Our Alumni
Over the years, Associate Professor Kerryn Pike, has had a fantastic alumni of students graduate. At the MaxCCEL lab, we pride ourselves in creating a supportive learning environment to foster students' ability to generate research excellence. Below you will find our showcase of students to date, who have all contributed impactful research as part of their Honours, Masters, Doctorate, or PhD degrees.
Honours (Psychology) Alumni
2021
Jessie Hill - 'The Contributions of Community within Memory Interventions to Sense of Normality for Older Adults'
Reem Allahham - 'The Perceived Value of Neuropsychology Assessment for Australian Referrers'
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Allahham, Wong, & Pike (2023). What do Private Practice Referrers Value About Neuropsychology Assessment? Australian Psychologist
2020
Xiaojun (Sherry) Zeng - 'The Role of Attention in Memory Training for Older Adults in a Naturalistic Task'
2018
Natalie Pejoski- 'The Role of Fatigue and job Demand in Subjective Cognitive Impairment Among Cancer Survivors'
Nicolette Kamberis- 'Does Subjective Cognitive Decline Influence Objective Prospective Memory Performance? A Five-Year Followup Study'
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Kamberis, Cavuoto, & Pike (2021). The Influence of Subjective Cognitive Decline on Prospective Memory over Five Years? Neuropsychology
2017
Mai Nguyen- 'Subjective Cognitive Decline and Differential List-Learning and Story-Recall in Pre-Clinical Alzheimer's Disease'
Rebecca Lee- 'The Internalisation of Age Stereotypes, Cognition, and Resistance in the Digital Age'
2016
Kasun Thambawita- 'Dual Tasking Ability in Individuals with Subjective Memory Decline Over Time'
Lily Li- 'Diabetes Mellitus, Apolipoprotein E4, and Risk of Incident Dementia: A Meta-Analysis'
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Li, Cavuoto, Biddiscombe, & Pike (2020). Diabetes mellitus increases risk of incident dementia in APOE ɛ4 carriers: A meta-analysis. J Alzheimer's Disease DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-191068
2015
Karen Biddiscombe- 'Physical Activity and Cognition in Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease'
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Biddiscombe, Ong, Kalinowski & Pike (2020). Physical Activity And Cognition in Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
2012
Jessica Trevena-Peters- 'How well does Internal and External Memory Strategy Use Predict Levels of Subjective Memory Complaints in Older Adults?'
Shane Puxley- 'Attention Set-Shifting and Subjective Memory Complaints in Older Adults'
2011
Anna Snell- 'How Well Do Verbal Fluency Measures Predict Subjective Memory Complaints in Older Adults?'
2010
Amina Zeneli- 'Subjective Memory Complaints in Older Adults: Elaborative Support in New Learning'
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Pike, Zeneli, Ong, Price, Kinsella (2015). Reduced Benefit of Memory Elaboration in Older Adults with Subjective Memory Decline. J Alzheimer's Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-150062
Stephen Lee- 'Subjective Memory Complaints and Prospective Memory Performance in Older Adults'
Masters (Clinical Psychology or Neuropsychology) Alumni
2023
Caitlyn Gourlay- 'Evaluation of the Implementation of an Evidence-Based Memory Management Group in an Australian Public Health Service'
2022
Catherine Smith - ' A Qualitative Investigation of Cancer-Survivors’ Needs Around Cognition and Perspectives of a Memory Group Intervention'
Duy Dao- 'The Role of Sense of Community on Memory Self-Efficacy and Control Beliefs Online'
2020
Lily Li- 'Cognition in Older Adults with Diabetes, Pre-diabetes and Associated Risk Factors for Dementia and Cognitive Impairment'
2019
Sam Humphrey- 'Neuropsychological Outcomes Following Endovascular Clot Retrieval and Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischaemic Stroke Patients: A Feasibility and Internal Pilot Study'
2018
Albulene Ukiqui- 'Defining Clinically Meaningful Aβ-related Cognitive Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease'
Bronwyn Hall- 'Could Differences in Semantic Verbal Fluency Strategies be Indicative of Preclinical AD?'
2017
Christine Thai- 'Strategy Learning in Individuals with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment'
2014
Marina Cavuoto- 'Naturalistic Prospective Memory in Older Adults: Measurement and Predictors of Performance on a Habitual Task.'
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Cavuoto, Ong, Pike, Nicholas, & Kinsella (2017). Naturalistic Prospective Memory in Older Adults: Predictors of Performance on aHabitual Task. Neuropsychol Rehab
2013
Katalin Debreceni- 'Prospective Memory and Strategy Application in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury'
2010
Bedrija Krivdic- 'Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease: Early Executive Impairments and their Impact on Everyday Functioning'
Doctor of Psychology
(Clinical Neuropsychology) Alumni
2018
Milanda Matthews- 'Evaluating Long Term Effectiveness And Outcomes of a Memory Training Intervention for Older Adults'
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Matthews, Wells, Pike, & Kinsella (2020). Long-Term Effects of a Memory Group Intervention Reported by Older Adults. Neuropsychol Rehab DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2018.1544570
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Matthews, Pike, Wright, & Kinsella (2020). Predictors of Long-Term Improvement in Subjective Everyday Memory Following a Memory Group Program for Older Adults. J Aging Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264318814997
2017
Stephen Lee- 'The Contribution of Prospective Memory to the Neuropsychological Characterisation of Memory Changes in Older Adults at Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease'
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Lee, Ong, Pike, Mullaly, Rand, Storey, Ames, Saling, Clare, & Kinsella (2016). The Contribution of Prospective Memory Performance to the Neuropsychological Assessment of MCI. Clin Neuropsychol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2015.1135983
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Lee, Ong, Pike, & Kinsella (2018). Prospective Memory and Subjective Memory Decline: A Neuropsychological Indicator of Memory Difficulties in Community-Dwelling Older People. JCEN
2015
Fenny Muliadi- 'Verbal Paired Associate Memory and Learning in Older Adults'
2012
Jacinta Delprado- 'Prospective Memory in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment'
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Delprado, Kinsella, Ong, Pike, Ames, Storey, Saling, Clare, Mullaly, & Rand (2012). Clinical Measures of Prospective Memory in aMCI. JINS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s135561771100172x
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Delprado, Kinsella, Ong, & Pike (2013). Naturalistic Measures of Prospective Memory in aMCI. Psych Aging DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029785
Rachel Hutchens- 'Memory Strategy Use in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Patterns and Predictors'
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Hutchens, Kinsella, Ong, Pike, Parsons, Ames, Storey, Saling, Mullaly, Clare, & Rand (2012). Knowledge and Use of Memory Strategies in aMCI. Psych Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026256
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Hutchens, Kinsella, Ong, Pike, Clare, Ames, Saling, Storey, Mullaly, Rand, & Parsons (2013). Relationship Between Control Beliefs, Strategy Use, & Memory Performance in aMCI & Healthy Aging. J Gerontol B Psychol
PhD Alumni
2016
Marina Cavuoto- 'Sleep and Memory in Normal Ageing and Pre-Clinical Alzheimer’s Disease.'
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Cavuoto, Ong, Pike, Nicholas, Bei, & Kinsella (2016). Better Objective Sleep Quality in Older Adults with High Subjective Memory Decline. JAD
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-160187
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Cavuoto, MG, Ong B, Pike KE, Nicholas CL, Bei B, Kinsella, GJ (2016). Objective but not subjective sleep predicts memory in community-dwelling older adults. J Sleep Res 25: 475-85. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12391. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12391
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Cavuoto, Kinsella, Ong, Pike, & Nicholas (2019). Naturalistic Measurement of Sleep in Older Adults with aMCI: Anxiety Symptoms do not Explain Sleep Disturbance.Curr Alzheimer Res DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/1567205016666190301104645
