Assistant Professor in Statistics

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gerard.loughnane@ncirl.ie

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Research Publications

Key Publications

• Dossen, S. Benedict, Mulbah, J. Mike, Hargreaves, April, Kumar, Samhita, Mothersill, David, Loughnane, Gerard M., Byrd, Eve, Nyakoon, Angie Tarr, Quoi, Joseph S. and Ebuenyi, Ikenna D. (2024) 'Assessing Stigma Toward Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Liberia: A Population Representative Study'. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 111 (3 Supp). pp. 93-104. ISSN 1476-1645. DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.24-0203
• Mothersill, David, Nguyen, Hau, Loughnane, Gerard M. and Hargreaves, April (2024) 'Mental Health Among Third-Level Students in Ireland during COVID-19'. Irish Journal of Education, 48 (3). pp. 1-19.
• Hargreaves, April, Loughnane, Gerard M., Nguyen, Hau and Mothersill, David (2022) 'Online learning predictors of mental health in third-level students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland'. Journal of American College Health. ISSN 1940-3208. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2089852 (E-pub ahead of print).
• Hanly, Paul, Ahern, Michelle, Sharp, Linda, Ursul, Diana and Loughnane, Gerard M. (2021) "The cost of lost productivity due to premature mortality associated with COVID-19: a Pan-European study". The European Journal of Health Economics, 23 (2). pp. 249-259. ISSN 1618-7601.
• Mothersill, David, Loughnane, Gerard M., Grasso, Gabriela and Hargreaves, April (2021) "Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours towards schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism: a pilot study". Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. pp. 1-7. ISSN 2051-6967. DOI: 10.1017/ipm.2021.81.
• Devine, Ciara A., Gaffney, Christine, Loughnane, Gerard M., Kelly, Simon P. and O'Connell, Redmond G. (2019) "The role of premature evidence accumulation in making difficult perceptual decisions under temporal uncertainty". eLife, 8: e48526. ISSN 2050-084X. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.48526
• Loughnane, Gerard M., Brosnan, Méadhbh B., Barnes, Jessica J.M., Dean, Angela, Nandam, Sanjay L., O'Connell, Redmond G. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2019) "Catecholamine Modulation of Evidence Accumulation during Perceptual Decision Formation: A Randomized Trial". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 (7). pp. 1044-1053. ISSN 1530-8898. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01393
• van Kempen, Jochem, Loughnane, Gerard M., Newman, Daniel P., Kelly, Simon P., Thiele, Alexander, O'Connell, Redmond G. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2019) "Behavioural and neural signatures of perceptual decision-making are modulated by pupil-linked arousal". eLife, 8: e42541. ISSN 2050-084X. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.42541
• Loughnane, Gerard M., Newman, Daniel P., Tamang, Sarita, Kelly, Simon P. and O'Connell, Redmond G. (2018) "Antagonistic Interactions Between Microsaccades and Evidence Accumulation Processes During Decision Formation". Journal of Neuroscience, 38 (9). pp. 2163-2176. ISSN 1529-2401. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2340-17.2018
• Egan, John M., Loughnane, Gerard M., Fletcher, Helen, Meade, Emma and Lalor, Edmund C. (2017) "A gaze independent hybrid-BCI based on visual spatial attention". Journal of Neural Engineering, 14 (4). 046006. ISSN 1741-2552. DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aa6bb2
• Newman, Daniel P., Loughnane, Gerard M., Kelly, Simon P., O'Connell, Redmond G. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2017) "Visuospatial Asymmetries Arise from Differences in the Onset Time of Perceptual Evidence Accumulation". Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (12). pp. 3378-3385. ISSN 1529-2401. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3512-16.2017
• Newman, Daniel P., Lockley, Steven W., Loughnane, Gerard M., Martins, Ana Carina P., Abe, Rafael, Zoratti, Marco T. R., Kelly, Simon P., O'Neill, Megan H., Rajaratnam, Shantha M. W., O'Connell, Redmond G. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2016) "Ocular exposure to blue-enriched light has an asymmetric influence on neural activity and spatial attention". Scientific Reports, 6. Article number: 27754. ISSN 2045-2322. DOI: 10.1038/srep27754
• Loughnane, Gerard M., Newman, Daniel P., Bellgrove, Mark A., Lalor, Edmund C., Kelly, Simon P. and O'Connell, Redmond G. (2016) "Target Selection Signals Influence Perceptual Decisions by Modulating the Onset and Rate of Evidence Accumulation". Current Biology, 26 (4). pp. 496-502. ISSN 0960-9822. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.049
• Loughnane, Gerard M., Shanley, John P., Lalor, Edmund C. and O'Connell, Redmond G. (2015) "Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of opposing lateral visuospatial asymmetries in the upper and lower visual fields". Cortex, 63. pp. 220-231. ISSN 0010-9452. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.003
• Newman, Daniel P., Loughnane, Gerard M., Abe, Rafael, Zoratti, Marco T. R., Martins, Ana C. P., van den Bogert, Petra C., Kelly, Simon P., O'Connell, Redmond G. and Bellgrove, Mark A. (2014) "Differential shift in spatial bias over time depends on observers? initial bias: Observer subtypes, or regression to the mean?" Neuropsychologia, 64. pp. 33-40. ISSN 0028-3932. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.017
• Sheedy, Caroline M., Power, Alan J., Reilly, Richard B., Crosse, Michael J., Loughnane, Gerard M. and Lalor, Edmund C. (2014) "Endogenous auditory frequency-based attention modulates electroencephalogram-based measures of obligatory sensory activity in humans". NeuroReport, 25 (4). pp. 219-225. ISSN 1473-558X. DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000070

Book Chapters

• Hargreaves, April, Mothersill, David and Loughnane, Gerard M. (2022) "Stigma: An Investigative Analysis of the Irish Public’s Knowledge and Perception of Autism". In: Autism Spectrum Disorders - Recent Advances and New Perspectives. IntechOpen. ISBN 978-1-83768-343-7. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.108670
• Loughnane, Gerard M., Meade, Emma, Reilly, Richard B. and Lalor, Edmund C. (2014) "Towards a gaze-independent hybrid-BCI based on SSVEPs, alpha-band modulations and the P300". In: 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE, pp. 1322-1325. ISBN 9781424479290. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943842