Great success at the Show-Me Mental State conference! So many great talks on attention, working memory, cognitive control, long-term memory, linguistics, and more. Special thanks to Ed Awh for the wonderful keynote! My first shot at conference organizing.

Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli? We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.

Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression

In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans must often filter out salient but task-irrelevant stimuli. Prior work shows that with repeated exposure to color singleton distractors...

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Ziyao Zhang@bulezz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Upcoming presentations at Psychonomics. We have many super-cool projects on attention and working memory that you don't want to miss! See you in Denver! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @xiaojinma.bsky.social @chenyebao.bsky.social @yuezhang-mu.bsky.social @kaitlyndrennan.bsky.social

Signal Suppression 1.0 was a big part of my grad school journey—shaping how I think about attention. I never imagined I’d one day contribute to the development of the 2.0 version of the theory. Grateful to be part of this new chapter 🍾

Nick Gaspelin@ngaspelin.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited this review paper is out! We update the signal suppression account to explain recent findings related to attention capture by salient stimuli. We also propose new mechanisms of learned attentional control. Written with Steve Luck and @xiaojinma.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

That's a wrap! The "R Workshop for Psychology and Neuroscience" is officially done. Two weeks coding and fun with amazing junior researchers. If you missed it, you can find the course materials (including videos) on our website. Thanks NSF for funding! See you next year... rworkshop.missouri.edu

I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...

using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch

YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma

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Celebratory dinner with the Luck and Gaspelin labs at VSS.

Apply for a FREE virtual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." Sponsored by NSF and will take place this summer. Enrollment is open to all students. Direct training on using R to analyze data from psychological tasks. Applications due 4/30. 🤓🧑‍💻 sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

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