- Room 305, Link Block, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- +44 1752 588079
- stephanie.hartgen@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Mrs Stephanie Hartgen-Walker
Teaching and Research Associate (TARA)
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology, University of Plymouth, 2017 - present; "Extreme mental imagery: An exploration of aphantasia and its implications for cognition"
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), University of Plymouth, 2020, Distinction
- MSc Psychological Research Methods, University of Plymouth, 2017, Distinction
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Plymouth, 2016, First Class Honours
Professional membership
- Experimental Psychology Society Postgraduate Member
- Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellow
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
As a Teaching and Research Associate, I lead and support workshops and offer one-to-one support in our undergraduate and master's programmes with a heavy focus on research methods and statistics. My teaching interests and skills include:
- Experimental design, qualitative research (focus groups), and the research process
- Regression, multiple regression, ANOVA, Bayesian statistics, thematic analysis
- Science communication
- RStudio
- OpenSesame, JATOS
I typically teach on the following modules:
- PSYC411: Learning
- PSYC414: Relationships
- PSYC516: Applied psychology
- PSYC519, PSYC719, PSYC520, PSYC720: Research methods in practice
Research
Research
Research interests
Keywords: Mental imagery; extreme imagery; aphantasia
My research interests lie in the exploration of individual differences in mental imagery, with particular focus on the absence of imagery, known as aphantasia. For many, mental imagery is a ubiquitous feature of daily life, from trying to remember where you last had your keys, to visualising how best to rearrange your living room furniture. Imagery also serves as a component in several models of cognitive function and has a role in many interventions and clinical treatments. Thus, aphantasia is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right, it also has implications for our understanding of cognition and how we can manage when things go awry.
I like to use a range of methods to explore the imagery spectrum, including self-report, large scale online behavioural experiments, lab-based behavioural experiments, and neuroimaging with electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERP).
Research software
My research interests lie in the exploration of individual differences in mental imagery, with particular focus on the absence of imagery, known as aphantasia. For many, mental imagery is a ubiquitous feature of daily life, from trying to remember where you last had your keys, to visualising how best to rearrange your living room furniture. Imagery also serves as a component in several models of cognitive function and has a role in many interventions and clinical treatments. Thus, aphantasia is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right, it also has implications for our understanding of cognition and how we can manage when things go awry.
I like to use a range of methods to explore the imagery spectrum, including self-report, large scale online behavioural experiments, lab-based behavioural experiments, and neuroimaging with electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERP).
Research software
- RStudio
- IBM SPSS
- Jamovi
- OpenSesame
- PsychoPy
- Qualtrics
- JATOS