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2025

Journal Article

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

IIT-Concerned, Arnold, Derek H., Baxter, Mark G., Bekinschtein, Tristan A., Bengio, Yoshua, Bisley, James W., Browning, Jacob, Buonomano, Dean, Carmel, David, Carrasco, Marisa, Carruthers, Peter, Carter, Olivia, Chang, Dorita H. F., Charest, Ian, Cherkaoui, Mouslim, Cleeremans, Axel, Cohen, Michael A., Corlett, Philip R., Christoff, Kalina, Cumming, Sam, Cushing, Cody A., de Gelder, Beatrice, De Brigard, Felipe, Dennett, Daniel C., Dijkstra, Nadine, Doerig, Adrien, Dux, Paul E., Fleming, Stephen M., Frankish, Keith ... Snyder, Joel S. (2025). What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?. Nature Neuroscience, 28 (4), 1-5. doi: 10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

2025

Journal Article

Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences

Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S., Saurels, Blake W. and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences. Cognition, 256 106048, 106048-256. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106048

Objective priming from pre-imagining inputs before binocular rivalry presentations does not predict individual differences in the subjective intensity of imagined experiences

2025

Journal Article

The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated

Bouyer, Loren N., Pellicano, Elizabeth, Saurels, Blake W., Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel and Arnold, Derek H. (2025). The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated. Consciousness and Cognition, 129 103821, 103821-129. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2025.103821

The vividness of visualisations and autistic trait expression are not strongly associated

2025

Journal Article

Don't think of a pink elephant: Individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates

Arnold, Derek H., Hutchinson, Mary, Bouyer, Loren N., Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel, Pellicano, Elizabeth and Saurels, Blake W. (2025). Don't think of a pink elephant: Individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates. Cortex, 183, 53-65. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.10.020

Don't think of a pink elephant: Individual differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and its neural correlates

2024

Journal Article

The precision test of metacognitive sensitivity and confidence criteria

Arnold, Derek H., Clendinen, Mitchell, Johnston, Alan, Lee, Alan L.F. and Yarrow, Kielan (2024). The precision test of metacognitive sensitivity and confidence criteria. Consciousness and Cognition, 123 103728. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2024.103728

The precision test of metacognitive sensitivity and confidence criteria

2024

Journal Article

Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?

Bouyer, Loren N. and Arnold, Derek H. (2024). Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?. Frontiers in Psychology, 15 1374349. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349

Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?

2024

Journal Article

Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback

Arnold, Derek H., Electricity, Felicity and Saurels, Blake W. (2024). Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291 (2016) 20232908, 20232908. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2908

Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback

2024

Journal Article

Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity

Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W., Anderson, Natasha, Andresen, Isabella and Schwarzkopf, Dietrich S. (2024). Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 836, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50760-7

Predicting the subjective intensity of imagined experiences from electrophysiological measures of oscillatory brain activity

2023

Journal Article

The best fitting of three contemporary observer models reveals how participants’ strategy influences the window of subjective synchrony

Yarrow, Kielan, Solomon, Joshua A., Arnold, Derek H. and Roseboom, Warrick (2023). The best fitting of three contemporary observer models reveals how participants’ strategy influences the window of subjective synchrony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49 (12), 1534-1563. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001154

The best fitting of three contemporary observer models reveals how participants’ strategy influences the window of subjective synchrony

2023

Journal Article

Event probabilities have a different impact on early and late electroencephalographic measures regarded as metrics of prediction

Saurels, Blake W., Johnston, Alan, Yarrow, Kielan and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). Event probabilities have a different impact on early and late electroencephalographic measures regarded as metrics of prediction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 (1), 187-199. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_02076

Event probabilities have a different impact on early and late electroencephalographic measures regarded as metrics of prediction

2023

Journal Article

Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience

Bouyer, Loren N., Arnold, Derek H., Johnston, Alan and Taubert, Jessica (2023). Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 115 103583, 103583. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103583

Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience

2023

Journal Article

Extrastriate activity reflects the absence of local retinal input

Urale, Poutasi W.B., Zhu, Lydia, Gough, Roberta, Arnold, Derek and Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Samuel (2023). Extrastriate activity reflects the absence of local retinal input. Consciousness and Cognition, 114 103566, 103566. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103566

Extrastriate activity reflects the absence of local retinal input

2023

Journal Article

On why we lack confidence in some signal-detection-based analyses of confidence

Arnold, Derek H., Johnston, Alan, Adie, Joshua and Yarrow, Kielan (2023). On why we lack confidence in some signal-detection-based analyses of confidence. Consciousness and Cognition, 113 103532, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103532

On why we lack confidence in some signal-detection-based analyses of confidence

2023

Journal Article

The temporal visual oddball effect is not caused by repetition suppression

Saurels, Blake W., Yarrow, Kielan, Lipp, Ottmar V. and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). The temporal visual oddball effect is not caused by repetition suppression. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85 (6), 1755-1760. doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02730-4

The temporal visual oddball effect is not caused by repetition suppression

2023

Journal Article

Neural correlates of visual acuity for fine text

Arnold, Derek H., Saurels, Blake W., Moses, Eleanor, Hohaia, Wiremu and Goodale, Melvyn A. (2023). Neural correlates of visual acuity for fine text. Vision Research, 207 108219, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108219

Neural correlates of visual acuity for fine text

2023

Journal Article

Size Perception: An Important Step Toward a Larger Understanding

Saurels, Blake and Arnold, Derek H. (2023). Size Perception: An Important Step Toward a Larger Understanding. Neuroscience, 520, 159-160. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.03.005

Size Perception: An Important Step Toward a Larger Understanding

2023

Journal Article

Commonalities between the Berger Rhythm and spectra differences driven by cross-modal attention and imagination

Arnold, Derek H., Andresen, Isabella, Anderson, Natasha and Saurels, Blake W. (2023). Commonalities between the Berger Rhythm and spectra differences driven by cross-modal attention and imagination. Consciousness and Cognition, 107 103436, 103436. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103436

Commonalities between the Berger Rhythm and spectra differences driven by cross-modal attention and imagination

2022

Journal Article

Highly accurate retinotopic maps of the physiological blind spot in human visual cortex

Urale, Poutasi W. B., Puckett, Alexander M., York, Ashley, Arnold, Derek and Schwarzkopf, D. Samuel (2022). Highly accurate retinotopic maps of the physiological blind spot in human visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 43 (17), 5111-5125. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25996

Highly accurate retinotopic maps of the physiological blind spot in human visual cortex

2022

Journal Article

The perceived duration of expected events depends on how the expectation is formed

Saurels, Blake W., Arnold, Derek H., Anderson, Natasha L., Lipp, Ottmar V. and Yarrow, Kielan (2022). The perceived duration of expected events depends on how the expectation is formed. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84 (5), 1718-1725. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02519-x

The perceived duration of expected events depends on how the expectation is formed

2022

Journal Article

Neural-latency noise places limits on human sensitivity to the timing of events

Yarrow, Kielan, Kohl, Carmen, Segasby, Toby, Kaur Bansal, Rachel, Rowe, Paula and Arnold, Derek H. (2022). Neural-latency noise places limits on human sensitivity to the timing of events. Cognition, 222 105012, 105012. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.105012

Neural-latency noise places limits on human sensitivity to the timing of events