Professor Jason B. Mattingley - Clinical neuropsychology

Professor Jason B. Mattingley

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 j.mattingley@uq.edu.au
  Building: QBI Building #79
  Room: 342
  Tel: +61 7 334 66331

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  Queensland Brain Institute
  The University of Queensland
  Brisbane, 4072
  Queensland,
  Australia

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Short Biography

Professor Jason Mattingley was appointed as Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Queensland in January 2007. This is a joint appointment between the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology, the aim of which is to foster the development of research and teaching links between the disciplines of neuroscience and cognitive science.

Before moving to QBI Professor Mattingley was Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory within the School of Behavioural Science at the University of Melbourne (2000–2006). Before that he was a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University (1997–1999), and an NHMRC Neil Hamilton Fairley Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK (1994–1997). During his period in Cambridge, Professor Mattingley was a Fellow of King’s College. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2007.

Professor Mattingley’s research is directed toward understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms that underlie selective attention. Attentional processes enable an organism to prioritise sensory inputs, cognitive operations, and motor responses in the service of goal directed behaviour.

Professor Mattingley’s research addresses two broad questions concerning the nature of human selective attention. First, how does the brain filter sensory stimuli so that only behaviourally relevant inputs are selected for further processing? Second, what are the consequences of such selective processing for conscious perception and action?

Answers to these questions are sought from a number of perspectives: by studying individuals with acquired and developmental disorders of attention, such as spatial neglect and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); by using functional brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and scalp-recorded electrical potentials to examine the neural correlates of attentional processes; and by applying transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to focally stimulate regions of the brain thought to be involved in attentional control.

Professor Mattingley’s research has important implications for a number of real-world endeavours, including the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with attention deficits due to brain disease; the design of more efficient systems for conveying information to human operators; and in helping to predict preference and choice in consumer behaviour. 

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 Selected publications

Hester, R., Barre, N., Murphy, K., Silk, T., & Mattingley, J.B. (2008, in press). Human medial frontal cortex activity predicts learning from errors. Cerebral Cortex.

Chambers, C.D., Bellgrove, M.A., Gould, I.C., English, T., Garavan, H., McNaught, E., Kamke, M., & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Dissociable mechanisms of cognitive control in prefrontal and premotor cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98, 3638–3647.

Williams, M.A., Berberovic, N., & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Abnormal fMRI adaptation to unfamiliar faces in a case of developmental prosopamnesia. Current Biology, 17, 1259–1264.

Morris, A.P., Chambers, C.D., & Mattingley, J.B. (2007). Parietal stimulation destabilises spatial updating across saccadic eye movements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 104, 9069–9074.

Bellgrove, M.A., Mattingley, J.B., Hawi, Z., Mullins, C., Kirley, A., Gill, M. & Robertson, I.H (2006). Impaired temporal resolution of visual attention and DBH genotype in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Biological Psychiatry, 60, 1039–1045.

Stokes, M. G., Chambers, C. D., Gould, I. C., Henderson, T. R., Janko, N. E., Allen, N. & Mattingley, J. B. (2005). Simple metric for scaling motor threshold based on scalp-cortex distance: Application to studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 4520–4527.

Snow, J.C. & Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Goal-driven selective attention in patients with right hemisphere lesions: how intact is the ipsilesional field? Brain, 129, 168–181.

Chambers, C.D. & Mattingley, J.B. (2005). Neurodisruption of selective attention: insights and implications. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 542–550.

Eramudugolla, R., Irvine, D.R.F., McAnally, K.I., Martin, R.L., & Mattingley, J.B. (2005). Directed attention eliminates ‘change deafness’ in complex auditory scenes’. Current Biology, 15, 1108–1113.

Chambers, C.D., Stokes, M.G., & Mattingley, J.B. (2004). Modality-specific control of strategic spatial attention in parietal cortex. Neuron, 44, 925–930.

Williams, M.A., Morris, A.P., McGlone, F., Abbott, D.F., & Mattingley, J.B. (2004). Amygdala responses to fearful and happy facial expressions under conditions of binocular suppression. Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 2898–2904.

Chambers, C.D., Payne, J.M., Stokes, M.G. & Mattingley, J.B. (2004). Fast and slow parietal pathways mediate spatial attention. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 217–218.

Rich, A.N. & Mattingley, J.B. (2002). Anomalous perception in synaesthesia: a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 43–52.

Mattingley, J.B., Rich, A.N., Yelland, G. & Bradshaw, J.L. (2001). Unconscious priming eliminates automatic binding of colour and alphanumeric form in synaesthesia. Nature, 410, 580–582. 

 

 

 

 

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