Ziyao Zhang

Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting - Nature Communications When people dislike their options for candidates, they tend to refrain from voting rather than voting for the candidate they like best. Here, the authors show that this tendency to opt out of lose-los...

Excited to share my first PhD paper with @ashenhav.bsky.social
@shenhavlab.bsky.social
“Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

thank you Soroush!

Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

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thank you soroush!

thank you Mariam! Excited to meet you soon and chat more!

Thank you Rochelle!

thank you Harrison!

Thank you Tzu-Yao!

Thank you Vivien!

I’m now a proud alum of Lewis-Peacock lab🦚. I’ll be joining the @shenhavlab.bsky.social at UCB in January to study adaptive behaviors and dynamic cognitive control. So grateful for the great journey and excited for what’s next!

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Yes! the eeg follow-up😊 here it is. drive.google.com/file/d/1MQwf...

Check out my SfN poster if you are interested in how retrospective and prospective representations in working memory work together to create plans and replans when being distracted! I will present it at the early career poster session at 6:45 pm on Saturday or from 1-5 on Tuesday.

Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?

In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

congrats! Super cool!

Thank you Nick! Looking forward to catching up soon!

thank you Kirsten! Looking to your thoughts!

Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...

We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you Rochelle!

thank you Seth!

thank you will! Hope to catch up with you sometime soon!

thank you Soroush!

Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...

Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

thanks andrey! Here is the link osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to share our work @jarrod on reconciling divergent distraction effects in visual working memory. osf.io/preprints/psya…. This project began as a learning experience in modeling memory errors during my first year at UT, and I’m thrilled to see it will be out @psychscience.bsky.social