She presented her work that was recently published in Nature Communications Biology, together with co-author @jthee.bsky.social and her other supervisors Sam Chota and Stefan van der Stigchel (@attentionlab.bsky.social): share.google/6wnzEI1Eop8q...

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex - Communications Biology

Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging, we show that a salient distractor initially competes with target processing but is later actively suppressed, revealing the timeline of how bottom-up saliency and top-down control shape early visual responses.

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Thanks to my amazing panel of supervisors @suryagayet.bsky.social @schota.bsky.social @Stefan van der Stigchel and collaborators @arora-borealis.bsky.social @jthee.bsky.social for making this possible!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼

Surya Gayet@suryagayet.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wooow! @danwang7.bsky.social just won the Early Career Excellence Award at the APCV/EPC 2026 meeting! As her supervisor in the past 3 yrs, I have seen so much professional & personal growth. It makes me incredibly proud that this was also seen by an independent jury on the other side of the planet.

Exciting to share that our paper is out now! Using EEG + RIFT, we reveal the temporal dynamics of attentional competition between target and distractor in early visual processing. We show that distractor initially compete with the target, and then suppressed. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex - Communications Biology

Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging, we show that a salient distractor initially competes with target processing but is later actively suppressed, revealing the timeline of how bottom-up saliency ...

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Past experiences shape current selection. But when and how strong are past and present targets represented in the brain? In our newest paper, we show that past and present search targets are concurrently represented in the brain. Out now in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

Past and present goals are represented concurrently during visual search

Past experience and our current goals guide what information to focus on. But how and when does the brain represent the past and the present? This new study shows that the brain represents the past an...

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New paper alert: very proud to share our review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, spearheaded by @maellelerebourg.bsky.social, and together with @peelen.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social, about goal-directed search in real-world environments. See below for a thread/tldr!

Maëlle Lerebourg@maellelerebourg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What do we look for when searching for objects in our daily-life environments? Very happy that I can now share this review, together with @suryagayet.bsky.social , @predictivebrain.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social🥳 A brief thread below!

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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. Th…

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Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...

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Excited to present at #ECVP2025 - Monday afternoon, Learning & Memory - about how anticipating relevant visual events prepares visual processing for efficient memory-guided visual selection! 🧠🥳 @attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social Preprint for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anticipated Relevance Prepares Visual Processing for Efficient Memory-Guided Selection

Finding an object typically involves the use of working memory to prioritize relevant visual information at the right time. For example, successfully detecting a highway exit sign is useless when your...

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Excited to give a talk at #ECVP2025 (Tuesday morning, Attention II) on how spatially biased attention during VWM does not boost excitability the same way it does when attending the external world, using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT). @attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ll be presenting my poster at #ECVP2025 on August 26th (afternoon session)! 🧠✨ Our work focused on dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex by using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging @attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects! Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour

Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.

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Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy

Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention theories...

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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.

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Reappearing sensory input guides visual working memory prioritization - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Adaptive behavior necessitates the prioritization of the most relevant information in the environment (external) and in memory (internal). Internal prioritization is known to guide the selection of ex...

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Damian Koevoet@dkoevoet.bsky.social · 2y ago

In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint (now with an additional experiment) we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In our new MEG/RIFT study from @thechbh.bsky.social by @katduecker.bsky.social , we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism. rdcu.be/eqFX7

Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex

Communications Biology - Magnetoencephalography in human participants paired with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging reveals that excitability in early visual cortex is modulated to boost targets...

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Thanks to the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and @knaw-nl.bsky.social , we're thrilled to announce the international symposium "Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention"! 🧠🔍 📅 Date: June 25th & 26th 📍 Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam

Through experience, humans can learn to suppress locations that frequently contain distracting stimuli. Using SSVEPs and ERPs, this study shows that such learned suppression modulates early neural responses, indicating it occurs during initial visual processing. www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

Good morning #VSS2025, if you care for a chat about the role of attention in binding object features (during perceptual encoding and memory maintenance), drop by my poster now (8:30-12:30) in the pavilion (422). Hope to see you there!

🚨My first paper with Samson Chota, Luzi Xu , Stefan Van der Stigchel and @suryagayet.bsky.social accepted in Consciousness and Cognition(www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) We asked whether the impact of VWM content on early visual processing depends on the priority state of the memory items.

The priority state of items in visual working memory determines their influence on early visual processing

Items held in visual working memory (VWM) influence early visual processing by enhancing memory-matching visual input. Depending on current task deman…

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