Tobias Egner
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
My goal is to understand how humans produce purposeful, adaptive behavior. The main ingredient for adaptive behavior, in all animals, is memory: we understand the world around us by matching the flow of incoming sensory information to previous experience. Importantly, by retrieving past episodes that resemble our present situation, we can predict what is likely to happen next, thus anticipating forthcoming stimuli and advantageous responses learned from past outcomes. Hence, I am interested in how the brain generates predictions about the world. However, unlike many other animals, humans can also produce adaptive behavior that runs counter to our learning history. For instance, we are able to switch from life-long driving on the right side of the road to driving on the left side during a trip to the UK. This capacity to use contextual information (“I’m in London”) to override habitual responses in favor of temporarily more goal-conducive actions is referred to as “cognitive control”, and it greatly enhances the flexibility of human behavior. Cognitive control requires the formation of temporary memory ensembles that link responses to stimuli in novel ways; this is often referred to as a “working memory”, and conceptualized as strategically attending to a select set of currently task-relevant representations. However, the mechanisms that govern this interplay between attention and memory remain poorly understood; our research aims to improve this situation. In my lab, we address the above questions using behavioral, computational, neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI) and neuro-stimulation (TMS) techniques.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program (CNAP), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2015
- Investigator in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2009
- Member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences 2009
- Affiliate of the Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Duke-UNC Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Institutes and Centers 2010
- Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2017
Contact Information
- Duke Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708-0999
- LSRC B246, Durham, NC 27708
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tobias.egner@duke.edu
(919) 684-1049
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Egner Lab Website
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Tobias Egner CV
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of London (UK) 2002
- B.S., University of London (UK) 1999
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Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2016
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Honorary Guest Professor. Southwest University, Chongqing (China). November 2016
- Fellow. Psychonomic Society. 2016
- Visiting Professor. Brain & Cognition Program, Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam. May 2012
- Foundation for Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience Award. Foundation for Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience. 2007
- Haworth Press Best Student Research Article Award. Haworth Press. 2004
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Affect
- Attention
- Brain
- Brain Mapping
- Cognition
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Simulation
- Conflict (Psychology)
- Emotions
- Executive Function
- Frontal Lobe
- Functional Neuroimaging
- Learning
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Memory, Short-Term
- Mental Processes
- Neural Pathways
- Perception
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Probability
- Reaction Time
- Reward
- Stroop Test
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Visual Cortex
- Visual Perception
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Characterizing Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2019
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms of working memory gating and updating awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation 2017 - 2018
- Thrust 1: Biophysical Modeling and Satisficing Control Strategies as Derived from Quantification of Primate Brain Activ awarded by Office of Naval Research 2013 - 2018
- Mechanisms Regulating Complex Social Behavior awarded by University of Pennsylvania 2016 - 2018
- Expectation and Attention in Visual Cognition awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
- A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2017
- Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Neurons in Behaving Primates awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2014
- Precision Targeting of fMRI-Guided TMS Using a Robotic Arm System awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2011
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
- Egner, T. (2017, March 20). The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control. Wiley-Blackwell.
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Book Sections
- Egner, T. (2015, February 14). Brain Mapping of Control Processes. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 581-587). Full Text
- Reeck, C, & Egner, T. (2015, February 14). Interactions between Attention and Emotion. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (pp. 269-274). Full Text
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Conference Papers
- Dowd, EW, Kiyonaga, A, Beck, JM, & Egner, T. (2014, September 14). Probability of guessing, not precision, changes in mixture models of visual working memory during cognitive control of attentional guidance. Full Text
- Braem, S, King, J, Korb, F, Krebs, R, Notebaert, W, & Egner, T. (2013). AFFECTIVE MODULATION OF COGNITIVE CONTROL VARIES WITH PERFORMANCE-CONTINGENCY. Link to Item
- Jiang, J, Summerfield, C, & Egner, T. (2013). ATTENTION AMPLIFIES OR SUPPRESSES NEURAL PREDICTION ERROR RESPONSES IN A REGIONALLY SPECIFIC MANNER. Link to Item
- Kiyonaga, A, & Egner, T. (2013). RESOURCE-SHARING BETWEEN INTERNAL MAINTENANCE AND EXTERNAL SELECTION UNDERLIES THE CAPTURE OF ATTENTION BY WORKING MEMORY CONTENT. Link to Item
- Torres-Quesada, M, Korb, FM, Jesus Funes, M, Lupianez, J, & Egner, T. (2013). DISSOCIABLE NEURAL MECHANISMS MEDIATE PROACTIVE CONTROL OVER EMOTIONAL VS. NON-EMOTIONAL CONFLICT. Link to Item
- Egner, T. (2009). Conflict-driven cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. Full Text Link to Item
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Journal Articles
- Bejjani, C, Zhang, Z, & Egner, T. (2018, February 15). Control by association: Transfer of implicitly primed attentional states across linked stimuli. Psychonomic bulletin & review . Full Text
- Muhle-Karbe, PS, Jiang, J, & Egner, T. (2018, January). Causal Evidence for Learning-Dependent Frontal Lobe Contributions to Cognitive Control. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 38 (4), 962-973. Full Text
- Chiu, Y-C, & Egner, T. (2017, December). Cueing cognitive flexibility: Item-specific learning of switch readiness. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance , 43 (12), 1950-1960. Full Text
- Kiyonaga, A, Dowd, EW, & Egner, T. (2017, December). Neural Representation of Working Memory Content Is Modulated by Visual Attentional Demand. Journal of cognitive neuroscience , 29 (12), 2011-2024. Full Text
- Whitehead, PS, & Egner, T. (2017, November 20). Cognitive Control Over Prospective Task-set Interference (Accepted). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance . Full Text
- Oh-Descher, H, Beck, JM, Ferrari, S, Sommer, MA, & Egner, T. (2017, November). Probabilistic inference under time pressure leads to a cortical-to-subcortical shift in decision evidence integration. NeuroImage , 162 , 138-150. Full Text Open Access Copy
- Qiao, L, Zhang, L, Chen, A, & Egner, T. (2017, November). Dynamic Trial-by-Trial Recoding of Task-Set Representations in the Frontoparietal Cortex Mediates Behavioral Flexibility. The Journal of Neuroscience , 37 (45), 11037-11050. Full Text
- Oh-Descher, H, Beck, J, Ferrari, S, Sommer, MA, & Egner, T. (2017, August 24). Probabilistic inference under time pressure leads to a cortical-to-subcortical shift in decision evidence integration. Open Access Copy
- Dowd, EW, Pearson, JM, & Egner, T. (2017, August). Decoding working memory content from attentional biases. Psychonomic bulletin & review , 24 (4), 1252-1260. Full Text
- Korb, FM, Jiang, J, King, JA, & Egner, T. (2017, August). Hierarchically Organized Medial Frontal Cortex-Basal Ganglia Loops Selectively Control Task- and Response-Selection. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 37 (33), 7893-7905. Full Text
- Braem, S, King, JA, Korb, FM, Krebs, RM, Notebaert, W, & Egner, T. (2017, January). The Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in the Affective Evaluation of Conflict. Journal of cognitive neuroscience , 29 (1), 137-149. Full Text
- Chiu, Y-C, Jiang, J, & Egner, T. (2017, January). The Caudate Nucleus Mediates Learning of Stimulus-Control State Associations. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 37 (4), 1028-1038. Full Text
- Mansouri, FA, Egner, T, & Buckley, MJ. (2017, January). Monitoring Demands for Executive Control: Shared Functions between Human and Nonhuman Primates. Trends in neurosciences , 40 (1), 15-27. (Review) Full Text
- Chiu, YC, Jiang, J, & Egner, T. (2016, December 15). The caudate nucleus mediates learning of stimulus-control state associations. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience .
- Jiang, J, Summerfield, C, & Egner, T. (2016, December). Visual Prediction Error Spreads Across Object Features in Human Visual Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience , 36 (50), 12746-12763. Full Text
- Oh, H, Beck, JM, Zhu, P, Sommer, MA, Ferrari, S, & Egner, T. (2016, December). Satisficing in split-second decision making is characterized by strategic cue discounting. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition , 42 (12), 1937-1956. Full Text Open Access Copy
- Summerfield, C, & Egner, T. (2016, June). Feature-Based Attention and Feature-Based Expectation. Trends in cognitive sciences , 20 (6), 401-404. Full Text
- Weissman, DH, Hawks, ZW, & Egner, T. (2016, April). Different levels of learning interact to shape the congruency sequence effect. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition , 42 (4), 566-583. Full Text
- Chiu, Y-C, & Egner, T. (2016, January). Distractor-relevance determines whether task-switching enhances or impairs distractor memory. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance , 42 (1), 1-5. Full Text
- Coutlee, CG, Kiyonaga, A, Korb, FM, Huettel, SA, & Egner, T. (2016, January). Reduced Risk-Taking following Disruption of the Intraparietal Sulcus. Frontiers in neuroscience , 10 , 588-. Full Text
- Kiyonaga, A, & Egner, T. (2016, January). Center-Surround Inhibition in Working Memory. Current biology : CB , 26 (1), 64-68. Full Text
- van Driel, J, Swart, JC, Egner, T, Ridderinkhof, KR, & Cohen, MX. (2015, December). (No) time for control: Frontal theta dynamics reveal the cost of temporally guided conflict anticipation. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience , 15 (4), 787-807. Full Text
- Jiang, J, Brashier, NM, & Egner, T. (2015, November). Memory Meets Control in Hippocampal and Striatal Binding of Stimuli, Responses, and Attentional Control States. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 35 (44), 14885-14895. Full Text
- Jiang, J, Beck, J, Heller, K, & Egner, T. (2015, September 22). An insula-frontostriatal network mediates flexible cognitive control by adaptively predicting changing control demands. Nature communications , 6 , 8165-. Full Text
- Dowd, EW, Pearson, JM, & Egner, T. (2015, August 9). Mind-reading without the scanner: Behavioural decoding of working memory content. Visual Cognition , 23 (7), 862-866. Full Text
- Chiu, Y-C, & Egner, T. (2015, August). Inhibition-Induced Forgetting Results from Resource Competition between Response Inhibition and Memory Encoding Processes. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience , 35 (34), 11936-11945. Full Text Open Access Copy
- Reeck, C, & Egner, T. (2015, August). Emotional task management: neural correlates of switching between affective and non-affective task-sets. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience , 10 (8), 1045-1053. Full Text
- Dowd, EW, Kiyonaga, A, Egner, T, & Mitroff, SR. (2015, April). Attentional guidance by working memory differs by paradigm: an individual-differences approach. Attention, perception & psychophysics , 77 (3), 704-712. Full Text
- Dowd, EW, Kiyonaga, A, Beck, JM, & Egner, T. (2015, March 16). Quality and accessibility of visual working memory during cognitive control of attentional guidance: A Bayesian model comparison approach. Visual Cognition , 23 (3), 337-356. Full Text
- Krebs, RM, Boehler, CN, De Belder, M, & Egner, T. (2015, March). Neural conflict-control mechanisms improve memory for target stimuli. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) , 25 (3), 833-843. Full Text
- Weissman, DH, Egner, T, Hawks, Z, & Link, J. (2015, March). The congruency sequence effect emerges when the distracter precedes the target. Acta psychologica , 156 , 8-21. Full Text
- Cheadle, S, Egner, T, Wyart, V, Wu, C, & Summerfield, C. (2015, January). Feature expectation heightens visual sensitivity during fine orientation discrimination. Journal of vision , 15 (14), 14-. Full Text
- Chiu, Y-C, & Egner, T. (2015, January). Inhibition-induced forgetting: when more control leads to less memory. Psychological science , 26 (1), 27-38. Full Text
- Jiang, J, Heller, K, & Egner, T. (2014, October). Bayesian modeling of flexible cognitive control. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews , 46 Pt 1 , 30-43. (Review) Full Text
- Kiyonaga, A, Korb, FM, Lucas, J, Soto, D, & Egner, T. (2014, October). Dissociable causal roles for left and right parietal cortex in controlling attentional biases from the contents of working memory. NeuroImage , 100 , 200-205. Full Text
- Weissman, DH, Jiang, J, & Egner, T. (2014, October). Determinants of congruency sequence effects without learning and memory confounds. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance , 40 (5), 2022-2037. Full Text
- Kiyonaga, A, & Egner, T. (2014, August). The working memory stroop effect: when internal representations clash with external stimuli. Psychological science , 25 (8), 1619-1629. Full Text
- Mueller, JK, Grigsby, EM, Prevosto, V, Petraglia, FW, Rao, H, Deng, Z-D, Peterchev, AV, Sommer, MA, Egner, T, Platt, ML, & Grill, WM. (2014, August). Simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and single-neuron recording in alert non-human primates. Nature neuroscience , 17 (8), 1130-1136. Full Text Open Access Copy
- de Bourbon-Teles, J, Bentley, P, Koshino, S, Shah, K, Dutta, A, Malhotra, P, Egner, T, Husain, M, & Soto, D. (2014, May). Thalamic control of human attention driven by memory and learning. Current biology : CB , 24 (9), 993-999. Full Text
- Egner, T. (2014, January). Creatures of habit (and control): a multi-level learning perspective on the modulation of congruency effects. Frontiers in Psychology , 5 , 1247-. Full Text
- Kiyonaga, A, & Egner, T. (2014, January). Resource-sharing between internal maintenance and external selection modulates attentional capture by working memory content. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 8 , 670-. Full Text
- Torres-Quesada, M, Korb, FM, Funes, MJ, Lupiáñez, J, & Egner, T. (2014, January). Comparing neural substrates of emotional vs. non-emotional conflict modulation by global control context. Frontiers in human neuroscience , 8 , 66-. Full Text
- Jiang, J, Summerfield, C, & Egner, T. (2013, November 20). Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain. J Neurosci , 33 (47), 18438-18447. Full Text Link to Item
- Braem, S, King, JA, Korb, FM, Krebs, RM, Notebaert, W, & Egner, T. (2013, October 23). Affective modulation of cognitive control is determined by performance-contingency and mediated by ventromedial prefrontal and cingulate cortex. J Neurosci , 33 (43), 16961-16970. Full Text Link to Item
- Egner, T, & Summerfield, C. (2013, June). Grounding predictive coding models in empirical neuroscience research. Behav Brain Sci , 36 (3), 210-211. Full Text Link to Item
- Kiyonaga, A, & Egner, T. (2013, April). Working memory as internal attention: toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes. Psychon Bull Rev , 20 (2), 228-242. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
- Jiang, J, Schmajuk, N, & Egner, T. (2012, August). Explaining neural signals in human visual cortex with an associative learning model. Behav Neurosci , 126 (4), 575-581. Full Text Link to Item
- Kiyonaga, A, Egner, T, & Soto, D. (2012, August). Cognitive control over working memory biases of selection. Psychon Bull Rev , 19 (4), 639-646. Full Text Link to Item
- King, JA, Korb, FM, & Egner, T. (2012, June 13). Priming of control: implicit contextual cuing of top-down attentional set. J Neurosci , 32 (24), 8192-8200. Full Text Link to Item
- Reeck, C, LaBar, KS, & Egner, T. (2012, May). Neural mechanisms mediating contingent capture of attention by affective stimuli. J Cogn Neurosci , 24 (5), 1113-1126. Full Text Link to Item
- De Gardelle, V, Waszczuk, M, Egner, T, & Summerfield, C. (2012). Concurrent repetition enhancement and suppression responses in extrastriate visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex , doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhs211-. (Academic Article)
- Jiang, J, & Egner, T. (2012). Using neural pattern classifiers to quantify the modularity of conflict-control mechanisms in the human brain (Submitted). Cerebral Cortex . (Academic Article)
- King, JA, Donkin, C, Korb, FM, & Egner, T. (2012). Model-based analysis of context-specific cognitive control. (Published online) Front Psychol , 3 , 358-. Full Text Link to Item
- Soto, D, Greene, CM, Kiyonaga, A, Rosenthal, CR, & 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. Full Text
- Trübutschek, D, & Egner, T. (2012). Negative emotion does not modulate rapid feature integration effects. (Published online) Front Psychol , 3 , 100-. Full Text Link to Item
- Egner, T. (2011, December). Right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex mediates individual differences in conflict-driven cognitive control. J Cogn Neurosci , 23 (12), 3903-3913. Full Text Link to Item
- Egner, T. (2011, September 27). Surprise! A unifying model of dorsal anterior cingulate function? (Published online). Nat Neurosci , 14 (10), 1219-1220. Full Text Link to Item
- Krebs, RM, Boehler, CN, Egner, T, & Woldorff, MG. (2011, June 29). The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention. J Neurosci , 31 (26), 9752-9759. Full Text Link to Item
- Etkin, A, Egner, T, & Kalisch, R. (2011). Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 15 (2), 85-93. Full Text
- Krebs, RM, Boehler, CN, Egner, T, & Woldorff, MG. (2011). The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention. Journal of Neuroscience , 31 , 9725-9759. (Academic Article)
- Reeck, C, & Egner, T. (2011). Affective privilege: asymmetric interference by emotional distracters. Frontiers in Psychology , 2 (232), 1-7. (Academic Article)
- Egner, T, Monti, JM, & Summerfield, C. (2010, December 8). Expectation and surprise determine neural population responses in the ventral visual stream. J Neurosci , 30 (49), 16601-16608. Full Text Link to Item
- Egner, T. (2010, October 12). Motor control: exploring the neurochemistry of subliminal inhibition. Curr Biol , 20 (19), R852-R853. Full Text Link to Item
- Egner, T, Ely, S, & Grinband, J. (2010). Going, going, gone: characterizing the time-course of congruency sequence effects. (Published online) Front Psychol , 1 , 154-. Full Text Link to Item
- Monti, JM, 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. Full Text
- Pollak, DD, Rogan, MT, Egner, T, Perez, DL, Yanigahara, T, & Hirsch, J. (2010). A translational bridge between mouse and human models of learned safety. Annals of Medicine , 42 , 127-134. (Academic Article)
- Egner, T. (2009). Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: Motivating functional hierarchies. Nature Neuroscience , 12 (7), 821-822. Full Text
- Mohanty, A, Egner, T, Monti, JM, & Mesulam, M-M. (2009). Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention. Journal of Neuroscience , 29 (34), 10563-10572. Full Text
- Summerfield, C, & Egner, T. (2009). Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 13 (9), 403-409. Full Text
- Egner, T, Etkin, A, Gale, S, & Hirsch, J. (2008). Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distracters. Cerebral Cortex , 18 (6), 1475-1484. Full Text
- Egner, T, Monti, JMP, Trittschuh, EH, Wieneke, CA, 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. Full Text
- Egner, T. (2008). Multiple conflict-driven control mechanisms in the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 12 (10), 374-380. Full Text
- Summerfield, C, Trittschuh, EH, Monti, JM, Mesulam, M-M, & Egner, T. (2008). Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations. Nature Neuroscience , 11 (9), 1004-1006. Full Text
- Egner, T, Delano, M, & Hirsch, J. (2007). Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. NeuroImage , 35 (2), 940-948. Full Text
- Egner, T. (2007). Congruency sequence effects and cognitive control. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience , 7 (4), 380-390. Full Text
- Kross, E, Egner, T, Ochsner, K, Hirsch, J, & Downey, G. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 19 (6), 945-956. Full Text
- Stern, ER, Wager, TD, Egner, T, Hirsch, J, & Mangels, JA. (2007). Preparatory neural activity predicts performance on a conflict task. Brain Research , 1176 (1), 92-102. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Sterman, MB. (2006). Neurofeedback treatment of epilepsy: From basic rationale to practical application. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics , 6 (2), 247-257. Full Text
- Etkin, A, Egner, T, Peraza, DM, Kandel, ER, & 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. Full Text
- Gruzelier, J, Egner, T, & Vernon, D. (2006). Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimizing performance. Progress in Brain Research , 159 , 421-431. (Academic Article)
- Gruzelier, J, Egner, T, & Vernon, D. (2006). Chapter 27 Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimising performance. Progress in Brain Research , 159 , 421-431. Full Text
- Sterman, MB, & Egner, T. (2006). Foundation and practice of neurofeedback for the treatment of epilepsy. Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback , 31 (1), 21-35. Full Text
- 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. Full Text
- 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. Full Text
- Summerfield, C, Greene, M, Wager, T, Egner, T, Hirsch, J, & Mangels, J. (2006). Neocortical connectivity during episodic memory formation. PLoS Biology , 4 (5), 855-864. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Hirsch, J. (2005). Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. Nature Neuroscience , 8 (12), 1784-1790. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Hirsch, J. (2005). The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task. NeuroImage , 24 (2), 539-547. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Hirsch, J. (2005). Where memory meets attention: Neural substrates of negative priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 17 (11), 1774-1784. Full Text
- Egner, T, Jamieson, G, & Gruzelier, JH. (2005). Hypnosis decouples conflict monitoring and cognitive control functions of the frontal lobe. Neuroimage , 27 , 969-978. (Academic Article)
- Gruzelier, J, & Egner, T. (2005). Critical validation studies of neurofeedback. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America , 14 (1 SPEC.ISS.), 83-104. Full Text
- Nunez, JM, Casey, BJ, Egner, T, Hare, T, & Hirsch, J. (2005). Intentional false responding shares neural substrates with response conflict and cognitive control. Neuroimage , 25 , 539-547. (Academic Article)
- Egner, T, & Gruzelier, JH. (2004). The temporal dynamics of electroencephalographic responses to alpha/theta neurofeedback training in healthy subjects. Journal of Neurotherapy , 8 (1), 43-57. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Gruzelier, JH. (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. Full Text
- Egner, T, Zech, TF, & Gruzelier, JH. (2004). The effects of neurofeedback training on the spectral topography of the electroencephalogram. Clinical Neurophysiology , 115 (11), 2452-2460. Full Text
- 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. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Gruzelier, JH. (2003). Ecological validity of neurofeedback: Modulation of slow wave EEG enhances musical performance. NeuroReport , 14 (9), 1221-1224. Full Text
- 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. Full Text
- Egner, T, Strawson, E, & Gruzelier, JH. (2002). EEG signature and phenomenology of alpha/theta neurofeedback training versus mock feedback. Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback , 27 (4), 261-270. Full Text
- Egner, T, & Gruzelier, JH. (2001). Learned self-regulation of EEG frequency components affects attention and event-related brain potentials in humans. NeuroReport , 12 (18), 4155-4159.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- NEUROBIO 751: Neuroscience Bootcamp 2018
- NEUROSCI 212D: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience 2018
- NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1 2018
- NEUROSCI 751: Neuroscience Bootcamp 2018
- NEUROSCI 755: Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (IPCN) Independent Research Rotation 2018
- PSY 257D: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience 2018
- PSY 496: Distinction Thesis Workshop 2018
- PSY 757S: Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquia 2018
- PSY 758S: Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquia 2018
- NEUROSCI 150: Research Practicum 2017
- NEUROSCI 212: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (B, C) 2017
- PSY 257: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (B, C) 2017
- PSY 755: Research Practicum 2017
- NEUROSCI 494: Research Independent Study 2 2016
- NEUROSCI 495: Research Independent Study 3 2016
- NEUROSCI 496: Research Independent Study 4 2016
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Individual differences may reveal distinct mechanisms of attentional guidance. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Vision Sciences Society. December 3, 2013 2013
- Intrinsic reward prediction errors determine feedback memory.. 18th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. European Society for Cognitive Psychology. December 3, 2013 2013
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation to left and right parietal regions reveals their distinct contributions to cognitive control over working memory biases of attention. November 1, 2013 2013
- Neural mechanisms of cognitive and affective control processes. June 13, 2013 2013
- Exploring sources of trial history effects in cognitive control tasks. June 1, 2013 2013
- Affective modulation of cognitive control varies with performance-contingency. April 1, 2013 2013
- Attention amplifies or suppresses neural prediction error responses in a regionally specific manner. April 1, 2013 2013
- Dissociable neural mechanisms mediate proactive control over emotional vs. non-emotional conflict. April 1, 2013 2013
- Resource-sharing between internal maintenance and external selection underlies the capture of attention by working memory content.. April 1, 2013 2013
- The “what” and “how” of working memory: Dissociating neural mechanisms of declarative and procedural components.. October 1, 2012 2012
- Mechanisms of Cognitive Control. June 28, 2012 2012
- Priming of control: binding of top-down set to contextual cues. May 31, 2012 2012
- Cognitive control: from will over habit to habit of will. May 29, 2012 2012
- Cognitive Control: from Will over Habit to Habit of Will. May 25, 2012 2012
- Medial frontal cortex-basal ganglia loops regulate task and response selection. April 1, 2012 2012
- Conflict processes in task switching. November 16, 2011 2011
- Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on single neuron activity in the awake behaving monkey. November 13, 2011 2011
- The predictive brain in visual cognition. May 19, 2011 2011
- Conflict-driven cognitive control processes in the human brain. May 18, 2011 2011
- Information-based brain mapping of stimulus- vs response-based interferences control processes. April 4, 2011 2011
- Neural mechanisms of context-specific cognitive control. April 4, 2011 2011
- Conflict-driven control processes in the human brain. November 1, 2010 2010
- Neural mechanisms underlying exogenous affective guidance of spatial attention.. November 1, 2010 2010
- Conflict-driven control mechanisms in the human brain. June 10, 2010 2010
- Conflict-specific adaptation processes in the human brain. April 20, 2010 2010
- When the face area responds to houses: coding of perceptual prediction error in the ventral visual stream.. April 20, 2010 2010
- Conflict-driven control processes in the human brain. April 1, 2010 2010
- Conflict-driven control processes in the human brain. March 1, 2010 2010
- Conflict-driven cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. September 1, 2009 2009
- Cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. July 1, 2008 2008
- Conflict and expectancy recruit independent cognitive control resources. April 1, 2008 2008
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Service to the Profession
- Ad Hoc grant reviewer. Cognition and Perception Study Section. NIH. 2016 2016
- Consulting Editor. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Psychonomic Society. 2015 2015
- Ad-hoc grant reviewer : NSF (Perception, Action, & Cognition Program). 2013 2013
- Associate Editor : Frontiers in Cognition. 2012 2012
- Chair of Poster Committee : Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2012 2012
- Ad-hoc grant reviewer : NSF Cognitive Neuroscience Section. 2008 2008
- Review Editor. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Frontiers Foundation. 2007 2007
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