Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
My current research explores the role of selective attention in perception, working memory, long-term memory, and flexible response selection. I am particularly interested in how these core cognitive functions are integrated for goal-directed adaptive behaviour and their underlying neural mechanisms. My research converges multiple cognitive and brain imaging methods including behavioural measures, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), and magnetoencephalography (MEG) methodologies to establish the link between brain and behaviour.
Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1. Bo-Cheng Kuo* (2016, Oct). Selection history modulates working memory capacity. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1564).
2. Bo-Cheng Kuo, Anna Christina Nobre, Gaia Scerif , Duncan E. Astle* (2016, Jul). Top-down activation of spatiotopic sensory codes in perceptual and working-memory search. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(7), 996-1009.
3. Bo-Cheng Kuo*, Mark Stokes, Alexandra M. Murray, Anna C. Nobre (2014, Jul). Attention biases visual activity in visual short-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol.26, No.7, pp.1377-1389.
4. Bo-Cheng Kuo*, Duncan E. Astle (2014, Jan). Neural mechanisms by which attention modulates the comparison of remembered and perceptual representations. PLoS ONE, 9(1): e86666.
5. Bo-Cheng Kuo*, Mark G. Stokes, Anna C. Nobre (2012, Jan). Attention modulates maintenance of representations in visual short-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol.24, No.1, pp.51-60.
6. Bo-Cheng Kuo, Rotshtein Pia, Yei-Yu Yeh* (2011, Dec). Attentional modulation of perceptual comparison for feature binding. Brain and Cognition, Vol.77, pp.335-344.
7. Bo-Cheng Kuo, Yei-Yu Yeh, Anthony J.-W. Chen, Mark D’Esposito* (2011, May). Functional connectivity during top-down modulation of visual short-term memory representations. Neuropsychologia, Vol.49, p.1589-1596.
8. Bo-Cheng Kuo, Anling Rao, Jöran Lepsien, Anna C. Nobre* (2009, Jun). Searching for targets within the spatial layout of visual short-term memory. Journal of Neuroscience, Vol.29, p.8032-8038.