publications

submitted & preprints

Maniscalco, B., Charles, L., & Peters, M.A.K. (preprint, under review). Optimal Metacognitive Decision Strategies in Signal Detection Theory.

Hussain, S., Menchaca, I., Shalchy, M.A., Yaghoubi, K., Langley, J., Seitz, A., Hu, X., & Peters, M.A.K. Locus coeruleus neuromelanin predicts ease of attaining and maintaining neural states of arousal.

Hussain, S., Langley, J., Seitz, A., Hu, X., & Peters, M.A.K. (preprint, under review). A novel hidden Markov approach to studying dynamic functional connectivity states in human neuroimaging. 

Peters, M.A.K. (preprint, under review). Towards characterizing the canonical computations generating phenomenal experience. Preprint available on PsyArxiv.

Maniscalco, B.*, Graham Castaneda, O.*, Morales, J., Odegaard, B., Rajananda, S., & Peters, M.A.K. (in revision, preprint). The metaperceptual function: Exploring dissociations between confidence and task performance with type 2 psychometric curves. PsyArxiv.

Rajananda, S., Peters, M.A.K., Lau, H., & Odegaard, B. (preprint). Subjective inflation of color saturation in the periphery under temporal overload. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/227074.

2022

Rahnev, D., Balsdon, T., Charles, L., de Gardelle, V., Denison, R., Desender, K., Faivre, N., Filevich, E., Fleming, S.M.,, Jehee, J., Lau, H., Lee, A.L.F., Locke, S., Mamassian, P., Odegaard, B., Peters, M.A.K., Reyes M., G., Roualult, M., Sackur, J., Samaha, J., Sergent, C., Sherman, M.T., Siedlecka, M., Soto, D., Vlassova, A., & Zylberberg, A. (2022). Consensus goals for the field of visual metacognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Hansen, A., Pradesh, A., Vandekerckhove, J., & Peters, M.A.K. (2022). Co-Graph: Mapping the Structure of the Cognitive Sciences, Neurosciences, & AI. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting.

Ceja, V.*, Ezzeldine, Y.* & Peters, M.A.K. (2022). Models of confidence to facilitate engaging task designs. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting. [*denotes equal contribution]

Khoudary, M., Peters, M.A.K.*, & Bornstein, A.M.* (2022). Precision-weighted multi-stage evidence accumulation model. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting. [*denotes equal contribution]

Orouji, S. & Peters, M.A.K. (2022). Extracting task-relevant low dimensional representations under data sparsity. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting.

Abachi, S., Maniscalco, B., & Peters, M.A.K. (2022). Simulated fMRI signal using tuned inhibition as a biologically plausible model of perceptual metacognition. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting.

Moon, A., Zhao, J., Peters, M.A.K., & Wu, R. (2022). Interaction of prior category knowledge and novel statistical patterns during visual search for real-world objects. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

’t Hart, B.M; Achakulvisut, T., Adeyemi, A., Akrami, A., Alicea, B., Alonso-Andres, A., Alzate-Correa, D., Ash, A., Ballesteros, J.J., Balwani, A., Batty,E., Beierholm, U., Benjamin, A.S., Bhalla, U., Blohm, G., Blohm, J.C.H., Bon-nen, K., Brigham, M., Brunton, B., Butler, J.S., CCNSS, Caie, B., Cayco Gajic,N.A., Chatterjee, S., Chavlis, S., Chen, R., Cheng, Y., Chow, H.M., Chua, R.,DAI, Y., David, I., DeWitt, E.E.J., Denis, J., Dipani, A., Dorschel, A., Drugowitsch, J., Dwivedi, K., Escola, G.S., Fan, H., Farhoodi, R., Fei, Y., Fiquet,P. ́E., Fontolan, L., Forest, J., Fujishima, Y., Galbraith, B.V., Galdamez, M.,Gao, R., Gjorgjieva, J., Gonzalez, A., Gu, Q., Guo, Y., Guo, Z., Gupta, P.K.,Gurbuz, B.T., Haimerl, C., Harrod, J.B., Hyafil, A., Irani, M., Jacobson, D., Johnson, M., Jones, I.S., Karni, G., Kass, R.E., Kim, H., Kist, A.M., Koene, R.,Kording, K., Krause, M.R., Kumar, A., K ̈uhn, N.K., RAY, L.C., Laporte, M.L.,Lee, J., Li, S., Lin, S., Lin, Y., Liu, S., Liu, T., Livezey, J.A., Lu, L., Macke,J.H., Mahaffy, K., Martins, A.L., Martorell, N., Mart ́ınez, M., Mattar, M.G.,Menendez, J.A., Miller, K.D., Mineault, P.J., Mohammadi, N., Mohsenzadeh,Y., Morgenroth, E., Morshedzadeh, T., Mosberger A.C., Muliya, M., Mur, M.,Murray, J.D., ND, Y., Naud, R., Nayak, P., Oak, A., Olivos Castillo, I., Orouji,S., Otero-Millan, J., Pachitariu, M., Pandey, B., Paredes, R., Parent, J., Park, I.M., Peters, M.A.K., Pitkow, X., Poirazi, P., Popal, H., Prabhakaran, S., Qiu,T., Ragunathan, S., Rodriguez-Cruces, R., Rolnick, D., Sahoo, A.K., Salehina-jafabadi, S., Savin, C., Saxena, S., Schrater, P., Schroeder, K., Schwarze, A.,Sedigh-Sarvestani, M., Sekhar, K.Y., Shadmehr, R., Shanechi, M.M., Sharma,S., Shea-Brown, E., Shenoy, K.V., Shimabukuro. C.L., Shuvaev, S., Sin, M.C.A.,Smith, M., Stosio, K., Straley, E., Strandquist, G., Stringer, C., Tomar, R., Tran,N., Triantafillou, S., Udeigwe, L., Valeriani, D., Valton, V., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., Vincent, P., Vishne, G., Wallisch, P., Wang, P., Ward, C., Waskom, M., Wei,K., Wu, A., Wu, Z., Wyble, B., Zhang, L., Zysman, D., d’Oleire Uquillas, F., & van Viegen, T. (2022). Neuromatch Academy: a 3-week, online summer school in computational neuroscience. Journal of Open Source Education.

Peters, M.A.K. (2022). Confidence in decision-making. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.

2021

Michel, M. & Peters, M.A.K. (2021). Confirmation bias without rhyme or reason. Sythese. [pdf]

Glenn, D., Feldman, J.S., Ivie, E.J., Schechner, T., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D., Peters, M.A.K., & Michalska, K. (2021). Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults. Developmental Psychobiology.

Winter, C.J. &Peters, M.A.K. (2021). Variance misperception under skewed empirical noise statistics explains overconfidence in the visual periphery. Attention, Perception. & Psychophysics.

Van Viegen, T., Akrami, A., Bonnen, K., DeWitt, E., Hyafil, A., Ledmyr,H., Lindsay, G.W., Mineault, P., Murray, J.D., Pitkow, X., Puce, A., Sedigh-Sarvestani, M., Stringer, C., Achakulvisut, T., Alikarami, E., Selim Atay, M.,Batty, E., Erlich, J.C., Galbraith, B.V., Guo, Y., Juavinett, A.L., Krause, M.R.,Li, S., Pachitariu, M., Straley, E., Valeriani, D., Vaughan, E., Vaziri-Pashkam, M., Waskom, M.L., Blohm, G., Kording, K., Schrater, P., Wyble, B., Escola,S.,  & Peters, M.A.K. (invited, under revised review + preprint). Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with global accessibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. [PDF]

Maniscalco, B., Odegaard, B., Grimaldi, P., Cho, S.H., Basso, M.A., Lau, H., & Peters, M.A.K. (in revision, preprint). Tuned inhibition in perceptual decision-making circuits can explain seemingly suboptimal confidence behavior. PLoS Computational Biology. 

Achakulvisat, T., Ruangrong, T., Mineault, P., Vogels, T.P., Peters, M.A.K., Poirazi, P., Rozell, C., Wyble, B., Goodman, D.F.M., & Kording, K.P. (2021). Towards democratizing and automating online conferences: lessons from the Neuromatch Conferences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Allen, J.W., Trofimova, A., Ahluwalia, V., Peters, M.A.K., Rajananda, S., Foster, C., Hurtado, J., & Gore, R. (2021). Altered processing of complex visual stimuli in patients with post-concussive visual motion sensitivity. American Journal of Neuroradiology.

2020

Kellij, S., Fahrenfort, J., Lau, H., Peters, M.A.K., & Odegaard, B. (2020). An investigation of how relative precision of target encoding influences metacognitive performance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 

Rajananda, S., Zhu, J., & Peters, M.A.K. (2020). Normal observers show no evidence for blindsight in facial emotion perception. Neuroscience of Consciousness. Preprint on bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10/1101/314906

Peters, M.A.K. (2020). Efficiently adding up our sensory evidence. Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf]

Glenn, D.E., Fox, N.A., Pine, D.S., Peters, M.A.K.*, & Michalska, K.* (2020). Divergence in cortical representations of threat generalization in affective versus perceptual circuitry in childhood: relations with anxiety. Neuropsychologia. [*denotes equal contribution] [pdf]

2019

Stolyarova, A., Rakhshan, M., Peters, M.A.K., Lau, H., Soltani, A., & Izquierdo, A. (2019). Contributions of anterior cingulate cortex and basolateral amygdala to decision confidence and learning under uncertainty. Nature Communications. [pdf]

Yaghoubi, K.C., Alizadeh Shalchy, M., Hussain, S., Chen, X., Bennett, I.J., Mather, M., Hu, X., Seitz, A.R.*, & Peters, M.A.K.* (2019). Computational fMRI reveals separable representations of stimulus and choice in auditory cortex: a tool for studying the locus coeruleus circuit. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting. [*denotes equal contribution] [pdf]

Hussain, S., Alizadeh Shalchy, M., Yaghoubi, K.C., Langley, J., Chen, X., Bennett, I.J., Huang, R., Clewett, D., Nielsen, S.E., Velasco, R., Kennedy, B., Han, S., Tu, K., Seitz, A., Zhang, N., Mather, M., Hu, X.*, & Peters, M.A.K.* (2019). Locus coeruleus engagement drives network connectivity dynamics in humans and rats. Proceedings of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting. [*denotes equal contribution] [pdf]

Westphal, A.J., Chow, T.E., Ngoy, C., Zuo, X., Liao, V., Storozuk, L.A., Peters, M.A.K., Wu, A.D., & Rissman, J. (2019). Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation to left rostrolateral prefrontal cortex selectively improves source memory retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [pdf]

Michel, M., Beck., D., Block, N., Brown., R., Carmel., D., Chirimuuta, M., Chun, M., Cleeremans, A., Martinez-Conde, S., Dehaene, S., Fleming, S.M., Frith, C., Haggard, P., He, B., Heyes, C., Goodale, M.A., Irvine, L., Kawato, M., Kentridge, B., King, J.R., Knight, R.T., Kouider, S., Lamme, V., Lamy, D., Lau, H., Laureys, S., LeDoux, J., Lin, Y.T., Liu, K., Macknik, S., Mashour, G.A., Melloni, L., Miracchi, L., Mylopoulos, M., Naccache, L., Owen, A., Passingham, R.E., Pessoa, L., Peters, M.A.K., Rahnev, D., Ro, T., Rosenthal, D., Sasaki, Y., Sergent, C., Solovey, G., Schiff, N.D., Seth, A., Tallon-Baudry, C., Tamietto, M., Tong, F., van Gaal., S., Vlassova, A., Watanabe, T., Weisberg, J., Yan, K., & Yoshida, M. (2019). Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness. Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf]

2018

Michel, M., Fleming, S., Lau, H., Lee, A.L.F., Martinez-Conde, S., Passingham, R.E., Peters, M.A.K., Rahnev, D., Sergent, C., & Liu, K. (2018). An Informal Internet Survey on the Current State of Consciousness Science. Frontiers in Psychology: Consciousness Research. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02134 [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K.*, Zhang, L.Q.*, & Shams, L. (2018). The material-weight illusion is a Bayes-optimal percept under competing density priors. PeerJ. [pdf]

Knotts, J.D., Lau, H., & Peters, M.A.K. (2018). Continuous flash suppression and monocular pattern masking impact subjective awareness similarly. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [pdf]

Ruby, E., Maniscalco, B., Lau, H., & Peters, M.A.K. (2018). On a ‘failed’ attempt to manipulate conscious perception with transcranial magnetic stimulation to prefrontal cortex. Consciousness & Cognition. [pdf]

Odegaard, B., Grimaldi, P., Hah Cho, S., Peters, M.A.K., Lau, H., & Basso, M. (2018). Superior colliculus neuronal ensemble activity signals optimal rather than subjective confidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [pdf]

2017

Miuccio, M., Liu, Ka Y., Lau, H., & Peters, M.A.K. (2017). Six-fold over-representation of graduates from prestigious universities does not necessitate unmeritocratic selection in the faculty hiring process. PLoS ONE. [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K., Kentridge, R.W., Phillips, I., & Block, N. (2017). Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate. Neuroscience of Consciousness 1(1), nix015. [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K.*, Thesen, T.*, Ko, Y.D.*, Maniscalco, B., Carlson, C., Davidson, M., Doyle, W., Kuzniecky, R., Devinsky, O., Halgren, E., & Lau, H. (2017). Human intracranial electrophysiology suggests suboptimal calculations underlie perceptual confidence. Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf] [supplemental material]

Peters, M.A.K., Fesi, J., Amendi, N., Knotts, J.D., Lau, H., & Ro, T. (2017). Transcranial magnetic stimulation to visual cortex induces suboptimal introspection. Cortex. [pdf]

2016

Peters, M.A.K., Ma, W.J., & Shams, L. (2016). The Size-Weight Illusion is not anti-Bayesian after all: A unifying quantitative Bayesian account. PeerJ, 4: e2124. [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K., Ro, T., & Lau, H. (2016). Who’s afraid of response bias? Neuroscience of Consciousness. doi:10.1093/nc/niw001. [pdf]

Maniscalco, B., Peters, M.A.K., & Lau, H. (2016). Heuristic use of perceptual evidence leads to dissociation between performance and metacognitive sensitivity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [pdf]

2015

Peters, M.A.K., & Lau, H. (2015). Human observers have optimal introspective access to perceptual processes even for visually masked stimuli. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.09651. [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K., Balzer, J., & Shams, L. (2015). Smaller = denser, and the brain knows it: biases in human density perception mirror the natural distribution of object density. PLoS ONE 10(3), e0119794. [pdf]

older

Balzer, J., Peters, M.A.K., & Soatto, S. (2013). Volumetric reconstruction applied to perceptual studies of size and weight. WACV14: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. arXiv:1311.2642 [cs.CV]. [pdf]

Peters, M.A.K., Thompson, B., Merabet, L.B., Wu, A.D., & Shams, L. (2013). Anodal tDCS to V1 blocks visual perceptual learning consolidation. Neuropsychologia, 51(7), 1234-1239. [pdf]

Kim, R., Peters, M.A.K., & Shams, L. (2012). 0+1>1: how adding non-informative sound improves performance on a visual task. Psychological Science, 23(1), 6-12. [pdf]