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Dr Kelly Garner

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Psychology
k.garner@uq.edu.au

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (29)
Conference Paper (1)
Thesis (1)
Data Collections (7)

Book Chapter

Garner, Kelly G. and Dux, Paul E. (2022). The Neural Basis of Simultaneous Multitasking. Handbook of Human Multitasking. (pp. 233-273) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04760-2_6

Journal Articles

Chang, Jeryn, Lv, JingLei, Guo, Christine C., Lucia, Diana, Bollmann, Saskia, Garner, Kelly, McCombe, Pamela A., Henderson, Robert D., Shaw, Thomas B., Steyn, Frederik J. and Ngo, Shyuan T. (2025). An fMRI dataset for appetite neural correlates in people living with Motor Neuron Disease. Scientific Data, 12 (1) 466, 466. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04828-w
Chang, Jeryn, Shaw, Thomas B., McCombe, Pamela A., Henderson, Robert D., Lucia, Diana, Guo, Christine C., Lv, Jinglei, Garner, Kelly, Bollmann, Saskia, Ngo, Shyuan T. and Steyn, Frederik J. (2025). Appetite loss in patients with motor neuron disease: impact on weight loss and neural correlates of visual food cues. Brain Communications, 7 (2) fcaf111, 1-14. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf111
Chow, Julie Y. L., Garner, Kelly G., Pearson, Daniel, Heber, James and Le Pelley, Mike E. (2024). Effects of instructed and experienced uncertainty on attentional priority. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51 (6), 869-880. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001427
Garner, Kelly G., Nolan, Christopher R., Nydam, Abbey, Nott, Zoie, Bowman, Howard and Dux, Paul E. (2024). Quantifying error in effect size estimates in attention, executive function, and implicit learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001338
Ghafari, Tara, Mazzetti, Cecilia, Garner, Kelly, Gutteling, Tjerk and Jensen, Ole (2024). Modulation of alpha oscillations by attention is predicted by hemispheric asymmetry of subcortical regions. eLife, 12 RP91650, 1-20. doi: 10.7554/elife.91650.3
Garner, Kelly G., Leow, Li‐Ann, Uchida, Aya, Nolan, Christopher, Jensen, Ole, Garrido, Marta I. and Dux, Paul E. (2024). Assessing the influence of dopamine and mindfulness on the formation of routines in visual search. Psychophysiology, 61 (7) e14571, e14571. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14571
Pearson, Daniel, Chong, Amy, Chow, Julie Y. L., Garner, Kelly G., Theeuwes, Jan and Le Pelley, Mike E. (2024). Uncertainty-modulated attentional capture: Outcome variance increases attentional priority. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153 (6), 1628-1643. doi: 10.1037/xge0001586
Wards, Yohan, Ehrhardt, Shane E., Garner, Kelly G., Mattingley, Jason B., Filmer, Hannah L. and Dux, Paul E. (2024). Stimulating prefrontal cortex facilitates training transfer by increasing representational overlap. Cerebral Cortex, 34 (5) bhae209. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae209
Renton, Angela I., Dao, Thuy T., Johnstone, Tom, Civier, Oren, Sullivan, Ryan P., White, David J., Lyons, Paris, Slade, Benjamin M., Abbott, David F., Amos, Toluwani J., Bollmann, Saskia, Botting, Andy, Campbell, Megan E. J., Chang, Jeryn, Close, Thomas G., Dörig, Monika, Eckstein, Korbinian, Egan, Gary F., Evas, Stefanie, Flandin, Guillaume, Garner, Kelly G., Garrido, Marta I., Ghosh, Satrajit S., Grignard, Martin, Halchenko, Yaroslav O., Hannan, Anthony J., Heinsfeld, Anibal S., Huber, Laurentius, Hughes, Matthew E. ... Bollmann, Steffen (2024). Neurodesk: an accessible, flexible and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging. Nature Methods, 21 (2), 804-808. doi: 10.1038/s41592-023-02145-x
Wards, Yohan, Ehrhardt, Shane E., Filmer, Hannah L., Mattingley, Jason B., Garner, Kelly G. and Dux, Paul E. (2023). Neural substrates of individual differences in learning generalization via combined brain stimulation and multitasking training. Cerebral Cortex, 33 (24), 11679-11694. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad406
Garner, Kelly G. and Dux, Paul E. (2023). Knowledge generalization and the costs of multitasking. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24 (2), 98-112. doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00653-x
Suetani, Shuichi, Baker, Andrea, Garner, Kelly, Cosgrove, Peter, Mackay-Sim, Matilda, Siskind, Dan, Murray, Graham K., Scott, James G. and Kesby, James P. (2022). Impairments in goal-directed action and reversal learning in a proportion of individuals with psychosis. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 22 (6), 1390-1403. doi: 10.3758/s13415-022-01026-8
Garner, Kelly G., Lovell-Kane, Michelle, Carroll, Luke and Dux, Paul. E. (2022). On the influence of spatial and value attentional cues across individuals. Journal of Cognition, 5 (1) 38, 38. doi: 10.5334/joc.229
Levitis, Elizabeth, van Praag, Cassandra D Gould, Gau, Rémi, Heunis, Stephan, DuPre, Elizabeth, Kiar, Gregory, Bottenhorn, Katherine L, Glatard, Tristan, Nikolaidis, Aki, Whitaker, Kirstie Jane, Mancini, Matteo, Niso, Guiomar, Afyouni, Soroosh, Alonso-Ortiz, Eva, Appelhoff, Stefan, Arnatkeviciute, Aurina, Atay, Selim Melvin, Auer, Tibor, Baracchini, Giulia, Bayer, Johanna M M, Beauvais, Michael J S, Bijsterbosch, Janine D, Bilgin, Isil P, Bollmann, Saskia, Bollmann, Steffen, Botvinik-Nezer, Rotem, Bright, Molly G, Calhoun, Vince D, Chen, Xiao ... Maumet, Camille (2021). Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences—An OHBM–Open Science perspective. GigaScience, 10 (8) giab051. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab051
Gau, Rémi, Noble, Stephanie, Heuer, Katja, Bottenhorn, Katherine L., Bilgin, Isil P., Yang, Yu-Fang, Huntenburg, Julia M., Bayer, Johanna M.M., Bethlehem, Richard A.I., Rhoads, Shawn A., Vogelbacher, Christoph, Borghesani, Valentina, Levitis, Elizabeth, Wang, Hao-Ting, Van Den Bossche, Sofie, Kobeleva, Xenia, Legarreta, Jon Haitz, Guay, Samuel, Atay, Selim Melvin, Varoquaux, Gael P., Huijser, Dorien C., Sandström, Malin S., Herholz, Peer, Nastase, Samuel A., Badhwar, AmanPreet, Dumas, Guillaume, Schwab, Simon, Moia, Stefano, Dayan, Michael ... Zuo, Xi-Nian (2021). Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience. Neuron, 109 (11), 1769-1775. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001
Garner, K.G., Bowman, H. and Raymond, J.E. (2020). Incentive value and spatial certainty combine additively to determine visual priorities. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 83 (1), 173-186. doi: 10.3758/s13414-020-02124-w
Garner, K.G., Garrido, M.I. and Dux, P.E. (2020). Cognitive capacity limits are remediated by practice-induced plasticity between the Putamen and Pre-Supplementary Motor Area. eNeuro, 7 (4) ENEURO.0139-20.2020, 1-20.202018. doi: 10.1523/eneuro.0139-20.2020
Verghese, Ashika, Mattingley, Jason B., Garner, K. G. and Dux, Paul E. (2018). Decision-making training reduces the attentional blink. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 44 (2), 195-205. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000454
Bender, Angela D., Filmer, Hannah L., Garner, K. G., Naughtin, Claire K. and Dux, Paul E. (2016). On the relationship between response selection and response inhibition: an individual differences approach. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78 (8), 2420-2432. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1158-8
Garner, K. G., Lynch, Casey R. and Dux, Paul E. (2016). Transfer of training benefits requires rules we cannot see (or hear). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42 (8), 1148-1157. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000215
Verghese, Ashika, Garner, K. G., Mattingley, Jason B. and Dux, Paul E. (2016). Prefrontal cortex structure predicts training-induced improvements in multitasking performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 36 (9), 2638-2645. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3410-15.2016
Garner, K. G. and Dux, Paul E. (2015). Training conquers multitasking costs by dividing task representations in the frontoparietalsubcortical system. National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings, 112 (46), 14372-14377. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1511423112
Garner, Kelly G., Matthews, Natasha, Remington, Roger W. and Dux, Paul E. (2015). Transferability of training benefits differs across neural events: Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 (10), 2079-2094. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00833
Garner, K. G., Tombu, M. N. and Dux, P. E. (2014). The influence of training on the attentional blink and psychological refractory period. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76 (4), 979-999. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0638-y
Garner, Kelly G., Dux, Paul E, Wagner, Joe, Cummins Tarrant D. R., Chambers, Christopher D. and Bellgrove Mark A. (2012). Attentional asymmetries in a visual orienting task are related to temperament. Cognition and Emotion, 26 (8), 1508-1515. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2012.666205
Wallace, Denise, Eltiti, Stacy, Ridgewell, Anna, Garner, Kelly, Russo, Riccardo, Sepulveda, Francisco, Walker, Stuart, Quinlan, Terence, Dudley, Sandra, Maung, Sithu, Deeble, Roger and Fox, Elaine (2012). Cognitive and physiological responses in humans exposed to a TETRA base station signal in relation to perceived electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Bioelectromagnetics, 33 (1), 23-39. doi: 10.1002/bem.20681
Fox, Elaine, Zougkou, Konstantina, Ridgewell, Anna and Garner, Kelly (2011). The serotonin transporter gene alters sensitivity to attention bias modification: Evidence for a plasticity gene. Biological Psychiatry, 70 (11), 1049-1054. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.07.004
Nandam, L. Sanjay, Hester, Robert, Wagner, Joe, Cummins, Tarrant D. R., Garner, Kelly, Dean, Angela J., Kim, Bung Nyun, Nathan, Pradeep J., Mattingley, Jason B. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2011). Methylphenidate but not atomoxetine or citalopram modulates inhibitory control and response time variability. Biological Psychiatry, 69 (9), 902-904. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.11.014
Wallace, Denise, Eltiti, Stacy, Ridgewell, Anna, Garner, Kelly, Russo, Riccardo, Sepulveda, Francisco, Walker, Stuart, Quinlan, Terence, Dudley, Sandra, Maung, Sithu, Deeble, Roger and Fox, Elaine (2010). Do TETRA (Airwave) base station signals have a short-term impact on health and well-being? A randomized double-blind provocation study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118 (6), 735-741. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901416

Conference Paper

Garner, K. and Dux, P. (2012). General and specific bottlenecks: training differentiates the attentional blink from the psychological refractory period. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL USA, 2012. Rockville, MD United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/12.9.20

Thesis

Garner, Kelly (2014). Training the multitasking brain. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.199

Data Collections

Garner, Kelly (2024). Dataset: Assessing the influence of dopamine and mindfulness on the formation of routines in visual search. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/a6a65c7
Garner, Kelly and Nolan, Christopher (2023). Quantifying error in effect size estimates in executive function and implicit learning. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/b63ecc2
Garner, Kelly and Nolan, Christopher (2022). Quantifying error in effect size estimates in executive function and implicit learning. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/1e6bf9a
Garner, Kelly and Dux, Paul (2021). On the influence of spatial and value attentional cues across individuals: dataset. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/d42fa1a
Garner, Kelly, Dux, Paul and Chidley, Kali (2021). statistical-multitasking-raw-data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/dc3a817
Garner, Kelly (2020). cognitive-capacity-limits-putamen-preSMA-processed-data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/800279a
Garner, Kelly and Dux, Paul (2015). Queensland Attention and Control Lab - Garner and Dux MRI Scan Dataset. The University of Queensland. (Collection)
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