Pieter R. Roelfsema

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PhD Cognitive Neuroscience University of Amsterdam
Masters Artificial Intelligence University of Amsterdam
Bachelors Artificial Intelligence University of Amsterdam

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The distinct modes of vision offered by feedforward and recurrent processing (2000) (2142)
Visuomotor integration is associated with zero time-lag synchronization among cortical areas (1997) (1139)
Object-based attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey (1998) (714)
Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedback and feedforward processing in monkey visual cortex (2014) (699)
Different states in visual working memory: when it guides attention and when it does not (2011) (591)
Synchronization of oscillatory responses in visual cortex correlates with perception in interocular rivalry. (1997) (515)
A deep learning framework for neuroscience (2019) (509)
Role of Reticular Activation in the Modulation of Intracortical Synchronization (1996) (476)
The Distributed Nature of Working Memory (2017) (455)
Cortical algorithms for perceptual grouping. (2006) (354)
Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis (2020) (354)
Bottom-Up Dependent Gating of Frontal Signals in Early Visual Cortex (2008) (327)
Oscillatory Neuronal Synchronization in Primary Visual Cortex as a Correlate of Stimulus Selection (2002) (314)
Perceptual learning rules based on reinforcers and attention (2010) (278)
FigureGround Segregation in a Recurrent Network Architecture (2002) (261)
Neuronal assemblies: necessity, signature and detectability (1997) (258)
Attention-Gated Reinforcement Learning of Internal Representations for Classification (2005) (254)
Role of the temporal domain for response selection and perceptual binding. (1997) (238)
The threshold for conscious report: Signal loss and response bias in visual and frontal cortex (2018) (226)
Reduced Synchronization in the Visual Cortex of Cats with Strabismic Amblyopia (1994) (216)
Synchrony and covariation of firing rates in the primary visual cortex during contour grouping (2004) (216)
The Role of Attention in Figure-Ground Segregation in Areas V1 and V4 of the Visual Cortex (2012) (204)
How Precise is Neuronal Synchronization? (1995) (194)
The role of primary visual cortex (V1) in visual awareness (2000) (192)
Distinct Roles of the Cortical Layers of Area V1 in Figure-Ground Segregation (2013) (174)
The implementation of visual routines (2000) (172)
Control of synaptic plasticity in deep cortical networks (2018) (169)
Chronic multiunit recordings in behaving animals: advantages and limitations. (2005) (162)
Different glutamate receptors convey feedforward and recurrent processing in macaque V1 (2012) (156)
An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging (2018) (147)
The human Turing machine: a neural framework for mental programs (2011) (145)
A unified selection signal for attention and reward in primary visual cortex (2013) (145)
The effect of items in working memory on the deployment of attention and the eyes during visual search. (2006) (144)
Layer-specificity in the effects of attention and working memory on activity in primary visual cortex (2017) (138)
Basic Neuroscience Research with Nonhuman Primates: A Small but Indispensable Component of Biomedical Research (2014) (132)
The Brain's Router: A Cortical Network Model of Serial Processing in the Primate Brain (2010) (124)
The Role of Neuronal Synchronization in Response Selection: A Biologically Plausible Theory of Structured Representations in the Visual Cortex (1996) (122)
Different Processing Phases for Features, Figures, and Selective Attention in the Primary Visual Cortex (2007) (118)
Automatic spread of attentional response modulation along Gestalt criteria in primary visual cortex (2011) (109)
Early Visual Cortex as a Multiscale Cognitive Blackboard. (2016) (108)
Incremental grouping of image elements in vision (2011) (97)
Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex (2020) (96)
Attention Lights Up New Object Representations before the Old Ones Fade Away (2006) (86)
Matching of visual input to only one item at any one time (2009) (85)
Additive Effects of Attention and Stimulus Contrast in Primary Visual Cortex (2009) (81)
Subtask sequencing in the primary visual cortex (2003) (80)
Orientation-Tuned Surround Suppression in Mouse Visual Cortex (2014) (79)
Variance misperception explains illusions of confidence in simple perceptual decisions (2014) (77)
Remembered but Unused: The Accessory Items in Working Memory that Do Not Guide Attention (2009) (75)
The Effects of Context and Attention on Spiking Activity in Human Early Visual Cortex (2016) (74)
Distinct Feedforward and Feedback Effects of Microstimulation in Visual Cortex Reveal Neural Mechanisms of Texture Segregation (2017) (72)
Modulation of the Contrast Response Function by Electrical Microstimulation of the Macaque Frontal Eye Field (2009) (71)
Boundary assignment in a recurrent network architecture (2007) (69)
Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging (2020) (68)
Benchmarking laminar fMRI: Neuronal spiking and synaptic activity during top-down and bottom-up processing in the different layers of cortex (2017) (67)
Noise Correlations Have Little Influence on the Coding of Selective Attention in Area V1 (2008) (67)
3D printing and modelling of customized implants and surgical guides for non-human primates (2017) (67)
Simultaneous selection by object-based attention in visual and frontal cortex (2014) (63)
Figure-ground perception in the awake mouse and neuronal activity elicited by figure-ground stimuli in primary visual cortex (2018) (63)
The Representation of Erroneously Perceived Stimuli in the Primary Visual Cortex (2001) (62)
Ocular dominance in extrastriate cortex of strabismic amblyopic cats (2002) (60)
Slow brain oscillations of sleep, resting state, and vigilance. (2011) (60)
Mind Reading and Writing: The Future of Neurotechnology (2018) (58)
Separable Codes for Attention and Luminance Contrast in the Primary Visual Cortex (2010) (58)
In Vivo Two-Photon Ca2+ Imaging Reveals Selective Reward Effects on Stimulus-Specific Assemblies in Mouse Visual Cortex (2013) (57)
How Attention Can Create Synaptic Tags for the Learning of Working Memories in Sequential Tasks (2015) (56)
Texture Segregation Causes Early Figure Enhancement and Later Ground Suppression in Areas V1 and V4 of Visual Cortex (2016) (56)
The Effects of Pair-wise and Higher-order Correlations on the Firing Rate of a Postsynaptic Neuron (1998) (55)
A gradual spread of attention during mental curve tracing. (2003) (50)
Correlates of transsaccadic integration in the primary visual cortex of the monkey. (2004) (50)
Solutions for the Binding Problem (1998) (48)
The spatial profile of visual attention in mental curve tracing (2001) (47)
Elemental operations in vision (2005) (46)
Interactions between higher and lower visual areas improve shape selectivity of higher level neurons—Explaining crowding phenomena (2007) (45)
Task-Relevant and Accessory Items in Working Memory Have Opposite Effects on Activity in Extrastriate Cortex (2012) (44)
Learning of anticipatory responses in single neurons of the human medial temporal lobe (2015) (42)
Visual percepts evoked with an Intracortical 96-channel microelectrode array inserted in human occipital cortex. (2021) (39)
Temporal constraints on the grouping of contour segments into spatially extended objects (1999) (38)
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems I (1992) (37)
Robot Companions for Citizens (2011) (36)
Decision Making during the Psychological Refractory Period (2012) (36)
Attention for action in visual working memory (2020) (35)
Time course of attentional modulation in the frontal eye field during curve tracing. (2009) (35)
A Growth-Cone Model for the Spread of Object-Based Attention during Contour Grouping (2014) (35)
Neuronal Activity in the Visual Cortex Reveals the Temporal Order of Cognitive Operations (2010) (33)
Detecting connectedness. (1998) (32)
Working memory accuracy for multiple targets is driven by reward expectation and stimulus contrast with different time-courses (2017) (32)
Neurally Plausible Reinforcement Learning of Working Memory Tasks (2012) (31)
Reinforcement Learning of Linking and Tracing Contours in Recurrent Neural Networks (2015) (29)
The Formation of Hierarchical Decisions in the Visual Cortex (2015) (28)
The Groningen Image Processing SYstem, GIPSY (1992) (28)
Location and color biases have different influences on selective attention (2009) (28)
Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience (2020) (28)
Activity in Lateral Visual Areas Contributes to Surround Suppression in Awake Mouse V1 (2019) (27)
The Segmentation of Proto-Objects in the Monkey Primary Visual Cortex (2019) (27)
Parallel and serial grouping of image elements in visual perception. (2010) (27)
Belief states as a framework to explain extra-retinal influences in visual cortex (2015) (26)
The Time Course of Perceptual Grouping in Natural Scenes (2012) (25)
A gradual spread of attention (2003) (24)
The essential role of recurrent processing for figure-ground perception in mice (2021) (24)
Binding and Response Selection in the Temporal Domain - a New Paradigm for Neurobiological Research (1997) (22)
Frontal eye field microstimulation induces task-dependent gamma oscillations in the lateral intraparietal area. (2012) (22)
A Biologically Plausible Learning Rule for Deep Learning in the Brain (2018) (22)
A monocular, unconscious form of visual attention. (2010) (21)
Inhibitory Interneuron Classes Express Complementary AMPA-Receptor Patterns in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex (2014) (21)
The influence of attention and reward on the learning of stimulus-response associations (2017) (20)
A learning rule that explains how rewards teach attention (2015) (20)
Mouse visual cortex contains a region of enhanced spatial resolution (2020) (20)
The Contribution of AMPA and NMDA Receptors to Persistent Firing in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Working Memory (2020) (20)
Theta-phase dependent neuronal coding during sequence learning in human single neurons (2019) (19)
Attention-Gated Brain Propagation: How the brain can implement reward-based error backpropagation (2020) (19)
Serial grouping of 2D-image regions with object-based attention in humans (2016) (18)
Flexible working memory through selective gating and attentional tagging (2019) (17)
Surfing the attentional waves during visual curve tracing: evidence from the sustained posterior contralateral negativity. (2011) (17)
Population receptive fields in nonhuman primates from whole-brain fMRI and large-scale neurophysiology in visual cortex (2021) (16)
Visual information transfer across eye movements in the monkey (2004) (16)
Microstimulation of area V4 has little effect on spatial attention and on perception of phosphenes evoked in area V1. (2015) (13)
Synchronized gamma frequency oscillations correlate with perception during binocular rivalry in awake squinting ca (1996) (13)
Attention—Voluntary Control of Brain Cells (2011) (12)
Suppressive Lateral Interactions at Parafoveal Representations in Primary Visual Cortex (2010) (12)
A neuronal device for the control of multi-step computations (2013) (11)
Continuous-time on-policy neural Reinforcement Learning of working memory tasks (2015) (10)
Serial, parallel and hierarchical decision making in primates (2017) (10)
Object Selection by Automatic Spreading of Top-Down Attentional Signals in V1 (2020) (9)
Contextual effects on perceived contrast: figure-ground assignment and orientation contrast. (2015) (9)
Correlated variations in response latencies due to synchronous subthreshold membrane potential fluctuations in cat striate cortex (1997) (9)
Further evidence for the spread of attention during contour grouping: A reply to Crundall, Dewhurst, and Underwood (2008) (2010) (9)
Correlates of strabismic amblyopia in cat extrastriate visual areas (1998) (8)
How precise is neural synchronization (1995) (8)
Oscillations and Synchrony in the Visual Cortex: Evidence for Their Functional Relevance (1994) (7)
Feedforward and feedback processing during figure-ground perception in mice (2018) (7)
Do Neurons Predict the Future? (2002) (7)
Theories and methods in the scientific study of consciousness. (2015) (6)
Perceptual learning, motor learning, and automaticity (2010) (6)
Surface reconstruction, figure-ground modulation, and border-ownership (2013) (6)
Chapter V Different glutamate receptors convey feedforward and recurrent processing in macaque V 1 (2016) (6)
ALGORITHMS FOR THE DETECTION OF CONNECTEDNESS AND THEIR NEURAL IMPLEMENTATION (2001) (5)
A Quantitative Comparison of Inhibitory Interneuron Size and Distribution between Mouse and Macaque V1, Using Calcium-Binding Proteins (2020) (5)
Scene perception in early vision: Figure-ground organization in the lateral geniculate nucleus (2015) (5)
Neurophysiological Relevance of Time (1997) (5)
Binocular rivalry outside the scope of awareness (2016) (5)
Interocularly merged face percepts eliminate binocular rivalry (2017) (5)
Biologically Plausible Multi-dimensional Reinforcement Learning in Neural Networks (2012) (5)
Paying Attention to the Cortical Layers (2017) (5)
Learning resets of neural working memory (2014) (4)
A neuronal basis of iconic memory in macaque primary visual cortex (2021) (4)
The neural mechanisms of figure-ground segregation (2015) (4)
Direct comparison of population receptive fields from fMRI and large-scale neurophysiological recordings in awake non-human primates (2020) (4)
The influence of objecthood on the representation of natural images in the visual cortex (2021) (4)
The role of the different layers of primary visual cortex in working memory. (2015) (4)
A field of dreams Antti Revonsuo Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon (2007) (3)
Learning continuous-time working memory tasks with on-policy neural reinforcement learning (2021) (3)
Learning to Recall (2012) (3)
assemblies: necessity, signature and detectability (1997) (3)
Envisioning the Reward (2006) (3)
Attention in mental curve tracing task is not zoom-lens or spotlight based. (1999) (3)
Luminance contrast has little influence on the spread of object-based attention (2013) (3)
Rapidly changing synchronisation of gamma-frequency oscillations across visual, parietal, and motor areas of macaque monkeys performing a visuo-motor task (2000) (3)
Writing to the Mind’s Eye of the Blind (2020) (3)
Contextual drive of neuronal responses in mouse V1 in the absence of feedforward input (2023) (3)
Chapter 3 : Neuronal activity in area V 1 during contour grouping conforms to a growth-cone model of object-based attention (2011) (2)
Investigating FEF microstimulation and distractor effects in visual cortex with awake monkey fMRI (2006) (2)
Neuroscience: Figured Out by Feedback to the Thalamus (2019) (2)
Group Report: Emergent Properties of Natural and Artificial Systems (1998) (2)
Layers of Area V 1 in Figure-Ground Segregation (2013) (2)
Neuronal synchronization is a correlate of perceptual dominance in awake squinting cats (1996) (2)
Erratum: Layer-specificity in the effects of attention and working memory on activity in primary visual cortex (2017) (2)
Reply to ‘Can neocortical feedback alter the sign of plasticity?’ (2018) (2)
Q-AGREL: Biologically Plausible Attention Gated Deep Reinforcement Learning (2019) (1)
Complex spatio-temporal patterns of correlated oscillatory activity in multiple occipital, parietal, and frontal areas of the awake monkey during a visuo-motor task (1999) (1)
Behavioral / Systems / Cognitive Modulation of the Contrast Response Function by Electrical Microstimulation of the Macaque Frontal Eye Field (2009) (1)
1024-channel electrophysiological recordings in macaque V1 and V4 during resting state (2022) (1)
A Fovea-Like Representation of Space in Mouse Visual Cortex (2019) (1)
Biologically plausible reinforcement learning of continuous actions (2013) (1)
The direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia antagonistically influence cortical activity and perceptual decisions (2022) (1)
The effect of FEF microstimulation on contrast response functions in visual cortex (2007) (1)
Optogenetics: Eye Movements at Light Speed (2012) (1)
Neuroscience: Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind (2017) (1)
Electrochemical measurement of acetylcholine in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: A technical report (2017) (1)
Biologically plausible phosphene simulation for the differentiable optimization of visual cortical prostheses (2022) (1)
Learning a New Selection Rule in Visual and Frontal Cortex (2016) (1)
Eye Movements by Striate Cortex Phosphene Induction and the Generation of Saccadic (2015) (1)
Items in working memory do not automatically attract attention in visual search (2010) (1)
Purkinje Cell Activity in Medial and Lateral Cerebellum During Suppression of Voluntary Eye Movements in Rhesus Macaques (2022) (1)
Data repository for 'Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex' (2020) (1)
Modulatory feedback explain object segmentation by attention (2023) (1)
A negative fMRI response to reward in human visual cortex (2012) (1)
Feature Article Detecting Connectedness (1998) (0)
Modulation of LIP single unit activity caused by microstimulation of the FEF in the Macaque (2007) (0)
A Direct Comparison of Spatial Attention and Stimulus–Response Compatibility between Mice and Humans (2021) (0)
The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 Robot Companions for Citizens (2011) (0)
Reply to ‘Can neocortical feedback alter the sign of plasticity?’ (2018) (0)
Author response: Serial, parallel and hierarchical decision making in primates (2016) (0)
Attentive contour grouping revealed by activity in the primary visual cortex (2003) (0)
Parallel formation of multiple decisions in the visual cortex (2013) (0)
How attention and reinforcers jointly optimize the associations between sensory representations, working memory and motor programs (2011) (0)
Chapter 2 : Suppressive lateral interactions at parafoveal representations in primary visual cortex (2011) (0)
Learning of New Perceptual Groupings - A Biologically Plausible Recurrent Neural Network Model that Learns Contour Integration (2014) (0)
FEF microstimulation alters stimulus selectivity in visual cortex (2009) (0)
Feedback brings scene information to the representation of occluded image regions in area V1 of monkeys and humans (2022) (0)
Chapter 5 : Separable codes for attention and luminance contrast in the primary visual cortex (2011) (0)
Feedforward and feedback processing for the grouping of image elements in visual perception (2009) (0)
Neuron NeuroView Basic Neuroscience Research with Nonhuman Primates : A Small but IndispensableComponent of Biomedical Research (2014) (0)
Neural mechanisms in motion transparency and figure-ground segregation to control visual navigation (2009) (0)
Image Parsing, From Curves to Natural Images (2012) (0)
Author response: Population receptive fields in nonhuman primates from whole-brain fMRI and large-scale neurophysiology in visual cortex (2021) (0)
Report Decision Making during the Psychological Refractory Period (2012) (0)
Janssen intraparietal area task-dependent gamma oscillations in the lateral Frontal eye field microstimulation induces (2012) (0)
1024-channel electrophysiological recordings in macaque V1 and V4 during resting state (2022) (0)
Purkinje Cell Activity in the Medial and Lateral Cerebellum During Suppression of Voluntary Eye Movements in Rhesus Macaques (2022) (0)
DeepAGREL: Biologically plausible deep learning via direct reinforcement (2019) (0)
Pop-in: the inversion of pop-out for a feature dimension during visual search in area V4 of the monkey cortex (2022) (0)
Refinement of device for human patients and testing in monkeys (2017) (0)
Working memory accuracy for multiple targets is driven by reward expectation and stimulus contrast with different time-courses (2017) (0)
1 Control of synaptic plasticity in deep cortical networks 2 3 4 (2019) (0)
Chapter 3 Overlapping circuits for relative value and selective attention in primary visual cortex (2012) (0)
Visual cortical mechanisms for perceptual grouping (2013) (0)
Task-RelevantandAccessoryItemsinWorkingMemory HaveOppositeEffectsonActivityinExtrastriateCortex (2012) (0)
Development of device and proof-of-concept in monkeys (2017) (0)
Chapter VI Activity propagation along the visual cortical hierarchy during the emergence of awareness (2018) (0)
Ocular dominance distribution of cells in area 21a correlates with perceptual deficits in amblyopic strabismic cats (1998) (0)
Rivalry in squinting cats : a psychophysical study (1995) (0)
Are Biased in Favor of More Valuable Stimuli Population Response Profiles in Early Visual Cortex (2015) (0)
Features or space: Which dominates attentional selection? (2007) (0)
Biologically plausible reinforcement learning of continuous actions (2013) (0)
Brain2GAN: Feature-disentangled neural coding of visual perception in the primate brain (2023) (0)
Selective attentional guidance by items in working memory: converging fMRI and ERP results (2008) (0)
Figure-ground perception in the awake mouse and neuronal activity elicited by figure-ground stimuli in primary visual cortex (2018) (0)
How Does the Brain Learn to Link Things Together? (2020) (0)
Restoring vision via electrical stimulation through a 1024-channel microelectrode array implanted in visual cortex (2023) (0)
Remapping of attentional modulation across eye movements in primary visual cortex of the monkey (2010) (0)
Interocularly merged face percepts eliminate binocular rivalry (2017) (0)
A Direct Comparison of Spatial Attention and Stimulus-Response Compatibility between Mice and Humans. (2021) (0)
Frontal Eye field microstimulation modulates local field potential power in macaque area LIP (2010) (0)
Why do schizophrenic patients hallucinate? (2003) (0)
Involvement of superior colliculus in complex figure detection of mice (2022) (0)
The influence of attention and reward on the learning of stimulus-response associations (2017) (0)
The Essential Role of Feedback Processing for Figure-Ground Perception in Mice (2019) (0)
Solving the binding problem: Assemblies form when neurons enhance their firing rate—they don’t need to oscillate or synchronize (2023) (0)
Author response: Serial grouping of 2D-image regions with object-based attention in humans (2016) (0)
Inversion of pop-out for a distracting feature dimension in monkey visual cortex. (2023) (0)
Conditions of dominance and suppression in squinting cats : a psychophysical study of binocular rivalry (1996) (0)
Which brain mechanism cannot count beyond four? (2001) (0)
Chapter 4 Learning to select visual stimuli in area FEF of the macaque monkey (2012) (0)
Binding of shapes and locations in the visual cortex (2003) (0)
Reward expectancy biases selective attention in the primary visual cortex (2010) (0)
Dynamics of attention shifts in frontal eye fields and primary visual cortex as revealed by simultaneous recordings (2011) (0)
Perceptual grouping by synchronous gamma oscillations : evidence from binocular rivalry (1997) (0)
Microstimulation of area V 4 has little effect on spatial attention and on perception of phosphenes evoked in area V 1 (2016) (0)
Figure-ground and figure-figure segregation in curve tracing (2004) (0)
The attention-gated reinforcement learning model can explain experimentally observed changes in tuning curves that follow category learning (2009) (0)
VU Research Portal A monocular, unconscious form of visual attention (2010) (0)
Visuomotor experience induces functional and structural plasticity of chandelier cells (2023) (0)
Chapter II Calcium-binding protein expression in inhibitory interneurons of mouse and macaque V 1 (2016) (0)
Binding Contour Segments into Spatially Extended Objects (2005) (0)
The neuronal mechanisms for object-based attention and how they solve the binding problem (2022) (0)
Neural bottlenecks in concurrent multi-item visual search (2013) (0)
The neuronal mechanisms for complex decisions in the visual cortex (2013) (0)
How Gestalt rules constrain the spread of attention in visual cortex (2011) (0)

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