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Mariam Aly
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🎉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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Another handful of sand in the gears:
Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient.
This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.
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.
It has been such a pleasure to work on this paper! Beyond its intellectual breadth, what gives me great delight about this work is how the collaboration arose, thanks to @samversc.bsky.social. We read each other's papers, chatted about them on social media, and that eventually evolved into a paper!☺️
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Many consequences to this.
Suppose you are an NIH program officer, hoping for a promotion to a branch chief or division chief position.
Now, if you get the promotion, you may well lose your civil service protections.
This could be very destructive to NIH and to individual careers.
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.
