Research

At BUCNI, we are proud to be collaborating with a range of different labs from across UCL and Birkbeck to produce high-quality research.

Publications

Here are some of the published research that are associated with BUCNI. 

2020: 

  • Aliko, S., Huang, J., Gheorghiu, F., Meliss, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2020). A “Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database” for understanding the brain using ecological stimuli. In bioRxiv (p. 2020.05.22.110817). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.22.110817
  • Alvarez, I, Smittenaar, R, Handley, SE, Liasis, A, Sereno, MI, Schwarzkopf, DS, & Clark, CA (2020). Altered visual population receptive fields in human albinism. Cortex 128: 107-23.
  • Infanti, E., & Schwarzkopf, D. S. (2020). Mapping sequences can bias population receptive field estimates. NeuroImage, 211, 116636.
  • Jasmin, K., Dick, F., Stewart, L., Tierney, AT. Altered functional connectivity during speech perception in congenital amusia. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/834366 (2020)
  • Kennedy-Higgins, D., Devlin, J. T., Nuttall, H. E., & Adank, P. (2020). The causal role of left and right superior temporal gyri in speech perception in noise, a TMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(6), 1092-1103. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01521
  • Kennedy-Higgins, D., Devlin, JT. Nuttal, HE, and Adank, P. (in press) The causal role of left and right superior temporal gyri in speech perception in noise, a TMS study. J Cognitive Neuroscience 2020
  • Knoll, L, Gaule, A, Lazari, A, Jacobs, E & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Neural correlates of social influence on risk perception during development. Social Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2020.1726450
  • Magis-Weinberg L, Custers R, & Dumontheil I. (2020) Rewards enhance proactive and reactive control in adolescence and adulthood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(11), 1219-1232.
  • Morgan, C, & Schwarzkopf, DS (2020). Comparison of human population receptive field estimates between scanners and the effect of temporal filtering. F1000Research 8: 1681

  • Brookman-Byrne A, Mareschal D, Tolmie AK, & Dumontheil I. (2019) The unique contributions of verbal analogical reasoning and non-verbal matrix reasoning to science and maths problem-solving in adolescence. Mind, Brain, and Education, 13:211-223.
  • Brunec, I. K., Robin, J., Patai, E. Z., Ozubko, J. D., Javadi, A. H., Barense, M. D., ... & Moscovitch, M. (2019). Cognitive mapping style relates to posterior–anterior hippocampal volume ratio. Hippocampus, 29(8), 748-754.
  • Dekker, TM, de Haas, B, Schwarzkopf, DS, Nardini, M, & Sereno, MI (2019). Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 37: 100614.
  • Garibbo M, Aylward J, Robinson OJ. The impact of threat of shock-induced anxiety on the neural substrates of memory encoding and retrieval. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2019 Oct 1;14(10):1087-1096. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsz080.
  • Hughes, AE, Greenwood, JA, Finlayson, NJ, & Schwarzkopf, DS (2019). Population receptive field estimate for motion-defined stimuli. NeuroImage 199: 245-60.
  • Javadi, A. H., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margois, A., Tan, H. R. M., Kumaran, D., ... & Spiers, H. J. (2019). Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1908), 20191016.
  • Javadi, A. H., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margolis, A., Tan, H. R. M., Kumaran, D., ... & Spiers, H. J. (2019). Prefrontal dynamics associated with efficient detours and shortcuts: a combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencenphalography study. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 31(8), 1227-1247.
  • Maegherman, G., Nuttal, HE, Devlin, JT, and Adank, P. (2019) Motor imagery of speech: the involvement of primary motor cortex in manual and articulatory motor imagery. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00195
  • Nord CL, Gray A, Robinson OJ, Roiser JP. Reliability of Fronto-Amygdala Coupling during Emotional Face Processing. Brain Sci. 2019 Apr 19;9(4):89. doi: 10.3390/brainsci9040089. PMID: 31010224
  • Nord CL, Gray A, Robinson OJ, Roiser JP (2019). Reliability of fronto-amygdala coupling during emotional face processing. Brain Sciences 9 (4): E89.
  • Nord CL, Halahakoon DC, Limbachya T, Charpentier CJ, Lally N, Walsh V, Liebowitz J, Pilling S, Roiser JP (2019). Neural predictors of treatment response to brain stimulation and psychological therapy in depression: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(9):1613-1622.
  • Patai, E. Z., Javadi, A. H., Ozubko, J. D., O’Callaghan, A., Ji, S., Robin, J., ... & Spiers, H. J. (2019). Hippocampal and retrosplenial goal distance coding after long-term consolidation of a real-world environment. Cerebral Cortex, 29(6), 2748-2758.
  • Rudner M, Orfanidou E, Kaestner L, Cardin V, Woll B, Capek C, Rönnberg J. (2019). Neural Networks Supporting Phoneme Monitoring Are Modulated by Phonology but Not Lexicality or Iconicity: Evidence From British and Swedish Sign Language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 13: 374.
  • Vinson, D., Fox, N., Devlin, JT, Emmorey, K, and Vigliocco, G. (2019) Transcranial magnetic stimulation during British Sign Language production reveals monitoring of discrete linguistic units in left superior parietal lobule. BioRxiv, 679340

  • Cardin V, Rudner M, De Oliveira R, Andin J, Su M, Beese L, Woll B, and Rönnberg J. (2018). The organisation of working memory networks is shaped by early sensory experience. Cerebral Cortex. 28:3540-3554.
  • de Haas B, & Schwarzkopf DS (2018). Spatially selective responses to Kanizsa and occlusion stimuli in human visual cortex. Scientific Reports 8: 611.
  • Gilbert, S.J., & Fung, H. (2018). Decoding intentions of self and others from fMRI activity patterns. NeuroImage, 172, 278-290.
  • Hoffmann, F., Viding, E., Puetz, V. B., Gerin, M. I., Sethi, A., Rankin, G., & McCrory, E. J. (2018). Evidence for Depressogenic Spontaneous Thoughts and Altered Resting-State Connectivity in Adolescents With a Maltreatment History. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57 (9), 687-695.e4. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2018.05.020
  • Krishnan, S., Evans, S., Lima, C., Chen, S., Guldner, S., Manly, T., & Scott, S.K. (2018). Beatboxers and guitarists engage sensorimotor fields when listening to the instruments they can play. Cerebral Cortex, 28(11), 4063-4079.
  • Moutsiana, C, Soliman, R, de-Wit, L, James-Galton, M, Sereno, MI, Plant, GT, & Schwarzkopf, DS (2018). Unexplained progressive visual field loss in the presence of normal retinotopic maps. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 1722.
  • Nuttall, HE., Kennedy-Higgin, D., Devlin, JT, Adank, P. (2018) Modulation of intra- and inter-hemispheric connectivity between primary and premotor cortex during speech perception. Brain and Language (187): 74-82.
  • Sethi, A., O'Nions, E., McCrory, E., Bird, G., & Viding, E. (2018). An fMRI investigation of empathic processing in boys with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits. NeuroImage. Clinical, 18, 298-304. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.01.027

  • Gerin, M., Puetz, V. B., Blair, R. J. R., White, S., Sethi, A., Hoffmann, F., . . . McCrory, E. J. (2017). A neurocomputational investigation of reinforcement-based decision making as a candidate latent vulnerability mechanism in maltreated children. Development and Psychopathology. doi:10.1017/S095457941700133X
  • Hoffmann, F., Puetz,, V. B., Viding, E., Sethi, A., Palmer,, A., & McCrory, E. (2017). Risk-taking, peer-influence and child maltreatment: A neurocognitive investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/scan/nsx124
  • Lally N, Huys QJM, Eshel N, Faulkner P, Dayan P, Roiser JP (2017). The neural basis of aversive Pavlovian guidance during planning. Journal of Neuroscience 37 (42): 10215-29.
  • LAVAN, N., Rankin, G., Lorking, N., Scott, S.K., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2017). Neural correlates of the affective properties of spontaneous and volitional laughter types. Neuropsychologia, 95, 30-39
  • Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Seghier, M. L., Leff, A. P., Sethi, V., Prejawa, S., H. Hope, T. M., Devlin, J. T and Price, C. J. (2017) Using non-invasive stimulation of the undamaged brain to guide the identification of lesion sites that cause persistent phonological impairments after stroke. Brain. 140(6):1729-1742.
  • Magis-Weinberg L, Blakemore S-J, Dumontheil I. Social and nonsocial relational reasoning in adolescence and adulthood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2017), 29(10):1739-1754.
  • McCrory, E. J., Puetz, V., Maguire, E., Mechelli, A., Palmer, A., Gerin, M., . . . Viding, E. (2017). Autobiographical memory: A candidate latent vulnerability mechanism for psychiatric disorder following childhood maltreatment. British Journal of Psychiatry. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.117.201798
  • MCGETTIGAN, C., Jasmin, K., Eisner, F., Agnew, Z., Josephs, O., Calder, A., Jessop, R., Lawson, R., Spielmann, M., & Scott, S.K. (2017). You talkin' to me? Communicative talker gaze activates left-lateralized superior temporal cortex during perception of degraded speech. Neuropsychologia, 100, 51-63.
  • Nord CL, Gray A, Charpentier CJ, Robinson OJ, Roiser JP (2017). Unreliability of putative fMRI biomarkers during emotional face processing. Neuroimage 156: 119-127.
  • Nuttall HE; Kennedy-Higgins D; Devlin JT; Adank P (2017) The role of hearing ability and speech distortion in the facilitation of articulatory motor cortex. Neuropsychologia. 94:13-22.
  • O'Nions, E., Lima, C. F., Scott, S. K., Roberts, R., McCrory, E. J., & Viding, E. (2017). Reduced Laughter Contagion in Boys at Risk for Psychopathy. Current biology : CB. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.062
  • Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E. J., De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2017). Modulation of amygdala response to task-irrelevant emotion. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. doi:10.1093/scan/nsw174
  • Spiers, H. J., Love, B. C., Le Pelley, M. E., Gibb, C. E., & Murphy, R. A. (2017). Anterior temporal lobe tracks the formation of prejudice. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 29(3), 530-544.

  • Cardin V, Orfanidou E, Kastner L, Rönnberg J, Woll, B Capek CM, and Rudner M. (2016). Monitoring different phonological parameters of sign language engages the same cortical language network but distinctive perceptual ones. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28: 20-40.
  • Cardin V, Smittenaar CR, Orfanidou E, Capek CM, Rönnberg J, Rudner and Woll, B. (2016). Differential activity in Heschl’s gyrus between deaf and hearing individuals is driven by auditory deprivation rather than language modality. Neuroimage. 124:96-106.
  • Chadwick, M. J., Anjum, R. S., Kumaran, D., Schacter, D. L., Spiers, H. J., & Hassabis, D. (2016). Semantic representations in the temporal pole predict false memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(36), 10180-10185.
  • Charpentier CJ, Martino B, Sim AL, Sharot T, Roiser JP (2016). Emotion-induced loss aversion and striatal-amygdala coupling in low-anxious individuals. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 (14):569-79.
  • Dumontheil I*, Wolf L*, Blakemore S-J. Audience effects on the neural correlates of relational reasoning in adolescence. Neuropsychologia (2016), 87:85-95. (* indicates shared first authorship)
  • Evans, S., MCGETTIGAN, C., Agnew, Z.K., Rosen, S., Scott, S.K. (2016) Getting the cocktail party started: masking effects in speech perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28(3), 483-500.
  • Jasmin, K., MCGETTIGAN,C., Agnew Z., LAVAN, N., Oliver, J., Cummins, F. & Scott, S. K. (2016). Cohesion and joint speech - right hemisphere contributions to synchronized vocal production. Journal of Neuroscience 36, 4669-4680.
  • Kelly, P. A., Viding, E., Puetz, V. B., Palmer, A. L., Samuel, S., & McCrory, E. J. (2016). The sexually dimorphic impact of maltreatment on cortical thickness, surface area and gyrification. Journal of Neural Transmission, 123 (9), 1069-1083. doi:10.1007/s00702-016-1523-8
  • Lockwood, P. L., Apps, M. J., Valton, V., Viding, E., & Roiser, J. P. (2016). Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning and links to empathy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1603198113
  • Moutsiana*, C, de Haas*, B, Papageorgiou, A, van Dijk, JA, Balraj, A, Greenwood, JA, & Schwarzkopf, DS (2016). Cortical idiosyncrasies predict the perception of object size. Nature Communications 7: 12110.
  • Nuttall HE; Kennedy-Higgins D; Hogan J; Devlin JT; Adank P (2016) The effect of speech distortion on the excitability of articulatory motor cortex. NeuroImage, 128, 218-226 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.12.038
  • Puetz, V. B., Viding, E., Palmer, A., Kelly, P. A., Lickley, R., Koutoufa, I., . . . McCrory, E. J. (2016). Altered neural response to rejection-related words in children exposed to maltreatment. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.
  • Seara-Cardoso, A., Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E., Foulkes, L., Buon, M., Roiser, J. P., & Viding, E. (2016). Anticipation of guilt for everyday moral transgressions: The role of the anterior insula and the influence of interpersonal psychopathic traits. Sci Rep, 6, 36273. doi:10.1038/srep36273
  • Seara-Cardoso A, Sebastian CL, Viding E**, Roiser JP** (2016). Affective resonance in response to others' emotional faces varies with affective ratings and psychopathic traits in amygdala and anterior insula. Social Neuroscience 11 (2): 140-52.
  • van Dijk, JA, de Haas, B, Moutsiana, C, & Schwarzkopf, DS (2016). Intersession reliability of population receptive field estimates. NeuroImage 143: 293–303.

  • Cardin, V., Smittenaar, R.C., Orfanidou, E., Rönnberg, J., Capek, C.M., Rudner, M., Woll, B. (2015). Differential activity in Heschl's gyrus between deaf and hearing individuals is due to auditory deprivation rather than language modality. Neuroimage, 124 (PtA), 96-106. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.073. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Cardin, V., Orfanidou, E., Kästner, L., Rönnberg, J., Woll, B., Capek, C., and Rudner, M. (2015, in press). Monitoring Different Phonological Parameters of Sign Language Engages the Same Cortical Language Network but Distinctive Perceptual Ones. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sept 9: 1-21. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Dekker, T.M., H. Ban, B. van der Velde, M.I. Sereno, A. Welchman, and M. Nardini (2015). Late development of cue integration is linked to sensory fusion in cortex. Current Biology 25:1-6.
  • Filimon F., Rieth C.A., Sereno M.I., Cottrell G.W. (2015). Observed, Executed, and Imagined Action Representations can be Decoded From Ventral and Dorsal Areas. Cerebral Cortex 35:1468-1480. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhu110
  • Huang, R.-S., C.-F. Chen, and M.I. Sereno (2015). Neural substrates underlying the passive observation and active control of translational egomotion. Journal of Neuroscience 35:4258-4267. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2647-14.2015
  • Landsiedel, J., & Gilbert, S.J. (2015). Creating external reminders for delayed intentions: Dissociable influence on “task-positive” and “task-negative” brain networks. NeuroImage, 104, 231-240.
  • Lima, C.F., Lavan, N., Evans, S., Agnew, Z., Halpern, A.R., Shanmugalingam, P., Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Ostarek, M., McGettigan, C., Warren, J., and Scott, S.K. (2015). Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to the Structure and Function of Sensorimotor Systems. Cerebral Cortex (2015) 25 (11): 4638-4650. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv134
  • Lockwood, P. L. Apps, M. A. J., Roiser, J. P. Viding, E. (2015). Encoding of vicarious reward prediction in anterior cingulate cortex and relationship with trait empathy. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(40):13720-13727
  • Seara-Cardoso, A., Viding, E., Lickley, R.A., Sebastian, C.L. (2015). Neural responses to others’ pain vary with psychopathic traits in healthy adult males. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15 (3), pp. 578-588. DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0346-7
  • Seara-Cardoso, A., Sebastian, C.L., Viding, E., Roiser, J.P. (2015, in press). Affective resonance in response to others’ emotional faces varies with affective ratings and psychopathic traits in amygdala and anterior insula. Social Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1044672
  • Sebastian CL, De Brito SA, McCrory EJ, Hyde ZH, Lockwood PL, Cecil CA, Viding E. (2015). Grey Matter Volumes in Children with Conduct Problems and Varying Levels of Callous-Unemotional Traits. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 2015 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Sereno, M.I., C.T. McDonald, and J.M. Allman (2015) Retinotopic organization of extrastriate cortex in the owl monkey -- dorsal and lateral areas. Visual Neuroscience 32:e021, 39 pages. doi:10.1017/S095252381500020

Affiliated Labs

Here is a list of labs that BUCNI is affiliated with:

Name of LabInstitutionWebsite
ALPHA LABBirkbeck Universityhttps://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/psychology/our-research/alphalab
ATTENTION AND COGNITIVE CONTROLUCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/research/research-groups/attention-cognitive-control
BRAIN AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTBirkbeck Universityhttp://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/
CHILD VISION LABUCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/research/research-labs-and-groups/child-vision-lab
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF LANGUAGEUCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/language-and-cognition/language-and-cognition-research/cognitive-neuroscience-language
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCEUniversity of Cambridge

https://sites.google.com/site/blakemorelab/

DEVELOPMENTAL RISK AND RESILIENCE UNITUCLhttps://drru-research.org/
ECCENTRIC VISION LABUCLhttp://eccentricvision.com/
METACOGNITION AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONUCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/research/research-groups/metacognition-executive-functions
SPATIAL COGNITIONUCL

https://spierslab.com/

SPEECH COMMUNICATION LABUCLhttps://speechcommunicationlab.weebly.com/
SPEECH RESEARCH GROUPUCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/speech-research-group/
STROKE AND BRAIN INJURYImperial College London

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/

THE LAB LABUCLhttp://www.lab-lab.org/
VISUAL COGNITION UCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/research/research-groups/visual-communication