binding in working memory, particularly how disparate information (e.g., verbal and spatial) integrates into cohesive representations. She has investigated attentional mechanisms, auditory/vibrotactile distraction, and olfactory working memory. Key contributions include studies on letter-location binding asymmetry and the impact of memory load on verbal-spatial binding.

Dr. Elsley has published widely in journals like Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and NeuroImage, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience methodologies. Her work explores both behavioral and neural mechanisms of memory binding, employing EEG and behavioral paradigms.

• Grants: Led the ESRC-funded "Binding in Working Memory: Exploring the Internal Focus of Attention" (2010).
• Advising: Supervised PhD student Simon Ferneyhough.
• Labs: Director of the Feature Binding Lab.