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Alexandra Woolgar
Deputy director,
Programme leader

alexandra.woolgar@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
01223 767704
CBSU publications
Kong, Y., Zhao, C., Li, D., Li, B., Hu, Y., Liu, H., WOOLGAR, A. , Guo, J., Song, Y. (In Press) Auditory change detection and visual selective attention: Association between MMN and N2pc, Cerebral Cortex [Read More]

PETIT, S., WOOLGAR, A. , BROWN, A., Jessen, E.T., (In Press) How robustly do multivariate EEG patterns track individual-subject lexico-semantic processing of visual stimuli?, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience [Read More]

Barnes, L., Rangelov, D., Mattingley, J.B., WOOLGAR, A. (2023) Fractionating distraction: how past- and future relevant distractors influence integrated decisions, Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 01 May 2023, 49(5):737-752 [Open Access]

Winiewski, D., Gonzalex-Garcia, C, Formica, S., Brass, M., WOOLGAR, A. (2023) Adaptive coding of stimulus information in human frontoparietal cortex during visual classification, NeuroImage, 274:120150 [Open Access]

Moerel, D., Grootswagers, T., Robinson, A.K., Shatek, S.M., WOOLGAR, A. , Carlson, T.A., & Rich, A.N. (2022) The time-course of feature-based attention effects dissociated from temporal expectation and target-related processes, Nature Scientific Reports, 28 April 2022, 12(1):6968 [Open Access]

KARIMI-ROUZBHANI, H., WOOLGAR, A. , HENSON, R., Nili, H. (2022) Caveats and nuances of model-based and model-free representational connectivity analysis, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10 Mar 2022, 16:755988 [Open Access]

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,34 (5), 806–822 [Open Access]

WOOLGAR, A. , Robinson, A., Rich, A. (2022) Linking the brain with behaviour: the neural dynamics of success and failure in goal-directed behaviour, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(4):639-654 [Open Access]

KARIM-ROUXBHANI, 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, 02 Mar 2022, 16:825746 [Open Access]

COPE, T.E., HUGHES, L.E., PHILLIPS, H.N., Adams, N.E., Jafarian, A., Nesbitt, D., Assem, m., 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, Journal of Neuroscience, 08 Mar 2022, 42(15):3197-3215 [Open Access]

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, 01 Jan 2022, 34(2):290-312 [Open Access]

JACKSON, J., Feredoes, E., Rich, A.N., Lindner, M. WOOLGAR, A. (2021) Concurrent neuroimaging and neurostimulation reveals a causal role for dlPFC in coding of task-relevant information, Communications Biology, 4(1), 588 [Open Access]

KARIMI-ROUZBAHANI, H., Remezani, F., WOOLGAR, A. , Rich, A., Ghodrati, M. (2021) Perceptual difficulty modulates the direction of information flow in familiar face recognition, NeuroImage, 233, 117896 [Open Access]

BARNES, L., PETIT, S., Badcock, N., WHYTE, C., WOOLGAR, A. (2021) Word detection in individual subjects is difficult to probe with fast periodic visual stimulation, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 03 Mar 2021, 15:602798 [Open Access]

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, 73(12), 2389-2402 [Open Access]

Petit, S., Badcock, N., Groostwagers, T., WOOLGAR, A. (2020) Unconstrained multivariate EEG decoding can help detect lexical-semantic processing in individual children, Nature Scientific Reports, 10(1):10849 [Open Access]

Petit, S., Badcock, N., WOOLGAR, A. (2020) Finding Hidden Treasures: A Child-Friendly Neural Test of Task-Following in Individuals Using Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound, Neuropsychologia, 03 Jun 2020, :107515 [Open Access]

Petit, S., Badcock, N., Groostwagers, T., Rich, A.N., Brock, J., Nickels, L., Moerel, D., Dermody, N., Yau, S., Schmidt, E., WOOLGAR, A. (2020) Toward an individualised neural assessment of receptive language in children, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(7):2361-2385 [Open Access]

WOOLGAR, A. , Weldon, K.B., Rich, A.N., Williams, M.A. (2020) Late disruption of central visual field disrupts peripheral perception of form and color, PLoS One [Open Access]

BARNES, L., Goddard, E., WOOLGAR, A. (2019) Decoding rules and attended features over multiple task phases, Perception (42nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2019 Leuven) [Open Access]

WOOLGAR, A. , Jackson, J.B. (2018) Adaptive Coding in the human brain: Distinct object features are encoded by overlapping voxels in frontoparietal cortex, Cortex, 108:25-34 [Open Access]

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, 200–204 [Open Access]

Woolgar, A. , Jackson, J., & DUNCAN, J. (2016) Coding of visual, auditory, rule and response information in the brain: 10 years of multi-voxel pattern analysis, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 218, 1433-1454 [Read More]

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 [Read More]

Woolgar, A. , Bor, D., DUNCAN, J.D. (2013) Global increase in task-related activity after focal frontal lobe lesion, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(9), 1542-1552 [Read More]

Manes, F., Roca, M., Torralva, T., Gleichgerrcht, E., WOOLGAR, A. , THOMPSON, R., DUNCAN, J.D. (2011) The role of Area 10 (BA10) in human multitasking and in social cognition: A lesion study, Neuropsychologia, 49(13), 3525-2531 [Read More]

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 [Open Access]

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 [Read More]

WOOLGAR, A. , Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & 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 [Open Access]

Roca, M., Parr, A., THOMPSON, R., WOOLGAR, A. , Torralva, T., Antoun, N., Manes, F. and DUNCAN, J. (2010) Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions, Brain, 133(1), 234–247 [Open Access]

WOOLGAR, A. (2009) Multiple-demand regions of human frontal and parietal cortex: function and representational content, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge [Read More]

WOOLGAR, A. , Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & DUNCAN, J.D. (2009) Specific brain lesions linked to fluid intelligence loss, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Wenesday PM, 128 [Open Access]

WOOLGAR, A. & DUNCAN, J. (2008) Multi-voxel coding of stimulus-response mapping rules in human frontal and parietal cortex, 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S132 [Read More]

Hogan,S., Stokes,J., Tyszkiewicz, E., White, C. & 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 [Read More]

DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., WOOLGAR, A. , THOMPSON, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., BISHOP, S. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2008) Goal neglect and Spearman’s g: Competing parts of a complex task, JEP: General, 137(1), 131-148 [Read More]

WOOLGAR, A. , BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Antoun, N, Manes, F. & Torralava, T (2007) Fluid intelligence after brain damage: relating brain lesion to behavioural deficit, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S115 [Read More]

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