Joey Saito

Slow change blindness from serial dependence Slow change blindness, when attentive observers fail to notice large changes that happen gradually, raises questions about how visual information is combined across time. One plausible integration str...

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Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System Working memory (WM) representations that are distributed across the brain can be flexibly recruited to best guide behavior[1][1]–[4][2]. For instance, information may be represented relatively more st...

Flexible Working Memory in the Peripheral Nervous System
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Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct cortical regions.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
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A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable Prior work on visual memory has suggested that humans have a high-capacity but imperfect memory: image representations accumulate noise over time, whi…

A distinctive meaning makes a sentence memorable | Journal of Memory and Language

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We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

Go ahead and bring of these to Psychonomics

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

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Decoupling lower-level and higher-level visual features in naturalistic scenes: https://osf.io/unv5g

8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference - Nature Neuroscience Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by selectively reinforcing ac...

Neurons in mouse primary visual cortex that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion

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The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period.

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Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex Task-irrelevant yet salient stimuli can elicit automatic, bottom-up attentional capture and compete with top-down, goal-directed processes for neural representation. However, the temporal dynamics und...

🧠 Excited to share that our new preprint is out!🧠
In this work, we investigate the dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in the early visual cortex using rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).

📄 Check it out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Memories that remain: Image memorability transfers to scene descriptions: https://osf.io/mg7zk

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task Does the prefrontal cortex represent only specific task parameters, or does it also hold a higher-order representation of task identity? This study shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes ta...

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task
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Human eye movements track stimulus meaning Working memory (WM) is a capacity- and duration-limited system that enables the representation and processing of fleeting sensory phenomena. Human fMRI studies indicate that brain areas associated wit...

New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work.

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Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.

I really wish that the AI companies would stop training their models to reflexively say "You are right" when they have no clue as to whether I am actually right or not. I want to know when I'm wrong.

Resources for Research This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

Headed to UK to explore London a bit before @escop.bsky.social #ESCOP2025 ! If anyone has any recs for sights and food in the city, @philippmusfeld.bsky.social & I would be grateful! 🇬🇧🍦🏰

I’ll have to give it a read!

Without reading, I’m curious how you guys got around guessing strategies (e.g., if you ask me about an arrow, I might guess yes if I remember seeing the bow)? I guess you test the arrow when bow was presented with an unrelated object to compute a false alarm rate?

Our new study (Titled: Memory Loves Company) asks whether working memory hold more when objects belong together.

And yes, when everyday objects are paired meaningfully (Bow-Arrow), people remember them better than when they’re unrelated (Glass-Arrow). (mini thread)

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task Does the prefrontal cortex represent only specific task parameters, or does it also hold a higher-order representation of task identity? This study shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes ta...

How does the prefrontal cortex flexibly adapt to different cognitive demands? New research from @benhamedlab.bsky.social shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes task identity and adjusts sensory processing based on the current task’s demands.🧪
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Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making Our memory of a stimulus can be biased toward or away from previous stimuli, but when this bias arises is unclear. This study shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during decision-making, su...

In #memories, when does bias towards or away from a stimulus arise? New research shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during #decision-making, while repulsive biases originate during early sensory encoding. 🧪
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Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making Our memory of a stimulus can be biased toward or away from previous stimuli, but when this bias arises is unclear. This study shows that attractive serial dependence emerges during decision-making, su...

Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making

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New pre-print w/ @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ! In this study, we show that memory biases selectively persist across time following perceptual comparisons, but not passive interference, even when observers abstain from making explicit memory reports.

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