Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Kata Pauly-Takacs
Senior Lecturer
Kata is a cognitive neuropsychologist specialising in human memory. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Leeds in 2012 and joined Leeds Beckett University in 2013.
Kata's PhD thesis focused on how childhood brain tumours and subsequent treatment affect developing memory systems and how specific cognitive rehabilitation techniques and tools might be used in this special population. In relation to this, she was involved in pioneering research exploring the efficacy of SenseCam, a novel memory rehabilitation device. Overall, Kata's doctoral work has implications for effective clinical assessment following childhood-acquired brain injury as well as cognitive rehabilitation in this special population.
Current Teaching
Kata teaches across different courses of our university and has particular expertise in teaching cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology. Current taught modules include:
- Cognitive Psychology (Level 5, BSc Psychology)
- Language and Cognition (Level 5 and 7, BSc/MSc Speech and Language Therapy)
- Cognitive Psychology (Level 7, MSc Psychology Conversion)
She also supervises BSc, MSc and PhD projects within the domain of human memory.
Research Interests
Kata’s primary focus of research considers how memory and the subjective experience of remembering is affected following brain injury across the lifespan. She often adopts the single-case approach of neuropsychology to better understand the functional architecture of the human memory system as well as to appreciate psychological distress caused by idiosyncratic memory failures.
Kata is also interested in human memory more broadly. For example, considering the relationship between memory and associated cognitions such as creativity and future thinking.
Currently supervised PhD projects:
- Sarah Martin: Characterising memory loss in autoimmune limbic encephalitis (Director of Studies)
- Sophie Cawkwell: Investigating the interplay of interoception, memory and emotion regulation across the lifespan (Supervisor)
Selected Outputs
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Pauly-Takacs K; Cole S (2019) Imagining my future and yours: The phenomenology and functions of vicarious future thinking. In: Society for Applied Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), 6 June 2019 - 9 June 2019, Cape Cod, USA.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Charlesworth L; Moulin C (2016) Recollection and familiarity following limbic encephalitis: a case-study. In: International Conference on Memory, 17 July 2016 - 22 September 2016, Budapest.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA (2016) Enhanced gist representation in childhood-acquired amnesia: A case study. In: British Neuropsychological Society Meeting, 17 March 2016 - 18 March 2016, London.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Jersakova R; Ahmed H; Garwood J (2015) Metamemory awareness in the lab and in the lecture theatre: Implications for student achievement. In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference, 1 September 2015 - 3 September 2015, University of Kent.
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Moulin CJA; Charlesworth L; Pauly-Takacs K; Allen R; Havelka J (2015) Episodic autobiographical memory maintains the psychological self: Evidence from a case of limbic encephalitis. In: Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Victoria, Canada.
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Moulin CJA; E Sousa Silva AR; Pauly-Takacs K (2014) Applying SenseCam to the study of autobiographical memory: technological and methodological issues. In: International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), Paris, France.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA; Estlin EJ (2011) Benefits and limitations of errorless learning after surviving paediatric brain tumours: a case-study. In: 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM), 31 July 2011 - 5 August 2011, York, UK.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA; Estlin EJ; Conway MA (2011) Supporting personal semantic memories with SenseCam: a child case study. In: 2nd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium, 28 February 2011 - 4 March 2011, London, UK.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA (2010) Knowing your FOK from your TOT: Training abbreviations in a child with anterograde amnesia. In: 27th Annual BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Conference, 6 September 2010 - 8 September 2010, Cardiff, UK.
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Doherty AR; Pauly-Takacs K; Gurrin C; Moulin CJA; Smeaton AF (2009) Three years of SenseCam images – observations on cued recall. In: SenseCam 2009 Symposium at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 17 October 2009 - 21 October 2009, Chicago, USA.
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Ahmed H; Pauly-Takacs K; Abraham A (2023) Evaluating the effects of episodic and semantic memory induction procedures on divergent thinking in younger and older adults. PLoS One, 18 (6), pp. 1-39.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA (2020) Retained ability to extract gist in childhood-acquired amnesia: Insights from a single case. Neurocase, 26 (3), pp. 156-166.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA (2017) Fractionating controlled memory processes and recall of context in recognition memory: a case report. Neurocase, pp. 1-10.
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Cole SN; Pauly-Takacs K (2016) Is obesity linked with episodic memory impairment? A commentary on Cheke, Simons & Clayton (2016). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (3), pp. 1-5.
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Cole SN; Morrison CM; Barak O; Pauly-Takacs K; Conway MA (2015) Amnesia and future thinking: Exploring the role of memory in the quantity and quality of episodic future thoughts. The British journal of clinical psychology / the British Psychological Society, 55 (2), pp. 206-224.
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Souchay C; Guillery-Girard B; Pauly-Takacs K; Wojcik DZ; Eustache F (2013) Subjective experience of episodic memory and metacognition: a neurodevelopmental approach. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 7 pp. 212-?.
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Doherty AR; Pauly-Takacs K; Caprani N; Gurrin C; Moulin CJA; O'Connor NE; Smeaton AF (2012) Experiences of aiding autobiographical memory using the sensecam. Human-Computer Interaction, 27 (1-2), pp. 151-174.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA; Estlin EJ (2012) Benefits and limitations of errorless learning after surviving pediatric brain tumors: A case study. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 34 (6), pp. 654-666.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Moulin CJA; Estlin EJ (2011) SenseCam as a rehabilitation tool in a child with anterograde amnesia. Memory, 19 (7), pp. 705-712.
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Ahmed H; Pauly-Takacs K; Abraham A (2023) The Role of Semantic Versus Episodic Memory in Creative Cognition. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Routledge, pp. 415-432.
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Pauly-Takacs K; Souchay C; Smith AD; Moulin CJA (2018) Neuropsychological Methods in Memory Research. In: Otani H; Schwartz BL ed. Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory. Routledge,
