Aug 2025: John’s paper is out now in Nature Human Behaviour: “Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02280-9
Jun 2025: Kieran’s paper “Pattern-pulses and pattern-reversals evoke different cascades of cortical sources in the multifocal visual evoked potential” has been published in Journal of Vision
April 2025: Elisabeth’s paper, “Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals” has been published in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58861-9
Sep 2024: The lab welcomes Sajedeh Aghababaei to start her PhD studies with us
Jul 2024: Congratulations to Kieran Mohr for being awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Novel paradigms exploiting the geometry of cortical folding patterns to improve signal measurement in electroencephalography”
Apr 2024: Kieran’s paper “Visual cortical area contributions to the transient, multifocal and steady-state VEP: A forward model-informed analysis” is just out in Imaging Neuroscience: https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/imag_a_00152/120578
Apr 2024: Check out Kevin’s paper “Prior probability cues bias sensory encoding with increasing task exposure”: https://elifesciences.org/articles/91135
Feb 2024: Sabina’s paper “Intracranial electroencephalography reveals effector-independent evidence accumulation dynamics in multiple human brain regions” just out in Nature Human Behaviour: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01824-9
Jan 2024: The lab welcomes new PhD students Liang Tong and Weicheng Lian!
Dec 2023: Welcome to Doug Lee, new postdoc in the lab!
Sep 2023: The lab welcomes this year’s final year project students: Catherine Bluett, Damilola Abagun, Leo Downes, Liam Morgan, Lochlann Gallagher, Oisín Hogan, Sarah McMahon, and Varsha Sreenivasalu.
Aug 2023: Anna’s paper “Balancing true and false detection of intermittent sensory targets by adjusting the inputs to the evidence accumulation process” is now out in eLife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/83025
May 2023: Check out this new paper with Dawid Strzelczyk and Nicolas Langer: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00811-8
Feb 2023: Elaine’s paper “Multiphasic value biases in fast-paced decisions” is now out in eLife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/67711
Nov 2022: Congratulations to Elaine for landing an ERC Starting Grant MYODECISION – we will be hiring so please check our Opportunities page!
Sep 2022: The lab welcomes Janik Wiese, Bowen Duan, Isabelle McCarthy and Sam Ree to conduct their final year projects with us.
Sep 2022: Check out Anna’s new preprint “Balancing true and false detection of intermittent sensory targets by adjusting the inputs to the evidence accumulation process” on BioRxiv!
Sep 2021: The lab welcomes Donnchadh Casey, Marek Galus and Liang Tong to conduct their final year projects with us for this year.
Sep 2021: the lab welcomes new PhD student Hadiseh Hajimohammadi who will work on the Wellcome-funded project examining how the extent of cumulative evidence is curtailed in different ways (leakage, collapsing bounds, confirmation bias) in different decision scenarios.
Jul 2021: Redmond and Simon’s review article “Neurophysiology of Human Perceptual Decision-Making” just out! https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-092019-100200
Mar 2021: Elaine’s paper “Multiphasic value biases in fast-paced decisions” has just been posted on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.08.434248v1
Dec 2020: Simon’s paper “Neurocomputational mechanisms of prior-informed perceptual decision-making in humans” has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour: https://rdcu.be/ccbWx
Oct 2020: Kieran’s paper “Modulation of the earliest component of the human VEP by spatial attention: an investigation of task demands” has just been published in Cerebral Cortex Communications!
Sep 2020: the lab welcomes M.E. students Emma Bailey, Meg Brennan, Sean Hasset and Aideen Caulfield, who will complete their final year projects with us
Apr 2020: We’ve been awarded a Tripartite R01 grant jointly funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health, Science Foundation Ireland, and HSC Northern Ireland, to investigate the neural architecture of decisions abstracted from movements, in collaboration with Redmond O’Connell, KongFatt Wong-Lin, Stephan Bickel and Mike Shadlen.
Feb 2020: Simon has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science. We’ll be hiring soon.
Oct 2019: Catch 3 posters from our group at this year’s Society for Neuroscience Meeting: 1st authors John Egan, Elaine Corbett and Stephan Bickel
Sep 2019: The lab welcomes new postdoc Anna Geuzebroek
Sep 2019: The lab welcomes M.E. students David Gaynor, Rose Lynch, Rachel DeKeyser and Sophie Perry, who will complete their final year thesis projects with us
Jul 2019: Isabel’s paper, “Altered dynamics of visual contextual interactions in Parkinson’s disease” is out in NPJ Parkinson’s Disease
Feb 2019: Huge congratulations to Elaine Corbett for landing a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship!
Dec 2018: Dave McGovern’s paper, “Reconciling age-related changes in behavioural and neural indices of human perceptual decision making” is out in Nature Human Behaviour
Nov 2018: Catch four posters from four PhD students in the lab at this year’s Society for Neuroscience Meeting: Kivi Afacan, Kieran Mohr, John Egan and Alexandra Martinez-Rodriguez
Nov 2018: Our new review paper with Mike Shadlen and KongFatt Wong-Lin, “Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision-Making,” is just out in Trends in Neurosciences
Sep 2018: The lab welcomes Louisa Spence as a research assistant
Sep 2018: The lab welcomes M.E. students Ludovic Piret, Sai Bhanu Prasad Lingala and Niall McGovern, and B.E. student Rachel Georgel who will complete their final year thesis projects with us
Aug 2018: Natalie’s paper, “Decisions are expedited through multiple neural adjustments spanning the sensorimotor hierarchy” is just out in Nature Communications
Feb 2018: Kivi’s paper, “Dynamic interplay of value and sensory information in high-speed decision making” is just out in Current Biology.
Jan 2018: Ger’s paper, “Antagonistic interactions between microsaccades and evidence accumulation processes during decision formation” is just out in Journal of Neuroscience.
Nov 2017: Annabelle’s paper “Neural signature of value-guided sensorimotor prioritization in humans” just came out in Journal of Neuroscience.
Nov 2017: Catch two posters from the lab at Society for Neuroscience – first authors Hannah Craddock and Kivilcim Afacan-Seref.
Nov 2017: The lab welcomes Ger Loughnane as a postdoc!
Sep 2017: Welcome Alexandra Martinez-Rodriguez, new PhD student!
Sep 2017: The lab welcomes M.E. students Niamh Carr, Arjun Mukundan, Louise O’Connor, and Megan O’Brien, who will complete their thesis projects with us.
Aug 2017: Congratulations to Isabel Vanegas for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Novel Stimulation Paradigms to Study Visual Response Modulations in Health and Disease,” and thanks to her committee, Lucas Parra, Marom Bikson, Jonathan Levitt and Horacio Kaufmann.
Jul 2017: The lab welcomes Elaine Corbett as our new Postdoc!
Apr 2017: Nicolas’s paper, “A Resource for Assessing Information Processing in the Developing Brain Using EEG and Eye Tracking” has just come out in Scientific Data.
Apr 2017: Simon’s last postdoc paper, finally out! “Parietal neurons encode expected gains in instrumental information” in PNAS.
Nov 2016: Congratulations to Natalie Steinemann for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Perceptual decision making in humans: Neural correlates along the sensorimotor hierarchy,” and thanks to her committee: Lucas Parra, Marom Bikson, Jacek Dmochowski and Mike Shadlen.
Oct 2016: New paper by Gebodh, Vanegas and Kelly accepted for publication in Brain Topography: “Effects of stimulus size and contrast on the initial primary visual cortical response in humans”
Sep 2016: John Egan and Kieran Mohr start their PhDs with us – welcome!
Sep 2016: The lab welcomes M.E. students Daire Corley-Carmody, Hannah Craddock, Ronan McCormack, and Killian McManus who will conduct their final-year research projects with us for the year.
Aug 2016: Simon has been awarded a Career Development Award from Science Foundation Ireland for research on the integration of reward information into perceptual decision making.
Jul 2016: Kieran Mohr has just been awarded an IRC PhD fellowship to join the lab
Jul 2016: New paper published at The Journal of Neuroscience, “Abstract and Effector-Selective Decision Signals Exhibit Qualitatively Distinct Dynamics before Delayed Perceptual Reports”
May 2016: UCD M.E. students Lisa Sherin and Eoin Brady, and B.E. student Gavin Foran successfully defend their final project theses for research conducted in the lab
May 2016: Natalie Steinemann has just published the first paper from her PhD thesis, “Tracking neural correlates of successful learning over repeated sequence observations” in the journal NeuroImage.
Jan 2016: New paper accepted at Current Biology, Loughnane et al, “Target selection signals influence perceptual decisions by modulating the onset and rate of evidence accumulation”
Jan 2016: Postdoc Nicolas Langer has just started his own gig in University of Zurich, as an Assistant Professor
Dec 2015: Congratulations to CCNY student Nigel Gebodh for successfully defending his Masters thesis, “Characterization of the effects of stimulus size and contrast on the initial afferent response in human primary visual cortex.”
Feb 2015: Isabel Vanegas has just published her second paper in the lab, “Electrophysiological indices of surround suppression in humans,” in Journal of Neurophysiology.
Jan 2015: The lab relocated to Dublin!
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