Columbia IS a gem! Photos submitted as proof from our many nature hikes this weekend.

Please spread the word and join us! We're friendly and love to train future researchers in psychology. This is a major service and the course may end this summer (unless further funding is obtained).

This course is perfect for beginners looking to get additional training. Attendees will receive 10-lectures, sample programs, a textbook, homework assignments, and certificate of completion. Our workshop has now trained hundreds of students and has contributed to dozens of scientific publications.

Home This virtual workshop teaches basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from psychological tasks using R...

Last chance to apply for our virtual summer workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Funded by NSF, this FREE workshop provides direct training in using R to analyze data from psychological experiments. Open to students from any university. Apps due May 15!

rworkshop.missouri.edu

Such a wonderful talk from Keisuke Fukuda. Really cool work on working memory and metacognition! Thanks so much visiting us at Mizzou!
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No pressure. But I would love to be added to this starter pack!

A very interesting paper introducing a new technique to manipulate salience during search!

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

From Capture to Control: Initial Capture Increases Learned Suppression - Yue Zhang, Nicholas Gaspelin, 2026 Salient stimuli have the potential to distract us from our immediate goals. Much research has therefore aimed to understand how we learn to use attention to res...

Excited to see this work out! We show that attention can rapidly learn to ignore salient distractions within 1-2 exposures. Interestingly, this learned suppression is highly contingent on an initial instance of capture!

More to come!
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Hi Colleagues who use eyetracking! 👋 👀

@shen4brains.bsky.social , @jordwynn.bsky.social, Zhong Xu Liu and I are guest editing a Special Issue for Neuropsychologia on Contributions of eyetracking to cognitive neuroscience.

The Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee is looking to fill three vacancies on the committee this year. Applications are due by April 1. Learn more and express your interest here: buff.ly/0rZ3Udb

Home This virtual workshop teaches students basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks us...

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis.

Apply by May 15th!
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Flexibility in Working Memory: Overcoming Salience Gaspelin, N. & Cowan, N. (2025). Restoring a top-down control assumptions: Salience effects in working memory are overcome with time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.&nbsp…

Does salience boost object representations in working memory, or is it just a visual search artifact? In two new studies w/ Nelson Cowan, we challenge some recent studies for a more flexible model of working memory.

Read about it on my blog!
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/f...

APS Fellows Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.

Honored to be an APS fellow! Thanks to those who nominated me. And congrats to the others who were also inducted.

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❗New paper published in Cognition❗ "A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan" from Iris Wiegand, Igor S. Utochkin, Ava Mitra, Chia-Chien Wu, and Jeremy M. Wolfe

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Elaine (my daughter) is officially the mascot for our Linux-based stimulus machines in the lab. All coding frustrations can now be addressed by viewing this picture.

>> sudo get-cuteness

P.S. The title is an homage to the classic Jeremy Wolfe paper, "What can a million trials tell us about visual search?" He approved (of the title) at Psychonomics!

What can a half-million saccades tell us about distractor suppression? Salient distractions in the environment compete for attention and have the potential to interfere with our goals. An abundance of research has therefo…

Here's a new paper in which we analyzed >700,000 eye movements to understand attentional suppression of distracting stimuli. This large dataset helps resolve some longstanding questions about the timing and learning of suppression.
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I'd like to be added if possible.

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

What can we learn from >700,000 eye movements about distractor suppression? Tonight, Kaitlyn Drennan will present a large data set that aims to resolve difficult-to-answer questions about distractor suppression. Stop by her poster to see beautiful data!

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Are working memory representations feature-based or object-based? This afternoon, Chenye Bao will present some awesome ERP work using the CDA component to test between these accounts. She finds an interesting discrepancy between behavior and ERPs. Don't miss her talk! @chenyebao.bsky.social

How do we learn to ignore salient distractors? This morning, Yue Zhang will be present fascinating work suggesting successful ignoring actually requires an initial instance of capture. This learning can occur rapidly within 1-2 trials! Don't miss her talk. @yuezhang-mu.bsky.social ​

Great keynote by Joy Geng at OPAM! Super cool research and great early career advice. Very inspiring and motivational to see!

Does the breadth of attentional focus determine whether salient stimuli capture attention? Theeuwes has suggested prior evidence of signal suppression can be explained by parallel search. Xiaojin Ma put this to the test. Stop by her poster to learn more! @xiaojinma.bsky.social

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
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Upcoming presentations at Psychonomics. We have many super-cool projects on attention and working memory that you don't want to miss! See you in Denver! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @xiaojinma.bsky.social @chenyebao.bsky.social @yuezhang-mu.bsky.social @kaitlyndrennan.bsky.social

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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.