Carl Hodgetts

Carl Hodgetts is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London, leading the Connected Memory Lab. He holds an honorary research fellowship at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre. His research focuses on how the brain constructs representations of scenes and events, with a particular emphasis on hippocampal function, memory, and spatial navigation. Hodgetts earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Cardiff University and has received a Wellcome ISSF Fellowship for neuroimaging research at the University of Oxford. His work spans advanced neuroimaging techniques, cognitive modeling, and the impact of aging on neural circuits.

He coordinates courses like PS2061 (Brain and Behaviour) and supports teaching in aging neuroscience. Research interests include the hippocampus's role in memory, event segmentation, and individual differences in cognitive networks. Notable contributions include studies on hippocampal subfields via 7-Tesla MRI and the role of curiosity in spatial learning. Grants include a BBSRC-funded project on the subiculum's role in memory-event interfaces.

Key achievements include over 25 peer-reviewed articles, a dataset integrating multimodal neuroimaging, and mentoring students such as Kavishini and Eleanor Alderman. His lab actively explores how cognitive maps form in virtual environments and the limitations of traditional cognitive space models.