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Where the last interval lingers: the putamen and duration serial dependence
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 …
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MSense hosts EyeCon VR/AR Lab Workshop II: Blender, EEG and Unity for VR research
Partners from Çanakkale spent 28 September to 2 October at LMU Munich learning to build 3D environments in Blender, analyse EEG spectra in EEGLAB and develop VR experiments in Unity, with lab practice …
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The Attentional Thief: Why an Hour of Scrolling Feels Like Half
In a stripped-down lab feed with EEG and eye tracking, a 60-second block of self-paced scrolling felt like 28 seconds, shorter than watching the same images replayed, yet memory for them was no …
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First on-site EyeCon VR/AR Lab workshop: EEG and VR training in Çanakkale
From 14 to 18 April the Erasmus+ partners met at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University for lab checks, a full-day EEG tutorial and a full-day VR tutorial, moving the shared VR/AR and EEG lab from planning …
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Talk at MPI Tübingen: One Process, Two Biases
On 27 March 2026 Zhuanghua Shi spoke at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, hosted by Prof. Li Zhaoping, arguing that the Vierordt effect and serial dependence stem from …
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Your phone steals time twice
Featured on 3sat nano, our preliminary results show that actively browsing short videos shrinks felt time far more than passively watching them, and that scrolling leaves memories too blurred to …
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Duration Reproduction Under Editorial Pressure
A paper rejected by JEP:LMC after three rounds and a demanded replication, then published in Cognition: Zhuanghua Shi reflects on what the publication system costs its authors, above all PhD students.
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EyeCon VR/AR Lab kicks off its training programme with an online Unity VR workshop
Twenty-one participants from LMU Munich and the Çanakkale partners spent a full day online with Dr. Erwan David, building interactive VR environments in Unity, the first training event of the Erasmus+ …
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Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing
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 …
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LMU-ChaN Workshop 2025: A Celebration of International Collaboration
From October 29 to 31 the lab organized the LMU-ChaN Workshop at LMU Munich, marking ten years of the LMU-China Academic Network with three days of talks, lab visits and dialogues with partners from …
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Domain-specific vs domain-general prediction errors
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, …
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How Distractors Summon but Do Not Engage Attention
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, …
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 Large-Scale Benchmarking Reveals Optimal Metrics for Measuring Functional Connectivity in Aging
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 …
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Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Contextual Guidance and Suppression
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 …
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How does saccade distort the time we experience?
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 …
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Atypical Prior Updating in ASD
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 …
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Conscious Awareness Boosts Dynamic Regularity Learning in Visual Search
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, …
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TEDx talk on decisions under time pressure
At TEDxTUM, Zhuanghua Shi explained how hidden time cues push us into snap decisions that scammers exploit, and how slowing down leads to more deliberate choices.
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MSense hosts 2nd Workshop of Erasmus+ VET
The lab hosted the second Erasmus+ VET workshop in Munich from November 25 to 29, training partners from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and Çanakkale Technopark in eye tracking, EEG, MRI and TMS.
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How do we learn and use dynamic spatial patterns in visual search?
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.
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How tasks shape temporal sequential dependence
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 …
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Opposing sequential biases in time and direction perception
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 …
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Congratulation, Yu Hao!
Hao Yu passed her PhD defense on 15th July with a thesis on the neural and behavioral basis of statistical learning of target facilitation in visual search.
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Congratulation, Cheng Si!
Si Cheng passed her PhD defense on 10th July 2024 with a thesis on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of sequential effects in time perception.