1/ We work hard to factor "noise" out of behavior. But the brain doesn't.
Strip away noise and you may miss what the brain evolved to do
I wanted to share this pre-Bluesky paper where we found premotor (M2) corticostriatal circuits encode a broad history of behavior, beyond just action + reward 👇
🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social.
We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them.
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🚨 New publication in collab with Shayna Rosenbaum's lab:
"Aphantasia is associated with spatial memory and navigation difficulties in complex virtual environments"
Our test SeaHeroQuest shows a correlation between nav performance and mental imagery (VVIQ)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our newest finding: tiny microsaccades are biased toward the location that is about to be attentionally suppressed.
This suggests that attention briefly precedes suppression: before the system can suppress a location, it first appears to select it.
Prior experience is used by the brain to guide adaptive behaviour during decision making. Here, the authors show that mice also selectively use information learned through recent and longer-term exper...
www.nature.com
Statistical learning guide attention by shaping anticipatory oculomotor behavior. Here, the authors show that microsaccades are biased to expected distractor locations before stimulus onset and predic...
New article out in @natcomms.nature.com :
Context induces distortions in value representations across multiple elicitation methods and learning modalities, with
Magda Soukupova (first author) and @bsgarcia.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Drew Schreiner
Sam Verschooren
Hugo Spiers
Jan Theeuwes
That’s another grant submitted! This time to hopefully develop focused ultrasound methods for testing models of interoception. Fingers crossed!
