I am interested in somatosensory, visual, and auditory awareness from a predictive coding perspective, in particular in the influence of prior expectations on consciousness, and in disentangling modality-specific from supra-modal mechanisms of consciousness. Using EEG and fMRI in combination with causal modelling and multivariate pattern analysis, I investigate the recurrent neural processes presumably underlying both (multi-)sensory consciousness and the top-down signals constantly generated by the predictive brain.

Förster, J., Nierhaus, T., Schröder, P., & Blankenburg, F. (2025). Perceptual experience in somatosensory temporal discrimination is indexed by a mid-latency fronto-central ERP diference. Scientific Reports 15:7674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91580-1

Förster, J. (2023). Predictive Processing as a Computational Mechanism, in: M. Curado & S. Gouveia (eds), Predictive Minds: Old Problems and New Challenges, Wilmington: Vernon Press.

Förster, J., Koivisto, M., & Revonsuo, A. (2020). ERP and MEG correlates of visual consciousness: The second decade. Consciousness and Cognition, 80:102917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102917