Alex J. Hoogerbrugge

#EenWereldVolDenkers is een reis door de gedachtewerelden van mens, dier, plant en AI! Als je hem nu voorbestelt, ontvang je direct gratis de onderstaande verhalenbundel (Undercurrents) als e-book + kans op een uniek, handgemaakt exemplaar! forms.gle/bEJz4Spk2p72... #psychologie #biology #wetenschap

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position (80%) at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years. The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html We offer: - An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team - Excellent lab infrastructure - Salary according to Cantonal regulations We expect: - a PhD in psychology or a related discipline - experience with experimental research - excellent method knowledge and skills - very good command of English - interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology In addition, it would be desirable if you had: - experience with publishing in international journals - programming skills - experience with mathematical / computational modeling Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter no later than September 10, 2025 electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

data saturation for gaze heatmaps. Initially, any additional participant will bring the total NSS or AUC as measures for heatmap similarity a lot closer to the full sample. However, the returns diminish increasingly at higher n.

Gaze heatmaps (are popular especially for eye-tracking beginners and in many applied domains. How many participants should be tested?
Depends of course, but our guidelines help navigating this in an informed way.

Out now in BRM (free) doi.org/10.3758/s134...
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨

Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

Thanks for being a great coauthor! And for PyGaze which I used extensively :)

Many thanks to a.o. @attentionlab.bsky.social @cstrauch.bsky.social and the committee!

Thrilled to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on Monday June 16th!

The dissertation is available here: doi.org/10.33540/2960

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

Attending @vssmtg.bsky.social? Come check out my talk on EEG decoding of preparatory overt and covert attention!

Tomorrow in the Attention: Neural Mechanisms session at 17:15. You can check out the preprint in the meantime:

We previously showed that affordable eye movements are preferred over costly ones. What happens when salience comes into play?

In our new paper, we show that even when salience attracts gaze, costs remain a driver of saccade selection.

OA paper here:
doi.org/10.3758/s134...

The rise and fall of memories: Temporal dynamics of visual working memory - Memory & Cognition Visual working memory (VWM) is a cognitive system, which temporarily stores task-relevant visual information to enable interactions with the environment. In everyday VWM use, we typically decide how l...

About time our latest project about time got out!

How do self-paced encoding and retention relate to performance in (working) memory-guided actions?

Find out now in Memory and Cognition: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
(or check the short version below)🧵

Preparing overt eye movements and directing covert attention are neurally coupled. Yet, this coupling breaks down at the single-cell level. What about populations of neurons?

We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Merci!

Thrilled to share that, as of May 1st, I have started as a postdoc at The University of Manchester!

I will investigate looked-but-failed-to-see (LBFTS) errors in visual search, under the expert guidance of Johan Hulleman and Jeremy Wolfe. Watch this space!

IIRC, you can sign up for Github pro (which allows you to make private repos) using an academia email account in most cases!

In our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements.

eLife's digest:
elifesciences.org/digests/9776...

The paper:
elifesciences.org/articles/97760

#VisionScience

A move you can afford Where a person will look next can be predicted based on how much it costs the brain to move the eyes in that direction.

We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in @elife.bsky.social
eLife's digest:
elifesciences.org/digests/9776...
& the 'convincing & important' paper:
elifesciences.org/articles/97760

I consider this my coolest ever project!

#VisionScience #Neuroscience

Congrats!!

Thanks!

We didn’t record anything else besides gaze + pupil. Museum visitors could just dip in and out of the installation at will.

We do provide manually defined AOIs (and python code to extract them) in the OSF repository, if you want to look at sub-images!

The dataset should be well suited to investigate e.g., oculomotor dynamics between different tasks and age groups.

Thanks a lot to NEMO Science Museum & Esther Hamstra for the collaboration, and to coauthors @cstrauch.bsky.social & @attentionlab.bsky.social

Heat map of gaze locations overlaid on top of a feature-rich collage image. There is a seascape with a kitesurfer, mermaid, turtle, and more.

New preprint!

We present two very large eye tracking datasets of museum visitors (4-81 y.o.!) who freeviewed (n=1248) or searched for a +/x (n=2827) in a single feature-rich image.

We invite you to (re)use the dataset and provide suggestions for future versions 📋

osf.io/preprints/os...

Congrats dude!!

PI @cstrauch.bsky.social dragged me to a “German” conference – turned out to be an absolute blast (and very international)!

Great science, even better people :)

Our paper on how we use hearing and vision to localize(multimodal) objects, is now out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0...)! See @yichen-yuan.bsky.social's thread below for a thread!

#MultisensoryPerception #MotionTracking #MotionPrediction #WorkingMemory

🎉New paper out in JEP:HPP with@andresahakian.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @chrispaffen.bsky.social and Stefan Van der Stigchel. We asked whether memory traces are formed for items that have not yet been selected for immediate action, while we are actively sampling targets for imminent action.

New popscience piece on why pupil size changes are so cool. psyche.co/ideas/the-pu...
Included: an assignment that lets you measure pupil size. In my classes, this replicates Hess & Polt's 1964 effort finding without an eyetracker. Feel free to use it!

#VisionScience #neuroscience #psychology 🧪