Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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New paper alert: very proud to share our review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, spearheaded by @maellelerebourg.bsky.social, and together with @peelen.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social, about goal-directed search in real-world environments. See below for a thread/tldr!
Past experience and our current goals guide what information to focus on. But how and when does the brain represent the past and the present? This new study shows that the brain represents the past an...
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Damian Koevoet
Joey Saito
Surya Gayet
A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. Th…
What do we look for when searching for objects in our daily-life environments? Very happy that I can now share this review, together with @suryagayet.bsky.social , @predictivebrain.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social🥳
A brief thread below!
Maëlle Lerebourg
Online Now: Attention in the wild: balancing flexibility and stability
To prioritize the visual processing of task-relevant objects in our surroundings, we rely on an attentional template—an internal representation of object features that guides attention toward potential targets. Decades of research have characterized attentional templates for simple targets in artificial arrays. How could templates function in real-world search, where target appearance is variable and objects are embedded in complex, dynamic scenes? We consider two possibilities: (i) flexible templates that are adapted to changing scene contexts and (ii) stable (‘one-size-fits-all’) templates that generalize across contexts. We review recent behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for both possibilities and discuss how optimal search depends on balancing the relative costs and benefits of template adaptation, enabling efficient attention ‘in the wild’.
