Simon van Gaal

Associate professor

Netherlands

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Simon van Gaal is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research areas focus on consciousness, perceptual integration, and the neural mechanisms underlying arousal and attention. Recent publications include studies on the validity of neural measures of consciousness and the role of NMDA receptors in recurrent processing.

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Heleen Slagter

University of Amsterdam

NETHERLANDS

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Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

University of Sussex

UNITED KINGDOM

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Johannes Fahrenfort

University of Amsterdam

NETHERLANDS

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Niels Kloosterman

University of Lübeck

GERMANY

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Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida

University of Amsterdam

NETHERLANDS

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Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor of Consciousness and Cognition

University of Cambridge

UNITED KINGDOM

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Daniel Kaiser

Professor for Neural Computation

GERMANY

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Jolien Francken

University of Amsterdam

NETHERLANDS

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Simon van Gaal

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Articles (20)

Response to comment on ‘Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness’

Adaptive arousal regulation: Pharmacologically shifting the peak of the Yerkes–Dodson curve by catecholaminergic enhancement of arousal

Neural activity patterns stabilize during wakefulness and conscious experience

A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual integration

A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual integration

Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness

Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness

Perceptual and attentional impairments of conscious access involve distinct neural mechanisms despite equal task performance

Perceptual and attentional impairments of conscious access involve distinct neural mechanisms despite equal task performance

A disinhibitory circuit mechanism explains a general principle of peak performance during mid-level arousal

Illusory object recognition is either perceptual or cognitive in origin depending on decision confidence

Position representations of moving objects align with real-time position in the early visual response

Predictions and rewards affect decision-making but not subjective experience

Catecholaminergic neuromodulation and selective attention jointly shape perceptual decision-making

Catecholaminergic neuromodulation and selective attention jointly shape perceptual decision-making

An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of consciousness science

The human visual system differentially represents subjectively and objectively invisible stimuli.

No Evidence for Neural Overlap between Unconsciously Processed and Imagined Stimuli

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

Decreased Alertness Reconfigures Cognitive Control Networks

Collaborators (8)

Heleen Slagter

Anil Seth

Johannes Fahrenfort

Niels Kloosterman

Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida

Tristan Bekinschtein

Daniel Kaiser

Jolien Francken

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