Siyi Chen

Postdoc

Siyi Chen became a member of the lab team in late 2018, focusing on the crossmodal contextual learning project. In 2022, she was awarded funding for her independent research project from the German Research Foundation (DFG), which explores the impact of uncertainty on context guidance and suppression mechanisms. She currently holds the position of Junior Researcher in Residence (Center for Advanced Studies) at LMU (2023/24).

Research interests

Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Computational Neuroscience, Visual Attention and Working & Long-term Memory, Multisensory Attention and Integration

Publications

2025

Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing: learning contexts and their predictive associations with targets in visual search NeuroImage

Context-based guidance versus context suppression in contextual learning: Role of un-/certainty in the target-context relations in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3 citations

2024

The impact of task measurements on sequential dependence: a comparison between temporal reproduction and discrimination tasks Psychological Research 5 citations

Opposing Sequential Biases in Direction and Time Reproduction: Influences of Task Relevance and Working Memory bioRxiv 3 citations

Contextual facilitation: Separable roles of contextual guidance and context suppression in visual search Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4 citations

ERPs and alpha oscillations track the encoding and maintenance of object‐based representations in visual working memory Psychophysiology 3 citations

2023

A study on the application of contrastive learning in the brain-computer interface of motor imagery 6th International Conference on Advanced Electronic Materials, Computers and Software Engineering (AEMCSE 2023) 2 citations

Statistical context learning in tactile search: Crossmodally redundant, visuo-tactile contexts fail to enhance contextual cueing Frontiers in Cognition

2022

Multisensory Rather than Unisensory Representations Contribute to Statistical Context Learning in Tactile Search Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2 citations

Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks. Psychophysiology 6 citations

Information Exchange between Cortical Areas: The Visual System as a Model The Neuroscientist 1 citations

2021

Feedback from lateral occipital cortex to V1/V2 triggers object completion: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and dynamic causal modeling Human Brain Mapping 12 citations

Multisensory visuo-tactile context learning enhances the guidance of unisensory visual search Scientific Reports 14 citations

When visual distractors predict tactile search: The temporal profile of cross-modal spatial learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition 5 citations

2020

Contextual Cueing Effect Under Rapid Presentation Frontiers in Psychology 11 citations

Object-based grouping benefits without integrated feature representations in visual working memory Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Object-based grouping benefits without integrated feature representations in visual working memory Attention, perception & psychophysics 18 citations

2019

Crossmodal learning of target-context associations: When would tactile context predict visual search? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Crossmodal learning of target-context associations: When would tactile context predict visual search? Attention, perception & psychophysics 7 citations

Tracking the completion of parts into whole objects: Retinotopic activation in response to illusory figures in the lateral occipital complex NeuroImage 9 citations

2018

Kanizsa-figure object completion determines attentional selection in time: Evidence from the attentional blink Journal of Vision

Amodal Completion of a Target Template Enhances Attentional Guidance in Visual Search i-Perception 6 citations

Surface Filling-In and Contour Interpolation Contribute Independently to Kanizsa Figure Formation Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 13 citations

Object completion effects in attention and memory

Author accepted manuscript: Kanizsa-figure object completion gates selection in the attentional blink. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 5 citations

Object maintenance beyond their visible parts in working memory 1

Object maintenance beyond their visible parts in working memory. Journal of Neurophysiology 14 citations

2017

Filling-in and contour interpolation in Kanizsa figures

2016

Amodal completion in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 22 citations

Object maintenance beyond their visible parts in working memory: Behavioral and ERP evidence