publications

2024

• Naghibi, N., Jahangiri, N., Khosrowabadi, R., Eickhoff, C. R., Eickhoff, S. B., Coull, J. T., & Tahmasian, M. (2024). Embodying Time in the Brain: A Multi-Dimensional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis of 95 Duration Processing Studies. Neuropsychology review 34(1):277-298

• Korolczuk, I., Burle, B., Coull, J. T., Ogińska, H., Ociepka, M., Senderecka, M., & Śmigasiewicz, K. (2024). Temporal unpredictability increases error monitoring as revealed by EEG-EMG investigation. Psychophysiology, e14442.

• Coull JT, Korolczuk I, Morillon B. The Motor of Time: Coupling Action to Temporally Predictable Events Heightens Perception. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2024;1455:199-213. 

• Foerster FR, Joos E, Martin B, Coull JT, Giersch A. Self and time in individuals with schizophrenia: A motor component? Schizophr Res. 272:12-19. Erratum in: Schizophr Res. 2024 Oct 11;274:269.

2023

• Jovanovic, L., Chassignolle, M., Schmidt-Mutter, C., Behr, G., Coull, J. T., & Giersch, A. (2023). Dopamine precursor depletion affects performance and confidence judgements when events are timed from an explicit, but not an implicit onset. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 21933.

• Capizzi, M., Martin-Signes, M., Coull, J. T., Chica, A. B., & Charras, P. (2023). A transcranial magnetic stimulation study on the role of the left intraparietal sulcus in temporal orienting of attention. Neuropsychologia, 184, 108561.

2022

• Korolczuk, I., Burle, B., Coull, J. T., Ogińska, H., Ociepka, M., Senderecka, M., & Śmigasiewicz, K. (2022). Don't Stop Me Now: Neural Underpinnings of Increased Impulsivity to Temporally Predictable Events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(5), 885–899.

• Grasso, C. L., Ziegler, J. C., Coull, J. T., & Montant, M. (2022). Space-Time Congruency Effects Using Eye Movements During Processing of Past- and Future-Related Words. Experimental Psychology, 69(4), 210–217.

• Grasso, C. L., Ziegler, J. C., Coull, J. T., & Montant, M. (2022). Embodied time: Effect of reading expertise on the spatial representation of past and future. PloS one, 17(10), e0276273.

• Coull, J.T., Giersch, A.  (2022) The distinction between temporal order and duration processing, and implications for schizophrenia. Nat Rev Psychol 1, 257–271.

• Korolczuk, I., Burle, B., Coull, J. T., & Śmigasiewicz, K. (2022). Time for Action: Neural Basis of the Costs and Benefits of Temporal Predictability for Competing Response Choices. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(2), 273–289. 

2021

• Chassignolle M, Jovanovic L, Schmidt-Mutter C, Behr G, Giersch A, Coull JT (2021) Dopamine precursor depletion in healthy volunteers impairs processing of duration but not temporal order. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 33: 946-963

• Chassignolle M, Giersch A, Coull JT (2021) Evidence for visual temporal order processing below the threshold for conscious perception.  Cognition 207:104528

• Grasso CL, Ziegler JC, Mirault J, Coull JT, Montant M (2021) As time goes by: Space-time compatibility effects in word recognition J Exp Psychol Learn Mem 48(2): 304–319

2020

• Korolczuk I, Burle B, Coull JT, Smigasiewicz K (2020) Mechanisms of impulsive responding to temporally predictable events as revealed by electromyography.  Neuroscience 428: 13-22

2019

• Thomas E, French R, Alizee G, Coull JT (2019). Having your cake and eating it: Faster responses with reduced muscular activation while learning a temporal interval. Neuroscience 410: 68-75. 

• Monier F, Droit-Volet S, Coull JT (2019) The beneficial effect of synchronized action on motor and perceptual timing in children. Dev. Sci. e12821

• Shafiei G, Zeighami Y, Clark CA, Coull JT, Nagano-Saito A, Leyton M, Dagher A, Mišic B (2019) Dopamine Signaling Modulates the Stability and Integration of Intrinsic Brain Networks. Cereb Cortex. 29:397-409

• Droit-Volet S, Lorandi F, Coull JT (2019) Explicit and implicit timing in aging. Acta Psychol 193:180-189

2018

• Coull JT, Droit-Volet S (2018) Explicit understanding of duration develops implicitly through action.  Trends Cogn. Sci. 22: 923-937

• Korolczuk I, Burle B, Coull JT (2018) The costs and benefits of temporal predictability: impaired inhibition of prepotent responses accompanies increased activation of task-relevant responses. Cognition 179: 102-110

• Coull JT, Johnson KA, Droit-Volet S (2018) A mental timeline for duration from the age of 5 years old.  Front. Psychol.  9: 1155

• Martin B, Franck N, Cermolacce M, Coull JT, Giersch A (2018)  Minimal Self and Timing Disorders in Schizophrenia: A Case Report.  Front Hum Neurosci. 12:132. 

• Ciullo V. Piras F, Vecchio D, Banai N, Coull JT, Spalletta G (2018) Predictive timing disturbance is a precise marker of schizophrenia.  Schiz Res: Cogn 12: 42-49

2017

• Martin B, Franck N, Cermolacce M, Falco A, Benair A, Etienne E, Weibel S, Coull JT, Giersch A (2017) Fragile temporal prediction in patients with schizophrenia is related to minimal self disorders. Sci Rep. 7(1):8278. 

• Charras P, Droit-Volet S, Brechet C, Coull JT (2017) The spatial representation of time can         be flexibly oriented in the frontal or lateral planes from an early age. J. Exp                         Psychol: HPP 43:832-845.

• Comte M, Zendjidjian XY, Coull JT, Cancel A, Boutet C, Schneider FC, Sage T, Lazerges PE, Jaafari N, Ibrahim EC, Azorin JM, Blin O, Fakra E (2017) Impaired cortico-limbic functional connectivity in schizophrenia patients during emotion processing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 13: 381-390

2016

• Johnson KA, Bryan M, Polonowita K, Decroupet D, Coull JT (2016) Isochronous sequential        presentation helps children orient their attention in time. Front. Psychol. 7:1417. 

• Coull JT, Cotti J, Vidal F (2016) Differential roles for parietal and frontal cortices in fixed versus evolving temporal expectations: Dissociating prior from posterior temporal probabilities with fMRI. Neuroimage 141: 40-51

• Coull JT, Vidal F, Burle B (2016) When to act, or not to act: that's the SMA's question.  Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 8: 14-21

• Droit-Volet S, Coull JT (2016) Distinct developmental trajectories for explicit and implicit timing. J Exp Child Psychol 150:141-154 

• Comte M, Schön D, Coull JT, Reynaud E, Khalfa S, Belzeaux R, Ibrahim EC, Guedj E, Blin O, Weinberger DR, Fakra E (2015) Dissociating bottom-up and top-down mechanisms in the cortico-limbic system during emotion processing. Cerebral Cortex 26:144-55

2015

• Coull JT (2015) A frontostriatal circuit for timing the duration of events. In: AW Toga (ed.) Brian Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference , Elsevier

• Coull JT (2015) Directing attention in time as a function of temporal expectation.  In: AW Toga (ed.) Brian Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference , Elsevier

• Coull JT, Charras P, Donadieu M, Droit-Volet S, Vidal F. (2015). SMA Selectively Codes the Active Accumulation of Temporal, Not Spatial, Magnitude. J Cogn Neurosci. 27:2281-298

• Droit-Volet S, Coull JT (2015). The Developmental Emergence of the Mental Time-Line: Spatial and Numerical Distortion of Time Judgement.PLoS One 10(7): e0130465 

• Johnson KA, Burrowes E, Coull JT (2015) Children can implicitly, but not voluntarily, direct attention in time. PlosONE 10(4): e0123625 

• Comte M, Cancel A, Coull JT, Schön D, Reynaud E, Boukezzi S, Rousseau PF, Robert G, Khalfa S, Guedj E, Blin O, Weinberger DR, Fakra E (2015) Effect of trait anxiety on prefrontal control mechanisms during emotional conflict.  Human Brain Mapping 36(6): 2207-2214

2014

• Bolger D, Coull JT, Schön D (2014) Metrical rhythm implicitly orients attention in time, as indexed by improved target detection and left inferior parietal activation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26: 593-605

•  Coull JT (2014) Getting the timing right: experimental protocols for investigating time with functional neuroimaging and psychopharmacology. In: Merchant H, de Lafunete V (eds.) Neurobiology of interval timing.  Springer. Adv Exp Med Biol. 829:237-264

2013

• Coull JT, Davranche K, Nazarian B, Vidal F (2013) Functional anatomy of timing differs for production versus prediction of time intervals.  Neuropsychologia 51:309-319

• Coull JT, Hwang HJ, Leyton M, Dagher A (2013) Dopaminergic Modulation of Motor Timing in Healthy Volunteers Differs as a Function of Baseline DA Precursor Availability. Timing and Time Perception 1:77-98 

2012

• Coull JT, Hwang HJ, Leyton M, Dagher A (2012) Dopamine Precursor Depletion Impairs Timing in Healthy Volunteers by Attenuating Activity in Putamen and Supplementary Motor Area. J Neurosci. 32(47): 16704-1671

• Vangkilde S, Coull JT, Bundesen C (2012) Great Expectations: Temporal Expectation Modulates Perceptual Processing Speed. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38:1183-91

2011

• Cotti J, Rohenkohl G, Stokes M, Nobre AC, Coull JT (2011) Functionally dissociating temporal and motor components of response preparation in left intraparietal sulcus. Neuroimage 54: 1221-1230

• Coull JT, Cheng R Meck WH (2011) Neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates of timing. Neuropsychopharmacology 36:3-25

• Coull JT (2011) Discrete neuroanatomical substrates for generating and updating temporal expectations. In: Dehaene S and Brannon E (eds.) Time and Number in the Brain: Searching for the Foundations of Mathematical Thought.  Elsevier

• Coull JT, Morgan H, Cambridge, VC, Moore JW, Giorlando F, Adapa R, Corlett PR, Fletcher PC (2011) Ketamine perturbs perception of the flow of time in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology 218:543-56

• Davranche K, Nazarian B, Vidal F, Coull JT (2011) Orienting Attention in Time Activates Left Intraparietal Sulcus for Perceptual and Motor Task Goals. J Cogn Neurosci 23: 3318-3330

• Piras F, Coull JT (2011) Implicit, Predictive Timing Draws upon the Same Scalar Representation of Time as Explicit Timing. PLoS One 6:e18203

•  Rohenkohl G, Coull JT, Nobre AC (2011) Behavioural dissociation between exogenous and endogenous temporal orienting of attention. PLOS One 6:e14620

• Vangkilde S, Bundesen C, Coull JT (2011) Prompt but inefficient: nicotine differentially modulates discrete components of attention. Psychopharmacology 218: 667-680

2010

• Coull JT (2010) Neural bases of temporal orienting of attention.  In: Nobre AC, Coull JT (eds.) Attention and Time, Oxford University Press.

• Nobre AC, Coull JT (2010) Attention and Time, Oxford University Press.

2009

• Coull JT (2009) Neural substrates of mounting temporal expectation. PLoS Biol.7: e1000166

2008

• Coull JT, Nazarian B, Vidal F (2008) Timing, storage, and comparison of stimulus duration engage discrete anatomical components of a perceptual timing network. J Cogn Neurosci. 20:2185-2197.

• Coull JT, Nobre AC (2008) Dissociating explicit timing from temporal expectation with fMRI. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 18:137-144

• Coull JT, Vidal F, Goulon C, Nazarian B, Craig C (2008) Using Time-to-Contact Information to Assess Potential Collision Modulates Both Visual and Temporal Prediction Networks.  Front Hum Neurosci. 2:10.

2007

• Coull JT (2007) L’établissement délibéré des attentes temporelles: L’orientation de l’attention dans le temps. In: G.A.Michael (coordonnateur) Neuroscience cognitive de l'attention visuelle. Marseille, Solal, 13−36

• Macar F, Coull JT, Vidal F  (2007). Imagerie moderne, imagerie ancienne: A chaque question sa méthode. J. Vauclair, S. Nicolas (eds.) Localisation cérébrale des fonctions mentales, Marseille Solal, 125-141

• Nobre AC, Correa A, Coull JT (2007) The hazards of time. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 17:465-470

2006

• Macar F, Coull JT, Vidal F (2006) The supplementary motor area in motor and perceptual time processing: fMRI studies.  Cognitive Processing 7: 89-94

2005

• Coull JT (2005) Psychopharmacology of Human Attention.  In: L Itti, G Rees, J Tsotsos (eds.) Neurobiology of Attention.  Academic Press/Elsevier.

2004

• Coull JT (2004) fMRI studies of temporal attention: allocating attention within or towards time. Cognitive Brain Research 21: 216-226

•  Coull JT and Thiele C (2004) Functional Imaging of Cognitive Psychopharmacology. In: RSJ Frackowiak et al (eds.) Human Brain Function, 2nd edition.  Academic Press.

• Coull JT, Vidal F, Nazarian B, Macar F (2004) Functional anatomy of the attentional modulation of time estimation, Science 303: 1506-1508

• Coull JT, Jones MEP, Egan TD, Frith CD and Maze M (2004) Attentional effects of noradrenaline vary with arousal level: selective activation of thalamic pulvinar in humans.  Neuroimage, 22:315-322

• Nobre AC, Coull JT, Maquet P, Frith CD, Vandenberghe R and Mesulam MM (2004) Orienting Attention to Locations in Perceptual Versus Mental Representations Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16: 363-373

2003

• Coull JT, Walsh V, Frith CD and Nobre AC (2003) Distinct neural substrates for visual search amongst spatial versus temporal distractors.  Cognitive Brain Research 17: 368-379

• Nobre AC, Coull JT, Walsh V and Frith CD (2003) Brain activations during visual search:  contributions of search efficiency versus feature binding.  Neuroimage 18: 91-103

2001

• Coull JT, Nobre AC and Frith CD (2001) The noradrenergic alpha2 agonist clonidine modulates behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of human attentional orienting and alerting.  Cerebral Cortex 11: 73-84

• Coull JT (2001) Modulation of attention by noradrenergic α2-agents varies according to arousal level. Drug News and Perspectives 14: 5-11

2000

• Coull JT, Frith CD, Büchel C and Nobre AC (2000) Orienting attention in time: behavioural and neuroanatomical distinction between exogenous and endogenous shifts.  Neuropsychologia 38: 808-819

• Coull JT and Sahakian BJ (2000) Psychopharmacology of memory and attention: applications to the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in dementia and psychiatric disorder.  In: GE Berrios and JR Hodges (eds.) Memory Disorders in Psychiatric Practice.  Cambridge University Press 

1999

• Büchel C, Coull JT and Friston KJ (1999) The predictive value of changes in effective connectivity for human learning.  Science 283:1538-1541

• Coull JT, Büchel C, Friston KJ and Frith CD (1999) Noradrenergically-mediated plasticity in a human attentional neuronal network.  Neuroimage 10:705-715

• Coull JT, Frith CD and Dolan RJ (1999) Dissociating neuromodulatory effects of diazepam on episodic memory encoding and executive function.  Psychopharmacology 145: 213-222

• Miniussi C, Wilding EL, Coull JT and Nobre AC (1999) Orienting attention in time: Modulation of brain potentials.  Brain 122: 1507-1518

• Nobre AC, Coull JT, Frith CD and Mesulam MM (1999) Orbitofrontal cortex is activated during breaches of expectation in tasks of visual attention.  Nature Neuroscience  2: 11-12

1998

• Coull JT and Frith CD (1998) Differential activation of right superior parietal cortex and intraparietal sulcus by spatial and nonspatial attention. Neuroimage  8: 176-187

• Coull JT and Nobre AC (1998) Where and When to Pay Attention: The Neural Systems for Directing Attention to Spatial Locations and to Time Intervals as Revealed by Both PET and fMRI.Journal of Neuroscience 18: 7426-7435

• Coull JT, Frackowiak RSJ and Frith CD (1998) Monitoring for target objects: activation of right frontal and parietal cortices with increasing time on task.  Neuropsychologia  36:1325-1334

• Coull JT (1998) Neural correlates of attention and arousal: insights from electrophysiology, functional neuroimaging and psychopharmacology.  Progress in Neurobiology  55: 343-361

• Richardson MP, Koepp MJ, Brooks DJ, Coull JT, Grasby P, Fish DR and Duncan JS (1998)  Cerebral activation in malformations of cortical development.  Brain 121: 1295-1304

1997

• Coull JT, Frith CD, Dolan RJ, Frackowiak RSJ and Grasby PM (1997) The neural correlates of the noradrenergic modulation of human attention, arousal and learning.  European Journal of Neuroscience 9: 589-598

1996

• Coull JT, Frith CD, Frackowiak RSJ and Grasby PM (1996) A fronto-parietal network for rapid visual information processing: a PET study of sustained attention and working memory. Neuropsychologia 34: 1085-1095

• Coull JT, Hodges JR and Sahakian BJ (1996) The alpha2 antagonist idazoxan remediates certain attentional and executive dysfunction in patients with dementia of frontal type. Psychopharmacology 123: 239-249

• Coull JT (1996) alpha2-adrenoceptors in the treatment of dementia: an attentional mechanism? Journal of Psychopharmacology 10 (suppl. 2): 44-49

1995

• Coull JT, Sahakian BJ, Middleton HC, Young AH, Park SB, McShane RH, Cowen PJ and Robbins TW (1995) Differential effects of clonidine, haloperidol, diazepam and tryptophan depletion on focused attention and attentional search.  Psychopharmacology 121: 222-230

• Coull JT, Middleton HC, Robbins TW and Sahakian BJ (1995) Clonidine and diazepam have differential effects on tests of attention and learning.  Psychopharmacology 120: 322-332

• Coull JT, Middleton HC, Robbins TW and Sahakian BJ (1995) Contrasting effects of clonidine and diazepam on tests of working memory and planning.  Psychopharmacology 120: 311-321

1994

• Coull JT (1994) Pharmacological manipulations of the alpha2 noradrenergic system:  Effects on cognition.  Drugs and Aging  5: 116-126

• Middleton HC, Coull JT, Sahakian BJ and Robbins TW (1994) Clonidine-induced changes in the spectral distribution of heart-rate variability correlate with performance on a test of sustained attention.  Journal of Psychopharmacology  8: 1-7

• Park SB, Coull JT, McShane RH, Young AH, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW and Cowen PJ (1994)  Tryptophan depletion in normal volunteers produces selective deficits in learning and memory. Neuropharmacology  33: 575-588

• Sahakian BJ, Coull JT and Hodges JR (1994)  Selective enhancement of executive function by idazoxan in a patient with dementia of the frontal lobe type.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry  57: 120-121

1993

• Sahakian BJ and Coull JT (1993) Tetrahydroaminoacradine (THA) in Alzheimer’s disease: an assessment of attentional and mnemonic function using CANTAB.  Acta Neurologica Scandanavia Supplement  149: 29-35