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Tobias Egner is a researcher affiliated with Duke University in the United States, whose work spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their scholarly output focuses particularly on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with notable contributions also touching upon general decision sciences, applied psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary topics of Tobias Egner's research include neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory and neural mechanisms, memory processes and influences, decision-making and behavioral economics, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, as well as neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent publication venues for Tobias Egner comprise the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Cognition, and Attention Perception & Psychophysics.

Their recent papers include:

  • Principles of cognitive control over task focus and task switching, 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Contextual Adaptation of Cognitive Flexibility is driven by Task- and Item-Level Learning, 2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Switching task sets creates event boundaries in memory, 2021, Cognition
  • Neural Substrates of Working Memory Updating, 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Drives the Prioritization of Self-Associated Stimuli in Working Memory, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

Tobias Egner has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Audrey Siqi-Liu, Raphael Geddert, Tanya Wen, Christina Bejjani, and Yağmur Damla Şentürk. These collaborations reflect a diverse network engaged in advancing understanding of cognitive control, memory, and neural mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Raffael Kalisch

  • Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Daniel M. Peraza;Eric R. Kandel

  • Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information.

    Tobias Egner;Joy Hirsch

  • Expectation (and attention) in visual cognition

    Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner

  • Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations

    Christopher Summerfield;Emily H. Trittschuh;Jim M. Monti;M. Marsel Mesulam

  • The effect of training distinct neurofeedback protocols on aspects of cognitive performance

    David Vernon;Tobias Egner;Nicolas Cooper;Theresa Compton

  • Congruency sequence effects and cognitive control

    Tobias Egner

  • Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex

    Christopher Summerfield;Christopher Summerfield;Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Matthew Greene;Etienne Koechlin

  • EEG biofeedback of low beta band components: frequency-specific effects on variables of attention and event-related brain potentials.

    Tobias Egner;John Gruzelier

  • Dissociable Neural Systems Resolve Conflict from Emotional versus Nonemotional Distracters

    Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Amit Etkin;Amit Etkin;Seth Gale;Joy Hirsch

  • The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task.

    Tobias Egner;Joy Hirsch

  • Multiple conflict-driven control mechanisms in the human brain

    Tobias Egner

  • Foundation and Practice of Neurofeedback for the Treatment of Epilepsy

    M. Barry Sterman;Tobias Egner

  • Expectation and Surprise Determine Neural Population Responses in the Ventral Visual Stream

    Tobias Egner;Jim M. Monti;Christopher Summerfield

  • Learned self-regulation of EEG frequency components affects attention and event-related brain potentials in humans.

    Tobias Egner;John H. Gruzelier

  • Ecological validity of neurofeedback: modulation of slow wave EEG enhances musical performance.

    Tobias Egner;John H. Gruzelier

  • Working memory as internal attention: Toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes

    Anastasia Kiyonaga;Tobias Egner

  • Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain

    Tobias Egner;Margaret Delano;Joy Hirsch

  • Measuring Adaptive Control in Conflict Tasks

    Senne Braem;Julie M. Bugg;James R. Schmidt;Matthew J.C. Crump

  • Hypnosis decouples cognitive control from conflict monitoring processes of the frontal lobe

    Tobias Egner;Graham A. Jamieson;John Gruzelier

  • Neural Dynamics of Rejection Sensitivity

    Ethan Kross;Tobias Egner;Kevin Ochsner;Joy Hirsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield University of Oxford
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University
John Gruzelier
John Gruzelier Goldsmiths University of London
Amit Etkin
Amit Etkin Stanford University
Ruth M. Krebs
Ruth M. Krebs Ghent University
David Soto
David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Daniel H. Weissman
Daniel H. Weissman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marc A. Sommer
Marc A. Sommer Duke University
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University

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