Room 1005c, N21, University of Macau
(853) 8822-4930
(853) 8822 2456
juhasilvanto@um.edu.mo
- PhD in Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
- BSc in Psychology, Cardiff University, UK
- 2025-present: Professor in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Institute of Collaborative Innovations, University of Macau, Macau China
- 2019-2025: Associate Professor in Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK
- 2016-2019: Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
- 2013-2016: Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
My research focuses on the neural basis of cognitive and perceptual functions such as working memory and visual awareness which I study using a range of techniques such as TMS, EEG and fMRI. I’m currently particularly interested in aphantasia and the interplay between interoception and mental imagery. From a methodological perspective, my work focuses on enhancing the specificity of noninvasive brain stimulation and understanding of its mechanisms (e.g. state-dependent brain stimulation).
- Section Editor, Brain Topography
- Editorial board, NeuroImage
- Hartwigsen G, Silvanto J (2023). Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Multiple Effects on Cognition. Neuroscientist 29(5):639-653. doi: 10.1177/10738584221113806.
- Romei V, Thut G, Silvanto J (2016). Information-Based Approaches of Noninvasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation. Trends in Neurosciences 39(11):782-795. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.09.001.
- Soto D, Silvanto J (2014). Reappraising the relationship between working memory and conscious awareness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18(10):520-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.005.
- Silvanto J, Muggleton N, Walsh V (2008). State-dependency in brain stimulation studies of perception and cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(12):447-54. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.09.004.
- Pounder Z, Jacob J, Evans S, Loveday C, Eardley AF, Silvanto J (2022). Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery. Cortex 148:180-192. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.010.
- Guzmán López J, Hernandez-Pavon JC, Lioumis P, Mäkelä JP, Silvanto J (2022). State-dependent TMS effects in the visual cortex after visual adaptation: A combined TMS-EEG study. Clinical Neurophysiology 134:129-136. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.08.020.
- Jacobs C, Schwarzkopf DS, Silvanto J (2018). Visual working memory performance in aphantasia. Cortex 105:61-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.014
- Silvanto J, Cowey A, Lavie N, Walsh V (2005). Striate cortex (V1) activity gates awareness of motion. Nature Neuroscience 8(2):143-4. doi: 10.1038/nn1379.