Papers

Mesmer’s error: Beliefs reverse the rubber hand illusion (a Registered Report) (2026) Lush P., Dienes Z., PsyArXiv Preprint

Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real (2026) Ozsu A.B., Petrova N., Dekker T., Dijkstra N., PsyArXiv Preprint

The representational structure of imagined and perceived conscious experiences in the brain (2026) Experiment 2B Preregistration Document OSF

Hypnosis and Suggestion (2026) Sheldrake K., Dienes S., Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd Edition

The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness (2026) Cheron G., Cebolla A.M. Frontiers in Psycholgy

Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery (2026) Barnett B., Mazor M., Cabbai G., Dijkstra N. Neuroscience of Consciousness

Using history dependence to evaluate the richness of representations supporting awareness (2025) Tian K.J., Shen A., Brown R., Cleeremans A., Fleming S.M., Peters M.A.P.,* Denison R., Experiment 1 Preregistration Document OSF

Reversing the rubber hand illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control (2025) Lush P., Dienes Z., PsyArXiv Preprint

How participants create illusory experiences to help experimenters (2025) Lush P., Dienes Z., Seth A., Scott R.B., PsyArXiv Preprint

Belief-reinforcing unusual experiences may arise from phenomenological control (2025) Lush P., Scott R.B., Lovell M., PsyArXiv Preprint

Computational higher-order theories of consciousness (2025) Fleming S.M., Brown R., Cleeremans A.

Talks

A Domain Adaptation Framework for Identifying Higher-Order Reality Representations (2026) Ekhlasi A., University California Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences Colloquium Talk

Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception (2026) Denison R., MIT Consciousness Club & Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative

Constructing a Scientific Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness (2025) Brown R., Applied Philosophy in Neuroscience (APHINE), Yale University 

Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness (2025) Brown, R., Marist University

Conversations on Consciousness: How the CCN Community Can Contribute (2025) Linton P., Peters M.A.K., Fleming S.M., Muckli L. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Community Event

Posters

What we talk about when we talk about vividness (2026) Huang, X., Shen, A., Olsson, E., Klimova, M., Ekhlasi, A., Yurdakul, O.C., Peters, M.A.K.*, & Morales, J.* Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

How does your brain know what's real? Domain adaptation and fMRI approaches to revealing the neural mechanisms of reality monitoring (2026). Ekhlasi, A., Olsson, E., Klimova, M., Huang, X., Shen, A., Garcia, K., Dijkstra, N., Morales, J.*, & Peters, M.A.K.* Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

A novel approach to characterizing the visual dimensions of mental imagery vividness using Gaussian process regression (2026) Yurdakul, O.C., Huang, X., Shen, A., Olsson, E., Ekhlasi, A., Klimova, M., Morales, J.*, & Peters, M.A.K.* Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

Evoked Potentials of Saccades Directed to Human Face Emotional Recognition Are Modified by Conscious Top-Down Imaginary State (2025) Cheron G., Hashemi S.I., Loukianov A., Ristori D., Cleeremans A., Cebolla A.M., International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience

Reproducible and open-source fMRI decoding pipelines for arbitrating theories of consciousness (2025) Ekhlasi A., Olsson E., Klímová M., Huang X., Shen A., Garcia K.M.I., Dijkstra N., Morales J.*, Peters M.A.K.*, Society for Neuroscience
*joint senior authors

What Makes Mental Images Vivid? Sharpness as the Key Visual Dimension (2025) Huang X., Shen A., Olsson E., Garcia K.M.I., Dijkstra N., Peters M.A.K.*, Morales J.* Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting & Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness AbstractPoster
*joint senior authors