Jan Theeuwes

@jthee.bsky.social

Professor of Cognitive Psychology. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Research Associate - Psychology

The Research Associate (Level A) is expected to contribute towards the research effort of UNSW and to develop their research expertise through the pursuit of defined projects relevant to their particu...

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Using intracranial recordings from 22 people, we show that hippocampal theta activity enables earlier decoding of the upcoming target, supporting automatic performance. This is specific to the hippocampus, with later involvement of ripple bursts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Automaticity speeds the retrieval of instances from the human hippocampus | PNAS

Automatic processing allows humans to perform tasks with minimal effort following learning. Although theories of automaticity propose that learning...

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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

This study challenges the idea that the early PD component is a marker of proactive distractor suppression. Instead, this study suggests that this early positivity reflects general salience processing and/or sensory imbalance rather than specific suppression mechanisms direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

A Flash in the Pan? Distractor Suppression Cannot Be Inferred from the Early Lateralized Positivity

Abstract. Humans excel at avoiding distraction in visual environments, successfully filtering out repeated salient distractors that could otherwise capture attention. A recent theoretical perspective ...

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