Research
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How Distractors Summon but Do Not Engage Attention
Congratulations to Dr. Shao-Yang Tsai, whose latest study has just been published in Cortex! This work investigates a fundamental question…
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Large-Scale Benchmarking Reveals Optimal Metrics for Measuring Functional Connectivity in Aging
We are delighted to share that our team, collaborated with team from the imaging center NICUM, has published a comprehensive…
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Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Contextual Guidance and Suppression
We are excited to share that our lab member, Dr. Siyi Chen, has published a new paper in The Journal…
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How does saccade distort the time we experience?
Have you ever glanced at a clock and felt like the second hand paused for a moment? This common illusion,…
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Atypical Prior Updating in ASD
Our recent new study, titled “Predictive Processing in ASD: The Aytpical Iterative Prior Updating Account”, published in Biological Psychiatry Global…
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Conscious Awareness Boosts Dynamic Regularity Learning in Visual Search
In a recent study, published in Cognition, conducted by our lab member Hao Yu, we discovered that people can learn…
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How do we learn and use dynamic spatial patterns in visual search?
Our brain has an incredible ability to adapt to changing patterns in the world around us. For instance, when searching…
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How tasks shape temporal sequential dependence
Our brain tends to let past experiences influence how we perceive new ones. For example, if you previously watched a…
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Opposing sequential biases in time and direction perception
Our recent experiences influence how we perceive and make decisions, a concept known as serial dependence. While this has been…
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Blocked versus interleaved: How range contexts modulate time perception and its EEG signatures
Understanding time accurately is vital for many cognitive processes. People’s time estimates often converge around the average when presented with…
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Impact of Contextual Guidance and Suppression on Visual Search Efficiency
Context plays a pivotal role in our daily decision-making processes. For instance, when navigating a familiar city, we often rely…
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Selective contextual association
Context plays a critical role in directing our attention, as we often subconsciously learn associations between targets and their surroundings…
