🚨 Excited to share our new paper in JEP: General w/ Tamar Alkalai & Dominique Lamy! 🚨
We examined sequential effects from the visual search, task-switching, and action-control literatures within a single paradigm.
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Some irrelevant features of a previous target guide attention during search, but others don't.
Are they not encoded, or do they not guide attention?
In our new paper (with Nitzan Micher & Dominique Lamy), we show that features that didn't guide attention were...
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I’m presenting our research on how gaze is biased toward previous target locations in naturalistic scenes today at #VSS2026. Poster 36.450 in the Pavilion from 2:45 – 6:45 pm - join me if you want to chat!
is largely task-independent.
We also provide novel evidence for task preparation and task inertia in task switching.
Together, these findings highlight the value of examining phenomena from different literatures within a single paradigm.
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For more details, check out the full paper here: doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
#VisualSearch #TaskSwitching #Attention #actioncontrol
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still bound to previous responses, suggesting they were encoded.
Check it out:
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
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(1) The attentional bias toward previous target locations is better explained by an episodic retrieval mechanism than by an activation-boost account, challenging the widespread view of this bias
and (2) while the retrieval mechanism influencing attentional guidance is
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