By Professor Joel Pearson

Journal articles

Pearson J; Chiou R; Rogers S; Wicken M; Heitmann S; Ermentrout B, 2016, 'Sensory dynamics of visual hallucinations in the normal population', eLife, 5, pp. e17072, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17072

Bergmann J; Genç E; Kohler A; Singer W; Pearson J, 2016, 'Smaller primary visual cortex is associated with stronger, but less precise mental imagery', Cerebral Cortex, 26, pp. 3838 - 3850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv186

Lufityanto G; Donkin C; Pearson J, 2016, 'Measuring Intuition: Nonconscious Emotional Information Boosts Decision Accuracy and Confidence', Psychological Science, 27, pp. 622 - 634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797616629403

Atasoy S; Donnelly I; Pearson J, 2016, 'Human brain networks function in connectome-specific harmonic waves', Nature Communications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10340

Bergmann J; Genç E; Kohler A; Singer W; Pearson J, 2016, 'Neural Anatomy of Primary Visual Cortex Limits Visual Working Memory', Cerebral Cortex, 26, pp. 43 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu168

Bergmann J; Pilatus U; Genç E; Kohler A; Singer W; Pearson J, 2016, 'V1 surface size predicts GABA concentration in medial occipital cortex', NeuroImage, 124, pp. 654 - 662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.036

Payzan-LeNestour E; Balleine BW; Berrada T; Pearson J; Payzan E, 2016, 'Variance After-Effects Distort Risk Perception in Humans', Current Biology, 26, pp. 1500 - 1504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.023

Koenig-Robert R; Pearson J, 2016, 'Decoding the nonconscious dynamics of thought generation', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/090712

Shine JM; Keogh R; O’Callaghan C; Muller AJ; Lewis SJG; Pearson J, 2015, 'Imagine that: Elevated sensory strength of mental imagery in individuals with Parkinson’s disease and visual hallucinations', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2047

Pearson J; Naselaris T; Holmes EA; Kosslyn SM, 2015, 'Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, pp. 590 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.003

Lufityanto G; Pearson J, 2015, 'Nonconscious Emotional Information Boosts Categorically Unrelated Concurrent Visual Decisions', Journal of Vision, 15, pp. 46 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/15.12.46

Dieter KC; Tadin D; Pearson J, 2015, 'Motion-induced blindness continues outside visual awareness and without attention', Scientific Reports, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11841

Pearson J; Westbrook F, 2015, 'Phantom perception: Voluntary and involuntary nonretinal vision', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, pp. 278 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.004

Wassell J; Rogers SL; Felmingam KL; Bryant RA; Pearson J, 2015, 'Sex hormones predict the sensory strength and vividness of mental imagery', Biological Psychology, 107, pp. 61 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.02.003

Wassell J; Rogers S; Felmingam KL; Pearson J; Bryant RA, 2015, 'Progesterone and mental imagery interactively predict emotional memories', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 51, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.09.005

Khuu SK; Chung CYL; Lord S; Pearson J, 2014, 'Unconscious local motion alters global image speed', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112804

Vlassova A; Donkin C; Pearson J, 2014, 'Unconscious information changes decision accuracy but not confidence', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, pp. 16214 - 16218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403619111

Pearson J, 2014, 'New Directions in Mental-Imagery Research: The Binocular-Rivalry Technique and Decoding fMRI Patterns', Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, pp. 178 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721414532287

Keogh R; Pearson J, 2014, 'The sensory strength of voluntary visual imagery predicts visual working memory capacity', Journal of Vision, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/14.12.7

de Zilva D; Vu L; Newell BR; Pearson J, 2013, 'Exposure Is Not Enough: Suppressing Stimuli from Awareness Can Abolish the Mere Exposure Effect', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077726

Chang S; Lewis DE; Pearson J, 2013, 'The functional effects of color perception and color imagery', Journal of Vision, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/13.10.4

Dieter K; Tadin D; Pearson J, 2013, 'Motion-induced blindness without awareness or attention', Journal of Vision, 13, pp. 1101 - 1101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/13.9.1101

Pearson J; Kosslyn SM, 2013, 'Mental imagery', FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00198

Vlassova A; Pearson J, 2013, 'Look Before You Leap: Sensory Memory Improves Decision Making', Psychological Science, 24, pp. 1635 - 1643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797612474321

Lewis D; O'Reilly M; Khuu SK; Pearson J, 2013, 'Conditioning the mind’s eye: Associative learning with voluntary mental imager', Clinical Psychological Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702613484716

Lewis D; Pearson J; Khuu SK, 2013, 'The Color Fruit: Object Memories Defined by Color', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. Article numbere64960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064960

Vlassova A; Pearson J, 2012, 'Sensory processing in the absence of conscious awareness improves decision-making', PERCEPTION, 41, pp. 209 - 209, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000208912500661&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Pearson J, 2012, 'Associative Learning: Pavlovian Conditioning Without Awareness', Current Biology, 22, pp. 495 - 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.042

Bradley C; Pearson J, 2012, 'The sensory components of high-capacity iconic memory and visual working memory', Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 3, pp. Article number Article 355, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00355

Rademaker ; Pearson J, 2012, 'Training visual imagery: improvements of metacognition, but not imagery strength', Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00224

Ashley S; Pearson J, 2012, 'When more equals less: overtraining inhibits perceptual learning due to lack of wakeful consolidation.', Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, pp. 4143 - 4147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1423

Vlassova A; Pearson J, 2011, 'Sensory information in iconic memory can be used to improve decision-making.', Journal of Vision, 11, pp. 1250 - 1250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/11.11.1250

Pearson J; Rademaker ; Tong F, 2011, 'Evaluating the mind’s eye: The metacognition of visual imagery', Psychological Science, 22, pp. 1535 - 1542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417134

Keogh ; Pearson J, 2011, 'Mental Imagery and visual working memory', PLoS One, 6, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029221

Knaper ; Brascamp J; Pearson J; Ee RV; Blake R, 2011, 'The role of frontal and parietal areas in bistable perception', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 10293 - 10301

Knapen T; Pearson J; Brascamp J; van Ee R; Blake R, 2010, 'The role of frontal areas in alternations during perceptual bistability', Journal of Vision, 8, pp. 254 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/8.6.254

Sherwood R; Pearson J, 2010, 'Closing the mind's eye: Incoming luminance signals disrupt visual imagery', PLoS One, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015217

Pearson J, 2010, 'Inner VIsion: Seing the minds eye', Psyche, 16, pp. 1 - 8

Ling S; Pearson J; Blake R, 2009, 'Dissociation of neural mechanisms underlying orientation processing in humans', Current Biology, 19, pp. 1458 - 1462

Brascamp J; Pearson J; Blake R; Van den berg AV, 2009, 'Intermittent ambiguous stimuli: Implicit memory causes periodic perceptual alternations', Journal of Vision, 9, pp. 3-1 - 3-23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.3.3

Pearson J; Brascamp J, 2008, 'Sensory memory for ambiguous vision', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, pp. 334 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.05.006

Pearson J; Clifford CWG; Tong F, 2008, 'The functional impact of mental imagery on conscious perception', Current Biology, 18, pp. 982 - 986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.048

Pearson J; Tadin D; Blake R, 2007, 'The effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on visual rivalry', Journal of Vision, 7, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/7.7.2

Pearson J; Clifford CWG, 2005, 'Mechanisms selectively engaged in rivalry: normal vision habituates, rivalrous vision primes', Vision Research, 45, pp. 707 - 714, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.09.040

Pearson J; McBride J, 2005, 'Review: Binocular Rivalry, the Handbook of Cognition', Perception, 34, pp. 1509 - 1511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p3412rvw

Pearson J; Clifford CWG, 2005, 'Suppressed patterns alter vision during binocular rivalry', Current Biology, 15, pp. 2142 - 2148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.066

Pearson J; Clifford CWG, 2005, 'When your brain decides what you see: Grouping across monocular, binocular, and stimulus rivalry', Psychological Science, 16, pp. 516 - 519, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16008782

Pearson J; Clifford CWG, 2004, 'Determinants of visual awareness following interruptions during rivalry', Journal of Vision, 4, pp. 196 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/4.3.6

Pearson J; Clifford CWG; Holcombe AO, 2004, 'Dynamics of binding Global form', Journal of Vision, 4, pp. 1090 - 1101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/4.12.8

Clifford C; Spehar B; Pearson J, 2004, 'Motion transparency promotes synchronous perceptual binding', Vision Research, 44, pp. 3073 - 3080, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.022

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