Research interests include cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, attention and its impairment in clinical populations, mind wandering, and real-world human behaviour. In addition to numerous original research articles, he has published two edited volumes on cognitive electrophysiology, Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook and Brain Signal Analysis: Advances in Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Methods, both with MIT Press. He is currently working on a book for a general science audience, titled Wandering Brains: How Our Feet Explain The Human Mind.