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2016/In press

Overgaard, M. & Mogensen, J. (in press): An integrative view on consciousness and introspection, Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Overgaard, M. & Fazekas, P. (2016): Can no-report paradigms extract true neural correlates of consciousnesss? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 4, 241-242

2015

Dong, Y.M. Sandberg, K. Bibby, B.M. Pedersen, M.N. & Overgaard, M. (2015): The development of a sense of control scale, Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, 6, 1-14

Vinding, M.C., Jensen, M., & Overgaard, M. (2015). The time between intention and action affect the experience of action. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(366). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00366. View open access article.

Andersen, L.M., Pedersen, M.N., Sandberg, K. & Overgaard, M. (2015): Occipital MEG activity in the early time range (<300 ms) predicts graded changes in perceptual consciousness, Cerebral Cortex. View PDF.

Joensson, M., Thomsen, K. R., Andersen, L. M., Gross, J., Mouridsen, K., Sandberg, K., … Lou, H. C. (2015). Making sense: Dopamine activates conscious self-monitoring through medial prefrontal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 36(5), 1866–1877. http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22742. View PDF

Sandberg, K. & Overgaard, M. (2015): Using the Perceptual Awareness Scale (PAS), in: M. Overgaard: Behavioural Methods in Consciousness Research, Oxford University Press. View PDF.

Overgaard, M. (2015): The challenge of measuring consciousness, in: M. Overgaard: Behavioural Methods in Consciousness Research, Oxford University Press. View PDF.

Overgaard, M. (2015): Consciousness research methods: The empirical “hard problem”, in: M. Overgaard: Behavioural Methods in Consciousness Research, Oxford University Press. View PDF.

Overgaard, M. (2015): Behavioural Methods in Consciousness Research, Oxford University Press.

Overgaard, M. & Mogensen, J. (2015): Reconciling current approaches to blindsight, Consciousness and Cognition, 32, 33-40. View PDF.

2014

Sandberg, K., Andersen, L. M., & Overgaard, M. (2014). Using multivariate decoding to go beyond contrastive analyses in consciousness research. Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01250. View PDF

Michael, J., Sandberg, K., Skewes, J., Wolf, T., Blicher, J., Overgaard, M., & Frith, C. (2014). Unconvincing statistical and functional inferences: reply to Catmur. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00887. View PDF

Sandberg, K., Del Pin, S. H., Bibby, B. M., & Overgaard, M. (2014). Evidence of weak conscious experiences in the exclusion task. Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, 5. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01080. View PDF

Overgaard, M. (2014): The challenge of measuring visual consciousness, Perception, 43, 116

Lindeløv, J. (2014). Does computerized cognitive rehabilitation generalize?in: Replace, Repair, Restore, Relieve – Bridging Clinical and Engineering Solutions in Neurorehabilitation Biosystems & Biorobotics Volume 7, 2014, pp 61-62. View PDF

Sandberg, K. Barnes, G. Bahrami, B. Kanai, R. Overgaard, M. & Rees, G. (2014): Distinct MEG correlates of conscious experience, perceptual reversals and stabilization during binocular rivalry, NeuroImage, 100C, 161-175. View PDF

Near, J., Ho, Y. L., Sandberg, K., Kumaragamage, C., & Blicher, J. U. (2014): Human GABA levels are stable over long time intervals. NeuroImage, 99, 191-196. View PDF

Michael, J., Sandberg, K., Skewes, J., Wolf, T., Blicher, J., Overgaard, M., & Frith, C. D. (2014). Continuous theta-burst stimulation demonstrates a causal role of premotor homunculus in action understanding. Psychological Science, 25(4), 963–972. View PDF

Overgaard, M. & Mogensen, J. (2014): Conscious perception: A representational, non-reductionistic, level-dependent approach, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological Sciences, 369, 20130209. View PDF.

Sandberg, K. Barnes, G.R., Rees, G. & Overgaard, M. (2014): Magnetoencephalographic activity related to conscious perception is stable within individuals across years but not between individuals, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 4, 840-853. View PDF.

Jensen, M., Vagnoni, E., Overgaard, M. & Haggard, P. (2014): Experience of action depends on intention, not body movement: an experiment on memory for mens rea, Neuropsychologia, 55, 122-127. View PDF.

White, T. Engen, N. Sørensen, S. Overgaard, M. & Shergill, S. (2014): Certainty and confidence from the triple-network perspective: A voxel-based meta-analysis, Brain and Cognition, 85, 191-200. View PDF.

2013

Sørensen, T. A., Nordfang, M., Pedersen, M. N., Overgaard, M. S., & Ásgeirsson, Á. G. (2013). Components of Attention in Synesthesia. Journal of Vision, 13, 1328-1328.

Asgeirsson, A., & Kristjansson, A. (2013). When actions have no consequences: Rewards in visual search and the role of contingencies. Journal of Vision, 13, 898-898.

Sørensen, T.A., Nordfang, M, Pedersen, M.N., Overgaard, M. & Ásgeirsson, Á.G. (2013): Components of attention in synesthesia, Journal of Vision, 13, 9, 1328. View abstract.

Vinding, M.C., Pedersen, M.N. & Overgaard, M. (2013): Unravelling intention: Distal intentions increase the subjective sense of agency, Consciousness and Cognition 22(3), 810–815. View PDF.

Sandberg, K., Bibby, B. M., & Overgaard, M. (2013). Measuring and testing awareness of emotional face expressions. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(3), 806–809. View PDF

Sandberg, K., Bahrami, B., Kanai, R., Barnes, G. R., Overgaard, M., & Rees, G. (2013). Early visual responses predict conscious face perception within and between subjects during binocular rivalry. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(6), 969-985. View PDF

Overgaard, M. Lindeløv, J. Svejstrup, S. Døssing, M. Hvid, T. Kauffmann, O. & Mouridsen, K. (2013): Is conscious stimulus identification dependent on knowledge of the perceptual modality? Testing the “source misidentifcation hypothesis”, Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research, 4, 116, 1-9. View paper.

2012

Ásgeirsson, Á., Kyllingsbæk, S., Kristjánsson, Á., & Bundesen, C. (2012). The weight of the visual world is modified by recent experience: Modeling repetition priming in a partial report task. Journal of Vision, 12, 931

Jóhannesson, Ó. I., Ásgeirsson, Á. G. & Kristjánsson, Á. (2012). Saccade performance in the nasal and temporal hemifields. Experimental Brain Research. 219, 107–120.

Sørensen, T.A. & Kyllingsbæk, S. (2012). Short-term Storage Capacity for Visual Objects depends on Expertise, Acta Psychologica, 140: 158-163. View PDF.

Vinding, M. Jensen, M. & Overgaard, M. (2012): Electrophysiological study of intention-to-act opposed to intention-in-action, Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness’ 16th annual meeting, Brighton, UK

Sandberg, K. Overgaard, M & Rees, R. (2012) Are the neural correlates of consciousness stable or plastic? Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness’ 16th annual meeting, Brighton, UK.

Sandberg, K., Barnes, G. R., Overgaard, M., Rees, G. (2012). MEG correlates of stabilization of binocular rivalry. Poster presented at 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China.

Overgaard, R. Overgaard, M. Blicher, J. & Sandberg, K. (2012): Hypnotizability and prefrontal GABA concentration, Poster presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness’ 16th annual meeting, Brighton, UK.

Gebauer, L. Overgaard, M. & Vuust, P. (2012): A tDCS-study of lateralization of rhythmic and melodic competence in musicians and non-musicians, The Neurosciences and Music IV – Learning and Memory, New York Academy of Sciences, 1252

Sandberg, K. Overgaard, M. & Rees, G. (2012): Are the neural correlates of conscious contents stable or plastic? Journal of Vision, 13, 12, 115

Overgaard, M. (2012): Blindsight: Recent and historical controversies on the blindness of blindsight, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1-8. View PDF

Overgaard, M. & Sandberg, K. (2012): Kinds of access: Different methods for report reveal different kinds of metacognitive access, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological Sciences, 367, 1287-1296. View PDF

Campbell-Meiklejohn, D. K., Simonsen, A., Jensen, M., Wohlert, V., Gjerloff, T., Scheel-Kruger, J., Moller, A., Frith, C. D. Roepstorff, A. (2012). Modulation of Social Influence by Methylphenidate. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37, 1517-1525. View PDF.

Overgaard, M. & Grünbaum, T. (2012): Cognitive and non-cognitive approaches to consciousness, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 3, 137. View PDF

Overgaard, M. (2012): Defining experience, MIT Technology Review, Jan/Feb issue, 1-2. View online

Overgaard, M. & Jensen, M. (2012): Consciousness and neural plasticity, Frontiers Books.

2011

Ásgeirsson, Á., Kristjánsson, Á., Kyllingsbæk, S., Hrólfsdóttir, K., Hafþórsdóttir, H. & Bundesen C. (2011). Position priming in briefly presented search arrays. Perception, 40, (ECVP Abstract Supplement), 109.

Kristjansson A, Johannesson O & Asgeirsson A. (2011). Saccadic asymmetries in response to temporal versus nasal trigger stimuli depends upon attentional demands. Perception, 40, (ECVP Abstract Supplement), 150.

Ásgeirsson, Á. G. & Kristjánsson, Á. (2011). Episodic retrieval and feature facilitation in intertrial priming of visual search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 73, 1350–1360.

Overgaard, M. & Overgaard, R. (2011): Measurements of consciousness in the vegetative state, The Lancet, 378, 9809, 2052-2054 Download PDF

Sandberg, K. Bibby, B. Timmermans, B. Cleeremans, A. & Overgaard, M. (2011): Task accuracy and awareness as sigmoid functions of stimulus duration, Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 4, 1659-1675. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. & Grünbaum, T. (2011): Consciousness and modality: on the possible preserved visual consciousness in blindsight subjects, Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 4, 1855-1859. Download PDF.

Jensen, M. & Overgaard, M. (2011): Neural plasticity and consciousness, Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 191, 1-4. See here.

Gebauer, L. Overgaard, M. & Vuust, P. (2011): A tDCS-study of lateralization of rhythmic and melodic competence in musicians and non-musicians, The Neurosciences and Music – IV: Learning and Memory, Edinburgh, UK

Overgaard, M. & Mogensen, J. (2011): A framework for the study of multiple realizations: The importance of levels of analysis, Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 79, 1-10. Download PDF.

Sandberg, K. Bahrami, B. Kanai, R. Barenes, G. Overgaard, M. Rees, G. (2011): Predicting the conscious experience , Vision Sciences Society 2011 Meeting, Florida, USA

Sandberg, K. Bahrami, B. Lindeløv, J. Overgaard, M. & Rees, G. (2011): The impact of stimulus complexity and frequency swapping on stabilization of binocular rivalry, Journal of Vision, 11, 6, 1-10. Download PDF.

Overgaard, M. (2011): Visual experience and blindsight: A methodological review, Experimental Brain Research, 209, 4, 473-479. Download PDF.

Lou, H. Thomsen, K. Overgaard, M. Lau, H. Mouridsen, K. & Roepstorff, A. (2011): Making sense – dopaminergic stimulation enhances confidence and accuracy in seeing rapidly presented words, Journal of Vision, 11, 15, 1-6. Downoload PDF.

2010

Ásgeirsson, Á., Aurich, M., & Kristjánsson, Á. (2010). Independent and additive effects of repetition of target and distractor sets in active visual search. Journal of Vision, 10, 1288.

Overgaard, M. & Overgaard, R. (2010): Neural correlates of contents and levels of consciousness, Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 1-3. Download PDF

Timmermans, B., Sandberg, K., Overgaard, M., & Cleeremans, A. (2010). Partial awareness distinguishes between measuring conscious perception and conscious content: Reply to Dienes & Seth. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 1081-1083. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. (2010): How consciousness will change our view on neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 3, 224-225. View PDF.

Sandberg, K. Bahrami, B. Kanai, R. Barnes, G.R. Overgaard, M. & Rees, G. (2010): Mapping the time course of binocular rivalry and perception stabilization using MEG, ASSC 14, Toronto, Canada

Aadal, L. Kirkevold, M. Overgaard, M. Borg, T. (2010): Rehabilitation of daily life competences: Intensive rehabilitation of patients with severe traumatic brain injury, 6th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation, Vienna, Austria

Overgaard, M., Timmermans, B., Sandberg, K., & Cleeremans, A. (2010). Optimizing subjective measures of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 682-684. Download PDF

Sandberg, K., Timmermans, B., Overgaard, M., & Cleeremans, A. (2010). Measuring consciousness: Is one measure better than the other? Consciousness and cognition, 19, 1069-1078  Download PDF

Overgaard, M., Jensen, M., & Sandberg, K. (2010). Methodological Pitfalls in the “Objective” Approach to Consciousness: Comments to Busch et al. (2009). Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 22(9), 1901-2. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. & Timmermans, B. (2010): How unconscious is subliminal perception? In: D. Schmicking & S. Gallagher (eds): Handbook of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Springer Verlag

Sandberg, K., Bahrami, B., Kanai, R., Barnes, G. R., Overgaard, M., Rees, G. (2010). Mapping the time course of binocular rivalry and percept stabilization using MEG. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness’ 14th annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Overgaard, M., Jensen, M. & Bibby, B. (2010): Is the neglected side of the visual field stationary or movable in visuospatial neglect? Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation, 79-81

Overgaard, R., Lindeløv, J. & Overgaard, M. (2010): Rehabilitation of attention and working memory deficits using hypnosis, Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation,, 83-85

Overgaard, M. (2010): Preserved visual consciousness in a blindsight patient, Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of Neurorehabilitation, 75-78

2009

Almarsdóttir, A.B., & Ásgeirsson, Á.G. (2009). Unused Drugs in Iceland-Value of and Reasons for Disposal. In Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 18, S231–S232.

Lipitskaya, N. Gosseries, O. Delvaux, V. Overgaard, M. Nielsen, J.F. de Noordhout, AM. Moonen, G. Laureys, S. (2009): Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in disorders of consciousness, Reviews in the Neurosciences, 20, 3-4, 235-250.

Sandberg, K. Bahrami, B. Barnes, GR. Overgaard, M. & Rees, G. (2009): Localization of cortical areas involved in conscious processing during binocular rivalry using MEG, Consciousness and its Measures, Limassol, Cyprus

Aadal, L. Kirkevold, M. Overgaard, M. & Borg, T. (2009): Rehabilitation of targeted daily life competences as situated learning – Intensive rehabilitation of patients with severe traumatic brain injury, International Council of Nurses, Durban, South Africa

Overgaard, M (2009). Unravelling the human mind. Public Service Review: European Union, 18.

Overgaard M (2009): How can we know if patients in coma, vegetative state or minimal conscious state are conscious? Progress in Brain Research, 177,11-19. Download PDF

Sandberg, K. Timmermans, B. Bibby, BM. Cleeremans, A. & Overgaard, M. (2009): Taking all bets! Is post-decision wagering a superior method for measuring conscious experience? Ph.D. Day, Aarhus, DK

Timmermans, B., Sandberg, K., Bibby, B.M., Cleeremans, A. & Overgaard, M. (2009). Three awareness scales predict performance in a visual identification task, and suggest no performance without awareness. The XVIth ESCoP Conference, Krakow, Poland.

2008

Ásgeirsson Á.G. & Kristjánsson Á, (2008). Episodic retrieval accounts of priming in visual search explain only a limited subset of findings on priming. Perception, 37, (ECVP Abstract Supplement), 93.

Overgaard, M., Sandberg, K. & Jensen, M. (2008): The neural correlate of consciousness? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254, 713-715. Download PDF

Koivisto, M. Lähteenmäki, M. Sørensen, T.A., Vangkilde, S. Overgaard, M. Revonsuo, A. (2008). The earliest electrophysiological correlate of visual awareness? Brain and Cognition,. 66, 1, 91-103. Download PDF

Overgaard, M., Fehl, K., Mouridsen, K. & Cleeremans, A. (2008): Seeing without seeing? Degraded conscious vision in a blindsight patient, PLoS ONE, 3, 8, 1-4. Download PDF

Seth A, Dienes Z, Cleeremans A, Overgaard M, Pessoa, L (2008): Measuring consciousness: Relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches, Trends in Cognitive Sciences,; 12:8, 314-321. Download PDF

Haugaard, C & Sandberg, K. (2008). Resistance in cognitive therapy: An analysis of paradigm and contemporary practice. Nordic Psychology, 60(1), 24-42.

Overgaard, M. (2008): Introspection, Scholarpedia, 3, 5, 4953. Online article

Overgaard, M., Gallagher, S. & Ramsøy, T.Z. (2008): Integration of first-person methodologies in cognitive science, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, 5, 100-120. Download PDF

Sandberg, K, Timmermas, B., Cleeremans, A. & Overgaard, M. (2008). Three different continuous awareness scales predict performance in a visual identification task and support the view that consciousness is a gradual phenomenon. ASSC 12, Taipei, Taiwan.

Seth A, Dienes Z, Cleeremans A, Overgaard M, Pessoa, L (2008): Measuring Consciousness, ASSC 12, Taipei, Taiwan

Overgaard M, Sandberg K, Timmermanns B, Cleeremans A (2008): Measuring conscious mental states, Measuring Behavior, 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2007

Overgaard, M. & Cleeremans, A. (2007): Measuring consciousness: Combining objective and subjective data, in: 11^th annual meeting of the ASSC, Las Vegas, USA, 1-47

Overgaard, M. (2007): Bevidstheden [Consciousness], in: B. Karpatschof & B. Katzenelson: Klassisk og Moderne Psykologisk Teori, Hans Reitzel

Overgaard, M. & Cleeremans, A. (2007) “Measuring consciousness”: Combining objective and subjective data, and what it may all mean. In: 11^th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, USA, Book of Abstracts, p. 27

2006

Overgaard, M. (2006): Edited special issue of Consciousness and Cognition on introspection.

Overgaard, M., Rote, J., Mouridsen, K. & Ramsøy, T.Z. (2006): Is conscious perception gradual or dichotomous? A comparison of report methodologies during a visual task, Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 700-708. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. (2006). Consciousness – the view from psychology, British Journal of Psychology, 97, 425-438. Download PDF

Overgaard, M, Koivisto, M., Sørensen, T.A., Vangkilde, S. & Revonsuo, A. (2006): The electrophysiology of introspection, Consciousness and Cognition,

15, 662-672. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. (2006): Introspection in science (editorial), Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 629-633. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. & Kriegel, U. (2006): The place for ACC and dlPFC in phenomenal consciousness, ASSC 10, Oxford

2005

Gallagher, S. & Overgaard, M. (2005): Introspection without Introspeculations, in Aydede, M. (ed.): On the Nature of Pain and the Methodology of Its Study, MIT Press.

Ramsøy, T.Z., Overgaard, M. & Christensen, M.S. (2005): The perception awareness scale – a method for studying consciousness empirically, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Copenhagen

2004

Overgaard, M, & Sørensen T.A. (2004): Introspection distinct from first order experiences, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11 (7-8), 77-95. Download PDF

Overgaard, M, Nielsen JF, Fuglsang-Frederiksen A. (2004): A TMS study of the ventral projection streams from V1 with implications for the finding of neural correlates of consciousness, Brain and Cognition, 54 (1), 58-64. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. (2004): On the naturalising of phenomenology, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 3, 4, 365-379. Download PDF

Overgaard, M. (2004): Confounding factors in contrastive analysis, Synthese, 141, 2, 217-231. Download PDF

Ramsøy TZ, Overgaard M.(2004) Introspection and subliminal perception, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences;3(1):1-23. Download PDF

2003

Overgaard M & Willert S. (2003): On the encompassing of the nature of man, commentary on Anderson & Lebiere, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(5), 614-616.

Overgaard M. (2003): On the theoretical and methodological foundations for a science of consciousness, Journal of Anthropological Psychology, 13, 6-31. Download PDF

Overgaard M. (2003): Reply to the commentators, Journal of Anthropological Psychology, 13, 72-85. Download PDF

Overgaard M, & Kauffmann O. (2003): Bevidsthedens subjektivitet: Definitoriske og metodologiske problemer, in: D. Zahavi & G. Christensen (eds.): Bevidsthedsforskning i det 21. århundrede, Roskilde Universitetsforlag.

2001

Overgaard, M. (2001): The place for phenomenology in experiments on consciousness, Psycoloquy, 12(29), 1-13. Online version