Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!
Here we come VSS 2026!
We have an amazing group of people presenting some great vision science! Please see our schedule below.
See you there!!
We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!
Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!
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Many thanks to my co-authors Noa Hoevers, Chris Olivers, Christoph Strauch, Tanja Nijboer, and Stefan Van der Stigchel, and reviewers
Similar findings forthcoming, from my postdoc in collaboration with Johan Hulleman!
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When specifically instructed, participants could search for at least two items sequentially (one-by-one) as well as concurrently (all-at-once), whilst effectively ignoring distractors. We used both target-click orders and fixation data to confirm this.
Importantly though, ...
This might then explain the mixed findings in literature: if you don't instruct participants to use concurrent search, they simply may not choose to do so – and you may therefore find no evidence for concurrent multi-target search. Even though they maybe can!
I try to reconcile Guided Search (Wolfe) and “item-free” (e.g., Hulleman & Olivers) models of visual search. How lucky am I to have both Jeremy Wolfe and Johan Hulleman as co-authors for that?!
Poster on Sunday afternoon, drop by! #VSS2026
... when given free choice on how to search, participants used a mix of sequential and concurrent search modes. They switched modes between conditions, between trials, and sometimes even within trials.
Here is one example participant, who used a mix of search modes across and within conditions:
Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings.
In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵
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We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...
