Niels Kloosterman
FellowCurriculum Vitae
- 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