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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

Many thanks to my co-authors!! @suryagayet.bsky.social @jthee.bsky.social @arora-borealis.bsky.social @Stefan Van der Stigchel @Samson Chota

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

In conclusion, we show that the dynamic interplay between top-down control and bottom-up saliency directly impacts early visual responses, thereby illuminating a complete timeline of attentional competition in visual cortex.

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

Last, the greater the RIFT responses to the target compared to the distractor, the faster the participant responded to the target, demonstrating that the RIFT responses capture behaviorally relevant processes.

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

2) The presence of a distractor attenuated the initial RIFT response to the target, reflecting competition during the initial stages of visual processing

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

For conditional comparisons of the RIFT responses, we found that 1)Both target and distractor evoked stronger initial RIFT responses than nontargets, reflecting top-down and bottom-up attentional effects on early visual processing. And RIFT responses to the distractor eventually be suppressed.

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

For tagging manipulation, we tagged target and distractor in distractor present condition, tagged target and one of the nontarget in distractor absent condition. And frequency-tagging manipulation successfully elicited corresponding frequency-specific neural responses

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

We found that the salient distractor captured attention on behavioral level

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

In this study, to determine how top-down and bottom-up processes unfold over time in early visual cortex, we employed Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) while participants performed the additional singleton task.

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 27

🧠 Excited to share that our new preprint is out!🧠
In this work, we investigate the dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in the early visual cortex using rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).

📄 Check it out on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex

Task-irrelevant yet salient stimuli can elicit automatic, bottom-up attentional capture and compete with top-down, goal-directed processes for neural representation. However, the temporal dynamics und...

www.biorxiv.org

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at ECVP 2025:

Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing
Monday 14:45, talk @ Linke Aula Learning & Memory

Surya Gayet: Perceptual precedence for expected and dreaded visual events
Tuesday 8:30, talk @ RW 1 Using interocular suppression during consciousness research

Kabir Arora: Dissociating external and internal attentional selection
Tuesday 9:15, talk @ Atrium Maximum Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Dan Wang: Unraveling the time course of attentional capture: an EEG-RIFT study
Tuesday 15:30-17:00, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

Yichen Yuan: Decoding auditory working memory load from alpha oscillations
Wednesday 10:00-11:30, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · Aug 22

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...

www.biorxiv.org

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lassedietz.bsky.social @lassedietz.bsky.social · Aug 24

Excited to present at #ECVP2025 - Monday afternoon, Learning & Memory - about how anticipating relevant visual events prepares visual processing for efficient memory-guided visual selection! 🧠🥳
@attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

Preprint for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anticipated Relevance Prepares Visual Processing for Efficient Memory-Guided Selection

Finding an object typically involves the use of working memory to prioritize relevant visual information at the right time. For example, successfully detecting a highway exit sign is useless when your...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kabir Arora @arora-borealis.bsky.social · Aug 24

Excited to give a talk at #ECVP2025 (Tuesday morning, Attention II) on how spatially biased attention during VWM does not boost excitability the same way it does when attending the external world, using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT). @attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Aug 24

Excited to share that I’ll be presenting my poster at #ECVP2025 on August 26th (afternoon session)!

🧠✨ Our work focused on dynamic competition between bottom-up saliency and top-down goals in early visual cortex by using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging

@attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 24

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects!

Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Jul 15

Best hunter trainer ever🫡

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jul 9

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour

Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.

www.nature.com

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Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy

Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention theories...

www.cell.com

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theeuweslab.bsky.social @theeuweslab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Last week's symposium titled "Advances in the Encephalographic Study of Attention" was a great success! Held in the KNAW building in Amsterdam and sponsored by the NWO, many of (Europe's) leading attention researchers assembled to discuss the latest advances in attention research using M/EEG.

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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · Jun 12

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 12

In our new MEG/RIFT study from @thechbh.bsky.social by
@katduecker.bsky.social , we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism.
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Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex

Communications Biology - Magnetoencephalography in human participants paired with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging reveals that excitability in early visual cortex is modulated to boost targets...

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theeuweslab.bsky.social @theeuweslab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thanks to the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and @knaw-nl.bsky.social , we're thrilled to announce the international symposium "Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention"! 🧠🔍

📅 Date: June 25th & 26th
📍 Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam

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Jan Theeuwes @jthee.bsky.social · May 26

Through experience, humans can learn to suppress locations that frequently contain distracting stimuli. Using SSVEPs and ERPs, this study shows that such learned suppression modulates early neural responses, indicating it occurs during initial visual processing.
www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · May 19

Good morning #VSS2025, if you care for a chat about the role of attention in binding object features (during perceptual encoding and memory maintenance), drop by my poster now (8:30-12:30) in the pavilion (422). Hope to see you there!

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Dan Wang @danwang7.bsky.social · Dec 21

Thanks for the recommendation! Really nice paper!

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