Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load.
In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Past experiences shape current selection. But when and how strong are past and present targets represented in the brain?
In our newest paper, we show that past and present search targets are concurrently represented in the brain.
Out now in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations
Position: post-doctoral (2 years)
Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV)
Deadline: September 4th, 2026
Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility)
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Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪
Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.