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Artyom Zinchenko graduated from Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig) in 2016. His PhD work explored the role of emotions in cognitive and affective control, using EEG and dynamic, multisensory environment. Artyom is now a postdoc working together with Prof. Thomas Geyer, PD Dr. Markus Conci and PD Dr. Zhuanghua Shi. He is interested in the role of affective information and environmental regularities in contextual cueing and its neural basis. To explore these questions, Artyom uses EEG, TMS, eye tracking, skin conductance, heart rate, and patient case-study research methods.
Research interests
Contextual Cueing; Guided Search; EEG; fMRI
Publications
2026
Emotional aftereffects in context-guided visual search: evidence from electrodermal activity and respiration.
Cognition & Emotion
2025
Increasing Signal, Reducing Noise: Contrasting Neural Mechanisms of Attention in Visual Search.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Withstand control: standing posture differentially affects space-based and feature-based cognitive control through enhanced physiological arousal
Scientific Reports
2 citations
Withstand Context: Standing Posture Improves Contextual Cueing in Challenging Visual Search
Psychophysiology
2 citations
Eye on context: Individual differences reveal the mechanisms of statistical learning
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
2 citations
2024
EXPRESS: Top-down and emotional attention in blind and sighted individuals.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Exploring the Effects of Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Brain Metabolites: A Concurrent tDCS‐MRS Study
Human Brain Mapping
7 citations
Beyond Silence: Investigating the absence of sound on the basis of structural connectivity in the individuals with moderate hearing loss
Brain Disorders
1 citations
Distraction from long-term memory in visual search: Acquired procedural and template-based memory interfere with contextual cueing after target re-location
Visual Cognition
1 citations
Invariant contexts reduce response time variability in visual search in an age-specific way: A comparison of children, teenagers, and adults
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2 citations
Blocked versus interleaved: How range contexts modulate time perception and its EEG signatures.
Psychophysiology
2 citations
Individual peak alpha frequency does not index individual differences in inhibitory cognitive control.
Psychophysiology
7 citations
When experience with scenes foils attentional orienting: ERP evidence against flexible target-context mapping in visual search.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
5 citations
2023
Environmental regularities mitigate attentional misguidance in contextual cueing of visual search.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition
8 citations
Contextual cueing of visual search reflects the acquisition of an optimal, one-for-all oculomotor scanning strategy
Communications psychology
11 citations
Mission impossible? Spatial context relearning following a target relocation event depends on cue predictiveness
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
6 citations
2022
The acquisition but not adaptation of contextual memories is enhanced in action video-game players
Computers in Human Behavior
5 citations
Multisensory Rather than Unisensory Representations Contribute to Statistical Context Learning in Tactile Search
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
2 citations
Contextual cueing in co-active visual search: Joint action allows acquisition of task-irrelevant context
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
13 citations
Video Game Play Does Not Improve Spatial Skills When Controlling for Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Evidence From Mental-Rotation and Mental-Folding Tasks
Perceptual and Motor Skills
1 citations
Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks.
Psychophysiology
6 citations
2021
Inter-trial effects in priming of pop-out: Comparison of computational updating models
PLoS Comput. Biol.
11 citations
V5/MT+ modulates spatio-temporal integration differently across and within hemifields: causal evidence from TMS.
Neuropsychologia
2 citations
Task-Irrelevant Context Learned Under Rapid Display Presentation: Selective Attention in Associative Blocking
Frontiers in Psychology
3 citations
Affective Modulation of Working Memory Maintenance: The Role of Positive and Negative Emotions
Advances in Cognitive Psychology
8 citations
Why Are Acquired Search-Guiding Context Memories Resistant to Updating?
Frontiers in Psychology
14 citations
2020
Automatic Guidance (and Misguidance) of Visuospatial Attention by Acquired Scene Memory: Evidence From an N1pc Polarity Reversal
Psychology Science
39 citations
Affective modulation of memory-based guidance in visual search: Dissociative role of positive and negative emotions.
Emotion
24 citations
Distributed attention beats the down-side of statistical context learning in visual search
Journal of Vision
16 citations
Correction to: The effect of black tea on human cognitive performance in a cognitive test battery
Clinical Phytoscience
The role of spatial selective attention in the processing of affective prosodies in congenitally blind adults: An ERP study.
Brain Research
15 citations
2019
Moving towards dynamics: Emotional modulation of cognitive and emotional control.
International Journal of Psychophysiology
20 citations
Attentional (mis)guidance by a contextual memory template in early vision
Journal of Vision
1 citations
Astaxanthin ameliorates scopolamine-induced spatial memory deficit via reduced cortical-striato-hippocampal oxidative stress.
Brain Research
16 citations
Affective modulation of executive control in early childhood: Evidence from ERPs and a Go/Nogo task.
Biological Psychology
14 citations
Taking Attention Out of Context: Frontopolar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Abolishes the Formation of New Context Memories in Visual Search
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
16 citations
2018
Modulation of Cognitive and Emotional Control in Age-Related Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss
Frontiers in Neurology
24 citations
Hippocampal subfield volume changes in subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Brain Research
52 citations
Predictive visual search: Role of environmental regularities in the learning of context cues
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
45 citations
2017
The Influence of Negative Emotion on Cognitive and Emotional Control Remains Intact in Aging
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
25 citations
Content specificity of attentional bias to threat in post-traumatic stress disorder.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
37 citations
The effect of black tea on human cognitive performance in a cognitive test battery
Clinical Phytoscience
11 citations
Positive emotion impedes emotional but not cognitive conflict processing
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
49 citations
Positive emotion impedes emotional but not cognitive conflict processing
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
1 citations
2016
Picture Novelty Influences Response Selection and Inhibition: The Role of the In-Group Bias and Task-Difficulty
PLoS ONE
3 citations
2015
Emotion and goal-directed behavior: ERP evidence on cognitive and emotional conflict.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
103 citations
2014
Local feature suppression effect in face and non-face stimuli
Psychological Research