• Decreased alertness reconfigures cognitive control networks 

    Canales-Johnson, Andrés F.; Beerendonk, Lola; Blain, Salome; Kitaoka, Shin; Ezquerro-Nassar, Alejandro; Nuiten, Stijn; Fahrenfort, Johannes; van Gaal, Simon; Bekinschtein, Tristan A. (2020)
    Humans' remarkable capacity to flexibly adapt their behavior based on rapid situational changes is termed cognitive control. Intuitively, cognitive control is thought to be affected by the state of alertness; for example, ...

  • Feedback information transfer in the human brain reflects bistable perception in the absence of report 

    Canales-Johnson, Andrés F.; Beerendonk, Lola; Chennu, Srivas; Davidson, Matthew J.; Ince, Robin A.; van Gaal, Simon (2023)
    In the search for the neural basis of conscious experience, perception and the cognitive processes associated with reporting perception are typically confounded as neural activity is recorded while participants explicitly ...

  • Preserved sensory processing but hampered conflict detection when stimulus input is task-irrelevant 

    Nuiten, Stijn; Canales-Johnson, Andrés F.; Beerendonk, Lola; Nanuashvili, Nutsa; Fahrenfort, Johannes; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; van Gaal, Simon (2021)
    Conflict detection in sensory input is central to adaptive human behavior. Perhaps unsurprisingly, past research has shown that conflict may even be detected in the absence of conflict awareness, suggesting that conflict ...