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
- Neural processing around 200 ms after stimulus-onset correlates with subjective visual awareness (2016)
- Neuropsychologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - NeuroCar Virtual Driving Environment Simultaneous Evaluation of Driving Skills and Spatial Perceptual-attentional Capacity (2016) 2016 7TH Izullah FR, Koivisto M, Aho A, Laine T, Hamalainen H, Qvist P, Peltola A, Pitkakangas P, Luimula M
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Rapid and accurate processing of multiple objects in briefly presented scenes (2016)
- Journal of Vision
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Seeing Blue As Red: A Hypnotic Suggestion Can Alter Visual Awareness of Colors (2016)
- International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Subjective visual awareness emerges prior to P3 (2016)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Unconscious vision spots the animal but not the dog: Masked priming of natural scenes (2016)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Who is afraid of the invisible snake? Subjective visual awareness modulates posterior brain activity for evolutionarily threatening stimuli (2016)
- Biological Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Affective Processing Requires Awareness (2015)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for fast emergence of visual consciousness (2015)
- Neuroscience of Consciousness
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psykoterapian vaikutukset aivotoimintoihin masennustilassa. (2015)
- Lääkärilehti
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - TMS-induced seizure following focal single-pulse IPS stimulation (2015)
- Brain Stimulation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Event-related potential responses to perceptual reversals are modulated by working memory load (2014)
- Neuropsychologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Overlapping activity periods in early visual cortex and posterior intraparietal area in conscious visual shape perception: A TMS study (2014)
- NeuroImage
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Recurrent Processing Enhances Visual Awareness but Is Not Necessary for Fast Categorization of Natural Scenes (2014)
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The chronometry of visual perception: Review of occipital TMS masking studies (2014)
- Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The influence of executive functions on spatial biases varies during the lifespan (2014)
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The linear impact of concurrent working memory load on dynamics of Necker cube perceptual reversals (2014)
- Journal of Vision
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Unlike in clinical blindsight patients, unconscious processing of chromatic information depends on early visual cortex in healthy humans. (2014)
- Brain Stimulation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A Preconscious Neural Mechanism of Hypnotically Altered Colors: A Double Case Study (2013)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Perceptual reversals of Necker stimuli during intermittent presentation with limited attentional resources (2013)
- Psychophysiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)