Software

Quent, J. A., & Vatansever, D. (2025). Object Location Memory Task build with Unity3D (Version v4.0.4) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17482414

Quent, J. A. (2022). Questionnaire Presenter – A standalone program to collect questionnaire data made with Unity3D (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7180407

Quent, J. A. (2021). Mental rotation task for MATLAB (Version 1.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5502450

Quent, J. A. (2021). N-back task for MATLAB (Version 1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5502474

Invited Talks

• 18th March 2026
• Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales in the human brain
• Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Doeller Lab
• Leipzig, Germany
• 30th January 2026
• Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales in the human brain
• Edge Hill University at Tse Memory Lab
• Ormskirk, England
• 26th June 2025
• Precise mapping of the neural landscape underlying recognition memory
• OHBM
• Brisbane, Australia
• 20th May 2025
• Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales in the human hippocampus
• Spring Hippocampal Research Conference
• Verona, Italy
• 15th December 2023
• Spatial novelty-familiarity gradient in the hippocampus using VR and ultra-high-field fMRI
• BISA Meeting
• Fudan University, Shanghai
• 29th May 2023
• Influence of conceptual knowledge on spatial memory in a virtual reality environment
• Spring Hippocampal Research Conference
• Verona, Italy
• 14th December 2022
• Neural signatures of spatial navigation & memory using ultra-high-resolution 7T fMRI
• Fudan Cambridge Symposium
• Fudan University, Shanghai
• 26th January 2022
• Where PIMMS fails: limitations with our framework for memory
• Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• 15th December 2021
• Neuroimaging of mental navigation using virtual reality environments
• Post-doc introduction talk
• Fudan University
• ISTBI
• 30th November 2020
• Power Between the People: Bayesian Sequential Designs
• Methods day
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-MPO__jWo
• 8th September 2020
• Plan to produce strong evidence: Bayesian Sequential Designs
• Open Research Working Group (ORWG) virtual meeting hosted by British Neuroscience Association
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaxLQ_o8D4
• 29th July 2020
• Bayesian Sequential Designs
• Open Science Day
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• 11th November 2019
• Bayesian multilevel models
• Imaging Interest Group
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• Link: https://osf.io/f56bw/
• 15th May 2019
• Using immersive virtual reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance
• Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• 4th April 2019
• Using immersive reality to examine the U-shaped relationship between schema and memory performance
• Cambridge Memory Meeting
• University of Cambridge
• 3rd Jan 2019
• U-shaped relationship between object-location expectancy and memory performance in an immersive reality environment
• Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society
• London
• 20th Nov 2018
• Open notebooks in cognitive neuroscience
• Open Science Day
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKmv3-Nk8iE
• 5th Dec 2017
• Using RMarkdown to create scientific manuscripts
• Methods day
• University of Cambridge
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
• 1st Nov 2017
• Interaction between reward anticipation and stress hormone during memory formation
• Gates Cambridge internal symposium
• 1st Jan 2017
• Reward anticipation modulates the effect of cortisol on memory
• Research colloquium “Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology”
• Ruhr-University Bochum
• Faculty of Psychology

Accepted Abstracts

Quent, J. A., Zhuang, K., Liang X., Wang, Y., Vatansever, D. (June 2025). Precise mapping of the neural landscape underlying recognition memory. OHBM, Brisbane (Australia).

Quent, J. A., Liang X., Song, L., Su, Y., Zhuang, K., Vatansever, D. (June 2024). A gradient of spatial novelty and familiarity along the hippocampal long axis. OHBM, Seoul (South Korea).

Quent, J. A., Liang X., Song, L., Su, Y., Vatansever, D. (June 2023). Spatial Memory Within Virtual Reality Environments: An Ultra-High Field 7T fMRI Investigation. OHBM, Montreal (Canada).

Quent, J. A., Henson, R. N. (April 4, 2019). Using hydrocortisone to modulate the U-shape between expectancy and memory. BNA 2019 Festival of Neuroscience , Dublin (Ireland).

Quent, J. A., Meyer, M. Ros, T., Kuchinke, L. (May 31, 2018). Reading prevails: automatic word recognition in a single-letter Stroop task. Psychologie und Gehirn 2018, Gießen (Germany).

Meyer, M., Manrique Aristizabal, J. A., Quent, J. A., Crawford, B., & Vuilleumier, P. (May 11, 2018). Regulating With The Mind’s Eye: The Link Between Mental Imagery And Emotion Regulation. 36. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs, Landau (Germany).

Quent, J. A., McCullough, A. M., Sazma M., Wolf O. T., Yonelinas A. P. (March 12, 2018). Tag-and-capture theory in light of reward anticipation and post-encoding stress. Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar 2018, Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Theses

• PhD 2021
  • Novelty, Prediction Error and Memory Encoding: Limitations of the PIMMS Framework
  • Supervisor: Prof. Richard Henson
• Master of Science 2017
  • Reward anticipation modulates the effect of cortisol on memory,
  • Supervisors: Prof. Oliver T. Wolf & Dr. Uta Wiemers
  • Grade: 1.0
• Bachelor of Science 2015
  • Reading prevails: the electrophysiological signature of semantic access in a Stroop task
  • Supervisors: Prof. Lars Kuchinke & Dr. Marcel Meyer
  • Grade: 1.0