Noorman, S.,, Stein, T., Zantvoord, J., Fahrenfort, J. J., & van Gaal, S. (2024). NMDA receptor antagonist memantine selectively affects recurrent processing during perceptual inference. bioRxiv. Link

Noorman, S.,, Stein, T., Fahrenfort, J. J., & van Gaal, S. (2024). Distinct neural mechanisms underlying perceptual and attentional impairments of conscious access. bioRxiv. Link

2024

Blaževski, L., Stein., T., & Scholte, H. S. (in press). Feature binding is slow: Temporal integration explains apparent ultrafast binding. Journal of Vision, Preprint

Stein, T., Gehrer, N., Jusyte, A., Scheeff, J., & Schönenberg, M. (in press). Perception of emotional facial expressions in aggression and psychopathy. Psychological Medicine. 

Stein, T., van Gaal, S., & Fahrenfort, J. J. (2024). How (not) to demonstrate unconscious priming: Overcoming issues with post-hoc data selection, low power, and frequentist statistics. Consciousness and Cognition, 119, 103669. PDF

2023

Mazor, M., Demertzi, A., Fahrenfort, J. J., Faivre, N., Francken, J., Lamy, D., Moutoussis, M., Salomon, R., Soto, D., Stein, T., & Lubianker, N. (2023). The scientific study of consciousness cannot, and should not, be morally neutral. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18, 535–543. Link

Stein, T., Ciorli, T., & Otten, M. (2023). Guns are not faster to enter awareness after seeing a Black face: Absence of race-priming in a gun/tool task during continuous flash suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 405–414. PDF, Link and Preprint

2022

Lanfranco, R. C., Stein, T., Rabagliati, H., & Carmel, D. (2022). Dissociating perceptual sensitivity from decisional factors in unconscious processing of face orientation and gaze direction. Scientific Reports, 12, 7640. Link

Stein, T., Jusyte, A., Gehrer, N., Scheeff, J., & Schönenberg, M. (2022). Intact prioritization of fearful faces during continuous flash suppression in psychopathy. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131, 517–523. PDF, Supplement, and Preprint

Stein, T., Kaiser, D., Fahrenfort, J. J., & van Gaal, S. (2021). The human visual system differentially represents subjectively and objectively invisible stimuli. PLOS Biology, 19, e3001241. Link, Preprint, and OSF/data

Stein, T., & Verosky, S. (2021). No effect of value learning on awareness and attention for faces: Evidence from continuous flash suppression and the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, 1043–1055. PDF, Preprint and OSF/data

Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2021). Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 612–624. PDF, Supplement, Preprint, and OSF/data

Pinto, Y., & Stein, T. (2021). The hard problem makes the easy problems hard – a reply to Doerig et al. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 97–98. Proofs

Stein, T., Tyack, L., & Verosky, S. (2020, March 23). Sorry, baby: Infant faces reach awareness more slowly than adult faces. Emotion, 21, 823–829. PDF

Stein, T., Utz, V., & van Opstal, F. (2020). Unconscious semantic priming from pictures under backward masking and continuous flash suppression. Consciousness and Cognition, 78, 102864. PDF

Kaliuzhna, M., Stein, T., Sterzer, P., & Seymour, K. J. (2020). Examining motion speed processing in schizophrenia using the flash lag illusion. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 19, 100165. PDF

Stein, T. (2019). The breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm: Review, evaluation, and outlook. In G. Hesselmann (Ed.), Transitions between Consciousness and Unconsciousness (pp. 1–38). London: Routledge. Link and PDF

Moors, P., Gayet, S., Hedger, N., Stein, T., Sterzer, P., van Ee, R., Wagemans, J., & Hesselmann, G. (2019). Three criteria for evaluating high-level processing in continuous flash suppression. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 267–269. PDF

Caruana, N., Stein, T., Watson, T., Williams, M., & Seymour, K. J. (2019). Intact prioritisation of unconscious face processing in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 24, 135–151. PDF

Kaliuszhna, M., Stein, T., Rusch, T., Sekutowicz, M., Sterzer, P., & Seymour, K. J. (2019). No evidence for abnormal priors in early vision in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 210, 245–254. PDF

Gayet, S., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2019). The danger of interpreting detection differences between image categories: A brief comment on mind the snake: Fear detection relies on low spatial frequencies (Gomes, Soares, Silva, & Silva, 2018). Emotion, 19, 928–932. PDF

Jusyte, A., Stein, T., Schönenberg, M. (2019). Fear processing deficit in violent offenders: Intact attentional guidance but impaired explicit categorization. Psychology of Violence, 9, 308–318. PDF

Stein, T., Awad, D., Gayet, S., & Peelen, M. V. (2018). Unconscious processing of facial dominance: The role of low-level factors in access to awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, e1–e13. PDF

Seymour, K., Stein, T., Clifford, C. W., & Sterzer, P. (2018). Cortical suppression in human primary visual cortex predicts individual differences in illusory tilt perception. Journal of Vision, 18(11):3, 1–10. Link

Sun, Y.*,  Stein, T., Liu, W., Ding, X., & Nie, Q. (2017). Biphasic attentional orienting triggered by invisible social signals. Cognition, 168, 129–139. PDF

Gayet, S., & Stein, T. (2017). Between-subject variability in the breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm: Potential causes, consequences, and solutions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 437. Link

Stein, T., Grubb, C., Betrand, M., Suh, S. M., & Verosky, S. C. (2017). No impact of affective person knowledge on visual awareness: Evidence from binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression. Emotion, 17, 1199–1207. PDF

Battistoni, E., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2017). Preparatory attention in visual cortex. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1396, 92–107. PDF

Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2017). Object detection in natural scenes: Independent effects of spatial and category-based attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 738–752. PDF

Papeo, L., Stein, T., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2017). The two-body inversion effect. Psychological Science, 28, 369–379. PDF

Rabovsky, M., Stein, T., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2016). Access to awareness for faces during continuous flash suppression is not modulated by affective knowledge. PLoS ONE, 11(4):e0150931. Link

Stein, T., Kaiser, D., & Hesselmann, G. (2016). Can working memory be non-conscious? Neuroscience of Consciousness, 1, 1–3. Link

Stein, T., Siebold, A., & van Zoest, W. (2016). Testing the idea of privileged awareness of self-relevant information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 303-307. PDF

Seymour, K., Rhodes, G., Stein, T., & Langdon, R. (2016). Intact unconscious processing of eye contact in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 3, 15-19. PDF

Stein, T., Reeder, R. R., & Peelen, M. V. (2016). Privileged access to awareness for faces and objects of expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 788-789. PDF

Reeder, R. R., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2016). Perceptual expertise improves category detection in natural scenes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 172-179. PDF

Moors, P., Stein, T., Wagemans, J., & van Ee, R. (2015). Serial correlations in continuous flash suppression. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 1, 1–10. Link

Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2015). Content-specific expectations enhance stimulus detectability by increasing perceptual sensitivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 1089-1104. PDF

Akechi, H., Stein, T., Kikuchi, Y., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H., & Hasegawa, T. (2015). Preferential awareness of protofacial stimuli in autism. Cognition, 143, 129-134. PDF

Stein, T., Kaiser, D., & Peelen, M. V. (2015). Interobject grouping facilitates visual awareness. Journal of Vision, 15(8):10, 1-11. Link

Kaiser, D., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2015). Real-world spatial regularities affect visual working memory for objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1784-1790. PDF

Stein, T., Thoma, V., & Sterzer, P. (2015). Priming of object detection under continuous flash suppression depends on attention but not on part-whole configuration. Journal of Vision, 15(3):15, 1-11. Link

Stein, T., End, A., & Sterzer, P. (2014). Own-race and own-age biases facilitate visual awareness of faces under interocular suppression. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 582. Link

Kaiser, D., Stein, T., & Peelen, M. V. (2014). Object grouping based on real-world regularities facilitates perception by reducing competitive interactions in visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111, 11217-11222. PDF

Akechi, H., Stein, T., Senju, A., Kikuchi, Y., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H., & Hasegawa, T. (2014). Absence of preferential unconscious processing of eye contact in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 7, 590-597. PDF

Sterzer, P., Stein, T., Ludwig, K., Rothkirch, M., & Hesselmann, G. (2014). Neural processing of visual information under interocular suppression: A critical review. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 453. Link

Stein, T., & Sterzer, P. (2014). Unconscious processing under interocular suppression: Getting the right measure. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 387. Link

Stein, T., Seymour, K., Hebart, M. N., & Sterzer, P. (2014). Rapid fear detection relies on high spatial frequencies. Psychological Science, 25, 566-574. PDF

Seymour, K., Stein, T., Sanders, L. L. O., Guggenmos, M., Theophil, I., & Sterzer, P. (2013). Altered contextual modulation of primary visual cortex responses in schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38, 2607-2612. PDF

Stein, T., Sterzer, P., & Peelen, M. V. (2012). Privileged detection of conspecifics: Evidence from inversion effects during continuous flash suppression. Cognition, 125, 64-79. PDF

Rothkirch, M., Stein, T., Sekutowicz, M., & Sterzer, P. (2012). A direct oculomotor correlate of unconscious visual processing. Current Biology, 22, R514-R515. Link

Stein, T., Peelen, M. V., & Sterzer, P. (2012). Eye gaze adaptation under interocular suppression. Journal of Vision, 12(7):1, 1-17. Link

Stein, T., & Sterzer, P. (2012). Not just another face in the crowd: Detecting emotional schematic faces during continuous flash suppression. Emotion, 12, 988-996. PDF

Stein, T., Peelen, M. V., & Sterzer, P. (2011). Adults' awareness of faces follows newborns' looking preferences. PLoS ONE, 6(12), e29361. Link

Stein, T., Hebart, M. N., & Sterzer, P. (2011). Breaking continuous flash suppression: A new measure of unconscious processing during interocular suppression? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 167. Link

Stein, T., & Sterzer, P. (2011). High-level face shape adaptation depends on visual awareness: Evidence from continuous flash suppression. Journal of Vision, 11(8):5, 1-14. Link

Stein, T., Senju, A., Peelen, M. V., & Sterzer, P. (2011). Eye contact facilitates awareness of faces during interocular suppression. Cognition, 119, 307-311. PDF

Stein, T., Peelen, M. V., Funk, J., & Seidl, K. N. (2010). The fearful-face advantage is modulated by task demands: Evidence from the attentional blink. Emotion, 10, 136-140. PDF

Stein, T., Zwickel, J., Kitzmantel, M., Ritter, J., & Schneider, W. X. (2010). Irrelevant words trigger an attentional blink. Experimental Psychology, 57, 301-307. PDF

Schroeter, M. L., Stein, T., Maslowski, N., & Neumann, J. (2009). Neural correlates of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic and quantitative meta-analysis involving 1351 patients. Neuroimage, 47, 1196-1206. PDF

Stein, T., Zwickel, J., Ritter, J., Kitzmantel, M., & Schneider, W. X. (2009). The effect of fearful faces on the attentional blink is task dependent. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 104-109. PDF