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Christian N. L. Olivers

Christian N. L. Olivers

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
12546
World Ranking
3852
National Ranking
119

Psychology

D-Index
59
Citations
12393
World Ranking
3716
National Ranking
184

Overview

Christian N. L. Olivers is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of neuroscience, with a focused expertise in cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, experimental and cognitive psychology, and human-computer interaction.

Research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Olivers has published extensively in a number of scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Vision Research
  • Visual Cognition

Several recent papers exemplify their contributions to the field. These include:

  • "High-pass filtering artifacts in multivariate classification of neural time series data," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • "Attention for action in visual working memory," 2020, Cortex
  • "The capacity of multiple-target search," 2020, Visual Cognition
  • "Flexible Working Memory Through Selective Gating and Attentional Tagging," 2020, Neural Computation
  • "Neural Repetition Suppression Modulates Time Perception: Evidence From Electrophysiology and Pupillometry," 2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Olivers' research network. Frequent co-authors include Caterina Trentin, Heleen A. Slagter, Mieke Donk, Elle van Heusden, and Wouter Kruijne.

Best Publications

  • Different states in visual working memory: when it guides attention and when it does not

    Christian N.L. Olivers;Judith Peters;Judith Peters;Roos Houtkamp;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema

  • Feature-based memory-driven attentional capture: visual working memory content affects visual attention.

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Frank Meijer;Jan Theeuwes

  • Pip and pop: Nonspatial auditory signals improve spatial visual search

    Erik Van der Burg;Christian N. L. Olivers;Adelbert W. Bronkhorst;Jan Theeuwes

  • A Boost and Bounce theory of temporal attention

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Martijn Meeter

  • The Beneficial Effects of Additional Task Load, Positive Affect, and Instruction on the Attentional Blink.

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Sander Nieuwenhuis

  • The Beneficial Effect of Concurrent Task-Irrelevant Mental Activity on Temporal Attention

    Christian N.L. Olivers;Sander Nieuwenhuis

  • Interactions between working memory, attention and eye movements.

    Jan Theeuwes;Artem Belopolsky;Christian N.L. Olivers

  • What Drives Memory-Driven Attentional Capture? The Effects of Memory Type, Display Type, and Search Type

    Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Spreading the sparing : against a limited-capacity account of the attentional blink

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Stefan van der Stigchel;Johan Hulleman

  • In competition for the attentional template: can multiple items within visual working memory guide attention?

    Dirk van Moorselaar;Jan Theeuwes;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Early multisensory interactions affect the competition among multiple visual objects

    Erik Van der Burg;Durk Talsma;Christian N.L. Olivers;Clayton Hickey

  • From ERPs to MVPA Using the Amsterdam Decoding and Modeling Toolbox (ADAM)

    Johannes J. Fahrenfort;Johannes J. Fahrenfort;Joram van Driel;Simon van Gaal;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Looking, language, and memory: Bridging research from the visual world and visual search paradigms

    Falk Huettig;Christian N. L. Olivers;Robert J. Hartsuiker

  • Oscillatory Control over Representational States in Working Memory.

    Ingmar E.J. de Vries;Heleen A. Slagter;Christian N.L. Olivers

  • Remembering a Location Makes the Eyes Curve Away

    Jan Theeuwes;Christian N.L. Olivers;Christopher L. Chizk

  • The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of noncued visual working memory representations

    Eren Gunseli;Dirk van Moorselaar;Martijn Meeter;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • Separating distractor rejection and target detection in posterior parietal cortex--an event-related fMRI study of visual marking.

    Stefan Pollmann;Stefan Pollmann;Ralph Weidner;Glyn W. Humphreys;Christian N. L. Olivers

  • On the dissociation between compound and present/absent tasks in visual search: Intertrial priming is ambiguity driven

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Martijn Meeter

  • When visual marking meets the attentional blink: More evidence for top-down, limited capacity inhibition

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Intertrial priming stemming from ambiguity: A new account of priming in visual search

    Martijn Meeter;Christian N. L. Olivers

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martijn Meeter
Martijn Meeter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Derrick G. Watson
Derrick G. Watson University of Warwick
Martin Eimer
Martin Eimer Birkbeck, University of London
Stefan Pollmann
Stefan Pollmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Stefan Van der Stigchel
Stefan Van der Stigchel Utrecht University
Edward Awh
Edward Awh University of Chicago
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Hedderik van Rijn
Hedderik van Rijn University of Groningen

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