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Jensen, O. and Bonnefond, M. (accepted) The alpha rhythm: from physiology to behaviour. Physiol. Rev. A comprehensive review of alpha oscillations, tracing back 100 years. We discuss genetics, physiology, computational models, animal physiology, cognition, and clinical aspects.

Ole Jensen is presenting on 'An Adversarial Collaboration to Evaluate Theories of Consciousness' at https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/conversations-on-consciousness/

Prof Ole Jensen joins Dr Anna York-Weaving to explore how brain oscillations - rhythmic patterns of neural activity - underpin attention, learning and reading. This podcast, as part of the Academic Coaching for Parents series, discusses how these brain rhythms help to coordinate attention, what happens when these processes become disrupted and how this research can help parents and educators better understand attention difficulties, learning challenges and differences in how

Ferrante, O., Jensen, O. and Hickey, C. (accepted)  Predictive distractor processing relies on integrated proactive and reactive attentional mechanisms. J Neurosci Using MEG with time-resolved multivariate decoding, we examined whether statistically learned distractor locations are proactively represented in brain activity. During a visual search task with a spatially biased distractor, classifiers decoded distractor location both before stimulus onset and after distractor pr

Lijuan Wang with her advisors, Ole Jensen and Steven Frisson. Thanks to Caroline Witton and Cathy Manning for serving as examiners at the PhD viva.

Kong, Y., Yuan, X., Dand, C., Wang, Y., Huang, J., Guo, J., Jensen, O., Sun, L., and Song, Y. (in press). Altered Processing of Auditory Distractions Under Competing Inputs in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.  J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.11.003 This paper, created in collaboration with Beijing Normal University, outlines neural correlates of distractibility in children with ADHD. In typically developing childre

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Brickwedde, M., Limachya, R., Markiewicz, R., Sutton, E., Postzich, C., Shapiro, K., Jensen, O., and Mazaheri, A. (2025) Cross-modal interaction of Alpha Activity does not reflect inhibition of early sensory processing: A frequency tagging study using EEG and MEG. eLife 14:RP106050 Https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106050.3   This study provides evidence regarding the role of alpha oscillations in sensory gain control. We use an attention-cueing task in an initial EEG study, foll

Ole Jensen delivered his inaugural lecture as University Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford University's brand-new Life and Mind Building on the 3rd of November 2025. The talk covered the research that his group, Neuronal Oscillations, has been conducting: from Large Language Models and working memory to spatial attention and paediatric OPM-MEG systems. The seminar linked fundamental cognitive processes to natural reading, aiming to translate research in