How does prior knowledge affect the way we experience the world?
In our new paper, we show that prior knowledge can both increase and decrease how often experience is segmented into events.
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A new addition to my “Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions” collection: “Mainz-Linez”. Here's the live demonstration and explanation of the somewhat mysterious title: michaelbach.de/ot/mot-Mainz.... Enjoy!
Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
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Exactly!
About “T2|T1” and “T3|T1” errors: since this was an attentional blink design, we only included trials where T1 was accurately reported (<22.5°). This ensures our “uncertainty” manipulation works properly.
In Fig. 5, the purple line shows trials where T1 is clockwise to T3. Left pane: T2 is also clockwise - both push T3 the same way = stronger repulsion from T2. Right pane: T2 is counterclockwise - T1 and T2 oppose = weaker repulsion from T2.
In Fig. 4, labels refer to T1-induced bias. Different-colored lines show how T1-induced repulsion is further amplified when T3 also repels T2 in the same direction, and vice versa. The same logic applies in Fig. 5 too but now labels refer to T2-induced bias.
Thanks a lot! I can see how Figures 4 & 5 can be confusing. I think computing bias instead of errors is a great idea—I’ll definitely try and implement this.
📢New preprint w/ ayaecanb.bsky.social! Noisy visual representations strengthen repulsive serial biases but inducer uncertainty doesn’t. Working memory adapts to reduce error in ways that exceed simple Bayesian explanations.
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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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Better version of the meme.
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
#workingmemory #visualworkingmemory
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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.
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.
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!
