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How our expectations change what we feel and see This study explores how our expectations influence what we feel and see. We asked participants to predict how painful or visually intense an upcoming stimulus would be based on cues that they believed...

Predictive processing models posit top-down influences of internal models on brain processing at multiple levels...but how deeply does predictive info penetrate into perception? What are the limits? New paper with @rotembot.bsky.social and @fmristats.bsky.social
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Yes, it involved human participants (not patients though), but in fact it was not aimed at improving memory. Rather we investigated how visual attention and perception work.

New paper out with @ahugokce.bsky.social and @ayaecanb.bsky.social! 👁️
We show that attentional cues can override automatic outlier detection in visual ensembles. Even salient "odd ones out" aren't immune to where attention is directed. rdcu.be/eqVsS
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Science has no passport but I do. Unfortunately, mine needs visas too. And guess what we don't have in Turkey? Visa appointments.

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Grateful to #ECVP2025 for the student travel award! Can't wait to join the amazing vision science community in Mainz.

That's an interesting question. You’re likely familiar with no-report paradigms investigating serial dependence, which might be relevant here. In our study, we collected T1 responses to elicit the attentional blink but haven’t randomized response order or used a no-report paradigm in our lab yet.

Temporal integration of target features across and within trials in the attentional blink - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Attentional blink research has typically investigated attentional limitations in multiple target processing. The current study investigated the temporal integration of target features in the attention...

I believe this might have been the critical factor in the change of direction. In another study, where we used Gabor patches, we also found attractive biases in AB. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Yes, exactly! I think this might have something to do with the fact that they sampled target orientations randomly from uniform. In our study, we sampled one orientation randomly then added/subtracted a certain "delta" to generate two other orientations.

Neural dynamics of the attentional blink revealed by encoding orientation selectivity during rapid visual presentation - Nature Communications People often fail to perceive the second of two brief visual targets, a phenomenon known as the attentional blink (AB). Here the authors modelled behaviour and brain activity to show that the AB arise...

I'm not sure how relevant the following paper is. It is an RSVP design and due to the attentional blink effect at certain inter-target intervals, addressing your question might be challenging. Yet, I think it could still offer some useful insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you! Yes, they reported all three on each trial in the presented order. We used color as an additional cue to minimize potential swap errors.

Back from an inspiring @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting in NYC! Shared my poster on Serial Dependence in Visual Working Memory & Target Fidelity. 👁️Grateful for the great conversations—excited to build on this work! PDF: tinyurl.com/yx5azseb #workingmemory #CogSci #VisionScience

I literally dreamed up a new experimental paradigm last night. Stay tuned to see if I make a breakthrough or just lose my mind.

Does one preprint a review? I did anyway: If you're interested in temporal aspects of perception, attention, and working memory, check out my review on how temporal integration plays an adaptive role in all of those. 👉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/h5cvx

Working memory people, is there a paper with a good dissection of sources on noise in VWM? Like, how much the noise of the initial percept adds, how much it is worsened during the delay period, how much is added during the report... #workingmemory #vwm #cogpsy

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Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

The “Visual Neuroscience” European Summer School in Rauischholzhausen is open to applications.
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We have obtained further funding (thanks Psychonomics/APS!) and the fees have now been finalized. We have also uploaded a tentative syllabus. Deadline for applications is approaching--be quick!

Our findings suggest that attention plays a modulatory role on biases imposed by implicit temporal effects in estimation tasks, impacting future research on AB, serial dependence, and ensemble perception.

Importantly, our study is the first to demonstrate an across-trial central tendency bias in the AB paradigm, highlighting the human visual system's ability to implicitly summarize information over time.

We found systematic biases in orientation estimations of target items, both within and across trials, indicating a general bias towards previously presented stimuli. These biases were more pronounced for targets affected by the AB.

New publication 📣 Our recent study with Yelda Semizer & Aysecan Boduroglu published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics sheds light on the temporal integration of target features in the attentional blink (AB) paradigm. rdcu.be/dzOHd