Research

I am a research associate at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. My research lies within the field of cognitive control and selection attention. I develop and test brain stimulation (TMS) and neuroimaging (fMRI/MEG) paradigms to:

1) examine the selection and representation of task-relevant information in the human brain
2) investigate causal links between the information we read out from the brain with neuroimaging and cognition and behaviour (using concurrent TMS-fMRI)
3) improve practical applications of concurrent neurostimulation and neuroimaging techniques  

Education

BSc in Psychology (First Class honours), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (2012)

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2016)

Peer-reviewed articles

Jackson, J. B., Rich, A. N., Moerel, D., Teichmann, L., Duncan, J., & Woolgar, A. (2025). Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, IMAG-a.

Jackson, J. B.*, Scrivener, C.*, Correia, M., Mada, A., & Woolgar, A., Conducting interslice stimulation for concurrent TMS-fMRI. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 110513. 

Woolgar, A., Feredoes, E., Assem, M., Bassil, Y., Bergmann, T. O., Beynel, L., Burke, M., Comeau, R., Correia, M., Genc, E., Hartwigsen, G. Jackson J. B., ... & Sack, A. (2025). Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. NatureProtocols.

Lu, R., Michael, E., Scrivener, C. L., Jackson, J. B., Duncan, J., & Woolgar, A. (2025). Parietal alpha stimulation causally enhances attentional information coding in evoked and oscillatory activity. Brain Stimulation, 18, 114-127.

Jackson, J. B., Lu, R., & Woolgar, A. (2024). Causal temporal dynamics of task-relevant rule and stimulus selections. Awarded IPA as registered report (PCI). 

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, 117-178.

Hohenschurz-Schmidt, D. J., Calcagnini, G., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, J. B., Medina, S., O’Daly, O., ... & Makovac, E. (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. 

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.

Larsson, J., Harrison, C., Jackson, J., Oh, S., 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, 818-835.

Jackson, J., Rich, A. R., Williams, M. & Woolgar, A. (2017). Feature-selective attention in frontoparietal cortex: Multivoxel codes adjust to prioritize task-relevant information, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 1-12.

Woolgar, A., Jackson, J., & Duncan, J. (2016). Coding of visual, auditory, rule and response information in the brain: 10 years of multi-voxel pattern analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1-22.

Preprints

Jackson, J. B., Scrivener, C. L., Mada, M., & Woolgar, A. (2024). Comparison of MR coil options for concurrent TMS-fMRI. bioRxiv.