Emma Delhaye

I received my PhD in 2019 from the University of Liège, Belgium. I then started a postdoctoral position in Liège, that I suspended temporarily between 2020 and 2022 to undertake a postdoctoral research stay at ULisboa. I came back to ULisboa as FCT Junior Researcher in 2024.

My research interest is at the interface between episodic memory, semantic memory, mental imagery, and high-level perceptual representation. I am interested in the regions of the brain that process fine-grained object information, and especially in the sub-hippocampal region called the perirhinal cortex. I’ve studied the role of this region from a neuropsychological perspective through healthy and pathological aging, as well as using neuroimaging techniques such as EEG and fMRI.

I value a lot collaborative work, and I enjoy very much mentoring students and young researchers.

Memory;
Neuroimaging;
Aging.

Gardette, J.*, Delhaye, E.*, & Bastin, C*. (2025). The multiple dimensions of familiarity: From representations to phenomenology. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: Cognitive science

Delhaye, E., D’Innocenzo, G., Raposo, A., & Coco, M. I. (2024). The upside of cumulative conceptual interference on exemplar-level mnemonic discrimination. Memory & Cognition, 1-12. doi:10.3758/s13421-024-01563-2

Read, J., Delhaye, E., & Sougné, J. (2024). Computational models can distinguish the contribution from different mechanisms to familiarity recognition. Hippocampus, 34(1), 36-50. doi:10.1002/hipo.23588

Frick, A., Besson, G., Salmon, E., & Delhaye, E. (2023). Fine conceptual representation capacity in Alzheimer’s Disease is associated with left perirhinal cortex atrophy. Neurobiology of Aging, 130, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.06.003

Bastin, C., & Delhaye, E. (2023). Targeting the function of the transentorhinal cortex to identify early cognitive markers of Alzheimer’s disease. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 23(4), 986-996. doi:10.3758/s13415-023-01093-5

Delhaye, E., Coco, M. I., Bahri, M. A., & Raposo, A. (2023). Neural concept typicality effects in semantic and episodic memory decisions. Neuropsychologia, 184: 108529. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108529

Delhaye, E., Folville, A., & Bastin, C. (2019). The impact of semantic relatedness on associative memory in aging depending on the nature of the semantic relations between the memoranda, Experimental Aging Research, 45(5), 469-479, doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2019.1664442

Delhaye, E., Folville, A., & Bastin, C. (2019). How to induce an age-related benefit of semantic relatedness in associative memory: it’s all in the design. Psychology & Aging 34(4), 572-586. doi: 10.1037/pag0000360

Bastin, C.*, Delhaye, E.*, Moulin, C.*, & Barbeau, E*. (2019). Novelty processing and memory impairment in Alzheimer’s disease: a review. Biobehavioral and Neuroscience Reviews, 100, 237-249. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.02.021

Delhaye, E., Bahri, M. A., Salmon, E., & Bastin, C. (2019). Impaired perceptual integration and memory for unitized representations are associated with perirhinal cortex atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 73, 135-144. doi: /10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.09.021

Delhaye, E., Mechanic-Hamilton, D., Saad, L., Das, S. R., Wisse, L. E. M., Yushkevich, P. A., Wolk, D. A.*, & Bastin, C*. (2019). Associative memory for conceptually unitized word pairs in Mild Cognitive Impairment is related to the volume of the perirhinal cortex. Hippocampus, 29(7), 630-638, doi:1002/hipo.23063

Delhaye, E., & Bastin, C. (2018). The impact of aging on associative memory for pre-existing unitized associations. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 25(1), 70-98. doi: 10.1007/s13760-017-0763-1

Episodic memory;
semantic memory;
familiarity;
perirhinal cortex.