Matthew Rushworth

Matthew Rushworth
FRS
Born
Matthew F. S. Rushworth
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe parietal cortex and apraxia (1997)
Doctoral advisorRichard Passingham
Websitewww.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/matthew-rushworth

Matthew F. S. Rushworth FRS[2] is Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford where his laboratory is funded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council.[3][4][5]

Education

Rushworth studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford where he worked with Richard Passingham. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1994 for research on the parietal cortex and apraxia.[6]

Research and career

Rushworth's research has focussed on understanding brain circuits for learning, decision making, and social cognition.[2] He developed methods for comparing brain circuits in humans and other animals and for manipulating the activity in one brain area and examining the impact on interconnected regions and on behaviour.[2] He showed that prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex brain regions enable us to learn links between our choices and their consequences, make decisions on the basis of our expectations of the outcomes, and think about alternative and counterfactual choices.[2] He has shown how brain activity changes in social contexts and when we learn not just by ourselves but from others.[2][7][8]

Awarded a Royal Society Locke Research Fellowship he began working with neuroimaging techniques at the Oxford centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Wellcome Trust Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN).[2]

Awards and honours

Rushworth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.[2]

References

  1. ^ Matthew Rushworth publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2019). "Professor Matthew Rushworth FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-10-26. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. ^ Anon (2015). "A Conversation with Matthew Rushworth". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 79: 288–290. doi:10.1101/sqb.2014.79.15. ISSN 0091-7451. PMID 26092899.
  4. ^ Matthew Rushworth publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Matthew Rushworth publications from Europe PubMed Central
  6. ^ Rushworth, Matthew F. S. (1994). The parietal cortex and apraxia. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 60390040.
  7. ^ Behrens, T.E.J.; Berg, H. Johansen; Jbabdi, S.; Rushworth, M.F.S.; Woolrich, M.W. (2007). "Probabilistic diffusion tractography with multiple fibre orientations: What can we gain?". NeuroImage. 34 (1): 144–155. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.09.018. ISSN 1053-8119. PMC 7116582. PMID 17070705. Closed access icon
  8. ^ Behrens, Timothy E J; Woolrich, Mark W; Walton, Mark E; Rushworth, Matthew F S (2007). "Learning the value of information in an uncertain world". Nature Neuroscience. 10 (9): 1214–1221. doi:10.1038/nn1954. ISSN 1097-6256. PMID 17676057. S2CID 18051225. Closed access icon