Dr Oscar Ferrante
About
Biography
In 2025, I joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience.
I hold a BSc and MSc in Psychology from D’Annunzio University, Italy, and a PhD in Psychological Sciences and Neuroscience from the University of Verona, Italy. My doctoral research combined behavioural experiments and non-invasive brain stimulation to investigate how prior experience shapes attention and resistance to distraction.
In 2019, I joined the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham as a postdoctoral fellow, where I used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine the neural mechanisms of predictive attention. During this time, I developed the FLUX pipeline for standardized MEG analysis and contributed to the COGITATE consortium's adversarial collaboration testing competing theories of consciousness.
Areas of specialism
ResearchResearch interests
Oscar Ferrante investigates how prior experiences inform the brain’s predictions to tune attention, shaping both perception and behaviour. He combines magnetoencephalography (MEG) with techniques such as rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of predictive attention and to examine the neural underpinnings of conscious awareness. A passionate advocate of open science, he develops tools to promote transparent, reproducible research.
Research interests
Oscar Ferrante investigates how prior experiences inform the brain’s predictions to tune attention, shaping both perception and behaviour. He combines magnetoencephalography (MEG) with techniques such as rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of predictive attention and to examine the neural underpinnings of conscious awareness. A passionate advocate of open science, he develops tools to promote transparent, reproducible research.