Michael Pitts

Project Co-Lead
Reed College

Michael Pitts investigates the neural basis of perception, attention, and consciousness, primarily using EEG/ERP measures combined with manipulations of attention and perceptual awareness. In recent years, he has focused on developing “no-report” paradigms in order to better isolate neural correlates of consciousness from neural correlates of post-perceptual task-related processing.

 

Key publications

  • Dembski C, Koch C, Pitts M (2021) Physiological Correlates of Sensory Consciousness: Evidence for a Perceptual Awareness Negativity, PsyArXiv, doi:10.31234/osf.io/ma36g

  • 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, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0120-20.2020

  • Pitts M, Lutsyshyna AL, & 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, dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0348