2024
Whitehead, P.S., Egner, T. (In Press). One-shot stimulus-control associations generalize over different stimulus viewpoints and exemplars. Memory & Cognition
Morales-Torres, R., Egner, T. (In Press). Beyond stimulus-response rules: Task sets incorporate information about performance difficulty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Sali, A.W., Bejjani, C., Egner, T. (2024). Learning cognitive flexibility: Neural substrates of adapting switch-readiness to time-varying demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 377-393.
Egner, T., Siqi-Liu, A. (2024). Insights into control over cognitive flexibility from studies of task-switching. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 55, 101342.
2023
Şentürk, Y.D., Ünver, N., Demircan, C., Egner, T., Günseli, E. (2023).The reactivation of task rules triggers the reactivation of task-relevant items. Cortex, 171, 465-480.
Egner, T. (2023). Principles of cognitive control over task focus and task switching. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2, 702-714.
Wang, Y.C., Adcock, R.A., Egner, T. (In Press). Toward an integrative account of internal and external determinants of event segmentation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Wang, Y.C., Egner, T. (2023). Target detection does not influence temporal memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1936-1948.
Siqi-Liu, A., Egner, T. (2023). Task sets define boundaries of learned cognitive flexibility in list-wide proportion switch manipulations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 1111-1122.
Verschooren, S., Egner, T. (2023). When the mind’s eye prevails: the Internal Dominance over External Attention (IDEA) hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 1668-1688.
Nir-Cohen, G., Egner, T., Kessler, Y. (2023). The neural correlates of updating and gating in procedural working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35:6, 919–940
Wen, T., Egner, T. (2023). Context-independent scaling of neural responses in the multiple-demand network. Cerebral Cortex, 33, 6013-6027.
Wen, T., Geddert, R., Madlon-Kay, S., Egner, T. (2023). Transfer of learned cognitive flexibility to novel stimuli and task sets. Psychological Science, 34(4), 435–454
2022
Poh, J.H., Vu, M.T., Stanek, J.K., Hsiung, A., Egner, T., Adcock, R.A. (2022). Tuned to learn: an anticipatory hippocampal convergence state conducive to memory activation revealed during midbrain activation. Nature Communications, 13: 6729
George, N., Egner, T. (2022). Stimulus variability and task-relevance modulate binding learning. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1151-1156.
Wen, T., Egner, T. (2022). Retrieval context determines whether event boundaries impair or enhance temporal order memory. Cognition, 225, 105145.
Bejjani, C., Hoyle, R.H., Egner, T. (2022). Distinct but correlated latent factors support the regulation of learned conflict-control and task-switching. Cognitive Psychology, 135, 101474.
Geddert, R., Egner, T. (2022). No need to choose: independent regulation of stability and flexibility challenges the stability-flexibility trade-off. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), 3009-3027
Whitehead, P.S., Pfeuffer, C.U., Egner, T. (2022). Assessing the durability of one-shot stimulus-control bindings. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 26.
Siqi-Liu, A., Egner, T., & Woldorff, M. G. (2022). Neural Dynamics of Context-Sensitive Adjustments in Cognitive Flexibility. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 480-494.
Gjorgieva, E., Egner, T. (2022). Learning from mistakes: Incidental encoding reveals a time-dependent enhancement of post-error target processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(3), 718-730
Wang, Y.C., Egner, T. (2022). Switching task sets creates event boundaries in memory. Cognition, 221, 104992
2021
Bugg, J.M., Egner, T. (2021). The many faces of learning-guided cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(10), 1547–1549.
Bejjani, C., Siqi-Liu, A., Egner, T. (2021). Minimal impact of consolidation on learned switch-readiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(10), 1622–1637.
Brosowsky, N.P., Egner, T. (2021). Appealing to the cognitive miser: using demand avoidance to modulate cognitive flexibility in cued and voluntary task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(10), 1329–1347.
Vo, K.D., Siqi-Liu, A., Chaire, A., Li, S., Demeter, E., Egner, T., Woldorff, M.G. (2021). Neural dynamics of conflict control in working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 2079-2092
Bejjani, C., Egner, T. (2021). Evaluating the learning of stimulus-control associations through incidental memory of reinforcement events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(10), 1599–1621.
Kiyonaga, A., Powers, J.P., Chiu, Y.C., Egner, T. (2021). Hemisphere-specific parietal contributions to the interplay between working memory and attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 1428-1441
Whitehead, P., Mahmoud, Y., Seli, P., Egner, T. (2021). Mind wandering at encoding, but not at retrieval, disrupts one-shot stimulus control learning. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 2968-2982
Verschooren, S., Kessler, Y., Egner, T. (2021). Evidence for a single mechanism gating perceptual and long-term memory information into working memory. Cognition, 212, 104668.
Yin, S., Bi, T., Chen, A., Egner, T. (2021). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex drives the prioritization of self-associated stimuli in working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(9), 2012-2023.
2020
Nir-Cohen, G., Kessler, Y., Egner, T. (2020). Neural substrates of working memory updating. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 2285-2302.
Siqi-Liu, A., Egner, T. (2020). Contextual adaptation of cognitive flexibility is driven by task- and item-level learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(4), 757-782.
Verschooren, S., Pourtois, G., Egner, T. (2020). More efficient shielding for internal than external attention? Evidence from asymmetrical switch costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, 912-925.
Whitehead, P.S., Pfeuffer, C., Egner, T. (2020). Memories of control: One-shot episodic learning of item-specific stimulus-control associations. Cognition, 199, 104220.
Chiu, Y.C., Froeber K., Egner, T. (2020). Item-specific priming of voluntary task switches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(4), 434–441.
Bejjani, C., Dolgin, J., Zhang, Z., Egner, T. (2020). Disentangling the roles of cue visibility and knowledge in adjusting cognitive control. Psychological Science, 31(4), 468-479.
Sali, A.W., Jiang, J., Egner, T. (2020). Neural mechanisms of strategic adaptation in attentional flexibility. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(5), 989-1008.
Bejjani, C., Tan, S., Egner, T. (2020). Performance feedback promotes proactive but not reactive adaptation of conflict-control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(4), 369-387.
Sali, A.W. & Egner, T. (2020). Declarative and procedural working memory updating processes are mutually facilitative. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 1858-1871.
2019
Bejjani, C. & Egner, T. (2019). Spontaneous task structure formation results in a cost to incidental memory of task stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2833.
King, J.A., Vettermann, R., Korb, F.M., Ritschel, F., Egner, T., Ehrlich, S. (2019). Cognitive overcontrol as a trait marker in Anorexia Nervosa? Aberrant task- and response-set switching in remitted patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(8), 806-812.
Braem, S., Bugg, J.M., Schmidt, J.R., Crump, M.J.C., Weissman, D.H., Notebaert, W., Egner, T. (2019). Measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 769-783.
Whitehead, P.S., Ooi, M.M., Egner, T., Woldorff, M.G. (2019). Neural dynamics of cognitive control over working memory capture of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(7), 1079-1090.
Chiu, Y.C. &, Egner, T. (2019). Cortical and subcortical contributions to context-control learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 99, 33-41.
Herce Castañón, S., Bang, D., Moran, R., Ding, J., Egner, T., Summerfield, C. (2019). Human noise blindness drives suboptimal cognitive inference. Nature Communications, 10, 1719.
Toader, A.C., Rao, H.M., Ryoo, M., Bohlen, M.O., Cruger, J.S., Oh-Descher, H., Ferrari, S., Egner, T., Beck, J., Sommer, M.A. (2019). Probabilistic inferential decision-making under time pressure in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 133(3), 380-396.
Yin, S., Sui, S., Chiu, Y.C., Chen, A., Egner, T. (2019). Automatic prioritization of self-referential stimuli in working memory. Psychological Science, 30(3), 415-423. [Commentary] "Your Brain Likes YOU Most” by Kaptanoglu, K. (Duke Research Blog, 2019).
2018
Jiang, J., Wagner, A.D., Egner, T. (2018). Integrated externally and internally generated task predictions jointly guide cognitive control in prefrontal cortex. eLife, 7, e39497.
Whitehead, P.S. & Egner, T. (2018). Frequency of prospective use modulates instructed task-set interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(12), 1970-1980.
Braem, S. & Egner, T. (2018). Getting a grip on cognitive flexibility. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(6), 470-476.
Tan, J., Yin, S., Wang, L., Chen, A., Egner, T. (2018). Processing overlap dependent distracter dilution rather than perceptual load determines attentional selectivity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 2048-2059.
Whitehead, P.S. & Egner, T. (2018). Cognitive control over prospective task-set interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(5), 741-755.
Bejjani, C., Zhang, Z., Egner, T. (2018). Control by association: transfer of implicitly primed attentional states across linked stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(2), 617-626.
Muhle-Karbe, P.S., Jiang, J., Egner, T. (2018). Causal evidence for learning-dependent frontal lobe contributions to cognitive control. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(4), 962-973.
2017
Qiao, L., Zhang, L., Chen, A., Egner, T. (2017). Dynamic trial-by-trial re-coding of task-set representations in frontoparietal cortex mediates behavioral flexibility. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(45), 11037-11050.
Oh-Descher, H., Beck, J.M., Ferrari, S., Sommer, M.A., Egner, T. (2017). Probabilistic inference under time pressure leads to a cortical-subcortical shift in decision evidence integration. NeuroImage, 162, 138-150.
Korb, F.M., Jiang, J., King, J.A., Egner, T. (2017). Hierarchically organized medial frontal cortex-based ganglia loops selectively control task- and response-selection. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(33), 7893-7905.
Kiyonaga, A., Dowd, E.W., Egner, T. (2017). Neural representation of working memory content is modulated by visual attentional demand. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(12), 2011-2024.
Egner, T. (2017). Conflict adaptation: Past, present, and future of the congruency sequence effect as an index of cognitive control. In: T. Egner (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control, pp. 64-78. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Egner, T. (2017). The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Chiu, Y.C. & Egner, T. (2017). Cueing cognitive flexibility: item-specific learning of switch-readiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(12), 1950-1960.
Chiu, Y.C., Jiang, J., Egner, T. (2017). The caudate nucleus mediates learning of stimulus-control state associations. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(4), 1028-1038.
Mansouri, F.A., Egner, T., Buckley, M.J. (2017). Monitoring demands for executive control: shared functions between human and non-human primates. Trends in Neurosciences, 40(1), 15-27.
Dowd, E.W., Pearson, J.M., Egner, T. (2017). Decoding working memory content from attentional biases. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(4), 1252–1260.
Braem, S., King, J.A., Korb, F.M., Krebs, R.M., Notebaert, W., Egner, T. (2017). The role of the anterior cingulate cortex in the affective evaluation of conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(1), 137-149.
2016
Coutlee, C.G., Kiyonaga, A., Korb, F.M., Huettel, S.A., Egner, T. (2016). Reduced risk-taking following disruption of the intraparietal sulcus. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 588.
Jiang, J., Summerfield, C., Egner, T. (2016). Visual prediction error spreads across object features in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(50), 12746-12763. [Commentary] "How does expectation shape object-based attentional selection?" by Slama, S.J.K. & Helfrich, R.F. (Journal of Neuroscience, 2017).
Summerfield, C. & Egner, T. (2016). Feature-based attention and feature-based expectation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(6), 401-404.
Oh, H., Beck, J.M., Zhu, P., Sommer, M.A., Ferrari, S., Egner, T. (2016). Satisficing in split-second decision making is characterized by strategic cue discounting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(12), 1937-1956.
Weissman, D., Hawks, Z., Egner, T. (2016). Different levels of learning interact to shape the congruency sequence effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(4), 566-583.
Kiyonaga, A. & Egner, T. (2016). Center-surround inhibition in working memory. Current Biology, 26(1), 64-68.
Chiu, Y.C. & Egner, T. (2016). Distractor-relevance determines whether task-switching enhances or impairs distractor memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(1), 1-5.
2015
Cheadle, S., Egner, T., Wyart, V., Wu, C., Summerfield, C. (2015). Feature expectation heightens visual sensitivity during fine orientation discrimination. Journal of Vision, 15(14), 1-13.
Jiang, J., Brashier, N.M., Egner, T. (2015). Memory meets control in hippocampal and striatal binding of stimuli, responses, and attentional control states. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(44), 14885-14895
Jiang, J., Beck, J., Heller, K., Egner, T. (2015). An insula-frontostriatal network mediates flexible cognitive control by adaptively predicting changing control demands. Nature Communications, 6, 8165.
Chiu, Y.C. & Egner, T. (2015). Inhibition-induced forgetting results from resource competition between response inhibition and memory encoding processes. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(34), 11936-11945.
van Driel, J., Swart, J.C., Egner, T., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Cohen, M.X. (2015). (No) time for control: frontal theta dynamics reveal the cost of temporally guided conflict anticipation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(4), 787-807.
Reeck, C. & Egner, T. (2015). Interactions between attention and emotion. In: A.W. Toga, (Ed.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, vol. 3, pp. 269-274. Academic Press: Elsevier.
Egner, T. (2015). Brain mapping of control processes. In: A.W. Toga (Ed.), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, vol. 2, pp. 581-587. Academic Press: Elsevier.
Dowd, E.W., Kiyonaga, A., Egner, T., Mitroff, S.R. (2015). Attentional guidance by working memory differs by paradigm: an individual-differences approach. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(3), 704-712.
Dowd, E.W., Kiyonaga, A., Beck, J.M., Egner, T. (2015). Quality and accessibility of visual working memory during cognitive control of attentional guidance: a Bayesian model comparison approach. Visual Cognition, 23(3), 337-356.
Reeck, C. & Egner, T. (2015). Emotional task management: neural correlates of switching between affective and non-affective task-sets. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(8), 1045-1053.
Krebs, R.M., Boehler, C.N., De Belder, M., Egner, T. (2015). Neural conflict-control mechanisms improve memory for target stimuli. Cerebral Cortex, 25(3), 833-843.
Chiu, Y.C. & Egner, T. (2015). Inhibition-induced forgetting: when more control leads to less memory. Psychological Science, 26(1), 27-38.
Weissman, D.H., Egner, T., Hawks, Z., Link, J. (2015). The congruency sequence effect emerges when the distracter precedes the target. Acta Psychologica, 156, 8-21.
2014
Egner, T. (2014). Creatures of habit (and control): a multi-level learning perspective on the modulation of congruency effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1247.
Kiyonaga, A. & Egner, T. (2014). Resource-sharing between internal maintenance and external selection modulates attentional capture by working memory content. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 670.
Weissman, D.H., Jiang, J., Egner, T. (2014). Determinants of congruency sequence effects without leaning and memory confounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(5), 2022-2037.
Kiyonaga, A., Korb, F.M., Lucas, J., Soto, D., Egner, T. (2014). Dissociable causal roles for left and right parietal cortex in controlling attentional biases from the contents of working memory. NeuroImage, 100, 200-205.
Mueller, J.K., Grigsby, E.M., Prevosto, V., Petraglia, F.W., Rao, H., Deng, Z., Peterchev, A.V., Sommer, M.A., Egner, T., Platt, M.L., Grill, W.M. (2014). Simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and single-neuron recording in alert non-human primates. Nature Neuroscience, 17(8), 1130-1136.
Jiang, J., Heller, K., Egner, T. (2014). Bayesian modeling of flexible cognitive control. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 46(1), 30-34.
Kiyonaga A. & Egner, T. (2014). The working memory Stroop effect: when internal representations clash with external stimuli. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1619-1629.
Jiang, J. & Egner, T. (2014). Using neural pattern classifiers to quantify the modularity of conflict-control mechanisms in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 24(7), 1793-1805.
de Bourbon-Teles, J., Bentley, P., Koshino, S., Shah, K., Dutta, A., Malhotra, P., Egner, T., Husain, M., Soto, D. (2014). Thalamic control of human attention driven by memory and learning. Current Biology, 24(9), 993-999.
[Commentary] “Memory-guided attention in the anterior thalamus” by Leszczyński, M. & Staudigl, T. (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016)
Torres-Quesada, M., Korb, F.M., Funes, M.J., Lupiáñez J., Egner, T. (2014). Comparing neural substrates of emotional vs. non-emotional conflict modulation by global control context. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 66.
Summerfield, C. & Egner, T. (2014). Attention and decision-making. In A.C. Nobre & S. Kastner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Attention, pp. 837-864. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013
Jiang, J., Summerfield, C., Egner, T. (2013). Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(47), 18438-18447.
Braem, S., King, J.A., Korb, F.M., Krebs, R.M., Notebaert, W., Egner, T. (2013). Affective modulation of cognitive control is determined by performance-contingency and mediated by ventromedial prefrontal and cingulate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(43), 16961-16970.
de Gardelle, V., Waszczuk, M., Egner, T., Summerfield, C. (2013). Concurrent repetition enhancement and suppression responses in extrastriate visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 23(9), 2235-2244.
Egner, T. & Summerfield, C. (2013). Grounding predictive coding models in empirical neuroscience research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(3), 210-211.
Kiyonaga, A. & Egner, T. (2013). Working memory as internal attention: toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20(2), 228-242.
2012
Soto, D., Greene, C.M., Kiyonaga, A., Rosenthal, C.R., Egner, T. (2012). A parieto-medial temporal pathway for the strategic control over working memory biases in human visual attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(49), 17563-17571.
King, J.A., Donkin, C., Korb, F.M., Egner, T. (2012). Model-based analysis of context-specific cognitive control. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 358.
Jiang, J., Schmajuk, N., Egner, T. (2012). Explaining neural signals in human visual cortex with an associative learning model. Behavioral Neuroscience, 126(4), 575-581.
Kiyonaga, A., Egner, T., Soto, D. (2012). Cognitive control over working memory biases of selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(4), 639-646.
King, J.A., Korb, F.M., Egner, T. (2012). Priming of control: implicit contextual cuing of top-down attentional set. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(24), 8192-8200.
Trübutschek, D. & Egner, T. (2012). Negative emotion does not modulate rapid feature integration effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 100.
Reeck, C., LaBar, K.S., Egner, T. (2012). Neural mechanisms mediating contingent capture of attention by affective stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5), 1113-1126.
2011
Egner, T. (2011). Surprise! A unifying model of dorsal anterior cingulate function? Nature Neuroscience, 14(10), 1219-1220.
Reeck, C. & Egner, T. (2011). Affective privilege: asymmetric interference by emotional distracters. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 232.
Egner, T. (2011). Right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex mediates individual differences in conflict-driven cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(12), 3903-3913.
Etkin, A., Egner, T., Kalisch, R. (2011). Emotional processing in the anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(2), 85-93.
Krebs, R.M., Boehler, C.N., Egner, T., Woldorff, M.G. (2011). The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(26), 9752-9759.
2010
Egner, T., Monti, J.M., Summerfield, C. (2010). Expectation and surprise determine neural population responses in the ventral visual stream. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(49), 16601-16608.
Egner, T. (2010). Motor control: exploring the neurochemistry of subliminal inhibition. Current Biology, 20(19), R852-R853.
Egner, T., Ely, S., Grinband, J. (2010). Going, going, gone: characterizing the time-course of congruency sequence effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 154.
[Commentary] "Once bitten, twice shy: on the transient nature of congruency sequence effects" by van den Wildenberg, Ridderinkhof, and Wylie (Frontiers in Psychology, 2012).
Monti, J.M., Weintraub, S., Egner, T. (2010). Differential age-related decline in conflict-driven task-set shielding from emotional versus non-emotional distracters. Neuropsychologia, 48(6), 1697-1706.
Pollak, D.D., Rogan, M.T., Egner, T., Perez, D.L., Yanagihara, T.K., Hirsch, J. (2010). A translational bridge between mouse and human models of learned safety. Annals of Medicine, 42(2), 127-134.
2009
Mohanty, A., Egner, T., Monti, J.M., Mesulam, M.M. (2009). Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(34), 10563-10572.
Summerfield, C. & Egner, T. (2009). Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(9), 403-409.
Egner, T. (2009). Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: motivating functional hierarchies. Nature Neuroscience, 12(7), 821-822.
2008
Summerfield, C., Trittschuh, E.H., Monti, J.M., Mesulam, M.M., Egner, T. (2008). Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations. Nature Neuroscience, 11(9), 1004-1006.
Egner, T., Monti, J.M.P., Trittschuh, E.H., Wieneke, C.A., Hirsch, J., Mesulam, M.M. (2008). Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(24), 6141-6151.
[Commentary] "Sources of spatial and feature-based attention in the human brain" by Peelen, M.V. & Mruczek, R.E.B. (Journal of Neuroscience, 2008).
Egner, T., Etkin, A., Gale, S., Hirsch J. (2008). Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distracters. Cerebral Cortex, 18(6), 1475-84.
[Commentary] "Conflicting emotions" by Welberg, L. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007).
Egner, T. (2008). Multiple conflict-driven control mechanisms in the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(10), 374-380.
2007
Egner, T. (2007). Congruency sequence effects and cognitive control. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(4), 380-390.
Stern, E.R., Wager, T.D., Egner, T., Hirsch, J., Mangels, J.A. (2007). Preparatory neural activity predicts performance on a conflict task. Brain Research, 1176, 92-102.
Kross, E., Egner, T., Ochsner, K., Hirsch, J., Downey, G. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(6), 945-956.
Egner, T., Delano, M., Hirsch, J. (2007). Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. Neuroimage, 35(2), 940-948.
Egner, T. & Raz, A. (2007). Cognitive control processes and hypnosis. In G. Jamieson (Ed.), Hypnosis and Conscious Sates: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, pp. 29-50. London: Oxford University Press.
2006
Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J., Hirsch, J. (2006). Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex. Science, 314(5803), 1311-1314.
[Commentary] "Visions of faces" by Welberg, L. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007).
Etkin, A., Egner, T., Peraza, D.M., Kandel, E.R., Hirsch, J. (2006). Resolving emotional conflict: a role for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in modulating activity in the amygdala. Neuron, 51(6), 871-882.
Summerfield, C., Greene, M., Wager, T., Egner, T., Hirsch, J., Mangels, J. (2006). Neocortical connectivity during episodic memory formation. PLoS Biology, 4(5): e128.
Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Mangels, J., Hirsch, J. (2006). Mistaking a house for a face: neural correlates of misperception in healthy humans. Cerebral Cortex, 16(4), 500-508.
Gruzelier, J., Egner, T., Vernon, D. (2006). Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimizing performance. Progress in Brain Research, 159, 421-431.
Sterman, M.B. & Egner, T. (2006). Foundation and practice of neurofeedback for the treatment of epilepsy. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 31(1), 21-35.
Egner, T. & Sterman, M.B. (2006). Neurofeedback treatment of epilepsy: from basic rationale to practical application. Expert Reviews in Neurotherapeutics, 6(2), 247-257.
2005
Gruzelier, J. & Egner, T. (2005). Critical validation studies of neurofeedback. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14(1), 83-104.
Egner, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. Nature Neuroscience, 8(12), 1784-1790.
[Commentary] "Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?" by Nieuwenhuis, S. & Yeung, N. (Nature Neuroscience, 2005).
Egner, T. & Hirsch, J. (2005). Where memory meets attention: neural substrates of negative priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(11), 1774-1784.
Egner, T., Jamieson, G., Gruzelier, J. (2005). Hypnosis decouples conflict monitoring and cognitive control functions of the frontal lobe. Neuroimage, 27(4), 969-978.
Nuñez, J.M., Casey, B.J., Egner, T., Hare, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). Intentional false responding shares neural substrates with response conflict and cognitive control. Neuroimage, 25(1), 267-277.
Egner, T. & Hirsch, J. (2005). The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task. Neuroimage, 24(2), 539-547.
2004
Williamon, A. & Egner, T. (2004). Memory structures for encoding and retrieving a piece of music: an ERP investigation. Cognitive Brain Research, 22(1), 36-44.
Egner, T., Zech, T.F., Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). The effects of neurofeedback training on the spectral topography of the electroencephalogram. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(11), 2452-2460.
Egner, T. & Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). The temporal dynamics of electroencephalographic responses to alpha/theta neurofeedback training in healthy subjects. Journal of Neurotherapy, 8(1), 43-57.
Egner, T. & Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). EEG biofeedback of low beta band components: frequency-specific effects on variables of attention and event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115(1), 131-139.
Gruzelier, J.H. & Egner, T. (2004). Physiological self-regulation: Biofeedback and neurofeedback. In A. Williamon (Ed.), Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance, pp. 179-219. London: Oxford University Press.
2003
Egner, T. & Gruzelier, J.H. (2003). Ecological validity of neurofeedback: modulation of slow wave EEG enhances musical performance. Neuroreport, 14(9), 1221-1224.
Vernon, D., Egner, T., Cooper, N., Compton, T., Neilands, C., Sheri, A., Gruzelier, J. (2003). The effect of training distinct neurofeedback protocols on aspects of cognitive performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 47(1), 75-85.
2002
Egner, T., Strawson, E., Gruzelier, J.H. (2002). EEG signature and phenomenology of alpha/theta neurofeedback training versus mock feedback. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 27(4), 261-270.
2001
Egner, T. & Gruzelier, J.H. (2001). Learned self-regulation of EEG frequency components affects attention and event-related brain potentials in humans. Neuroreport, 12(18), 4155-4160.
Scientific commentaries on our work
Commentary: "Your Brain Likes YOU Most” by Kaptanoglu, K. (Duke Research Blog, 2019) discussing “Automatic prioritization of self-referential stimuli in working memory" (Yin, S., Sui, S., Chiu, Y.C., Chen, A., Egner, T., Psychological Science, 2019).
Commentary: "How does expectation shape object-based attentional selection?" by Slama, S.J.K. & Helfrich, R.F. (Journal of Neuroscience, 2017) discussing "Visual prediction error spreads across object features in human visual cortex" (Jiang, J., Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Journal of Neuroscience, 2016).
Commentary: "Memory-guided attention in the anterior thalamus" by Leszczyński, M. & Staudigl, T. (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016) discussing "Thalamic control of human attention driven by memory and learning" (de Bourbon-Teles, J., Bentley, P., Koshino, S., Shah, K., Dutta, A., Malhotra, P., Egner, T., Husain, M., Soto, D., Current Biology, 2014).
Commentary: "Once bitten, twice shy: on the transient nature of congruency sequence effects" by van den Wildenberg, W.P.M., Ridderinkhof, K.R., Wylie, S.A. (Frontiers in Psychology, 2012) discussing "Going, going, gone: characterizing the time-course of congruency sequence effects" (Egner, Ely, Grinband, Frontiers in Psychology, 2010).
Journal Club: "Sources of spatial and feature-based attention in the human brain" by Peelen, M.V. & Mruczek, R.E.B. (Journal of Neuroscience, 2008) discussing "Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search" (Egner, T., Monti, J.M.P., Trittschuh, E.H., Wieneke, C.A., Hirsch, J., Mesulam, M.M., Journal of Neuroscience, 2008).
Research Highlight: "Conflicting emotions" by Welberg, L. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007) discussing "Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus non-emotional distracters" (Egner, T., Etkin, A., Gale, S., Hirsch, J., Cerebral Cortex, 2008).
Research Highlight: "Visions of faces" by Welberg, L. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007) discussing "Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex" (Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J., Hirsch, J., Science, 2006).
News & Views: "Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?" by Nieuwenhuis, S. & Yeung, N. (Nature Neuroscience, 2005) discussing "Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information" (Egner, T. & Hirsch, J., Nature Neuroscience, 2005).