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Preprints
Woolgar, A.*, Feredoes, E.*, Assem, M., Bassil, Y., Bergmann, T.O., Beynel, L., Burke, M., Cash, R.F.H., Comeau, R.M., Correia, M.M., Genc, E., Hartwigsen, G., Jackson, J.B., Kienle, M., Kunz, P., Leticevscaia, O., Luber, B., Lueckel, M., Mathiesen, C., Michael, E., Numssen, O., Oathes, D.J., Rosen, A.C. , Schuhmann, T., Schuler, A.-L., Scrivener, C.L., Thielscher, A., Tik, M., Todorov, Y., Vasileiadi, M., Windischberger, C., Hermiller, M.S.^, and Sack, A.T.^ (submitted) Concurrent TMS-fMRI: An international consensus and functional guide for current and future researchers. Nature Protocols * equal contribution, ^ equal contribution. https://osf.io/9fyxb
Lu., R., Michael, E., Scrivener, C.L., Jackson, J.,. Duncan, J., & Woolgar, A (Preprint) The causal roles of parietal alpha oscillations and evoked potentials in coding task-relevant information during selective attention. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.567111
Scrivener, C., Groostwagers, T., Woolgar, A., (Preprint) Optimising analysis choices for multivariate decoding: creating pseudotrials using trial averaging and resampling https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.04.560678
Scrivener, C. L., Jackson, J. B., Correia, M. M., Mada, M., & Woolgar, A. (Preprint). Now you see it, now you don't: optimal parameters for interslice stimulation in concurrent TMS-fMRI. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.28.446111
Jackson, J.B., Rich, A.N., Moerel, D., Teichmann, L., Duncan, J., Woolgar, A., (Preprint) Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.04.583318
2024
Moerel, D., Rich, A.N., Woolgar, A., (2024, in press) Selective attention and decision-making have separable neural bases in space and time. Journal of Neuroscience, Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.28.433294
Zheng, Y., Lu, R., & Woolgar, A. (2024) Radical flexibility of neural representations in service of flexible behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101392
Kong, Y., Zhao, C., Li, D., Li, B., Hu, Y., Liu, H., Woolgar, A., Guo, J., Song, Y., (2024) Auditory change detection and visual selective attention: Association between MMN and N2pc. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae175
2023
Wisniewski, D, González-García, C., Formica, S., Woolgar, A., Brass, M., (2023) Adaptive coding of stimulus information in human fronto-parietal cortex during visual classification. Neuroimage https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120150
Petit, S., Brown, A., Jessen, E. T., Woolgar, A., (2023) How robustly do multivariate EEG patterns track individual-subject lexico-semantic processing of visual stimuli? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2177315
Barnes, L., Rangelov, D., Mattingley, J., Woolgar, A., (2023) Fractionating distraction: how past- and future-relevant distractors influence integrated decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001081 Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.18.500552
2022
Moerel, D., Grootswagers, T., Robinson, A. K., Woolgar, A., Carlson, T., & Rich, A. N. (2022). The time-course of feature-based attention effects dissociated from temporal expectation and target-related processes. Scientific Resports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10687-x
Barnes, L., Goddard, E., & Woolgar, A. (2022). Neural coding of visual objects rapidly reconfigures to reflect sub-trial shifts in attentional focus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01832
Robinson, A. K., Rich, A. N., & Woolgar, A. (2022). Linking the brain with behaviour: the neural dynamics of success and failure in goal-directed behaviour. Journal of Cognitive Neurosicence. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01818
Goddard, E., Carlson, T. A., & Woolgar, A. (2022). Spatial and feature-selective attention have distinct, interacting, effects on population-level tuning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_017
Cope, T., Hughes, L. E., Phillips, H. N., Adams, N. E., Jafariana, A., Nesbitt, D., Assem, M., CamCAN, Woolgar, A., Duncan, J., Rowe, J. B., (2022) Causal evidence for the multiple demand network in change detection: auditory mismatch magnetoencephalography across focal neurodegenerative diseases. The Journal of Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1622-21.2022
Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., & Woolgar, A., (2022) When the whole is less than the sum of its parts: maximum object category information and behavioral prediction in multiscale activation patterns. Frontiers in Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.825746
Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., Woolgar, A., Henson, R., Nili, H., (2022) Caveats and nuances of model-based and model-free representational connectivity analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.755988
Lu, R., Xi, J., Zhang, X., & Shi, J. (2022). High fluid intelligence is characterized by flexible allocation of attentional resources: Evidence from EEG. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108094
2021
Jackson, J. B., Feredoes, E., Rich, A., Lindner, M. & Woolgar, A. (2021). Concurrent neuroimaging and neural stimulation reveals a causal role for dlPFC in coding of task-relevant information. Nature Communications Biology https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02109-x
Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., Woolgar, A.*, & Rich, A.N.* (2021) Vigilance decrements in the brain: neural signatures can predict behavioural errors before they happen. *equal contribution. eLife, 10: e60563 https://elifesciences.org/articles/60563
Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., Remezani, F., Woolgar, A., Rich, A.N., & Ghodrati, M. (2021). Perceptual difficulty modulates the direction of information flow in familiar face recognition. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117896
Barnes, L., Petit S., Badcock, N.B., Whyte, C., & Woolgar, A., (2021) Word detection in individual subjects is difficult to probe with fast periodic visual stimulation. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15 (602798). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.602798
Scrivener, C. L. (2021). When is simultaneous recording necessary? A guide for researchers considering combined EEG-fMRI. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15 (744) https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.636424
Karimi-Rouzbahani, H., Shahmohammadi, M., Vahab, E., Setayeshi, S., Carlson, T., (2021) Temporal codes provide additional category-related information in object category decoding: a systematic comparison of informative EEG features. Neural Computation 33(11):3027-3072 https://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01436
Smith, R., Friston, K., Whyte, C., (2021 Preprint) A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data. https://10.31234/osf.io/b4jm6
Wisniewski, D, González-García, C., Formica, S., Woolgar, A., Brass, M., (2021 Preprint) Adaptive coding of stimulus information in human fronto-parietal cortex during visual classification https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.22.469511
2020
Petit, S., Badcock, N. A., Grootswagers, T., Rich, A. N., Brock, J., Nickels, L., ... & Woolgar, A. (2020). Towards an individualised neural assessment of receptive language in children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00313
Petit, S., Badcock, N. A., & Woolgar, A. (2020). Finding Hidden Treasures: A Child-Friendly Neural Test Of Task-Following In Individuals Using Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound. Neuropsychologia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107515
Petit, S., Badcock, N. A., Grootswagers, T., & Woolgar, A. (2020).Unconstrained multivariate EEG decoding can help detect lexical-semantic processing in individual children. Nature Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67407-6.pdf
Caruana, N., Alhasan, A., Wagner, K., Kaplan, D.M., Woolgar, A., McArthur G., (2020) The effect of non-communicative eye movements on joint attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820945604
Weldon, K. B., Woolgar, A., Rich, A. N., & Williams, M. A. (2020). Late disruption of central visual field disrupts peripheral perception of form and color. PloS one, 15(1), e0219725.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219725
Brown, A. C., Peters J. L., Parson C., Crewther D. P., & Crewther S. G., (2020). Efficiency in magnocellular processing: A common deficit in neurodevelopment disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 00049
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00049/full
2019
Weldon, K. B., Woolgar, A., Rich, A. N., & Williams, M. A. (2019). Foveal feedback supports peripheral perception of both object color and form. BioRxiv, 690305.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/690305v1.full.pdf
Woolgar, A., Dermody, N., Afshar, S., Williams, M. A., & Rich, A. N. (2019). Meaningful patterns of information in the brain revealed through analysis of errors. bioRxiv, 673681.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/673681v1.full.pdf.
2018
Woolgar, A., Duncan, J., Manes, F., & Fedorenko, E. (2018). Fluid intelligence is supported by the multiple-demand system not the language system. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(3), 200-204.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0282-3.pdf
Jackson, J. B., & Woolgar, A. (2018). Adaptive coding in the human brain: Distinct object features are encoded by overlapping voxels in frontoparietal cortex. Cortex, 108, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.006
Caruana, N., Stieglitz Ham, H., Brock, J., Woolgar, A., Kloth, N., Palermo, R., & McArthur, G. (2018). Joint attention difficulties in autistic adults: an interactive eye-tracking study. Autism, 22(4), 502-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316676204
Zopf, R., Butko, M., Woolgar, A., Williams, M. A., & Rich, A. N. (2018). Representing the location of manipulable objects in shape-selective occipitotemporal cortex: Beyond retinotopic reference frames?. Cortex, 106, 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.05.009
2017
Jackson, J., Rich, A. N., Williams, M. A., & Woolgar, A. (2017). Feature-selective attention in frontoparietal cortex: multivoxel codes adjust to prioritize task-relevant information. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 29(2), 310-321.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/jocn_a_01039
Woolgar, A., & Zopf, R. (2017). Multisensory coding in the multiple-demand regions: vibrotactile task information is coded in frontoparietal cortex. Journal of neurophysiology, 118(2), 703-716.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/prev/20170412-aop/pdf/10.1152/jn.00559.2016
Caruana, N., McArthur, G., Woolgar, A., & Brock, J. (2017). Simulating social interactions for the experimental investigation of joint attention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 74, 115-125.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.022
Caruana, N., McArthur, G., Woolgar, A., & Brock, J. (2017). Detecting communicative intent in a computerised test of joint attention. PeerJ, 5, e2899.
2016
Goddard, E., Carlson, T. A., Dermody, N., & Woolgar, A. (2016). Representational dynamics of object recognition: Feedforward and feedback information flows. Neuroimage, 128, 385-397.
http://mvr.mcgill.ca/goddard/goddard2016.pdf
Woolgar, A., Jackson, J., & Duncan, J. (2016). Coding of visual, auditory, rule, and response information in the brain: 10 years of multivoxel pattern analysis. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 28(10), 1433-1454.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/jocn_a_00981
Weldon, K. B., Rich, A. N., Woolgar, A., & Williams, M. A. (2016). Disruption of foveal space impairs discrimination of peripheral objects. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 699.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00699
2015
Woolgar, A., Williams, M. A., & Rich, A. N. (2015). Attention enhances multi-voxel representation of novel objects in frontal, parietal and visual cortices. Neuroimage, 109, 429-437.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.083
Woolgar, A., Afshar, S., Williams, M. A., & Rich, A. N. (2015). Flexible coding of task rules in frontoparietal cortex: an adaptive system for flexible cognitive control. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 27(10), 1895-1911.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/jocn_a_00827
Caruana, N., Brock, J., & Woolgar, A. (2015). A frontotemporoparietal network common to initiating and responding to joint attention bids. Neuroimage, 108, 34-46.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.041
2014
Woolgar, A., Golland, P., & Bode, S. (2014). Coping with confounds in multivoxel pattern analysis: What should we do about reaction time differences? A comment on Todd, Nystrom & Cohen 2013. Neuroimage, 98, 506-512.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450346/
Rivolta, D., Woolgar, A., Palermo, R., Butko, M., Schmalzl, L., & Williams, M. A. (2014). Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals abnormal fMRI activity in both the “core” and “extended” face network in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8, 925.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00925
2013
Woolgar, A., Bor, D., & Duncan, J. (2013). Global increase in task-related fronto-parietal activity after focal frontal lobe lesion. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 25(9), 1542-1552.
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/jocn_a_00432
2011
Woolgar, A., Hampshire, A., Thompson, R., & Duncan, J. (2011). Adaptive coding of task-relevant information in human frontoparietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(41), 14592-14599.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/31/41/14592.full.pdf
Woolgar, A., Thompson, R., Bor, D., & Duncan, J. (2011). Multi-voxel coding of stimuli, rules, and responses in human frontoparietal cortex. Neuroimage, 56(2), 744-752.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.035
Roca, M., Torralva, T., Gleichgerrcht, E., Woolgar, A., Thompson, R., Duncan, J., & Manes, F. (2011). The role of Area 10 (BA10) in human multitasking and in social cognition: a lesion study. Neuropsychologia, 49(13), 3525-3531.
http://facundomanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/98-the-role-of-area-10.pdf
2010
Roca, M., Parr, A., Thompson, R., Woolgar, A., Torralva, T., Antoun, N., ... & Duncan, J. (2010). Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Brain, 133(1), 234-247.
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awp269
Woolgar, A., Parr, A., Cusack, R., Thompson, R., Nimmo-Smith, I., Torralva, T., ... & Duncan, J. (2010). Fluid intelligence loss linked to restricted regions of damage within frontal and parietal cortex. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 107(33), 14899-14902.
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/107/33/14899.full.pdf
2008
Duncan, J., Parr, A., Woolgar, A., Thompson, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., ... & Nimmo-Smith, I. (2008). Goal neglect and Spearman's g: competing parts of a complex task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(1), 131.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Bright/publication/5604357_Goal_Neglect_and_Spearman's_g_Competing_Parts_of_a_Complex_Task/links/56c5960e08aea564e305e2db.pdf
Hogan, S., Stokes, J., White, C., Tyszkiewicz, E., & Woolgar, A. (2008). An evaluation of auditory verbal therapy using the rate of early language development as an outcome measure. Deafness & education international, 10(3), 143-167.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/146431508790559760?needAccess=true