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Geoffrey F. Woodman

Geoffrey F. Woodman

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
57
Citations
16110
World Ranking
4287
National Ranking
1941

Psychology

D-Index
56
Citations
15993
World Ranking
4143
National Ranking
2317

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his artful blending of behavioral, electrophysiological and neurophysiological techniques in humans and nonhuman primates to reveal neural concomitants of attention, cognitive control and memory. His most recent work pairing transcranial electrical stimulation with error monitoring introduces an important new strategy for improving cognitive function in people with brain disorders.

Overview

Geoffrey F. Woodman is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and has a primary research focus within the field of Neuroscience. Their work specifically centers on Cognitive Neuroscience, with additional contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Woodman has published extensively across several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Visual Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Woodman include:

  • Alpha suppression indexes a spotlight of visual-spatial attention that can shine on both perceptual and memory representations, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Dissociation of Medial Frontal β-Bursts and Executive Control, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Stimulus-induced Alpha Suppression Tracks the Difficulty of Attentional Selection, Not Visual Working Memory Storage, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • What not to look for: Electrophysiological evidence that searchers prefer positive templates, 2020, Neuropsychologia
  • Laminar microcircuitry of visual cortex producing attention-associated electric fields, 2022, eLife

The scientist's frequent coauthors include:

  • Jeffrey D. Schall
  • Jacob A. Westerberg
  • Chong Zhao
  • Keisuke Fukuda
  • Alexander Maier

Among received recognitions, Woodman was awarded the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2016. This award was granted for their work combining behavioral, electrophysiological, and neurophysiological techniques in both humans and nonhuman primates to study neural correlates of attention, cognitive control, and memory. The scientist has also explored new methods such as pairing transcranial electrical stimulation with error monitoring as a way to improve cognitive function in individuals with brain disorders.

Best Publications

  • Event-related potential studies of attention

    Steven J. Luck;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Edward K. Vogel

  • Storage of features, conjunctions and objects in visual working memory.

    Edward K. Vogel;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Serial deployment of attention during visual search

    G. F. Woodman;S. J. Luck

  • A Brief Introduction to the Use of Event-Related Potentials in Studies of Perception and Attention

    Geoffrey F. Woodman

  • The time course of consolidation in visual working memory.

    Edward K. Vogel;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Do the contents of visual working memory automatically influence attentional selection during visual search

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Visual Search Remains Efficient when Visual Working Memory is Full

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Edward K. Vogel;Steven J. Luck

  • Attentional Templates in Visual Working Memory

    Nancy B. Carlisle;Jason T. Arita;Deborah Pardo;Geoffrey F. Woodman

  • Visual search is slowed when visuospatial working memory is occupied

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • A brief introduction to the use of event-related potentials in studies of perception and attention

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  • Voluntary and automatic attentional control of visual working memory

    Brandon K. Schmidt;Edward K. Vogel;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Where do we store the memory representations that guide attention

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Nancy B. Carlisle;Robert M. G. Reinhart

  • Localizing Visual Discrimination Processes in Time and Space

    Jens-Max Hopf;Edward Vogel;Geoffrey Woodman;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Perceptual organization influences visual working memory.

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Shaun P. Vecera;Steven J. Luck

  • Selective storage and maintenance of an object's features in visual working memory.

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Edward K. Vogel

  • Neural fate of ignored stimuli: dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load.

    Do-Joon Yi;Geoffrey F Woodman;David Widders;René Marois

  • Dissociations Among Attention, Perception, and Awareness During Object-Substitution Masking

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck

  • Templates for Rejection: Configuring Attention to Ignore Task-Irrelevant Features

    Jason T. Arita;Nancy B. Carlisle;Geoffrey F. Woodman

  • The Role of Working Memory Representations in the Control of Attention

    Geoffrey F. Woodman;Steven J. Luck;Jeffrey D. Schall

  • The comparison of visual working memory representations with perceptual inputs.

    Joo-seok Hyun;Geoffrey F. Woodman;Edward K. Vogel;Andrew Hollingworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Schall
Jeffrey D. Schall Vanderbilt University
Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
Sohee Park
Sohee Park Vanderbilt University
Marvin M. Chun
Marvin M. Chun Yale University
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Shaun P. Vecera
Shaun P. Vecera University of Iowa
Gordon D. Logan
Gordon D. Logan Vanderbilt University
Jens-Max Hopf
Jens-Max Hopf Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Sheng He
Sheng He Chinese Academy of Sciences

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