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Elizabeth Jefferies

Elizabeth Jefferies

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Neuroscience

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68
Citations
23273
World Ranking
2714
National Ranking
268

Psychology

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68
Citations
23048
World Ranking
2448
National Ranking
268

Overview

Elizabeth Jefferies is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes in neuroscience, with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work extensively covers topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and the neurobiology of language and bilingualism. Additional areas of interest include mind wandering and attention, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Elizabeth Jefferies has published frequently in a range of venues, with a notable presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Journal of Neuroscience, eLife, and Cerebral Cortex.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • eLife
  • Cerebral Cortex

They have collaborated regularly with several scholars, including Jonathan Smallwood, Boris C. Bernhardt, Daniel S. Margulies, Katya Krieger-Redwood, and Robert Leech.

  • Jonathan Smallwood
  • Boris C. Bernhardt
  • Daniel S. Margulies
  • Katya Krieger-Redwood
  • Robert Leech

Among recent publications, Elizabeth Jefferies contributed to the following papers:

  • The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective, 2021, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought, 2021, iScience
  • A gradient from long-term memory to novel cognition: Transitions through default mode and executive cortex, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The relationship between individual variation in macroscale functional gradients and distinct aspects of ongoing thought, 2020, NeuroImage
  • The role of default mode network in semantic cue integration, 2020, NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization

    Daniel S. Margulies;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Alexandros Goulas;Marcel Falkiewicz

  • The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

    Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Elizabeth Jefferies;Karalyn Patterson;Timothy T. Rogers

  • Semantic impairment in stroke aphasia versus semantic dementia: a case-series comparison

    Elizabeth Jefferies;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective.

    Jonathan Smallwood;Boris C Bernhardt;Robert Leech;Danilo Bzdok

  • Semantic processing in the anterior temporal lobes: A meta-analysis of the functional neuroimaging literature

    M. Visser;E. Jefferies;M. A. Lambon Ralph

  • The Neural Organization of Semantic Control: TMS Evidence for a Distributed Network in Left Inferior Frontal and Posterior Middle Temporal Gyrus

    Carin Whitney;Marie Kirk;Jamie O'Sullivan;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • Going beyond Inferior Prefrontal Involvement in Semantic Control: Evidence for the Additional Contribution of Dorsal Angular Gyrus and Posterior Middle Temporal Cortex

    Krist A. Noonan;Elizabeth Jefferies;Maya Visser;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • The neural basis of semantic cognition: Converging evidence from neuropsychology, neuroimaging and TMS

    Elizabeth Jefferies

  • Both the middle temporal gyrus and the ventral anterior temporal area are crucial for multimodal semantic processing: Distortion-corrected fmri evidence for a double gradient of information convergence in the temporal lobes

    Maya Visser;Elizabeth Jefferies;Karl V. Embleton;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • Anterior temporal lobes mediate semantic representation: mimicking semantic dementia by using rTMS in normal participants.

    Gorana Pobric;Elizabeth Jefferies;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • The Ventral and Inferolateral Aspects of the Anterior Temporal Lobe Are Crucial in Semantic Memory: Evidence from a Novel Direct Comparison of Distortion-Corrected fMRI, rTMS, and Semantic Dementia

    Richard J. Binney;Karl V. Embleton;Elizabeth Jefferies;Geoffrey J. M. Parker

  • Exploring the role of the posterior middle temporal gyrus in semantic cognition: Integration of anterior temporal lobe with executive processes.

    James Michael Davey;Hannah Elizabeth Thompson;Glyn Paul Hallam;Theodoros Karapanagiotidis

  • Conceptual Knowledge Is Underpinned by the Temporal Pole Bilaterally: Convergent Evidence from rTMS

    Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Gorana Pobric;Elizabeth Jefferies

  • Executive semantic processing is underpinned by a large-scale neural network: Revealing the contribution of left prefrontal, posterior temporal, and parietal cortex to controlled retrieval and selection using tms

    Carin Whitney;Marie Kirk;Jamie O'Sullivan;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • Amodal semantic representations depend on both anterior temporal lobes: evidence from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Gorana Pobric;Elizabeth Jefferies;Matthew A Lambon Ralph

  • Comprehension of Concrete and Abstract Words in Semantic Dementia

    Elizabeth Jefferies;Karalyn Patterson;Roy W. Jones;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • Category-Specific versus Category-General Semantic Impairment Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Gorana Pobric;Elizabeth Jefferies;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

  • Automatic and Controlled Semantic Retrieval: TMS Reveals Distinct Contributions of Posterior Middle Temporal Gyrus and Angular Gyrus

    James Davey;Piers L. Cornelissen;Hannah E. Thompson;X Saurabh Sonkusare

  • Default mode network can support the level of detail in experience during active task states

    Mladen Sormaz;Charlotte Murphy;Hao Ting Wang;Mark Hymers

  • Anatomical and microstructural determinants of hippocampal subfield functional connectome embedding.

    Reinder Vos de Wael;Sara Larivière;Benoît Caldairou;Seok-Jun Hong

  • Elucidating the nature of deregulated semantic cognition in semantic aphasia: Evidence for the roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal cortices

    Krist A. Noonan;Elizabeth Jefferies;Faye Corbett;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph University of Cambridge
Daniel S. Margulies
Daniel S. Margulies Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Robert Leech
Robert Leech King's College London
Piers L. Cornelissen
Piers L. Cornelissen Northumbria University
Danilo Bzdok
Danilo Bzdok Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Neda Bernasconi
Neda Bernasconi Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

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