| Citation | John Duncan is an unquestioned world leader in study of neural mechanisms underlying higher cognitive function. Combining experiments in human behaviour, focal brain lesions, functional neuroimaging, and awake monkey physiology, his work has uncovered basic cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention, intelligence and awareness. His discoveries extend from a basis for selective attention in competitive neural functions of the visual cortex, to adaptive response properties of prefontal neurons and their role in control of behaviour. More broadly, his ideas have been applied to fields including the basis for general intelligence, integration of cognition and emotion, and biology of psychiatric disorders. |