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Overview

Juha Silvanto is a researcher affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom specializing in neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, with a total of 44 publications in the broader neuroscience field and 35 specifically in cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields addressed in their research include neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics encompass visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, and face recognition and perception. Their studies also cover transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neural and behavioral psychology, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with the researcher include Zaira Cattaneo, Timo L. Kvamme, Yoko Nagai, Kristian Sandberg, and Silvia Bona. The most common publication venues for their research are Neuropsychologia and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with additional appearances in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Cortex, and The Neuroscientist.

Selected recent publications exemplify the scope and diversity of their work:

  • Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery (2022, Cortex)
  • Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Multiple Effects on Cognition (2022, The Neuroscientist)
  • Human perceptual and metacognitive decision-making rely on distinct brain networks (2022, PLoS Biology)
  • Nonlinear interaction between stimulation intensity and initial brain state: Evidence for the facilitatory/suppressive range model of online TMS effects (2020, Neuroscience Letters)
  • What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? (2025, Nature Neuroscience)

Best Publications

  • State-dependency in brain stimulation studies of perception and cognition.

    Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto;Neil Muggleton;Vincent Walsh

  • State-Dependency of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Juha Silvanto;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Neural adaptation reveals state-dependent effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Juha Silvanto;Neil G. Muggleton;Alan Cowey;Vincent Walsh

  • Striate cortex (V1) activity gates awareness of motion

    Juha Silvanto;Alan Cowey;Nilli Lavie;Vincent Walsh

  • Double Dissociation of V1 and V5/MT activity in Visual Awareness

    Juha Silvanto;Nilli Lavie;Vincent Walsh

  • Working memory without consciousness

    David Soto;Teemu Mäntylä;Juha Silvanto

  • Information-Based Approaches of Noninvasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation.

    Vincenzo Romei;Gregor Thut;Juha Silvanto

  • Stimulation of the human frontal eye fields modulates sensitivity of extrastriate visual cortex.

    Juha Silvanto;Nilli Lavie;Vincent Walsh

  • Stochastic resonance effects reveal the neural mechanisms of transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Dietrich Samuel Schwarzkopf;Juha Silvanto;Geraint Rees

  • Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery

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  • Reappraising the relationship between working memory and conscious awareness

    David Soto;Juha Silvanto

  • New light through old windows: moving beyond the "virtual lesion" approach to transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto;Neil G. Muggleton

  • Visual working memory performance in aphantasia.

    Christianne Jacobs;Christianne Jacobs;Dietrich S. Schwarzkopf;Juha Silvanto

  • Baseline cortical excitability determines whether TMS disrupts or facilitates behavior.

    Juha Silvanto;Zaira Cattaneo;Lorella Battelli;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Improved motion perception and impaired spatial suppression following disruption of cortical area MT/V5

    Duje Tadin;Juha Silvanto;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Lorella Battelli

  • The Perceptual and Functional Consequences of Parietal Top-Down Modulation on the Visual Cortex

    Juha Silvanto;Neil Muggleton;Nilli Lavie;Vincent Walsh

  • The role of early visual cortex (V1/V2) in conscious and unconscious visual perception

    Mika Koivisto;Teemu Mäntylä;Juha Silvanto

  • Common framework for "virtual lesion" and state-dependent TMS: The facilitatory/suppressive range model of online TMS effects on behavior.

    Juha Silvanto;Zaira Cattaneo

  • Contrasting early visual cortical activation states causally involved in visual imagery and short-term memory.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Juha Silvanto

  • The causal role of the lateral occipital complex in visual mirror symmetry detection and grouping: An fMRI-guided TMS study

    Silvia Bona;Silvia Bona;Andrew Herbert;Carlo Toneatto;Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto

  • Neural activation state determines behavioral susceptibility to modified theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Juha Silvanto;Neil G. Muggleton;Alan Cowey;Vincent Walsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Neil G. Muggleton
Neil G. Muggleton National Central University
Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey University of Oxford
David Soto
David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Nilli Lavie
Nilli Lavie University College London
Claus-Christian Carbon
Claus-Christian Carbon University of Bamberg

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