Ms Nadene DermodyUniversity positionPhD student InstitutesMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Research ThemeInterestsDespite the wealth of information available to us at any one time, we are able to navigate through these sensory-laden environments in a purposeful way. How do our brains select what is relevant to our current goal, direct our behaviour accordingly, and then update this once the goal changes? Using fMRI and MEG-fMRI fusion, I study how the representation of task information is affected by the manner in which we direct our attention (e.g., towards a location, and/or to a feature) in a core frontoparietal network ("multiple-demand" (MD) regions), and how these representations affect that of domain-specific regions to give rise to goal-directed behaviour. I am also interested in the link between the MD system and fluid intelligence, and whether (and how) cognitive processes affected by non-MD damage might nonetheless be supported by this system. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) CollaboratorsNo collaborators listed Associated News Items |