2020
Purpose-Dependent Consequences of Temporal Expectations Serving Perception and Action
van Ede F, Rohenkohl G, Gould I, Nobre A. Purpose-Dependent Consequences of Temporal Expectations Serving Perception and Action. Journal Of Neuroscience 2020, 40: 7877-7886. PMID: 32900836, PMCID: PMC7548698, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1134-20.2020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTemporal expectationsBrain activityBrain statesFrequency-specific mannerUpcoming perceptionSources of temporal expectationsOscillatory brain activityVisual-motor taskAffected response timesNeurophysiological brain activityBehavioral relevancePerceptual accuracyNeural activityNeural lateralizationNeural statesFemale human volunteersRelevant dimensionsBrainModality-StateTaskHuman volunteersPerceptionResponse speedResponse time
2014
The Neural Dynamics of Fronto-Parietal Networks in Childhood Revealed using Magnetoencephalography
Astle D, Luckhoo H, Woolrich M, Kuo B, Nobre A, Scerif G. The Neural Dynamics of Fronto-Parietal Networks in Childhood Revealed using Magnetoencephalography. Cerebral Cortex 2014, 25: 3868-3876. PMID: 25410426, PMCID: PMC4585520, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu271.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVisual short-term memoryFronto-parietal networkFronto-parietal activityCognitive controlTests of visual short-term memoryVisual short-term memory performanceVisual short-term memory taskDegree of cognitive controlService of memoryTrial-by-trialIndependent component analysisOscillatory brain activityAnticipatory control mechanismsTrial-to-trial variabilityMemory itemsProtracted developmentShort-term memoryCognitive processesChild variablesBrain activityNeural dynamicsTemporal independent component analysisMagnetoencephalographyMemoryChildren
2011
Biasing Perception by Spatial Long-Term Memory
Summerfield J, Rao A, Garside N, Nobre A. Biasing Perception by Spatial Long-Term Memory. Journal Of Neuroscience 2011, 31: 14952-14960. PMID: 22016528, PMCID: PMC6623569, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5541-10.2011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLong-term memoryNeural activityParticipants detected visual targetsSpatial long-term memoryEarly stages of visual analysisEarly perceptual analysisStages of visual analysisNaturalistic visual scenesImprove behavioral performanceOscillatory brain activityBehavioral performanceSpatial memoryBrain activityPerceptual functionsTask goalsBiased perceptionsNovel locationsPerceptual analysisRecord neural activityHuman brainVisual targetMemoryVisual sceneTarget locationTarget detection performanceAlpha Oscillations Related to Anticipatory Attention Follow Temporal Expectations
Rohenkohl G, Nobre A. Alpha Oscillations Related to Anticipatory Attention Follow Temporal Expectations. Journal Of Neuroscience 2011, 31: 14076-14084. PMID: 21976492, PMCID: PMC4235253, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3387-11.2011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTemporal expectationsAlpha-band activityTarget stimuliOscillatory alpha-band activityAlpha desynchronizationCortical excitabilityRegulate cortical excitabilityEvent-related potentialsRegulate excitabilityTask-relevant eventsOscillatory brain activityExcitationPerceptual discriminationOcclusion periodBrain activitySpatial attentionSpatial expectationsAlpha oscillationsEnhancement of processesTime courseBandOccluding bandAlpha bandVisual areasOscillations