- Lecturer in Psychology and PhD Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Elva Arulchelvan is completing a PhD in psychology and neuroscience for the Lab for Clinical and Integrative Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. She is also a lecturer in psychology for social work students in TCD. Elva's PhD research focuses on memory and forgetting processes. In particular, her PhD research involves investigating peripheral nerve stimulation's effect on memory and forgetting in both clinical and non-clinical groups. Elva has a keen interest in making research accessible to everyone, and loves sharing her research through writing or giving talks and presentations.
Prior to her work in the field of psychology, Elva completed a Bachelor of Commerce International with Chinese in the University College of Dublin. After graduating from that degree, she spent several years working in tech companies (incl. Deliveroo and HubSpot) helping commercial clients grow their sales using these platforms' services. She also spent time working as a project manager launching an Italian restaurant, an Italian import company and an immigration via investment company, before recognizing that her real passion lay in understanding people, and how our decisions and wellbeing can be influenced by much more factors than most people realize. This led her to pursue a degree in psychology, and subsequently to her current PhD research and lecturing work.
Experience
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–presentLecturer in Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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2022–presentPhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Education
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2022Dublin Business School, Higher Diploma in Psychology
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2017University College Dublin, BComm International with Chinese
Publications
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2026Peripheral nerve stimulation using tDCS can enhance reconsolidation but cannot mitigate retrieval-induced forgetting, Biological Psychology
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2026Targeting active forgetting with non-invasive stimulation: toward novel treatments for intrusive memories in PTSD, International Review of Psychiatry
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2025Transcutaneous electrical stimulation enhances episodic memory encoding via a noradrenaline-attention network, with associated neuroinflammatory changes, Brain Stimulation
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2025Pathological forgetting from a predictive processing perspective, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews
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2025Accelerated long-term forgetting across neuropsychiatric disorders: A review of mechanisms and a neurobiological perspective of forgetting, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews
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2023Promising neurostimulation routes for targeting the hippocampus to improve episodic memory: A review, Brain Research
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- Location: Dublin, Ireland
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