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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · 20d

Hot off the press in a special issue at CABN! Here, Brian A. Anderson and I show that suppressing salient distractors is more effortful when the distractors are less salient: It's easier to suppress more salient distractors!

doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Signal suppression makes search less effortful - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Physically salient stimuli compete for attention but can be suppressed under certain conditions. Highly salient distractors can be suppressed more efficiently than less salient ones. However, the impl...

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wake Forest University is hiring a non-tenure track faculty position as an Assistant Teaching Professor, with expertise at the intersection of Psychology and Neuroscience to start in July, 2026. Wake Forest is an awesome university, so come be my colleague!

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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · Jun 9

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa

Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · May 16

Make sure to swing by all the awesome work from the Anderson lab at #VSS2025. I will be presenting (and involved with) 3 posters, Tuesday afternoon in the Breezeway!

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · Apr 4

Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!

Visual Cognition

Teaching Sensation and Perception, Edited by Anna Kosovicheva, Julia Strand and Ben Balas. Volume 32, Issue 6 of Visual Cognition

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Feb 6

Cool new paper showing some really interesting and early effects of capture and suppression in non-human primates!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39869632/

Diverse neuronal activity patterns contribute to the control of distraction in the prefrontal and parietal cortex - PubMed

Goal-directed behavior requires the effective suppression of distractions to focus on the task at hand. Although experimental evidence suggests that brain areas in the prefrontal and parietal lobe con...

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thanks man, I appreciate it!

Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Jan 6

I am pleased and excited to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University in the Fall of 2025!

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Nov 19

Be sure to come check out all the awesome work from Brian Anderson's team at Psychonomics this year! I'll be wrapping out lab up with a talk Saturday morning in the Attention Capture 1 session. See you in NYC!

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Brad T. Stilwell @bradtstilwell.bsky.social · Nov 19

Be sure to come check out all the awesome work from Brian Anderson's team at Psychonomics this year! I'll be wrapping out lab up with a talk Saturday morning in the Attention Capture 1 session. See you in NYC! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom24

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