Heleen A. Slagter

The paper shows that predicted sensory outcomes are integrated into conjunctive neural representations during goal-directed action selection, influencing reaction times and learning.

The paper investigates whether late metastable brain activity can serve as a signature of conscious access in the absence of the P3b signal, finding consistent temporal generalization patterns across different stimuli.

This paper develops deep learning models to study dynamic object recognition, finding that sequential processing with lateral recurrence matches human performance and improves recognition with adaptation.

The paper investigates how beat-based and pattern-based temporal expectations influence neural oscillations and behavior, finding distinct neural responses for each type of expectation.

This study shows that decision confidence determines whether perceptual or cognitive errors occur in ambiguous visual tasks.

This study investigates whether deep brain stimulation of the basal ganglia improves conscious perception in OCD patients, finding behavioral improvements but no clear neural effects.

The paper compares self-generated and externally induced predictions using a Bayesian inference model in a spatial attention task, finding larger reaction time costs for violated self-generated predictions.

The paper presents a computational model showing how arousal state modulates task performance by altering sensory processing hierarchy, explaining the Yerkes-Dodson effect.

The paper re-evaluates a previous finding on tDCS effects on attentional blink, finding no significant negative correlation and suggesting smaller effects.

This study uses spiking deep neural networks to compare attention mechanisms, finding that modulating outgoing connections is more effective than precision or input gain in enhancing visual search performance.

This study investigates how feature and spatial expectations influence distractor inhibition using EEG and the additional singleton paradigm, revealing contributions from intertrial priming and statistical learning.

The paper investigates how attentional selection affects conscious access to visual targets in rapidly changing input conditions, finding both impairments and facilitations in target processing.

This study investigates how the brain uses learned statistical regularities to inhibit distracting information, finding that neural effects depend on task relevance and prediction dimension.

The paper investigates how conscious and non-conscious predictions affect subjective visibility of targets in an attentional blink task, finding that conscious predictions enhance visibility regardless of timing.

This study investigates the effect of dopamine D2 agonist cabergoline on conscious perception tasks and finds no significant impact on visual masking, attentional blink, or probabilistic discrimination.

This study investigates the effects of brain stimulation on sustained attention but finds no significant reduction in the vigilance decrement using tDCS or theta tACS.

The paper investigates how beat-based and memory-based temporal expectations influence auditory processing, finding similar perceptual effects but distinct neural mechanisms.

This study investigates how expectations about distractors and targets influence neural mechanisms of inhibition and facilitation during search tasks, revealing distinct neural dynamics for each.

This study examines how prolonged attention affects neural responses, finding that task performance and temporal variability decline over time, while motivation does not fully restore performance.

The paper investigates whether predictions and attention modulate early visual cortical processing using EEG and finds no evidence of such modulation within the first 80ms post-stimulus.

This study investigates whether tDCS over the frontal eye field affects saccade latency or accuracy, finding no significant effects.

This study investigates how top-down expectations influence conscious awareness through three experiments using attentional blink paradigms and electrophysiological recordings.

This study investigates how expectation of visual load modulates neural activity, showing attenuated auditory responses and increased alpha activity when anticipating high visual perceptual load.

The paper uses event-based eye-blink rate to track real-time changes in working memory updating and gating, linking these processes to striatal dopamine activity.