Carmel Mevorach – Network — University of Birmingham

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Attention control and specifically distractor suppression is a fundamental process that is called upon in a variety of scenarios. In fact, different scenarios might also depend on our inherent ‘inability’ to suppress distractors (imagine crossing the road while focusing on your phone…). However, our ability to efficiently suppress irrelevant information is affected by a number of factors such as brain trauma (or brain health more generaly), expression of specific traits such as Autism or Psychosis tendencies or in neurodevelopmental disorder (e.g., ADHD). The work in the lab utilises a variety of methodologies including brain stimulation (TMS/ tDCS) and brain imaging (fMRI) together with behavioural investigations and follows a three-thronged approach in order to better understand atypical attention control:
1. Specify the cognitive processes involved in attention control and distractor suppression, and assess how they are modulated by individual differences and how they relate to more complex behaviour
2. Identify the brain mechanisms that underlie these capacities and understand how they are modulated by individual differences
3. Attempt to manipulate attention processes either by applying cognitive training or brain stimulation as means for rehabilitation/modulation of atypical attention

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Kate Woodcock

Psychology - Reader in Applied Clinical Psychology
Centre for Urban Wellbeing
The Institute for Mental Health

Person: Academic

3 shared research output

Magda Chechlacz

Psychology - Lecturer (Cognition and Ageing)
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

Person: Academic

3 shared research output

Ian Apperly

Psychology - Professor of Cognition and Development

Person: Academic

2 shared research output

Stephen Wood

Psychology - Professor of Psychology

Person: Academic

1 shared research output

Dietmar Heinke

Psychology - Associate Professor
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

Person: Academic

1 shared research output

Pia Rotshtein

Psychology - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

Person: Honorary

1 shared research output

Joseph Galea

Psychology - Reader in Motor Neuroscience
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

Person: Academic

1 shared research output

Matthew Soden

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit - Deputy Trials Management Team Leader

Person: Academic-related

1 shared research output

Aglaia Lila Kossyvaki

Education - Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Person: Honorary

1 shared research output

Lilach Shalev

Tel Aviv University

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8 shared research output

Tamar Kolodny

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4 shared research output

Cristiane Silvestre de Paula

Mackenzie Presbyterian University

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3 shared research output

Y Tsal

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3 shared research output

Rosane Lowenthal

Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences

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3 shared research output

Maria Cristina T. V. Teixeira

Mackenzie Presbyterian University

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3 shared research output

Glyn W. Humphreys

University of Oxford

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3 shared research output

Joy Geng

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2 shared research output

L Shalev

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Yehoshua Tsal

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2 shared research output

Pnina Stern

Tel Aviv University

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2 shared research output

A. Baisa

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2 shared research output

Ahmad Abu-Akel

University of Lausanne
University of Haifa

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2 shared research output

Maya Ankaoua

Tel Aviv University

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2 shared research output

Shlomit Tsafrir

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2 shared research output

J Hodsoll

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2 shared research output

Minghui Liu

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1 shared research output

Bianca Balbueno

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1 shared research output

Cristiane Silvestre Paula

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1 shared research output

Maria Cristina Triguero Veloz Teixeira

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1 shared research output

Tally Lichtenszteijn Tafla

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1 shared research output

Laura Bravo Balsa

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1 shared research output

A Ben-Simon

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1 shared research output

Alessio Avenanti

University of Bologna

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1 shared research output

Zheni Goranova

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1 shared research output

Yarden Dankner

Tel Aviv University

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1 shared research output

Llilach Shalev

Tel Aviv University

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1 shared research output

Y Cohen

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1 shared research output

Harriet A. Allen

University of Nottingham

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1 shared research output

Andrew E Welchman

University of Cambridge

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1 shared research output

John Hodsoll

King’s College London

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1 shared research output

M. Jane Riddoch

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1 shared research output

Nicolo Di Lello

University of Padova

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1 shared research output

Natalie Biderman

Tel Aviv University

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1 shared research output

Shalev Nir

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1 shared research output

Orly Azulai

Tel Aviv University

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1 shared research output

Rosane Lowenthal

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1 shared research output

D Soto

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1 shared research output

Carlo Miniussi

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1 shared research output

Julia Magalhaes

Mackenzie Presbyterian University

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1 shared research output