Yong Hoon Chung
@yonghoonchung.bsky.social
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PhD student at Dartmouth
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New preprint with @SamJung
@timbrady.bsky.social
and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
. Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/45qjn_v1
4 months ago
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Tomorrow morning at 11am I'll be presenting my talk at
#VSS2026
titled "Semantic understanding, not just coherent object structure, strengthens visual working memory"! (Talk Room 2) See you there!
9 days ago
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Viola Störmer
12 days ago
Hello to everyone coming to
@vssmtg.bsky.social
: Come see what our lab and collaborators have been working on this past year. - Lots of interesting new work on visual working memory, feature- and object-based attention, cross-modal attention, ensemble perception!
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Joey Saito
13 days ago
Saturday, May 16, 5:45pm in Talk Room 2, I'll be talking about a rich epistemic demonstration of how semantically-rich objects can scaffold our memory of meaningless surface features. w/
@yonghoonchung.bsky.social
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@violastoermer.bsky.social
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Yong Hoon Chung
William Ngiam | 严祥全
26 days ago
A multi-lab replication effort (
@eegmanylabs.bsky.social
) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong.
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2026.04.006
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William Ngiam | 严祥全
29 days ago
VSS (
@vssmtg.bsky.social
) is coming up! Do you have an idea for a vision experiment but want to check you haven't missed anything? Looking for collaborators or relevant resources? Wanting to chat about a theory or model? Consider the pre-data poster session!
www.visionsciences.org/pre-data-col...
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VSS Pre-Data-Collection Poster SessionPre-Data-Collection Poster Session – Vision Sciences Society
https://www.visionsciences.org/pre-data-collection-satellite/
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New paper with
@timbrady.bsky.social
and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects"
doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
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Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects
Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...
https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2427
3 months ago
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New preprint with @SamJung
@timbrady.bsky.social
and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
. Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/45qjn_v1
4 months ago
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reposted by
Yong Hoon Chung
Philipp Musfeld
4 months ago
🚨New paper altert🚨 As a synthesis of my PhD research, we revisited the prevailing assumption about the mechanisms underlying repetition learning, and re-evaluated these assumption in light of recent findings. Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science:
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916251408052
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Yong Hoon Chung
William Ngiam | 严祥全
5 months ago
Make it your New Year resolution to add a
#workingmemory
dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.
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OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
https://williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData
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reposted by
Yong Hoon Chung
Björn Jörges
5 months ago
Has anyone attended any pre-data-collection poster sessions (i.e., poster sessions where people present their plans for experiments before data collection in order to get feedback when it's most useful) at conferences other than VSS?
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New paper with NicoleAnayaSosa and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
now out in Perception! "Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect"
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW...
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Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect - Yong Hoon Chung, Nicole C. Anaya Sosa, Viola S. Störmer, 2025
Spatially aligned faces presented in a continuous stream in the periphery appear distorted and grotesque. This flashed face distortion effect (“FFDE”) was first...
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW2S8R34WNZRUBIUP/full
6 months ago
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Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at
#ESCoP2025
titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!
9 months ago
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Yong Hoon Chung
Project SHORT
10 months ago
We are now recruiting STEM mentors for the 2025-2026 graduate school application cycle! ⏰ Mentor applications close on July 31st, 2025 ⏰ ✨ APPLY HERE:
dashboard.project-short.com
✨ Questions? Email us:
[email protected]
#gradschool
#phd
#phdapplication
#gradadmissions
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New paper with LaurenWilliams,
@timbrady.bsky.social
, and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
now out in JEP: General! "Limits of verbal labels in cognition: Category labels do not improve visual working memory performance for obfuscated objects"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-34912-001
11 months ago
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Today afternoon I’ll be presenting my poster at
#vss2025
titled “Perceptual and conceptual contributions of the real-world object benefit in visual working memory: Is looking like an object good enough to enhance memory?” See you at Pavillion!
about 1 year ago
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New paper with Kaira Shlipak and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
now out in Journal of Memory and Language! “Fluid intelligence correlates with working memory capacity for both real-world objects and simple-feature stimuli”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fluid intelligence correlates with working memory capacity for both real-world objects and simple-feature stimuli
Previous research has shown that individual differences in visual working memory performance strongly correlate with measures of fluid intelligence. I…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X25000415#s0140
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Yong Hoon Chung
Viola Störmer
about 1 year ago
Excited to see everyone at
#VSS2025
- Come check out what my lab has been up to over this past year:
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reposted by
Yong Hoon Chung
Björn Jörges
about 1 year ago
Hello VSS friends! Want feedback on your current projects? Submissions for our pre data collection poster satellite are still open until tomorrow. More info here:
www.visionsciences.org/2025-pre-dat...
@vssmtg.bsky.social
@shansmann-roth.bsky.social
@willngiam.bsky.social
@yonghoonchung.bsky.social
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VSS 2025 Pre-Data-Collection Poster Session2025 Pre-Data-Collection Poster Session – Vision Sciences Society
https://www.visionsciences.org/2025-pre-data-collection-satellite/
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Yong Hoon Chung
William Ngiam | 严祥全
about 1 year ago
The deadline is coming up to present at the pre-data poster session at
#VSS
. It's the perfect venue for those who want to have a conversation about an idea or a topic (especially early-career researchers who may not have something in-the-works!).
#visionscience
www.visionsciences.org/2025-pre-dat...
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VSS 2025 Pre-Data-Collection Poster Session2025 Pre-Data-Collection Poster Session – Vision Sciences Society
https://www.visionsciences.org/2025-pre-data-collection-satellite/
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New Preprint with
@timbrady.bsky.social
and
@violastoermer.bsky.social
:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here we show increased neural delay activity associated with remembering features as part of real-world objects. 1/
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Real-world objects scaffold visual working memory for features: Increased neural delay activity when colors are remembered as part of meaningful objects
Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. While previous studies have postulated that the capacity of this system is fixed with...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.645785v1
about 1 year ago
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Tomorrow morning I’ll be presenting my poster at CNS
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
B10: “Increased neural delay activity for simple features when they are remembered as part of real-world objects” Come chat with me about how semantic associations may improve feature working memory!
#CNS2025
about 1 year ago
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Presenting my poster
@opam.bsky.social
today 11:30am: “Can you remember them better because they are familiar or because they look real? Testing the contribution of object-ness in visual working memory with novel objects” See you all there!
over 1 year ago
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