Niels Kloosterman

• BSc and MSc in Psychology, 2010, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2015, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Research interests

• Brain mechanisms underlying perceptual-decision making and bistable perception 
• Functional role of neuromodulation in perceptual and cognitive tasks
• Link between age-related decline in cortical variability and cognitive factors

Selected publications

Kloosterman, N. A., Kosciessa, J. Q., Lindenberger, U., Fahrenfort, J. J., Garrett, D. D. (2020). Boosts in brain signal variability track liberal shifts in decision bias. eLife, 9, Article e54201. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54201

Kosciessa, J. Q., Kloosterman, N. A., Garrett, D.D. (2020). Standard multiscale entropy reflects neural dynamics at mismatched temporal scales: What’s signal irregularity got to do with it? PLoS Computational Biology, 16(5), Article e1007885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007885

Kloosterman, N. A., de Gee, J. W., Werkle-Bergner, M., Lindenberger, U., Garrett, D. D., & Fahrenfort, J. J. (2019). Humans strategically shift decision bias by flexibly adjusting sensory evidence accumulation. eLife, 8, Article e37321, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37321.001

Meindertsma, T., Kloosterman, N. A., Nolte, G., Engel, A. K., & Donner, T. H. (2017). Multiple transient signals in human visual cortex associated with an elementary decision. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(23), 5744–5757. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3835-16.2017

de Gee, J. W., Colizoli, O., Kloosterman, N. A., Knapen, T., Nieuwenhuis, S., & Donner, T. H. (2017). Dynamic modulation of decision biases by brainstem arousal systems. eLife, 6, Article e23232. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.23232.001

Kloosterman, N. A., Meindertsma, T., Loon, A. M., Lamme, V. A., Bonneh, Y. S., & Donner, T. H. (2015). Pupil size tracks perceptual content and surprise. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1068-1078. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12859

Kloosterman, N. A., Meindertsma, T., Hillebrand, A., van Dijk, B. W., Lamme, V. A., & Donner, T. H. (2015). Top-down modulation in human visual cortex predicts the stability of a perceptual illusion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(4), 1063-1076. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00338.2014