Jeay-Bizot, L., Chishti, R., Maoz, U., & Schurger, A. (2026). No evidence for modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase during natural breathing. PLOS Biology, 24(9), Article e3003982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003982
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Works from Aaron Schurger
Triggiani, A. I., Whitmarsh, A., Schurger, A., Maoz, U., & Hallett, M. (2026). Factors that influence the amplitude of the bereitschaftspotential. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106738
Roskies, A. L., Schurger, A., & Maoz, U. (2025). Neuroscientists should set a high bar for evidence against free will. Scientific American.
Rimkevičius, P., Vierkant, T., & Schurger, A. (2025). The Experience of Deciding: An Electroencephalography Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.103
Pech, G. P., Caspar, E., Pacherie, E., Cleeremans, A., & Maoz, U. (2025). A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf023. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf023
Nunes, U. B., Nicolacoudis, A., Sarig, A., Fish, N., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Schurger, A. (2025). Visual Awareness Positivity: a Novel Neural Correlate of Consciousness. Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2277-2277. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.9.2277
Mudrik, L., Faivre, N., Pitts, M., & Schurger, A. (2025). On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.012
Hopkins, A. R., Lan, T., & Schurger, A. (2025). Self-initiated action rescues visual targets from backwards masking. Iscience, 28(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113244
Gavenas, J., Schurger, A., & Maoz, U. (2025). Probing for intentions: The early readiness potential does not reflect awareness of motor preparation. Imaging Neuroscience 2025; 3 imag_a_00465. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00465
Dominik, T., Mele, A., Schurger, A., & Maoz, U. (2024). Libet’s legacy: A primer to the neuroscience of volition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105503
Gavenas, J., Rutishauser, U., Schurger, A., & Maoz, U. (2024). Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51401-x
Mudrik, L., Mylopoulos, M., Negro, N., & Schurger, A. (2023). Theories of consciousness and a life worth living. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 53, 101299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2023.101299
Triggiani, A.I., Kreiman, G., Lewis, C., Maoz, U., Mele, A., Mudrik, L., Roskies, A.L., Schurger, A., Hallett, M. (2023) What is the Intention to Move and When Does it Occur? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105199
Herzog, M. H., Schurger, A., & Doerig, A. (2022). First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument. Consciousness and Cognition, 98, 103261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103261
Mudrik, L., Gur Arie, I., Amir, Y., Shir, Y., Hieronymi, P., Maoz, U., O’Connor, T., Schurger, A., Vargas, M., Vierkant, T., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Roskies, A. (2022). Free will without consciousness? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.005
Schurger, A., & Graziano, M. (2022). Consciousness explained or described?. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2022(2), niac001. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niac001
Schurger, A., Pak, J., & Roskies, A. L. (2021). What Is the Readiness Potential?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.04.001
Schotanus, P., & Schurger, A. (2020). Spontaneous Volatility: Fooled by Reflexive Randomness. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2020.1771715
Doerig, A., Schurger, A., & Herzog, M. H. (2020). Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1772214
Travers, E., Khalighinejad, N., Schurger, A., & Haggard, P. (2020). Do readiness potentials happen all the time? NeuroImage, 206, 116286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116286
İşcan, Z., Schurger, A., Vernet, M., Sitt, J. D., & Valero-Cabré, A. (2018). Pre-stimulus theta power is correlated with variation of motor evoked potential latency: a single-pulse TMS study. Experimental Brain Research, 236(11), 3003-3014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-018-5359-3
Schwiedrzik, C. M., Melloni, L., & Schurger, A. (2018). Mooney face stimuli for visual perception research. PloS one, 13(7), e0200106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200106
Schurger, A. (2018). Specific relationship between the shape of the readiness potential, subjective decision time, and waiting time predicted by an accumulator model with temporally autocorrelated input noise. Eneuro, 5(1). https://10.1523/ENEURO.0302-17.2018
Schurger, A., Faivre, N., Cammoun, L., Trovó, B., & Blanke, O. (2017). Entrainment of voluntary movement to undetected auditory regularities. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1-7. https://10.1038/s41598-017-15126-w
Khalighinejad, N., Schurger, A., Desantis, A., Zmigrod, L., & Haggard, P. (2018). Precursor processes of human self-initiated action. Neuroimage, 165, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.057
Schurger A (2017) The Neuropsychology of Free Will, in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, S. Schneider & M. Velmans Eds., John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, UK.
Marchesotti, S., Martuzzi, R., Schurger, A., Blefari, M. L., del Millán, J. R., Bleuler, H., & Blanke, O. (2017). Cortical and subcortical mechanisms of brain‐machine interfaces. Human brain mapping, 38(6), 2971-2989. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23566
Schurger, A., Gale, S., Gozel, O., & Blanke, O. (2017). Performance monitoring for brain-computer-interface actions. Brain and cognition, 111, 44-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2016.09.009
Webb, T. W., Igelström, K. M., Schurger, A., & Graziano, M. S. (2016). Cortical networks involved in visual awareness independent of visual attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(48), 13923-13928. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611505113
Gale, S., Prsa, M., Schurger, A., Gay, A., Paillard, A., Herbelin, B., … & Blanke, O. (2016). Oscillatory neural responses evoked by natural vestibular stimuli in humans. Journal of neurophysiology, 115(3), 1228-1242. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00153.2015
Schurger, A., Mylopoulos, M., & Rosenthal, D. (2016). Neural antecedents of spontaneous voluntary movement: a new perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(2), 77-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.11.003
Evans, N., Gale, S., Schurger, A., & Blanke, O. (2015). Visual feedback dominates the sense of agency for brain-machine actions. PloS one, 10(6), e0130019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130019
Schurger, A., Kim, M. S., & Cohen, J. D. (2015). Paradoxical interaction between ocular activity, perception, and decision confidence at the threshold of vision. PloS one, 10(5), e0125278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125278
Schurger A, Uithol S (2015) Nowhere and everywhere: the causal origin of voluntary action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://10.1007/s13164-014-0223-2
King, J. R., Gramfort, A., Schurger, A., Naccache, L., & Dehaene, S. (2014). Two distinct dynamic modes subtend the detection of unexpected sounds. PloS one, 9(1), e85791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085791
Schurger, A., Marti, S., & Dehaene, S. (2013). Reducing multi-sensor data to a single time course that reveals experimental effects. BMC neuroscience, 14(1), 1-19. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/122
King, J. R., Faugeras, F., Gramfort, A., Schurger, A., El Karoui, I., Sitt, J. D., … & Cohen, L. (2013). Single-trial decoding of auditory novelty responses facilitates the detection of residual consciousness. Neuroimage, 83, 726-738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.013
Schurger A, Cowey A (2013) Blindsight, in Encyclopedia of the Mind, H. Pashler Ed., Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
Schurger, A., Sitt, J. D., & Dehaene, S. (2012). An accumulator model for spontaneous neural activity prior to self-initiated movement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(42), E2904-E2913. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210467109
Schurger, A., Pereira, F., Treisman, A., & Cohen, J. D. (2010). Reproducibility distinguishes conscious from nonconscious neural representations. Science, 327(5961), 97-99. https://10.1126/science.1180029
Schurger, A. (2009). A very inexpensive MRI-compatible method for dichoptic visual stimulation. Journal of neuroscience methods, 177(1), 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.09.028
Schurger, A., Cowey, A., Cohen, J. D., Treisman, A., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2008). Distinct and independent correlates of attention and awareness in a hemianopic patient. Neuropsychologia, 46(8), 2189-2197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.020
Schurger, A., Cowey, A., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2006). Induced gamma-band oscillations correlate with awareness in hemianopic patient GY. Neuropsychologia, 44(10), 1796-1803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.03.015
Nieuwenhuis, S., Yeung, N., Holroyd, C. B., Schurger, A., & Cohen, J. D. (2004). Sensitivity of electrophysiological activity from medial frontal cortex to utilitarian and performance feedback. Cerebral Cortex, 14(7), 741-747. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh034
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