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Two spatially distinct posterior alpha sources fulfill different functional roles in attention (2019)
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Sokoliuk, R., Mayhew, S., Aquino, K., Wilson, R., Brookes, M., Francis, S., Hanslmayr, S., & Mullinger, K. (2019). Two spatially distinct posterior alpha sources fulfill different functional roles in attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(36), 7183-7194. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1993-18.2019

Directing attention helps extracting relevant information and suppressing distracters. Alpha brain oscillations (8-12Hz) are crucial for this process, with power decreases facilitating processing of important information and power increases inhibitin... Read More about Two spatially distinct posterior alpha sources fulfill different functional roles in attention.

The relationship between negative BOLD responses and ERS and ERD of alpha/beta oscillations in visual and motor cortex (2019)
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Wilson, R., Mullinger, K. J., Francis, S. T., & Mayhew, S. D. (2019). The relationship between negative BOLD responses and ERS and ERD of alpha/beta oscillations in visual and motor cortex. NeuroImage, 199, 635-650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.009

Previous work has investigated the electrophysiological origins of the intra-modal (within the stimulated sensory cortex) negative BOLD fMRI response (NBR, decrease from baseline) but little attention has been paid to the origin of cross-modal NBRs,... Read More about The relationship between negative BOLD responses and ERS and ERD of alpha/beta oscillations in visual and motor cortex.

Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher‐order cognitive tasks: An inter‐sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains (2018)
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Aquino, K. M., Sokoliuk, R., Pakenham, D., Sanchez-Panchuelo, R. M., Hanslmayr, S., Mayhew, S. D., Mullinger, K. J., & Francis, S. T. (2019). Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher‐order cognitive tasks: An inter‐sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains. Human Brain Mapping, 40(4), 1298-1316. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24450

Functional MRI at ultra-high field (UHF, ≥7T) provides significant increases in BOLD contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) compared with conventional field strength (3T), and has been exploited for reduced field-of-view, high spatial resolution mapping of pr... Read More about Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution UHF fMRI for group analysis of higher‐order cognitive tasks: An inter‐sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains.

Exploring the relative efficacy of motion artefact correction techniques for EEG data acquired during simultaneous fMRI (2018)
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Alexander, D. J., Smith, J. A., Spencer, G. S., Jorge, J., Bowtell, R., & Mullinger, K. J. (2019). Exploring the relative efficacy of motion artefact correction techniques for EEG data acquired during simultaneous fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 40(2), 578-596. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24396

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI allows multi-parametric characterisation of brain function, in principle enabling a more complete understanding of brain responses; unfortunately the hostile MRI environment severely reduces EEG data quality. Simply eliminating... Read More about Exploring the relative efficacy of motion artefact correction techniques for EEG data acquired during simultaneous fMRI.

Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution, UHF field fMRI for group analysis of higher-order cognitive tasks; an inter-sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains (2018)
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Aquino, K. M., Sokoliuk, R., Pakenham, D., Sanchez, R., Hanslmayr, S., Mayhew, S., Mullinger, K., & Francis, S. (2019). Addressing challenges of high spatial resolution, UHF field fMRI for group analysis of higher-order cognitive tasks; an inter-sensory task directing attention between visual and somatosensory domains

Changes in electrophysiological markers of cognitive control after administration of galantamine (2018)
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Robson, S. E., Gascoyne, L. E., Mullinger, K. J., Robson, S., Kumar, J., O'Neill, G. C., Palaniyappan, L., Morris, P. G., Liddle, E. B., Brookes, M. J., & Liddle, P. F. (2018). Changes in electrophysiological markers of cognitive control after administration of galantamine. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 228-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.07.019

© 2018 The healthy brain is able to maintain a stable balance between bottom-up sensory processing and top-down cognitive control. The neurotransmitter acetylcholine plays a substantial role in this. Disruption of this balance could contribute to sym... Read More about Changes in electrophysiological markers of cognitive control after administration of galantamine.

Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity (2018)
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Tewarie, P., Hunt, B. A. E., O'Neill, G. C., Byrne, A., Aquino, K., Bauer, M., Mullinger, K. J., Coombes, S., & Brookes, M. J. (2019). Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity. Cerebral Cortex, 29(6), 2668-2681. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy136

Event related fluctuations of neural oscillatory amplitude are reported widely in the context of cognitive processing and are typically interpreted as a marker of brain ‘activity’. However, the precise nature of these effects remains unclear; in part... Read More about Relationships Between Neuronal Oscillatory Amplitude and Dynamic Functional Connectivity.

Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system (2018)
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Boto, E., Holmes, N., Leggett, J., Roberts, G., Shah, V., Meyer, S. S., Duque Muñoz, L., Mullinger, K. J., Tierney, T. M., Bestmann, S., Barnes, G. R., Bowtell, R. W., & Brookes, M. J. (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature, 555, 657-661. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26147

Imaging human brain function with techniques such as magnetoencephalography1 (MEG) typically requires a subject to perform tasks whilst their head remains still within a restrictive scanner. This artificial environment makes the technique inaccessibl... Read More about Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system.

Exploring the origins of EEG motion artefacts during simultaneous fMRI acquisition: implications for motion artefact correction (2018)
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Spencer, G. S., Smith, J. A., Chowdhury, M. E., Bowtell, R. W., & Mullinger, K. J. (in press). Exploring the origins of EEG motion artefacts during simultaneous fMRI acquisition: implications for motion artefact correction. NeuroImage, 173, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.034

Motion artefacts (MAs) are induced within EEG data collected simultaneously with fMRI when the subject’s head rotates relative to the magnetic field. The effects of these artefacts have generally been ameliorated by removing periods of data during wh... Read More about Exploring the origins of EEG motion artefacts during simultaneous fMRI acquisition: implications for motion artefact correction.

Exploring the advantages of multiband fMRI with simultaneous EEG to investigate coupling between gamma frequency neural activity and the BOLD response in humans (2018)
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Uji, M., Wilson, R., Francis, S. T., Mullinger, K. J., & Mayhew, S. D. (2018). Exploring the advantages of multiband fMRI with simultaneous EEG to investigate coupling between gamma frequency neural activity and the BOLD response in humans. Human Brain Mapping, 39(4), 1673-1687. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23943

We established an optimal combination of EEG recording during sparse multiband (MB) fMRI that preserves high resolution, whole brain fMRI coverage whilst enabling broad-band EEG recordings which are uncorrupted by MRI gradient artefacts (GAs). We fir... Read More about Exploring the advantages of multiband fMRI with simultaneous EEG to investigate coupling between gamma frequency neural activity and the BOLD response in humans.

Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN (2017)
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Tan, F. M., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Mullinger, K. J., Cho, S.-Y., Zhang, Y., Dryden, I. L., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2017). Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN. Human Brain Mapping, 38(11), 5778-5794. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23767

Most functional MRI (fMRI) studies map task-driven brain activity using a block or event-related paradigm. Sparse paradigm free mapping (SPFM) can detect the onset and spatial distribution of BOLD events in the brain without prior timing information,... Read More about Decoding fMRI events in sensorimotor motor network using sparse paradigm free mapping and activation likelihood estimates: Decoding fMRI Events in SMN.

Spatiotemporal neural characterization of prediction error valence and surprise during reward learning in humans (2017)
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Fouragnan, E., Queirazza, F., Retzler, C., Mullinger, K. J., & Philiastides, M. G. (in press). Spatiotemporal neural characterization of prediction error valence and surprise during reward learning in humans. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 4762. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04507-w

Reward learning depends on accurate reward associations with potential choices. These associations can be attained with reinforcement learning mechanisms using a reward prediction error (RPE) signal (the difference between actual and expected rewards... Read More about Spatiotemporal neural characterization of prediction error valence and surprise during reward learning in humans.

Post-stimulus fMRI and EEG responses: evidence for a neuronal origin hypothesised to be inhibitory (2017)
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Mullinger, K. J., Cherukara, M. T., Buxton, R. B., Francis, S. T., & Mayhew, S. D. (2017). Post-stimulus fMRI and EEG responses: evidence for a neuronal origin hypothesised to be inhibitory. NeuroImage, 157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.020

Post-stimulus undershoots, negative responses following cessation of stimulation, are widely observed in functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) data. However, the debate surrounding whether the origin of this re... Read More about Post-stimulus fMRI and EEG responses: evidence for a neuronal origin hypothesised to be inhibitory.

The effect of physical fatigue on oscillatory dynamics of the sensorimotor cortex (2017)
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Fry, A., Mullinger, K. J., O'Neill, G. C., Brookes, M. J., & Folland, J. P. (2018). The effect of physical fatigue on oscillatory dynamics of the sensorimotor cortex. Acta Physiologica, 220(3), 370-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/apha.12843

Aim: While physical fatigue is known to arise in part from supraspinal mechanisms within the brain exactly how brain activity is modulated during fatigue is not well understood. Therefore, this study examined how typical neural oscillatory responses... Read More about The effect of physical fatigue on oscillatory dynamics of the sensorimotor cortex.

Modulation of post-movement beta rebound by contraction force and rate of force development (2016)
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Fry, A., Mullinger, K. J., O'Neill, G. C., Barratt, E. L., Morris, P. G., Bauer, M., Folland, J. P., & Brookes, M. J. (2016). Modulation of post-movement beta rebound by contraction force and rate of force development. Human Brain Mapping, 37(7), https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23189

Movement induced modulation of the beta rhythm is one of the most robust neural oscillatory phenomena in the brain. In the preparation and execution phases of movement, a loss in beta amplitude is observed (movement related beta decrease (MRBD)). Thi... Read More about Modulation of post-movement beta rebound by contraction force and rate of force development.

Spurious correlations in simultaneous EEG-fMRI driven by in-scanner movement (2016)
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Fellner, M.-C., Volberg, G., Mullinger, K., Goldhacker, M., Wimber, M., Greenlee, M., & Hanslmayr, S. (2016). Spurious correlations in simultaneous EEG-fMRI driven by in-scanner movement. NeuroImage, 133, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.031

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI provides an increasingly attractive research tool to investigate cognitive processes with high temporal and spatial resolution. However, artifacts in EEG data introduced by the MR-scanner still remain a major obstacle. This stud... Read More about Spurious correlations in simultaneous EEG-fMRI driven by in-scanner movement.

Global signal modulation of single-trial fMRI response variability: effect on positive vs negative BOLD response relationship (2016)
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Mayhew, S. D., Mullinger, K. J., Ostwald, D., Porcaro, C., Bowtell, R. W., Bagshaw, A. P., & Francis, S. T. (2016). Global signal modulation of single-trial fMRI response variability: effect on positive vs negative BOLD response relationship. NeuroImage, 133, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.077

In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the relationship between positive BOLD responses (PBRs) and negative BOLD responses (NBRs) to stimulation is potentially informative about the balance of excitatory and inhibitory brain responses in se... Read More about Global signal modulation of single-trial fMRI response variability: effect on positive vs negative BOLD response relationship.

Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain (2015)
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Fouragnan, E., Retzler, C., Mullinger, K. J., & Philiastides, M. G. (2015). Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain. Nature Communications, 6(8107), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9107

Avoiding repeated mistakes and learning to reinforce rewarding decisions is critical for human survival and adaptive actions. Yet, the neural underpinnings of the value systems that encode different decision-outcomes remain elusive. Here coupling sin... Read More about Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain.

Evidence that the negative BOLD response is neuronal in origin: a simultaneous EEG–BOLD–CBF study in humans (2014)
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Mullinger, K. J., Mayhew, S. D., Bagshaw, A. P., Bowtell, R. W., & Francis, S. T. (2014). Evidence that the negative BOLD response is neuronal in origin: a simultaneous EEG–BOLD–CBF study in humans. NeuroImage, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.029

Unambiguous interpretation of changes in the BOLD signal is challenging because of the complex neurovascular coupling that translates changes in neuronal activity into the subsequent haemodynamic response. In particular, the neurophysiological origin... Read More about Evidence that the negative BOLD response is neuronal in origin: a simultaneous EEG–BOLD–CBF study in humans.

Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI (2013)
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Chowdhury, M. E., Mullinger, K. J., Glover, P., & Bowtell, R. W. (2014). Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI. NeuroImage, 84, 307-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.039

Large artefacts compromise EEG data quality during simultaneous fMRI. These artefact voltages pose heavy demands on the bandwidth and dynamic range of EEG amplifiers and mean that even small fractional variations in the artefact voltages give rise to... Read More about Reference layer artefact subtraction (RLAS): A novel method of minimizing EEG artefacts during simultaneous fMRI.