I use a combination of neurostimulation (TMS) and neuroimaging (fMRI/MEG) techniques to investigate selective attention in the human brain. My previous work has focused on how and where task-relevant information comes to be prioritised in the brain (Jackson et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017; Jackson et al. Cortex, 2018), and the causal influence of disrupting this prioritisation on information coding across the brain (Jackson et al., Communications Biology, 2021). My current projects involve disentangling the relationship between enhancement vs inhibition using fMRI-MVPA, using concurrent TMS-fMRI to causally link information coding to behaviour, and improving methodological aspects of TMS-fMRI. 

For further information visit my web page https://sites.google.com/view/jadebjackson or our lab website: www.woolgarlab.org

Video

Methods day 2019: The promise and challenges of concurrent TMS-fMRI

Publications

Jackson, J. B., 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), 1-16.

Makovac, E., Venezia, A., Hohenschurz‐Schmidt, D., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, J. B., Medina, S., ... & Howard, M. A. (2021). The association between pain‐induced autonomic reactivity and descending pain control is mediated by the periaqueductal grey. The Journal of physiology, 599(23), 5243-5260.

Jelen, L., Lythgoe, D., Jackson, J. B., Howard, M., Stone, J., & Egerton, A. (2021). Imaging Brain Glx Dynamics in Response to Pressure Pain Stimulation: A 1H-fMRS Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.

Jackson, J. B., O'Daly, O., Makovac, E., Medina, S., de Lara Rubio, A., McMahon, S. B., ... & Howard, M. A. (2020). Noxious pressure stimulation demonstrates robust, reliable estimates of brain activity and self-reported pain. NeuroImage, 221, 117178.

Hohenschurz-Schmidt, D. J., Calcagnini, G., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, J. B., Medina, S., O’Daly, O., ... & Howard, M. A. (2020). Linking pain sensation to the autonomic nervous system: the role of the anterior cingulate and periaqueductal gray resting-state networks. Frontiers in neuroscience, 14, 147.

Makovac, E., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, J. B., Medina, S., O'daly, O., O'muircheartaigh, J., ... & Howard, M. A. (2020). Sustained perturbation in functional connectivity induced by cold pain. European Journal of Pain, 24(9), 1850-1861.

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.

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.

Larsson, J., Harrison, C., Jackson, J., Oh, S. M., & Zeringyte, V. (2017). Spatial scale and distribution of neurovascular signals underlying decoding of orientation and eye of origin from fMRI data. Journal of neurophysiology, 117(2), 818-835.

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.

Preprints

Scrivener, C. L., Jackson, J. B., Correia, M. M., Mada, M., & Woolgar, A. (2021). Now you see it, now you don’t: optimal parameters for interslice stimulation in concurrent TMS-fMRI. bioRxiv.