Preprints
Fahrenfort, J. J., Johnson, P. A., Kloosterman, N. A., Stein, T., & van Gaal, S. (2024). Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness. eLife. Link
Noorman, S., Stein, T., Zantvoord, J., Fahrenfort, J. J., & van Gaal, S. (2024). NMDA receptor antagonist memantine selectively affects recurrent processing during perceptual inference. eLife. Link
Noorman, S., Stein, T., Fahrenfort, J. J., & van Gaal, S. (2024). Distinct neural mechanisms underlying perceptual and attentional impairments of conscious access. eLife. Link
2024
Blaževski, L., Stein., T., & Scholte, H. S. (2024). Feature binding is slow: Temporal integration explains apparent ultrafast binding. Journal of Vision, 24(8):3, 1–11. Link and PDF
Stein, T., Gehrer, N., Jusyte, A., Scheeff, J., & Schönenberg, M. (2024). Perception of emotional facial expressions in aggression and psychopathy. Psychological Medicine. Link and PDF
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
2021
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
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
2020
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
2019
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
2018
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
2017
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
2016
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
2015
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
2014
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
2013
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
2012
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
2011
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
2010
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
2009
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