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Latest papers
Bored out of my mind: Integrated and flexible brain networks define trait boredom.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026 · senior author
Evidence from pupillometry, fMRI, and RNN modelling shows that gain neuromodulation mediates task-relevant perceptual switches.
eLife · 2025
Effort and boredom shape our experience of time.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025
Latest funding
- $54,000
Boredom, agency and interoception: Behavioural, psychophysical, and EEG investigations.
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $40,763
Measuring the psychophysical and EEG signature of boredom.
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $120,000
Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
81 publications.
Bored out of my mind: Integrated and flexible brain networks define trait boredom.
Taylor NL, Shine JM, Danckert J
Evidence from pupillometry, fMRI, and RNN modelling shows that gain neuromodulation mediates task-relevant perceptual switches.
Wainstein G, Whyte CJ, Ehgoetz Martens KA, Müller EJ, Medel V, Anderson B, Stöttinger E, Danckert J, Munn BR, Shine JM
Effort and boredom shape our experience of time.
Wolff W, Özay-Otgonbayar S, Danckert J, Bieleke M, Martarelli CS
Inattention over time-on-task: the role of motivation in mitigating temporal increases in media multitasking.
Drody AC, Pereira EJ, Danckert J, Smilek D
Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point.
Trudel C, Risko EF, Eastwood JD, van Tilburg WAP, Elpidorou A, Danckert J
Agency, frustration, and the experience of boredom.
Dadzie VB, Danckert J
Left Cerebellar Lesions may be Associated with an Increase in Spatial Neglect-like Symptoms.
Verbitsky R, Anderson B, Danckert J, Dukelow S, Striemer CL
Plinko: Eliciting beliefs to build better models of statistical learning and mental model updating.
DiBerardino PAV, Filipowicz ALS, Danckert J, Anderson B
Disentangling boredom from depression using the phenomenology and content of involuntary autobiographical memories.
Yeung RC, Danckert J, van Tilburg WAP, Fernandes MA
Exploring EEG resting state as a function of boredom proneness in pre-adolescents and adolescents.
Nettinga J, Naseem S, Yakobi O, Willoughby T, Danckert J
Boredom, agency and interoception: Behavioural, psychophysical, and EEG investigations.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Keywords: boredom; agency; interoception; psychophysiology; eeg; self-regulation
Measuring the psychophysical and EEG signature of boredom.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Examining the cognitive and neural bases of boredom.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Right parietal cortex updates internal representations of space, time and intention: neurological, computational and neuroimaging investigations.
Principal investigators: Danckert, James A
Keywords: Attention; Computational Modeling; Functional Mri; Neurological Patients; Parietal Cortex; Updating Representations
An ERP laboratory for collaborative cognitive neuroscience research
Principal investigators: Fugelsang, Jonathan
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
Keywords: CRC
Attention and action in the parietal cortex
Principal investigators: Danckert, James
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- James Danckert and Britt Anderson: 23 shared papers
- Daniel Smilek and derek besner: 6 shared papers
- Colleen Merrifield and James Danckert: 4 shared papers
- Daniel Smilek and James Danckert: 4 shared papers
- Sean Dukelow and James Danckert: 1 shared paper
- Sean Dukelow and Britt Anderson: 1 shared paper
- Teena Willoughby and James Danckert: 1 shared paper
- Chris Eliasmith and James Danckert: 1 shared paper
- James Danckert and derek besner: 1 shared paper
- James Danckert and Susanne Ferber: 1 shared paper
- James Danckert and Christopher Striemer: 1 shared paper
- derek besner and Britt Anderson: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Philosophy
- Arts and Science Division
- Clinical Neurosciences
- Psychology (St. George Campus)
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Britt Anderson
Psychology
23 shared papers, latest 2025
Colleen Merrifield
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
4 shared papers, latest 2018
Daniel Smilek
Psychology
4 shared papers, latest 2025
derek besner
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Susanne Ferber
Psychology (St. George Campus)
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Christopher Striemer
Arts and Science Division
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Sean Dukelow
Clinical Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Teena Willoughby
Child and Adolescent Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Chris Eliasmith
Philosophy
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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