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Dr. Aaron Schurger

Dr. Aaron Schurger

Associate Professor

Psychology

Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences

Email:schurger@chapman.edu

Education:: Indiana University Bloomington, Bachelor of Arts
Princeton University, Master of Arts
Princeton University, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Jeay-Bizot L, Chishti R, Maoz U, Schurger A (2025) No evidence for modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase. Nat Comms, Q1, IF=14.7; Rimkevicius P, Vierkant T, Schurger A (2025) The feeling of deciding: an EEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Q1, IF=3.2.; Jeay-Bizot L, Schurger A, Maoz U (2025) An investigation of the cortical sources of self-initiated actions using brain stimulation. Nat Comms, Q1, IF=14.7; Jeay-Bizot L, Basbug M, Schapire R, Maoz U, Schurger A (2025) The time course of neural activity predictive of self-initiated movement. eLife, Q1; Schurger A, Roskies A, Maoz U (2025) Neuroscientists Should Set a High Bar for Evidence Against Free Will. Scientific American, 4 March 2025; Gavenas J, Schurger A, Maoz U (2025) Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation. Imaging Neuroscience, 3:imag_a_00465. Q and IF not yet available, but expected IF ? 5.0.; Hopkins A, Lan T, Schurger A (2025) Self-initiated action rescues visual targets from backwards masking. iScience, Q1, IF=4.6.; Gavenas J, Rutishauser U, Schurger A, Maoz U (2024) Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks. Nature Communications 15, Art # 7285. IF=14.7; Dominik T, Mele A, Schurger A, & Maoz U (2024) Libet’s legacy: A primer to the neuroscience of volition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 157, 105503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105503. Q1, IF=8.2; Triggiani A, Kreiman G, Lewis C, Maoz U, Mele A, Mudrik L, Roskies A, Schurger A, Hallett M (2023) What is the intention to move and when does it occur? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 151:105199; Mudrik L, Mylopoulos M, Negro N, Schurger A (2023) Theories of consciousness and a life worth living. Curr Op Beh Sci 53:101299; Herzog M, Schurger A, Doerig A (2022) First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument. Consciousness & Cognition 98:103261; Schurger A, Graziano M (2022) Consciousness explained or described? Neuroscience of Consciousness 2022(1); Mudrik L, Gur Arie I, Amir Y, Shir Y, Hieronymi P, Maoz U, O’Connor T, Schurger A, Vargas M, Vierkant T, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Roskies A (2022) Free will without consciousness? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26(7):555-566; Doerig A, Schurger A, Herzog MH (2021) Hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(2):41-62.; Schurger A, Roskies A, Pak J, Hu B (2021) What is the readiness potential? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 25(7):558-570; Doerig A, Schurger A, Hess K, Herzog MH (2019) The unfolding argument: Why IIT and other causal structure theories cannot explain consciousness. Con & Cog, 72:49-59.; Schurger, A. (2018). Specific Relationship between the Shape of the Readiness Potential, Subjective Decision Time, and Waiting Time Predicted by an Accumulator Model with Temporally Autocorrelated Input Noise. eneuro, 5(1). doi: 10.1523/eneuro.0302-17.2018; Schurger, A., Gale, S., Gozel, O., & Blanke, O. (2017). Performance monitoring for brain-computer-interface actions. Brain and Cognition, 111, 44-50.; Schurger, A., Mylopoulos, M., & Rosenthal, D. (2016). Neural Antecedents of Spontaneous Self-Initiated Movement: A New Perspective. Trends Cog Sci, 20(2), 77-79.; Schurger, A., Kim, M.-S., & Cohen, J.D. (2015). Paradoxical Interaction between Ocular Activity, Perception, and Decision Confidence at the Threshold of Vision. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0125278. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125278; Schurger, A., Sarigiannidis, I., Naccache, L., Sitt, J.D., & Dehaene, S. (2015). Cortical activity is more stable when sensory stimuli are consciously perceived. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112(16), E2083-2092. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1418730112; Schurger, A., & Uithol, S. (2015). Nowhere and Everywhere: The Causal Origin of Voluntary Action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6(4), 761-778. doi: 10.1007/s13164-014-0223-2