Miss Hayley Caldwell

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Psychology

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences


I am currently a graduate researcher, an academic tutor, and volunteer in various groups across the university. My research interests typically involve the neural correlates of learning, the sleep-memory relationship, measures of sleepiness, and gaining a more comprehensive view of neural processing. Specifically, my PhD aimed to explore the optimisation of rapid episodic memory consolidation via retrieval training and schema conformance manipulations, their associations to sleep, and the underlying neural mechanisms of these processes.

Date Institution name Country Title
2018 - 2021 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor

Year Citation
2026 Caldwell, H. B., Chatburn, A., Lushington, K., Hanslmayr, S., & Michelmann, S. (2026). Phase similarity between similar objects indicates representational merging across retrieval training but not sleep.
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2025 Caldwell, H., Lushington, K., & Chatburn, A. (2025). A comparison of sleep-based and retrieval-mediated memory consolidation using sigma-band activity.
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2025 Caldwell, H., Lushington, K., & Chatburn, A. (2025). Retrieval-mediated and sleep-based memory consolidation provoke different neural and behavioural markers of memory generalisation..
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Courses I teach

  • BEHL 2005 Introductory Research Methods (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • BEHL 3021 Cognitive Neuroscience (2025, 2026)
  • BEHL 3002 Cognitive Psychology (2022, 2023)

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