Selected Papers
[Reed students in bold]
Cohen, M., Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., & Pitts, M. (2024). Neural signatures of visual awareness independent of post-perceptual processing. Cerebral Cortex, 34, bhae415.
Hutchinson, B., Jack, B., Pammer, K., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2024). No electrophysiological evidence for semantic processing during inattentional blindness. NeuroImage, 299, 120799.
Zhu, Y., Li, C., Hendry, C., Glass, J., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Pitts, M., & Dykstra, A. (2024). Isolating neural signatures of conscious speech perception with a no-report sine-wave speech paradigm. The Journal of Neuroscience, 44(8), 1-12. [PDF]
Cogitate et al. (2023). An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness. bioRxiv.
Melloni, L., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M. et al. (2023). An adversarial collaboration protocol for testing contrasting predictions of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory. PLoS ONE 18(2):e0268577. [PDF]
Hatamimajoumerd, E., Murty, N., Pitts, M., & Cohen, M. (2022). Decoding perceptual awareness across the brain with a no-report fMRI masking paradigm. Current Biology, 32, 1-11. [PDF]
Yaron, I., Melloni, L., Pitts, M., & Mudrik, L. (2022). The ConTrSt database for analyzing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 593-604.
Kronemer et al. (2022). Human visual consciousness involves large scale cortical and subcortical networks independent of task report and eye movement activity. Nature Communications, 13:7342, 1-17. [PDF]
Dellert, T., Muller-Bardorff, M., Schlossmacher, I., Pitts, M., Hofmann, D., Bruchmann, M., & Straube, T. (2021). Dissociating the neural correlates of consciousness and task relevance in face perception using simultaneous EEG-fMRI. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(37), 7864-7875. [PDF]
Dembski, C., Koch, C., & Pitts, M. (2021). Perceptual awareness negativity: A physiological correlate of sensory consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(8), 660-670.
Melloni, L., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Koch, C. (2021). Making the hard problem of consciousness easier: Championing open science, an adversarial collaboration aims to unravel the footprints of consciousness. Science, 372(6545), 911-912.
Cohen, M., Ortego, K., Kyroudis, A., & Pitts, M. (2020). Distinguishing the neural correlates of perceptual awareness and post-perceptual processing. The Journal of Neuroscience, 40(25), 4925-4935. [PDF]
Schlossmacher, I., Dellert, T., Pitts, M., Bruchmann, M., & Straube, T. (2020). Differential effects of awareness and task relevance on early and late ERPs in a no-report visual oddball paradigm. The Journal of Neuroscience, 40(14), 2906-2913. [PDF]
Pitts, M. & Ortego, K. (2019). Why "no report" paradigms are an important tool for consciousness research. Commentary on Michel & Morales "Minority reports: Consciousness and the prefrontal cortex." Mind & Language Symposium.
Pitts, M., Lutsyshyna, A.L., & Hillyard, S. (2019). Reply to Montemayor & Haladjian. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 374:20190003. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Lutsyshyna, A.L., & Hillyard, S. (2018). The relationship between attention and consciousness: An expanded taxonomy and implications for "no report" paradigms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 373:20170348. [PDF]
Graulty, C., Papaioannou, O., Bauer, P., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018). Hearing Shapes: Event-related potentials reveal the time course of auditory-visual sensory substitution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30:4, 498-513. [PDF]
Baumgartner, H., Graulty, C., Hillyard, S., & Pitts, M. (2018). Does spatial attention modulate the earliest component of the visual evoked potential? Cognitive Neuroscience, 9:1-2, 4-19. [PDF]
Baumgartner, H., Graulty, C., Hillyard, S., & Pitts, M. (2018). Does spatial attention modulate the C1 component? The jury continues to deliberate. Cognitive Neuroscience, 9:1-2, 34-37. [PDF]
Pitts, M. & Hillyard, S. (2018). Still wanted: A reproducible demonstration of a genuine C1 attention effect. Cognitive Neuroscience, 9:1-2, 68-70. [PDF]
Schelonka, K., Graulty, C., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2017). ERP signatures of conscious and unconscious word and letter perception in an inattentional blindness paradigm. Consciousness & Cognition, 54, 56-71. [PDF]
Jackson-Nielsen, M., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2017). Perception of ensemble statistics requires attention. Consciousness & Cognition, 48, 149-160. [PDF]
Sandberg, K., Frässle, S., & Pitts, M. (2016). Future directions for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. [PDF]
Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(621). [PDF] (individual contribution: Lewis, M. & Pitts, M. )
Shafto, J. & Pitts, M. (2015). Neural signatures of conscious face perception in an inattentional blindness paradigm. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(31), 10940-10948. [PDF]
Yiu, L., Pitts, M. & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015). Electrophysiological assessment of the time course of bilingual visual word recognition: Early access to language membership. Neuropsychologia, 75, 349-367. [PDF]
Snyder, J., Yerkes, B., & Pitts, M. (2015). Testing domain-general theories of perceptual awareness with auditory brain responses. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(6), 295-297. [PDF]
Pitts, M. Metzler, S., & Hillyard, S. (2014). Isolating neural correlates of conscious perception from neural correlates of reporting one's perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1078, 1-16. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Padwal, J., Fennelly, D., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S. (2014). Gamma band activity and the P3 reflect post-perceptual processes, not visual awareness. NeuroImage, 101, 337-350. [PDF]
Davidson, G. & Pitts, M. (2014). Auditory event-related potentials associated with perceptual reversals of bistable pitch motion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:572, 1-10. [PDF]
Ryskin, R., Brown-Schmidt, S., Canseco-Gonzalez, C., Yiu, L., & Nguyen, E. (2014). Visuospatial perspective-taking in conversation and the role of bilingual experience. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 46-76. [PDF]
Pitts, M. & Martinez, A. (2014). Contour integration: Sensory, perceptual, and attention-based ERP Components, In G.R. Mangun (Ed.), Cognitive Electrophysiology of Attention: Signals of the Mind (pp. 178-189). Elsevier.
Open Science Collaboration (2014). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in The R Series) (pp. 299-323). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S. (2012). Visual processing of contour patterns under conditions of inattentional blindness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(2), 287-303. [PDF]
Feng, W., Martinez, A., Pitts, M., Luo, Y., & Hillyard, S. (2012). Spatial attention modulates early face processing. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3461-3468. [PDF]
The Open Science Collaboration (2012). An open, big science effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 7, 657-660. [PDF]
Pitts, M. & Britz, J. (2011). Insights from intermittent binocular rivalry and EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:107, 1-6. [PDF]
Britz, J. & Pitts, M. (2011). Perceptual reversals during binocular rivalry: ERP components and their concomitant source differences. Psychophysiology, 48, 1489-1498. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Martinez, A., Brewer, J., & Hillyard, S. (2011). Early stages of figure-ground segregation during perception of the face-vase. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23:4, 880-895. [PDF]
Britz, J., Pitts, M., & Michel, C. (2011). Right parietal brain activity precedes perceptual alternation during binocular rivalry. Human Brain Mapping, 32(9), 1432-1442. [PDF]
Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Brick, C., Brehm, L., Brown-Schmidt, S., Fischer, K., & Wagner, K. (2010). Carpet or Cárcel: The effect of age of acquisition and language mode on bilingual lexical access. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 5, 669-705. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S. (2010). When and where is binocular rivalry resolved in the visual cortex? Journal of Vision 10(14):25, 1-11. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Martinez, A., Stalmaster, C., Nerger, J., & Hillyard, S. (2009). Neural generators of ERPs linked with Necker cube reversals. Psychophysiology. 46, 694-702. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Gavin, W., & Nerger, J. (2008). Early top-down influences on bistable perception revealed by event-related potentials. Brain and Cognition, 67(1), 11-24. [PDF]
Pitts, M., Nerger, J., & Davis, T. (2007). Electrophysiological correlates of perceptual reversals for three different types of multi-stable images. Journal of Vision, 7(1):6, 1-14. [PDF]
Brown-Schmidt, S., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2004). Who do you love, your mother or your horse? An event-related brain potential analysis of tone processing in Mandarin Chinese. J. of Psycholinguistic Research. [PDF]
Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2000). Using the recording of event-related brain potentials in the study of sentence processing. In: Y. Grodzinsky., L. Shapiro., & D. Swinney (Eds.), Language and the Brain. Representation and Processing (pp. 229-266). Academic Press.
Gibson,E., Pearlmutter,N., Canseco-Gonzalez,E., & Hickok, G. (1996). Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism. Cognition, 59, 23-59. [PDF]