Research

The research in the Cognition and Plasticity laboratory focuses on (the neural basis of) core cognitive functions, such as attention, the plasticity of these functions, and their action-oriented nature. What are the mechanisms that allow us to select, suppress, and become aware of information in the environment? How does prior experience or mental training as cultivated by meditation influence these mechanisms that adaptively control information processing, our awareness and interactions with the world around us? Our methodological repertoire includes EEG, fMRI, tDCS and behavioral testing.
The lab is located at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Representative Recent Papers

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Laukkonen, R.E., & Slagter, H.A. (2021). From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
Trentin, C., Falanga, L., Jeske, J., Olivers*, C.N., & Slagter*, H.A. (in press). Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Slagter, H.A., & van Moorselaar, D. (2021). Attention and distraction in the predictive brain. Visual Cognition.
Alilovic, J., Timmermans, B., Reteig, L.C., van Gaal, S., & Slagter, H.A., (2019). No evidence that prediction and attention modulate the first feedfoward sweep of visual cortical information processing. Cerebral Cortex, 29(5): 2261-2278
van Moorselaar, D., Lampers, E. Cordesius, E., & Slagter, H.A. (2020). Neural mechanisms underlying expectation-dependent inhibition of distracting information. Elife.
van Moorselaar, D.* & Slagter, H.A.* (2020). Inhibition in selective attention. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1461(1):204-221. *equal contributions.
De Vries, I.E.J., Slagter, H.A., & Olivers, C.N.L. (2020). Oscillatory control over representational states in visual working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(2): 150-162.
Bouwer, F.L, Honing, H., & Slagter, H.A. (2020). Beat-based and memory-based temporal expectations in rhythm: similar perceptual effects, different underlying mechanisms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(7): 1221-1241.
Boonstra, E.A., van Schouwenburg, M.R., Seth, A.K., Bauer, M., Zantvoord, J.B., Kemper, E.M., Lansink, C.S., & Slagter, H.A. (2020). Conscious perception and the modulatory role of dopamine: no effect of the dopamine D2 agonist cabergoline on visual masking, the attentional blink, and probabilistic discrimination. Psychopharmacology.
Robson S.G., Baum, M.A., Beaudry, J., Beitner, J., Brohmer, H., Chin, J., Jasko, K., Kouros, C., Laukkonen, R.E., Moureau D., Searston R.A., Slagter, H.A., Steffens N.K., Tangen J.M., & Thomas, A. (2021). Promoting Open Science: A holistic approach to changing behavior. Collabra: Psychology.