Staff profile

Research Interests

My interests include the neuroscientific basis of vision; neuronal disruption in migraine headache; visuomotor systems; sensorimotor cortical interfacing; thalamocortical dysrhythmia and the rehabilitative benefits of TMS.

• 2018: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: University College London
• 2017: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: Birmingham City University
• 2017: International Lecture: University of Natural resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

  Law, Technology and Society Lecture Series.

  Invited Lecture "The use of interdisciplinarity in solving societal problems"

• 2016: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: University of Glasgow
• 2016: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: University of Helsinki
• 2015: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: NIH
• 2014: Trustee of Animal Free Research UK: Animal Free Research UK is a charity which was founded in 1970 and is the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity that funds and promotes the development of techniques and procedures to replace the use of animals in biomedical research.
• 2014: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: University College London
• 2011: PhD Examination: External examiner for PhD: University College London

Authored book

• Ellison, A. (2021). Splitting; The Inside Story on Headaches. Bloomsbury
• Ellison, A. (2012). Getting your Head around the Brain. Palgrave Macmillan

Book review

• Ellison, A. (2006). Itti et al, the Neurobiology of Attention. A Review. Emotion, 859-860

Chapter in book

• Ellison, A. Investigations of Spatial Attention. In E. M. Wassermann, A. V. Peterchev, Z. Ulf, H. Lisanby Sarah, H. R. Siebner, & V. Walsh (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulation. (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832256.013.28
• Ellison, A., Dunne, S., & Lane, A. R. (2020). Real-world applications in vision and attention: How to help patients find their (golf) balls again. In B. L. Parkin (Ed.), Real-world applications in cognitive neuroscience (169-200). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.04.003
• Rushworth, M., & Ellison, A. (2005). Spatial representations and attentional systems for action in the parietal cortex. In G. Humphreys, & M. Riddoch (Eds.), Attention in Action; Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience (233-262). Psychology Press
• Ellison, A., Stewart, L., Walsh, V., & Cowey, A. (2003). Magnetic stimulation in studies of vision and attention. In M. Fahle, & M. Greenlee (Eds.), The Neuropsychology of Vision (163-178). Oxford University Press

Conference Paper

• Do the eye-movement system and the arm-movement system contribute independently to attentional orienting: a TMS study. In S. Casteau, J. Hathaway, A. Ellison, & D. T. Smith (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006618824879

Journal Article

• Hodgson, J. R., Benkowitz, C., Castellani, B. C., Ellison, A., Yassaie, R., Twohig, H., …Fowler-Davis, S. (2024). A Scoping Review of the Effects of Ambient Air Quality on Cognitive Frailty. Environments, 11(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11010004
• Dunne, S., Williams, G. P., Bradbury, C., Keyes, T., Lane, A. R., Yang, K., & Ellison, A. (2023). Uncovering the social determinants of brain injury rehabilitation. Journal of Health Psychology, 28(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053231166263
• Castellani, B., Bartington, S., Wistow, J., Heckels, N., Ellison, A., Van Tongeren, M., …Reis, S. (2022). Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda. Environmental Research, 215(2), Article 114362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114362
• Hind, K., Konerth, N., Entwistle, I., Hume, P., Theadom, A., Lewis, G., …Chazot, P. (2022). Mental health and wellbeing of retired elite and amateur rugby players and non-contact athletes and associations with sports-related concussion: the UK Rugby Health Project. Sports Medicine, 52(6), 1419-1431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01594-8
• Musa, A., Lane, A. R., & Ellison, A. (2022). The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(2), 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211050280
• Knight, H. C., Smith, D. T., & Ellison, A. (2020). The Role of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias. Neuropsychologia, 148, Article 107631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107631
• Dunne, S., Close, H., Richards, N., Ellison, A., & Lane, A. R. (2020). Maximizing Telerehabilitation for Patients With Visual Loss After Stroke: Interview and Focus Group Study With Stroke Survivors, Carers, and Occupational Therapists. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), Article e19604. https://doi.org/10.2196/19604
• Dunne, S., Ellison, A., & Smith, D. (2019). The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength. Vision, 3(2), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020020
• Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Ellison, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Investigating the roles of medial prefrontal and superior temporal cortex in source monitoring. Neuropsychologia, 120, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.10.001
• Knight, H. C., Smith, D. T., Knight, D. C., & Ellison, A. (2018). Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers. Psychopharmacology, 235(10), 2967-2978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4987-4
• Todd, A., Akhter, N., Cairns, J., Kasim, A., Walton, N., Ellison, A., …Bambra, C. (2018). The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England. BMJ Open, 8(7), Article e023391. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023391
• Ellison, A., Ball, K. L., & Lane, A. R. (2017). The Behavioral Effects of tDCS on Visual Search Performance Are Not Influenced by the Location of the Reference Electrode. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, Article 520. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00520
• Ball, K., Birch, Y., Lane, A., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2017). Comparing the effect of temporal delay on the availability of egocentric and allocentric information in visual search. Behavioural Brain Research, 331, 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.05.018
• Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Ellison, A., Jardri, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00515
• Moseley, P., Smailes, D., Ellison, A., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). The effect of auditory verbal imagery on signal detection in hallucination-prone individuals. Cognition, 146, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.015
• Dunne, S., Ellison, A., & Smith, D. (2015). Rewards modulate saccade latency but not exogenous spatial attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1080. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01080
• Lane, A. R., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2015). Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames. Neuropsychologia, 74, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.019
• Knight, H., Smith, D., Knight, D., & Ellison, A. (2015). Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(1), 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1031144
• Moseley, P., Fernyhough, C., & Ellison, A. (2014). The role of the superior temporal lobe in auditory false perceptions: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 62, 202-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.07.032
• Ellison, A., Ball, K., Moseley, P., Dowsett, J., Smith, D., Weis, S., & Lane, A. (2014). Functional Interaction between Right Parietal and Bilateral Frontal Cortices during Visual Search Tasks Revealed Using Functional Magnetic Imaging and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e93767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093767
• Smith, D., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2014). Covert visual search within and beyond the effective oculomotor range. Vision Research, 95, 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.12.003
• Moseley, P., Fernyhough, C., & Ellison, A. (2013). Auditory verbal hallucinations as atypical inner speech monitoring, and the potential of neurostimulation as a treatment option. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(10), 2794-2805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.001
• Ball, K., Lane, A., Smith, D., & Ellison, A. (2013). Site-Dependent Effects of tDCS Uncover Dissociations in the Communication Network Underlying the Processing of Visual Search. Brain Stimulation, 6(6), 959-965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2013.06.001
• Cowey, A., Alexander, I., & Ellison, A. (2013). Modulation of cortical excitability can speed up blindsight but not improve it. Experimental Brain Research, 224(3), 469-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3327-x
• Lane, A., Ball, K., Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Ellison, A. (2013). Near and far space: understanding the neural mechanisms of spatial attention. Human Brain Mapping, 34(2), 356-366. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21433
• Smith, D., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2012). Inhibition of Return impairs phosphene detection. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(11), 2262-2267. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00276
• Alba-Ferrara, L., Ellison, A., & Mitchell, R. (2012). Decoding emotional prosody: Resolving differences in functional neuroanatomy from fMRI & lesion studies using TMS. Brain Stimulation, 5(3), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2011.06.004
• Lane, A., Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Ellison, A. (2012). The involvement of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in spatially primed visual search. Brain Stimulation, 5(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2011.01.005
• Dzhelyova, M., Ellison, A., & Atkinson, A. (2011). Event-related repetitive TMS reveals distinct, critical roles for right OFA and bilateral posterior STS in judging the sex and trustworthiness of faces. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2782-2796. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2011.21604
• Lane, A., Smith, D., Schenk, T., & Ellison, A. (2011). The involvement of posterior parietal cortex in feature and conjunction visuomotor search. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(8), 1964-1972. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21576
• Ball, K., Lane, A., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2011). Spatial priming in visual search: memory for body-centred information. Experimental Brain Research, 212(3), 477-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2754-4
• Hirnstein, M., Bayer, U., Ellison, A., & Hausmann, M. (2011). TMS over the left angular gyrus impairs the ability to discriminate left from right. Neuropsychologia, 49(1), 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.028
• Ball, K., Smith, D., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2010). A body-centred frame of reference drives spatial priming in visual search. Experimental Brain Research, 204(4), 585-594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2327-y
• Lane, A., Smith, D., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2010). Visual exploration training is no better than attention training for treating hemianopia. Brain, 133(6), 1717-1728. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awq088
• Smith, D., Ball, K., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2010). Deficits of reflexive attention induced by abduction of the eye. Neuropsychologia, 48(5), 1269-1276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.028
• Ball, K., Smith, D., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2009). Both egocentric and allocentric cues support spatial priming in visual search. Neuropsychologia, 47(6), 1585-1591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.017
• Ellison, A., & Cowey, A. (2009). Differential and co-involvement of areas of the temporal and parietal streams in visual tasks. Neuropsychologia, 47(6), 1609-1614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.013
• Schindler, I., Ellison, A., & Milner, A. (2008). Contralateral visual search deficits following TMS. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2(2), 501-508. https://doi.org/10.1348/174866407x227024
• Ellison, A. (2008). Are results from different techniques mutually exclusive in the study of how the brain processes visual search?. Cortex, 44(1), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2006.06.002
• Ellison, A., Lane, A., & Schenk, T. (2007). The interaction of brain regions during visual search processing as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2579-2584. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl165
• Whitney, D., Ellison, A., Rice, N., Arnold, D., Goodale, M., Walsh, V., & Milner, A. (2007). Visually Guided Reaching Depends on Motion Area MT+. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2644-2649. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl172
• Ellison, A., & Cowey, A. (2007). Time course of the involvement of the ventral and dorsal visual processing streams in a visuospatial task. Neuropsychologia, 45(14), 3335-3339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.06.014
• Ellison, A., & Cowey, A. (2006). TMS can reveal contrasting functions of the dorsal and ventral visual processing streams. Experimental Brain Research, 175(4), 618-625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0582-8
• Schenk, T., Ellison, A., Rice, N., & Milner, A. (2005). The role of V5/MT+ in the control of catching movements: an rTMS study. Neuropsychologia, 43(2), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.11.006
• Ellison, A., Schindler, I., Pattison, L., & Milner, A. (2004). An exploration of the role of the superior temporal gyrus in visual search and spatial perception using TMS. Brain, 127(10), 2307-2315. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh244
• Ellison, A., Battelli, L., Walsh, V., & Cowey, A. (2003). The effect of expectation on facilitation of colour/form conjunction tasks by TMS over area V5. Neuropsychologia, 41(13), 1794-1801. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2803%2900180-5
• Lavidor, M., Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2003). The cortical representation of centrally presented words: a magnetic stimulation study. Visual Cognition, 10(3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280244000131
• Ellison, A., Rushworth, M., & Walsh, V. (2003). The parietal cortex in visual search: a visuomotor hypothesis. Clinical Neurophysiology, 56, 321-330
• Rushworth, M., Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2001). Complementary localization and lateralization of orienting and motor attention. Nature Neuroscience, 4(6), 656-661. https://doi.org/10.1038/88492
• Stewart, L., Ellison, A., Walsh, V., & Cowey, A. (2001). The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in studies of vision, attention and cognition. Acta Psychologica, 107(1-3), 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-6918%2801%2900035-x
• Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (2001). Visual Field asymmetries in attention and learning. Spatial vision, 14(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1163/156856801741323
• Walsh, V., Ellison, A., Ashbridge, E., & Cowey, A. (1998). The role of the parietal cortex in visual attention - hemispheric asymmetires and the effects of learning: A magnetic stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 37(2), 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932%2898%2900099-2
• Walsh, V., Ellison, A., Battelli, L., & Cowey, A. (1998). Task-specific impairments and enhancements induced by magnetic stimulation of human visual area V5. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 265(1395), 537-543. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1998.0328
• Ellison, A., & Walsh, V. (1998). Perceptual Learning in visual search: some evidence of specificities. Vision Research, 38(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0042-6989%2897%2900195-8