Attention & context
Attention & context

Familiar environments help the brain focus on what matters and ignore what doesn't. Our research explores how spatial regularities, contextual cueing, and cross-modal signals shape selective attention in complex scenes.

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Research
Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks
ERPs show that repeated tactile distractor layouts speed visual search as much as repeated visual ones, and both boost the same attentional-selection (PCN) and target-analysis (CDA) stages. Published …
Feb 10, 2022
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Personality Traits, Loneliness, and Affect Among Boxers
Among 231 boxers, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness went with more positive and less negative affect, neuroticism the reverse, and loneliness mediated the link. Published in Frontiers …
May 24, 2021
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Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in visual search involves regional signal suppression in early visual cortex
fMRI shows that learning where salient distractors tend to appear dampens early visual cortex responses at those locations, with the link to behavioural interference holding only for distractors …
May 6, 2021
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When visual distractors predict tactile search: The temporal profile of cross-modal spatial learning
Repeated visual distractor layouts can cue the location of a tactile target, but only when the tactile target arrives 250 to 450 ms before the visual context, revealing a novel visuo-tactile …
May 6, 2021
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Multisensory visuo-tactile context learning enhances the guidance of unisensory visual search
Learning repeated search layouts with co-located tactile vibrations strengthens contextual cueing, even on trials shown to the eyes alone; drift-diffusion modeling traces the boost to faster evidence …
May 6, 2021
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Probability cueing of singleton-distractor locations in visual search
Learned suppression of a frequent distractor location also slows targets appearing there, but this cost fades with practice once targets are equally likely at that location, pointing to a flexible …
Oct 27, 2018
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Inter-trial effects in visual search
Modeling reaction times from three pop-out search experiments shows that response history shifts the starting decision bias, whereas repeating the target dimension speeds evidence accumulation, …
Oct 26, 2018