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Overview

Timo Stein is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specializes in the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily centers on cognitive neuroscience, with extensive work exploring neural dynamics, brain function, and visual perception mechanisms. Stein's studies investigate the interaction between conscious and unconscious processing in the visual system, as well as neural correlates of face recognition and perceptual sensitivity.

Their recent notable publications include the following papers:

  • Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • The human visual system differentially represents subjectively and objectively invisible stimuli, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Gaze direction and face orientation modulate perceptual sensitivity to faces under interocular suppression, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?, 2025, Nature Neuroscience
  • Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stein include:

  • Johannes J. Fahrenfort
  • Simon van Gaal
  • Samuel Noorman
  • Niels A Kloosterman
  • Philippa A Johnson

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Nature Neuroscience

Stein's main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, the following subfields are prominent in their work:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Biophysics

The main research topics covered by Stein encompass:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Best Publications

  • Neural correlates of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic and quantitative meta-analysis involving 1351 patients

    Matthias L. Schroeter;Timo Stein;Timo Stein;Nina Maslowski;Jane Neumann

  • Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression: A New Measure of Unconscious Processing during Interocular Suppression?

    Timo Stein;Martin N. Hebart;Philipp Sterzer

  • Neural processing of visual information under interocular suppression: a critical review.

    Philipp Sterzer;Timo Stein;Karin Ludwig;Marcus Rothkirch

  • Eye contact facilitates awareness of faces during interocular suppression.

    Timo Stein;Atsushi Senju;Marius V. Peelen;Philipp Sterzer

  • Rapid fear detection relies on high spatial frequencies

    Timo Stein;Kiley Seymour;Martin N. Hebart;Philipp Sterzer;Philipp Sterzer

  • Privileged detection of conspecifics: evidence from inversion effects during continuous flash suppression.

    Timo Stein;Philipp Sterzer;Marius V. Peelen

  • Content-specific expectations enhance stimulus detectability by increasing perceptual sensitivity

    Timo Stein;Marius V. Peelen

  • The Two-Body Inversion Effect.

    Liuba Papeo;Timo Stein;Salvador Soto-Faraco;Salvador Soto-Faraco

  • The effect of fearful faces on the attentional blink is task dependent.

    Timo Stein;Jan Zwickel;Johanna Ritter;Maria Kitzmantel

  • Unconscious processing under interocular suppression: getting the right measure

    Timo Stein;Philipp Sterzer;Philipp Sterzer

  • Object grouping based on real-world regularities facilitates perception by reducing competitive interactions in visual cortex.

    Daniel Kaiser;Timo Stein;Marius V. Peelen

  • Not just another face in the crowd: detecting emotional schematic faces during continuous flash suppression.

    Timo Stein;Philipp Sterzer

  • Preparatory attention in visual cortex

    Elisa Battistoni;Timo Stein;Timo Stein;Marius V. Peelen

  • Testing the idea of privileged awareness of self-relevant information

    Timo Stein;Alisha Siebold;Wieske van Zoest

  • High-level face shape adaptation depends on visual awareness: evidence from continuous flash suppression.

    Timo Stein;Philipp Sterzer

  • Altered Contextual Modulation of Primary Visual Cortex Responses in Schizophrenia

    Kiley Seymour;Timo Stein;Timo Stein;Timo Stein;Lia Lira Olivier Sanders;Lia Lira Olivier Sanders;Matthias Guggenmos

  • Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects.

    Timo Stein;Marius V Peelen

  • Adults' awareness of faces follows newborns' looking preferences.

    Timo Stein;Marius V. Peelen;Philipp Sterzer;Philipp Sterzer

  • Eye gaze adaptation under interocular suppression

    Timo Stein;Marius V Peelen;Philipp Sterzer;Philipp Sterzer

  • The human visual system differentially represents subjectively and objectively invisible stimuli.

    Timo Stein;Daniel Kaiser;Johannes J. Fahrenfort;Johannes J. Fahrenfort;Simon van Gaal

  • Between-Subject Variability in the Breaking Continuous Flash Suppression Paradigm: Potential Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

    Surya Gayet;Timo Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Sterzer
Philipp Sterzer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Werner X. Schneider
Werner X. Schneider Bielefeld University
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia
Robyn Langdon
Robyn Langdon Macquarie University
Rasha Abdel Rahman
Rasha Abdel Rahman Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales

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