Mika Koivisto
PhD, Senior lecturer
mikoivi@utu.fi +358 29 450 3025 +358 50 465 1120 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: Room no. 222 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5227-0091 |
consciousness, cognition, event-related potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
I received my PhD
degree in psychology in 1999 from the University of Turku (Finland),
where I now serve as a senior lecturer of psychology in the
Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology.
My main research focus is on consciousness research. I study how conscious and unconscious visual processes proceed during time. The main research methods involve visual masking, EEG, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). My research has
been published in journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Psychological Science, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. I have
published about 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Research methods in psychology, experimental reseach, cognitive psychology, supervision of bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses
- Experiences of absorption and smooth performance during flow are linked to different aspects of creative thinking (2026)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inhibitory control and semantic richness moderate the relationship between autism spectrum characters and creative thinking (2026)
- Personality and Individual Differences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Low inhibitory control mediates the negative relationship between hypomania and creativity in divergent thinking (2026)
- Journal of Psychiatric Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New evidence and challenges in ERP and MEG correlates of consciousness in vision: A systematized review (2026)
- NeuroImage
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Event-related potential correlates of consciousness in simple auditory hallucinations (2025)
- NeuroImage
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fascination moderates the effects of nature video exposure on creative thinking (2025)
- Journal of Environmental Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Artificial Creativity? Evaluating AI Against Human Performance in Creative Interpretation of Visual Stimuli (2024)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A short simulated nature experience as an effective way to promote restoration from work-related stress (2024)
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cognitive flexibility moderates the relationship between openness-to-experience and perceptual reversals of Necker cube (2024)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Is auditory awareness graded or dichotomous : Electrophysiological correlates of consciousness at different depths of stimulus processing (2024)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



