Publications list

Rimsky-Robert D., Lisi M., Nguy K., Jannin R., Hardy T., Beraud N. and Sergent C. (2026). “Consciously detecting and recognizing a past visual word after its sensory trace is gone”. Communications Psychology https://doi-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/10.1038/s44271-026-00478-9

Noorman S., Fahrenfort J.J., Heilbron M., Sergent C., Zantvoord J.B., van Gaal S., Stein T.(2026), “Effects of expectation, attention, and NMDA receptor blockade on feedforward and feedback processing”. Journal of Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0674-25.2026 – PDF

Naccache L., Sergent C., Dehaene S., Wang XJ., Farisco M., Changeux JP. (2025), GNW theoretical framework and the “adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness”, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2025, Issue 1, niaf037, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf037 – PDF

Derrien, D., Garric, C., Sergent, C. & Chokron, S. (2025). “Measuring metacognition in hemianopic and blindsight patients: perceptual profiles and theoretical implications”. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2025.2570940 – PDF

Klatzmann U., ∙ Froudist-Walsh S., Bliss D.P., Theodoni P., Mejías J., Niu M., RapanL., Palomero-Gallagher N., Sergent C., Dehaene S., Wang XJ. (2025). “A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access.” Cell Reports, Volume 44, Issue 3, 115372  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115372 – PDF 

Türker, B., Manasova, D., Béranger, B., Naccache L., Sergent C., Sitt J.D. (2024). “Distinct dynamic connectivity profiles promote enhanced conscious perception of auditory stimuli”. Commun Biol 7, 856. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06533-7 – PDF

Garnier-Allain, A., Pressnitzer, D., & Sergent, C. (2023). “Retrospective Cueing Mediates Flexible Conscious Access to Past Spoken Words”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001132 – PDF 

​Sergent, C., M. Corazzol, G. Labouret, F. Stockart, M. Wexler, J.-R. King, F. Meyniel and D.Pressnitzer (2021). “Bifurcation in brain dynamics reveals a signature of conscious processingindependent of report.” Nature Communications 12(1): 1149. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21393-z – PDF

​Rimsky-Robert, D., Stormer, V., Sackur, J., & Sergent, C. (2019). Retrospective auditory cues can improve detection of near-threshold visual targets. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 18966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55261-0  – PDF

​Garric, C., Sebaa, A., Caetta, F., Perez, C., Savatovsky, J., Sergent, C., & Chokron, S. (2019). Dissociation between objective and subjective perceptual experiences in a population of hemianopic patients: A new form of blindsight? Cortex, 117, 299-310.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.05.006 – PDF

​Michel, M., Beck, D., Block, N., Blumenfeld, H., Brown, R., Carmel, D., . . . Yoshida, M. (2019). Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2), 104-107.  (NB : authors in alphabetical order except first author ; authors include Sergent C.)  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0531-8 – PDF 

​Sergent, C. (2018). The offline stream of conscious representations. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 373(1755). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.034 – PDF

​Michel, M., Fleming, S. M., Lau, H., Lee, A. L. F., Martinez-Conde, S., Passingham, R. E., . . . Sergent, C. & Liu, K. (2018). An Informal Internet Survey on the Current State of Consciousness Science. Front Psychol, 9, 2134. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02134 – PDF  

​Jacquet, P. O., Wyart, V., Desantis, A., Hsu, Y. F., Granjon, L., Sergent, C., & Waszak, F. (2018). Human susceptibility to social influence and its neural correlates are related to perceived vulnerability to extrinsic morbidity risks. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 13347. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31619-8 – PDF  

​Morales, J., Mouradi, Y., Sergent, C., Block, N., Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rosenthal, D., . . . Lau, H. (2017). Measuring away an attentional confound? Neurosci Conscious, 2017(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix018 – PDF

​Sergent, C., Faugeras, F., Rohaut, B., Perrin, F., Valente, M., Tallon-Baudry, C., Cohen, L., & Naccache, L. (2017). Multidimensional cognitive evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness using EEG: A proof of concept study. Neuroimage Clin, 13, 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2016.12.004 – PDF

Thibault, L., van den Berg, R., Cavanagh, P., & Sergent, C. (2016). Retrospective Attention Gates Discrete Conscious Access to Past Sensory Stimuli. PLoS ONE, 11(2), e0148504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148504 – PDF

​Meyniel, F., Sergent, C., Rigoux, L., Daunizeau, J., & Pessiglione, M. (2013). Neurocomputational account of how the human brain decides when to have a break. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 110(7), 2641-2646. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211925110  – PDF ​Sergent, C., Wyart, V., Babo-Rebelo, M., Cohen, L., Naccache, L., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2013). Cueing attention after the stimulus is gone can retrospectively trigger conscious perception. Curr Biol, 23(2), 150-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.047 – PDF

Sergent, C., & Naccache, L. (2012). Imaging neural signatures of consciousness:“What,”“when,”“where,” and “how” does it work. Archives italiennes de biologie, 150(2/3), 91-106 – PDF

​Faugeras, F., Rohaut, B., Weiss, N., Bekinschtein, T., Galanaud, D., Puybasset, L., Bolgert, F., Sergent, C., Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., & Naccache, L. (2012). Event related potentials elicited by violations of auditory regularities in patients with impaired consciousness. Neuropsychologia, 50(3), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.12.015  – PDF

​Faugeras, F., Rohaut, B., Weiss, N., Bekinschtein, T. A., Galanaud, D., Puybasset, L., Bolgert, F., Sergent, C., Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., & Naccache, L. (2011). Probing consciousness with event-related potentials in the vegetative state. Neurology, 77(3), 264-268. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182217ee8  – PDF

​Sergent, C., C. C. Ruff, A. Barbot, J. Driver and G. Rees (2011). “Top-down modulation of human earlyvisual cortex after stimulus offset supports successful postcued report.” J Cogn Neurosci 23(8): 1921-1934. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21553 – PDF

​Wyart, V., & Sergent, C. (2009). The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations uncovers the fine temporal structure of conscious perception. J Neurosci, 29(41), 12839-12841. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3410-09.2009 – PDF

​Sergent, C., & Rees, G. (2007). Conscious access overflows overt report. Behav Brain Sci, 30(5-6), 499-548. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/177536/ – PDF

​Vuilleumier, P., Sergent, C., Schwartz, S., Valenza, N., Girardi, M., Husain, M., & Driver, J. (2007). Impaired perceptual memory of locations across gaze-shifts in patients with unilateral spatial neglect. J Cogn Neurosci, 19(8), 1388-1406. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:10145  – PDF

​Dehaene, S., Changeux, J. P., Naccache, L., Sackur, J., & Sergent, C. (2006). Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy. Trends Cogn Sci, 10(5), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2006.03.007 – PDF

​Sergent, C., Baillet, S., & Dehaene, S. (2005). Timing of the brain events underlying access to consciousness during the attentional blink. Nat Neurosci, 8(10), 1391-1400. https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1549 – PDF

​Sergent, C., & Dehaene, S. (2004). Is consciousness a gradual phenomenon? Evidence for an all-or-none bifurcation during the Attentional Blink. Psychol Sci, 15(11), 720-728. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00748.x – PDF

​Sergent, C., & Dehaene, S. (2004). Neural processes underlying conscious perception: Experimental findings and a global neuronal workspace framework. J Physiol Paris, 98(4-6), 374-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2005.09.006 – PDF

​Dehaene, S., Sergent, C., & Changeux, J. P. (2003). A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100, 8520-8525. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1332574100 – PDF

​Maravita, A., Spence, C., Sergent, C., & Driver, J. (2002). Seeing your own touched hands in a mirror modulates cross-modal interactions. Psychol Sci, 13(4), 350-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2002.00463.x – PDF