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Morten Overgaard

Morten Overgaard

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
5795
World Ranking
8903
National Ranking
24

Overview

Morten Overgaard is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their primary academic focus lies in the field of neuroscience, with substantial contributions spanning cognitive neuroscience and related subfields. Their research encompasses areas such as neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as embodied and extended cognition.

Overgaard's work is frequently published in journals like Consciousness and Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, and Neuroscience of Consciousness. They have authored multiple papers, including:

  • "Comparing theories of consciousness: why it matters and how to do it" (2021), Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • "The Perceptual Awareness Scale-recent controversies and debates" (2021), Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • "Can neurofeedback provide evidence of direct brain-behavior causality?" (2022), NeuroImage
  • "Perceptual Representations and the Vividness of Stimulus-Triggered and Stimulus-Independent Experiences" (2020), Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Worlds apart? Testing the cultural distance hypothesis in music perception of Chinese and Western listeners" (2023), Cognition

Their frequent coauthors include Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Kristian Sandberg, Timo L. Kvamme, Simon Hviid Del Pin, and Zuzanna Skóra.

Overgaard's research extensively covers topics such as:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Embodied and extended cognition
  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

The scientist's work appears in several publication venues, with highest contributions in:

  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
  • Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice

Overgaard's ongoing research emphasizes cognitive neuroscience methodologies and experimental approaches to consciousness studies and perception. Their involvement in multidisciplinary collaborations has contributed to advancing knowledge on the neural correlates of conscious experience and perceptual awareness measurement.

Best Publications

  • Introspection and subliminal perception

    Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy;Morten Overgaard

  • Measuring consciousness: is one measure better than the other?

    Kristian Sandberg;Bert Timmermans;Morten Overgaard;Axel Cleeremans

  • Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches

    Anil K. Seth;Zoltán Dienes;Axel Cleeremans;Morten Overgaard

  • Is conscious perception gradual or dichotomous? A comparison of report methodologies during a visual task.

    Morten Overgaard;Julian Rote;Kim Mouridsen;Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

  • Seeing without Seeing? Degraded Conscious Vision in a Blindsight Patient

    Morten Overgaard;Katrin Fehl;Katrin Fehl;Kim Mouridsen;Bo Bergholt

  • Kinds of access: different methods for report reveal different kinds of metacognitive access.

    Morten Overgaard;Kristian Sandberg

  • How can we measure awareness? An overview of current methods

    Bert Timmermans;Axel Cleeremans

  • Association of Psychiatric and Neurologic Comorbidity With Mortality Among Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Danish Population.

    Diana E. Schendel;Diana E. Schendel;Morten Overgaard;Jakob Christensen;Lene Hjort;Lene Hjort

  • The earliest electrophysiological correlate of visual awareness

    Mika Koivisto;Mikko Lähteenmäki;Thomas Alrik Sørensen;Signe Vangkilde

  • Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation Demonstrates a Causal Role of Premotor Homunculus in Action Understanding

    John Michael;Kristian Sandberg;Kristian Sandberg;Joshua Skewes;Thomas Wolf

  • Measuring consciousness: Task accuracy and awareness as sigmoid functions of stimulus duration

    Kristian Sandberg;Bo Martin Bibby;Bert Timmermans;Axel Cleeremans

  • Occipital MEG Activity in the Early Time Range (<300 ms) Predicts Graded Changes in Perceptual Consciousness

    Lau Møller Andersen;Michael Nygaard Pedersen;Kristian Sandberg;Kristian Sandberg;Morten Overgaard;Morten Overgaard

  • Introspection in science.

    Morten Overgaard

  • Visual experience and blindsight: a methodological review

    Morten Overgaard;Morten Overgaard

  • Can No-Report Paradigms Extract True Correlates of Consciousness?

    Morten Overgaard;Peter Fazekas

  • Optimizing subjective measures of consciousness.

    Morten Overgaard;Bert Timmermans;Kristian Sandberg;Axel Cleeremans

  • Dopaminergic stimulation enhances confidence and accuracy in seeing rapidly presented words.

    Hans Olav Christensen Lou;Joshua Charles Skewes;Kristine Rømer Thomsen;Morten Overgaard;Morten Overgaard

  • Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research

    Morten Overgaard

  • On the naturalising of phenomenology

    Morten Overgaard

  • Using the Perceptual Awareness Scale (PAS)

    Kristian Sandberg;Morten Overgaard

  • Neural correlates of contents and levels of consciousness

    Morten Overgaard;Rikke Overgaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Niko A. Busch
Niko A. Busch University of Münster
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis
Antti Revonsuo
Antti Revonsuo University of Turku
Mika Koivisto
Mika Koivisto University of Turku
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Hakwan Lau
Hakwan Lau Sungkyunkwan University
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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