Registration for OPAM 2022 is now OPEN! Please visit our website to register, and to have a glance at our mini-program: opam.net

POSTDOC alert: We're looking for a postdoctoral scientist to join our lab at Dartmouth! We study the neural basis of perception, memory, and neurodiversity.

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So so pumped that we (Dartmouth Cognitive Science) are hiring an assistant professor in computational cognitive science apply.interfolio.com/111784 DMs are open if you want to talk about the position--apps due Oct 1. Please share with anyone who might be interested and a good fit!!

New Preprint with Tim Brady and Mark Schurgin: psyarxiv.com/cu3zg Here we are investigating the role of motion in visual working memory for dynamic stimuli. 1/

Final reminder: OPAM 2022 abstract submission deadline is today!

Reminder: abstract submission deadline is 7/15! Remember to submit your work before this deadline. More info here opam.net

A new preprint with Chaipat Chunharas and viola störmer! 'Optimal tuning of feature-based attention warps the perception of visual features' psyarxiv.com/hbfup

The Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) is one of my favorite events of the year. This year would have been our 7th iteration, but we had to cancel it in 2020 and then make it virtual in 2021. This year we were back in person. And it was a amazing (1/n)

Join SSNAP for our closing conference tomorrow! We will be streaming via Zoom at the following link: duke.zoom.us/j/4832737830?p…

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My first in-person VSS was a lot of fun! If you missed my poster in person, I'm presenting it again at V-VSS now! Come by to hear about how feature working memory can benefit from meaningful stimuli! #VSS2022

If you are at virtual #vss2022 , come see an event that I and Takuma Morimoto are organizing on accessibility in vision science! Starting soon, at 2:30pm EDT. Our great lineup of speakers can be found here: visionsciences.org/2022-vvss-acce…

Abstracts for the Working Memory Symposium (wmsymposium.org) are due tomorrow (6/1)!

Just one stream of talks – given only by early-career researchers – with a friendly community. What more could you want?

(The submission link was down earlier but is now restored!)

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I think these results point to some fascinating future directions. Will this pattern hold in spatial attention, or in auditory attention? What neural mechanisms are or aren't shared by these sources of control? I hope that I and others can address these questions soon!
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These results have implications for how to train people to attend to task-relevant features - explicit instructions seem best - and ignore potential distractions - maybe incidental practice at ignoring is better than explicit instructions.
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...suggesting that the use of working memory to attend towards a feature is particularly beneficial, including when compared to an equally informative target learning condition.
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This is consistent with the 'working memory' account of why distractor ignoring is sometimes ineffective. Also consistent with this account is that voluntary target attention was by far more effective than the other sources of control, ...
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And that is what we found! Target cues had a 155ms benefit when accurate vs. inaccurate, compared to only 24ms for distractor cues. This difference was almost absent for learned attention, with a 78ms benefit for target learning and a 56ms benefit for distractor learning.
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