Hello to everyone coming to @vssmtg.bsky.social: Come see what our lab and collaborators have been working on this past year. - Lots of interesting new work on visual working memory, feature- and object-based attention, cross-modal attention, ensemble perception!

New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects

Abstract. Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. Contrary to the common assumption that the capacity of this system is fixed...

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New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

New paper with NicoleAnayaSosa and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in Perception! "Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WVUFW...

Testing location invariance of the flashed face distortion effect - Yong Hoon Chung, Nicole C. Anaya Sosa, Viola S. Störmer, 2025

Spatially aligned faces presented in a continuous stream in the periphery appear distorted and grotesque. This flashed face distortion effect (“FFDE”) was first...

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I am leading a workshop tonight for students in my department on how to apply for the NSF GRFP, but have not received answers from NSF to my questions about whether they are still funding applications in neuroscience and cognitive science, etc. If anyone has info please let me know. (continued)

Excited to see everyone at #VSS2025 - Come check out what my lab has been up to over this past year:

New Preprint with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we show increased neural delay activity associated with remembering features as part of real-world objects. 1/

Real-world objects scaffold visual working memory for features: Increased neural delay activity when colors are remembered as part of meaningful objects

Visual working memory is a core cognitive function that allows active storage of task-relevant visual information. While previous studies have postulated that the capacity of this system is fixed with...

biorxiv.org

Looking forward to seeing everyone @VSS. Come see what our lab has been up to over this past year:

'Noisy and hierarchical visual memory across timescales', a new Review by Timothy F. Brady (@timbrady.bsky.social), Maria M. Robinson & Jamal R. Williams (@jamalamal.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/42Bhac0 PDF: rdcu.be/dyb6G #psychology #psychscisky #cogpsyc

New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask: How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social

A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems - Nature Neurosc...

The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...

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Our lab is recruiting a PhD student and postdoc! Check our our website to learn more about what we do: sites.dartmouth.edu/stoermerlab/ Applications for PhD students are due Dec 1st.