So excited to be at #CCN2026 this week with our lab and our wonderful collaborators. Here’s where to find everyone. Please come say hi, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv! In this study, we reanalyzed three published studies on endogenous attention and demonstrated typical sequential effects of response repetition to the repeated location and feature aspects of the target. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Endogenous attention is invariant to sequential effects in performance around the visual field

Covert spatial attention selects and prioritizes relevant sensory information. Endogenous attention is voluntary, goal-driven, and flexible. However, it cannot alleviate visual polar-angle asymmetries...

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Is AI making us stupid? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is AI making us stupid?

Many worry that AI use will erode human cognition. We discuss evidence suggesting that offloading cognition to AI can impede skill acquisition and lea…

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The Teachers College at Columbia is seeking applicants for a Visiting Assistant Professor position to teach courses related to human neuroscience. TC is a great place! employment.tc.columbia.edu/jobs/visitin... #AcademicSky #neurojobs #psychjobs

Visiting Assistant Professor of Teaching - New York, United States

Posting Summary:The Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, Columbia University is seeking applications for a full time Visiting Assistant Professor of Teaching for the Program in Ne...

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New paper: across 3 EEG experiments, we examined how do we edit WM at test. Imagine you were asked to memorize 4 colored squares during encoding: at test, when you were given a single test probe, are you able to remove the items at irrelevant positions (upper), or do you have to keep'em (lower)? 1/n

Early Vision Shapes Recurrent Processing in the Human Visual Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.16.731263v1

Our work during my RA in Taiwan is out! "Cortical representation of motion sequence processing in younger and older adults: an fMRI study" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint! 🚨 Work w/ Sangita Dandekar & Clayton Curtis at NYU during my PhD. We show how prefrontal & visual cortices coordinate to keep working memories alive via localized & long-range β-band dynamics. 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/5)

🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doby Rahnev@dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our new preprint on bioRxiv! rFEF+ is not necessary for exogenous attention, as revealed by TMS. And together with previous studies, we complete a double dissociation: rFEF+ is critical for endogenous but not exogenous attention, whereas V1/V2 is critical for exogenous but not endogenous attention

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Transcranial magnetic stimulation to frontal cortex, unlike occipital stimulation, does not disrupt exogenous attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717799v1

From Attention Control to Stimulus Selection: Neural Mechanisms Revealed by Multivariate Pattern and Functional Connectivity Analyses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717841v1

Just got the fun news that our paper "Prayer and Perceptual (and Other) Experiences" published in Cognitive Science is one of their top 10 most cited papers published in 2024! 🥳 @wiley.com #TopCitedArticle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Prayer and Perceptual (and Other) Experiences

Prayer, a repeated practice of paying attention to one's inner mental world, is a core behavior across many faiths and traditions, understudied by cognitive scientists. Previous research suggests tha...

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New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

In a new preprint, we use a combination of 2AFC and discrimination tasks to quantify sensory, decisional, and metacognitive noise in units of the physical stimulus. We find that, across two experiments, sensory and decisional noise are comparable, while meta noise is lower. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are our intuitions about consciousness reliable? In our new paper, we argue that building a reliable scientific foundation for intuitions about consciousness is not only necessary—but also achievable—for advancing consciousness science. w/ Sang Chul Chong doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Frontiers | Reappraising intuitions about consciousness

Scientific studies of consciousness derive their legitimacy from individuals’ intuitions about the degree to which measured functions can be associated with ...

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Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)! Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...

When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion - Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, 2026

In this paper, an optical illusion is described in which purple elements are perceived as purple at the point of fixation, while surrounding elements of the sam...

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Pascal Mamassian@mamassian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...

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Check out our new paper on Journal of Vision showing that both endogenous and exogenous attention enhance contrast sensitivity uniformly across meridians despite differential adaptation effects! jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

#postdoc #cogpsych #neurojobs #psychologyjobs #visionscience #cogsci

Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab)@visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Attention early career neuroscientists – Consider applying for a two-year Faculty Fellow position at Barnard College in NYC! This is a rare opportunity to get both teaching and research experience + mentorship to prepare for a tenure-track job. barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Barnard Early-Career Faculty Fellow, Neuroscience & Behavior Barnard College see...

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Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position

Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

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Sensory Neural Noise as a Limiting Factor in Visual Working Memory Precision in Neurotypicals and Schizophrenia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683426v1

Check out our new preprint on bioRxiv! "Polar angle asymmetries persist despite covert spatial attention and differential adaptation"

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Polar angle asymmetries persist despite covert spatial attention and differential adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.676904v1

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Check out the mini-review I wrote about ipRGCs on visual processing! doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Frontiers | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and visual processing: ipRGCs beyond non-image-forming functions

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are relatively newly discovered photoreceptors other than rods and cones. For the last decade, p...

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Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...

Check out our new paper “Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area” in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area | PNAS

Visual adaptation reduces bioenergetic expenditure by decreasing sensitivity to repetitive and similar stimuli. In human adults, visual performance...

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Tomorrow morning (May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm) I will be presenting my poster with Marisa Carrasco @vssmtg.bsky.social at Pavilion Endogenous attention enhances contrast sensitivity similarly around cardinal meridians despite differential adaptation effects! #VSS2025