Professor Georgina Margaret Jackson BEd, BA Hons, PhD  Professor & Reader in Neuropsychology School of Community and Health Sciences

Contact Details

Membership Status

Full Member

Institute Research Section

Cognitive, Systems & Developmental Neurosciences

Research Interests

My research interests are concerned with understanding the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in the preparation, selection and control of action.

Research Techniques

Behavioural studies with healthy and patient populations, kinematic methods, EEG and fMRI.

Recent Publications

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Mueller SC, Jackson GM, Dhalla R, Datsopoulos S, Hollis C (2006) Enhanced cognitive control in young people with Tourette's syndrome. Current Biology 16, 570-573

Swainson R, Jackson SR & Jackson GM (2006) Using advance information in dynamic cognitive control: an ERP study of task-switching. Brain Research 1105, 61-72

Astle DE, Jackson GM & Swainson R (2006) Dissociating neural indices of dynamic cognitive control in advance task-set preparation: An ERP study of task-switching. Brain Research (in press)

Jackson GM, Shephard T, Mueller SC, Husain Masud & Jackson SR (2006) Dorsal simultanagnosia: An impairment of visual processing or visual awareness. Cortex 34, 740-749

Jackson GM (2006) Quick Guide: Tourette Syndrome. Current Biology 16, 443-444

Teaching Responsibilities

Course Co-ordinator 2^nd year MSc and BSc Behavioural Neuroscience course

Course Co-ordinator 2^nd year B.Med Sci course Functional and Behavioural Neuroscience

Lectures in Psychology and Neuropsychology to 2^nd year MSc Nutrition Course, MSc Psychiatry Course, BSc Pharmacy course, Communication skills teaching 1^st and 2^nd year B.Med Sci

Funding

Tourette Syndrome Association (USA)
Volitional control of action in young people with Tourette’s syndrome
Principal (PI): Dr. Georgina M. Jackson, $72,006, 2006-7

Students Supervised

Duncan Astle
Mr Ebrahim Kantini

Internal & External Responsibilities

Assistant Editor of the British Journal of Psychology

Honorary secretary British Neuropsychology Society