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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 5d

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 19d

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
buff.ly/489DYfB
#Parkinsons

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jul 21

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
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How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highl...

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · Jul 20

Great perspective!👏
My thoughts:
- we should stop saying 'attention lapses', they are 'attention shifts'
- what % of motor imagery M\EEG signal is internal attention? what % of Libet's readiness potential is internal attention?🤔
- individual differences in shifts may be relevant for many tasks

Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Levi Kumle @levikumle.bsky.social · Jul 18

This project has only been possible through a real team effort!

In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.

Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab @abclab.bsky.social · Jul 18

☁️ Thinking of moving your VR experiments online but not sure where to start? ☁️

We’ve put together a tutorial sharing what we’ve learned, including code and step-by-step practical notebooks.

osf.io/hax47_v1

OSF

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! Kia and I argue that attention research would benefit from a stronger focus on how the brain shifts between external and internal attention. We outline competing hypotheses, review existing behavioral and neural findings, and highlight open questions.

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Focusing on relevant contents to guide adaptive behavior is a core property of the brain. For decades, scientists have investigated mechanisms to anti…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · Jul 16

Online now:

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highlight competing hypotheses, review the few experimental attempts and findings, propose candidate neural mechanisms, and identify major open questions.

dlvr.it

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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory

Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...

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Dynamic Cognition Lab @dynacog-lab.bsky.social · May 6

Dani provides a comprehensive overview of our newest work, out now in JoN. We are so proud to see this work out – and big shout out to Dani and Larissa for leading the charge!

Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference

In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...

doi.org

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

For a brief summary, check out our feature in This Week in The Journal. (9/9)

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

This Week in The Journal

A Chloride Channel for Detecting and Perceiving Odor Kai Clane Belonio, Eyerusalem S. Haile, Zach Fyke, Lindsay Vivona, Vaibhav Konanur et al. (see article e2008242025) The olfactory system detect...

www.jneurosci.org

Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Taken together, our findings provide new insights into the neural dynamics that return WM to an internally focused and action-ready state following external interruptions. (8|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Finally, our results suggest the concurrent availability of both visual and motor memory attributes following the interrupting response. (7|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Second, reselection occurs immediately after the interrupting task response, regardless of the anticipated timing of memory-guided behavior. (6|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Our findings advance our understanding of how we resume internal WM focus after interruption in three key ways. First, we show how both motor and visual-spatial contents are reselected in WM following an interrupting perceptual task. (5|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

We considered multiple scenarios of WM reselection after interruption. In terms of content, either motor alone or both motor and visual-spatial contents could be reselected. In terms of timing, reselection could occur immediately after the interruption or just in time to guide WM behavior. (4|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

To determine what information was reselected, the WM items had distinct visual and motor attributes. To determine when WM representations were reselected, the interrupting task was presented at one of three distinct time points following the retro-cue. (3|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

We employed a visual-motor WM task in which participants were retrospectively cued to select one of two memory items before being interrupted by a perceptual discrimination task. (2|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference

In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...

doi.org

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Finally, our results suggest the concurrent availability
of both visual and motor memory attributes following the
interrupting task response. (7|9)

Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Second, reselection occurs immediately after the interrupting task response, regardless of the anticipated timing of memory-guided behavior. (6|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

Our findings advance our understanding of how we resume internal WM focus after interruption in three key ways. First, we show how both motor and visual-spatial contents are reselected in WM following the interrupting perceptual task. (5|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

We considered multiple scenarios of WM reselection after interruption. In terms of content, either motor alone or both motor and visual-spatial contents could be reselected. In terms of timing, reselection could occur immediately after the interruption or just in time to guide WM behavior. (4|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

To determine what information was reselected, the WM items had distinct visual and motor attributes. To determine when WM representations were reselected, the interrupting task was presented at one of three distinct time points following the retro-cue. (3|9)

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

We developed a visual-motor WM task in which participants were retrospectively cued to select one of two memory items before being interrupted by a perceptual discrimination task. (2|9)

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