When we open our eyes, we feel we see the present moment. But because neural processing takes time, the brain only has access to outdated information. So how does it create our experience of the present? I propose a possible answer in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: go.unimelb.edu.au/fv9i 1/15

Brookshire shows that a widely used approach to identifying rhythms in behavioral data can misclassify consistent, non-rhythmic patterns as rhythmic. Importantly, evidence for rhythms in attention isn’t limited to behavioral data. My comment from bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/5fckyu48

Attention to items in working memory oscillates! Check out our new paper: nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are looking for a postdoc to join us in the Dynamics of Cognition Lab. We are investigating the neural basis of cognitive flexibility associated with selective attention and working memory. If you’re potentially interested, DM. And please RT!

New paper out in PNAS! (we question the conclusion of a recent PNAS paper) Check the summary in this thread by Surya Gayet!

Things could be better zpr.io/EeP6qFyVHbnU

2-Minute read on location prediction of moving objects. Fantastic summary (eLife insight) by Damian Koevoet and Andre Sahakian. Got more than 2 minutes? Highly recommend reading the full paper by @phil__johnson and Hinze Hogendoorn.

**JOB POSITION ALERT** Join me in Toulouse (France) for a 3 years postdoc in Computational Neuroscience, working on Predictive Coding and Travelling Waves! Please RT and spread the word! More details here: artipago.github.io/open%20positio…

Very excited to share our new preprint on visual processing in the octopus! Led by Judit Pungor judit, together with Mea (josc) 🐙 and Angelique Allen, we measured the functional organization of visual responses in the octopus brain. 🐙👁️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Why spend resources to represent information that is already available in the external world? "Surprisingly" we don't: Our new paper in Cereb. Cortex (OA) shows better decoding of stimulus features during working memory than perception. doi.org/10.1093/cercor…

Microsaccades are interesting. Maybe. Great work by the indomitable Dr. Shawn Willett. pnas.org/eprint/9GNBSYT…

Tomorrow at 4 pm (CET), Prof. Sabine Kastner will provide the upcoming Helmholtz lecture, "Neural dynamics of the primate attention network." Refer to the link to find the abstract and location, or if you want to request to join online bit.ly/3PeMjOa

We had a blast visiting the rolfslab in Berlin! Two wonderful days of talking science and seeing each others' cool projects. See you in Utrecht!(?)

🚨Hi Tweeps, please allow me proudly present the CAP-lab website: cap-lab.net Where CAP stands for Consciousness, Attention, & Perception (and coincidentally refers to my favorite clothing attribute). Please, have a look, and don't forget to follow my PhD students!

Can highly recommend Teuni and Stefan as supervisors! You will find yourself among very open communicators and incredibly smart researchers.

How can you study each phase of visual working memory using pupillometry? In our new review, we outline how encoding, maintenance and prioritization are reflected in pupil size. Open access: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc…

In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very cool RIFT study by Kabir Arora! Do we engage early visual areas when prioritizing VWM versus Perception? Does space play the same role in both? Which measures of attention (RIFT, Alpha, Microsaccades) dissociate internal and external selection? Check the preprint!