interestingly, attention didn't change the total size of the space, compared to perceptual judgements we measured without the interleaved attention task, consistent with normalization of the representations. we think this is a cool and novel way to look at the effects of attention - hope you agree!

we measured the local length throughout the orientation space - the distance spanned in windows of the representation - to assess changes induced by attention. lengths were expanded in a narrow window around targets, but compressed in a broad window around distractors.

our participants performed interleaved tasks, where they reported the perceived similarity between orientations under different attention conditions (attending 45° CW or CCW). we fit these responses with models based on MDS, finding that orientation representations were best accounted for in 4-D.

excited to share this new preprint w/ Melissa and @racheldenison.bsky.social

we measured the representational geometry of orientations using behavioral similarity judgements, and found that attention expanded representations around target orientations with a broader compression around distractors

recently posted a new preprint (the first of my postdoc 🎉) where we implemented normalization across space *and* time, allowing us to capture several neural and behavioral findings! I'll be presenting this work at VSS in a couple of months too for those attending
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...