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Overview

Stephen Monsell is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of neuroscience, with focused contributions to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Key topics in Monsell's work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Recent publications by Monsell include:

  • Control of mental processes, 2021, Psychology Press eBooks
  • Role of verbal working memory in rapid procedural acquisition of a choice response task, 2021, Cognition
  • PEP Does Not Dispense with but Implements Task-Set Reconfiguration. Can It Handle Phenomena More Diagnostic of Endogenous Control?, 2020, Journal of Cognition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Monsell are:

  • Heike Elchlepp
  • Aureliu Lavric
  • Brontë Graham
  • Cai S. Longman
  • Ian P. L. McLaren

Most of Monsell's publications appear in these venues:

  • Journal of Cognition
  • Psychology Press eBooks
  • Cognition
  • Neuropsychologia

Best Publications

  • Costs of a predictible switch between simple cognitive tasks.

    Robert D. Rogers;Stephen Monsell

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  • Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII

    Stephen Monsell;Jon Driver

  • Effects of frequency on visual word recognition tasks: where are they?

    S. Monsell;M. C. Doyle;P. N. Haggard

  • Control of mental processes.

    Stephen Monsell

  • A componential analysis of task-switching deficits associated with lesions of left and right frontal cortex.

    Adam R. Aron;Stephen Monsell;Barbara J. Sahakian;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: the role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.

    Nick Yeung;Stephen Monsell

  • Recency, immediate recognition memory, and reaction time ☆

    Stephen Monsell

  • Can the Task-Cuing Paradigm Measure an Endogenous Task-Set Reconfiguration Process?.

    Stephen Monsell;Guy A. Mizon

  • Reconfiguration of task-set: is it easier to switch to the weaker task?

    Stephen Monsell;Nick Yeung;Rayna Azuma

  • Task-set reconfiguration with predictable and unpredictable task switches.

    Stephen Monsell;Petroc Sumner;Helen Waters

  • The nature and locus of word frequency effects in reading.

    Stephen Monsell

  • The locus of repetition priming of spoken word production.

    Linda R. Wheeldon;Stephen Monsell

  • Lexical and sublexical translation of spelling to sound : Strategic anticipation of lexical status

    Stephen Monsell;Karalyn E. Patterson;Andrew Graham;Claire H. Hughes

  • Task-set reconfiguration processes do not imply a control homunuculus: Reply to Altmann.

    Stephen Monsell

  • Inhibition of Spoken Word Production by Priming a Semantic Competitor

    L.R. Wheeldon;S. Monsell

  • Naming the color of a word: is it responses or task sets that compete?

    Stephen Monsell;Tim J. Taylor;Karen Murphy

  • Residual costs in task switching: Testing the failure-to-engage hypothesis.

    Sander Nieuwenhuis;Stephen Monsell

  • Control of Cognitive Processes

    S Monsell;J Driver

  • The effects of recent practice on task switching.

    Nick Yeung;Stephen Monsell

  • Neurophysiological signature of effective anticipatory task‐set control: a task‐switching investigation

    Aureliu Lavric;Guy A. Mizon;Stephen Monsell

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University
Nick Yeung
Nick Yeung University of Oxford
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Peter J. Cooper
Peter J. Cooper University of Reading
Robert D. Rogers
Robert D. Rogers Bangor University
Claire Hughes
Claire Hughes University of Cambridge
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Petroc Sumner
Petroc Sumner Cardiff University
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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