Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!

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... 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

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're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

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! 👁️🎨🧪

#EenWereldVolDenkers is een reis door de gedachtewerelden van mens, dier, plant en AI! Als je hem nu voorbestelt, ontvang je direct gratis de onderstaande verhalenbundel (Undercurrents) als e-book + kans op een uniek, handgemaakt exemplaar! forms.gle/bEJz4Spk2p72... #psychologie #biology #wetenschap

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Gaze heatmaps (are popular especially for eye-tracking beginners and in many applied domains. How many participants should be tested? Depends of course, but our guidelines help navigating this in an informed way. Out now in BRM (free) doi.org/10.3758/s134... @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

Thrilled to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on Monday June 16th! The dissertation is available here: doi.org/10.33540/2960

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

Attending @vssmtg.bsky.social? Come check out my talk on EEG decoding of preparatory overt and covert attention! Tomorrow in the Attention: Neural Mechanisms session at 17:15. You can check out the preprint in the meantime:

We previously showed that affordable eye movements are preferred over costly ones. What happens when salience comes into play? In our new paper, we show that even when salience attracts gaze, costs remain a driver of saccade selection. OA paper here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

About time our latest project about time got out! How do self-paced encoding and retention relate to performance in (working) memory-guided actions? Find out now in Memory and Cognition: doi.org/10.3758/s134... (or check the short version below)🧵

Preparing overt eye movements and directing covert attention are neurally coupled. Yet, this coupling breaks down at the single-cell level. What about populations of neurons? We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thrilled to share that, as of May 1st, I have started as a postdoc at The University of Manchester! I will investigate looked-but-failed-to-see (LBFTS) errors in visual search, under the expert guidance of Johan Hulleman and Jeremy Wolfe. Watch this space!

In our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements. eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... The paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 #VisionScience

We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in @elife.bsky.social eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... & the 'convincing & important' paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 I consider this my coolest ever project! #VisionScience #Neuroscience

New preprint! We present two very large eye tracking datasets of museum visitors (4-81 y.o.!) who freeviewed (n=1248) or searched for a +/x (n=2827) in a single feature-rich image. We invite you to (re)use the dataset and provide suggestions for future versions 📋 osf.io/preprints/os...

PI @cstrauch.bsky.social dragged me to a “German” conference – turned out to be an absolute blast (and very international)! Great science, even better people :)

Our paper on how we use hearing and vision to localize(multimodal) objects, is now out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0...)! See @yichen-yuan.bsky.social's thread below for a thread! #MultisensoryPerception #MotionTracking #MotionPrediction #WorkingMemory

🎉New paper out in JEP:HPP [email protected] @suryagayet.bsky.social @chrispaffen.bsky.social and Stefan Van der Stigchel. We asked whether memory traces are formed for items that have not yet been selected for immediate action, while we are actively sampling targets for imminent action.

New popscience piece on why pupil size changes are so cool. psyche.co/ideas/the-pu... Included: an assignment that lets you measure pupil size. In my classes, this replicates Hess & Polt's 1964 effort finding without an eyetracker. Feel free to use it! #VisionScience #neuroscience #psychology 🧪

In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint (now with an additional experiment) we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We often rely on the external world rather than fully loading memory- if it's easy to access external information at least. @tianyingq.bsky.social's new PBR metaanalysis across 28 exp shows: increases in access cost reliably push toward internal WM use. doi.org/10.3758/s134... #VisionScience 🧪

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

I made a thing for the lab! The list should grow a bit longer in due course.