Douglas Garrett

Senior Research Scientist

Center for Lifespan Psychology

Publications

Contact:
Phone: +49 30 82406-216
E-Mail: garrett@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group website
Twitter

Short CV:

Education

• MA / Ph.D., 2011, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• BA (Honors, Co-op, with Distinction), 2003, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. 

Recent positions held

• Reviewing Editor, Psychological Science (January 2020 to present)
• IMPRS LIFE faculty member (2019 to present)
• IMPRS COMP2PSYCH faculty member (2016 to present)
• Emmy Noether Group leader (2017 to present)
• Senior scientist, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research; Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development (2014 to present)

Project

• Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group

Research Interests:

As leader of the  Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group (LNDG)  within the Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research , I seek to understand how and why the human brain fluctuates so markedly from moment to moment. In particular, we examine brain signal variability and dynamics in relation to six core research foci: lifespan development, cognition, neuromodulation, structural/functional connectivity, transcranial stimulation, and methods/modelling. Accordingly, we have an inherent multivariate focus that allows the examination of brain signal variability phenomena across multiple levels of analysis. 

Selected Literature:

• Kloosterman, N.A., Kosciessa, J.Q., Lindenberger, U., Fahrenfort, J.J., & Garrett, D.D. (2020). Boosts in brain signal variability track liberal shifts in decision bias. eLife, 9:e54201.
• Kosciessa, J.Q., Kloosterman, N.A., & Garrett, D.D. (2020). Standard multiscale entropy reflects neural dynamics at mismatched temporal scales: What’s signal irregularity got to do with it? PLOS Computational Biology, 16(5): e1007885.
• Garrett, D., Epp, S., Kleemeyer, M., Lindenberger, U., Polk, T. (2020). Higher performers upregulate brain signal variability in response to more feature-rich visual input. NeuroImage, 217, 116836.
• Kloosterman, N. A., de Gee, J. W., Werkle-Bergner, M., Lindenberger, U., Garrett, D. D., & Fahrenfort, J. J. (2019). Humans strategically shift decision bias by flexibly adjusting sensory evidence accumulation. eLife, 8: e37321.
• Garrett, D. D., Epp, S. M., Perry, A., & Lindenberger, U. (2018). Local temporal variability reflects functional integration in the human brain. NeuroImage, 183, 776-787.
• Garrett, D.D., Nagel, I.E., Preuschhof, C., Burzynska, A.Z., Marchner, J., Wiegert, S., Jungehülsing, G., Nyberg, L., Villringer, A., Li, S-C., Heekeren, H.E., Bäckman, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2015). Amphetamine modulates brain signal variability and working memory in younger and older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 7593-7598.
• Garrett, D. D., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., MacDonald, S. W. S., Lindenberger, U., McIntosh, A. R., & Grady, C. L. (2013). Moment-to-moment brain signal variability: A next frontier in human brain mapping? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, 610-624.
• Garrett, D. D., Kovacevic, N., McIntosh, A. R., & Grady, C. L. (2011). The importance of being variable. Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 4496-4503.