Publications

2026

Hanzal, S., Learmonth, G., Thut, G. & Harvey, M. Strategy and motivation, rather than fatigue, drive age-related differences in sustained attention performance: Evidence for decoupled beta-band oscillations. European Journal of Neuroscience (in press).

2025

Kotiusheva, K., Hilliker, L., Ibbotson, T., Baylan, S., Gardani, M., & Learmonth, G. (2025). Widening participation in cognitive neuroscience research: A mixed-methods study of motivators, barriers and attitudes towards imaging methods in young and older adults. PsyArXiv (pre-print) doi: 10.31234/osf.io/u9jbk_v2.

Ashraf, M., Ismahel, H., Learmonth, G., Bashir, ABA., Kennedy, CK., Gillespie, CS., Hudak, K., Alabdulrahman, M., Chaudhary, A., Gardee, A., Shah, DM., Osman, A. R., Abdel-Fattah, A-RMS., Behan, B., McCormick, B., Lim Way Wern, B., Tan, C., Hutton, DL., Sescu, D., Boyd, E., Hanif, HS., Hanif, H., Ong, JBSQ., Khout, K., Shehab, M., O’Kane, R., Dempsey, S-J., Sharma, V., Ho, YH., Tebay, Z., Ismahel, N., Salem, S., Ismahel, S., Collins, V., Iqbal, J., Hassan, S., Walters, MR., O’Kane, R., & Ashraf, N. (2025). Medical student perceptions and career intentions toward neurosurgery: Results from an international multicentre study. Neurosurgical Review, 48(661): 1-14, doi: 10.1007/s10143-025-03771-z.

Keitel, A., Keitel, C., Alavash, M., Bakardjian, K, Benwell, CSY., Bouton, S., Busch, NA., Criscuolo, A., Doelling, KB., Dugue, L., Grabot, L., Gross, J., Hanslmayr, S., Klatt, LI., Kluger, DS., Learmonth, G., London, RE., Lubinus, C., Martin, AE., Obleser, J., Rimmele, JM., Romei, V., Ruzzoli, M., Siebenhuhner, F., Slaats, S.,  Spaak, E., Tarasi, L., Thut, G., Trajkovic, J., Wang, D., Wostmann, M., Zoefel, B., Palva, S., Sauseng, P. & Kotz, SA. (2025). Brain rhythms in cognition – Controversies and future directions. arXiv (pre-print) doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.15639

Norouzi, H., Ietswaart, M., Adair, J. & Learmonth, G. (2025). A meta-analysis of periodic and aperiodic M/EEG components in Parkinson’s disease. bioRxiv (pre-print), doi: 10.1101/2025.07.07.663454

Hanzal, S., Learmonth, G., Thut, G. & Harvey, M. (2025). Age differences in motivation drive performance during the sustained attention to response task. PLoS One, 20(11): e0324694, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0324694; bioRxiv (pre-print),  doi: 10.1101/2025.05.02.651857

Binney, R.J., Smith, L.J., Rossit, S., Demeyere, N., Learmonth, G., Olgiati, E., Halai, A.D., Rounis, E., Evans, J., Edelstyn, N.M.J. & McIntosh, R.D. (2025). Practical routes to preregistration: A guide to enhanced transparency and rigour in neuropsychological research. Brain Communications, 7(3), doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf162, PsyArXiv (pre-print), doi: 10.31234/osf.io/p267j

2024

Turner, C., Vučković, A., Learmonth, G. & Fracasso, A. (2024). Proximity to visual stimuli reduces post-saccadic alpha lateralisation. bioRxiv (pre-print), doi: 10.1101/2024.10.09.617405

Hanzal, S., Learmonth, G., Thut, G. & Harvey, M. (2024). Probing sustained attention and fatigue across the lifespan. PLoS ONE 19(7): e0292695. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292695, bioRxiv (pre-print), doi: 10.1101/2023.09.27.559839v1

2023

Mustile, M., Kourtis, D., Edwards, M., Ladouce, S., Volpe, D., Pilleri, M., Pelosin, E., Learmonth, G., Donaldson, D., Ietswaart, M. (2023). Characterising neuro-cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s with mobile EEG when walking and stepping over obstacles. Brain Communications, 5(6), fcad326. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad326.

Turner, C., Baylan, S., Bracco, M., Cruz, G., Hanzal, S., Keime, M., Kuye, I., McNeill, D., Ng, Z., van der Plas, M., Ruzzoli, M., Thut, G., Trajkovic, J., Veniero, D., Wale, S.P., Whear, S. & Learmonth, G. (2023). Developmental changes in individual alpha frequency: Recording EEG during public engagement events. Imaging Neuroscience, 1: 1-14, doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00001. bioRxiv (pre-print), doi: 10.1101/2023.01.20.524682v1. Data and code here.

2022

Kaul, D., Papadatou-Pastou, M. & Learmonth, G. (2022). A meta-analysis of the line bisection task in children. Laterality, 28(1), 48-71. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2022.2147941; PsyArXiv (preprint), doi: 10.31234/osf.io/n26fx. Data and code here.

2021

Learmonth, G., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2021). A meta-analysis of line bisection and landmark task performance in older adults. Neuropsychology Review, 32(2), 438-457. doi: 10.1007/s11065-021-09505-4. PsyArXiv (preprint), doi: 10.31234/osf.io/em8b. Data and code here.

Harvey, M., Learmonth, G., Rossit, S. & Chen, P. (2021). Editorial: Special issue on neglect rehabilitation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2021.1873150.

Mustile, M., Kourtis, D., Ladouce, S., Learmonth, G., Donaldson, D.I., Edwards, M.G. & Ietswaart, M. (2021). Mobile EEG reveals functionally dissociable dynamic processes supporting real-world ambulatory obstacle avoidance: Evidence for early proactive control. bioRxiv (preprint),10.1101/2020.07.11.19841610.1101/2020.09.16.298372. Data and code here.

2020

Turner, C., Jackson, C. & Learmonth, G. (2020). Is the “end-of-study guess” a valid measure of sham blinding during transcranial direct current stimulation? European Journal of Neuroscience, 53: 1592-1604. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15018. bioRxiv (preprint), doi: 10.1101/2020.07.11.198416. Data here. Stimulus materials here.

Learmonth, G., Benwell, C.S.Y., Märker, G., Dascalu, D., Checketts, M., Santosh, C., Barber, M., Walters, M., Muir, K., Harvey, M. (2020). Non-invasive brain stimulation in stroke patients (NIBS): a prospective randomized open blinded end-point (PROBE) feasibility trial using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in post-stroke hemispatial neglect. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2020.1767161.

2019

Rossit, S., Benwell, C.S.Y., Szymanek, L., Learmonth, G., McKernan-Ward, L., Corrigan, E., Muir, K., Reeves, I., Duncan, G., Birschel, P., Roberts, M., Livingstone, K., Jackson, H., Castle, P., and Harvey, M. (2019). Efficacy of home-based visuomotor feedback training in stroke patients with chronic hemispatial neglect. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2016.1273119.

Märker, G., Learmonth, G., Thut, G. & Harvey, M. (2019). Intra- and inter-task reliability of spatial attention measures in healthy older adults. PLoS One 14(12): e0226424. 10.1371/journal.pone.0226424.

Greinacher, R., Buhôt, L., Möller, L., and Learmonth, G. (2019). The time course of ineffective sham blinding during low-intensity (1mA) transcranial direct current stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 50: 3380-3388doi: 10.1111/ejn.14497. bioRxiv (preprint), doi: 10.1101/462424. Data and stimulus materials here.

2018

Learmonth, G., Märker, G., McBride, N., Pellinen P. and Harvey, M. (2018). Right-lateralised lane keeping in young and older British drivers. PLoS One, 13(9), e0203549. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203549

2017

Learmonth, G., Felisatti, F., Siriwardena, N., Checketts, M., Benwell, C.S.Y., Märker, G., Thut, G. and Harvey, M. (2017). No interaction between tDCS current strength and baseline performance: a conceptual replication. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 664. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00664.

Learmonth, G., Benwell, C.S.Y., Thut, G. and Harvey, M. (2017). Age-related reduction of hemispheric lateralisation for spatial attention: an EEG study. NeuroImage, 153, 139-151. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.050

2015

Learmonth, G., Gallagher, A., Gibson, J., Thut, G. and Harvey, M. (2015). Intra- and inter-task reliability of spatial attention measures in pseudoneglect. PLoS One, 10(9), e0138379. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138379
n.b. A correction to this paper issued October 2018 is available here.

Benwell, C.S.Y., Learmonth, G., Miniussi, C., Harvey, M. and Thut, G. (2015). Non-linear effects of transcranial direct current stimulation as a function of individual baseline performance: evidence from biparietal tDCS influence on lateralized attention bias. Cortex, 69, 152-165. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.007. 

Learmonth, G., Thut, G.Benwell, C.S.Y. and Harvey, M. (2015). The implications of state-dependent tDCS effects in aging: behavioural response is determined by baseline performance. Neuropsychologia, 74, 108-119.  doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.037

2013

Benwell, C.S.Y., Thut, G., Learmonth, G. and Harvey, M. (2013). Spatial attention: differential shifts in pseudoneglect direction with time-on-task and initial bias support the idea of observer subtypes. Neuropsychologia, 51(13), 2747-2756. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.030

2011

Harvey, M., Muir, K., Reeves, I., Duncan, G., Birschel, P., Roberts, M., Livingstone, K., Jackson, H., Hogg, C., Castle, P., Learmonth, G. and Rossit, S. (2011). Long term improvements in activities of daily living in patients with hemispatial neglect. Behavioural Neurology, 23(4), 237-239. doi: 10.3233/BEN-2010-0304.

2009

Rossit, S., Malhotra, P., Muir, K., Reeves, I., Duncan, G., Livingstone, K., Jackson, H., Hogg, C., Castle, P., Learmonth, G. and Harvey, M. (2009). No neglect-specific deficits in reaching tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 19(11), 2616-2624. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp016.