publications

2012

  • King, J. A., Korb, F., Egner, T. (in press). Priming of control: implicit contextual cuing of top-down attentional set. Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Kiyonaga, A., Egner, T., Soto, D. (in press). Cognitive control over working memory biases of selection. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
  • Trübutschek, D., Egner, T. (2012). Negative emotion does not modulate rapid feature integration effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 100. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00100
  • Reeck, C., LaBar, K., Egner, T. (2012). Neural mechanisms mediating contingent capture of attention by affective stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5): 1113-1126 .
  • 2011

  • Egner, T. (2011). Surprise! A unifying model of dorsal anterior cingulate function?. Nature Neuroscience, 14(10): 1219-1220 .
  • Reeck, C., Egner, T. (2011). Affective privilege: asymmetric interference by emotional distracters. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 232. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00232
  • Egner, T. (2011). Right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex mediates individual differences in conflict-driven cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(12): 3903-3913 .
  • Etkin, A., Egner, T., Kalisch, R. (2011). Emotional processing in the anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 85-93.
  • Krebs, R. M., Boehler, C. N., Egner, T., Woldorff, M. G. (2011). The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(26): 9752 - 9759.
  • 2010

  • Egner, T., Monti, J. M., Summerfield, C. (2010). Expectation and surprise determine neural population responses in the ventral visual stream. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(49): 16601-16608.
  • Egner, T. (2010). Motor control: Exploring the neurochemistry of subliminal inhibitionCurrent Biology, 20: R852-853.
  • Egner, T., Ely, S., Grinband, J. (2010). Going, going, gone: characterizing the time-course of congruency sequence effectsFrontiers in Psychology, 1, 154. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00154
  • Monti, J.M., Weintraub, S., Egner, T. (2010). Differential age-related decline in conflict-driven task-set shielding from emotional versus non-emotional distractersNeuropsychologia, 48: 1697-1706. 
  • Pollak, D.D., Rogan, M.T., Egner, T., Perez, D.L., Yanagihara, T.K., Hirsch, J. (2010).  A translational bridge between mouse and human models of learned safety.   Annals of Medicine, 42: 127–134.
  • 2009

  • Mohanty, A., Egner, T., Monti, J., Mesulam, M.M. (2009). Search for a Threatening Target Triggers Limbic Guidance of Spatial Attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 29 (34): 10563-10572.
  • Summerfield, C. & Egner, T. (2009). Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13 (9), 403-409.
  • Egner, T. (2009). Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: motivating functional hierarchies. Nature Neuroscience, 12 (7), 821-822.
  • 2008

  • Summerfield C, Trittschuh EH, Monti JM, Mesulam MM, Egner T. (2008). Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 1004-6.
  • Egner T, Monti JM, Trittschuh EH, Wieneke CA, Hirsch J, Mesulam MM. (2008). Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 6141-51.
  • Egner T, Etkin A, Gale S, Hirsch J. (2008). Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distracters. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1475-84.
  • Egner, T. (2008). Multiple conflict-driven control mechanisms in the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 374-80.
  • 2007

  • Egner, T. (2007). Congruency sequence effects and cognitive control. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 380-390.
  • Stern, E.R., Wager, T.D., Egner, T., Hirsch, J., Mangels, J.A. (2007). Preparatory neural activity predicts performance on a conflict task. Brain Research, 1176, 92-102.
  • Kross, E., Egner, T., Ochsner, K., Hirsch, J., Downey, G. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 945-956.
  • Egner, T., Delano, M., Hirsch, J. (2007). Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain. Neuroimage, 35, 940-948.
  • Egner, T. and Raz, A. (2007). Cognitive Control Processes and Hypnosis. In G. Jamieson (Ed.), Hypnosis and Conscious Sates: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. London: Oxford University Press (pp. 29-50).
  • 2006

  • Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M.S., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J.A., Hirsch, J. (2006). Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex. Science, 314, 1311-1314.
  • Etkin, A., Egner, T., Peraza, D.M., Kandel, E.R., Hirsch, J. (2006). Resolving emotional conflict: A role for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in modulating activity in the amygdale. Neuron, 51, 871-882.
  • Summerfield, C., Greene, M.S., Wager, T.D., Egner, T., Hirsch, J., Mangels, J.A. (2006). Neocortical connectivity during episodic memory formation. PLoS Biology, 4 (5): e128.
  • 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, 500-508.
  • Gruzelier, J., Egner, T., Vernon, D. (2006). Validating the efficacy of neurofeedback for optimizing performance. Progress in Brain Research, 159, 421-431.
  • Sterman, M.B., Egner, T. (2006). Foundation and practice of neurofeedback for the treatment of epilepsy. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 31, 21-35.
  • Egner, T., Sterman, M.B. (2006). Neurofeedback treatment of epilepsy: From basic rationale to practical application. Expert Reviews in Neurotherapeutics, 6, 247-257.
  • 2005

  • Gruzelier, J., Egner, T. (2005). Critical validation studies of neurofeedback. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14, 83-104.
  • Egner, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1784-1790.
  • Egner, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). Where memory meets attention: Neural substrates of negative priming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 (11), 1774-1784.
  • Egner, T., Jamieson, G., Gruzelier, J.H. (2005). Hypnosis decouples conflict monitoring and cognitive control functions of the frontal lobe. Neuroimage, 27, 969-978.
  • Nunez, J.M., Casey, B.J., Egner, T., Hare, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). Intentional false responding shares neural substrates with response conflict and cognitive control. Neuroimage, 25, 267-277.
  • Egner, T., Hirsch, J. (2005). The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task. Neuroimage, 24, 539-547.
  • 2004

  • Williamon, A., Egner, T. (2004). Memory structures for encoding and retrieving a piece of music: An ERP investigation. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 36-44.
  • Egner, T., Zech, T.F., Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). The effects of neurofeedback training on the spectral topography of the electroencephalogram. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 2452-2460.
  • Egner, T., Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). The temporal dynamics of electroencephalographic responses to alpha/theta neurofeedback training in healthy subjects. Journal of Neurotherapy, 8, 43-57.
  • Egner, T., Gruzelier, J.H. (2004). EEG Biofeedback of low beta band components: Frequency-specific effects on variables of attention and event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 131-139.
  • Gruzelier, J.H., Egner, T. (2004). Physiological self-regulation: Biofeedback and neurofeedback. In A. Williamon (Ed.), Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance. London: Oxford University Press (pp. 197-219).
  • 2003

  • Egner, T., Gruzelier, J.H. (2003). Ecological validity of neurofeedback: modulation of slow wave EEG enhances musical performance. Neuroreport, 14, 9, 1221-1224.
  • Vernon, D., Egner, T., Cooper, N., Compton, T., Neilands, C., Sheri, A., Gruzelier, J.H. (2003). The effect of training distinct neurofeedback protocols on aspects of cognitive performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 47, 75-85.
  • 2002

  • Egner, T., Strawson, E., Gruzelier, J.H. (2002). EEG signature and phenomenology of alpha/theta neurofeedback training versus mock feedback. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 27 (4), 261-270.
  • 2001