2026 conferences
[Reed students in bold]
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - June 30 - July 3, Santiago de Chile
Pitts, M., Belonosov, G., Hirschhorn, R., Ferrante, O. & Mudrik, L. (2026). Empirical support for a multi-stage model of conscious perception. [TALK SLIDES]
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) - March 7-10, Vancouver, BC &
Vision Science Society (VSS) - May 15-19, St Pete Beach FL
Pitts, M., Belonosov, G., Ferrante, O., Liu, L., Hirschhorn, R., Jensen, O., Luo, H., Melloni, L., Mudrik, L. (2026). Two stages of processing for visual awareness identified in a novel inattentional blindness video-game paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
2025 conferences
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 15-19, San Diego CA
Nicolacoudis, A., Opitz, M., & Pitts, M. (2025). EEG bifurcation dynamics around visual detection threshold in no-report. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting, November, San Diego, CA. [POSTER PDF]
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - July 6-9, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Nicolacoudis, A., Bruzadin Nunes, U., Sarig, A., Fish, N., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Schurger, A. (2025). Two, not one, electrophysiological correlates of consciousness: Evidence from a no-report inattentional blindness paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
Opitz, M., Nicolacoudis, A., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2025). EEG bifurcation dynamics around visual detection threshold in no-report. [POSTER PDF]
Faivre, N., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Schurger, A. (2025). Reconciling phenomenal and access consciousness through evidence accumulation. [POSTER PDF]
Belonosov, G., Ferrante, O., Liu, L., Hirschhorn, R., Jensen, O., Lou, H., Melloni, L., Mudrik, L., & Pitts, M. (2025). Using classification from report to no-report trials to reveal neural correlates of consciousness. [POSTER PDF]
Cogitate Consortium, Hirschhorn, R., Melloni, L., Pitts, M., & Mudrik, L. (2025). Testing the global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory via adversarial collaboration: Introducing Cogitate’s Experiment 2. [POSTER PDF]
Liu, L., Roth, Z., Ferrante, O., Khalaf, A., Richter, D., Vidal, Y., Jensen, O., Luo, H., de Lange, F., Blumenfeld, H., Melloni, L., Pitts, M., & Mudrik, L. (2025). Neural decoding of conscious vs. unconscious visual stimuli: Testing the global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories. [POSTER PDF]
Cui, X., Ekman, M., Liu, L., Ferrante, O., Khalaf, A., Richter, D., Vidal, Y., Jensen, O., Luo, H., de Lange, F., Blumenfeld, H., Melloni, L., Pitts, M., Murdik, L., & Cogitate Consortium. (2025). Brain activity and synchronization in conscious perception: Insights from Cogitate Experiment 2. [POSTER PDF]
Oyarzo, P., Roth, Z., Ferrante, O., Khalaf, A., Liu, L., Richter, D., Vidal, Y., Jensen, O., Luo, H., de Lange, F., Blumenfeld, H., Melloni, L., Pitts, M., & Mudrik, L. (2025). Testing integrated information theory predictions by assessing representational similarity in brain activity. [POSTER PDF]
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) - May 16-20, St Pete Beach FL
Bruzadin Nunes, U., Nicolacoudis, A., Sarig, A., Fish, N., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Schurger, A. (2025) Visual awareness positivity: A novel neural correlate of consciousness. [TALK SLIDES]
2023 conferences
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - June 22-25, New York City
Melloni, L., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., & Cogitate Consortium (2023) Putting theories to test: an overview of the Cogitate Consortium - an open science adversarial collaboration testing GNWT and IIT. [POSTER PDF]
Pitts, M. (2023) Attention, consciousness, and the richness debate. [TALK SLIDES]
2022 conferences
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 12-16, San Diego CA
Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2022) EEG bifurcation dynamics in the absence of report in a visual masking paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
Liu, A. & Pitts, M. (2022) Spatial attention control mechanism modulated by subliminal stimuli. [POSTER PDF]
Nicolacoudis, A., Allison, L., Montano, I., Rajendran, A., Fenner, M., Pitts, M., Sarig, A., Mudrik, L., & Schurger, A. (2022) Triangulating consciousness: A no-report dichoptic color fusion EEG paradigm for isolating NCCs. [POSTER PDF]
Montano, I., Rajendran, A., Allison, L., Nicolacoudis, A., Mudrik, L., Sarig, A., Schurger, A., & Pitts, M. (2022) Triangulating neural correlates of consciousness. [POSTER PDF]
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - July 12-15, Amsterdam Netherlands
Pitts, M., Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., & Cohen, M. (2022) Distinct EEG bifurcation dynamics in report and no-report conditions of a visual masking paradigm. [TALK SLIDES]
Fenner, M., Pitts, M., Wen, E., Bennett, M., Sarig, A., Mudrik, L., & Schurger, A. (2022) A no-report dichoptic color fusion EEG paradigm for isolating NCCs. [POSTER PDF]
Franklin A. & Pitts M. (2022) "Laurel & Yanny": EEG neural correlates of an auditory bistable language stimulus. [POSTER PDF]
Barone, S. & Pitts, M. (2022) Investigating the appearance of perceptual richness: A systematic review. [POSTER PDF]
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) - May 13-18, St Pete Beach FL
Dembski, C., Ortego, K., Steinhilber, C., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2022) EEG bifurcation dynamics in a no-report visual awareness paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
2020-2021 conferences
[cancelled due to COVID-19]
2019 conferences
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - June 25-28, London Ontario CA
Kyroudis, A., Ortego, K., Hillyard, S., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2019) Neural correlates of visual awareness and task-relevance in a no-report masking paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
Ortego, K., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2019) EEG signatures of perceptual reversals of bistable visual and linguistic stimuli. [POSTER PDF]
2018 conferences
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 3-7, San Diego CA
Ortego, K., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018) Neural signatures of perceptual reversals of bistable visual and linguistic stimuli. [POSTER PDF]
Hendry, C., Hough, A., Chesley, O., Graulty, C., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018) Synesthesia, visual search, and the N2pc. [POSTER PDF]
Kyroudis, A., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2018) Neural activity linked with visual awareness and task-relevance in a novel 2x2 design. [POSTER PDF]
Pitts, M., Hendry, C., Glass, J., Dykstra, A., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018). EEG differences between perceiving speech versus noise in physically identical sine-wave speech stimuli. [POSTER PDF]
Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL) - July 26-30, Hood River OR
Ortego, K., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018) Neural signatures of perceptual reversals of bistable visual and linguistic stimuli.
Hendry, C., Hough, A., Chesley, O., Graulty, C., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018) Synesthesia, visual search, and the N2pc. [TALK SLIDES]
Kyroudis, A., Cohen, M., & Pitts, M. (2018) Neural activity linked with visual awareness and task-relevance in a novel 2x2 design. [TALK SLIDES]
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - June 26-29, Krakow PL
Pitts, M., Glass, J., Dykstra, A., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2018) Isolating neural signatures of conscious speech perception with a "no report" sine-wave speech paradigm. [TALK SLIDES]
2016 conferences
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 12-16, San Diego CA
Pitts, M. & Baumgartner, H (2016) Does spatial attention modulate afferent activity in primary visual cortex? [POSTER PDF]
Chesley, O., Graulty, C., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2016) Synesthetic grapheme-color associations are processed early in time and can guide attention during visual search. [POSTER PDF]
Scarpetta, M., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2016) Neural correlates of auditory attention in an exogenous orienting task. [POSTER PDF]
Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL) - July 28- August 1, Hood River OR
Pitts, M., Davidson, G., & Bauer, P. (2016) Isolating neural signatures of conscious perception with perceptually bistable stimuli. [TALK SLIDES]
Graulty, C., Chesley, O., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2016) The timing of synesthetic color processing and its influence on attention during visual search. [TALK SLIDES]
Scarpetta, M., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2016) Neural correlates of auditory attention in an exogenous orienting task. [TALK SLIDES]
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) - May 13-18, St Pete Beach FL
Pitts, M., Cohen, M., & Jackson-Nielsen, M. (2016) Inattentional blindness to color ensemble statistics. [POSTER PDF]
Northern California Consciousness (NCC) meeting - March 4-5, UC Davis, CA
Pitts, M. (2016) Inattentional blindness and visual awareness without report. [TALK SLIDES]
2015 conferences
Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL) - July 31- August 4, Hood River OR
Pitts, M. (2015) Progress in the search for the neural correlates of visual awareness. [TALK SLIDES]
Bauer, P., Samaha, J, Cimaroli, S., & Postle, B. (2015) Top-down control of alpha phase as a mechanism of temporal prediction. [TALK SLIDES]
Graulty, C., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015) Neuronal dynamics of grapheme-color synesthesia.
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - July 7-10, Paris FR
Pitts, M. (2015) Neural signatures of visual word form perception in an inattentional blindness paradigm. [TALK SLIDES]
Jackson-Nielsen, M. & Pitts, M. (2015) Conscious perception of color and size ensemble statistics requires attention. [POSTER PDF]
Graulty, C., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015) Color processing in grapheme-color synesthetes: An attentional blink ERP study. [POSTER PDF]
Bauer, P. & Pitts, M. (2015) Electrophysiological correlates of individual percepts arising from the bistable face-vase figure.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) - March 28-31, San Francisco CA
Graulty, C., Papaioannou, O., Bauer, P., Stephens, M., Sheiman, J., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015) Hearing shapes: ERPs reveal changes in perceptual processing as a result of sensory substitution training. [POSTER PDF]
Macrae, F. & Pitts, M. (2015) Does inducing belief in free will alter brain correlates of preconscious motor preparation?: A replication study. [POSTER PDF]
Papaioannou, O., Strand, J., Graulty, C., Ortego, K., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2015) Multistage audiovisual speech processing modulating the mismatch negativity. [POSTER PDF]
Pitts, M., Metzler, S., & Hillyard, S. (2015) Isolating neural correlates of conscious perception from neural correlates of reporting one's perception: A 2x2 manipulation of visual awareness and task-relevance. [POSTER PDF]
Schelonka, K., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2015) Preconscious, conscious, and post-perceptual processing of visual word forms in an inattentional blindness paradigm. [POSTER PDF]
2014 conferences
Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL) - July 31- August 4, Hood River OR
Pitts, M., Shafto, J., & Schelonka, K. (2014) Inattentional blindness for shapes, faces, and words: ERP correlates of attention & awareness. [TALK SLIDES]
Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Graulty, C., Papaioannou, O., Bauer, P., & Pitts, M. (2014) Studying the time course of sensory substitution mechanisms. [TALK SLIDES]
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) - May 16-21, St Pete Beach FL
Graulty, C., Papaioannou, O., Bauer, P., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2014) Electrophysiological dynamics of auditory-visual sensory substitution. [POSTER PDF]
Pitts, M., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S. (2014) Contour integration and its independence from attention, awareness, and task-relevance. [POSTER PDF]
2013 conferences
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - November 9-13, San Diego CA
Shafto, J. & Pitts, M. (2013) Visual processing of faces during inattentional blindness. [POSTER PDF]
Lewis, M. & Pitts, M. (2013) On the practice of replicating an electrophysiological study with the Center for Open Science. [POSTER PDF]
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) - July 12-15, San Diego CA
Pitts, M. (2013) Isolating NCCs that are necessary and sufficient for visual awareness. [TALK SLIDES]
Shafto, J. & Pitts, M. (2013) Neural signatures of conscious face perception: The N170 is absent during inattentional blindness. [TALK SLIDES]
Davidson, G. & Pitts, M. (2013) ERPs reflecting perceptual reversals of a novel bistable auditory stimulus. [POSTER PDF]
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) - April 12-16, San Francisco CA
Padwal, J., Pitts, M., Fennelly, D., Martinez, A., & Hillyard, S. (2013) Contour integration: Stimulus and task-based modulations of ERPs and gamma oscillations. [POSTER PDF]
Schelonka, K., Graulty, C., Canseco-Gonzalez, E., & Pitts, M. (2013) Event-related potentials elicited by sine-wave speech stimuli before and after speech recognition training. [POSTER PDF]
Yiu, L., Krisnabai-Gitanjali, K., Pitts, M., & Canseco-Gonzalez, E. (2013) An electrophysiological study of the time course of bilingual word recognition. [POSTER PDF]
