Consciousness

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We are developing new protocols to understand the distinction between conscious and non-conscious information processing in the human brain, and its role in guiding cognition and behaviour. We combine advanced brain imaging procedures, psychophysical tasks and state-of-the-art computational methods.

Our research encompasses multiple cognitive domains, including perceptual selection, learning and memory, and language, as well as metacognition—our ability to reflect, monitor and control our own cognitive processes.

We study these topics in children, healthy adults and patients. We are committed to translating our findings for the benefit of the wider society, by developing educational and clinical applications through targeted neurocognitive interventions that can promote adaptive behavioral change.

Our team

David Soto

Research

Francisca Campos Matias

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Ivory Y. Chen

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Najemeddine Abdennour

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Nirmitee Mulay

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Seyma Takir

Research

Soan Kim

Research

Publications

2025

Olivers, C.N.L., Roelfsema, P.R., Soto, D., & Woodman, G.F. (2025). How Attention and Working Memory Married and Divorced, With Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance as the Witness. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance, 51(6), 689-692. Doi:10.1037/xhp0001267

Yan, K., Wokke, M.E., Wierzchoń, M., Wheatley, T., Weisberg, J., Webb, T., Watzl, S., Vibell, J., Tse, P.U., Tong, F., Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Stein, T., Spiers, H., Soto, D., Solovey, G., Smith, B.C., Slagter, H.A., Silvanto, J., Shepherd, J., Seitz, A.R., Scott, R.B., Schwarzkopf, D.S., Schurger, A., Schiller, D., Roskies, A., Ringach, D.L., Rees, G., Rahnev, D., Rademaker, R.L., Phillips, I., Peters, M.A.K., Pestilli, F., Pereplyotchik, D., Owen, A.M., Or, C.C.F., Odegaard, B., Mylopoulos, M., Morales, J., Mok, R.M., Mobbs, D., Mitra, P.P., Miller, K.D., Michel, M., Metcalfe, J., Martinez-Trujillo, J., Machizawa, M.G., Liu, K.Y., Lin, Y.T., Lieberman, M.D., Libedinsky, C., Lee, A.L.F., LeDoux, J., Lau, H., Lanfranco, R.C., Kwok, S.C., Kvamme, T.L., Kording, K., Konstantinou, N., Knapen, T., Kentridge, R., Hung, S.M., Hsieh, P.J., Heyes, C., Herzog, M.H., Hassin, R.R., Hanson, J.R., Gottlieb, J., Goodale, M.A., Garfinkel, S., Frith, C.D., Frankish, K., Fleming, S.M., Dux, P.E., Doerig, A., Dijkstra, N., Dennett, D.C., De Brigard, F., de Gelder, B., Cushing, C.A., Cumming, S., Christoff, K., Corlett, P.R., Cohen, M.A., Cleeremans, A., Cherkaoui, M., Charest, I., Chang, D.H.F., Carter, O., Carruthers, P., Carrasco, M., Carmel, D., Buonomano, D., Browning, J., Bisley, J.W., Bengio, Y., Bekinschtein, T.A., Baxter, M.G., Arnold, D.H., Klincewicz, M., & Cheng, T. (2025). What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?. Nature Neuroscience, 28(4), 689-693. Doi:10.1038/s41593-025-01881-x

2024

Elosegi, P., Rahnev, D., & Soto, D. (2024). Think twice: Re-assessing confidence improves visual metacognition. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 86(2), 373-380. Doi:10.3758/s13414-023-02823-0

Margolles, P., & Soto, D. (2024). Enhanced generalization and specialization of brain representations of semantic knowledge in healthy aging. Neuropsychologia, 204. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108999