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Overview

Pieter R. Roelfsema is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their primary research field is Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sensory Systems, and Neurology.

Their work covers multiple main topics, detailing areas such as Neural dynamics and brain function, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Roelfsema has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Neuron, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Neural Engineering.

Among recent published papers are the following:

  • "Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis," 2020, Neuron
  • "Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex," 2020, Science
  • "Attention for action in visual working memory," 2020, Cortex
  • "A neuronal basis of iconic memory in macaque primary visual cortex," 2021, Current Biology
  • "An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness," 2024, Neuron

Frequent collaborators in Roelfsema's research include Matthew W. Self, Paolo Papale, Feng Wang, Antonio Lozano, and P. Christiaan Klink.

Best Publications

  • The distinct modes of vision offered by feedforward and recurrent processing.

    Victor A.F. Lamme;Pieter R. Roelfsema

  • Visuomotor integration is associated with zero time-lag synchronization among cortical areas

    Pieter R. Roelfsema;Andreas K. Engel;Peter König;Wolf Singer

  • Object-based attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey

    Pieter R. Roelfsema;Victor A. F. Lamme;Henk Spekreijse

  • A deep learning framework for neuroscience

    Blake A Richards;Timothy P Lillicrap;Philippe Beaudoin;Yoshua Bengio;Yoshua Bengio

  • Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis.

    George A. Mashour;Pieter Roelfsema;Pieter Roelfsema;Jean Pierre Changeux;Jean Pierre Changeux;Jean Pierre Changeux;Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedback and feedforward processing in monkey visual cortex.

    Timo van Kerkoerle;Matthew W. Self;Bruno Dagnino;Marie-Alice Gariel-Mathis

  • The Distributed Nature of Working Memory

    Thomas B. Christophel;P. Christiaan Klink;P. Christiaan Klink;Bernhard Spitzer;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema

  • 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

  • Synchronization of oscillatory responses in visual cortex correlates with perception in interocular rivalry

    Pascal Fries;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Andreas K. Engel;Peter König

  • Role of reticular activation in the modulation of intracortical synchronization

    Matthias H. J. Munk;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Peter König;Andreas K. Engel

  • Cortical algorithms for perceptual grouping.

    Pieter R. Roelfsema

  • Figure-ground perception in the awake mouse and neuronal activity elicited by figure-ground stimuli in primary visual cortex

    Ulf H. Schnabel;Christophe Bossens;Jeannette A. M. Lorteije;Matthew W. Self

  • Oscillatory neuronal synchronization in primary visual cortex as a correlate of stimulus selection

    Pascal Fries;Jan-Hinrich Schröder;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Wolf Singer

  • The threshold for conscious report: Signal loss and response bias in visual and frontal cortex

    Bram van Vugt;Bruno Dagnino;Devavrat Vartak;Houman Safaai;Houman Safaai

  • Bottom-Up Dependent Gating of Frontal Signals in Early Visual Cortex

    Leeland B. Ekstrom;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema;John T. Arsenault;John T. Arsenault;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Perceptual learning rules based on reinforcers and attention

    Pieter R. Roelfsema;Pieter R. Roelfsema;Arjen van Ooyen;Takeo Watanabe

  • Neuronal assemblies: necessity, signature and detectability

    Wolf Singer;Andreas K. Engel;Andreas K. Kreiter;Matthias H.J. Munk

  • Role of the temporal domain for response selection and perceptual binding.

    A K Engel;P R Roelfsema;P Fries;M Brecht

  • Attention-Gated Reinforcement Learning of Internal Representations for Classification

    Pieter R. Roelfsema;Arjen R. Van Ooyen

  • Layer-specificity in the effects of attention and working memory on activity in primary visual cortex.

    Timo van Kerkoerle;Matthew W. Self;Pieter R. Roelfsema

  • Temporal binding, binocular rivalry, and consciousness

    A.K. Engel;P. Fries;P.R. Roelfsema;P. König

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Andreas K. Engel
Andreas K. Engel Universität Hamburg
Henk Spekreijse
Henk Spekreijse University of Amsterdam
Emmanuel Caux
Emmanuel Caux Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pascal Fries
Pascal Fries Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
José Cernicharo
José Cernicharo Spanish National Research Council
J. Stutzki
J. Stutzki University of Cologne
Victor A. F. Lamme
Victor A. F. Lamme University of Amsterdam
Peter König
Peter König Osnabrück University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France

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