Consciousness and Cognition Lab
You can find more information about our lab on www.ccc-lab.org
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein (PI)
University Lecturer
Craik-Marshall Building
Department of Psychology
Our Research
Welcome to the Consciousness and Cognition lab!
If you are interested in the Human Consciousness, you have come to the right place. Our multidisciplinary lab brings together great minds from diverse backgrounds spanning Neuroscience, Psychology, Statistics, Computing, Engineering and Philosophy, creatively investigating consciousness using non-classical approaches.
Our main research interests cover transitions between states of consciousness (wakefulness, drowsiness and sleep), disorders of consciousness, altered states of consciousness (hypnosis, meditation and dreaming), as well as alterations in sensory processing and cognition during those states. Our methods include psychophysics, behavioural measures, high-density electroencephalography (EEG), functional MRI (and combined fMRI+EEG), intracranial electrodes, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and who knows what happens it our new sleep lab. Additionally to our experimental work, the lab is working on improving the current methodology of consciousness research.
Current Lab Members
- Dr Anat Arzi
- Dr Will Harrison
- Dr Valdas Noreika
- Dr Daniel Bor
- Dr Alexandra Krugliak
- Dr Dritan Nikolla
- Mr Andres Canales-Johnson
- Ms Iulia Comşa
- Mr Sridhar Rajan Jagannathan
- Ms Maria Niedernhuber
- Sr Alejandro Ezquerro Nassar
- Ms Barbara Jachs
- Ms Andrea Olgin
Collaborators
- Dr Corinne Bareham (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Paul Bays (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Mirjana Bozic (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Julieta Galante (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)
- Dr Srivas Chennu (School of Computing, University of Kent)
- Prof Jason Mattingley (Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland)
Selection of Publications
- Chennu, S., Noreika, V., Gueorguiev, D., Shtyrov, Y., Bekinschtein, T. A., & Henson, R. (2016). Silent Expectations: Dynamic Causal Modeling of Cortical Prediction and Attention to Sounds That Weren’t. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(32), 8305–8316
- Chennu S, O'Connor S, Adapa R, Menon DK, Bekinschtein. Brain Connectivity Dissociates Responsiveness from Drug Exposure during Propofol-Induced Transitions of Consciousness. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Jan 14;12(1):e1004669
- Canales-Johnson, A., Silva, C., Huepe, D., Rivera-Rei, Á., Noreika, V., Garcia, M. D. C., … Bekinschtein, T. A. (2015). Auditory Feedback Differentially Modulates Behavioral and Neural Markers of Objective and Subjective Performance When Tapping to Your Heartbeat. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), bhv076-. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv076
- Chennu S, Finoia P, Kamau E, Allanson J, Williams GB, Monti MM, Noreika V, Arnatkeviciute A, Canales-Johnson A, Olivares F, Cabezas-Soto D, Menon DK, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Bekinschtein TA. (2014) Spectral signatures of reorganised brain networks in disorders of consciousness. PLoS Comput Biol. 10(10):e1003887
- Kouider S, Andrillon T, Barbosa LS, Goupil L, Bekinschtein TA. (2014) Inducing task-relevant responses to speech in the sleeping brain. Curr Biol. 24(18):2208-14.
- Bareham CA, Manly T, Pustovaya OV, Scott SK, Bekinschtein TA. (2014) Losing the left side of the world: rightward shift in human spatial attention with sleep onset. Nat. Sci Rep. 4:5092.
- Bekinschtein, T. A., Dehaene, S., Rohaut, B., Tadel, F., Cohen, L., & Naccache, L. (2009) Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(5), 1672–1677