Nicholas Gaspelin

You were instrumental in shaping the new theory!

Signal suppression 2.0: An updated account of attentional capture and suppression - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review The signal suppression account of attentional capture was proposed in 2010 to resolve a longstanding debate between bottom-up and top-down theories of capture by proposing that a top-down suppressive ...

Excited this review paper is out! We update the signal suppression account to explain recent findings related to attention capture by salient stimuli. We also propose new mechanisms of learned attentional control. Written with Steve Luck and @xiaojinma.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

A great tutorial by Xiaojin Ma on how to use PsychoPy for programming a cognitive task.

P.S. Thanks to @xiaojinma.bsky.social for helping me teach it!

That's a wrap! The "R Workshop for Psychology and Neuroscience" is officially done. Two weeks coding and fun with amazing junior researchers. If you missed it, you can find the course materials (including videos) on our website. Thanks NSF for funding! See you next year...

rworkshop.missouri.edu

Anticipatory and reactive mechanisms of habituation to visual distractors Scientific Reports - Anticipatory and reactive mechanisms of habituation to visual distractors

Ever notice how a ticking clock or flashing banner stops bothering you?
In our new @nature.com Scientific Reports paper, we focus on the stages involved in habituation to visual distractors, using #EEG ERP and oscillations.
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I’m on here too! Haha.

Big congrats!

Celebratory dinner with the Luck and Gaspelin labs at VSS.

So proud to see all of my students past and present at their VSS posters.

Come see our VSS presentations!

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Abstract submission is now open for WMS2025 (Deadline: May 31st)! Working memory ECRs, we look forward to receiving your submissions!!!
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Home This virtual workshop aims to teach students the basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from cognitiv...

🚨⚠️ Last call for our virtual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." Free and over the summer break. Funded by NSF. Open to all students from any university. Applications are due 4/30.

Visit our website:
rworkshop.missouri.edu

Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue

Feature Review by Mathias Pessiglione, Bastien Blain (@bastien-blain.bsky.social), Antonius Wiehler, & Shruti Naik

Free access before May 20: tinyurl.com/2va75b5j

Great opportunity!

This will be a fun Psychonomics!

This looks pretty interesting...

Looks really interesting!

Some photos of past workshops.

About the Course Aims of the course

Apply for a FREE virtual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." Sponsored by NSF and will take place this summer. Enrollment is open to all students. Direct training on using R to analyze data from psychological tasks. Applications due 4/30. 🤓🧑‍💻

sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects - Cognitive, Affective, & Be... The N400 ERP component has been characterized as a response reflecting binding of semantic memory states to create a “multimodal conceptual representation” (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). An assumption of...

📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Why not make an impactful contribution to our field by organising the growing Working Memory Symposium? A great opportunity for a postdoc to demonstrate that they care about the researcher community, while having a lot of fun!

Home This 10-lecture virtual workshop aims to teach students the basic principles of computer programming for cognitive neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from co...

This summer, I will be hosting a virtual workshop for computer programming in cognitive neuroscience, funded by NSF. It is designed to teach early-career students the basics of R to analyze data from cognitive tasks. More info, including a syllabus and how to apply:
sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

International support appreciated.

Is covert attention necessary for programming accurate saccades? Evidence from saccade-locked event-related potentials - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics For decades, researchers have assumed that shifts of covert attention mandatorily occur prior to eye movements to improve perceptual processing of objects before they are fixated. However, recent rese...

I'm excited to see this work finally out. We used concurrent EEG and eye tracking to measure covert shifts of attention before eye movements. We found limited evidence of a mandatory N2pc before eye movements...but we could decode the target position before an eye movement was generated.

Oh, that's great to hear. I'll have to check out that NYTimes podcast.

Really enjoying this book. So many great examples for teaching Sensation and Perception!

This looks like a great opportunity for someone to good for our field!

Happy to announce that I'll soon be an associate editor at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition!

Suppression of Salient Distractors with Dynamic Motion Versus Static Features There seems to be a key difference in how salient distractors are ignored depending whether they involve dynamic motion or static discontinuities. Article:Adams, O.J. & Gaspelin, N. (in press).…

Just in case you missed my Psychonomics talk, we recently found that dynamic stimuli are more difficult to suppress than static stimuli. Interestingly, adding a static salient feature to a dynamic stimulus makes it completely ignorable!

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