MaryAnn Noonan
Lecturer
Profile
Biography
MaryAnn Noonan is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of York. MaryAnn completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of York and her MSc and DPhil in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Her DPhil and subsequent post-doctoral position with Matthew Rushworth in the Decision and Action Lab focused on the neural basis of learning, decision making and social cognition. She then spent a further year as a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University working with Lesley Fellows before taking up a postdoctoral position in the Attention & Working Memory Group, OHBA, with Mark Stokes. There she investigated the neural suppression of distracting information.
Career
- Departmental Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, UK (2020-2022)
- Supernumerary teaching fellow, St John’s College, Oxford, UK (2015-2020)
- Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK (2013-2015)
- Postdoctoral researcher, McGill University, Canada (2012)
- Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, UK (2010-11)
Research
Projects
MaryAnn's research explores how individuals learn and make decisions. Her work investigates how cognitive functions responsible for goal-directed behaviour develop across adolescence and how the brain adapts during this critical period of life.
Research group(s)
Grants
- MRC: Understanding the Role of Adolescent Dysmenorrhoea as a risk factor for the transition to chronic Pain (RoAdPain) (Co-I).
- Wellcome Public Engagement through Research (PER) award: Building stress resilience in early adolescence (Co-I)
- The Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award: The development of goal-directed behaviour and the underlying neural architecture across adolescence. (PI)
Available PhD research projects
Accepting PhD Students
Teaching
Undergraduate
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Advanced Option - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Adolescent decision-making and social cognition (+ MSc Option).
Publications
Selected publications
- Sallet J*, Noonan MP*, Thomas A, Neubert FX, O’Reilly JX, Ahmed B, Smith J, Bell AH, Krug K, Mars RB, Rushworth MFS (2020). Behavioral flexibility is associated with changes in structure and function distributed across a frontal cortical network in macaques. PLoS Biology. 18 (5), e3000605
- Noonan MP, Chau B, Rushworth MFS, Fellows LK (2017) Contrasting effects of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex lesions on credit assignment and decision making in humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 37 (29), 7023-7035.
- Noonan MP, Critterden B, Adamian N, Printzlau F, Pike A, Horst AL & Stokes MG (2016). Distinct mechanisms for distractor suppression and target facilitation. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(6):1797.
- Noonan MP,* Sallet J,* Mars RB,* Neubert FX, O’Reilly JX, Anderson JL, Mitchell AS, Bell AH, Miller KL, & Rushworth MFS (2014). A neural circuit covarying with social hierarchy in macaque. PloS Biology. 12(9) e1001940.
- Sallet J,* Mars RB,* Noonan MP,* Andersson J, O’Reilly JX, Jbabdi S, Croxson PL, Miller KL, Jenkinson M & Rushworth MFS (2011). Social network size affects neural circuits in macaques. Science. 334, 697.
- Noonan MP, Walton ME, Behrens TE, Sallet J, Buckley MJ & Rushworth MFS (2010). Separate value comparison and learning mechanisms in macaque medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex. PNAS 107(47):20547.
Full publications list
See Google Scholar and the York Research Database.