Dr. Chris Paffen

Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
Kamer H0.31
3584 CS Utrecht

Dr. Chris Paffen

Universitair hoofddocent
Psychologische Functieleer
030 253 4281
c.l.e.paffen@uu.nl

2024

• Xu, L., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Stigchel, S., & Gayet, S. (2024). Statistical learning facilitates access to awareness. Psychological Science. 

• Sahakian. A., Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2024). Action consequences guide the use of visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.

2023

• Stuit, S.M., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2023). Prioritization of emotional faces is not driven by emotional content. Scientific Reports, 23:549.

• Sahakian., Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2023). Mountains of memory in a sea of uncertainty: Sampling the external world despite useful information in visual working memory. Cognition, 234:105381.

2022

• Gayet, S., Sahakian, A., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2022). No evidence for social factors in the overestimation of individuals from minority groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 119 (47).

• Stuit, S.M., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2022). Introducing the Prototypical Stimulus Characteristics Toolbox: Protosc. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01737-9.

• Sahakian, A., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Stigchel, S., & Gayet, S. (2022). A nasal visual field advantage in interocular competition. Scientific Reports, 12:4616.


2021

• Alais, D., Keys, R., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2021). Vestibular and active self-motion signals drive visual perception in binocular rivalry. iScience, 24, 103417.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Sahakian, A., Struiksma, S.E. & Van der Stigchel, S. (2021). Unpredictive linguistic verbal cues accelerate congruent visual targets into awareness in a breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83, 2102-2112.
• Ding, Y., Naber, M., Paffen, C.L.E., Gayet, S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2021). How retaining objects containing multiple features in visual working memory regulates the priority for access to visual awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 87, 103057.
• Ding, Y., Naber, M., Paffen, C.L.E., Sahakian, A., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2021). The priority for access to awareness of information matching VWM is mirror-invariant. Cognition, 206, 104463.


2020

• Naber, M., Stuit, S.M., de Kloe, Y., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2020). Adaptation to transients disrupts spatial coherence in binocular rivalry. Scientific Reports, 10, 8673.
• Ding, Y., Naber, M., Paffen, C.L.E., Fabius, J. H., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2020). Saccades reset the priority of visual information to access awareness. Vision Research, 173, 1-6.
• Gayet, S., Guggenmos, M., Christoffel, T., Haynes, J.D., Paffen, C.L.E., Sterzer, P., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2020). No evidence for mnemonic modulation of interocularly suppressed visual input. Neuroimage, 215, 1-11.
• An, P., Bakker, S., Ordanovski, S., Taconis, R., Paffen, C.L.E., & Eggen, B. (2020). Dandelion Diagram: Aggregating Positioning and Orientation Data in the Visualization of Classroom Proxemics. CHI'20 Extended Abstract, 1-8.
• Gayet, S., Douw, I., van der Burg, V., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2020). Hide and seek: Directing top-down attention is not sufficient for accelerating conscious access. Cortex, 122, 235-252.


2019

• Ding, Y., Paffen, C.L.E., Naber, M., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2019). Visual working memory and saliency independently influence the priority for access to visual awareness. Journal of Vision, 19(11), 1-9.
• An, P., Bakker, S., Ordanovski, S., Taconis, R., Paffen, C.L.E., & Eggen, B. (2019). Unobtrusively Enhancing Teachers’ Reflection-in-Action through Spatially Distributed Ambient Information. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-14.
• Gayet, S., van Moorselaar, D., Olivers, C.N.L., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2019). Prospective memory drives conscious access of matching visual input. Scientific Reports, 9, 4793.
• Maarseveen, J., Paffen, C.L.E., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Hogendoorn, J.H.A. (2019). The duration aftereffect does not reflect adaptation to perceived duration. PLoS ONE, 14(3): e0213163.


2018

• Ding, Y., Naber, M., Gayet, S., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2018). Assessing the generalizability of eye dominance across binocular rivalry, onset rivalry, and continuous flash suppression. Journal of Vision, 18(6), 1-13.
• Klein, B.P., Fracasso, A., van Dijk, J.A., Paffen, C.L.E., te Pas, S.F., & Dumoulin, S.O. (2018). Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, 301-312.
• Van Moorselaar, D., Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., Theeuwes, J., Van der Stigchel, S., & Olivers, C.N.L. (2018). Competitive interactions in visual working memory drive access to awareness. Cortex, 102, 6-13.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Gayet, S., Heilbron, M., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2018). Attention-based perceptual learning does not affect access to awareness. Journal of Vision, 18(3):7, 1-16.
• Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2018). Visual working memory storage recruits sensory processing areas. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 189-190.
• Maarseveen, J., Hogendoorn, J.H.A., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2018). Attention Gates the Selective Encoding of Duration. Scientific Reports, 8, 2522.


2017

• Maarseveen, J., Paffen, C.L.E., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Hogendoorn, J.H.A. (2017). Representing dynamic stimulus information during occlusion. Vision Research, 138, 40-49.
• Gayet, S., Guggenmos, M., Christoffel, T., Haynes, J.D., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Stigchel, S., & Sterzer, P. (2017). Visual working memory enhances the neural response to matching visual input. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(28), 6638 – 6647.
• Kanai, R., Dalmaijer, E.S., Sherman, M.T., Kawakita, G., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2017). Larger stimuli require longer processing time for perception. Perception, 46(5), 605-623.
• Otten, M., Pinto, Y., Paffen, C.L.E., Seth, A.K., & Kanai, R. (2017). The uniformity illusion: Central stimuli can determine peripheral perception. Psychological Science, 28(1), 56-68.
• Maarseveen, J., Hogendoorn, J.H.A., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2017). An Investigation of the Spatial Selectivity of the Duration After-Effect. Vision Research, 130, 67-75.


2016

• Gayet, S., van Maanen, L., Heilbron, M., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2016). Visual input that matches the content of visual working memory requires less (not faster) evidence sampling to reach conscious access. Journal of Vision, 16(11):26.
• Klein, B.P., Paffen, C.L.E., te Pas, S.F., & Dumoulin, S.O. (2016). Predicting bias in perceived position using attention field models. Journal of Vision, 16(7):15, 1–15.
• Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., Belopolsky, A.V., Theewes, J., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2016). Visual input signalling threat gains preferential access to awareness. Cognition, 149:77-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.01.009.


2015

• Gayet, S., Brascamp, J.W., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2015). Cogito ergo video: Task relevant information is involuntarily boosted into awareness. Journal of Vision, 15(5):3, 1-18.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Smagt, M.J., & Nijboer, T.C.W. (2015). Cross-modal, bidirectional priming in grapheme-color synesthesia. Consciousness & Cognition, 33, 325-333.


2014

• Stuit, S.M., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Smagt, M.J., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2014). Image-based grouping during binocular rivalry is dictated by eye-of-origin. PLoS ONE 9(7): e95327. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095327.
• Gayet, S., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2014). Breaking continuous flash suppression: competition for consciousness on the pre-semantic battlefield. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:460. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00460.
• Gayet, S., Van der Stigchel, S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2014). Seeing is believing: Utilization of subliminal symbols requires a visible relevant context. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76(2), 489-507.


2013

• Gayet, S., Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2013). Information Matching the Content of Visual Working Memory Is Prioritized for Conscious Access. Psychological Science, 24, 2472-2480.


2012

• Van der Stigchel, S., Nijboer, T.C.W., Bergsma, D.P., Barton, J.J.S., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2012). Measuring palinopsia: characteristics of a persevering visual sensation from cerebral pathology. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 316, 184-188.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Hessel, R.S., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2012). Interocular conflict attracts attention. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 74:251-256 DOI 10.3758/s13414-011-0256-x.


2011

• Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Smagt, M.J., & Nijboer, T.C.W. (2011). Colour-grapheme synaesthesia affects binocular vision. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:314. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00314.
• Stuit, S.M., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Smagt, M.J., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2011). What is grouping during binocular rivalry? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:117. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00117
• Paffen, C.L.E., & Alais, D. (2011). Attentional modulation of binocular rivalry. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:105. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00105.
• Stuit, S.M., Paffen, C.L.E., Van der Smagt, M.J., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2011). Suppressed images selectively affect the dominant percept during binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 11,(10):7, 1-11.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Hooge, I.T.C., Benjamins, J.S., & Hogendoorn, J.H.A. (2011). A search asymmetry for interocular conflict. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 24, 1042-1052.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Plukaard, S., & Kanai, R. (2011). Symbolic magnitude modulates perceptual strength in binocular rivalry. Cognition, 119, 468-475.
• Paffen, C.L.E., & Hooge, I.T.C. (2011). The effect of set size on the dynamics of binocular rivalry. Seeing and Perceiving, 24, 19-35.


2010

• Stuit, S.M., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2010). Saliency in a suppressed image affects the spatial origin of perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 50, 1913-1921.
• Van der Smagt, M.J., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2010). Center-surround effects on perceived speed. Vision Research, 50, 1900-1904.
• Paffen, C.L.E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2010). Shifting spatial attention makes your flip: Exogenous visual attention triggers perceptual alternations during bin-ocular rivalry. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 1237-1243.


2009

• Wertheim, A.H., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2009). Center-surround relative motion and the Freezing Rotation Illusion. Perception, 38, 1610-1620.
• Stuit, S.M., Cass, J., Paffen, C.L.E., & Alais, D. (2009). Orientation-tuned suppression in binocular rivalry reveals general and specific components of rivalry suppression. Journal of Vision, 9(11):17, 1-15.


2008

• Paffen, C.L.E., Naber, M., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2008). The spatial origin of a perceptual transition in binocular rivalry. PLoS ONE, 3(6): e2311.
• Tadin, D., Paffen, C.L.E., Blake, R., & Lappin, J.S. (2008). Contextual modulations of center-surround interactions in motion revealed with the motion aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 8(7):9, 1-11.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Verstraten, F.A.J., & Vidnyánszky, Z. (2008). Attention-based perceptual learning increases binocular rivalry suppression of irrelevant visual features. Journal of Vision, 8(4):25, 1-11.
• Paffen, C.L.E., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2008). Binocular rivalry and the role of visual context in visual perception. The Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 64, 2-7.


2007

• Knapen, T., Paffen, C.L.E., Kanai, R., & van Ee, R. (2007). Stimulus flicker alters interocular grouping during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 47, 1-7.


2006

• Kanai, R., Paffen, C.L.E., Hoogendoorn, J.H.A., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2006). Time dilation in dynamic visual display. Journal of Vision, 6, 1421-1430.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Alais, D., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2006). Attention speeds binocular rivalry. Psychological Science, 17, 752-756.
• Paffen, C.L.E., Tadin, D., te Pas, S.F., Blake, R., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2006). Adaptive center-surround interactions in human vision revealed during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 46, 599-604.


2005

• Paffen, C.L.E., Alais, D., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2005). Center-surround inhibition deepens binocular rivalry suppression. Vision Research, 45, 2642-2649.
• Paffen, C.L.E., van der Smagt, M.J., te Pas, S.F., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2005). Center-surround inhibition and facilitation as a function of size and contrast at multiple levels of visual motion processing. Journal of Vision, 5, 571-578.


2004

• Blomert, L., Mitterer, H., & Paffen, C.L.E. (2004). In search of the auditory, phonetic and/or phonological problems in dyslexia: Context effect in speech perception. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47, 1030-1047.
• Kanai, R., Paffen, C.L.E., Gerbino, W., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2004). Blindness to inconsistent local signals in motion transparency from oscillating dots. Vision Research, 44, 2207-2212.
• Paffen, C.L.E., te Pas, S.F., Kanai, R., van der Smagt, M.J., & Verstraten, F.A.J. (2004). Center-surround interactions in visual motion processing during binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 44, 1635-1639.