MSense Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing
Humans can learn to use repeated visual environments to find important objects more efficiently. When the same arrangement of distracting items appears again and again,…
Jan 5, 2026
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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 in attention research: how does…
Sep 18, 2025
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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 study in NeuroImage systematically comparing…
Jul 1, 2025
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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 of Neuroscience revealing how the…
Jun 18, 2025
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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 and apply patterns in difficult…
Jan 6, 2025
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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 for your keys, you might…
Oct 11, 2024
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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 on landmarks to guide us.…
May 4, 2024
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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 to enhance performance. The flexibility…
May 4, 2024
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Talk on Visual distractor suppression at Oldenburg University
Oldenburg, April 11 – Dr. Zhuanghua Shi recently visited Oldenburg University to give a talk on how our brains handle distractions. The talk, titled “Neural…
Apr 19, 2024
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Understanding Color Perception: How Natural Daylight Cues Influence Hue Discrimination
Incorporating statistical properties of stimuli into the interpretation of sensory data can greatly enhance the accuracy of perception amidst noisy input; however, it can also…
Apr 15, 2024
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Workshop on “Predictive Attention” Yields Insightful Discussions
Dr. Siyi Chen, a junior resident at LMU CAS, orchestrated a two-day workshop (18-19 March, 2024) that brought together leading scientists to explore the concept…
Mar 22, 2024
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High demand redirects increased anxiety to uphold goal-directed attention
Recently Stanković et al. (2024) used a novel dual-target search paradigm to investigate influence of state anxiety on stimulus-driven attentional capture. And we found that…
Feb 15, 2024
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Eye movement: innovation in visual perception training
News from the original LMU Newsroom: Constant training improves the capacities of human perception. Just as years of practice hone the senses of smell and…
Oct 24, 2023
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Feng Meng, can the ability to see a flea as large as a wheel be transferred?
Feng Meng, can the ability to see a flea as large as a wheel be transferred? Our team member Dr. Lukasz Grzeczkowski has recently revealed in…
Oct 16, 2023
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Valence color preference and association
Research has found that emotion-associated features, such as color, can influence our attention. However, what has been neglected is individuals may have their own color-valence…
Oct 11, 2023
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Little engagement of attention by cross-dimension distractors
While engaged in a task, it’s easy for our flow to be disrupted by salient distractors. Yet, if you know the target, shielding yourself from…
Jun 11, 2023
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Asymmetric learning of dynamic spatial regularities
It is possible to improve attentional guidance by learning statistical regularities of the static spatial layout of the target and distractors within the search display.…
May 3, 2023
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Long-term vs. short-term distractor location effect
When a salient distractor frequently appears in one specific location, it causes less interference over time, known as the distractor-location probability cueing effect based on…
May 1, 2023
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Hierarchy of intra- and cross-modal redundancy gains
Redundant information is useful for facilitating search. However, it remains controversial whether our brain integrates the features from different senses in the same way it…
Apr 8, 2023
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