Research

Si Cheng’s fMRI study in NeuroImage: Reports finds that the previous interval lingers in the putamen, not visual cortex, when people reproduce durations, and that task switching recruits …

Siyi Chen’s brain-imaging study in NeuroImage shows the anterior hippocampus encoding links between a repeated context and the target, the posterior hippocampus encoding relations among …

Plank and colleagues find in Imaging Neuroscience that adults with ASD, ADHD and neurotypical controls show no differences in prediction-error signals for the colors and emotions of unattended faces, …

Shao-Yang Tsai’s high-density EEG study in Cortex shows that distractors sharing the target’s critical features capture spatial attention, marked by a larger N2pc, yet evoke no late PD, …

Benchmarking 20 resting-state fMRI connectivity metrics on 1187 participants, a NeuroImage study with NICUM finds correlational and distance-based measures most sensitive to age-related connectivity …

Siyi Chen’s EEG study in The Journal of Neuroscience shows that a predictive distractor layout triggers a guidance mode with N1pc, N2pc and CDA signatures, while a non-predictive layout switches …

Lingyue Chen’s study in Psychological Research shows that a saccade not only stretches the first event seen afterwards but also compresses the next one, a tug-of-war that intensifies the …

In a duration reproduction task, individuals with ASD updated their prior expectations more strongly from each new sensory input than controls, especially in volatile settings, challenging the …

Hao Yu’s eye-tracking study in Cognition shows that people who consciously noticed the target’s predictable shift in serial search sent their first saccade to the predicted location, …

When a search target shifted to an adjacent position on 80 percent of trials, about 70 percent of participants learned the pattern, but only those aware of it searched faster with fewer saccades.

Dr. Si Cheng and colleagues show in Psychological Research that duration judgments drift toward the previous trial, and this pull grows when consecutive trials both require reproduction, but not in a …

Si Cheng found that reproduced durations are pulled toward the previous trial while reproduced directions are pushed away, and both biases grow when the task cue arrives after the stimulus rather than …

Dr. Baykan and colleagues report in Psychophysiology that blocking short and long intervals, instead of interleaving them, sharpens time estimates and produces faster, stronger CNV buildup plus a …

Siyi Chen’s visual search study in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review shows that learned context-target associations speed search strongly but break down when reversed, whereas context …

EEG recordings by Artyom Zinchenko and Xuelian Zang show that repeated distractor layouts speed search only for one dominant target, marked by early N1pc and N2pc, while a second target evokes a later …

Hue discrimination is most accurate and least biased along the color axis matching natural daylight; a Bayesian observer model with a prior favoring blue tones explains the pattern, published in …

Presenting short and long intervals in separate blocks, rather than mixed, yields more accurate time estimates and a faster, stronger CNV buildup, as an EEG study led by Dr. Cemre Baykan shows.

Karaaslan and Shi report in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology that images arriving earlier than expected feel briefer, rare images feel longer, and negative images outlast neutral ones, …

Karaaslan and Shi found that emotional images arriving earlier than expected felt shorter, rarer ones felt longer, and negative images seemed to last longer than neutral ones, with expectancy and …

Dr. Siyi Chen of LMU CAS gathered speakers from Lancaster, Oxford, Nijmegen, Peking, Columbia and Amsterdam for a two-day workshop, 18-19 March 2024, debating how our minds anticipate and react to the …

Experimentally raised state anxiety left dual-target search performance unchanged: high task demand and working memory load appear to redirect anxiety and keep attention goal-directed rather than …

An fMRI study in Cerebral Cortex shows that prior durations bias current time judgments only after active reproduction, not passive viewing, with hippocampal activity shielding encoded durations from …

Training vision while the eyes move lets perceptual learning spread beyond the trained spot to untrained parts of the visual field, LMU Newsroom reports on the PNAS study by Grzeczkowski, Shi, Rolfs …

Lukasz Grzeczkowski shows in PNAS that perceptual learning transfers to a new location when the eyes saccade there, though not to a new feature, told through the Chinese myth of archer Feng Meng.