📣 New in @jephpp.bsky.social: Xu et al. found humans incidentally learn and adapt to temporal patterns of events, enhancing perception and adaptive reactions in real-world scenarios! 📖 Read the full study: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Check out our new paper out in communications psychology! @commspsychol.nature.com

Open Research Europe is an open-access journal launched by @erc.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu. This looks *very promising*. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu #science #europe #ERC

I won an award! At this year's Dutch Psychonomic Society meeting @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social I was awarded the dissertation prize for the best PhD thesis from the past two years. It was great fun and a huuuge honor!!

I am accepting a Ph.D. student to begin Fall 2026. The position would be part of the Cognition and Neuroscience program at Mizzou. Great opportunities to learn eye tracking and ERPs. Ideal candidates will have some background in attentional capture and visual search. If interested, please email me!

If you are interested in the attentional capture debate... You should read this paper.

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period.

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex Task-irrelevant yet salient stimuli can elicit automatic, bottom-up attentional capture and compete with top-down, goal-directed processes for neural representation. However, the temporal dynamics und...

🧠 Excited to share that our new preprint is out!🧠
In this work, we investigate the dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in the early visual cortex using rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).

📄 Check it out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

The symposium was organised by @jthee.bsky.social and @docdocdunk.bsky.social and was sponsored by an NWO grant.

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Among many highlights were a large number of labs currently using the Pd component to study distraction, and a growing field of work using SSVEP's to study attentional processes. Many of these topics will be addressed in a planned perspective piece to be co-written by some of the attending PI's!

Last week's symposium titled "Advances in the Encephalographic Study of Attention" was a great success! Held in the KNAW building in Amsterdam and sponsored by the NWO, many of (Europe's) leading attention researchers assembled to discuss the latest advances in attention research using M/EEG.

Programme: Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention A 2-day international symposium June 25th & 26th, 2025 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwa...

Find below a link to an overview of the schedule!
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Veera Ruuskanen - @rug.nl
"How Pre-Stimulus Pupil Size and EEG Power Relate to Detection Performance in Visual and Auditory Domains"

Damian Koevoet - @dkoevoet.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
"Sharper Spatially-Tuned Neural Activity in Preparatory Overt than in Covert Attention"

🕞 15:30 - 16:30
Jorge Martins - ISPA Institute, Lisbon
"Neural Signatures of Attentional Bias in Addiction: Insights from EEG and ERP Studies"

Güven Kandemir - @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
"When Learning Hurts Perception: Impaired Decoding via Learned Suppression"

Oscar Ferrante - @unibirmingham.bsky.social
"Neural Correlates of Predictive Distractor Suppression"

🕛 14:15 - 15:15
Eelke Spaak - @eelkespaak.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
"Probing our Perceptual Priors during Gaze Behaviour using Self-Supervised Stimulus Models"

Dan Wang - @danwang7.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
"Unraveling the Time Course of Attentional Capture: An EEG-RIFT Study"

Norman Forschack - @unileipzig.bsky.social
"Frequency Tagging Tracks Automatic Capture and Global Feature Spread During Visual Search"

🕛 11:45 - 12:45
Tobias Feldmann-Wüstefeld - @tuberlin.bsky.social
"Attentional Enhancement and Suppression as Complementary Mechanisms: How the Distractor Positivity Contributes to Better Understanding Visual Attention"

🕙 10:45 - 11:30
Dirk Kerzel - UniGeneva
"Doubts About The PD as an Index of Attentional Suppression"

🗣️ Day 2:

🕙 10:00 - 10:45
Heleen Slagter - @haslagter.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
"Control Over Conscious Perception Through Mental Training of Attention?"

🕓 16:15 - 17:00
Freek van Ede - @freekvanede.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
"EEG Dynamics of Internal Attentional Focusing in Visual Working Memory"

Dirk van Moorselaar - @vuamsterdam.bsky.social / @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
"Alpha-Band Activity Tracks Reflexive Changes in the Breadth of the Zoom Lens of Attention"

🕞 15:15 - 15:55
Matt Oxner - @unileipzig.bsky.social
"Assessing the Functional Role of the Early-Latency Distractor Positivity in Distractor Handling"

Greta Manini - @cimcyc.bsky.social /UniVerona
"Understanding the Influence of the Relevance of Salient Items on Attention"

Jiaqi Li - @ox.ac.uk
"The Neural Mechanisms of Attention and Working Memory During Natural Language Processing"