
Yr Athro Chris Chambers
BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS
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My principal research interests include the use of brain stimulation (TMS, TES) and brain imaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, MEG) to understand cognitive control, attention and awareness in the human brain.
I am especially interested in translational applications of cognitive neuroscience in the domain of obesity and behaviour change. My group is also working on the simultaneous combination of TMS and MRI, as well as technical advances in TMS methods to improve the precision and reliability of cortical stimulation.
In addition to my core research programme in cognitive neuroscience I also pursue interests in the relationship between science and the media, the role of science in shaping evidence-based public policy, and the promotion of open scientific practices including data sharing and study pre-registration.
I am also a freelance science writer at the Guardian where I co-host the psychology blog, HeadQuarters.
Bywgraffiad
Undergraduate education
- Bachelor of Science (Behavioural) with Honours (1st class), Monash University, 1998.
Postgraduate education
- PhD in Experimental Psychology, Monash University, 2002
- Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), British Psychological Society, 2011.
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
- British Psychological Society, 2007 Spearman Medal Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Chartered Member, British Psychological Society
- Society for Neuroscience
- Association of British Science Writers (ABSW).
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CUBRIC Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Group, Cardiff University (2008-2014)
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, School of Psychology, Cardiff University (2008-2011)
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (2006-2008)
- NHMRC Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (2004-2006)
- NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (2002-2004).
Journal editorships
- Section Editor, European Journal of Neuroscience 2016-
- Section Editor, Royal Society Open Science 2015-
- Section Editor, AIMS Neuroscience 2013-
- Section Editor, Cortex 2012-
- Section Editor, Collabra 2015-
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE 2012-2015.
Awards/external committees
- Chair of the Registered Reports Committee, Centre for Open Science 2014-
- Advisory Committee, Science Media Centre 2014-
- Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS), 2011
- Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society, 2007
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship, 2006-2011
- Australian Academy of Science, European Travelling Fellowship, 2004.
Manuscript reviewing
- Addiction
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers
- Biological Psychiatry
- BMJ
- Brain and Cognition
- Brain Research
- Brain Stimulation
- Brain Structure and Function
- Cerebral Cortex
- Cognition
- Cognitive Brain Research
- Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
- Cortex
- Current Biology
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- eLife
- European Journal of Neurology
- Experimental Brain Research
- Experimental Psychology
- F1000Research
- Human Brain Mapping
- JMIR Serious Games
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Journal of Media Psychology
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
- Journal of Psychopharmacology
- Nature
- Neuroimage
- Neuropsychologia
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Letters
- Open Biology
- Perception & Psychophysics
- PLOS Biology
- PLOS ONE
- Psychiatry Research
- Psychological Research
- Psychological Science
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Royal Society Open Science
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Grant reviewing activities
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Leverhulme Trust
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- National Science Foundation
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW)
- Neurological Foundation of New Zealand
- Wellcome Trust.
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
I work regularly with various branches of the print and broadcast media, both in the UK and internationally. I have been interviewed by BBC online, BBC radio, Newstalk Ireland, New Scientist, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and several European newspapers (e.g. Volkskrant, Netherlands) and science magazines (e.g. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Germany).
I also write regularly in the media on science-related issues of public interest. Key issues have included challenges in science journalism, proposals to reform media policy, the importance of replication in science, and academic publishing reform. I have also entered a submission to the Leveson Inquiry and served as a consultant for a Channel Four documentary about addiction.
In March 2012, I participated in a debate at the Royal Institution that focused on ways scientists and journalists can cooperate to ensure more effective communication of science. I have since participated in related panel discussions at the CASE Europe conference (Aug 2012), Guardian LiveChat (Aug 2012) and the Spot On science communication conference (Nov 2012). Together with Petroc Sumner, Jacky Boivin and Andy Williams (JOMEC), I jointly manage the Insciout project, which aims to determine the role of press releases issued by universities and journals in shaping science news. The medium-term aim of the Insciout project is to develop evidence-based guidelines for best practice in the preparation of science-related press releases.
In August 2013, I jointly established the Guardian blog HeadQuarters together with Pete Etchells (Bath Spa University), Molly Crockett (University of Oxford) and Thalia Gjersoe (Open University). The aim of our blog is to raise awareness about exciting new research in psychology and related issues of public interest. I have written articles on topics such as psychological solutions to trolling, the neuroscience of near death experiences, traffic psychology, the effects of government mass surveillance on mental health, and the psychological challenges of the Mars One program.
Media activities
2013
- Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration - The Guardian
- Susan Greenfield and the rise of the Facebook zombies - The Guardian
- Pseudoscience and stereotyping won't solve gender inequality in science - The Guardian
- Should scientists be more involved in government? - The Geek Manifesto, BBC Radio Wales
- Those who publish research behind paywalls are victims not perpetrators -The Guardian.
2012
- Fixing the fraud: how do we safeguard science from misconduct? - Spot on London 2012, YouTube
- Tackling the F word - SciLogs guest post
- Replication is the only solution to scientific fraud - The Guardian
- Science journalism through the looking glass - The Guardian
- Scientists and journalists need different things from science - Ri Channel
- Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism - The Guardian
- How can we ensure a future of quality science reporting in the UK? - Submission to the Leveson Inquiry: Culture, Ethics and Practice of the Press.
2011
- Cerveau et maintien de l’ordre, comment améliorer l’information scientifique du grand public? - LeMonde.fr
- Scientists should be allowed to check stories on their work before publication - The Guardian
- Riot control: How can we stop newspapers distorting science? - The Guardian
- 'Thinking caps' are pseudoscience masquerading as neuroscience - The Guardian
- Politics and the Brain - New York Times.
Invited talks (2006 onwards)
- F-ESN Summer School, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016
- SGSSS Summer School, University of Edinburgh, 2016
- Royal Society, London, BPS event: Replication and Reproducibility in Psychology, 2016
- Bellwether Lecture, University of Oxford, 2016
- Academy of Medical Sciences meeting on Reproducibility, London, 2015
- University College London, #IsScienceBroken event, 2015
- NC3Rs workshop on publication bias in preclinical research, London, 2015
- Café Scientifique, Evidence Information Service event, Bristol, 2015
- Royal Society, London, 2014
- Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, USA, 2014
- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 2014
- Amsterdam Medical Centre, Netherlands, 2014
- Science Media Centre, London, 2014
- School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Australia, 2013
- Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Monash University, Australia, 2013
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 2013
- University of California San Diego, USA, 2013
- School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, 2013
- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2013
- School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol 2013
- Japan Neuroscience Society Meeting, Kyoto 2013
- School of Psychology, University of Sussex 2013
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 2013
- Division of Psychology, University of Abertay Dundee 2013
- National Assembly for Wales, Cross-party Group on Science and Technology, Cardiff 2013
- Royal Institution, London 2012
- School of Psychology, University of Exeter 2012
- CASE Europe Conference, Birmingham 2012
- Department of Psychiatry, CHU Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium, 2011
- Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia, 2011
- MARCS Auditory Labs, University of Western Sydney, Australia, 2011
- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, 2010
- Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, 2009
- Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society, Cardiff, 2009
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia, 2009
- Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Australia, 2009
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia, 2009
- Themed speaker, Young Neuroscientist Day, Cardiff University, 2008
- Spearman Medal Lecture, BPS Annual Conference, Dublin, 2008
- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, 2008
- FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, 2007
- Psychology Department, University of California San Diego, 2007
- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, 2007
- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia, 2007
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, 2006
- Chaucer Club Presentation, MRC CBU, University of Cambridge, 2006
- Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, University of Durham, 2006
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 2006
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 2006
- Department of Psychology, University College London, 2006.
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Munafò, M. R., Chambers, C., Collins, A., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. 2022. The reproducibility debate is an opportunity, not a crisis. BMC Research Notes 15(1), article number: 43. (10.1186/s13104-022-05942-3)
- Chambers, C. D. and Tzavella, L. 2022. The past, present and future of Registered Reports. Nature Human Behaviour 6, pp. 29-42. (10.1038/s41562-021-01193-7)
- Pennington, C. R., Jones, A. J., Tzavella, L., Chambers, C. D. and Button, K. S. 2022. Beyond online participant crowdsourcing: the benefits and opportunities of big team addiction science. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (10.1037/pha0000541)
2021
- Adams, R. C. et al. 2021. Food-related inhibitory control training reduces food liking but not snacking frequency or weight in a large healthy adult sample. Appetite 167, article number: 105601. (10.1016/j.appet.2021.105601)
- Munato, M., Chambers, C., Collins, A., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. 2021. From grassroots to global: A blueprint for building a reproducibility network. PLoS Biology 19(11), article number: e3001461. (10.1371/journal.pbio.3001461)
- Chambers, C. D., McIntosh, R. D. and Della Sala, S. 2021. Is ‘right-of-reply’ right for science?. Cortex 142, article number: A1. (10.1016/j.cortex.2021.05.014)
- Clark, R., Drax, K., Chambers, C. D., Munafò, M. and Thompson, J. 2021. Evaluating registered reports funding partnerships: a feasibility study. Wellcome Open Research 6, article number: 231. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17028.1)
- Drax, K., Clark, R., Chambers, C. D., Munafò, M. and Thompson, J. 2021. A qualitative analysis of stakeholder experiences with registered reports funding partnerships. Wellcome Open Research 6, article number: 230. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17029.1)
- Tzavella, L. et al. 2021. Effects of go/no-go training on food-related action tendencies, liking and choice. Royal Society Open Science 8(8), article number: 210666. (10.1098/rsos.210666)
- Sumner, P., Schwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., Bratton, L. and Chambers, C. D. 2021. Disclosure of study funding and author conflicts of interest in press releases and the news: A retrospective content analysis with two cohorts. BMJ Open 11, article number: e041385. (10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041385)
2020
- Tzavella, L., Maizey, L., Lawrence, A. D. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. The affective priming paradigm as an indirect measure of food attitudes and related choice behaviour. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 27, pp. 1397-1415. (10.3758/s13423-020-01764-1)
- Maizey, L., Evans, C. J., Muhlert, N., Vergruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Allen, C. P. G. 2020. Cortical and subcortical functional specificity associated with response inhibition. NeuroImage 220, article number: 117110. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117110)
- Sedgmond, J., Chambers, C., Lawrence, N. and Adams, R. C. 2020. No evidence that prefrontal HD-tDCS influences cue-induced food craving. Behavioral Neuroscience 134(5), pp. 369-383. (10.1037/bne0000345)
- Brouwers, K., Cooke, A., Chambers, C. D., Henson, R. and Tibon, R. 2020. Evidence for prereg posters as a platform for preregistration. Nature Human Behaviour 4, pp. 884-886. (10.1038/s41562-020-0868-z)
- Allen, C., Viola, T., Irvine, E., Sedgmond, J., Castle, H., Gray, R. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. Causal manipulation of feed-forward and recurrent processing differentially affects measures of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2020(1), article number: niaa015. (10.1093/nc/niaa015)
- Chambers, C. D. 2020. Verification reports: a new article type at Cortex. Cortex 129, pp. A1-A3. (10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.020)
- McIntosh, R. D. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. The three R's of scientific integrity: replicability, reproducibility, and robustness. Cortex 129, pp. A4-A7. (10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.019)
- Chambers, C. D. 2020. Frontloading selectivity: a third way in scientific publishing?. PLOS Biology 18(3), article number: e3000693. (10.1371/journal.pbio.3000693)
- Button, K. S., Chambers, C. D., Lawrence, N. and Munafò, M. R. 2020. Grassroots training for reproducible science: a consortium-based approach to the empirical dissertation. Psychology Learning and Teaching 19(1), pp. 77-90. (10.1177/1475725719857659)
- Munafò, M. R., Chambers, C. D., Collins, A. M., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. R. 2020. Research culture and reproducibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(2), pp. 91-93. (10.1016/j.tics.2019.12.002)
- Aczel, B. et al. 2020. A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour 4(4-6) (10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6)
- Bratton, L., Adams, R. C., Challenger, A., Boivin, J., Bott, L., Chambers, C. D. and Sumner, P. 2020. Causal claims about correlations reduced in press releases following academic study of health news. Wellcome Open Research 5, article number: 6. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15647.1)
2019
- Bratton, L., Adams, R. C., Challenger, A., Boivin, J., Bott, L., Chambers, C. D. and Sumner, P. 2019. The association between exaggeration in health-related science news and academic press releases: a replication study. Wellcome Open Research 4, article number: 148. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15486.2)
- Walker, L. A., Chambers, C. D., Veling, H. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Cognitive and environmental interventions to encourage healthy eating: evidence-based recommendations for public health policy. Royal Society Open Science 6(10), article number: 190624. (10.1098/rsos.190624)
- Chambers, C. 2019. What's next for registered reports?. Nature 573(7773), pp. 187-189. (10.1038/d41586-019-02674-6)
- Adams, R. C., Sedgmond, J., Maizey, L., Chambers, C. D. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Food addiction: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of overeating. Nutrients 11(9), article number: 2086. (10.3390/nu11092086)
- Chambers, C. 2019. The registered reports revolution Lessons in cultural reform. Significance 16(4), pp. 23-27. (10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01299.x)
- Adams, R. C., Chambers, C. D. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Do restrained eaters show increased BMI, food craving and disinhibited eating? A comparison of the Restraint Scale and the Restrained Eating scale of the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire. Royal Society Open Science 6(6), pp. 190174. (10.1098/rsos.190174)
- Adams, R. C. et al. 2019. Claims of causality in health news: a randomised trial. BMC Medicine 17, article number: 91. (10.1186/s12916-019-1324-7)
- Verbruggen, F. et al. 2019. A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task. eLife 8, article number: e46323. (10.7554/eLife.46323)
- Chambers, C. D. 2019. The battle for reproducibility over storytelling [Editorial]. Cortex 113, pp. A1. (10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.009)
- Kythreotis, A. P. et al. 2019. Citizen Social Science for more integrative and effective climate action: a science-policy perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science 7, article number: 10. (10.3389/fenvs.2019.00010)
- Sedgmond, J., Lawrence, N., Verbruggen, F., Morrison, S., Chambers, C. D. and Adams, R. 2019. Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: Effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control. Royal Society Open Science 6, article number: 181186. (10.1098/rsos.181186)
- Chambers, C. D., Forstmann, B. and Pruszynski, J. A. 2019. Science in flux: Registered reports and beyond at the European Journal of Neuroscience. European Journal of Neuroscience 49(1), pp. 4-5. (10.1111/ejn.14319)
- Walker, L. et al. 2019. Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny: a consultation of UK research professionals. PLoS ONE 14(3), article number: e0214136. (10.1371/journal.pone.0214136)
2018
- Chambers, C. D. 2018. Announcing a registered reports special issue at Cortex for the ABCD study. Cortex (10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.012)
- Chambers, C. D. and Mellor, D. T. 2018. Protocol transparency is vital for registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour 29, pp. 791-792. (10.1038/s41562-018-0449-6)
- Chambers, C. D. 2018. Introducing the transparency and openness promotion (TOP) guidelines and badges for open practices at Cortex. Cortex 106, pp. 316-318. (10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.001)
- Houtkoop, B. L., Chambers, C., Macleod, M., Bishop, D., Nichols, T. and Wagenmakers, E. 2018. Data sharing in psychology: a survey on barriers and preconditions. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1(1), pp. 70-85. (10.1177/2515245917751886)
- Allen, C., Singh, K. D., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2018. Evidence for parallel activation of the pre-supplementary motor area and inferior frontal cortex during response inhibition: a combined MEG and TMS study. Royal Society Open Science 5(2), article number: 171369. (10.1098/rsos.171369)
- Benjamin, D. J. et al. 2018. Redefine statistical significance. Nature Human Behaviour 2, pp. 6-10. (10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z)
2017
- Campbell, A. E., Chambers, C. D., Allen, C. P. G., Hedge, C. and Sumner, P. 2017. Impairment of manual but not saccadic response inhibition following acute alcohol intoxication. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 181, pp. 242-254. (10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.08.022)
- Lawrence, N. S., Chambers, J., Morrison, S. M., Bestman, S., O'Grady, G. N., Chambers, C. D. and Kythreotis, A. P. 2017. The Evidence Information Service as a new platform for supporting evidence-based policy: a consultation of UK parliamentarians. Evidence & Policy 13(2), pp. 275-316. (10.1332/174426416X14643531912169)
- Adams, R. C. et al. 2017. How readers understand causal and correlational expressions used in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 23(1), pp. 1-14. (10.1037/xap0000100)
- Chambers, C. D., Forstmann, B. and Pruszynski, J. A. 2017. Registered reports at the European Journal of Neuroscience : consolidating and extending peer-reviewed study pre-registration. European Journal of Neuroscience 45(5), pp. 627-628. (10.1111/ejn.13519)
- Adams, R. C., Lawrence, N., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2017. Training response inhibition to reduce food consumption: Mechanisms, stimulus specificity and appropriate training protocols. Appetite 109, pp. 11-23. (10.1016/j.appet.2016.11.014)
- Sanders, J. et al. 2017. Transparency and openness in science [Editorial]. Royal Society Open Science 4(1), article number: 160979. (10.1098/rsos.160979)
- Munafò, M. R. et al. 2017. A manifesto for reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour 1(1), article number: 21. (10.1038/s41562-016-0021)
- Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D., Lawrence, N. S. and McLaren, I. P. L. 2017. Winning and losing: Effects on impulsive action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 43(1), pp. 147-168. (10.1037/xhp0000284)
2016
- Rusconi, E., Sedgmond, J., Bolgan, S. and Chambers, C. D. 2016. Brain matters..in Social Sciences. AIMS Neuroscience 3(3), pp. 253-263. (10.3934/Neuroscience.2016.3.253)
- Elchlepp, H., Lavric, A., Chambers, C. D. and Verbruggen, F. 2016. Proactive inhibitory control: a general biasing account. Cognitive Psychology 86, pp. 27-61. (10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.01.004)
- Morey, R. D. et al. 2016. The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review. Royal Society Open Science 3(1), article number: 150547. (10.1098/rsos.150547)
- Sumner, P. et al. 2016. Exaggerations and caveats in press releases and health-related science news. PloS One 11(12), article number: e0168217. (10.1371/journal.pone.0168217)
2015
- Lawrence, N. S. et al. 2015. Training response inhibition to food is associated with weight loss and reduced energy intake. Appetite 95, pp. 17-28. (10.1016/j.appet.2015.06.009)
- Nosek, B. A. et al. 2015. Promoting an open research culture. Science 348(6242), pp. 1422-1425. (10.1126/science.aab2374)
- Chambers, C. D., Dienes, Z., McIntosh, R. D., Rotshtein, P. and Willmes, K. 2015. Registered reports: realigning incentives in scientific publishing. Cortex 66, pp. A1-A2. (10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.022)
- Stevens, T. et al. 2015. How does response inhibition influence decision making when gambling?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 21(1), pp. 15-36. (10.1037/xap0000039)
- Lawrence, N. S., Verbruggen, F., Morrison, S., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2015. Stopping to food can reduce intake. Effects of stimulus-specificity and individual differences in dietary restraint. Appetite 85, pp. 91-103. (10.1016/j.appet.2014.11.006)
- Chambers, C. D. 2015. Ten reasons why journals must review manuscripts before results are known. Addiction 110(1), pp. 10-11. (10.1111/add.12728)
2014
- Sumner, P. et al. 2014. The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: Retrospective observational study. The BMJ 349, article number: g7015. (10.1136/bmj.g7015)
- Verbruggen, F., McLaren, I. P. L. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. Banishing the control homunculi in studies of action control and behavior change. Perspectives on Psychological Science 9(5), pp. 497-524. (10.1177/1745691614526414)
- Verbruggen, F., Stevens, T. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. Proactive and reactive stopping when distracted: an attentional account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40(4), pp. 1295-1300. (10.1037/a0036542)
- Allen, C. P. G., Sumner, P. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. The timing and neuroanatomy of conscious vision as revealed by TMS-induced blindsight. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26(7), pp. 1507-1518. (10.1162/jocn_a_00557)
- Allen, C. et al. 2014. Enhanced awareness followed reversible inhibition of human visual cortex: a combined TMS, MRS and MEG study. PLoS ONE 9(6), pp. e100350. (10.1371/journal.pone.0100350)
- Chambers, C. D., Feredoes, E., Muthukumaraswamy, S. D. and Etchells, P. 2014. Instead of "playing the game" it is time to change the rules: Registered Reports at AIMS Neuroscience and beyond. AIMS Neuroscience 1(1), pp. 4-17. (10.3934/Neuroscience.2014.1.4)
- Cummins, T. D. R. et al. 2014. Alpha-2A adrenergic receptor gene variants are associated with increased intra-individual variability in response time. Molecular Psychiatry 19, pp. 1031-1036. (10.1038/mp.2013.140)
- Newman, D. P. et al. 2014. Dopamine transporter genotype is associated with a lateralized resistance to distraction during attention selection. Journal of Neuroscience 34(47), pp. 15743-15750. (10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2327-14.2014)
2013
- Verbruggen, F., Adams, R. C., Van't Wout, F., Stevens, T., McLaren, I. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Are the effects of response inhibition on gambling long-lasting?. PLoS ONE 8(7), article number: e70155. (10.1371/journal.pone.0070155)
- Varnava, A., Dervinis, M. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. The predictive nature of pseudoneglect for visual neglect: Evidence from parietal theta burst stimulation. Plos One 8(6), article number: e65851. (10.1371/journal.pone.0065851)
- Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Logan, G. 2013. Fictitious inhibitory differences: How skewness and slowing distort the estimation of stopping latencies. Psychological Science 24(3), pp. 352-362. (10.1177/0956797612457390)
- Maizey, L. et al. 2013. Comparative incidence rates of mild adverse effects to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology 124(3), pp. 536-544. (10.1016/j.clinph.2012.07.024)
- Chambers, C. D. 2013. Registered Reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex [Editorial]. Cortex 49(3), pp. 609-610. (10.1016/j.cortex.2012.12.016)
- Chambers, C. D., Allen, C. P. G., Maizey, L. and Williams, M. A. 2013. Is delayed foveal feedback critical for extra-foveal perception?. Cortex 49(1), pp. 327-335. (10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.007)
- Stokes, M. G., Barker, A. T., Dervinis, M., Verbruggen, F., Maizey, L., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Biophysical determinants of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Effects of excitability and depth of targeted area. Journal of Neurophysiology 109(2), pp. 437-444. (10.1152/jn.00510.2012)
- Rusconi, E., Dervinis, M., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Critical Time Course of Right Frontoparietal Involvement in Mental Number Space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25(3), pp. 465-483. (10.1162/jocn_a_00330)
2012
- Cummins, T. D. R. et al. 2012. Dopamine transporter genotype predicts behavioural and neural measures of response inhibition. Molecular Psychiatry 17, pp. 1086-1092. (10.1038/mp.2011.104)
- Klemen, J., Hoffmann, M. B. and Chambers, C. 2012. Cortical plasticity in the face of congenitally altered input into V1. Cortex 48(10), pp. 1362-1365. (10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.012)
- Bungert, A., Chambers, C. D., Long, E. and Evans, C. J. 2012. On the importance of specialized radiofrequency filtering for concurrent TMS/MRI. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 210(2), pp. 202-205. (10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.07.023)
- Verbruggen, F., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Proactive motor control reduces monetary risk taking in gambling. Psychological Science 23(7), pp. 805-815. (10.1177/0956797611434538)
- Cai, W., George, J. S., Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Aron, A. R. 2012. The role of the right pre-supplementary motor area in stopping action: two studies with event-related transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology 108(2), pp. 380-389. (10.1152/jn.00132.2012)
- Bungert, A., Chambers, C. D., Phillips, M. and Evans, C. J. 2012. Reducing image artefacts in concurrent TMS/fMRI by passive shimming. NeuroImage 59(3), pp. 2167-2174. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.013)
- Klemen, J. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Current perspectives and methods in studying neural mechanisms of multisensory interactions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 36(1), pp. 111-133. (10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.015)
- Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Mapping the timecourse of goal-directed attention to location and colour in human vision. Acta Psychologica 139(3), pp. 515-523. (10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.01.014)
- Cai, W., George, J. S., Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G., Verbruggen, F. and Aron, A. R. 2012. Stimulating deep cortical structures with the batwing coil: How to determine the intensity for transcranial magnetic stimulation using coil-cortex distance. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 204(2), pp. 238-241. (10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.11.020)
- Garner, K. G., Dux, P. E., Wagner, J., Cummins, T. D. R., Chambers, C. D. and Bellgrove, M. A. 2012. Attentional asymmetries in a visual orienting task are related to temperament. Cognition & Emotion 26(8), pp. 1508-1515. (10.1080/02699931.2012.666205)
2011
- Heinen, K. et al. 2011. Concurrent TMS-fMRI reveals dynamic interhemispheric influences of the right parietal cortex during exogenously cued visuospatial attention. European Journal of Neuroscience 33(5), pp. 991-1000. (10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07580.x)
- Kurniawan, V., Klemen, J. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Microcontroller based fibre-optic visual presentation system for multisensory neuroimaging. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 202(1), pp. 28-37. (10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.033)
- Varnava, A., Stokes, M. G. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Reliability of the 'observation of movement' method for determining motor threshold using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 201(2), pp. 327-332. (10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.016)
- Baker, K. S., Mattingley, J. B., Chambers, C. D. and Cunnington, R. 2011. Attention and the readiness for action. Neuropsychologia 49(12), pp. 3303-3313. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.003)
- Klemen, J., Verbruggen, F., Skelton, C. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Enhancement of perceptual representations by endogenous attention biases competition in response selection. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 73(8), pp. 2514-2527. (10.3758/s13414-011-0188-5)
2010
- Verbruggen, F., Aron, A. R., Stevens, M. A. and Chambers, C. D. 2010. Theta burst stimulation dissociates attention and action updating in human inferior frontal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(31), pp. 13966-13971. (10.1073/pnas.1001957107)
- Chambers, C. D. and Heinen, K. 2010. TMS and the functional neuroanatomy of attention. Cortex 46(1), pp. 114-117. (10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.002)
2009
- Bellgrove, M. A. et al. 2009. Dopaminergic haplotype as a predictor of spatial inattention in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry 66(10), pp. 1135-1142. (10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.120)
- Chambers, C. D., Garavan, H. and Bellgrove, M. A. 2009. Insights into the neural basis of response inhibition from cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 33(5), pp. 631-646. (10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.08.016)
2008
- Schenkluhn, B., Ruff, C. C., Heinen, K. and Chambers, C. D. 2008. Parietal stimulation decouples spatial and feature-based attention. Journal of Neuroscience 28(44), pp. 11106-11110. (10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3591-08.2008)
- Chambers, C. D. 2008. A stimulating take on attention. Psychologist 21(6), pp. 502-505.
2007
- Chambers, C. D. et al. 2007. Dissociable Mechanisms of Cognitive Control in Prefrontal and Premotor Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 98(6), pp. 3638-3647. (10.1152/jn.00685.2007)
- Stokes, M. G., Chambers, C. D., Gould, I. C., English, T., McNaught, E., McDonald, O. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Distance-adjusted motor threshold for transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology 118(7), pp. 1617-1625. (10.1016/j.clinph.2007.04.004)
- Morris, A. P., Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Parietal stimulation destabilizes spatial updating across saccadic eye movements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(21), pp. 9069-9074. (10.1073/pnas.0610508104)
- Chambers, C. D., Payne, J. M. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Parietal disruption impairs reflexive spatial attention within and between sensory modalities. Neuropsychologia 45(8), pp. 1715-1724. (10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.01.001)
- Bellgrove, M. A. et al. 2007. Dopaminergic genotype biases spatial attention in healthy children. Molecular Psychiatry 12(8), pp. 786-792. (10.1038/sj.mp.4002022)
2006
- Chambers, C. D. et al. 2006. Executive "Brake Failure" following deactivation of human frontal lobe. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18(3), pp. 444-455. (10.1162/jocn.2006.18.3.444)
- Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G., Janko, N. E. and Mattingley, J. B. 2006. Enhancement of visual selection during transient disruption of parietal cortex. Brain Research 1097(1), pp. 149-155. (10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.084)
2005
- Bellgrove, M. A., Chambers, C. D., Vance, A., Hall, N., Karamitsios, M. and Bradshaw, J. L. 2005. Lateralized deficit of response inhibition in early-onset schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 36(4), pp. 495-505. (10.1017/S0033291705006409)
- Stokes, M. G., Chambers, C. D., Gould, I. C., Henderson, T. R., Janko, N. E., Allen, N. B. and Mattingley, J. B. 2005. Simple Metric For Scaling Motor Threshold Based on Scalp-Cortex Distance: Application to Studies Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology 94(6), pp. 4520-4527. (10.1152/jn.00067.2005)
- Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2005. Neurodisruption of selective attention: insights and implications. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9(11), pp. 542-550. (10.1016/j.tics.2005.09.010)
- Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2005. Does selective attention influence the octave illusion?. Perception 34(2), pp. 217-229. (10.1068/p5164)
- Chambers, C. D. 2005. Staring in the Eye of Auditory Neglect: Comments on ‘Gaze Direction Modulates Auditory Spatial Deficits in Stroke Patients with Neglect’. Cortex 41(2), pp. 117-120. (10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70886-4)
2004
- Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Modality-Specific Control of Strategic Spatial Attention in Parietal Cortex. Neuron 44(6), pp. 925-930. (10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.009)
- Chambers, C. D., Payne, J. M., Stokes, M. G. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Fast and slow parietal pathways mediate spatial attention. Nature Neuroscience 7(3), pp. 217-218. (10.1038/nn1203)
- Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2004. The suppression model remains unsound: A reply to Deutsch. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 11(4), pp. 677-680. (10.3758/BF03196619)
- Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2004. Reconsidering evidence for the suppression model of the octave illusion. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 11(4), pp. 642-666. (10.3758/BF03196617)
- Morris, A. P., Kritikos, A., Berberovic, N., Pisella, L., Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Prism adaptation and spatial attention: A study of visual search in normals and patients with unilateral neglect. Cortex 40(4-5), pp. 703-721. (10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70166-7)
2003
- Chambers, C. D. and Brown, M. 2003. Timing accuracy under Microsoft Windows revealed through external chronometry. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers 35(1), pp. 96-108. (10.3758/BF03195501)
2002
- Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2002. The octave illusion revisited: Suppression or fusion between ears?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 28(6), pp. 1288-1302. (10.1037//0096-1523.28.6.1288)
Addysgu
Academic teaching
- Level 1 Psychology: ‘Magnetic stimulation of the human brain in psychology and neuroscience’ (2009-2014).
- Level 3 Psychology: ‘Methods and applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation’ (2010-2013).
- MSc in Neuroimaging Methods and Applications (2011-).
Professional workshops
- ARC Centre for Excellence, Macquarie University, Australia – ‘Workshop on basic research with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)’ (2011).
- MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Australia – ‘Introduction to transcranial magnetic stimulation’ (2011).
- Marie Curie FP7 Advanced Training Course, U.K., ‘Applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience’ (2010).
- CUBRIC, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN) Summer School – ‘Introduction to TMS’ and two-day practical workshop (2009).
- Psychology Department, University of California San Diego – ‘Introduction to theory and practice of TMS’ (2007).
- Magstim TMS Summer School – ‘Practical Introduction to TMS’ (2007).
- Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience – ‘Introduction to TMS’ (2006).
My research addresses questions across a range of fields. Within cognitive neuroscience, I am primarily interested in understanding attention and impulse control, and translational applications in clinical fields such as addiction.
In 2012 I jointly established the Insciout research group together with Petroc Sumner, Jacky Boivin and Andy Williams. Insciout is a collaborative project between the School of Psychology and the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Our aim is to identify causes of error in the translation of science to the news, and to develop evidence-based guidelines for best practice in science/media interactions.
I am also the co-founder of the UK Evidence Information Service, a research-led initiative that aims to facilitate interaction between academia and politicians in the service of evidence-based policy.
Funding
Current major grants:
- Chambers, C.D. European Research Council Consolidator Grant, ‘The psychology and neurobiology of cognitive control training in humans’, 2015-2020 (€1,998,305).
- Chambers, C.D., Verbruggen, F.L.J., Boy, F., Dymond, S. & Lawrence, N. Wellcome Trust ISSF Seedcorn Grant (U.K.), ‘Can GABAergic brain stimulation promote risk aversion in gambling?’, 2013-2015 (£33,572).
- Chambers, C.D. & Verbruggen, F.L.J. BBSRC Project Grant (U.K.), ‘Neural dynamics of response inhibition and gambling across the lifespan’, 2013-2016 (£882,321).
Previous major grants:
- Verbruggen F.L.J, Chambers, C.D., Lavric, A. & McLaren, I. Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) ‘Do executive motor-control mechanisms regulate monetary choice and gambling?’, 2012-2015 (£546,626).
- Bellgrove, M.A., Hester, R., Chambers, C.D., Garavan, H. & Hawi, Z. National Health and Medical Research Council project grant (Australia) ‘Genetic and physiological mechanisms of executive control’, 2011-2014 ($541,048).
- Chambers, C.D., Singh, K., Wise, R., Jones, D., Jiles, D, & Bestmann, S. Academic Expertise For Business grant (Welsh Assembly) ‘The integrated brain imaging and stimulation project (IBIS)’, 2010-2013 (£349,885).
- Chambers, C.D. BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (U.K.), ‘Investigating the neural basis of selective attention in the human brain: A combined neurodisruption and neuroimaging study, 2006-2011 (£421,754).
- Chambers, C.D. & Driver, J. BBSRC Project Grant (U.K.), ‘Multisensory dynamics of selective attention in the human brain: A combined neurodisruption and neuroimaging project’, 2007-2011 (£403,884).
- Bellgrove, M.A. & Chambers, C.D. ARC Project Grant (Australia), 'The cognitive neuroscience of executive control: behavioural, physiological and genetic mechanisms’, 2007-2010 ($319,000).
Research topics and related papers
Cognitive control
Current team members: Rachel Adams, Chris Allen, Leah Maizey, Jemma Sedgmond, Loukia Tzavella.
Neural mechanisms of cognitive control enable us to coordinate, execute, and update behaviour. The prefrontal cortex has long been associated with cognitive control but the architecture of the prefrontal system is one of the great unsolved mysteries in cognitive neuroscience. Within the broad field of cognitive control (or ‘executive functions’), our research focuses on understanding the neural basis of response inhibition, response selection, and the link between inhibition and risk-taking (including gambling and eating behaviour), principally through the application of training methods, TMS and TES.
Current collaborations in cognitive control:
- Dr Mark Bellgrove (University of Queensland)
- Dr Pete Etchells (Bath Spa University and The Guardian)
- Dr John Evans
- Prof. Derek Jones
- Dr Natalia Lawrence (University of Exeter)
- Prof Tony Manstead
- Dr James Randerson (The Guardian)
- Prof Petroc Sumner
- Prof Frederick Verbruggen (University of Exeter).
Attention and awareness
Current team members: Chris Allen, Rory Cutler, Jemma Sedgmond.
Our sensory environment contains a vast quantity of information, only a fraction of which can guide behaviour. Brain mechanisms of attention are crucial for enhancing the processing of stimuli that are relevant to current goals. Within the field of attention, our research focuses on the use of TMS and fMRI to understand the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control and spatial representations. We are also interested in the neurophysiology and neurochemistry that supports consciousness in the occipital and frontal cortex.
Current collaborations in attention/awareness:
- Dr Elena Rusconi (Abertay University).
Concurrent TMS and MRI
Current team members: Chris Allen, Leah Maizey, Jemma Sedgmond.
The combination of TMS and neuroimaging (MRI, EEG) provides a unique window on human brain function, with broad applications and implications across the cognitive and clinical neurosciences. By applying TMS within the MRI scanner, we can directly observe the physiological consequences of stimulation both locally (at the site of stimulation) and in remote interconnected brain regions. The integration of TMS and different imaging techniques also holds great promise for revealing the mechanism by which TMS influences neurophysiology and neurovascular coupling.
We recently established concurrent TMS-MRI at CUBRIC via the Academic Expertise for Business (A4B) grant programme, an initiative of the Welsh Assembly Government that funds links between academia and industry in Wales. Our industrial partners on this project were Welsh neuromedical companies Magstim and Dymed. Together we have developed passive shim technology that nearly eliminates one major source of interference between TMS and MRI.
Current collaborations in TMS-MRI:
- Dr John Evans (Cardiff University)
- Industry: Robin Davies (Magstim) and Mike Polson (Dymed).
TMS methods
The application of TMS in cognitive neuroscience carries a variety of technical and interpretative challenges. As a neurostimulation method, one critical issue is the control of TMS intensity. What strength of TMS is sufficient to yield effective (but not excessive) stimulation of cortical tissue? We have found that the extent of cortical activity during TMS is steeply related to the distance between the scalp and cortex. Even a difference of 1mm in the scalp-cortex distance between different sites can have a measurable and reliable effect on TMS-evoked behaviour. We have therefore developed a scaling method for calibrating the intensity of TMS according to scalp-cortex distance, thus enabling more precise and comparable stimulation of different regions.
Current collaborations in TMS methods:
- Dr Mark Stokes (University of Oxford).
The relationship between science and the media - the Insciout project
Current team members: Rachel Adams, Solveiga Stonkute, Louise White.
We are interested in how press releases issued by universities and academic journals influence the reporting of science news in the media. By understanding both positive and negative effects we aim to formulate an evidence-based policy for maximizing the impact and accuracy of science-related public relations. This project is supported by an ESRC transformative grant, the Wellcome Trust, and the British Psychological Society. It also benefits from our close relationship with the Science Media Centre.
Current collaborations in science and the media:
The Evidence Information Service
We are developing a new service to facilitate communication between academic researchers and UK politicians and civil servants. The aim of the Evidence Information Service (EIS) will be to act as a rapid matchmaking and advisory service, connecting politicians with experts in academia and industry. The EIS will host a database of scientists who are willing to commit their time voluntarily to help policy makers obtain and interpret the most reliable evidence on specific issues. Such activities will include the provision and explanation of peer-reviewed literature, statistical consulting, and the critical assessment of data or conclusions.
Read the summary of our 2015 national consultation exercise with UK parliamentarians.
Current collaborations on the Evidence Information Service:
Open Science
Psychology and cognitive neuroscience are in the midst of a reproducibility crisis that can be solved through the adoption of practices that boost the transparency of the research process. Since 2014 I have served as chair of the Registered Reports Committee of the Center for Open Science (COS). Registered Reports are a new form of empirical article that tackles publication bias and questionable research practices (such as p-hacking and post hoc hypothesizing) by conducting peer review before data collection and analysis. I am also a member of the COS Transparency and Openness (TOP) Guidelines committee, which proposes a series of guidelines for academic journals to improve the credibility of published work. In 2015 we published the TOP guidelines in the journal Science, led by COS Executive Director Brian Nosek.
Supervision
I am happy to discuss projects that fall within the scope of:
- Human cognitive control, including response inhibition, decision-making, and eating behaviour.
- Psychological and neural mechanisms of selective attention and conscious awareness.
- Concurrent brain stimulation and neuroimaging.
- Methodological advances in TMS.
- Evidence-based public policy.
- The relationship between science and the media.
- Scientific publishing reform.
Current students
- Rory Cutler, PhD
- Leah Maizey, PhD
- Solveiga Stonkute, PhD
- Loukia Tzavella, PhD.