Aaron Schurger is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Chapman University, with faculty appointments in the Department of Psychology and the Brain Institute. He came to cognitive neuroscience with a background in computer science and machine learning. He maintains two lines of research, one focused on volition, intentions, and spontaneous voluntary movement, and the other focused on perception, attention, and consciousness. He has published important and high-impact work in both domains and has won awards for his research on the role of ongoing stochastic fluctuations in brain activity in the spontaneous voluntary initiation of movement. He uses several different modalities and methods in his research including fMRI, EEG, MEG, behavioral psychophysics, machine learning, and brain-computer interfaces. He regularly teaches Sensation and Perception and has also co-taught a course on Neural Computation. Schrger is co-author of a book entitled “Empirical Theories of Consciousness: The Grand Tour” due out in Spring 2025 (Cambridge University Press).