Dr Nicholas Bland

Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Research Fellow

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Casual Academic

School of Psychology

n.bland@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Dr. Bland is a cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in brain stimulation, neural oscillations, and neuroplasticity. His research explores how patterns of rhythmic brain activity underpin neural communication and computation, and how non-invasive brain stimulation can be used to effectively manipulate brain oscillations that shape human consciousness and cognition.

Dr. Bland completed his PhD at the Queensland Brain Institute, where he investigated oscillatory neural networks and their dynamic role in brain communication. Together with his research students and collaborators, he combines advanced neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and research methodologies to study brain function.

As a researcher and academic advisor at The University of Queensland, Dr. Bland is dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and statistics, with applications ranging from cognitive enhancement to rehabilitation.

Publications

Journal Articles (10)

Conference Paper (1)

Preprint (1)

Theses (2)

Journal Articles

Geffen, Asher, Bland, Nicholas and Sale, Martin V. (2024). Balance of power: the choice between trial and participant numbers to optimize the detection of phase-dependent effects. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1-11. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00345

Geffen, Asher, Bland, Nicholas and Sale, Martin V. (2022). Mu-transcranial alternating current stimulation induces phasic entrainment and plastic facilitation of corticospinal excitability. biorxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.10.17.512611

Armstrong, Samuel, Bland, Nicholas S., Sale, Martin V. and Cunnington, Ross (2022). Unconscious influences on “free will” movement initiation: slow-wave brain stimulation and the readiness potential. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 (6), 1038-1052. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01840

Geffen, Asher, Bland, Nicholas and Sale, Martin V (2021). Effects of slow oscillatory transcranial alternating current stimulation on motor cortical excitability assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15 726604, 726604. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.726604

Bland, Nicholas S. (2021). Letter to the editor: Is two decades of tDCS work wrong?. Brain Stimulation, 14 (2), 438-439. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2021.02.016

Bland, Nicholas S., Mattingley, Jason B. and Sale, Martin V. (2020). Gamma coherence mediates interhemispheric integration during multiple object tracking. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123 (5), 1630-1644. doi: 10.1152/jn.00755.2019

Brown, Peter, Tan, Aik-Choon, El-Esawi, Mohamed A., Liehr, Thomas, Blanck, Oliver, Gladue, Douglas P., Almeida, Gabriel M. F., Cernava, Tomislav, Sorzano, Carlos O., Yeung, Andy W. K., Engel, Michael S., Chandrasekaran, Arun Richard, Muth, Thilo, Staege, Martin S., Daulatabad, Swapna V., Widera, Darius, Zhang, Junpeng, Meule, Adrian, Honjo, Ken, Pourret, Olivier, Yin, Cong-Cong, Zhang, Zhongheng, Cascella, Marco, Flegel, Willy A., Goodyear, Carl S., van Raaij, Mark J., Bukowy-Bieryllo, Zuzanna, Campana, Luca G., Kurniawan, Nicholas A. ... RELISH Consortium (2019). Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2019 baz085, 1-67. doi: 10.1093/database/baz085

Bland, Nicholas S. and Sale, Martin V. (2019). Current challenges: the ups and downs of tACS. Experimental Brain Research, 237 (12), 3071-3088. doi: 10.1007/s00221-019-05666-0

Keane, Brendan, Bland, Nicholas S., Matthews, Natasha, Carroll, Timothy J and Wallis, Guy (2019). Rapid recalibration of temporal order judgements: response bias accounts for contradictory results. European Journal of Neuroscience, 51 (7) ejn.14551, 1697-1710. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14551

Bland, Nicholas S., Mattingley, Jason B. and Sale, Martin V. (2018). No evidence for phase-specific effects of 40 Hz HD–tACS on multiple object tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (304) 304, 304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00304

Conference Paper

Wood, Julia, Brownsett, Sonia, Bland, Nicholas and Sale, Martin (2021). Slow wave transcranial electrical stimulation during wake to investigate the consolidation of new learning. Sleep Down Under, Online, 8-11 November 2021. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpab014.202

Preprint

Theses

Bland, Nicholas Simon (2019). Oscillating neural networks: perspectives from rhythmic brain stimulation. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.407

Bland, Nicholas (2014). Modulation of Corticomotor Neuroplasticity using Induced Slow Oscillations. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.