Dr Louis Renoult

Louis Renoult is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at UEA. He studies memory in young and in older adults, using laboratory tests and neuroimaging techniques. He is interested in how different types of memory interact, such as our ability to remember and re-experience past experiences (episodic memory) and our ability to extract meaning and conceptual knowledge from the world around us (semantic memory). In this context, his work in ageing attempts to better understand the propensity of older adults to produce more semantic (factual) details but less episodic (specific) elements than young adults in autobiographical recall, as well as how this may vary with environmental support and specific retrieval goals.

Before joining UEA in 2013, he completed his PhD at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 2010, as well as post-doctoral training at the Rotman Research Institute (Toronto) and at the University of Ottawa. He is originally from France, where he studied Psychology and Neuroscience at undergraduate and Master’s level.