Research Interests

Niels A. Kloosterman is a PhD Student at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include the brain mechanisms underlying (un)conscious perception and perceptual decision making.

He uses neuroimaging methods such as magneto-encephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as well as psychophysics to study these topics. 

In his current work he combines a bistable perception phenomenon named "motion-induced blindness" with psychophysics and MEG to study the fine temporal pattern of brain activity surrounding perceptual state transitions.

Motion Induced Blindness

See the link below for a demonstration of the Motion-Induced Blindness illusion.

• Motion-Induced Blindness on Scholarpedia.org

Publications

Filimon F., Philiastides M. G., Nelson, J., Kloosterman, N.A., and Heekeren, H.R. (2013). "How embodied is perceptual decision making? - Evidence for separate processing of perceptual and motor decisions" Journal Of Neuroscience (Accepted)

Korjoukov, I., Jeurissen, D.J., Kloosterman, N.A., Scholte, H.S., and Roelfsema, P.R. (2012). "The Time-Course of Perceptual Grouping in Natural Scenes." Psychological Science, 23(12):1482-9.  

Poster Presentations

Niels A. Kloosterman, Arjan Hillebrand, Bob W. van Dijk, Victor A.F. Lamme, and Tobias H. Donner (2012). "Amplitude of oscillatory activity in human visual cortex predicts duration of bistable perceptual states" Society  for  Neuroscience,  42nd Annual Meeting, 13-17 October, 2012, New Orleans, LA.

Niels A. Kloosterman, Arjan Hillebrand, Bob W. van Dijk, Victor A.F. Lamme, and Tobias H. Donner (2012). "Neural activity in human visual cortex predicts bistable state durations" 35th European Conference on Visual Perception, 2-6 September, 2012, Alghero, Italy   

Niels A. Kloosterman, Arjan Hillebrand, Bob W. van Dijk, Victor A.F. Lamme, and Tobias H. Donner (2012). "The neurophysiology of motion-induced blindness in human visual cortex." 16th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, July 2012, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK.  

Niels A. Kloosterman,  Flavia  Filimon,  Marios  G.  Philiastides,  Titia van  Zuijen,  André Werner, Ulman Lindenberger, Hauke Heekeren, "Auditory Decision-making relies on a prefrontal  sensory  comparator  mechanism",  Society  for  Neuroscience,  41st Annual Meeting, 12-16 November, 2011, Washington, DC.

 Niels A. Kloosterman, Flavia Filimon, Marios G. Philiastides, Titia L. van Zuijen, André Werner,Ulman Lindenberger, Hauke R. Heekeren.  Auditory Decision-Making relies on a Prefrontal Sensory Comparator Mechanism.   16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.           

Invited Talks

Hasson lab, Psychology Department, Princeton University. 19 October, 2012.

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